Designer breeds in toys now????

**Flatcoatluver** · 12-05-2006, 09:30 PM

Yuck! I saw that on a commercial a week ago and it's so sick! I was thinking well atleast their isn't a build-a-bear around and what do I find when I go shopping this weekend? A Build-a-bear place.

Why not make a cute little mixed breed and call it a mutt instead of calling it a maltipoo and making it more popular.

**Twisterdog** · 12-05-2006, 11:44 PM

That's pretty sad indeed.

We bought the updated version of Monopoly a few weeks ago, because our old one was worn out. The scotty dog has been replaced by a ... labradoodle. Seriously. I used to always be the dog when we played. I just can't do it now. Now I'm the Starbucks coffee.

**cyber-sibes** · 12-06-2006, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by Twisterdog

That's pretty sad indeed.

We bought the updated version of Monopoly a few weeks ago, because our old one was worn out. The scotty dog has been replaced by a ... labradoodle. Seriously. I used to always be the dog when we played. I just can't do it now. Now I'm the Starbucks coffee.

Oh no! That was always my favorite playing piece too. Was this in the regular Monopoly, or the dog-opoly version?

**IRescue452** · 12-06-2006, 12:57 PM

Wow! Those things sure are getting uglier since the last time I saw them. I thought the originals were cute.

**BC_MoM** · 12-06-2006, 01:58 PM

*sigh*

**Uabassoon** · 12-06-2006, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by cyber-sibes

Oh no! That was always my favorite playing piece too. Was this in the regular Monopoly, or the dog-opoly version?

It's the new Here and Now edition of monopoly. It's a more modern verison of the original. The game tokens are now a labradooble, McDonalds french fries, starbucks cup, laptop, airplane, toyota prius, new balance running shoe and a motorla cell phone.

**cyber-sibes** · 12-06-2006, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by Uabassoon

The game tokens are now a labradooble, McDonalds french fries, starbucks cup, laptop, airplane, toyota prius, new balance running shoe and a motorla cell phone.

...which means that McDonalds, starbucks, Toyota, New Balance, and Motorola must have fronted some BIG BIG BUCKS to this project!

**Uabassoon** · 12-06-2006, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by cyber-sibes

...which means that McDonalds, starbucks, Toyota, New Balance, and Motorola must have fronted some BIG BIG BUCKS to this project!

"Unlike advertisers that typically pay to be included in branded-entertainment projects, the five marketers whose products are becoming branded tokens did not ask Hasbro to be included in the new edition nor did they pay Hasbro a fee, Mr. Blecher said.

Rather, he said, the company sought out the marketers because their products will help the new version offer “a representation of America in the 21st century.”

Taken from this website.

Sorry to stray from the topic so much!

**Twisterdog** · 12-07-2006, 01:11 AM

I'm getting used to the Here & Now Monopoly, but it was very strange at first.

There are no more railroads, they are airports now. The utilities are now cell phone and internet service. All the properties have changed ... you can now buy Red Rocks Ampitheater in Denver, Disney World, The Grand Ole Opry, Las Vegas Blvd., etc.

And the money is crazy now ... it goes from $10,000 to $5,000,000! And you have chance cards like, "Get a tax break for driving a hybrid" and "Go to jail for identity theft."

My kids actually like it so much more, though. It makes so much more sense to them.

And I apologize for hi-jacking this thread with my Monopoly story!

**jackie** · 12-07-2006, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by Uabassoon

It's the new Here and Now edition of monopoly. It's a more modern verison of the original. The game tokens are now a labradooble, McDonalds french fries, starbucks cup, laptop, airplane, toyota prius, new balance running shoe and a motorla cell phone.

OMG, that is beyond silly.

**poodleempire** · 12-07-2006, 09:58 AM

just for the record.....i HATE..all these 'somethin poo's' why cant folk just leave poodles alone and stop crossing them with allsorts just so some twerp can gush and say '' oooh yes we have a darling cockapoo''
Sorry i dont often get mad on here but these folk who are breeding these so called fashionable digdogs should be marched out and shot

....it is iresponsible and god only knows what the damage they are doin to the poodle and the other breed they are 'mixing'.....
But they will be continued to be bred,whilst there is a market....nuff said

**jesse_3** · 12-09-2006, 11:37 PM

This is horrible! Whatever happened to the good old days? I could cry with this new "advance" in toys and games. Blech!

I do have to say however, that I love the names that were brought up, the "borderretrieverdoodle" and the "Huskashepralabracolliedoodle" That would make Jemi' a Chiratbimalttzu or something along those lines (I don't know her exact breeds, I am completely guessing!)

What has this world come to? *sigh*

**elizabethann** · 12-06-2006, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by Twisterdog

That's pretty sad indeed.

We bought the updated version of Monopoly a few weeks ago, because our old one was worn out. The scotty dog has been replaced by a ... labradoodle. Seriously. I used to always be the dog when we played. I just can't do it now. Now I'm the Starbucks coffee.

NO WAY!!! Labradoodle?

I was always the Scottie dog too!

And do they really have Starbucks coffee in Monopoly? Talk about branding!

I guess I'll be the shoe....or has that changed too?

**dogzr#1** · 12-06-2006, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by elizabethann

I guess I'll be the shoe....or has that changed too?

Probably changed it a Converse or Vans shoe.

(Nothing against them, they are actually my favorite brand)

I used to be the little Scottie all the time too! That's the only piece that I liked! *sigh* I wonder if more people are buying it now just because it has a 'labradoodle' in it.