Dedicated to the Collecting and History of Monopoly

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Monopoly CONWAY

The story of FM Conway is about a remarkable journey but it is a remarkable journey that is still only just beginning. As we mark our 60th anniversary, it is important that we not only look back and celebrate all of the successes and challenges that have made FM Conway what it is today, but we also recognise the great foundation that we have laid for our future. As a family-run business, the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people, and we are proud to commemorate the journey that we have taken together, through this game!

Thank you for all your hard work and dedication in helping to make FM Conway the epitome of great people: great work.

conway monopoly (reverse)

Produced by FM CONWAY for their 60th Anniversary and distributed to staff.

Monopoly Unicorns v Llamas (2019)

  • GAME ABOUT ADORABLE ANIMALS: In this awesome animal Monopoly game, unicorns and llamas faceoff to see which adorable beast is best
  • TEAM UP: This Monopoly board game for kids ages 8 and up is designed to be played in teams; choose to play on Team Unicorn or Team Llama; Mark territories with rainbow or candy cardboard title markers
  • CLAIM TITLES: Instead of buying properties like in the classic Monopoly board game, in the Monopoly Unicorn vs. Llamas game teams claim titles for their fuzzy friends such as Most Huggable or Cutest Babies
  • GET AHEAD WITH CHANCE CARDS: Players move ahead in the board game with hilarious Llama and Unicorn Chance cards featuring phrases that remind players why they love these creatures so much
  • FUN BOARD GAME FOR AGES 8 AND UP: The Monopoly Unicorns Vs. Llamas game plays up the rivalry of these adorable creatures; Players can have a blast trying to prove that their furry friends are the best

Monopoly Animal Crossing – New Horizons (2021)

Product Description:

In this Monopoly board game, players can enjoy island life and immerse themselves in the colourful and creative world of Animal Crossing New Horizons. Instead of buying properties and paying rent, players collect bugs, fish, fossils and fruit. They can also stop at Nook’s Cranny and cash in Bells to buy decorations. Decorations are worth Nook Miles and the player with the most Nook Miles wins the game. Monopoly: Animal Crossing New Horizons board gamemakes a fun indoor activity for children.

Monopoly Game Meets Animal Crossing: This Twist on classic monopoly gameplay features artwork, characters and themes inspired by Nintendo’s animal crossing new horizons.

Fun Game For Children: In this edition of the monopoly game, children visit islands, collect resources such as bugs, fish, fossils and fruit. They then sell island resources for bells, buy decorations and earn nook miles to win.

Monopoly Pieces: Move around the board as one of four animal crossing new horizons inspired pieces. Besides the numbered die, there’s a nook’s cranny die that determines what type of resources can be sold.

Skill Cards: After the first trip around the monopoly gameboard, players can choose a skill card with an ability they can use throughout the rest of the game.

  • Contents: Includes: gameboard, 4 character pieces, 4 Skill cards, 35 Decoration cards, 14 Chance cards, 14 Nook Miles cards, 160 Resource chips, 40 Five-Bell coins, 54 Bell coins, 40 Player markers, 1 numbered die, 1 Nook’s Cranny die, label sheet and game rules.

USA

Monopoly Act For Food – Carrefour Promotion – Acciones Para Comer Mejor Edición Especial

Monopoly Act For Food is a promotional Monopoly distributed by the Spanish supermarket chain Carrefour. It was available within stores from 29 March until 10th May 2022. The board game includes: Board, 6 Tokens, 12 Chance Cards, 12 Community Chest Cards, 18 Houses, 6 Hotels, 2 dice, Monopoly money and instructions.

To complete the game with its 28 Title Deeds, 4 Chance Cards and 4 Community Chest Cards, customers must make purchases within the Carrefour chain. For every €30, customers received a pack with 2 properties and a token. More packs could be earned for every addition €5 spent on qualifying purchases.

According to the leaflet in Catalan below, the board game could be purchased for €5.99 (€8.99 without app). Two packs of cards cost €0.99 (€1.49 without app). Addition tokens could be purchases in packs of two for €1.99 (€2.99 without app) – 3 different token packs available.

This Monopoly was produced by TCC Global – a marketing company.

Additional Purchases

The tokens included in packs could be exchanged with money for other exclusive rewards in the promotion. Monopoly Water bottles, Monopoly T-Shirts and Monopoly Act for Food plushies

Monopoly Act For Food – Contents

The second Brown Property Title Deed has a rare error – the price for rent without houses is double the standard amount (M4 to M8 – M8 to M16 if owned in the full colour set).

My edition is currently missing Title Deed #11 (Orange) – the title deed is currently on its way!

Act For Food

Hasbro’s most universal game has been updated with the image of Carrefour , the values ​​of food transition for all and the Actions to Eat Better program , created to promote healthy lifestyle habits .

The launch of this iconic game combines the company’s objective of promoting fun for the whole family, with the development of actions to eat better . Monopoly Act for Food allows consumers to find out in an entertaining way the objectives that Carrefour has set to lead the food transition for all and encourages, through games, the idea that eating well is a priority .

CARREFOUR.ES (TRANSLATED)

Full Carrefour Press Release

Additional Images

Images Source: Leaflet & Packs

Promotional Monopoly Editions

Other companies have tried to capitalise on the long success of the classic board game Monopoly with ‘promotional’ versions of Monopoly. Normally, Monopoly editions exist for general sale – whether its a standard Monopoly or even a Retro, City, Football Team, TV and Film themed edition. However, there have been a number of Monopoly games specifically produced to be distributed for free or low cost.

The following images are sliding galleries.

Employee Gifts / Company Exposure

Several company themed Monopoly sets have been produced which were given as gifts to employees or used generally to advertise the company rather than sold for profit.

  • Monopoly Virgin Money

Example: Virgin Money, Thomas Cook, DPD

Loyalty Promotions

Monopoly games have also been produced as ‘rewards for loyalty’. Morrisons produced a number of card games which were collected by spending a certain amount instore. News Corp Australia distributed tokens for travel sized versions of Hasbro Games which allowed the reader to purchase for $3. McDonald’s have frequently used Hasbro games as Happy Meal toys.

  • Monopoly Australia travel
  • Monopoly Germany McDonalds Happy Meal box

Example: Morrisons Promo (Monopoly Deal), News Corp Australia Promo (Monopoly), McDonald’s Happy Meal Promo

Competition / Prizes

Special Monopoly editions have also been produced and distributed as prizes. Ribena produced 10,000 travel Ribena-themed Monopoly sets as prizes for a 2022 competition. TCC Global distributed a TCC branded Monopoly (UK London board) as a prize for their stand at Retail Week Live 2017.

Example: Ribena, Monopoly (TCC Global)

Educational

Monopoly has also been created for educational purposes. The main example is The Materials Edition Monopoly which was produced by The University of Sheffield. It includes extra large title deeds which explain the different types of materials as well as what can be produced from them. It can be ordered for £5 direct through the University of Sheffield website, although it can only be bought by educational establishments.

Example: The Materials Edition

GlobeTrade

In recent years, promotional Monopoly sets are more likely to have been produced by GlobeTrade – a Belgian based marketing company. GlobeTrade has a license to produce Hasbro Games for promotional purchases. These games have been reduced-size travel games which come in a square box. Monopoly Ribena and News Corp Australia promo are examples of GlobeTrade manufactured products.

Globetrade is the specialist for companies wanting to promote their brands better and faster through promotional marketing programs. Globetrade has a unique experience and creative approach in developing and producing tailor-made promotional items.

Through their collaboration and partnership, Globetrade and Hasbro aim to develop a variety of promotional applications of several Hasbro toys and games, thus creating exciting possibilities for companies wanting to promote their brands through the awareness of well-known Hasbro brands.

Globe trade website

Previously, Monopoly editions for corporations were produced by WinningMoves and these were full sized games.

Monopoly – News Corp Australia Promotion Item

Reference Code: 14160415. UK Board. Produced in Belgium by GlobeTrade

Contents:

Gameboard, 4 pawns, 28 Title Deeds, 16 Chance Cards, 16 Community Chest Cards, 20 Houses, 10 Hotels, 2 Dice, Money Pack & Game Guide

Unusually, the game has a traditional UK London board despite being exclusive to Australia.

History

This Monopoly was released by News Corp Australia as part of Hasbro Family Favourites Mini Board Game Collection – a 14 part mini board game collection which was distributed daily by News Corp newspapers. To purchase this Monopoly, the customer must exchange the token included in the newspaper with an addition $3.50 (making the overall total $6.50 in the case of the Daily Telegraph). Monopoly was the first game to be released in the series (16th October 2016). Example Newspaper covers below.

The other thirteen Hasbro games in the collection were: Battleship, Guess Who?, The Game of Life, Boggle, Twister, Cluedo, Connect 4, Trivial Pursuit: Family Edition, Mastermind, Operation, Yahtzee Classic, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Chutes & Ladders. The purchase of Monopoly included a free holder.

The website has since been taken down: Archived Link. It appears that there was a mechanism to purchase the games from a previous day.

This series was manufactured by GlobeTrade with management by TCP – The Communications Practice – TCP was responsible for the content licencing, IP approval and managing the production of 3.5 million board games in this retail marketing loyalty program it created and implemented on behalf of News Corp Australia.

Monopoly – TCC Global Promotional Item (Retail Week Live 2017)

The mini-square box and contents are similar to that of Monopoly sets produced by GlobeTrade. This Monopoly has four coloured pawns instead of traditional tokens and only 20 Houses and 10 Hotels (a reduction of 12 and 2, respectively) – otherwise it is a complete, albeit smaller, Monopoly. The product itself is almost identical to the promotional Monopoly GlobeTrade produced for News Corp Australia – just six months prior.

The box lid itself has a number of errors. Firstly, instead of Mayfair and Park Lane – the cover shows the Dark Blue properties as ‘DARK BLUE SPACE #2’ and ‘DARK BLUE SPACE #1’ and Liverpool Street Station as ‘TRANSPORT SPACE #4’. Moreover, the Chance, Station and Community Chest symbols have been randomly printed on the lid in the background.

History – TCC Global and Retail Week Live 2017

TCC Global is a retail marketing company with its central Headquarters based in The Netherlands.

Helping retailers worldwide to build customer loyalty, drive revenues and have a lasting impact on local communities.

TCC Global

This Monopoly appears to have been distributed as a Promotional Item at Retail Week Live 2017 at TCC Global’s stand (#12). They had a Monopoly based game where players could win prizes by landing on the corresponding square on the Monopoly board.

As shown by the Tweet below – a Monopoly board game appears to have been one of the prizes on offer.

Other prizes on the game board were Angry Bird and Cars plushies.

Monopoly Arcade – Pac Man (2020)

Gamers and fans of the original Pac-Man can relive some of their gaming experiences with this Pac-Man themed Monopoly game. In the Monopoly, Arcade Pac-Man board game players can play Pac-Man on the retro banking and arcade unit and can also use it to buy, sell or steal Levels and perform various other actions. Players race around the board (but watch out for the Ghost!) to buy Levels and earn points. Each time a player passes go they get to play a mini game of Pac-Man. Rack up the points while everything is tracked in the banking and arcade unit, with no money changing hands. The player with the most points wins!

Monopoly Surprise – Series 1 & Community Chest (S2) – Guide

Monopoly Surprise was first sold in 2020. A second series of mystery boxes was released in 2021 – advertised as ‘Community Chest’, named after the famous square on the Monopoly board.

Each Monopoly Surprise contains exclusive tokens (to be used with any Monopoly board game) and other collectable bonuses such as metal coins and metal houses.

However, the distribution of tokens is not random! Despite Hasbro assigning labels of ‘Common’, ‘Rare’ and ‘Ultra Rare’ – the box can be identified by its production code. Therefore, by consulting this guide you can ensure you receive every token and collectable without wasting money on duplicates.

Monopoly Surprise – Series 1 is currently £3 at ARGOS

Monopoly Surprise – Community Chest is currently £8 at ARGOS

By using the following guide to avoid duplicates – a full set of both series would currently cost £42. It appears there is no plan for another series.

Series 1

On the underside of the box, a code is printed above the barcode – ending with TT. The number before the TT indicates the contents (the number ranges from 1 to 6).

Contents – Source: eBay castorncage
BoxCodeTypeContents
1341201TTCommonTokens:
Go Square
Mr Monopoly holding two children

1 Coin

2x Green Metal Houses
2341202TTCommonTokens:
Beauty Contest Trophy
Mr Monopoly with bouquet

5 coin

2x Green Metal Houses
3341203TTCommonTokens:
Just Visiting/Jail Square
Mr Monopoly with a cane

10 Coin

2x Green Metal Houses
4341204TTCommonTokens:
Man behind bars
Mr Monopoly holding Cash

20 Coin

2x Green Metal Houses
5341205TTRareTokens:
Tap (Water Works)
Mr Monopoly with Bag of Cash

50 Coin
Gold Credit Card

1x Green Metal House
6341206TTUltra RareTokens:
Train
Mr Monopoly holding a gift

100 Coin
Gold bar

1x Green Metal House

Series 2 – Community Chest

One year later, Series 2 was released. The boxes were more expensive but contained more tokens and collectables. There are three variants of boxes instead of six.

The method of checking the Production Code continues to identify the contents.

BoxCodeTypeContents
1091211TTCommonTokens:
Free Parking Square
Auction Gavel
Briefcase
Baby in Pram
Mr Monopoly with Purse
Mr Monopoly ‘listening’

10,000 Coin
100,000 Card

2x Red Metal Hotels
2091212TTRareTokens:
Beauty Contest Trophy
For Sale Sign
Safe
Policeman blowing whistle
Mr Monopoly shrugging
Mr Monopoly with Cane

25,000 coin
5000,000 Card

1x Red Metal Hotel

1x Gold Die
3091213TTUltra RareTokens:
Mr Monopoly with Cash
Mr Monopoly with Hat
Go to Jail Sign
Ring
Bundle of Cash
Lightbulb
Tower

50,000 Coin
1,000,000 Card

1x Red Metal Hotel

Contents:

Contents – Source: Reddit: u/Frosty_Gamer_
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