Monopoly
Welcome to the Monopoly page, this is our guide to buying the Monopoly board game online including the new Here & Now Monopoly, regional Monopoly and the standard Monopoly. It also features the special edition Monopoly board games including Star Wars Monopoly, Junior Monopoly, Make Your Own Opoly, Simpsons Monopoly, Disney Monopoly and the football Monopoly games such as Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal.Monopoly is one of the most popular board games in the world and is available in all kinds of varieties, if you are wanting to buy a Monopoly board game online then you will need to know about the different options. There are many versions of the Monopoly board game available and they include standard Monopoly, Here & Now, Regional, Star Wars, Junior, Make Your Own Opoly, Simpsons, Disney and the football Monopoly games such as Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal.
The standard Monopoly game is all about buying property on the board, it is based in London and when you own property and another player lands on it they then have to pay you rent. If you develop the property with houses or a hotel then they will have to pay you more money, you can only do this though when you have all of the pieces of land from a particular colour group of properties (hence the monopoly). The rent for the properties is proportional to the price you pay for the property, if the property was cheap then the rent will be cheap and you will not win much money but if it is an expensive property and you have developed the land too then you can expect to rake the money in should an opponent land on your property. The Monopoly board game also features cards called Chance and Community Chest, these add some excitement as you never know what you are going to get.
The new version of Monopoly is called Here & Now Monopoly and it is still located in London but is much more up to date with locations such as Covent Garden, Wembley Stadium and the London Eye and also features new movers including the mobile phone, roller blade, skateboard, cheese burger and even a London bus. The money in Here & Now Monopoly has also become more realistic with multi-million pound deals being common, this and the new locations make Here & Now Monopoly allot of fun as if you are used to the standard Monopoly then it's a complete change but still the game you love.
There are also regional versions of the Monopoly board game available, these feature locations from a local area and there are lots of versions available from all over the UK. The regional Monopoly board games feature landmarks and cultural icons from locations such as Edinburgh, Cornwall, Brighton, Manchester, Kent, Oxford, Liverpool, Nottingham, Essex, Southampton, Reading and many others. There are also football club version of Monopoly that feature teams such as Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United, these features current players and past legends and put a twist on the usual Monopoly game play in the way that players accumulate wealth by acquiring stands and stadiums.
Star Wars Monopoly is a very popular special edition of the Monopoly game that features locations and characters from the Star Wars films, the Chance and Community Chest cards are replaced with Rebel and Imperial Cards and the movers are all from the Star Wars films and include Miniature X-wing fighters, Corellian freighters, TIE fighters and Star Destroyers.
The Simpsons Monopoly is also a very popular special edition of the Monopoly board game, in The Simpsons Monopoly a monorail has come to Springfield and the whole town is up for sale. The Simpsons Monopoly features many popular locations from Springfield including Barney's Bowl-A-Rama, the Kwik-E-Mart, and the Androids Dungeon, there are also lots of Springfield's theme parks, restaurants and night spots to buy.
Disney Monopoly is the other main special edition to the Monopoly board game and it features characters and locations from favourite disney films such as Snow White, Aladdin, Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, 101 Dalmatians, Lion King, Toy Story, Tarzan and many others. The Disney Monopoly also replaces the traditional train stations with methods of transport from popular Disney films such as Aladdin's carpet and Cruela's car. Scrooge McDuck is on all of the money and all of the movers are classic Disney characters, all in all the Disney version of Monopoly is great because it will appeal to young children but can still be played by the parents at the same time.
There are also other versions of the Monopoly board game available, there is a Make Your Own Opoly game in which the board and cards all come blank so that you can make up your own properties and rules. This is great as you can personalise the game to be about your family's life or you could buy the Make Your Own Opoly game for someone as a gift and personalise it for them, you can add all kinds of things about them and it would make a very original gift. Then there is the Junior Monopoly game which is intended for 5-8 year olds, it is set in a theme park and will help teach the children maths as they play.
So when buying a Monopoly board game online there is lots to choose from, the selection includes standard Monopoly, Regional, Here & Now, Star Wars, Make Your Own Opoly, Junior, Disney, Simpsons and the football Monopoly games such as Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool. If you are looking to buy a Monopoly game cheap online then you are best with the standard Monopoly as this is usually the cheapest, also have a good shop around so that you can find the cheap deals and see if there are any cheap special offers or deals.
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