Has anyone seen a Sheffield edition of the Monopoly board game. Have seen many other regional versions but never a Sheffield version.
Have we been left out of this in favour of other cities as well.
Have found a liverpool edition, a manchester edition and even a Leeds university edition, but no sheffield.
Any ideas?

I have never seen a Sheffield version, though i'm not sure if our two football teams have tinkered with the idea. I only know that Meadowhall, the Blades and Wednesday have places on the Yorkshire Monopoly I think.

Originally posted by aNTAcid
Has anyone seen a Sheffield edition of the Monopoly board game. Have seen many other regional versions but never a Sheffield version.
Have we been left out of this in favour of other cities as well.
Have found a liverpool edition, a manchester edition and even a Leeds university edition, but no sheffield.
Any ideas?
There used to be one quite a few years ago, I bought it for my brother when he was little, and he's 21 now, it was called SHEFFIELD SHARES, but it was practically the same as monopoly

I wonder what would go on a monopoly board of Sheffield today? I would suspect most of the squares would have on them 'under construction' or 'you may buy this square by means of a compulsary purchase order'

Originally posted by duffman
I wonder what would go on a monopoly board of Sheffield today? I would suspect most of the squares would have on them 'under construction' or 'you may buy this square by means of a compulsary purchase order'

LMAO think half the squares would be "luxury student flats" or "now owned by Sheffield Hallam university" Would be quite cool to make my own version if could think of what all the squares should be.

There is one, definitely. I remember the Sheffield Star being on the board.

Wonder what the railway square would be like? Maybe there would just be a mural of what it was supposed to look like.

What do you reckon would be the most and least expensive streets. If anyone could find a copy I'd pay for one.

You could always buy the 'make your own ...opoly'

Name it yourself along with the titles and details.

I bought one for a friend, which will one day become 'Robopoly'

:P

There certainly wouldn't be a Free Parking Square. Instead of Go To Jail it would be Go Collect ASBO. Community Chest would become Lottery Funding.

The metal playing pieces would be:

A knife with Made in Korea etched on its side;
A Pay and Display Parking Meter;
A Set of Traffic Lights; and
A piece of pot-holed Tarmac.

The little red houses would come in groups of 60 and be known as City Living Apartments. The larger green hotels would be covered in scaffolding.

The Chance card would be renamed Discount and would entitle any beholder to a day's free shopping at one of Sheffield's many discount stores.

Finally, the object of the game wouldn't be to acquire property but to raise rents so high no-one else could afford them, to drive businesses out of the city centre to Meadowhall, to demolish decent buildings and replace them with junk and to create a dead city centre no-one could get to.

The winner of every game would be Sheffield City Council.

Originally posted by aNTAcid
LMAO think half the squares would be "luxury student flats" or "now owned by Sheffield Hallam university" Would be quite cool to make my own version if could think of what all the squares should be.

Debenhams do a 'make your own opoly'. I've bought one for my work place and one for my partner. It's good fun. £15 I think.

Make your own opoly? that sounds quite good. send one to the council with all the artist impressions of all the projects in Sheffield and say that can be a welcome pack to visitors so they know what it will look like in a few years :D

Problem is you would never get past Hillsborough corner as there would be too much traffic, but at least the derelict buildings will be cheap :D

We have - and still occasionally play - Sheffield Shares. It's not quite monopoly - you can't build on properties, you only buy shares, and there's a nasty stock market lottery element. But it's not bad.

We had to remove the chance card that said "someone tells you they are going to fill in the hole in the road and you fall for it. Pay a fine".

If you want to know more get back to me.

In a tribute to Sheffield's most sucessful retailing emporiums, every square would cost one pound.

Originally posted by aNTAcid
Has anyone seen a Sheffield edition of the Monopoly board game. Have seen many other regional versions but never a Sheffield version.
Have we been left out of this in favour of other cities as well.
Have found a liverpool edition, a manchester edition and even a Leeds university edition, but no sheffield.
Any ideas?

This is as close to a Sheffield Monopoly (http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/belters/chavopoly.jpg) as you'll get at the moment :hihi:

Went to 'The Deep' today and saw a Hull Monopoly. If they've got one, why haven't we? Can it be done under licence? Now where are the entrepaneurs amongst us?

Why not have a Forum Monopoly?
Instead of Go to Jail you could have Pedants Corner as punishment.
Pass go & collect a rebuff for not searching first.
collect any 3 of a colour & consider it a threads merged,
The water works could be a MOD-warning when they get the tear-on.

Your gamepiece is a wee model of your avatar & you can play as an individual or form a 'team' - or 'clique' - to gang up on individuals (especially new players).




:D

I've got a version of the Yorkshire Monopoly, but afraid Sheffield can't have it's own because no property lasts long enough to be entitled to be on the board.

It would all have to be 'under construction' or 'about to be demolished' or 'Council's land we can do what the heck we like with it' or even - nice bit of land in the city centre - let's ruin it with a really ugly hotel on it.

I used to have a board game similar to monopoly called Sheffield Shares. Think it was brought out when we had the commonwealth games. It had the then unbuilt Meadowhall on it, Sheffield Star, Richardson's and Crystal Peaks as much as I can remember!

Think it was a promotional thing - not available in the shops, but someone must have a copy for sale somewhere. Best bet is to ask at the council or the tourist place near the winter gardens.

Hope that helps!

Hope that helps!
It probably would have done in June 2005 when it was posted.

Welcome to the Forum by the way. :hihi: :thumbsup:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localized_versions_of_the_Monopoly_game

Don't know where you could get hold of one though.

Would have thought this one was more apt for sheffield.

http://www.ghettopoly.co.uk/

Would have thought this one was more apt for sheffield.

http://www.ghettopoly.co.uk/

That looks wicked lol

I know what game I am buying next :P

I used to have a Sheffield Shares Game years ago when I was a kid. God, I wish I had kept it.

It was ace and probably be valuable now. :mad:

I have just tried doing a search on net and cant seem to find a trace of it.

Anyone have any more info on this game?

Sheffield Shares can be spotted quite regularly round the local car boot sales.

I was under the impression that the politically correct lobby had forced the inventor to take Ghettopoly off the market.

Yer i got sheffield shares from ages ago, it's good but it's not monopoly.
the closest thing i've found is from firebox.com

direct link to it
firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=1565&src_t=sbk&src_id=monopoly

it similar to make your own ....opoly but you do the process online then they print it and send it to you. i've seen make your own ...opoly, a mate had and you do it on your own pc then print it off and its a rectangle with squares missing.

(sorry there no url's i'm a new user (15 posts or more))

theres that new one coming out next week aint they! Dont think its quite monopoly but its sheffield based. Its called destination and the creator is signging copies in debenhams next friday from 11 till 4 i think.

Check it out on www.rtlgames.co.uk

just checked the website but ours isn't on there! but its that games based on sheffield. buy it at debenhams on friday.

^^Yeah I read about that somewhere. (Can't remember where though)

They seem to have an odd selection of places;
London, Portsmouth, Brighton & Hove, Sheffield.

I might have to go have a look at it :-P.

http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1839678

Ive played one, Ecclesall/Whirlow were Mayfair/Pall Mall respectively

Interesting, the game has apparently sold really well in Portsmouth (where the company is based), I found it quite funny that they've replaced 'where to guv' with 'where to luv'

There will be a sheffield monopoly by the end of 2007 - see:
http://www.winningmoves.co.uk

There will be a sheffield monopoly by the end of 2007 - see:
http://www.winningmoves.co.uk

We've set up a shortlist of five nominations for the leading 'Mayfair' site on the new official Sheffield Monopoly board.

Vote for your favourite below now!
- Hillsborough
- The Winter Garden
- Bramall Lane
- The Crucible
- Meadowhall

Good to see that they have their finger on the pulse of Sheffield!

the guy that created the new sheffield board game was on dragons den a few months back 1 of the entrepenuers gave him something like £20000
to bring the game to life and he did

I've seen a Sheffield version of Monopoly.
It came out the same year as the Manchester version.

Plans for a Sheffield Monopoly (http://www.our150th.co.uk/Mayfair_makes_way_for_some_of_Sheffields_finest.as px)

Plans for a Sheffield Monopoly (http://www.our150th.co.uk/Mayfair_makes_way_for_some_of_Sheffields_finest.as px)

Yay, chuffed about that :)

It's out later this year will be stocked at a toyshop re-opening in Meadowhall soon

Has anyone seen a Sheffield edition of the Monopoly board game. Have seen many other regional versions but never a Sheffield version.
Have we been left out of this in favour of other cities as well.
Have found a liverpool edition, a manchester edition and even a Leeds university edition, but no sheffield.
Any ideas?

they said it will be out september, it won out of several towns

So we can look forward to squares such a Wybourn, Manor and gleedless
oh the joy, i hope they put a burning car on manor, just to make it realistic like lol

We've set up a shortlist of five nominations for the leading 'Mayfair' site on the new official Sheffield Monopoly board.

Vote for your favourite below now!
- Hillsborough
- The Winter Garden
- Bramall Lane
- The Crucible
- Meadowhall

Good to see that they have their finger on the pulse of Sheffield!

Hillsborough?
Bramall Lane?
Meadowhall?

these are hardly the posh parts of Sheffield...

Pinstone Street
Riverside
Devonshire Quarter

these might be better placed on the dark blue space.

Maybe even Eccelsall. Where is property the most expensive in Sheffield?

Sheffield Monopoly now out at HMV and Debs at meadowhell. Looks crap with advertising logos on most squares.

Worth a laugh at but not at £25!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winning-Moves-Sheffield-Monopoly/dp/B000ULQ37S

Well im re looking at this idea, and does anyone have any decent suggestions for each of the squares. I should be able to put together a decent board.....with help :)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sheffield-Limited-Edition-Monopoly_W0QQitemZ230322469409QQcmdZViewItemQQptZU K_Toys_Games_Games?hash=item230322469409&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C 240%3A1318

Yes there is. Debenhams and WH Smith had it in stock at Christmas. I bought my daughter one you could also try Amazon

Yes there is. Bought one christmas before last and left it wrapped up and put it in the loft. you never know it may be worth a fortune one day.....
Ha! ha! Will leave it for my grandchildren......

Cheers for that, but i want to create a personalised one, which is why im looking for ideas for places, rather than copying whats been done before, I like photography and design so will mix the two, Ill probably try and make it a bit arty :) ....

i have a sheffield monopoly...

What are the places they have put for each colour?

i have a sheffield monopoly...

Us too bought a few year ago
:)

Well im re looking at this idea, and does anyone have any decent suggestions for each of the squares. I should be able to put together a decent board.....with help :)

mayfair and Park lane should be Dore and Whirlow

Old Kent Road and Whitechapel could be Manor and Wybourn ?

The Sheffield Shop on Eccelsall road has loads of Sheffield monoply in the window at the moment

I have a Sheffield Shares game,never been used,I just couldnt be bothered to open it,dont know why!!!.

I bought the Monopoly 'Sheffield Edition' exactly a year ago at Waterstones bookshop off Fargate. There was a big pile of them stacked waist high off the floor and it cost me 24.99.

i saw the sheffield version just after christmas in zavvi, meadowhall

i have a sheffield monopoly...



Did you notice the question that you're replying to was asked in June 2005??!!!:hihi:

lol, maybe i should have made a new thread "nikki-red" :) ...... I KNOW there is a sheffield monopoly, im just after peoples ideas / own opinions of what the places should be :)

Has anyone seen a Sheffield edition of the Monopoly board game. Have seen many other regional versions but never a Sheffield version.
Have we been left out of this in favour of other cities as well.
Have found a liverpool edition, a manchester edition and even a Leeds university edition, but no sheffield.
Any ideas?

yes there is one. there are options to buy hillsborough, bramall lane, midland station and even meadowhall. i remember it because it used to be displayed in the shop window of woolworths [god rest its soul] :hihi:

i saw the sheffield version just after christmas in zavvi, meadowhall

Could you not have taken in £25 worth of Zavvi vouchers, and insisted on taking a copy of it, basing this on SWFC being valued at £200 in equally worthless pieces of paper in the box?