Monopoly: Star Wars Edition

I have added a new game to my family game night rotation – Monopoly: Star Wars Edition! This game is from Hasbro for 2-4 players ages 8 and up. This version of Monopoly is completely Star Wars themed. During the game play, you can buy, sell and trade 22 iconic Star Wars locations. The games includes a game board, 2 dice, 4 ship tokens, 64 cardboard property markers (16 for each ship), 16 Chance cards, 1 money pack, and game guide. The board itself is an open and play case. All the pieces are stored easily in the center of the game board, this allows for quick and easy set-up and clean-up! You can choose to play as the Millennium Falcon, Tie Fighter, X-Wing or the Star Destroyer.

The game follows most of the traditional Monopoly rules with a few unique additions. There are “use the force” spaces on the board. If you land on one of these special spaces, you then roll one die and then follow the instructions. The player lucky enough to land on one, gets to use one of the special powers – Mind Trick, Force Stealth, Force Levitate, Force Pull, Mind Trick or Force Dash.

In this version of Monopoly, there are no houses or hotels. There are no property cards given when you buy a property, instead there are property markers that are placed in the game board above the property each player owns. The property markers are made of cardboard and the game pieces (the ships) are made of plastic, not metal like in other versions of Monopoly.

I found this version on Monopoly to be good to play with young kids as the game play is faster than a traditional game of Monopoly. The addition of the “use the force” spaces adds some extra fun to the game (if you are the one that lands on the space), but also speeds up the game play.

Monopoly: Star Wars Edition is not “the same old game”. It’s Monopoly! It’s Star Wars! It’s fun!

It retails for around $25. You can buy it from Amazon at this link.