A few weeks ago Hasbro annoucned that it was retiring one of Monopoly’s iconic game tokens and replacing it with something “that’s more representative of today’s Monopoly players.” Fans were asked to vote for their favourite tokens and the one with the least amount of votes would be retired forever.
Well, the votes are in and it looks like the iron has played its last game! The iron earned the least amount of love from voters with the wheelbarrow and the boot close behind while the Scottie dog received the most votes of them all.
The iron will be retired by mid to late 2013 and will be replaced by the new token: the cat! While voting to keep their favourite pieces, fans were also asked to vote for which piece they’d like to see added to the game. The choices were the cat, a guitar, a robot, a helicopter and a diamond ring.
What’s your favourite Monopoly game piece? Will it change now that there’s the option of the cat? Let us know via Facebook and Twitter!
(Photo courtesy of Steven Senne)