Another piece of my childhood ruined

[yendi]

Dear Hasbro:

Fuck You. A lot.

No love,

Yendi.

Comments

[spookykat.livejournal.com]

Seriously...Double-you-tee-eff!!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, ya know?

[yendi]

Exactly. I don't mind additions -- changing or adding weapons or rooms doesn't bother me overly much, although getting rid of the lead pipe is silly -- but the idea that kids need Colonel Mustard to be a football star? Um, why?

[amokk]

Because like, zomg, kids are anti-war, don'tcha know.

[fmh.livejournal.com]

S'alright. I still own the classic and my kids love it.

[yendi]

*nod*

Funny, that Hasbro doesn't believe that kids can deal with a "colonel" or a "professor."

[pkthunder.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's a matter of being able to "deal" with those professions, more that they wanted to turn it into a cast of elites. Colonels and professors don't hold the social clout that they used to.

[montykins.livejournal.com]

I think that's just a "new version", like with Clue Jr., Clue Deluxe and Clue: the DVD Game, and all those other versions of Monopoly. My guess is that it is an addition to the Clue line, not a replacement for the original game.

[yendi]

Ah -- I inferred that it was a replacement. Yeah, if it's just "Clue Junior 2" or whatnot, that's not as bad. That said, I also don't see why NPR would consider that worth a story.

[jocosa]

I hate that stuff! Clue was perfect just as it was. I have the original and the Simpsons version. :P

[slitterst.livejournal.com]

If it was just perfect as it was, why did you need the Simpsons version?

[jocosa]

Because it was fun. :P And it was a completely separate version. Unlike this new re-vamped Clue. From what I am reading elsewhere this will replace entirely the original. It's a new dumbed up version.

I also love the original Monopoly. And will always do so. However I also have the Raiders version of it. It does not replace the original. And I'd bitch and complain about a version looking to entirely replace the original.

Spin offs, so to speak, are fun in most cases. Replacing an original entirely is something else altogether.

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

I get the impression that this is a replacement, not just a different version. And dude... so not cool at all.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Oy. *holds forehead in pain*

Then again, I know that the version I grew up with—the one with the photos on the cards and the green felt representing the billiard room and all—was itself a redesign that got folks all in a tizzy at the time (remembering a vitriolic article in the Jan/Feb '80 issue of Games), and that wasn't even nearly as radical a change as this is. So maybe this is just time marching onward as it always does. Or it means that Hasbro execs need to be buggered with ocelots. Not sure.

Speaking of which, have you seen the redesign on The Game of Life? Some improvements in terms of strategy and realism, and some things that are just....ehhh. Not sure what I think.

[spookykat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but changing the characters?? Colonel Mustard is a classic peice of Americana!! You can't take that away!

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Oh, very much agreed. On the other hand, the thought of a kid's game that incorporates axe murder amuses me more than it probably should.

[ewin.livejournal.com]

Naw, dude! If it weren't for original Clue, I would never have learned the word "billiard".

[enderfem.livejournal.com]

I probably wouldn't have started referring to the room in which my sister played piano and I practiced the violin as the "conservatory".

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Oh HELL no. I'm glad I still have my old board game and that it's still in relatively good condition.

[brak55.livejournal.com]

Does this mean they are going to have to make a new movie with Terry Bradshaw playing ex-quarterback Mustard?

[jerel.livejournal.com]

remake the movie?! Don't give them any ideas!

("It's a free country, don't you know that?" "I didn't know it was that free!")

[jafinnola.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, that sucks turkey balls.

not going far enough

[ketzl.livejournal.com]

Well now, I think it sounds like a cute idea. But to really update it it'd be all Web-2.0ified. Skinnable, you know? You should be able to create your own Clue skins, share them at the forums, load celebrity sets with say the cast of Lost or Buffy or characters from Harry Potter. Hasbro's really missing a win here.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Mental note: Buy Clue before they change it.

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Agreed. My nephew is a huge fan of the movie, but has never played the game, so I was going to get it for him.

On the bright side, I suspect there will be a re-release of the original, probably called 'Classic Clue' (or, as it's known here in Oz, Cluedo).

[yendi]

On the bright side, I suspect there will be a re-release of the original, probably called 'Classic Clue' (or, as it's known here in Oz, Cluedo).

But it'll only play like the original Clue around Passover time.

[ogre42.livejournal.com]

Yup. Our copy is a bit old and beaten up so off to the store we go!

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

*nods*

[e-scapism101.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my world. There is a game called Whodunit that I prefer to Clue and when my set - which I took over from my aunt - finally fell to pieces I had to search the internet to find another set because they stopped making them.

But, hey, if you want to come play Whodunit AND Clue, I've got regular Clue, the tin box set, The Great Museum Caper, and the electronic one. *G*

[yendi]

Yeah, at this point, we're never giving up our old copy. The Museum Caper is also nifty.

BoardGamegeek notes a bunch of copies of Whodunit for sale, by the way (in case you need more replacements).

[e-scapism101.livejournal.com]

Awesome! They were harder to find a few years back, when I was not as internet savvy. I have one of the older copies, with the wooden playing pieces, and I still carefully place all the little round clue/alibi pieces back into their cardboard form after I'm done with them because, yes, I'm that neurotic about it.

I can't wait until the kids are old enough to play.

[ydnic.livejournal.com]

How dare they change Colonel Mustard! Bastards!

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Question, how did everyone feel when Reverend Green was turned in to Mr. Green?

Or when Dr. Black was turned into Mr. Boddy?

I'm just wondering because there seems to be a lot of outrage over something that's been changed several times in the past.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

Yuck.

I don't mind special "theme versions" or other Cluedo spin-offs, but it bugs me when they make silly changes to the core game (like when they changed "Rev. Green" to "Mr. Green" for the US version).