Monopoly fans vote to add cat, toss iron token

My mother was always the shoe, my father was the top hat, my sister was dog, my elder brother was the auto, I was the locomotive, my uncle if he was playing would take was was left mostly thimble.



The pieces from my family game.

We used to play the MS-DOS version. Less messier, no cleanup, and no banker required. I didn't get to play the board version until much, much later.

Also had the Sega Genesis version. There used to be an online version I used to play with one of my friends too. Now my brother and I play the iOS version.

I used to be the dog, but the thimble was actually pretty popular when me and my parents used to play the board game. I don't think anyone ever used the iron.

In my family the iron was banned because everybody used to fight over it, whereas there was no arguing over our second choices.

The iron would never have been removed if Steve Jobs were alive.

If they were true fans, they would have kept the iron!

Should have ditched the wheelbarrow. It always tips over.

Kissaragi said:

If they were true fans, they would have kept the iron!

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What should have been tossed then? For me, I can't say that I'm sorry to see the iron go.

Is nothing sacred any more? Sigh.

Happybunny said:

My mother was always the shoe, my father was the top hat, my sister was dog, my elder brother was the auto, I was the locomotive, my uncle if he was playing would take was was left mostly thimble.

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The pieces from my family game.

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That is a very sweet post Happybunny; I like the attached picture - brings back memories I must say.

fat jez said:

In my family the iron was banned because everybody used to fight over it, whereas there was no arguing over our second choices.

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Guffaw - I like it; what was so attractive about the iron - its stability (perhaps implying financial stability) or the fact that it was a cool (but sometimes, hot) icon? I must say I rather liked it myself.....

rdowns said:

The iron would never have been removed if Steve Jobs were alive.

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Quite right, too.

What the hell was wrong with the Iron?

I always used the car. I could zip around in that sucker.

Replacing the iron with a kitty cat is fine by me. Just leave the car alone.

thank you very much.

Why do I feel that Reddit had something to do with the cat being voted in?

Bloody cats.

Scepticalscribe said:

Guffaw - I like it; what was so attractive about the iron - its stability (perhaps implying financial stability) or the fact that it was a cool (but sometimes, hot) icon? I must say I rather liked it myself.....

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I have no idea what the attraction was, but for some reason we all wanted it (me, my brother and our friends), hence Mum banning us from having it.

a cat for the iron? that's a downgrade