Saw this commercial on the Television-device. It os pf a game called "Monopoly Empire," a new version of the classic game where one can buy and sell the worlds top brands. Apparently, one of those top brands, according to the commercial, is TRANSFORMERS! Monopoly Empire commercial - YouTube
Funny. I was just talking the other day how it'd be fun to play a TF themed version of Clue. "It was Starscream in the Vector Sigma chamber with the korlonium crystal. J'accuse!"
So monopoly with easily recognized corporate logos, as opposed to thinly veiled references to famous streets? I like that they imply in the commercial that owning a cardboard tile with the name of that company on it is as fun and enjoyable as using those products.
Well the real question is - where is Transformers on the boards? Is it one of the crappier light blue properties, or is it somewhere along the lines of the stronger red or yellow properties? How valuable is the brand compared to everything else?
The not-US versions always use real places. Hence why The Monopoly Pub Crawl is technically possible - provided you can still actually walk...
Funny coincidence, my family just bought this a few days ago. It's a neat take on the original game. Transformers is on of the two 'brown' tiles (Mediteranian/baltic). Hasbro itself is on there as well, but is one of the mid-value billboards.
I want to own xbox and Transformers but I don't know what beats is. Sounds like something which is going to die like Zune.
Huh? Only Mediterranean (Arctic) didn't exist. All the rest were real properties in or around the Atlantic City area at the time. (A few have since been renamed or removed.) Trivia: In the Mega Edition, Arctic is the third brown/dark purple property
For the UK edition, yes. It's a brand of high-end headphones. I'm going to go ahead and guess "Illinois Avenue" as statistically it's the most landed on space on the board. When then did "Here & Now" they placed Disney World on that space as a nod to its ranking as the most visited tourist location. ETA: And of course, I was wrong. ebay is in that spot. Hasbro is a magenta. Interesting, I thought this was just going to be a straight up Monopoly clone but it looks like it has a few changes. There's no premium spaces on the board (all properties in the same color group are the same price) and no railroads.
Also, Marvin Gardens and Short Line Railroad were different from their real world counterparts (B&O was a real railroad, but didn't service Atlantic City, IIRC).
Yeah, B&O (Baltimore & Ohio didn't/doesn't go through Atlantic City) but was owned by Reading (or vice versa). (Baseball fans may recognize the Baltimore and Ohio as the name on the large warehouse outside right field at Camden Yards.) Short Line is a generic term for a rail that runs off a main line, and not supposed to represent an actual company. Marven Gardens is a real place. Hasbro has apologized for the error but has no intentions of fixing it. St. Charles Place (?) was destroyed and replaced with, ironically, a hotel. And another street (Atlantic?) is now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. But they all are or were real places at one time or another, just not necessarily inside the city limits.