“Personally, I’ve always especially liked the boot token, but I’m excited to move onto the T. “While I’m sad to see the iconic thimble, boot, and wheelbarrow tokens go, it will be fun to have some new, fan-sourced tokens in the mix,” he said.
Jonathan Berkowitz, Hasbro’s senior vice president of marketing, grew up playing the game with his family. Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based Hasbro announced the winners Friday morning. More than 4.3 million voters from 146 countries weighed in on which tokens they wanted to see in future versions of the property-acquisition game, which is based on the real-life streets of Atlantic City.
In their place will be a Tyrannosaurus rex, a penguin and a rubber ducky. The boot has been booted, the wheelbarrow has been wheeled out, and the thimble got the thumbs down in the latest version of the board game Monopoly.
