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 3 of 3)

blissfire Feb 9th 2012 1:52AM

No one I know will want to play this with me, but I must have it. If only to read over all the cards and giggle to myself and gaze adoringly at the player pieces.

Bossy Feb 9th 2012 4:45AM

Great move: it spreads the WOW franchise further.

BTW: I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of some Blizzard/WOW haters (although their number tend to decline these days).

With the 60% decline of SWTOR on Xfire, it is quite clear now WOW will dominate this scene for MANY years to come.

It is only a matter of time before World of Warcraft will spread onto other forms of entertainment as a fixed franchise.

Perhaps some limited dungeon crawlers / Battlefields on consoles as the next step?

WOW will not go away in the next decade and I like that.

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