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Anchorage Wants to be Part of Global Monopoly : The Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau Rallies Residents to Win Space on New Version of the Board Game
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – Feb. 12, 2008 – When you pass GO!, you could collect a Big Wild Life™. The Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau is asking all Anchorage residents to visit www.monopoly.com and nominate Anchorage, Alaska, as a “wild card” city to be added to the new Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition game board.
Monopoly began as the brainchild of Charles B. Darrow. In 1935, the game’s first full year of production, Monopoly was the best-selling game in America. To date, an estimated 500 million people have played the game with more than 200 million Monopoly games sold worldwide. Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition will be the first worldwide edition of the game.
Anchorage supporters can cast online ballots and write in “ Anchorage, Alaska,” at www.monopoly.com. Site users can vote once per day throughout the voting period, ending February 28, 2008. Parker Brothers will announce the top 20 nominated cities across the world on Leap Day 2008 (Feb. 29, 2008).
From March 1 – 9, 2008, site users will be invited to visit www.monoply.com and vote once per day for one of the top 20 wild card city finalists. The two wild card cities earning the most votes will be placed on the game board on the property spaces that are traditionally home to Mediterranean Avenue and Baltic Avenue.
“It would be amazing roll the dice and land on Anchorage,” says Julie Saupe, president and CEO of ACVB. “ This iconic game, like the Last Frontier, has captured the imagination of global citizens for generations. So, if we all vote early and often, one day soon we’ll be able to move our shoe, thimble, hat or car onto our very own Monopoly square. Who knows, maybe they’ll even add in a cast iron moose or dog sled?”
Monopoly games are sold in more than 103 countries in 37 languages.
To cast your vote for Anchorage, visit www.monopoly.com.
Weird Monopoly facts from www.monopoly.com
- The longest MONOPOLY game in history lasted 70 straight days.
- The longest MONOPOLY game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours.
- More than five billion little green houses have been "built" since 1935.
The Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau’s mission is to attract and serve visitors to the Municipality of Anchorage. ACVB’s marketing functions are funded by one-third of the bed tax collected by the lodging association. One-third goes to the Municipality’s general fund and one-third goes to the Anchorage Civic & Convention Center construction project. ACVB receives no state or federal funds. Explore www.Anchorage.net for more information.
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Media Contacts:
Shelly Wozniak
Public Relations Manager
Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau
swozinak@anchorage.net
(907) 257-2331 direct
(907) 250-5285 cell
(907) 222-3752 fax
Nance Larsen, APR
Vice President, Communications & Marketing Programs
Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau
pr@anchorage.net
(907) 276-4118
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