Do not pass Go, do not collect €200.
Monopoly is one of the world’s most popular board games, and also a leading cause of family fighting over the festive season. Despite its complicated rules and the sheer length of time it takes to complete a game, you won’t find many homes in Ireland without some form of Monopoly in a cupboard somewhere.
In an effort to shake up the game and make it more appealing to younger players, Monopoly held an online poll to let people vote on whether they want to change the game pieces…
If Boaty McBoatface taught us anything, it’s that people cannot really be trusted to make sensible decisions when faced with an online poll, and so we’ve got three new Monopoly pieces: a penguin, a rubber ducky, and, we shit you not, a Tyrannosaurs-fucking-Rex.
They’ll replace the traditional thimble, boot and wheelbarrow pieces — all of which could claim at least some connection to the game’s themes of the factors of production and trying to make money. How in the name of God a T-Rex relates to economic markets we just don’t know, but here we are.
That little man from the Monopoly box with the monocle and the bag with the dollar sign on it is turning in his grave.
The votes are in! Say hi to the roar-some T-Rex, go quackers over Rubber Duck, & start flapping with excitement for Penguin! #TokenVote pic.twitter.com/ZhgPmUxb0O
— MonopolyUK (@MonopolyUK) March 17, 2017
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