Visit London Blog » monopoly http://blog.visitlondon.com Enjoy the very best of London Sat, 25 May 2013 09:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Monopoly’s Go Location Unveiled on London’s South Bank http://blog.visitlondon.com/2010/08/monopolys-go-location-unveiled-on-londons-south-bank/ http://blog.visitlondon.com/2010/08/monopolys-go-location-unveiled-on-londons-south-bank/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:28:29 +0000 Jonny Payne http://blog.visitlondon.com/?p=13700 Monopoly Revolution, the new version of Monopoly. Photo by Jonny Payne Someone needs a get out of jail free card. Photo by Jonny Payne Monopoly prizes to be won in the cash-blowing dome. Photo by Jonny Payne Monopoly Revolution, the new version of Monopoly. Photo by Jonny Payne A large-scale version of the Monopoly scotty dog playing piece. Photo by Jonny Payne The original Monopoly game with its London locations. Photo by Jonny Payne
The mystery has finally been solved. Creators of Monopoly, the quintessential London board game, today unveiled the secret location of the Go square, so I went along to have a look.
While Old Kent Road, Bond Street and Mayfair are all well-known Monopoly locations, the location of Go has been shrouded in mystery, until today. The secret spot has now been revealed as Queen’s Walk on the South Bank, next to the London Eye.

Louisa Nigro, senior brand manager for Monopoly told me: “It’s the 75th anniversary of Monopoly this year so we decided what better way to celebrate it than to solve the mystery of where is Go in London. We worked with the Ordnance Survey people and they used their geometrics and figured out it was actually Queen’s Walk.”

Much to my chagrin as I walked past Go, I was not handed £200 by a kind banker, but there are plenty of other activities capturing the essence of Monopoly lasting until 5pm today.

Nigro said: “We’ve turned Queens Walk into an area of Monopoly madness today including our Monopoly jail, a cash-blowing globe with Monopoly prizes, a Monopoly-branded bus to take people around the landmarks on the board, and also free parking on Regent Street.”

There’s also a chance to play the new version of the game called Monopoly Revolution which has a round board, sound effects and music.

With Go’s location found we can’t help wonderin where the jail is located. Do you have any ideas where it is?

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