Monopoly Game Despicable Me Edition

I bought this for my 4 year old. She LOVES it.The game is a very simplistic version of Monopoly. It's not the 4-8 hour cutthroat deathmatch you're used to from when you played with your friends/siblings. The first thing I noticed was that each set of properties was reduced to 2 instead of 3. Railroads and Utilities are out. Community Chest is gone and there is only Chance. With that said, the playing board is much smaller. Instead of dice, you get a spinning Minion that lands on the number of spaces you move. This means no addition between two die. There's also only one denomination of the currency, Banana Bucks. Houses and hotels are replaced by cupcakes and sundaes. When you own one property, it gets a cupcake. When you get the matching property, the cupcake is upgraded to a sundae and you get the higher rent value. All of this makes it super easy for a 4 year old to pick up. The only part of the game she can't do on her own is read the Chance cards (when we were done, she did make me read every Chance card to her). Every other aspect of the game was easy enough for her to grasp.This game is very well done. It's fun and educational. I could not be more pleased with how much my daughter liked this game. Older kids would probably think this is too simple/easy. However, considering how brutal standard Monopoly can get, perhaps everyone should stick to these simplified versions.

My 5 and 7 year old really enjoy this game and played it 4 times within the first day. They were able to understand the rules very quickly. The game is complete luck and favors the youngest (they go first) so if you are looking for a strategy game this is not what you want. It is a fun game, with characters my kids like, that is easily learned and doesn't take too long to finish. They love the minion pieces and spinning "nom nom" to see how far they move each turn.Warning: there may be disputes about where "nom nom" lands. I recommend having a "ref" that settles disputes - just name them at the beginning of the game like you decided the banker. Anyone who argues with the ref gets a warning then gets sent to the jail space if the argument continues. This worked perfectly when I played with them and no one actually had to go to jail.

My kids found this game a lot of fun. It's very cute and doesn't take all day to play a game like the original Monopoly can. The spinner is kind of a pain - doesn't really spin so much as it flops around, but the kids didn't mind. I doubt the tray top game board will hold up to a lot of use, but so far it has been fine. This game is great for working on simple math skills - very basic addition and subtraction when buying properties, etc.

The grandkids love this game. It's easy to play and doesn't take forever like the real monopoly game. The spinner isn't that great on it but we use dice, and the little minions are cute, tiny just like the real monopoly. It's fast paced for them and easy to use - even my 6 year old grand daughter can be the banker. Love it.

This game is really fun for kids. It is a lot shorter than normal monopoly. My kids wanted to switch up the rules to buy properties from each other, but we played according to the box directions. It was fun and didn't last too long like regular monopoly. My 7 year old and 10 year old had a lot of fun playing with mommy. We want to shop for more little minions because you can collect them and they are so darn cute! The way you spin the little minion with the banana makes it fun and more exciting than just using dice. We loved it. Fun game!!

This version doesn't take as long as the original monopoly and it's more fun in my opinion. My girls love Despicable Me so they really enjoy playing this game. It has fewer properties than the original monopoly which is probably why the game goes faster. And things aren't as expensive as the original. You have minion dollars as opposed to monopoly money and you put cupcakes or sundaes on the properties (as opposed to hotels,etc..) It's a cute fun game and well worth owning.

Simple rules of the 5-7 crowd. Very cute method of play. My family loves to play this game together, teaches game rules, not complicated what so ever. We got it months ago and still play a couple times a month. Family favorite. Makes a great gift.

This game is fun, but not easy for a 5 year old to use. It is even hard for a 7 year old to use. The spinner is impossible for kids to use, as an adult I have a hard time with it. The clipped on track flops around a lot causing the minion game pieces to fall over. This is especially true with little kids who wiggle while playing. The minion game pieces also are not stable. they fall over and do stay put. Cute, novelty game but I will need to buy a new one that 5 year olds can use.