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Edition: June 17, 2010
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So far I haven't met any inland made Monopoly(-like) edition of Panama but it is
very likely there exist.
However, the company Industrias Ronda Ltda
- Bogotá - Colombia has finally developed to the Parker/Hasbro supplier in
Panama. That company was founded in June 1972 out of a small printing company. From
then on their board games and puzzles activities steadily grow, reason why the
company moved in 1984 to a new works, also situated in Bogotá. In that time the
company got licenced by Walt Disney, Parker Brothers and Borrás, the Spanish
licensee of Parker Brothers.
In 1986 the games part of the company changed name
into Ronda S.A. and was it manufacturing games for Latin-American countries like Panama,
Ecuador, Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela. In 2000 an agreement was
entered into with Hasbro for the distribution of their products in 12
Latin-American countries.
Edition:
International
Spanish language ed., Ref.8009
"Juego de Intercambio de Finca Raíz de Parker
Brothers" (Game of exchange of properties, originally P.B.)
Publisher: Parker Brothers, Inc. - Beverly - 1985
Dimensions of the box: 25.6 x 51.0 cm
The game:
This set has been issued by Parker Brothers in all North-, Middle- and South
American countries where Spanish is spoken, so most probably in Panama as well.
It concerns the well-known American standard edition in the white box with the
streets of Atlantic City, but in the Spanish language.
From Go (¡Adelante!) on all properties
of the International Spanish language edition are:
Avenida Mediterráneo - Arca Comunal
(Community Chest) - Avenida
Báltica - Impuesto sobre Ingresos (Income Tax)
- Ferrocarril Reading - Avenida Oriental -
Casualidad (Chance) - Avenida
Vermont - Avenida Connecticut - En
la .../De visita no más - Plaza San Carlos - Compañía
de Electricidad - Avenida de los Estados -
Avenida Virginia - Ferrocarril
de Pensilvania - Plaza Santiago - Arca
Comunal - Avenida Tennessee - Avenida Nueva York -
Parada Libre (Free Parking) - Avenida Kentucky -
Casualidad - Avenida
Indiana - Avenida Illinóis - Ferrocarril
B. & O. - Avenida Atlántico - Avenida
Ventnor - Obras de agua potable (Drinking-water
Works) - Jardines
Marvin - !Váyase a la Cárcel! (Go to Jail)
- Avenida
Pacífico - Avenida Carolina del Norte
- Arca Comunal - Avenida Pensilvania -
Ferrocarril Short
Line - Casualidad - Plaza del Parque
- Impuesto sobre posesiones de lujo (Luxury Tax) and Paseo
Tablado.
The lid of this "long box" shows the last part of the 4th side
and Go. On top is the red
bar with Rich Uncle Pennybags in the middle O. The dice show numbers 3
and 5. The bottom of the box is un-printed.
The back of the solid game board is blue.
The word Monopoly goes in closed characters in a black frame
sloping over the board. The innerbox
contains except for a small plastic insert with 7 holes for the banknotes also a
filling up piece of blue cardboard on which
the "13 frequently asked questions" are printed in Spanish.
The game is entirely in the Spanish language but the money is in dollars. It are the
well-known banknotes with the mention "Copyright
1935 by Parker Brothers Inc." in the centre circle. The Casualidad (Chance) cards are red and the Arca Comunal
(Community Chest) cards are yellow, both illustrated
with funny pictures of Rich Uncle Pennybags identical to those of the original
American issue.
There are 10 metal tokens "made in Hong Kong", viz.: car
- hat - thimble - dog - boat - iron - canon -
rider-on-horse - shoe and wheelbarrow.
The houses and hotels with overhanging roofs are made of plastic and do have a centrally
placed chimney.
Both dice are white with black pips.
This edition was "Fabricado en los EE.UU". (Made in
the USA)
Edition: Monopoly
PanamÁ, ref. 00009
"Juego de Compraventa de Inmuebles, de Parker Brothers" (Property trading game, of Parker Brothers)
Publisher: Parker Brothers/Hasbro/Ronda
S.A.-Colombia - 2004
Dimensions: 27.0 x 40.3 x 6.7 cm
The game:
This edition is owned by Steve Amato-N.Y..
The image on the lid of this edition shows, except for two of the countries
most important landmarks (the Cathedral Tower of Panama Viejo and the El Carmen
Church of Panama City) also some national flora and fauna alongside the Panama
canal.
The properties on the Panama game board are various places of the
country, incl. the isle's in the Gulf of Panama and Isla Coiba
in
the North Pacific Ocean. However, the two most exspensive streets are of the
capital city Panamá.
The properties from Go (¡Adelante!) are:

Parque Camino De Cruces - Cornucopia
- Parque De Sarigua - Impuesto
Sobre La Renta (Income Tax) - Aeropuerto Marcos A.
Gelabert - Volcan Baru,-
Chance - India Dormida
- Cerro Ancon -
Carcel (Jail) - Playa
Santa Catalina - Puente
De Las Americas (Bridge of the Americas) - Playa
Palenque - Playe Las Lajas - Aeropuerto
Enrique Malek - Isla De Coiba
- Cornucopia - Archipiélago De Kuna -Yala
- Archipiélago De Las Perlas -
Parada Libre (Free Parking) -
Boquete - Chance
- Guarare - El
Valle , Aeropuerto
France Field - Nata
De Los Caballeros -
Portobelo
- Panamericana
- Panama
Viejo,- Vayase A
La Carcel (Go To Jail)
-Plaza
Herrera - Paseo De Las Bovedas -
Cornucopia - Plaza De La Catedral - Aeropuerto
De La Palma -Miraflores
- Impuesto Sobre Posesiones De Lujo (Luxury
Tax)
and Calzada
De Amador.
The game board has a light blue
back and is folded twice. The red
Monopoly bar is diagonal in the middle of the playfield.
The green
Chance cards show 2 sevens
and the light brown Cornucopia
cards a horn of plenty.
The 7 banknotes, showing a plane and a house in both small rectangulars,
Monopoly-Panama in the centre circle and in very small "2004 Hasbro
Inc" in the lower right corner of the bill. They consist of black printed colored paper
in the
denominations: 1- 5 -10
- 20 - 50 -100
and 500. The currency is Balboa (PAB). The balboa
is called after the explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa.
The houses and hotels
are made of hollow plastic and have
centric placed chimneys.
There are 11 tokens in this edition, viz.: Dog - Iron
- Thimble - Horse and Rider - Wheelbarrow - Car - Top
Hat - Ship - Cannon - Shoe and Moneybag.
Both plastic dice are white with black pips.