I really don’t understand Hasbro’s view of putting airlines/airports in place of the old railroads on its Monopoly game board! NS, BNSF, UP and CSX would be a perfect fit!!! As a game dealing with finance, I would like to own a corporation that making billions of dollars than an industry that is losing money hands over fist , and is subsidized by the federal government. What is your view?
Brand recognition.
Ask John Q. Public what CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, and BNSF are and you’ll get a blank stare (never mind the old Monopoly railroads). On the other hand, if you say Delta, American, US Air, O’Hare, LAX, Newark, etc, people know what you’re talking about.
Doesn’t mean I agree with it.
I like the Canadian Edition Canadian Railroads yaaaaay lol. Only ever played that once. It was nice owning CN for a coupler hours haha
I think they are trying to make an old product seem new so more people will buy it. Frankly, with all the versions already produced including a Lionel version I am suprised they haven’t done an all train one, or a Santa Fe RR one, etc.
Enjoy
Paul
Wow, wouldn’t that be neat! I might just get out the construction paper and make my own! [:P][(-D]
I had an idea once for a Railroad board game. Never really developed it, though.
You might start drawing several “cars” that would have to be delivered. (“Cars” destined for the “yard” would get shuffled back into the deck during the initial draw.) That would be your beginning train. As you move your gamepiece (representing your train) around the board (think “Chutes & Ladders”), you do the deliveries in as efficient manner as possible. When you drop a car, you draw a new one which might be headed for another “industry” or might be headed for the yard.
Instead of Chance, etc, you’d have Form 19’s (basically “good”, since you could pick them up on the fly) and Form 31’s (which you’d have to stop for, losing the rest of your turn). Which you drew might depend on a roll of the die when you passed a “train order station”.
You might draw a bad order card and have to “set off” the bad car, representing a loss in your progress as you go to the nearest siding to drop the car (you now have one less to worry about) or have it repaired (keep the car, but lose a turn). You could draw a derailment (lose a turn), or a “highball” direct to your next destination.
You might draw a card specifying that you pick up an extra car, or not have to draw a new car at your next setoff.
Since the board would be “open access” you would have meets with the other players, with the length of your current train determining who might have to take the siding (or maybe a roll of the die). You could have “grades,” where, depending on your direction of travel, you would either double or halve your roll. You might have drawn a Form 31 that says you have to double the next hill you encounter (make an extra trip back to the bottom).
Finishing the game might involve getting all cars destined for the “yard” and returning to your starting point. How quickly you accomplished that would depend on the luck of the draw from the “car” pile. Hopefully it got well
Monopoly is a game which has taken it’s place in the echilon of greatest games ever, right along there with chess and poker.
Leave the classics alone. Trying to cute them up for the modern day masses just ruins the heart and soul of the game.
the sad thing is that they are replace the railroads (stock corporations) not with airlines (stock corporations) but with airports (government entities). what does that teach about finance?
I hate the fact that they are using Airlines, the game startedwith railroads and should always have them, even of nobody knows who they are, its time to learn
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QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68
I had an idea once for a Railroad board game. Never really developed it, though.
You might start drawing several “cars” that would have to be delivered. (“Cars” destined for the “yard” would get shuffled back into the deck during the initial draw.) That would be your beginning train. As you move your gamepiece (representing your train) around the board (think “Chutes & Ladders”), you do the deliveries in as efficient manner as possible. When you drop a car, you draw a new one which might be headed for another “industry” or might be headed for the yard.
Instead of Chance, etc, you’d have Form 19’s (basically “good”, since you could pick them up on the fly) and Form 31’s (which you’d have to stop for, losing the rest of your turn). Which you drew might depend on a roll of the die when you passed a “train order station”.
You might draw a bad order card and have to “set off” the bad car, representing a loss in your progress as you go to the nearest siding to drop the car (you now have one less to worry about) or have it repaired (keep the car, but lose a turn). You could draw a derailment (lose a turn), or a “highball” direct to your next destination.
You might draw a card specifying that you pick up an extra car, or not have to draw a new car at your next setoff.
Since the board would be “open access” you would have meets with the other players, with the length of your current train determining who might have to take the siding (or maybe a roll of the die). You could have “grades,” where, depending on your direction of travel, you would either double or halve your roll. You might have drawn a Form 31 that says you have to double the next hill you encounter (make an extra trip back to the bottom).
Finishing the game might involve getting all cars destined for the “yard” and returning to your starting point. How quickly you accomplished that would depend on the
I don’t think the intent of manufacturer’s was to get rid of the railroads because many people don’t ride trains now a days. From what I read about the changes, they are also changing all the other properties as well and replacing them with landmarks from around the country. When the game was conceived, the railroads were really the only way to get there. So we can also say goodbye to the Atlantic City street names. Bye bye Boardwalk and St. Charles Place. I wonder if they will give names to the utilities as well as oppose to just calling them the Electric Company and the Water Works?
The reason there putting in airports/aiirlines is because the average person spens hours and hours sitting in uncomfortable positions in cold waiting rooms each year. I heard they’re putting on O’Hare.
Why not place a square called…Hell
That’s in Michigan, about 50 miles west of Detroit…[:D]
[#ditto][#ditto]
You can go to www.monopoly.com and vote for which landmarks you’d like to see on the board. While you’re there, shoot them an email that they should keep the railroads.
Of course, at least 2 of those would want a cut of all sales.[}:)]
NS, KCS, CN, and BNSF then?
It’s across the river from Cincinnati. (Original name, now they use the name “Newport” to hide the seedy truth. Just west/downstream of Covington KY and the CSX bridge featured in another thread)[:D]
funny part about that is I DID send them an email, no response as of yet