Monopoly City

So since the Northeast corridor, especially near the lakes, was lucky enough to get a nice little snowstorm today, school was cancelled. Eddie spent most of his morning hanging out with Papa, but got bored and came up to the house.

After about the 500k questions, explanations, requests ect, I finally gave in to his request to play Monopoly city during the little boys' nap.


Man, I can't decide whether I love it or hate it. I am going to break it into pros and cons, because there are solids of each

Pros:
A more advanced version of the origional.
Much more strategy involved.
Helps teach decimals in money (1.4 mil = 1mil 400k type deal)
Adds an element of chance with the beepy machine

Cons:
It says 8-up. I think thats pushing it a little. Eddie is a pretty damn smart kid, and he got about 75% of the point to the game.
You dont have to own all of one color group to play. WTF!?!?!?! Thats monopoly blasphemy
Every time you roll the dice, buildings scatter everywhere
Railroads basically are gone (yeah they exist but are useless)
The first color is no longer dark purple but brown. blech.

I think I may have to challenge Justin to a game tonight, to test how I feel about it with someone I wouldn't feel bad about screwing over with hazard buildings and blocking color group. Oh wait, I forgot, that doesn't matter anymore.



I think I just might take my monopoly too seriously.......


Eddieism- (Eddie and I are sitting at table playing Monopoly city, Jonathan wakes up, and brings out a dino)
Jonathan- Mama!!! Dinosaur wanna pwaaayyy!!
(crashes through city with Godzilla like skills)
Eddie- Well...I would call him the human wrecking ball, but I cant. After all, a dinosaur isnt human.