It's now down to voting on the two wild card cities. The Hasbro press release to that effect is reprinted below.
USA! USA!
PAD
EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass. - February 29, 2008 - The people have spoken! With more than 4.5 million votes cast, San Francisco is one of 20 wild card cities that will compete for the opportunity to become a property space on the first-ever global MONOPOLY game board.
For the past six weeks, MONOPOLY fans voted to select which of the world's greatest cities will become properties on the new Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition game board. The online ballot included cities such as New York, Paris, Tokyo and Sydney. Those votes determined 20 of the 22 property spaces on the game board. While the fate of the top 20 property spaces has been sealed, two property spaces are still up for grabs.
Two property spaces on the game board -- the spaces traditionally home to Baltic Avenue and Mediterranean Avenue -- were reserved for "wild card candidates" (write-in votes), so every city on the planet was eligible to be nominated to be on the game board.
Starting today, the 20 cities that received the most nominations for the wild card properties will compete in a face-off vote. In addition to San Francisco, the top nominated cities include Gdynia, Cancun, Bern, Johannesburg and Quebec City. To view the full list of cities, visit http://www.monopoly.com
In order for San Francisco to be victorious and land a spot on the new game board, fans are encouraged to vote for the city daily at http://www.monopoly.com during “wild card week,” which runs until March 9.
The final list of cities to be included on the MONOPOLY Here & Now The World Edition game board will be unveiled in August 2008 and the game will go on sale in September 2008 in 45 countries.
The leaderboard is up for the wildcard. And currently San Francisco is 6th I think.
Taipei and Quebec are 1 and 2.
I kind of would like Cork to make it.
It does have the Blarney stone.
It's all good when USA cities get put on the game board.
If there are no USA cities in the game, I will not buy it.
USA #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone know the end result? How did Istanbul do?
Not sure about Istanbul, but Constantinople got the works.
PAD
Did Atlantic City make the board? I'd think that would be very appropriate.
Dave
Not sure about Istanbul, but Constantinople got the works.
That's nobody's business but the Turks. Infidel.
If you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Why'd they change it?
PAD
"Even old New York was once New Amsterdam."
Don't say that naughty word!
And before it was called New Amsterdam it was called Angel.
*rimshot*
Why'd they change it?
I can't say....maybe they like it better that way......
Thought I was the only one on earth that knew that song. My kids think I made it up singing it around the house.
They changed it because the 'amsters started getting their water from the 'udson, so the dam wasn't needed anymore. Of course, then the beavers wanted to start an intrarodent war but they didn't know where to invite people to.
My kids think I made it up singing it around the house.
Go out. Buy They Might Be Giants album "Flood". Prove to your children that professional musicians record the songs you make up singing around the house.
As an aside, I note that "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" was originally a Four Lads song in 1953. (Okay... it was written by other folks; the first recording was by the Four Lads.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_(Not_Constantinople)
I don't think anyone here claimed that They Might Be Giants wrote "Istanbul," but it's a common enough misconception that I'd hope to clear things up for a few lurker-readers.
As another aside, They Might Be Giants is one of my favorite bands, but three of their songs I most enjoy -- Istanbul, The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas, and New York City -- are actually covers of other people's songs. Weird.
Go out. Buy They Might Be Giants album "Flood". Prove to your children that professional musicians record the songs you make up singing around the house.>>
Oh I kind of like keeping them guessing....with my strange ability to remember the lyrics of any old song, they think I can make up a song about any subject that come up.
OF course the usual response is 'mom can you get dad to stop singing'. Every now and then I have to remind them that people pay to hear me sing.....not that they pay much. Generally I can get them to pay more to make me stop.
Four Lads, They Might be Giants, us old-timers may be familiar with these recordings but ...
I'd wager that any adolescents who have been exposed to this song in the past decade or so FIRST heard it as the soundtrack to an AWESOMELY funny episode of Animaniacs.
I'd wager that any adolescents who have been exposed to this song in the past decade or so FIRST heard it as the soundtrack to an AWESOMELY funny episode of Animaniacs.
I'll take that wager.
It was "Tiny Toons," not "Animaniacs." They did Istanbul and Particle Man, both featuring Plucky Duck.
You lose.
PAD
Actually, Mr. David, that's not entirely accurate.
The song premiered in a Tiny Toons predecessor called "The Plucky Duck Show".
Either way, you won the wager.
Argh... Now you've done it. I cannot get the song out of my mind! Time to visit iTunes...
"The song premiered in a Tiny Toons predecessor called "The Plucky Duck Show"."
Other way around. The Plucky Duck show came after Tiny Toons.
Tiny Toons (1990 - 92): http://imdb.com/title/tt0098929/
The Plucky Duck Show (1992): http://imdb.com/title/tt0103513/
The Tiny Toons episode with that segment aired on Feb 1, 1991. The Plucky Duck episode aired on Oct 3, 1992.
Personally, the Tiny Toons episode was how I was exposed to that song.
Actually, Mr. David, that's not entirely accurate. The song premiered in a Tiny Toons predecessor called "The Plucky Duck Show".
No, it's entirely accurate. You may well have seen it on the TPDS, but that series was simply a compilation of already-existing, Plucky-centric episodes of "Tiny Toons."
PAD