Monopoly To Replace Iron Game Piece With Cat

American Voices • Opinion • ISSUE 49•06 • Feb 8, 2013

Hasbro announced that the least popular Monopoly game piece, the iron, would be removed from the board game and replaced with a cat, which beat out other potential new tokens—a guitar, a robot, a diamond ring, and a helicopter—in an online vote. What do you think?

“But I was getting so good with the iron!”
Rochelle Epper –
Dam Tender
“Who the hell are all these people who don’t want to be a fucking helicopter?”
Norman Yant –
Abalone Diver
“That thing was an iron? My friends always told me it was a spaceship when they made me play with it.”
Gabriel Struzan –
Darkroom Worker

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