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The newest Monopoly playing piece will be a cat. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Monopoly gets a new playing piece; loses an old classic

BY Jamie Skorheim  on February 6, 2013 @ 10:38 am (Updated: 12:24 pm - 2/6/13 )

The masses have chosen and an online vote for a new Monopoly playing piece has selected: a cat.

"Of course because the new playing piece was picked by the internet, it is of course a cat," says KIRO Radio's Luke Burbank.

A recent promotion by Monopoly asked internet users to vote on which classic token between the car, the thimble, the shoe, the Scotty dog, the battleship, the hat, the iron or the wheelbarrow, was to be removed, and which of a variety of new tokens was to be introduced.

The new options were a robot, a ring, a cat, a helicopter, and a guitar. Burbank thinks the cat got an unfair swing because of internet fans' affinity for felines.

"The internet loves cats. People who are on the internet a lot they love cats, they love bacon, they love other things that they see as ironic," says Burbank. "I'm actually slightly surprised the playing piece wasn't a piece of bacon."

The classic playing piece lost will be the iron.

Jamie Skorheim, MyNorthwest.com Editor
Whether it's floating on Green Lake, eating shrimp tacos at Agua Verde, or taking weekend drives out to the Cascades, she loves to enjoy the Pacific Northwest lifestyle as much as humanly possible.
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    I would have voted for the Helicopter
    February 6, 2013 11:26 am

    I loved being that car when I played. I see that you are trying to soften up the rhetoric with this fluff piece,lol. I take it you see us at each other throat on your piece about the drones and now your trying to reel us back in. An old saying Dave, don't start no trouble, there won't be any trouble,lol.

    Another old saying that I hear constantly from my wifey, IT'S YOUR FAULT.

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  • Oly80 wrote...
    i was the iron a lot...
    February 6, 2013 11:33 am
    i like flattening my opponents.

    i think it'll be the ONLY piece i'm gonna use from now on.

    not planning on buying any NEW monopoly games in this lifetime anyways. so, you "cat people" can have ball.

    honestly, what is with the internet and people with cats? wasn't it a joke when people had too many, or too much love for cats? it's kinda creepy. plus cats don't care about people. they bite if you pet them too much! what's that about!?

    good thing i have a couple different versions of the original game. long live the iron.

    honestly...A CAT?

    lame.

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  • Ye Olde Hagge wrote...
    Mmmmmm.
    February 7, 2013 12:31 pm
    He said bacon...
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