Posted June 21, 201312 yr Popular Post comment_161538 So, as I have a lot of free time on my hands at the moment, I've decided to create a 'Thorpe Park Monopoly' for a bit of fun(Alton Towers have their own version; why not Thorpe?! ). It's a work in progress at the moment, but here's the game board as it stands... As you may notice, the template I found is the American one, so the prices are in dollars, but ah well.. It's lacking text at the moment too, and a few pictures and such, because it's just the 'first version', and it looks really bad because the best editing software I have is Microsoft PowerPoint. The plan I have is to create mock ups for the property, Chance and Community Chest cards as well, pretty much as something to do. Of course, it'll all be themed around Thorpe, so it should be a bit of fun. Here's the 'Space Conversions', if you can't work a couple of them out, as well as the planned Chance and Community Chest cards: Board Places: Brown § Old Kent Road- Chief Ranger's Carousel § Whitechapel Road- Mr. Monkey's Banana Ride Light Blue § The Angel Islington- Storm in a Teacup § Euston Road- Rocky Express § Pentonville Road - Depth Charge Pink § Pall Mall - Flying Fish § Whitehall - Zodiac § Northumberland Avenue - Quantum Orange § Bow Street - Rumba Rapids § Marlborough Street - X § Vine Street - Loggers Leap Red § The Strand - Slammer § Fleet Street - Vortex § Trafalgar Square - Detonator Yellow § Leicester Square - Samurai § Coventry Street - Tidal Wave § Piccadilly - Rush Green § Regent Street - Nemesis Inferno § Oxford Street- Colossus § Bond Street - Saw - The Ride Dark Blue § Park Lane - Stealth § Mayfair - The Swarm Stations § King's Cross Station - Canada Creek Railway § Marylebone Station - Thorpe Belle § Fenchurch Street Station - Waterbuses § Liverpool Street Station - Miss Hippo's Fungle Safari Utilities § Electric Company - The Dome § Water Works - Neptune's Beach Jail - Storm Surge Income Tax - The Crash Pad (Off-Peak) Super Tax - The Crash Pad (Peak) Chance Cards: 1) Advance to The Swarm.2) Advance to Go.3) You are assessed for repairs - pay £40 for each Effect and £115 per Theming Element.4) Go ride Storm Surge. Move directly to Storm Surge. Do not pass "Go". Do not collect £200.5) Entrance ticket gets refunded - collect £50.6) BRAVE IT BACKWARDS - go back 3 spaces.7) Buy Merlin Annual Pass for £150.8) Revamp your rides' Effects and Theming:For each Effect, pay £25For each Theming Element, pay £100.9) Queue jumping fine of £15.10) You have won a competition at Sun Scream. Collect £100.11) Your get a big win at Amity Boardwalk Games - collect £150!12) Get off of Storm Surge Free.13) Advance to Detonator. If you Pass "Go", collect £200.14) Take a trip to the Thorpe Belle, and if you Pass "Go", collect £200.15) Advance to Flying Fish. If you Pass "Go", collect £200.16) Caught queue jumping - fined £50. Community Chest Cards: 1) You get lucky in the Games Armanda. Collect £20.2) You perform a small DJ set one evening in The Dome and get paid £100.3) Your Priority Pass helped everyone skip the longest queue on park. Collect £10 from each Player.4) You find a Fastrack ticket on the floor and sell it to someone else. Collect £10. 5) Get off of Storm Surge Free.6) Advance to "Go".7) Buy an Ultimate Fastrack ticket - pay £100.8) You have won Second Prize in a Fancy Dress Contest at Fright Nights! Collect £10.9) The Cash Machine gives you more money than you bargained for - collect £200.10) Your mate leaves early. Collect £20.11) Go ride Storm Surge. Move directly to Storm Surge. Do not pass "Go". Do not collect £200.12) Buy lunch for everyone for £50.13) Buy a £10 Fastrack ticket or take a "Chance".14) Stay in The Crash Pad - pay £100.15) Go back to Chief Ranger's Carousel.16) You win a game of Merlin Top Trumps! Collect £50. If anyone can think of any funny names for Free Parking, Chance, Community Chest or the Bank (relating to Thorpe or Merlin of course!), let me know. Likewise, any suggestions - just throw 'em at me!
June 21, 201312 yr comment_161544 Free Parking should be... PAID PARKING or something to do with Premium Pass Holders
June 21, 201312 yr comment_161545 This is a work of genius. I've got to agree with all your rankings, I was expecting to see Storm Surge on Old Kent Road but then... Jail - Storm Surge 4) Go ride Storm Surge. Move directly to Storm Surge. Do not pass "Go". Do not collect £200.
June 22, 201312 yr comment_161555 This is amazing Josh. You say powerpoint is all you have to work with, but I was recently told of a free program that is similar to photoshop called 'gimp'. I can't reccomend it as I've never used it, but you could always try it! I hope this is made so we can play it at meets. (Not even joking).
June 22, 201312 yr comment_161556 This is amazing Josh. You say powerpoint is all you have to work with, but I was recently told of a free program that is similar to photoshop called 'gimp'. I can't reccomend it as I've never used it, but you could always try it! I hope this is made so we can play it at meets. (Not even joking). I'd totally recommend Gimp, its a great program. Also, Love the Monopoly board Josh, real stroke of genius putting Storm Surge as Jail
June 22, 201312 yr Author comment_161571 Thanks for the heads up about Gimp - I'll give it a go! Also... Okay hold up. Those green properties need switching.... Positioning the coasters was the hardest thing actually. Personally, I'd have switched Stealth and Inferno around, but seemed a bit unfair, what with Stealth being the 'majorest' coaster. But, I've noticed in marketing that usually the coasters are mentioned in this way - Swarm or Stealth, Saw, Colossus; Inferno, so decided to stick to that. The best you're gonna get from me is switching Inferno and Colossus around; sorry love
June 22, 201312 yr comment_161572 I'd love the chance cards "you've given into hunger, pay £15 for a hot dog" "You've been found queue jumping, move forward to GO and collect £200" "You've been seen having a good time, pay £70 for fastrack"
June 24, 201312 yr comment_161699 Thanks for the heads up about Gimp - I'll give it a go! Also... Positioning the coasters was the hardest thing actually. Personally, I'd have switched Stealth and Inferno around, but seemed a bit unfair, what with Stealth being the 'majorest' coaster. But, I've noticed in marketing that usually the coasters are mentioned in this way - Swarm or Stealth, Saw, Colossus; Inferno, so decided to stick to that. The best you're gonna get from me is switching Inferno and Colossus around; sorry love The best part about your game here is that the most useful rides in the game are X, Loggers Leap, Rumba, Slammer, Vortex and Detonator. I like the irony in that some of the more unliked rides at Thorpe are the ones that will win you the game.
July 8, 201312 yr Author comment_162723 Just a quick update on this for anyone interested... I've been playing about with Gimp (thanks Tommy and Cornflakes for the suggestion/recommendation!) so will hopefully get the board sorted out in the next few days, so that it's less 'rough round the edges'. I've decided to put the Free Parking space as 'Passholder Perks' with a picture of a Premium MAP (thanks to Alex for the inspiration). Can't think of anything for Chance or Community Chest, so will probably just keep them named like that. I've also made a few Chance cards: They're a bit bare and basic and rough round the edges at the mo; couldn't really think of what else to do with them. Any ideas? As I said, I've got a fair bit of free time on my hands, so hoping to get everything 'done' (a nice-looking board, complete set of cards, etc.) in the next month or so, so watch this space!
July 8, 201312 yr comment_162727 You queue jumped. Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect your giro.
July 8, 201312 yr comment_162732 Josh this is amazing and quite possibly the best thing I have seen in a long time! I hope I will get a chance to play this at some point in the future. I will have a think about some card ideas etc.
July 10, 201312 yr comment_162853 I love this, you have to make a prototype that we could play sometime, in teams
July 18, 201312 yr comment_163557 great idea! maybe an idea for the game: On a chance/community chest: You dropped your wallet on one of your rides??? A ride has broken down, when you are at the top of the hill. Get free fastrack? You buy a photo pass pay X Amount You lost your head on swarm, pay X amount for an operation to put it back on You died on Saw. You get soaked by tidal wave. Pay X amount to get a new change of clothes or miss X go's to use the drying machine.(not sure what the heat things could be called) It's your birthday, each of your friends buy you fastrack for one ride. Get X amount of each person. and instead of buying houses/hotels, you buy rollercoaster seats and Shipping containers-Crash Pad!(just a thought)
July 30, 201312 yr Author comment_164414 A lil' update for you all! Firstly, thanks coastergod for the suggestions - decided to use the one about the Photopass! I've now got most of the Chance and Community Chest made now (just need to get a couple of photos together for a couple more), and will move onto tidying the board up a bit now. I've slowly been getting busier, but I'll try and create the Property Cards as well - so that there's a complete set of cards 'cause why not. I do want to try and design some form of themed game pieces too, though I'll probably end up only designing 2D ones; 3D designing on a computer ain't my thing! What I'll try and do when everything is done is upload it all to Dropbox or something, in a printer-friendly way, so if people were ever interested in playing it at a meet or something, then the option's there. For the meanwhile, though, here's a couple of Storm Surge related cards for your viewing pleasure...
July 30, 201312 yr comment_164419 Loving the ideas...what are you thinking of doing as the train stations? Perhaps "Ranger County", "Amity Cove", "Calypso Quay" and "Lost City"?
August 3, 201312 yr comment_164680 Oh my god! I love this version! You are a genius! And I love the faces of the fathead s crying one storm surge
August 5, 201312 yr comment_164808 maybe play around with the pieces e.g maybe a Swarm like figure a teacup(tetley's teacup) A drink capsule a horse(carousel) you get the point of it though.
August 5, 201312 yr comment_164809 and instead of calling it chance and community chest, maybe call it Fastrack and single rider.. for example I got the football 2010 south african world cup version and their chances and community chest are called Half time and Full time.
June 20, 201411 yr Author Popular Post comment_185617 Well, I've updated this...Board is looking nicer, and there's slightly different positioning on the board now (complete conversion list below ) Brown- Old Kent Road: Storm in a Teacup- Whitechapel Road: The Rocky ExpressLight Blue- The Angel Islington: King Pig's Wild Hog Dodgems- Euston Road: Depth Charge- Pentonville Road: Flying FishPink- Pall Mall: Quantum- Whitehall: Zodiac- Northumberland Avenue: Angry Birds 4D ExperienceOrange- Bow Street: Rumba Rapids- Marlborough Street: Vortex- Vine Street: Loggers LeapRed- The Strand: X - Fleet Street: Slammer- Trafalgar Square: SamuraiYellow- Leicester Square: Detonators - Bombs Away!- Coventry Street: Rush- Piccadilly: Tidal WaveGreen- Regent Street: Colossus- Oxford Street: Nemesis Inferno- Bond Street - Saw - The RideDark Blue- Park Lane: The Swarm- Mayfair: StealthStations- King's Cross Station: Canada Creek Railway- Marylebone Station: Mr Monkey's Banana Ride- Fenchurch Street Station: Chief Ranger's Carousel- Liverpool Street Station: Miss Hippo's Fungle SafariUtilities- Electric Company: Neptune's Kingdom- Water Works: Thorpe Shark HotelJail: Storm Surge Visiting Jail: Laughing at people riding Storm SurgeTax: Parking Free Parking Space: Passholder Perks So it's still a work-in-progress a year on, but it's certainly getting there. Character pieces and other Chance/Community Chest cards are coming soon!
July 7, 201411 yr comment_186474 When you're finished. Sell this outside the gates [emoji23]. It's such a great idea. Definitely make a downloadable file and youtube promo video. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
August 10, 201411 yr comment_188409 So how's this going? Anymore progress? Its looking good last I saw!
August 11, 201411 yr Author comment_188445 So how's this going? Anymore progress? Its looking good last I saw! No more progress yet unfortunately; too much work going on unfortunately. Hopefully some more progress will come sooner or later though.
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