Monopoly fast facts:

• The Parker Brothers version of Monopoly was first created in 1935 by a man named Charles Darrow.  
• Monopoly is in the 1999 Guinness Book of Records for being the most played board game in the world.
• IN 2005 the monopoly game was updated for todays standards with the "Monopoly:Here and Now edition"
• Neiman Marcus created and sold an all chocolate version of the original through their christmas wish book. The entire set could be eaten. If you felt comfortable eating a $600 edible game board and pieces. 

 The Classic Monopoly without all the bells and whistles. It plays the same as before with an attractive low price

 The newest Monopoly for Computer. This Monopoly 2008 CD-Rom promises to give the individual who loves hours and hours of dice rolling, property flippin action.

 This update version of Monopoly for the 21st Century though of everything. Including the new token pieces. New tokens included are  the Toyota Prius, New Balance Shoe, McDonald's French Fries, Labradoodle, Motorola RAZR Mobile Headset, and a Laptop Computer

The Monopoly franchise is one of the few game boards that can take any theme, switch a few pieces, add a few different images and tweak the lingo to create a game different enough then the original that collectors just must have the version that speaks to them.

Pirates Of The Caribbean Monopoly, Star Wars Monopoly, Nintendo Monopoly, USApoloy the Beatles Monopoly game. The list goes on. If you can think of a theme, Monopoly probably has the real estate tycoon game to go with it.