Before Julie Young passed go and collected $200, she cast a ballot for a new Monopoly game piece as the nationwide campaign to select an addition to the 60-year-old board game’s stable of game pieces kicked off Wednesday at Manhattan’s FAO Schwarz toy store.
The tokens being considered: a money bag (the signature of greed and temptation), a piggy bank (the icon of the thrifty) or a 1930s biplane (the sign of an adventurer).
“As you look at Monopoly . . . you see that it’s about real estate, trading and making money” and those three tokens tie back to that, said Glenn Kilbride, a vice president at Hasbro, the parent company of game creator Parker Bros.
It’s the first time since 1942 that Monopoly has added a token to the classic edition of the game.
