{"id":9151,"date":"2006-02-08T07:16:40","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T14:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/02\/08\/disney-princess-monopoly-jr.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:29:38","slug":"disney_princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/disney_princess.html","title":{"rendered":"Disney Princess Monopoly Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B0002EH3U4.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Stan came over for dinner last night.  I was stuck on a 3-hour conference call until about 6, so by the time I got downstairs I discovered Katherine had already wangled him and Margie into a game of Operation and a game of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451456866\/davedoesthebl-20\" target=\"_blank\">Disney Princess Monopoly Jr.<\/a>, which she&#8217;d received as a gift over Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Color me impressed.  The game not only works well for kids, it&#8217;s a solid scaling-down of the &#8220;real&#8221; Monopoly game.  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The board is about half-sized, and the color blocks are two properties in width.  To go with that, you roll a single die.\n<li>Rents are all in single digit numbers, from $1 to $5, simple numbers that kids can add.  By the same token, since you end up using &#8220;Monopoly money,&#8221; kids have to add up the bills that will buy something or pay the rent.<\/p>\n<li>Properties are bought automatically when landed on.  If you can&#8217;t buy a property, you can&#8217;t make the move.  If you buy a property, you get a castle put on it.  No multiple houses\/hotels.<\/p>\n<li>Chance cards let you move to a property and (often) buy it for free.  If someone else already owns that property, you get to take it from them &#8212; unless they own both of the color block.<\/p>\n<li>The non-property squares are simple &#8220;roll again&#8221; or &#8220;pay a few bucks&#8221; (which then can be recovered by the player who lands on the &#8220;loose change&#8221; corner square).<\/p>\n<li>The tokens are all Disney princesses, and the properties are all matched pairs of Disney characters.<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it.  Aside from that, it plays very much like Monopoly, and the mechanics are simple enough for a 5-year-old to master, while keeping the adults dragooned into playing entertianed.  There&#8217;s not much strategy &#8212; you really don&#8217;t get any choices in the game, bottom line &#8212; but it&#8217;s still fun, and it will serve as a gateway to the Real Thing eventually.<\/p>\n<p>It gets a thumbs-up from the Consortium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan came over for dinner last night. 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