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Subscribe to RSSHasbro may have underestimated their fans’ loyalty to Monopoly. An announcement that the company will replace one of the iconic game’s tokens next month with a fan-selected newbie has Monopoly players everywhere clamoring.
The worldwide Facebook vote asks fans to decide which classic game piece should go, and which new token should be added.
We asked TODAY's Facebook fans to weigh in: Which of the pieces on the chopping block – the car, thimble, boot, Scottie dog, battleship, hat, iron or wheelbarrow – would they save?
Many nostalgically voted for the pup:
Christine Bishop-Maul
The Scottie Dog was always my favorite!Rose Pfisterer Evard
Save the Scottie, add a Kitty!Kate Mata
Keep the dog! Everyone always wanted to be the dog! Lol!!Leslie Rogers
I love the dog so save the dog.Lisa Best
the Scottie is my piece don't do away with itLara Nardell
Save The Scottie!!!!
Others had no problem offering opinions on which token should get the ax (our condolences, thimble and iron):
Harold Jones
Thimble needs to go!! Go take it. Away!JoElla Miller-Zimmerman
Send the thimble to jail!Melanie Patterson
Get rid of the STUPID thimble. I always wondered about that piece.Nancy Nagy
the iron needs to be flattened...and hello kitty!Lesia Burnett-Sharpensteen
Leave it be...Although no one ever wanted the iron...
The overwhelming majority, though, asked that Monopoly stay exactly as it is:
Rebecca Grimm Bailey
Why change it up??? It's classic and represent the era from whence it came!! Change is good, but not in this case. Love Monopoly!Judy Hayes Nelson
Please, please do not take away from our historical heritage this great classic game. Leave it alone and just add another token and more funds so that more can play. This is our family "tradition" game that all play including the young ones. A new token or two would be great!Meghan O’Brien
Don’t get rid of ANY!!!!!!!!Cordie Myles
Don't change any of the piece just add more. My children and I play monopoly daily and I won a lot of money playing with the wheel barrel. Don’t change anything.Elizabeth Rodriguez
Why even change? This is a classic game. Leave it alone!
While some fans were overwhelmed by the idea of change, others offered alternatives to the current replacements in consideration:
Mary Stanley
Keep the Scotty! Don't lose any of the originals. Not sure if I like the new ones. How about a tiny lap top?Daniel Collins
Make one of the pieces a Twinkie!!!!!
What do you think? Should the Scottie stay and the thimble go? Or is Monopoly too iconic a board game to touch? Visit our Facebook page and let us know.
And remember to mark your calendars: Hasbro will reveal the new token exclusively on the TODAY show on Feb. 6.
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I've played Monopoly all my life just like everybody else. It seems to me that there was a point...somewhere between the '70's and the 90's that there wasn't a battleship included in the game...it was there...then it wasn't...then it was again...the battleship RULES!! When there was no battleship...it had to be the car!! The game before the game was deciding who would use which token...I would fight to the death for the battleship or the car...I don't think they should remove any of the tokens that we've played with all these years...but if they do...it had better not be the battleship or the car....
I loved the one about make the replacement piece a "Twinkie."
It's one of the best games in our history and IMHO they should not change anything. There other versions of the game and they have different tokens. Can't they stick with that? Something is to be said for "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." All current pieces have contemporary use, even the thimble. I always use the hat or racecar.
The 'game' is vastly broken. Roll and get lucky. A horrible, long slog.
Why not just leave it - it's a classic!!
Haven't played the game for decades. Long, mostly boring. Not much fun.
Classic game, don't change a thing....it's like would you change the lyrics to "American Pie"? I don't think so.............Antiques, do you paint on top of them, update the hardware, no.............. then they lose their value. CLASSICS are classics for a reason, they have spanned the test of time.
Bad idea. Coca Cola once tried to "fix" a good thing. Why the need to change?
Just another example of the "pussification" of America!
People today probably ask "what's an iron'? Back when Monopoly was invented everybody......even the ultra rich knew what an iron was. I don't know if the Original Game included an iron, but I've been playing since the late 50's and there has always been an iron.
Things change....but Monopoly shouldn't. Many generations have played the game...often together.
I have two versions of Monopoly
The Simpsons version
and
The Godfather version.
Send obama to jail permanently. You can KEEP his change.