Monopoly® SpongeBob SquarePants™ Edition
Monopoly® SpongeBob SquarePants™ Edition
It’s the world’s most popular board game — SpongeBob style! Buy and sell spectacular Bikini Bottom properties, from the Chum Bucket to the Krusty Krab. Improve your properties by building pineapple houses and opening Krusty Krab franchises. Wheel and deal, sink or swim. The player with the most clams wins.
Game includes classic rules and special Plankton rule for a shorter game, plus 6 unique collectible tokens: SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, Gary and Squidward. For 2-6 players.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Family Fun
Bought SB Monoply for my granddaughter’s 9th birthday (couldn’t find it in stores after the holidays/Amazon vendor was excellent). Anyone who is familiar with Sponge Bob and his pals and who has ever played monoply would enjoy the game. It is nice for my granddaughter and me to play for awhile and even better with three or more. My granddaughter is the banker, in addition to playing the game. The game contains the SB subtle humor with the prices for renting/owning specific properties in Bikini Bottom. The game can be played with various ages and crosses generations.
4 Stars Great game for kids to learn about money
My 9 year old got this for his birthday and he loves it. He wants to play it all the time. The game has a “shortened” version or regular version, but the shortened version still takes a good half an hour to play, but atleast the game doesn’t go on forever! I think monopoly games are a great way for kids to learn more about money!
4 Stars Spongopoly!
I bought this thing for my little brother as his 10th birthday gift. It is normal monopoly basically so it does get boring for older folks pretty quickly. A real great gift for the kids though. He really loves it.
5 Stars Great version of monopoly
I really like this version of monopoly. The Spongebob theme makes gameplay exciting. I can’t say that I have ever watched an entire episode of spongebob — I don’t even watch TV — but I get a kick out of the craziness of spongebob.
Instead of dollars you use clams. It’s still just paper monopoly money but I actually prefer the paper money to the electronic banking edition. I can see how it would slow game play if you have to wait for young ones to count money but I think children learning to count money is more important than a fast game any day. Playing with people in my age group (mid 20’s), the paper money doesn’t really slow us down. There is also a little rack in which to sort the money which is very nice.
The spaces on the board (with the exception of the corner spaces) have new and exciting names. I’m always battling for ownership of the Weiner Hut. The life preserver (chance) and treasure chest cards have the same effects as in the original monopoly but again are in the style of spongebob.
The game pieces in this set are amazing. All of the main spongebob characters are there. The pieces are LARGE and durable as opposed to some versions of monopoly. The Pineapple Houses (houses) and Krusty Crab Restaurants (hotels) are plastic but seem durable and add to the overall theme.
I really enjoy the plankton coin rule. When my girlfriend and I play it, we use the rule that when you land on a property with the coin you either 1) get the property for free or 2) pay twice the rent BUT we don’t use the rule that the game ends when the coin reaches go. When it’s only the two of us playing, the game is always over before the coin makes it all the way around anyway.
The game board is the only downfall in this version of monopoly. The board itself is beautiful but it is folded in four (half and then half again). This leaves a fault line down one half of the board which is a pain if you are not playing on a level surface. I’m also worried about the longevity of the board with all of its creases.
I found Spongebob Monopoly on sale at Toys R Us for about half of what it costs on Amazon. I would recommend this game to those of you who want a cool take on monopoly regardless of whether or not you actually watch the show.
4 Stars Fun Game
This is a funny twist on Monopoly. I like the option of playing a shorter version with the Plankton token. The game is very fun, BUT I really wish that it was in a full size box. I hate to be a nitpicker but the storage tray is shorter than regular Monopoly so it doesn’t have a compartment for each bill. So the banker has to stack 2 different value bills on top of one another and pull out the whole stack to get the bills from the bottom. I also don’t like that the board folds into 1/4 of the size instead of half. The way I see it, the more folds there are, the more likely it is to wear out and break apart. We have had ours for over a year and it’s still in one piece but we haven’t really played it that much. The board seems to be durable though. For the price you pay, it should last forever, but we’ll see.
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