The third year in a row Hasbro comes with an essentially new
design of its most important board game, but there is every ground for that
because Monopoly now celebrates its 75th anniversary. It is striking that
the presentation of this game in the world has been spreaded over the year.
Maybe that makes sence to allow the large countries, like America, England,
Germany and France, to be delivered first.
Unlike
the introduction of the World edition in 2008, when the whole world was
involved, this time only residents from 10 countries could participate in
this celebration.
Under
the slogan "Monopoly Money makes it Real", they were given the
opportunity for the 75th Anniversary of Monopoly to write a short story
of 75 words on how they were
going to spend
the prize, the size of the total amount of money in a (old)
Monopoly game, ie 20 580 (€ or $ or £).
Then,
for
a
period of
75 days, .
The
75 stories with the most votes were nominated for an award. A
jury of experts and charities-specific sponsors finally
decided who
got the prize and who got
one of 75 finalists prices.
Edition: Revolution, ref.nr. 17146
Publisher: Parker/Hasbro - 2010
Dimensions of the box: 40.3 cm x 27.0 cm x 6.7 cm
Diameter of the game board: 50.2 cm
The game:
This
is a remarkably white game: not only both parts of the box are white, but the
customized plastic Banker's tray and the playside of the round board as well.
Is it a coincidence the
first board of the so-called inventor, Charles
B.Darrow was painted on a large, round tablecloth while more than
75 years later again a round game board apprears, but now much smaller and in a circulation of
various millions (?).
Except for the round game board in this version are of course
also a number of new things to discover, like:
 | On the game board: a number of new, vanished and
transferred spaces, viz.
 |
Water Works moved from space 28 to space 2. |
| The Station spaces are replaced by 4 new, black
spaces, viz. walking-, cycle-, car- and rocket-zone,
while the Stations moved 2 or 3 places forward. |
| The Chance- and Community Chest spaces disappeared
and replaced by a Chance facility in the
speaking and music making Card reader. |
| The Jail corner space now only shows a cell door
with a large key lock, but the rascal ("Jake, the Jailbird")
is no longer shown! |
| The Electric Company moved from space 12 to 36 in
order to make room for the new utility Telecommunications. |
| Funny to see how the corner space with the red
car became a red
(traffic?)sign with a white car. |
|
The equally new utility Gas Company came on space
22, midway between the red streets. |
|
The policeman oon the 3rd corner ("Officer
Edgar Mallory") is still a white male, but otherwhise. |
| The Luxury Tax space now shows a colorless
diamond ring. |
| Mr. Monopoly does not appear from the middle O
of the red bar in the middle of the
board. |
|
|
This game again has a card reader and credit cards
instead of banknotes, but this version is more sophisticated, because:
| In order to receive money the credit card must
be put in the slot near the green
button and to pay in the slot near the red
one. |
| On several occasions, like being sent to prison,
passing over Start, etc. the card reader produces a melody. And
there are quite a number, such as: Bad Day - Umbrella
- Drive my Car - Revolution - These Boots are made for
Walkin' - Crazy in love - I'm so excited - Bicycle
Race - Celebration - Rocket Man - Happy Birthday
and the Wedding March. |
| If you land on or pass by Start you have to put your
credit card in the slot near the green
button and push the arrow to collect your salary. |
| If one player has to pay the other they both put their
pass in the right slot after which the amount must be put in. This is
debitted from the one pass and creditted from the other. |
| If you land on a (black) zone space you have
two options:
 | either
you choose a random area on the board and give all players there a chance
by pushung on the middle button, the so-called Zone button. As
the accompanying image appears on the display, press again.
The Zone melody starts to play and the Chance instructions slide
over the display. |
|
either you move to the next unsold field and let it
auctioned. |
|
| However, you also can get a Chance "card" at
at any time. So pay attention to the Chance melody and the
? symbol on the display. This Chance is for the player who just
took his/her pass out the card reader. |
| The decimal point on the card reader is to
regulate the volume of the melodies. But if you don't feel the
need to hear the tunes again and again, then turn the volume in the
lowest position, so you just hear beebs. |
| To auction properties the banker makes an
(unspecified) time available by pressing the Deal button (the
two hands) of the timer. |
|
| The property deeds of this edition differ
significantly from the traditional one: In addition to being substancially
smaller (45x75
mm) there is no longer a color bar, but more of a color patch. |
| Hasbro has also, only for this edition (?), abandoned
the traditional locomotive on the station spaces. It became a modern
high-speed train. |
| Would Hasbro, after 75 years, also prefer to give a very
contemporary form to its tokens? It really are very nice, transparent
sheelds with a color image on a base. The images are again of the familiar hat -
shoe - dog - (steam)iron - boat and car. |
|
And finally the plastic houses
and hotels got a nicer and more modern
appearance! |
Some
editions from over the whole world, in order of number of country:
America (property of Roland
Klose-D):
Name of the edition: Revolution - Ref.Nr.
17146
The red
sticker shows the text: "NOW
sounds & music bring your game to life!"
Hasbro-USA
does not mention the date the edition was designed, but according to the produktion
number on the box this issue was manufactured (in East
Longmeadow).
It is not known to me when it was
marketed.
Close to the production number the
rim of the lid shows the Parker Brothers logo.
The streets on this board are those from
the American standard edition.
So they are from Go with: Mediterranean Avenue - Baltic
Avenue - ...
and finish before Go with: Boardwalk
- Park Place ...
.
Germany (property of Roland
Klose-D):
Name of the edition: Revolution - Ref.Nr.
021017146100
The red
sticker on the foil shows the text: "Mit Musik & Soundeffekten!"
(With music & soundeffects!)
Although the game,
according the ref.nr. was already designed Februari 2010,
manufactured June 14 it was not
marketed until August 4.
The streets on this game board are those
frome the German standard edition.
So they start from Los with: Badstrasse
- Turmstrasse - ...
and stop before Los with:
Parkstrasse - Schlossallee
- ...
France:
Name of the edition: Revolution - Ref.Nr. ????17146101
Except for the 75 years anniversary sticker in the
upper left corner
there is a red sticker
on the foil showing the text: "Version Électronique
* 32 Sons
* 10 Hits musicaux
* Banque interactive"
The streets on this board are from the French
standard edition.
So they start from Départ with: Boul. de Belleville
- Rue Lecourbe - ...
and stop before Départ with: Rue
de la Paix - Avenue des Champs-Élysées
- ...
Great-Britain (property of Matthew Horton - GB):
Name of the edition: Revolution - Ref.Nr.
100917146102
The red
sticker on thee foil shows the text: "NOW
sounds & music bring your game to life!"
Although the game, according
to the ref.nr. was already designed October 2009 and
manufactured July 7 it was not published until early Augustus 2010.
The streets on this board are from
the UK standard edition, so from the London-bord.
So they start from Go with: Old
Kent Road - Whitechapel Road
- ...
and stop before Go with: Mayfair
- Park Lane - ....
Netherlands
(property of Roland
Klose-D):
Name of the edition: Revolution - Ref.Nr.
021017146104
Except for the sticker on the 75th
anniversary in the upper left corner
there is a red sticker on
the foil with the text:
"Nu brengen geluiden & muziek je
spel pas écht tot leven!"
(Now sounds & music bring your game to life!)
Although the game, according to the ref.nr. was
already designed Februari 2010
and manufactured Sept.9 it was not published
until October 2010.
The streets on this board are from the Dutch standard
edition.
So they begin from Start with: Dorpsstraat
-
Brink
- ...
en stop before Start with: Kalverstraat - Leidsestraat
- ....
Sweden (found on: www.hasbro.com/sv_SE/)
Name
of the edition: Revolution - Ref.Nr. 041017146106
The
red
sticker on the foil shows the text: "NU med ljud och musik som gör
spelet ännu roligare!"
(NOW with sound and music which makes the game even more fun!)
The streets
on this board are from the Swedish standard edition.
So they start from Gå with: Västerlånggatan
- Hornsgatan
- ...
and stop before Gå with: Norrmalmstorg
- Centrum
- ....
Denmark (found on www.hasbro.com/da_dk/):
Name
of the edition: Revolution - Ref.Nr. ??1017146108
The red
sticker on the foil shows the text: "NU går lyde og musik dit spill ekstra
festlig!"
(NOW sounds & music bring your game to life!)
The streets on this board
are from the Dannish standard edition.
So they start from Start
with: Vinsenvej
- Peter
Bangs vej - ...
and stop before Start
with: Nytorv - Gammel
Torv - ...
Finland (found on www.hasbro.fi):
Name of the edition: Revolution - Ref.Nr.
????17146109
The red
sticker on the foil shows the text: "Nyt äänët ja müsiiki tuovät
peliin eloa!"
(NOW sounds & music bring your game to life!)
The streets on
this board are those from the Finnish standard edition with the streets
from Helsinki.
So they start from Lähtö with: Korkeavuorenkatu
- Kasarmikatu - ...
and stop before Lähtö with: Erottaja
- Mannerheimintie - ...
Greece
(property of Roland Klose-D):
Name of the
edition: Revolution - Ref.Nr. 06107146110
The
text on the red sticker
on the foil says:
"ΤΩΡΑ
ηχοι &
μουσικη
ζωντανευουν ακομη περισσοτερο
το
παιχνιδι
σας!"
(NOW sounds & music bring your
game to life! )
The streets on
this board are those from the
Greek standard
edition, with the streets from
Athens.
So they start from
ΑΦΕΤΗΡΙΑ with: ΟΔΟΣ
ΚΥΨΕΛΗΣ
(Kypselis
Street) - ΟΔΟΣ
ΕΠΤΑΝΗΣΟΥ
(Eptanisou
Str.) -
and stop before ΑΦΕΤΗΡΙΑ
with: ΛΕΩΦΟΡΟΣ
ΒΑΣ. ΣΟΦΙΑΣ
(Queens
Ave. Sofia)
-
ΛΕΩΦΟΡΟΣ
ΑΜΑΛΙΑΣ
(Queens
Ave. Amalia) ...
Diese Version auf deutsch: www.monopoly-wiki.de
Turkey:
Name of the edition:
Revolution - Ref.Nr.
??0917146131
The
red sticker
on the foil shows a.o. the text: "Müzik ve ses efektleriyele MONOPOLY
çok
renkli çok
eğlenceli!"
Although
the game, according to the ref.nr. was
already designed
Name of the edition:
Revolution -
Ref.Nr.
041017146149
Name of the edition:
Revolution - Ref.Nr.
031017146156 
Name of the edition: Revolution - Ref.Nr. 041017146197
(Congratulations/Years young)
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