Vote For The Concrete Arch Bridge!
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Yesterday, Philadelphia Will Do pointed out Hasbro’s latest effort to modernize Monopoly. This isn’t one of those lame special editions where Boardwalk and Baltic are replaced with locales from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The official Monopoly game is being modernized. Railroads will be replaced by airports. The money will come in increments higher than $500. AND The streets of Atlantic City will be replaced by landmarks from across the US - which you can vote on here.
Unfortunately many of the leading landmarks are pro sports stadiums instead of streets. In Philadelphia we may soon be able to build hotels on The Liberty Bell (how does that work?). On the ballot for Minneapolis’ greatest landmark (sorry St. Paul), Hasbro posted a picture of the somewhat less-historic 3rd Avenue/Central Ave. Bridge instead of the Stone Arch Bridge. Surely this confusion is responsible for Mall of America earning 72% of the vote so far. I demand a new election!
You can attempt to sway the vote by visiting the nifty flash-based ballot every 24 hours through May 12.
P.S. Summit Avenue is in St. Paul and the Mall of America is in Bloomington. Is there no residency requirement here?
P.P.S. How can a bridge that lies well below the modern street level be “the pinnacle of the Minneapolis skyline?”
Update (5/9/06): After sending a comment to Hasbro’s customer service team, I was told their marketing team would be alerted. Lo and behold, a fuzzy picture of the right bridge was added. Still - if the Mall of America wins, I think we should take this to the Supreme Court.
