S/O Monopoly

[mrshandy]

Do you have a token that you always chose?

If so any profound reason why it's your fave?

[rosetyler]

I always pick the shoe. I have no profound reason except that I always have, and I always will. It's like a lucky charm, as I win at Monopoly more often than not (and usually with a fit of glee as I run my competition into bankruptcy).

[marylou]

The dog.

It's adorable and I love dogs.

[mbcdefg]

The horse, because I was a 12 year old girl who loved horses.

[Deleted]

I was always the shoe for no reason other than I was always the shoe.

[mrshandy]

I always picked the shoe.

No profound reason. I started doing it and it stuck.

[rosetyler]

Jan 9, 2013 15:09:10 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

The horse, because I was a 12 year old girl who loved horses.

There's a horse?

[emilyinchile]

The dog because I liked dogs. I'm pretty sure there's no horse.

[mbcdefg]

Jan 9, 2013 15:11:14 GMT -5 rosetyler said:

Jan 9, 2013 15:09:10 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

The horse, because I was a 12 year old girl who loved horses.

There's a horse?

The game I grew up with had one (or a cowboy, I guess, I always called it the horse):



When I got older I started picking the battleship. My sister always chose the Scottie, and my brother usually picked the car or we'd make him use the thimble.

[SJ]

Horse.

My mom is always, always the top hat.

[catbus]

I have never played Monopoly. Never had a bit of interest in it.

Should that go in the confessions thread?

[rosetyler]

Sad, they must have ousted the horse at some point, as I've never had one in any of my versions.

[Deleted]

Wheelbarrow. Because, duh.

[poisonkisses]

Always the horse. I thought it was cool that it was on it's back legs. Unfortunately the one we had never balanced properly in order to stay upright, so it was always on it's side.

[emilyinchile]

Huh, weird about the horse/cowboy. It's not listed as one of the classic tokens currently up for voting, so maybe it was a special edition?

[martygras]

I always am the dog or the car. Both are awesome, the iron sucks though.

[SuziSaysDa]

I never really had a preference, but I always loved the weight of the pieces in my hand - weird.

I remember the horse, but I have never seen the battleship.

[mccallister84]

The thimble. Always.

[takeonyou]

Top hat or thimble. Depends on my mood and who I am playing with. My mom is always the thimble.

[ohbirdie]

The hat. It was easy to move. Lame and lazy, I know.

[mbcdefg]

From Wikipedia:

Tokens
All twelve tokens from the U.S. Deluxe Edition Monopoly.

Each player is represented by a small metal token that is moved around the edge of the board according to the roll of two dice. The twelve playing pieces currently used are pictured (from left to right):

Wheelbarrow (1937b edition)
Battleship
Sack of money (described in a PC version of the game as "Money bags")(1999–2007 editions)
Man on horseback (no longer in classic edition)
Racecar
Locomotive (Deluxe Edition only)
Thimble
Howitzer, better known as a cannon (no longer in classic edition)
Old-style shoe (or boot)
Scottie dog
Iron
Top hat
Koala (Australian version)

Previous tokens retired in the 1950s:

Lantern
Purse
Rocking horse

Many of the tokens were created by companies such as Dowst Miniature Toy Company, which made metal charms and tokens designed to be used on charm bracelets. The battleship and cannon were also used briefly in the Parker Brothers war game Conflict (released in 1940), but after the game failed on the market, the premade pieces were recycled into Monopoly usage.[19] Hasbro recently adopted the battleship and cannon for Diplomacy.

Early localized editions of the standard edition (including some Canadian editions, which used the U.S. board layout) did not include pewter tokens but instead had generic wooden pawns identical to those in Sorry!.[20] Parker Brothers also acquired Sorry! in the 1930s.

[estrellita]

I want a koala!!

I was always either the dog or the car. The dog is cute and the car was "logical".

[Deleted]

THE HORSE IS TOTALLY A THING.

I was born in 1979, so I was playing with whatever version was big in the 80s, and the horse was always there.

[KaraOrNot]

Always the hat, for no particular reason.