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ToysRUs has this on offer at $14.99. No one can accuse Monopoly of not moving with the times!
With Monopoly Electronic Banking, wheel and deal your way to a fortune even faster using debit cards instead of cash! All it takes is a card swipe for money to change hands. Now you can collect rent, buy properties and pay fines - with the touch of a button. It's a new way to play the family classic that's been brought up-to-date with modernized tokens (including a Segway personal transporter, an Altoids tin, space shuttle, flat-screen TV, baseball cap and a dog in handbag), higher property values and locations based on your favorite landmarks. Gameboard comes with title deed cards, chance and community chest cards, 6 debit cards, 2 dice, 6 tokens, 32 houses, 12 hotels and instructions.
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That feels so wrong to see Monopoly being modernized LOL. I'll stick with the original. Nice price though! And I always get the Scottie dog.
That's a clever way to keep their game on the shelves! Most of my childhood favorites you can't find any longer. Guess how long Monopoly's been out? Since 1934.
P.S. You need to be the racecar. I'm always the Scottie dog.
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They must have cleared out plenty of them. The price is back up to $26.99 which is only $3 off.
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The online stores are figuring out that steep discounts shift the goods. I think they do that to clear any products that are overstocked until it hits a certain point before raising the price again. I've seen that happening in several places online whereas before the price didn't go back up.
It's eased up another $3 to $29.99.
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When I was growing up I remember Monopoly was an instrumental game in teaching my brother and I how to count it, spend it, and save it. I guess children already understand the concept of it but even now when I pay cash for something at the gas station, the cashier MUST look at the register for how much cash to give back.
Kinda sad really!
Best,
Kim
http://www.mangomoney.com
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Kids are so used to computers now and calculators that their mental arithmetic skills are dreadful. I don't know what they'll do if they run out of batteries or electricity.
Kim, a friendly word of warning: please don't put your link in every post. It will deleted as spam and if you're not careful so will all your posts. We have sigs for that purpose.
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I think that I will stick with the original version (I always choose the top hat) since it is such a perfect board game with such a wonderful history ( Great Depression, Atlantic City etc) and rules that we all know and understand.
Sometime simple is best.
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I think that I will stick with the original version (I always choose the top hat) since it is such a perfect board game with such a wonderful history ( Great Depression, Atlantic City etc) and rules that we all know and understand.
Sometime simple is best.
I agree, micharch. It would be like having a version of the whodunnit game Clue where Miss Scarlet strangled Mrs White with a mouse cable in an internet cafe. Give me a good old fashioned skull cracking candlestick anyday LOL.
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When I was growing up I remember Monopoly was an instrumental game in teaching my brother and I how to count it, spend it, and save it. I guess children already understand the concept of it but even now when I pay cash for something at the gas station, the cashier MUST look at the register for how much cash to give back.
Kinda sad really!
Best,
Kim
http://www.mangomoney.com
The only thing I learned was how to sit on the hundred dollar bill I snatched from the bank when my sister wasn't looking. ;) Monopoly taught me the rewards of a life of crime LOL. Welcome to billeater!
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That feels so wrong to see Monopoly being modernized LOL. I'll stick with the original. Nice price though! And I always get the Scottie dog.