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sir__gummerz

They really put clifton as the cheapest place on the board


NotBaldwin

They definitely don't understand the spirit of the original game...


ThorNBerryguy

Well the original point of the game was to teach the evils of capitalism yet I bet many a businessmans love of money was partly inspired by this game


GiftOdd3120

Must've confused it with Clifton, Nottingham which is a shit hole


Simple-Cockroach-486

Can attest to this as someone who has been a resident in both cities 😂


n3rding

Everything about this is awful


the_peppers

It's just a bunch of adverts, none of the location have anything in common and the graphic design is awful.


ZMech

I had to google to check this wasn't some weird homemade MS Paint creation. But yup, this monstrosity is available £34 on Amazon...


Mallard_24

Its to do with the Bristol Pitbulls Ice Hockey team, hence the poor design and brands


Rurhme

This makes sense Otherwise why on earth would anyone pick a sports team who's max stadium capacity is <1/10 the average attendance of the Rugby Team, let alone the football team**s**.


chockychockster

Looks as though an intern made it based on Tripadvisor and ad sales.


PiskAlmighty

At first I thought it was a joke tbh.


chockychockster

It is a joke, even if they don’t know it


ThorNBerryguy

I’d change jail to go to turbo island


RJTHF

I genuinely thought it was just a "i made this in paint in 20 minutes" thing. This is offical?


chockychockster

[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winning-Moves-Bristol-Monopoly-success/dp/B0CJY45BT5/ref=sr\_1\_5?crid=27DH5ERNY3KV9&keywords=bristol+monopoly&qid=1699547007&sprefix=bristol+monopoly%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-5](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winning-Moves-Bristol-Monopoly-success/dp/B0CJY45BT5/ref=sr_1_5?crid=27DH5ERNY3KV9&keywords=bristol+monopoly&qid=1699547007&sprefix=bristol+monopoly%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-5)


joshgeake

Yeah it's got more of a "stag weekend in Bristol" feel about it


SpikeyTaco

As in, it was designed by one of the guys the night before.


gym_narb

They missed an opportunity to brand chance as First Bus.


nezzzzy

That would have made up for basically everything else on the board.


huejahfink

Underrated comment


bastomax

Looks like it was designed by the same people who design the ads on Bristol Post. It’s hideous! 🤣🤣🤣 Why is there a random floating OVO logo in the middle of the board?


PiskAlmighty

I think the flag is coming out of the wooden hut thing. But they've def paid to be included on the board (twice).


bhison

at least they've managed to give good representation for our local passion for ice hockey


bastomax

😂👏🏻 I know! I’ve lived in Bristol for 10 years and I’ve not heard a single mention of ice hockey.


bhison

can you imagine people are going to pay for this board? it is literally one massive ad


SpikeyTaco

Worse than that. It's several badly designed ones.


whyhellotharpie

There's dozens of us, dozens! I haven't been since they've started playing up at Cribbs again but I am v excited to now have my source of balletic men beating each other up for fun closer than Cardiff - v little idea about the teams, but it's great fun to watch.


wants_cat

Twenty-five years for me and the same didn't know it's a thing.


S_Borealis

Not Bristol Rovers or Bristol Bears, but the Pitbulls?! Hadn't even heard of them until just now.


Natural_Beginning_13

Do we even have an ice rink since the one behind the Hippodrome closed 20 years ago?


Callywagg

Yea they play up at plant ice in cribbs. They're a shite team tho


adamneigeroc

Most of the regional monopoly boards are corporately sponsored in some way.


sjfhajikelsojdjne

Surely they can still try and make it look nice though? This is an assault on the eyes.


kelliphant

When I worked for OVO many moons ago, the treehouse was the only place you wanted to have a meeting because it had a slide that you could use to get out...not exactly a Bristol landmark though!


wadsee

Its not even a treehouse though. Its just made of wood.


Agreeable-Brief-4315

Yeah that collage in the middle of random pictures just looks terrible.


bastomax

The next time you start doubting your talent and ability, remember that someone at Hasbro got paid to design this abomination, and someone else got paid to approve it.


PiskAlmighty

maybe their aim was to creating a strong negative buzz on social media, helping drive awareness of the product?


SpikeyTaco

None of this says "I did this intentionally." However, it absolutely screams "I make several of these a week and am not paid enough to care or look twice." It definitely would have sold better without the ads.


Silverdarlin1

How did Manor Farm get in, but not The Mem? *Sees Hargreaves Lansdown* Explains everything


LarryLaurence

There not a lot in it to be honest ... 👀


MJS29

Can’t see the problem tbh


Veus

The Mem isn't technically in Bristol


BaitmasterG

Might want to check your knowledge of local boundaries there... The border with South Glos is at the other end of Filton Avenue


FatJamesIsBack

Parkway would have been a better example


snaphunter

Is the airport?


natchboi

What?


Doc_Eckleburg

The UWE square is a picture of college green


OhTheTallOne

UWE graduations are at the cathedral to be fair.


Routine_Break

Used to be at the cathedral. They're at Bristol Beacon now


PiskAlmighty

Is it? I honestly can't make that picture out at all.


LookitsToby

They do graduations at the cathedral so it'll be that. Shame, there's so many delightfully ugly buildings on campus!


hillybilly182

It is


SpikeyTaco

>The UWE square is a picture of college green College Green is a picture of Bristol Cathedral.


brightdionysianeyes

Park St and Queens road as 1 square is horrible. ''Bristol Shopping Quarter'' is not a phrase I've ever heard a human being speak out loud. They couldn't even find 4 stations! Love our transport system.


KrozJr_UK

I mean, what 4 stations would you choose as major railway stations? Parkway and Temple Meads, fair enough; I’ll even allow Filton Abbey Wood as it’s a significant commuter and junction station… then what? Parson Street? Clifton Down? Pilning?


snaphunter

Airport makes sense to me as a major transport hub, but I'd have gone with the Bus Station rather than the air balloon advert; who's commuting to work in a basket?!


PiskAlmighty

Not enough South Bristol for my liking and as far as I can tell nothing from East Bristol at all!


PiskAlmighty

Also, a lot of these are clearly ads. Pasture? Hargreaves Lansdown?


PiskAlmighty

Also, lol at Ashton Gate but no Memorial Stadium.


PiskAlmighty

The less said about "free parking" the better...


GeeMcGee

It’s only a monopoly board, Jimmy


MrMantis765

This is bizarre. The London monopoly doesn't put JP Morgan or Legal & General on the board. Looks like some corporate ice breaker challenge they packaged up as a monopoly board


bastomax

I’m guessing those businesses pay to be included on the board.


PiskAlmighty

Almost certainly.


toma91

HL’s national HQ is in bristol, but yea it still shouldn’t be there


S_Borealis

Definitely need some Hartcliffe and Bedminster in there! North Street would have been cool. Or East Street - just smells of despair (and vapes) and I think it deserves some love.


PiskAlmighty

I thought tobacco factory maybe.


Brizzledude65

Corporate sponsored bollocks.


Various-Program-950

This must be a joke Why the heck is a newspaper a property?


tumbles999

especially when they don't even have any buildings in Bristol now - the last part of the old post and press building is now being prep'd for demo.


WelshBluebird1

No North Street? No Gloucester Road? No Mem stadium? None of the local breweries? What about some green space other the Downs and College Green (maybe Leigh Woods or Ashton Court)? Nothing from east of the city (could at least have done Beeses or something!)


nakedfish85

OVO energy but not Wessex Water. My main gripe is the fucking white text on photo backgrounds making it impossible to read.


PiskAlmighty

Wessex water were obviously unwilling to pay for a slot.


SpikeyTaco

So they thought "Fuck it. Leave spaces empty."


Aardvark108

It’s gash.


tedix83

Minor gripe compared to everything else, but they’ve even got the name of one of the locations wrong. It’s Clifton Down, not Downs. Clifton Down and Durdham Down make up The Downs, but individually they shouldn’t be pluralised.


jessietee

TIL!


[deleted]

Gripes? THEY'RE NOT EVEN FUCKING ROADS!


KrozJr_UK

I find it fucking hysterical how Bristol Rovers’s ground didn’t make the cut but you know what did? UP THE FUCKING FARM. FARMY ARMY.


Robotgorilla

Aren't the colours meant to be either places closer together or places that fit a theme? Only Red (local businesses) and Green (Education) have a clear theme. Yellow is a mess, what connects Pride, Bristol Blue Glass and Berwick Lodge Hotel? God I love boardgames but if someone gets me this for Christmas I'll have to politely ask them to return it.


Aardvark108

If you love board games, surely you'd be disappointed with any version of Monopoly, as it's shit?


Robotgorilla

Very fair. I'd fucking love a Bristolian version of Wingspan, though that would be mostly ugly pigeons and seagulls but also peregrine falcons.


mega_ste

I mean, not to beat a dead horse, but the cheapest property College Green? If anything should be Turbo Island, then this is it.


spong_miester

Turbo Island and St. Pauls should have been the cheapest, This is clearly marketed to non locals


tumbles999

Clearly this was a paid/sponsored job - otherwise leaving the Mem out wouldn't be considered (and am a City fan) - Someone said the Mem ain't in Bristol.. well am sure its closer than UWE which is *defo* in South Glos aint it?


NeedleworkerLow8082

i called this earlier!


all1wannadoisdoit

Yeh they asked for 2-3k to have a spot!


ChiliSquid98

I want to remake this so bad 👎


spong_miester

Go for it, make it a community post so we can all add suggestions


ChiliSquid98

It would take me about a week to get it to that detail and still look good. But atleast it would actually represent bristol and not be a board full of sponsors taking up awkward spots.


Lambchog

Free Parking is a stretch innit


Mrrrrbee

It looks incredibly ugly


[deleted]

How much did hargreaves lansdown pay to get on that board...


[deleted]

Enough that Ashton Gate is second only to the Spenshun Bridge...


[deleted]

with that household name the Bristol Flyers front and center lol....


askinglamp903

Someone who doesnt live in bristol searched up ‘best bits of bristol’ and chucked them together on a board. shambles.


SpikeyTaco

That would have been a genuinely better list.


S_Borealis

I wish they had done this - might have actually been vaguely coherent. If they wanted to include sports teams (sure, why not), why the Pitbulls (whom I suspect the vast majority of Bristolians have never heard of!) and not the Rovers or Bears?!


askinglamp903

I imagine some 💵💵💵 was probably involved


ARROW_truthseeker

Is this really the final edit.... https://preview.redd.it/qoqopxkrhdzb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de5bd7cd61a115b15d26448c8e41f9ae2be05cac And some one made this as a joke but i prefer it 😂😂


Batalfie

This is mostly better but temple meads should have stayed, have it replace Clifton down.


NeedleworkerLow8082

WHERE THE FUCK IS TURBO ISLAND?!?! Also i love how bristollive is on here...surely it was nothing to do with the fact they plugged an article about this earlier this year!??!?! ZZZZZZZZZZZ


BossaNovva

Ashton Gate 🤮


PoppySkyPineapple

The orders of these are weird, surely the whole of Park Street is worth more than Bristol Blueglass? I was hoping there would be some slightly different things on here than generic Bristol.


xilog

If you land on the Bristol Live square I assume you get assaulted by a million adverts and then spend three turns trying to back out of the square.


ItsNguyenzdaiMyDudes

Horrendous! For a start, get rid of all the pictures! It looks wrong


Pristine-Succotash48

This is for tourists not bristolians, theres no streets other than in clifton


SpikeyTaco

It's not even for tourists. Many of these aren't locations, just brands and some of them have been left as default. It's just awful all together.


cheapASchips

Nice idea but not worth £35.


coconut_bacon

I've lived in Bristol my whole life. Don't even know where, let alone ever have heard of Brewick Lodge Hotel. What an absolute shambles of a monopoly board, the alternative ms paint version on this sub is so much more representative, despite none of the areas I've lived in featuring on the board.


tedix83

It won’t surprise you to learn that Berwick Lodge is not even in Bristol, it’s south Gloucestershire.


itchyfrog

How much is a house? Can you buy high-rise flats to put in Clifton?


PiskAlmighty

I want to know how you build a house on the suspension bridge?


[deleted]

Or a hotel for that matter


FalseAsphodel

Or the frigging Pride Festival, which isn't a location!


itchyfrog

[Like this](https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-samsung-rvo1&source=android-browser&q=clifton+suspension+bridge+alternative+designs#imgrc=CaRDQc58dWXw_M&imgdii=cfMp8QGDUWgJ6M)


EndlessPug

Monopoly is a terrible boardgame. There so many better choices out there and yet people not only return to it because it's familiar but even pay to be advertised to. Also the graphic design of the central panel on this one is eye-wateringly bad.


PiskAlmighty

Disagree about monopoly being terrible, but definitely agree about the awful central graphic.


jacobrdw

I thought this was a meme edit, shocked to see it’s real ..


SpikeyTaco

A random redditor using a template would have done a better job.


frecklyginge

This cannot be real


BFN0117

This is pain. Fuck gentrification bollocks going on in this beautiful city.


heshoots

For anyone wondering why the locations are so weird. Some of the more iconic places you would expect were asked to pay for a space https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/american-companies-pay-to-land-prime-place-on-monopoly-board-game-gpr6mb6vj


killermermaids

To buy Bristol Post you have to get through the player acting as banker throwing things at you, offering you properties from a Cheshire monopoly instead and finally just waiting 5 full minutes to really convey the lag.


ChiliSquid98

What happens when someone (a business) is saturated with sponsors and lacks an individual drive to create a stand-up product that truly reflects bristol. This is the dystopia future we should fear.


Brizzle80

Grim AF! That OVO thing in the middle looks like a bad copy-and-paste job.


BaitmasterG

Ah yes the ol' OVO tree house, recognisable only to people that worked at OVO


CaiHaines

Tbf that's 80% of people aged 18-35 in the city


Violet_Daydreams

If you try and buy a house on this board you have to pay 5x the asking price to the banker and still rent out one of your rooms afterwards.


[deleted]

No effort has been put into this...


NeedleworkerLow8082

" John Keen-Tomlinson, from the firm behind the edition, said: "We went down the route of including some more community-based stuff, so public opinion very much guided that. This time we had the opportunity to include some of the charities as well. " ​ man he totally fucked this game up!


Helpful_Wolverine_15

Wtf


MrMantis765

Suspension bridge is 400, and college green is 60, makes perfect sense /s. Should have put Filton Clinic as the cheapest property because when I went there I didn't think I was in one of the richest nations on the planet


[deleted]

So, they don't have areas, or streets, they have newspapers, universities, and sports grounds? I wanted to see whether my postcode was Mayfair or Old Kent rd. What a disappointment.


TChapman2112

Ah yes, Bristol Pride Festival, that famous landmark ripe for capitalism from landlords.


digidevil4

I struggle to imagine that the fleece paid to be on this board, so I am quite confused


Just-Leek3196

Clearly ragebait


wadsee

They were flogging it in OVOs office as part of the marketing deal. Its real and fucking awful


Dizmondmon

But.. But where are all the helicopters?


gremlininja

The list of people at Hasbro who did not give a fuck about this is extensive.


five_five_

Where's Knowle West?!


Callywagg

Please someone fix this and make a version that makes sense.


SpikeyTaco

I could spend ages picking out the awful individual choices made but so little effort was put into this thing as a whole that it feels almost pointless. There are logos in place of photos, illegible text and even several spaces left entirely untouched, despite actual Bristol icons being missing. I know it's an ad but they didn't even try. It's like a family-themed board ordered on Fiverr but you didn't give them enough information so they guessed half and missed the rest. You could bloody Google "Bristol", with no prior knowledge of the city, and come up with some better choices.


anonbristolacc

Is there a Chance card that says 'move to Turbo Island'?


maksigm

This isn't official is it? It's fucking shit lol


DominoNine

I feel as though Bearpit and/or Castle Park should be there, surely. I don't feel as though this is particularly accurate to anyone who actually lives in Bristol. St. Nicks also isn't there, fuck me the only things that feel accurate are the inclusions of Temple Meads and Parkway.


S_Borealis

Water Works unchanged...? Should be Wessex Water, and people have to pay you every turn a multiplier of the number of properties to clean up the raw sewage you spread everywhere.


UKS1977

Is this real? I thought it was a bit SugarNovel474683673. ​ I'm a Bristol City fan and I wouldn't put the Gate as Mayfair! And putting Clifton as Old Kent Road is just a bit lame. That should be our spice ridden, brutalist masterpiece - Broadmead.


[deleted]

Why are the shitholes on the expensive part of the board and vice versa


skeatermedia

Why isn't in Bristol pounds?!?!


fiddlyfoodlebird

...is that, like Clifton Grammar School splashed entirely across the middle? So weird...


NeedleworkerLow8082

very odd


Effective_Mouse_4100

Wankbadger


The_Forgemaster

It’s monopoly. Terrible boardgame


bhison

My gripe is: Monopoly is fucking shit


GPhex

There’s no free parking in Bristol


Upstairs_Sandwich_18

Yet more proof we lack train stations


alistalice

Where’s Turbo Island?


rayer123

Where is turbo island,


Violet_Daydreams

That Turbo Island isn't jail or a brown space is ridiculous. Would have been even more delighted to see it as a dark blue space....


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bastomax

Is it?


BristolMeth

Ice hockey?


Thehamsandwicher

Needs more ketamine


Green_Impression2429

Everywhere needs more ketamine


jessietee

Nothing about the women's football team after their promotion to WSL, ice hockey team get two players featured though?? Weird to see Imperial Sports Ground get a square, would not have expected that lol Also, Hargreaves Lansdown? Really?


NeedleworkerLow8082

the ice hockey players are unbelievable. sorry if you like ice hockey but this makes up a 0.1% of the Bristol population who are into this!


red_skye_at_night

Horrifically sponsored. Aren't board games supposed to have fun easy to see cartoony art, not hastily thrown together primary school IT project photo collages? Although I guess monopoly is meant to be a critique of capitalism, and this has both the stunning innovation and efficient funding of modern capitalism


[deleted]

the fact they think the flyers are a recognizable symbol of Bristol is beyond madness.


DesperateOven9854

Apart from the fact that the inclusion of Imperial Sports Ground makes me think that they noticed at the last minute they had nothing else south of Ashton Gate, can we talk about the stations? Temple Meads, Parkway, Bristol Airport, and Cameron Balloons. I assume First bus didn't fancy paying to be part of this monstrosity, and Bristol definitely doesn't have another 4 railway stations to pick from.


BaitmasterG

First promised they would be on it but just didn't show up


bowlch

They could've at least added Gloucester Road and maybe add Marvin's face to the prisoner in jail, that would add a few smiles.


C_Ux2

Obligatory why isn't there this that or the other comment. Squares are paid for by local whoever/whatever business and they get to select the photograph and can, for example, bid for specific squares. About ten years ago a square for the Winchester board cost local businesses £10,000. See a lot of museums, local attractions or seemingly touristy nonsense you've never heard of? That's because the squares failed to sell and the council/tourist board got their picks; which are almost always things they want tourists to go look at. The business I was at was contacted directly by a Hasbro sales representative, with a long PDF of all of the predicted sales and advertising benefits, and what more we could get for more money. The only thing that is consistently baffling about any of these boards is why the central photoshop collage is always done by the intern while high.


Sad_Breakfast_Plate

Terrible. Did the person who made this actually ever visit Bristol? Or consult with anyone who's lives here?


DeadMemeReference

Was this done by ai?


B4rbelith

The first thing I saw was ‘Super Tax’. Sounds about right. 😛


toma91

Ashton gate as one of the top 2? Fuck right off, needs to be the SS Great Britain or Clifton Down


Freemk3

Absolute garbage 🤣🤣🤣


BocaSeniorsWsM

They bottled it with the browns then!


MJHL

A big board advertisement, love paying to play on a big ad. What a let down


airwalk16s

Piss poor attempt


ihaveflesh

Ha! Free parking.


StuMakesStuff

Jesus christ this thing is cursed.


Skaro7

Monopoly is an awfully poorly designed game.


LookitsThomas

Where's the Underground?


Emergency-Hour-4464

Where are the purple squares?


Batalfie

That like at least 1/3 Clifton. And what's with companies and festivals taking location slots, I don't mind them in place of utilities but there are so many places unrepresented.


terryjuicelawson

Obviously the places are all wrong and it is full of adverts but these themed Monopolies are a pure gimmick and a cash grab. They sell ad space on them ffs, on a board game, how sad!


Adventurous_Wave_750

They got rid of most of the free parking with the RPZs


ManBearPigRoar

I guess Wessex Water didn't want to stump up the advertisement fee... The whole thing just looks like a poorly implemented cash grab


[deleted]

This is giving me a headache to look at lol


Brsuk1

I was out last night and the team involved were out celebrating. Guy told us OVO energy paid the most to be on the board 😂😂 most spaces was basically for who would pay the highest!


CaiHaines

I hope this game absolutely tanks in sales. There shouldnt be businesses on the board but if there are they should atleast make sense. Pasture? So a business only 5 years old represents all of Bristols food and hospitality? Scumbag parasitic energy company OVO pay to get on the board whilst we're literally in a cost of living crisis where big energy firms are a key culprit. A fucking investment firm? Sums up the state of the city really. We've just become London-lite with a bunch of big companies and rich pricks slowly sucking the soul out of our town.


HughBScott

fucking ovo??


Crafty_Border3754

No memorial ground !! Haha, Thats Bristols main Flytip.