List of licensed and localized editions of Monopoly: Europe
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The following is a list of game boards of the Parker Brothers/Hasbro board game Monopoly adhering to a particular theme or particular locale in Europe. Lists for other regions can be found here. The game is licensed in 103 countries and printed in 37 languages.[1] The longest-produced and most commercially successful edition in the UK and Commonwealth Countries is the original London version published in 1935.
Game description: This national edition is based on a standard board with street names from eight Austrian state capitals. Each capital gets one set of color properties. In order around the board, these include Eisenstadt, Graz, Linz, Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Vienna, and Bregenz.
Game description: This a board localized for the nation of Austria. Based on a Standard Edition game set, the streets used are from various Austrian cities. These include Eisenstadt (brown properties), Graz (light blue properties), Linz (maroon properties), Klagenfurt (orange properties), Salzburg (red properties), Innsbruck (yellow properties), Vienna (green properties) and Bregenz (dark blue properties). The set comes with standard currency denominations (1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500); property values are given in euros. Pieces include green plastic houses and red plastic hotels.
Tokens: Ten metal tokens: Cannon, dog, wheelbarrow, car, battleship, iron, thimble, horse and rider, hat and shoe.
Other features: The train stations from the standard German edition are changed to North station, West station, South station and Franz Josef's station (in German: Nordbahnhof, Westbahnhof, Südbahnhof and Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof). This board edition also grants the same choice on the Income Tax space as the U.S. original; in this case it's 10% or €200. Many of the European boards simply charge €200. The Luxury Tax space is also called that (instead of the regular German Zusatzsteuer or add-on tax), but has a rate of €100.
Belgium[]
There have been several editions of Belgian boards. They used to be either in Dutch or in French. Recent editions use bilingual game boards.[3] Street names are taken from cities across the country, equally divided between the Dutch and French speaking halves of the kingdom. There are a few city editions also. All together -special editions included- there are some 53 listed versions using these variants, including translations of other variants (FIFA World Cup, Star Wars, etc.).[3]
The currency values in the Belgian editions used to be francs. The bills that came with the set showed 20, 100, 200, 400, 1,000, 2,000, and 10,000 francs. The property and penalty prices are presumed to match the new billset, with the starting cash equal to 30,000 francs (1,500 x 20).
Now the currency is the euro. Bills are the 500, 100, 50, 20, 10 and 1 euro coins with starting cash of 1500 euro.
Game description: The Belgian Walloon edition of Monopoly features cities and streets from both the Walloon and Flemish areas of the country. The railroads are the three big Brussels railroad stations (Brussels North, Central and South) and one 'Buurtspoorwegen' or 'Chemins de Fer Vicinaux' which used to be the Belgian light railway and tram company. Electric Company and Waterworks stay the same, with translations.
Tokens: Colored wooden Man-What-You-Not-pin nets are used as tokens.
Other features: The houses and the (long) hotels are in the form of a triangular tent of beautiful shiny wood (later plastic). The dice are standard white plastic with black pips.
Game description: This special edition features streets from Antwerp, Belgium. The language used is Flemish.
Tokens: Colored wooden Man-What-You-Not-pin nets are used at tokens.
Other features: The houses and the (long) hotels are in the form of a triangular tent of beautiful shiny wood. The dice are standard white plastic with black pips. The box on the original Flemish edition did not state as such, though a 1964 release did indicate the Flemish edition. The second 1963 release used official Monopoly money.
Cie. De Distribution D'Électricité/ Electriciteits Bedrijf 3000
Taxe De Luxe/ Extra Belasting (pay 2000)
Rue De Diekirch 2800
Rue Neuve/ Nieuwstraat 8000
Prison/ Gevangenis
Kapellestraat/ Kapelstraat 2400
Place Du Monument 2000
Chance/ Kans
Steenstraat 2000
Gare Du Nord/ Station Noord 4000
Impots Sur Le Revenu/ Inkomsten Belasting (pay 4000)
Rue De Diest/ Diestsestraat 1600
Caisse De Communauté/ Algemeen Fonds
Rue Grande 1200
Départ/ Start
Game description: The Brussels edition of Monopoly features a mix of cities from Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels. Ten street names come from Flanders areas, ten from Wallonia, and two additional street names are added from Brussels itself. The grid above incorporates both language versions; the French version is on the left and the Dutch on the right where two names are given. The railways are the same as the other respective versions, as are the utilities.
Tokens: Standard Monopoly tokens: thimble, wheelbarrow, car, boat, gun, horseman, hat, dog, shoe, and iron. This is the case with each city edition.
Other features: This version still uses the adjusted values and the franc bills. A second edition uses regular values and the regular bills, and was released in 2000. Under pressure from owner Hasbro, the edition presented in 2019 censoredManneken Pis, the 17th-century bronze statue of a naked boy urinating, with swimming trunks.[5]
City Editions[]
Starting in 2000, Hasbro and TFL Games began releasing special -opoly editions based on cities in Belgium. The original Brussels edition got a facelift with a new board and standard dollar values and playing pieces. A number of Wallonian cities also got special editions, including Namur (capital of Wallonia), Liège, Charleroi, and Arlon, all in the Walloon Region along with 2 Flemish cities Antwerp and Ghent.[6]
Game description: The Antwerp edition of Monopoly features 22 streets of Antwerp as well as some railway stations within the locale.
Tokens: Standard Monopoly tokens: thimble, wheelbarrow, car, boat, gun, horseman, hat, dog, shoe, and iron. This is the case with each city edition.
Other features: The game is published in Flemish. The property values go back to normal values, and the bills included are the standard 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, and 500.
Game description: Known as 'Monopoly'. The possessions are partially invented street names but the majority are real street names used in mayor Croatian cities.
Game description: Two nearly identical versions, Matador and Monopoly. The Matador version was introduced in the 1930s, and the Monopoly version in 1996.[7] Denominated in Danish kroner. Most expensive is City Hall Square (Danish: Rådhuspladsen). Additionally Monopoly Junior exists. The 1961 version featured streets from Denmark's four major cities Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense, and Aalborg.
The 1930s Matador version was localised exclusively with Copenhagen streets. In both versions, Copenhagen's City Hall Square, occupies the most expensive space on the board.
Odense A localized version was published in the 1980s, known as Kong Gulerod i Odense[8]
Tokens: Twelve sights, each country one: Eiffel Tower (France), Brandenburg Gate (Germany), Windmill (Netherlands), Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy), Sagrada Família (Spain), Grundtvig's Church (Denmark), Atomium (Belgium), Parthenon (Greece), Tower of London (Great Britain), Belém Tower (Portugal), Blarney Castle (Ireland), Church Saints Cosmas and Damian in Clervaux (Luxembourg)
Game description: Instead of streets, it uses the names of capital cities of countries which are already members of the European Union, in order of their admission to the EU (or its predecessor organizations), and some which are expected to be. Currency in euros.
Game description: This was a special Europa (Europe) Edition of Monopoly, released in Germany in 2001. The board was released just before the euro was adopted, and features licensed paper replicas of the 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500 euro notes. A package of licensed plastic replica 1 euro coins is also included. The dice come in the official Blue and Gold colors of the European Union, as do the houses (blue) and hotels (gold). The game board features the capital cities of twenty-two European nations, for buying, selling and trading. The European Parliament and the European Court of Justice take the places of the two utilities. Four major airports (London's Heathrow, Paris's Charles de Gaulle, Amsterdam's Schiphol and Frankfurt's Rhein-Main) take the places of the four railroads.
Tokens: The eight tokens represent famous European landmarks: The Palace of Westminster, UK, the Eiffel Tower, France, the Brandenburg Gate, Germany, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy, a windmill, The Netherlands, the Manneken Pis, Belgium, the Sagrada Família, Spain and the Parthenon in Greece.
Other features: As the properties are nations and their capital cities, they are laid out in reverse order by the year they joined the European Union (or its predecessor organizations). Thus France and Germany occupy the dark blue spaces, and are the most expensive. Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium occupy the green spaces, Luxembourg, the UK and Denmark occupy the yellow spaces, and so on.
Game description: This board is localized for the German city of Frankfurt am Main. Spaces on the board use streets and locations local to the city, as well as logos of local businesses and interests (for example: Eintracht Frankfurt, Senckenberg Museum). The train station spaces are the Central Train Station (Hauptbahnhof), Rhein-Main Airport (Flughafen Rhein-Main), East Harbour (Osthafen) and Hauptwache Underground station (U-Bahnhof Hauptwache). The set comes with now standard currency denominations (1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500); property values are given in euros. Pieces include green plastic houses and red plastic hotels.
Tokens: Ten metal tokens: Cannon, dog, wheelbarrow, car, battleship, iron, thimble, horse and rider, hat and shoe.
Other features: The box proclaims that it is an Authorized Opoly Game. A diagonal band in the top left of the box reads Limitierte Neuauflage in € (New Limited Edition with euros).
Game description: This board is localized for the German city of Hamburg. Spaces on the board use streets and locations local to the city, as well as logos of local businesses and interests (for example: Hamburger SV, Hafen Hamburg, Reeperbahn or Jungfernstieg). Also, apart from the Hauptbahnhof (central station), the train station spaces read Flughafen Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel (Hamburg Airport), Bahnhof Dammtor and Bahnhof Altona. The set comes with now standard currency denominations (1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500); property values are given in euros. Pieces include green plastic houses and red plastic hotels.
Tokens: Ten metal tokens: Cannon, dog, wheelbarrow, car, battleship, iron, thimble, horse and rider, hat and shoe.
Game description: This a board localized for the German city of Köln (Cologne). Spaces on the board use streets and locations local to the city, as well as logos of local businesses and interests (for example: 4711 Cologne, and the Cologne Philharmonic). The set comes with now standard currency denominations (1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500); property values are given in euros. Pieces include green plastic houses and red plastic hotels.
Tokens: Ten metal tokens: Cannon, dog, wheelbarrow, car, battleship, iron, thimble, horse and rider, hat and shoe.
Other features: The box proclaims that it is an Authorized Opoly Game.
Athens - Monopoly today version (Monopoly - Modern Greece, Μονόπολη - Σύγχρονη Ελλάδα) features city landmarks from Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras as well as place names around Greece. Currency is circulated by the use of plastic credit cards.
Other features: Uses normal Monopoly Money but multiplicated by 100. So there are 100, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000, 10000 and 50000 bills. The currency is called δρχ. (Greek Drachma was used before the Euro) to add to the nolstagia theme.
show90 Years of Shell in Greece - Collectible Edition: Treasures of Greece
Copyright date: 2016
Ελεύθερη Στάθμευση
Νάουσα Πάρος
Εντολή
Καλντέρα Σαντορίνη
Χώρα Μύκονος
1982 Shell Pecten
Λίνδος Ρόδος
Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος Μυκήνες
Εταιρία Υγραερίου - Coral Gas
Κνωσσός Κρήτη
Πήγαινε Στη Φυλακή
Αρχαίο Θέατρο Επιδαύρου Αργολίδα
90 Years of Shell in Greece - Collectible Edition: Treasures of Greece
Βεργίνα Ημαθία
Αρχαίο Θέατρο Δελφοί
Αρχαία Ολυμπία Ηλεία
Απόφαση
Απόφαση
Καλλιμάρμαρο Στάδιο Αθήνα
Ναός του Ποσειδώνα Σούνιο
1955 Shell Pecten
1992 Shell Pecten
Μετέωρα Καλαμπάκα
Εντολή
Μπούρτζι Ναύπλιο
Λευκός Πύργος Θεσσαλονίκη
Εταιρία Ηλεκτρισμού
Πρόσθετος Φόρος
Λίμνη Ιωάννινα
Παρθενώνας Αθήνα
Φυλακή - Μόνο Για Επίσκεψη
Γέφυρα Ρίου - Αντιρρίου Πάτρα
Μύρτος Κεφαλονιά
Εντολή
Ναυάγιο Ζάκυνθος
1930 Shell Pecten
Φόρος Εισοδήματος
Φάρος Αλεξανδρούπολη
Απόφαση
Καταρράκτες Έδεσσα
Αφετηρία - GO
Game description: Special Edition sold through Shell fuel stations. Shell Pecten refers to the Shell logo. In July 2010 Shell completed the sale of its downstream businesses in Greece to Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries whose LPG fuel station brandname is Coral Gas.
BYRJUN Þú færð 20.000 kr. í hvert skipti sem þú ferð hér framhjá
Game description: The spaces are named after streets in Reykjavík, and the currency is the Icelandic króna. As there are no railways in Iceland, the four spaces with railroads in the original edition are replaced with three airports and a bus station. The airport spaces have airplane symbols instead of locomotive symbols, but curiously the bus station space retains the locomotive symbol. The Chance and Community Chest cards lack the Rich Uncle Pennybags illustrations of the American edition.
Ireland[]
For the Republic of Ireland (and not including Northern Ireland) in three versions, Irish pound (now discontinued) and euro, and a 'Here and Now' edition, with updated landmarks, and all monetary values multiplied by a factor of 10,000. Original version used mainly Dublin placenames, except for the red squares which were from Cork, and Shannon Airport as a station. On the new Irish language version published in 2015 by Glór na nGael Monopoly Dollars are used, to avoid any need for euro or sterling currencies, as the board is an all Ireland version.
Game description: The first-ever Irish language version of the game to be published, this version produced by Glór na nGael with support from Foras na Gaeilge. Each colour group has a different theme — brown: headlands; light blue: rocks; dark orchid: religious sites; orange: mountains; red: islands; yellow: ancient sites; green: political buildings; blue: sites associated with the Easter Rising; stations: provinces; utilities: Irish-language websites.
Other features: Uses Monopoly Dollars to avoid the use of either euro or pound sterling, as this board is an all-Ireland version of the game.
Game description: In 2011 an Isle of Man edition was released. The two most expensive properties on the board are the Isle of Man TT Grandstand and Tynwald Hill, home of the island's parliament. Each of the island's transport types is represented where London railway terminals are traditionally located. The currency used was the Manx Pound
Game description: The streets are in Vilnius. Railway stations are in four largest Lithuania cities: Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda and Šiauliai. The game is called Monopolis.
Game description:Luxembourg Edition - (Editioun Lëtzebuerg). The street names are taken from various Luxembourgian cities. The highlighted name in each case is the name of the city.
Game description: Released in late 2008, Monopoly Malta uses 20 Maltese and 2 Gozitan towns and uses the Euro as currency. Since Malta doesn't have train stations, Sea Ports have been used instead - three from Malta and one from Gozo. Brown: Msida, Ħaż-Żabbar; Light Blue: Marsaskala, Ħal Qormi, Marsaxlokk, Pink: Mosta, Green: Wardija, Purple: Valletta, Mdina
Netherlands Edition - Every color group is a city; from cheap to expensive: Ons Dorp (='our village') (Dorpsstraat, Brink), Arnhem (, , ), Haarlem (Barteljorisstraat, , Grote & ), Utrecht (, , ) Groningen (, , Heerestraat), The Hague (, , ), Rotterdam (Hofplein, , Coolsingel), Amsterdam (Leidsestraat, Kalverstraat).
Game description: The standard version depicts major streets from cities across the country, including Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra, Setúbal and Braga. It was originally named Monopólio (literally, Monopoly in English); after Parker forced Majora (the licensed manufacturer) change the name, it became as its original.
Romania[]
Bucharest Edition - Produced by Hasbro in 2005. The most expensive property is (Spring Avenue) and the cheapest is Rahova.
Russia[]
Known as: МОНОПОЛИЯ. Special limited edition - Moscow. At the start of the 1990s an edition called Manager was produced, featuring different factories of Leningrad.
Barcelona, Vigo,[11]Seville,[12]Málaga,[13]Bilbao, Valencia, Zaragoza,[14]Ibiza[15] and Palma de Mallorca editions. The 70th anniversary edition includes the capital cities of the autonomous communities instead of streets. There is also an edition about the Spain national football team.
Vereinigte Schwebebahnen Association des Téléphériques
Lugano Via Nassa
Chance
Solothurn Hauptgasse
Lausanne Place St. François
Elektrizitats-Werke Usines électriques
Nachsteuer Impôt supplémentaire
Basel Steinen-Vorstadt
Zürich Paradeplatz
Im Gefängnis En prison
Thun Hauptgasse
Neuchâtel Place Purry
Chance
Aarau Rathausplatz
Vereinigte Privatbahnen Union des chemins de fer privés
Einkommensteuer Impôt sur le revenu
Schaffhausen Vordergaße
Kanzlei Chancellerie
Chur Kornplatz
Start
Game description: This edition presents streets and squares from around the country. Cities featured: Aarau, Basel, Bern, Bienne, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Chur, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, Lugano, Neuchâtel, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Solothurn, Thun, Winterthur, Zürich. The Swiss edition is bilingual German/French (with rules also printed in Italian).
Game description: Released as limited edition for the 60th anniversary of Monopoly. Each set is individually numbered and the box is gold with a green bar across the centre.
Tokens: Elephant, Bathtub, Trophy, Candlestick, Tram, Rich Uncle Pennybags, Boot and Car
Game description: Produced for the millennium in 1999, the properties are the same as the standard British edition. The houses and hotels are stackable, the board is silver with holographic foil, and the money is translucent.
Tokens: Mobile Phone, Aeroplane, Car, Bike, Computer, Dog, Globe, In-line Skate
Other features: You are buying London 2012 venues and locations. Stands and Stadia instead of Houses and Hotels.
England[]
1999 Rugby World Cup (1999)
Butlins 80th anniversary (2016)
Coronation Street Edition
Desi (2005)
Marshalls Natural Stone Paving (2010) - "We've Paved the Monopoly Board" - Limited edition of 250 sets manufactured for Marshalls Natural Stone Paving. Each traditional Monopoly street shows a photograph and the name of a Marshalls paving product actually laid in that street in London.[18]
Issued through: General release in the United Kingdom.
Game description: Thirty companies were represented on the board, with twenty-two presidency cards (in place of the usual street properties), four retail cards (in place of the railroads/railway stations), and two utilities. Community Chest and Chance were replaced by Bull and Bear cards, respectively. The UK standard Super Tax space became a Capital Gains Tax space, though the Income Tax space remained unchanged (except for value - values of all spaces, including the tax spaces, were multiplied by millions of Pounds). The companies represented on the board were international, including Gillette, Unilever, Swissair, Pizza Hut, Daimler Chrysler, Toshiba, Alcatel, Tesco and BT.
Tokens: Six standard Monopoly tokens were included: the racecar, iron, Scottie dog, battleship, hat and shoe.
Other features: Rules for the game were widely changed for this edition. The doubles rule (taking an extra turn, or going to jail after three consecutive doubles rolls) remained, as did the auction rule (a space, when landed on, if not purchased by the player whose token landed on it, would be auctioned by the bank). Landing on a coloured company space allowed the player to buy a majority of shares if it hadn't already been floated, or pay rent, which went to the bank, and not the player possessing the card. Extra shares could also be purchased during a turn: one share of any floated company, or two of the company that the player's token is on. Dividends (a minimum of £200 million, plus accumulated rents) were collected each time a player passed Go. The construction of offices/head offices (in place of houses and hotels) could only commence when all companies in a colour-group were owned, similar to standard rules, and building shortages, also as in standard rules, could also be caused. Shares of companies (up to 9 per company) could be bought from and sold to the bank, or traded with other players. If a shareholding plurality is achieved by another player, that player assumes control of the company, which could break a monopoly. All transactions were intended to be entered into the included Electronic Share Unit.
Issued through: General release in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Free Parking
London Eye £2,200,000
Chance
Hyde Park £2,200,000
Trafalgar Square £2,400,000
Gatwick Airport £2,000,000
Tottenham Court Road £2,600,000
Covent Garden £2,600,000
The Sun £1,500,000
Regent Street £2,800,000
Go To Jail
Tate Modern £2,000,000
London - Here And Now Limited Edition (2005)
Notting Hill £3,000,000
Natural History Museum £1,800,000
Soho £3,000,000
Community Chest
Community Chest
Science Museum £1,800,000
Kings Road £3,200,000
Stansted Airport £2,000,000
Heathrow Airport £2,000,000
Wembley Stadium £1,600,000
Chance
Wimbledon £1,400,000
Canary Wharf £3,500,000
Telecoms £1,500,000
Super Tax (pay £750,000)
The Oval £1,400,000
The City £4,000,000
In Jail/Just Visiting
GMTV Studios £1,200,000
Wembley Arena £1,000,000
Chance
Hammersmith Apollo £1,000,000
London City Airport £2,000,000
Income Tax (pay £2,000,000)
Camden Market £600,000
Community Chest
Portobello Road Market £600,000
GO (collect £2,000,000)
Game description: This board was released in 2005, to honour the 70th anniversary of Parker Brothers acquisition and commencement of sales of the board game Monopoly. The concept of the game is to update the board and gameplay through inflation, use of currently valuable properties, new tokens, new artwork, use of airports in place of railroads, use of apartments in place of houses, and new scenarios on the Community Chest and Chance cards. The Electric Company was replaced with Telecoms (a tower in London), and Water Works was replaced by The Sun newspaper.
Tokens: Limited editions included a cheeseburger, inline skate, mobile phone, skateboard, Formula-1 race car, passenger jetliner and a London bus. The standard edition omitted the bus.
Other features: Trafalgar Square is the only property to have the exact same location on both the classic board and the Here & Now Edition board. Regent Street is also on both boards, but was demoted from a dark green to a yellow property, and thus draws less rent than before.
London Underground Edition - replaces streets with Underground stations, with colours matching lines
Hillview House, Newtownabbey (Service & Systems Solutions)
Go
Belfast (2009)
The Glór na nGaelIrish language edition (2015; see #Ireland) is an all-Ireland edition and so includes some sites in Northern Ireland (Rathlin Island, Stormont, Ulster, Armagh cathedral, the Giant's Causeway).
Channel Islands[]
A Jersey edition, with locations from around Jersey, including streets and landmarks, was issued in 2004. The stations are replaced by Jersey airport, two harbours and a lighthouse.
There have also been two different versions for Guernsey.[27] A late 1990s version[28] and an early 2010s updated version.[29] Landmarks include Fort Grey and Castle Cornet and differ with design and some landmarks between the two different version but the majority is the same.[30]
