Monopoly made it official on Friday, announcing that the thimble, boot and wheelbarrow were out as game tokens and would be replaced by a rubber duck, T-Rex and penguin. Now, some of you may be saying, “big deal, some pieces are different,” but you clearly underestimate how much people care about the sanctity of Monopoly tradition.
Twitter exploded on Friday morning with angry tweets about how it was ridiculous that Monopoly, a board game about purchasing fake real estate because you rolled some dice, would deviate from tradition and remove such treasured, iconic figures as the thimble, boot and wheelbarrow. Monopoly is serious business, folks, and don’t you ever forget it.
Let’s take a look at the many people that were mad online about a board game changing pieces. We’ll get to those that want to cling to the nostalgia of playing Monopoly in their youth, but first we must examine the people that dropped extremely woke Monopoly takes. This wasn’t just updating pieces to make a game more fun. No, this was taking away symbols of the working class, further pushing the blue-collar man to the periphery of American existence.
Symbolic #Monopoly changes: Instead of a thimble and a wheelbarrow, symbols of work, we get a rubber ducky, symbol of goofing off in a bath.
— Jason Ginsburg (@Ginsburg) March 17, 2017
The thimble represented the working class of Monopoly. You came from mediocrity and you could be somebody.
Fuck our generation
— Mike Pfeil (@mikeFAIL) March 17, 2017
Monopoly’s boot was a symbol of the working class – and now it’s dead https://t.co/1vQoA5G0Sw pic.twitter.com/xVxtnFJPxP
— Money (@Money) March 17, 2017
This is why Trump won, because you liberals keep trying to push out the working class in middle America by removing classic symbols of their struggle like the boot and thimble.
Then there were those that just mad for the sake of being mad, because that’s what the internet is all about.
https://twitter.com/russbengtson/status/842754041801326595
Just heard Monopoly is getting rid of my beloved thimble. pic.twitter.com/SL729mYpqW
— Louis Peitzman (@LouisPeitzman) March 17, 2017
Who signed off on this change. 3 iconic monopoly pieces removed for this? https://t.co/fR6DzyJCWu
— MT (@recruittheboot) March 17, 2017
RIP to the thimble, my go to monopoly piece 😞 https://t.co/w5ei9P2YFW
— Carpophorus (@DCK_III) March 17, 2017
I have always been a thimble guy and a huge Monopoly fan so I am pretty sad over this
— Chris Brasfield (@chrisbrasfield) March 17, 2017
Why are there this many people that liked the thimble?
There were some actually good jokes though:
https://twitter.com/fourhman/status/842745188439220224
Monopoly added TWO dinosaurs to the game, because penguins ARE avian dinosaurs.
*clears throat*
*pushes up glasses*
*walks into ocean*
— After Midnight (@midnight) March 17, 2017
And finally, there was Dr. Ruth, with perspective as always.
So the condom didn't make it as a #Monopoly game piece. A missed educational opportunity as I see it.
— Dr. Ruth Westheimer (@AskDrRuth) March 17, 2017