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A Timelord game of Monopoly is all over the place. When you can travel to properties throughout time and space, the game can get pretty confusing figuring out who bought what, in what time period. It’s frustrating. This is why they no longer play the game.

But they use some pretty cool tokens. Like these from Etsy seller Donald James, who made these Doctor Who Monopoly player tokens, hand-casting them from pewter. Whip these out during your next game of Monopoly and watch everyone drool. If you don’t like Doctor Who, Donald also makes Iron Man, Transformers and Portal tokens.

For only $10(USD) you get your choice of a TARDIS, K-9 or a Dalek. He needs to make more of these. We need to have a bow-tie and a Cyberman. How about a Sonic Screwdriver at least? I know, I’m never satisfied.

[via Nerd Bastards]

Growing up I played plenty of Monopoly with my friends. Typically, a game started out the same way no matter who I played with, which is to say a fight over who got to be the racecar. No one wanted to be the hat, the shoe, or the incredibly lame iron.

The people at Hasbro recently held a vote to determine which of the existing Monopoly pieces would be booted from the game. While the voting was close – with the shoe and wheelbarrow in the running to be ejected from the game, the useless iron was the piece ultimately voted off the island Atlantic City.

The piece that will replace the iron in the set is a small cat.

The cat will be a good complement to the Scottie dog that is currently used as one of the pieces in the game. It was voted most popular during the online competition, and won out against a helicopter, diamond ring, guitar and a robot (which would have been cool.)

The iron isn’t the first Monopoly piece to be removed from the game. In the 50s a lantern, a purse, and a rocking horse were removed. New versions of Monopoly with the cat will be available later this year.

[via BBC]

Say goodbye to your childhood. In order to herald in an age of change, Hasbro’s “Save Your Token” campaign is asking you to pick which memory of your youth you’d least like to watch fade to nothingness. More »

Samsung Smart TVs can now boast more than just bird flinging in the games department, with EA today dipping its toe in the Samsung App store in the form of two major digital board games: Monopoly and The Game of Life. The games cost $10 a pop, and are controllable with your WiFi-enabled Samsung Galaxy SI, SII, and SIII mobiles — you’ll need to snag “mobile companion apps” for each game to enable controls, which adds some tilt sensor-based waggle (the apps are free). That brings the grand total of notable standalone games on Samsung’s Smart TVs to three, but then there’s always Gaikai support to tide you over as well, eh? And hey, we hear there’s a new Nintendo machine on the way pretty soon, in case you wanna go down the rabbit hole even deeper.

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Just last week, we did talk about there was the Monopoly: Street Fighter Collector’s Edition, and here we are kicking off a brand new week with a non-fictional character getting his very own Monopoly edition – the computer pioneer known as Alan Turing. Celebrating Turing’s life, this special Monopoly edition will be accompanied by a facsimile of a hand-drawn version Turing that actually played on, now how about that? The board’s London landmarks, including its Community and Chance cards, are no longer there, but they have been replaced by places as well as events deemed to be important in Turing’s life.

You start off with your piece on Turing’s birthplace in Maida Vale, moving all the way to Hut 8 at Bletchley Park throughout the game. Google already purchased 1,000 of such sets and proceeded to donate them as part of a fundraising event for Bletchley Park. As for the board of this special edition of Monopoly itself, it does look somewhat ancient, being based on a hand-drawn variant of Monopoly that was done by William Newman all the way back in 1950.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Monopoly: Street Fighter Collector’s Edition now available on Amazon, Fans choose new World of Warcraft Monopoly Pieces,