April 25, 200619 yr Hmmm...almost every city that I voted in had my "favorite landmark" in last place! It appears that it will be a new Monopoly board made up of baseball stadiums...
April 25, 200619 yr Horseshit. Cleveland is going to be represented by a baseball stadium. There is nothing unique or historic spectacular about it.
April 25, 200619 yr Well, I do think that the Jake is spectacular, but it's not the most important landmark in Cleveland! I was looking for the Terminal Tower or Public Square or University Circle. I voted for Euclid Avenue, but that doesn't look like it stands a chance. Go vote Urban Ohioans! Keep in mind that Boston and Philadelphia are full of spectacular landmarks that are not included in the poll. Boston will be represented by Fenway Park and Philly by the freakin Liberty Bell!
April 25, 200619 yr I agree as well.....I may be the more sports/jock type.....but for God sakes....a stadium!?!?! My vote went for Euclid Ave....isn't monopoly about gaining property? The other cities I voted were in the same boat as well....
April 25, 200619 yr They're just all f'ed up! You wanna hear something dorky? I made my own Monopoly board as a freshman in college. It had one side each for Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Boston. These were the four cities I was most familiar with at the time. The transportation tiles featured RTA, Metro, CTS, and MBTA. I had a public square and a large park for each (representing "chance" and "community chest"). I also had three prime neighborhoods and three prime streets for each, which represented the properties. I even made the cards up and colored them in. The idea was that it could be played by itself or could be attached to the original board to make a "figure 8" board. If you landed on the "airport" tile (on my board, where the jail is on the original) you could fly to any transportation tile on either board. Sadly, I could never find anyone to play it with me...[insert Eeyore sigh here]
April 25, 200619 yr Do not vote for any other cities landmarks! The position each city gets on the board is determined by how many total votes it gets. So the city that gets the most votes (probably NY) will get the Boardwalk space. The city will with the lowest number of votes will be in the dark purple Baltic Ave space. We don't want Cleveland to be the cheapest property on the board. Right now its Cleveland and Phoenix as the cheapest properties. So only vote Cleveland so we can move up to at least the light blue.
April 25, 200619 yr I want cleveland to be an orange space, or maybe purple space, those were the money spots. I had monopoly and the cleveland game. I also had Triopoly, 3 layerd monopoly board.
April 25, 200619 yr everyone vote for northcoast harbor at this point since euclid is out of the race... 35% to 40% means northcoast still has a chance! oh, and cleveland has 60,000+ votes, within 10,000 of almost every other city.. this is a close race of the 20 biggest cities..
April 25, 200619 yr I also had Triopoly, 3 layerd monopoly board. For a second there, I thought they made a monopoly game for the Lebanese capital. :-P
April 26, 200619 yr It's kind of weird, them picking landmarks instead of keeping with the traditional Monopoly street/avenue thing. I guess it's more for "the masses" but I think it would have been much more interesting to vote for famous streets in each city rather than landmarks. Anyway, I voted for Euclid too.
April 26, 200619 yr Geez, I'm feeling extremely competitive about this! I just emailed about 20 native Clevelanders and told them to get over there and vote! Do the same, so we can beat out the dinky Dallas, dreadful Denver and Nasty Nashvilles of the world! moo hoo ha ha ha!
April 26, 200619 yr ok, ok i voted. nc harbor. no votes for anyone else. agree they just should have had streets not landmarks, thats dum.
April 26, 200619 yr vote today and every day until May 12! we're oh-so-close to passing Dallas, but they're all on the offensive too!
April 26, 200619 yr ok, ok i voted. nc harbor. no votes for anyone else. agree they just should have had streets not landmarks, thats dum. if you could tweak a gazillion selling version of a product just to sell another million copies, wouldn't you? (coming soon urbankentucky!)
April 27, 200619 yr you can keep voting every day. so lets stuff that ballet box "rock hall" style, hehe!
April 27, 200619 yr We're just barely ahead of Dallas & Phoenix and just behind Nashville & Minneapolis. I think we can shoot for the "Connecticut Ave" space on the board...the top of the light blues. That wouldn't be too shabby and I wouldn't mind being in the same group as Minn & Nashville! Keep voting!
May 1, 200619 yr still dead last today! so does this mean only jacobs field will make the board if it wins?? 22 cities, 22 spots on the board (besides some extras)
May 2, 200619 yr Well, one can always look on the bright side: Since Cleveland is in last place, I guess it shows that northern Ohioans aren't full of themselves (:)) and have more importants things to worry about than voting for a monopoly game :) .......like preparing to vote in the primary tomorrow or browsing the UrbanOhio forums!!!!!!! :)
May 2, 200619 yr still dead last today! so does this mean only jacobs field will make the board if it wins?? 22 cities, 22 spots on the board (besides some extras) Yes, whichever landmark in each city gets the most votes is what goes on the board. The position on the board for that landmark is determined by the total number of votes each city received. So right now we are the new Baltic Ave. I'm sure the PD will run a front page article talking about how Cleveland is the new slums in Monopoly and how it is just part of the "Quiet Crisis"
May 4, 200619 yr ^And the Cuyahoga River burning. I just checked and we're within range of both Dallas and Nashville. Let's put the hurt on 'em!
May 11, 200619 yr everyone still voting? last I checked, we were way back in Baltic territory...still a few days left, though!
May 11, 200619 yr I forgot all about it. Damn! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 11, 200619 yr Yup. Look at Reading, PA and that damned railroad... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 12, 200619 yr a city's true greatness is defined by its status on a monopoly board You are SO right! And Cleveland will be relegated to America's 22nd greatest city if we don't do something about it!
May 18, 200619 yr No word on any final results on the website. We have to wait until summer for results. However, we know now that Boardwalk will no longer be in he game From CNN: Special edition Monopoly forecloses on Boardwalk ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (AP) -- First, Miss America dumped Atlantic City. Now Monopoly has too. The maker of the popular board game doesn't plan to include Atlantic City's Boardwalk property in a special edition scheduled to be released late this summer. Monopoly maker Hasbro Inc. confirmed its plans in a letter Tuesday to New Jersey civic leaders, who launched a petition drive to keep the property in the new game. The original version -- in which Boardwalk is the most expensive and prestigious property -- will still be sold. In the "Monopoly: Here & Now Edition," the game board will feature streets, neighborhoods and national monuments from 22 U.S. cities. The cities, picked by Hasbro based on population, popularity as tourist destinations and input from the company's game designers, include Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based company said it would try to include Atlantic City in some way in the new game. One possibility is through the Chance and Community Chest cards, although no decision has been made. Last year, organizers of the Miss America pageant announced plans to move the contest to Las Vegas after 84 years of crowning beauties on the Boardwalk. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/18/monopoly.spat.ap/index.html Click Here to Print
August 8, 200618 yr Say, any word on how this worked out? I can't access the monopoly site from work...
August 8, 200618 yr Is this for real? Debit cards and North Coast Harbor? I give this version about 5 months before it joins the scrap heap of dumb Monopoly spin-offs.
August 8, 200618 yr if the live voting results were any indication, I doubt North Coast Harbor will be represented in the new version. I recall many of the cities having mostly sports related places as choices.
September 12, 200618 yr I've got good news and bad news. Cleveland has one property on the new Here and Now Monopoly game board. The bad news... Jacobs Field has replaced Baltic Avenue. It cost $600,000 to purchase. Rent is $20,000 with no structure. With a hotel it jumps to $2,500,000. http://www.hasbro.com/monopoly/default.cfm?page=HNViewBoard Screenshot -
September 12, 200618 yr Moderately depressing, although I suppose we have a few more pressing issues in town. For the record, I believe we're actually replacing Mediterranean; Dallas beat us out for Baltic. Looks like Mediterranean will be replacing Marvin Garden as my favorite spot on the board.
September 12, 200618 yr Perhaps we could use this to promote our affordability. Wanna work in PR??? :wink:
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