Official Monopoly: World of Warcraft game to be unveiled next week

by Fox Van Allen Feb 8th 2012 at 8:00PM

Anyone familiar with board games could tell you that there are about 100,000 different versions of Monopoly out there. There's an officially licensed The Wizard of Oz Monopoly. There's a Powerpuff Girls Monopoly. And a Looney Tunes Monopoly. Even the lousy IP-cash-in movie effort Cars 2 has its own version of Monopoly. So it would only stand to reason that World of Warcraft would get its own version of Monopoly eventually, right?

Right.

According to BlizzPlanet, an officially licensed World of Warcraft Monopoly will be unveiled at next week's Toy Fair 2012 in New York City. There really aren't any details as of yet, just that the board game will be showcased. Presumably, though, there will be a lot of customization involved, right down to the playing tokens.

Perhaps even more exciting than Monopoly (a game I am incapable of losing, FYI) is the companion Blizzard tie-in, Risk: StarCraft. Supposedly, the playing pieces for that game will include StarCraft II units. That's all sorts of awesome.

Update: BlizzPlanet has removed its references to these games in its Toy fair 2012 posting, so it's possible USAopoly was not prepared to announce these products yet.

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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 3)

Ellesmere Feb 8th 2012 9:37PM

It'll be Org. With all that horde bias, ya know...

/ducks

Ellesmere Feb 8th 2012 9:40PM

It'll be Org. What with all the Horde bias.....

/ducks

Al Feb 8th 2012 9:50PM

That's the Park Lane/Mayfair equivalents? Shattrath and Dalaran.

Finnicks Feb 8th 2012 10:16PM

I have this feeling that Boardwalk will be The Maelstrom, and maybe Park Place will be Wymrest Temple.

Amaxe Feb 8th 2012 11:19PM

I knew I should have trademarked /duck...

... now everybody is using it...

/duc... oh wait.

brain314 Feb 9th 2012 12:16AM

Nerf Boardwalk!

Radioted Feb 8th 2012 8:37PM

Blizz! Community Chest is imbalanced! Plz fix!!!!!

Lygion Feb 8th 2012 8:49PM

Let's see, I own the Orgrimmar Skyway, the Stormwind Tramway, and the Azshara Rocketway so you owe me.....

Necromann Feb 8th 2012 8:52PM

Nice, I'm going to buy one, I love WoW, I love Monopoly, this will be awesome.

Nobar Feb 8th 2012 8:56PM

2 Questions I have, what will Free Parking be and what will Jail be?

jaymccowan13 Feb 8th 2012 9:08PM

Jail is extended patch days?

Azurite Feb 8th 2012 9:12PM

Jail is probably going to be Barrens Chat.

Al Feb 8th 2012 10:09PM

Free Parking : AFK in town.

Ace Feb 9th 2012 12:32AM

The jail is that place in GM Island

Pyromelter Feb 9th 2012 5:30AM

Jail is easy, it's the Stormwind Stockades (the main Jail in the game).

Free parking... hmmm.

Oddly enough I looked at some specialty monopolies, and they all have the basic Go, Jail, Free Parking, and Go to Jail spaces that look exactly like the original. Looks really out of place on like Star Wars Monopoly

Namssob Feb 8th 2012 9:13PM

"a game I am incapable of losing, FYI"

Would love to play you some time. I've been a tournament champion, once went 10-0 in a 1v1 online tourney, 50-10 in another online ladder-style tourney, and I am many years running undefeated in our annual family Christmas Monopoly game.

But back on-topic - where can I pickup one of these games?!?! I do plan on buying one!

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