People Are Really Mad Online About Monopoly Replacing Three Classic Game Tokens

Monopoly made it official on Friday, announcing that the thimble, boot and wheelbarrow were out as game tokens and would be replaced by a rubber duck, T-Rex and penguin. Now, some of you may be saying, “big deal, some pieces are different,” but you clearly underestimate how much people care about the sanctity of Monopoly tradition.

Twitter exploded on Friday morning with angry tweets about how it was ridiculous that Monopoly, a board game about purchasing fake real estate because you rolled some dice, would deviate from tradition and remove such treasured, iconic figures as the thimble, boot and wheelbarrow. Monopoly is serious business, folks, and don’t you ever forget it.

Let’s take a look at the many people that were mad online about a board game changing pieces. We’ll get to those that want to cling to the nostalgia of playing Monopoly in their youth, but first we must examine the people that dropped extremely woke Monopoly takes. This wasn’t just updating pieces to make a game more fun. No, this was taking away symbols of the working class, further pushing the blue-collar man to the periphery of American existence.

— Jason Ginsburg (@Ginsburg) March 17, 2017

@scottmatla The thimble represented the working class of Monopoly. You came from mediocrity and you could be somebody.

Fuck our generation

— AOL KEYWORD: Mike (@mikeFAIL) March 17, 2017

Monopoly’s boot was a symbol of the working class – and now it’s dead https://t.co/1vQoA5G0Sw pic.twitter.com/xVxtnFJPxP

— Money (@MONEY) March 17, 2017

This is why Trump won, because you liberals keep trying to push out the working class in middle America by removing classic symbols of their struggle like the boot and thimble.

Then there were those that just mad for the sake of being mad, because that’s what the internet is all about.

— Russ Bengtson (@russbengtson) March 17, 2017

Just heard Monopoly is getting rid of my beloved thimble. pic.twitter.com/SL729mYpqW

— Louis Peitzman (@LouisPeitzman) March 17, 2017

Who signed off on this change. 3 iconic monopoly pieces removed for this https://t.co/fR6DzyJCWu

— MT RecruitsInTheBoot (@recruittheboot) March 17, 2017

RIP to the thimble, my go to monopoly piece https://t.co/w5ei9P2YFW

— Danny Keich III (@Dkeich44) March 17, 2017

@jedidiahgant I have always been a thimble guy and a huge Monopoly fan so I am pretty sad over this

— Chris Brasfield (@chrisbrasfield) March 17, 2017

Why are there this many people that liked the thimble

There were some actually good jokes though:

— Joe Fourhman (@fourhman) March 17, 2017

Monopoly added TWO dinosaurs to the game, because penguins ARE avian dinosaurs.

*clears throat*

*pushes up glasses*

*walks into ocean*

— @midnight (@midnight) March 17, 2017

And finally, there was Dr. Ruth, with perspective as always.

— Dr. Ruth Westheimer (@AskDrRuth) March 17, 2017