Visit locations, take photos and come up with local references for the cards. Making a Monopoly game with local flavor is a job in itself. But if you want to have that game made by the publisher of the real board game, things become a lot more difficult. This is what creator Lesley Schiltman says.
“It started as an idea for a school assignment, and then I decided, together with the Jumbo where I work, that we could have a Monopoly version made for the annual savings campaign. Well, that was a bit disappointing.”
For months, Lesley emailed back and forth with the game’s publisher and the Dutch distributor. But then you also have something.
Identical to ‘normal’ Monopoly
“When the first boxes arrived, and you see that game in front of you thirty or forty times, it feels very special. And everything is just like regular Monopoly, from the cardboard of the box to the paper on which the money is printed .Super cool.”
Anyone who would like to have such a Haarlemmermeers board game should hurry, because the games are selling fast. Of the edition of 1,500 pieces, there are still about 200 left.