Nottingham Forest win inspires new Monopoly board of city landmarks
Nottingham Forest’s Premier League triumph has led to a brand new Monopoly board celebrating the city’s success.
Nottingham Forest’s Premier League success has inspired a brand new and official Monopoly board for the city,
The new board is said to be ‘a new game for a new generation’.
Nottingham first ‘Passed GO’ in 2001. At the time Nottingham Forest’s City Ground featured in the moderate pink section of the board.
This time round the makers of the board say The Reds will be advancing upwards to either a red square to reflect their club colours, or the board’s very highest ranking square, Mayfair.
The city has been chosen from a shortlist of ten cities from across the world – including Rio de Janeiro and San Francisco – to land its very own customised board as part of Monopoly’s 90th birthday celebrations this year.
John Keen-Tomlinson is Partnerships Manager at Winning Moves UK.
He said: “In December when we first drew up a loose shortlist Nottingham wasn’t even on the list.
“But the heroics of Nottingham Forest including that recent 7-0 win swayed our choice.”
Speaking about factors which led Nottingham to beat other global cities, Mr Keen-Tomlinson said: “Nottingham had a sense of family, civic pride and loved landmarks, the city ticked every box. Rio was a close second.”
The public will be invited to send in suggestions for Nottingham landmarks and organisations to be featured in the game.
Expected to lead the way will be the following:
- The City Ground
- Nottingham Castle (‘Mayfair’ last time round)
- Old Market Square
- The Lace Market
- Highfields Park
- Trent Bridge
- Theatre Royal.
John Keen-Tomlinson added: “We are sure we are going to be wonderfully spoilt with choices when putting this Monopoly game together.”
Winning Moves UK is an official Monopoly maker and is producing the brand-new Monopoly Nottingham Edition board game under license from Hasbro, a leading toy and game company.
Winning Moves UK makes Monopoly editions for places all over the world including high-profile cities, such as Palm Beach, Dubai and The Hamptons.
It produced the original Monopoly: Nottingham Edition in 2001.
The board will be themed in sets from tourism to heritage, entertainment to leisure, sport to travel, and more to reflect the City of Nottingham. The game will hit the shops in time for Christmas 2025.