Iconic board game Monopoly will make a Kansas City edition. And fans will get a vote

One of the world’s most iconic board games will showcase Kansas City.

Monopoly announced plans for the official Kansas City edition of the longtime family friendly game during a press conference Monday at downtown’s Ilus W. Davis Park. Mr. Monopoly was on hand to kick off the news.

Top Trumps USA Inc. will manufacture the game under a license from Hasbro. Fans have until March 13 to voice which “iconic and much-loved” Kansas City landmarks they would like to see featured on some of the squares via the official Kansas City Monopoly email address, KansasCity@toptrumps.com. Prizes will be awarded.

“We want to ensure that the Kansas City Monopoly is an accurate portrayal of what locals love about their cities, so we would love for everyone to get on board and send us their recommendations of what they would like to see included,” Katie Hubbard, spokeswoman for Top Trumps, said in a statement. “Anything and everything is up for consideration — the Kansas City Chiefs, 18th & Vine, The Scout, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, we want to know.”

It will have the traditional four corners and tokens.

It is scheduled to be available around Halloween — just in time for the holiday season. The $39.99 game will be sold at local specialty shops, CVS and Amazon.

Monopoly was first sold in 1935, and it now has games in 47 languages and numerous versions, including San Antonio, Texas; Worcester, Massachusetts; and Brooklyn, New York.

It also has some competition. In 1998, the “Kansas City In-a-Box” game was introduced featuring a variety of local landmarks. Squares included the Jazz Museum, Hallmark, Gates Bar-B-Q, the Country Club Plaza, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Arrowhead Stadium.

For game pieces it had a shuttlecock, steak, saxophone, football, heart and steamboat, but it later standardized the pieces to help production.

Now called Kansas City-Opoly, it is manufactured by Late for the Sky Production Co. in Cincinnati. The company has more than 700 featured U.S. cities — including 60 in Missouri and 29 in Kansas — but is not connected to Hasbro.

This story was originally published January 24, 2022 at 11:55 AM.