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Monopoly, the iconic board game that for decades has instilled the values of aggressive capitalism into the young, joined forces today with the hit TV show ‘The Wire’.
“The Wire is all about corners,” says Hasbro spokesperson Jane McDougall, “and the Monopoly board is all about corners. It was a natural fit.”
Based around the journey a young gangster might take through the fictionalised Baltimore of the show, players move from corner to stoop, past institutions featured in successive series like the school system and the stevedores union, acquiring real estate, money and power before ending up at the waterfront developments and City Hall itself.
“Where the original game has ‘Community Chest’ and ‘Chance’,” McDougall continues, “we have ‘Re-up’ and ‘The Game’ which reflects the chance element of life on the streets. If you draw a ‘The Game’ card you might for instance get ‘Prop Joe calls a meet – go straight to Collington Square’ or ‘Drive-By! You get shot. Miss a go’ or even ‘Chris and Snoop are looking for you! Hide! Miss 2 goes.’”
“We hope The Wire Monopoly game will go down well not just with fans of the show, but everyone who secretly wishes to be a poor violent black drug dealer from America.”
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GENIUS!!! Are the playing pieces different too? Pitbull for scottie dog, SUV for sportscar, baseball cap for top hat. Kind of stuck for flat iron, but a used condom would kind of work.
This reminds me of ‘Ghetopoly’ that I bought for my brother for Christmas about 5 years ago. Due to Monopoly lawsuit threats it was literally being pulled from the shelves as I raced across London trying to buy a copy. Chance cards were great – “Your crack whore steals $100 from a John’s wallet – go collect”
Does anybody know where can I bought it?
Thank you!
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Please tell me this is going to be for sale
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“[...] through the fictionalised Baltimore of the show, [...]”
Not that fictionalised, actually. Pretty on-point with reality in Baltimore.
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keepin it real in bmore baby
make it happen Hasbro
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Wow, cool idea! Love the wire, play card should be you worked with bubbles pushing a shopping cart, collect 10 dollars
If this was smarter, instead of stoop stoop stoop stoop, players would work their way up from stoops and corners up into main street, city hall, wall street, etc. Just as stringer bell tried, to where the real players/criminals were…
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There is one piece on the board that is wrong. Not sure if anyone chose to look too far into it, but the 5th space on the right side of the board is switched backwards. The Game should be in the 6th space while the Baltimore Sun should be in the 5th space.
Great! But needs more Omar squares. It’s all in the game, yo.
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Wow. Thought you might like to see the full boardgame set that I was asked to produce for a friend’s birthday a little while ago…
http://www.internationalridicule.co.uk/gallery_the_wire.html
You can see all the other one-offs/Limited run boards that I’ve designed over the years there too….
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Someone. Anyone. Make this game real. Go. I’ll wait.
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I gotta get Wire Monopoly as soon as it drops!
I always figured The Wire chess set would be incredible…