Sticky Fingers has done a licensing deal for a Rolling Stones branded version of Monopoly. Priced at A$39.95 and out in time for the gift-giving season.
In Rolling Stones Monopoly, the famous streets and avenues of the original edition are replaced with Stones releases. Baltic Avenue becomes Sticky Fingers and Park Place turns into A Bigger Bang.
In fact, the entire game gets a Stones makeover. Chance and Community Chest cards have become Lyrics and Licks, the 4 railroads are now different Stones tours and instead of paying a Luxury Tax, players will now have to purchase concert tickets. There are no houses or hotels, but gold and platinum records to add to your properties. Plus, while you play the game, you won’t be guiding a race car or a thimble around the board, but a tour bus, a drum set or a bunch of wild horses.  The sell-sheet doesn’t say so but we can imagine the bank having tour promoter Michael Cohl’s beaming face on it.
Of course, the game’s famous rules are still the same – you just might get exiled from Main Street, end up shattered and have to go directly to jail. Hey, it’s only rock and roll.
And for the die-hard fans, the Stones website is offering a branded Rolling Stones Trivial Pursuit game from Hasbro ($39.95 and an up-scale Stones “Casino Boogie†Poker Set priced at $175.00
For those who missed out, this is not the 1st pop star version of the board game. A Beatles edition was released in 2008.
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