Monopoly Is Ditching Its Thimble For A T-Rex Token

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Monopoly Is Ditching Its Thimble For A T-Rex Token
Monopoly fans have elected a T-Rex, a rubber ducky, and a penguin to the canon of the game’s classic tokens.

Five of the old tokens — the top hat, the race car, the battleship, Scottie the schnauzer, and the cat — are staying. The thimble, the boot, and the wheelbarrow didn’t make the cut, and a T-Rex, rubber ducky, and penguin will replace them in the version of Monopoly that will start hitting shelves in August 2017. The five returning tokens will maintain the same designs as before, and gameplay will not change.

Fans picked the eight pieces from 64 possible choices in an online poll run by Hasbro, which owns Monopoly. Options included digital symbols like a hashtag, a winking emoji, and a Facebook-esque thumbs up. Other tokens included old-school versions of current technology like a typewriter and rotary phone.

These were all the choices :

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