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Number of versions: 8
Edition: March 25, 2006
Upgraded: June 20, 2010
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With thanks to Mike McGuire - West Valley City
- Utah - USA and Diego Puls - Amsterdam - NL for their assistance.


Up till today Parker Brothers only published their American edition
in Spanish in this and other South American countries. However, there have
been a few national game manufacturers issuing Monopoly-like editions
over the years.
One of them is Industrias Ronda Ltda
- Bogotá, founded in June 1972 out of a small printing company. From then on
their board games and puzzles activities steadily grow, reason why the company
moved in1984 to a new works, also situated in Bogotá. In that time the company
got licenced by Walt Disney, Parker Brothers and Borrás, the Spanish licensee
of Parker Brothers.
In 1986 the games part of the company changed name into Ronda
S.A. and was it manufacturing games for Latin-American countries like Panama, Ecuador, Costa
Rica, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela.
A 2000 alliance between Ronda and Hasbro confirms the continuation of the
cooperation between both companies that started with Parker Bros in 1984.
Edition:
Entre al mundo de los negocios con ... Tio Rico Mc.Pato, ref. 05 10 01
(In the world of trade with ... Scrooge McDuck)
Publisher: Industrias Ronda Ltda. - Bogotá - ±1975
Dimensions of the box: 27.2 x 41.8 cm
The game:
Richness smiles at you from the cover: Banknotes generously drift away from
Uncle Scrooge's briefcase, dollar signs all over and the "objetivo"
says: Be rich, very rich, as rich or richer than Rich Uncle ... with
properties, houses and castles ... sturdy rents and many pesos in cash.
The solid game board, that plays anticlockwise, has 10 spaces between
the corners on the 1st and 3rd side and only 8 on the 2nd
and 4th side. Salida
is also called the Estación Sta.Fe (Santa Fe Station).
You start your trip through the park from here. The park's attractions are
successively:
Tierra de la Fantasia - Cielos
de Dumbo - Villa de Pinocho -
Linea Tierra de la Fantasia - Paso Dominios de Pedro "El Malo" - Lagos
de Peter Pan - Pais de las Maravillas
- Mina de los 7 Enanitos - hoekpunt Tierra
de la Frontera - Desierto Apache - Isla
de Tom Sawyer - Poblado Indio -
Linea Tierra de la Frontera - Paso Caverna del Arco Iris - Desiertos
de la Diligencia - Rutas del tren Santa Fe
- Region cabañas - hoekpunt Tierra del
Futuro - Altos del Monorriel - Glaciales
del Teleferico - Parque de los Astro-Jet
- Linea Tierra del Futuro - Paso el Matterhorn - Playa
de los botes del Futuro - Puentes de la
Autopista - Imperios del Nautilius
- hoekpunt Tierra de la Aventura - Muelle Jungla
- Valle de los Leones - Cienaga
de los Hipopótamos - Linea Tierra de la Aventura - Paso Aduana del
Rio - Valle de las Jirafas - Valle
de los Elefantes and Aldea Canibal.
The instructions at the corners read for:
- Tierra de la Frontera: Tio Rico está pobre! muy pobre el pobrecito
ricachón! Necesita $ 200,00 para llegar a sus minas allá en la frontera.
Envíaselos. (Uncle Scrooge is broke! completely broke, that filthy rich man! He needs $ 200.00
to reach his gold mines over there at the border.Send them to him.)
- Tierra del Futuro: Hugo Paco y Luis quierenir a Marte. Colabórales
con $ 150,00 y $ 20,00 más por cada castillo que poseas. Envíaselos a su
centro espacial. (Huey, Dewey and Louie want to go to Mars. Help them with $ 150.00 and another $ 20.00
for each
castle you possess. Send the money to their space centre.)
- Tierra de la Aventura: Tribilin va en busca de Leones,
Hipopótamos, Jirafas y Elefantes. El viaje es duro y costoso. Envíale a su
aldea allá en la selva $ 180,00. (Goofy is searching for lions, hippopotami, giraffes and elephants. The trip
is heavy and expensive. Send him $ 180.00 to his village in the
forest.)
There are 3 illustrations on the board's centrefield showing The mines of
Uncle Scrooge at the border, Huey, Dewey and
Louie's Space Centre and Goofy's village in
the forest.
There are property deeds indeed, as narrow (32x94 mm) as the Sorpresa
and Loteria cards, but in addition all rents and prices are given again on the
game board's space. Both remarkable narrow cards Sorpresa Ballena (Whale
surpise) and Loteria Campanita (Campinata Lotery) are on the board next to the Salida starting point.
All cards stick together on a perforated a sheet from which they have to
be separated before use.
The innerbox is entirely of yellow
cardboard. In there are 3 yellow inserts
folded in such a way that they make 4 trays for the accessories.
The 6 banknotes are printed double-sided on white paper: the
frontside in full-color with funny illustrations of the Disney figures and the
backside in 1 color only. The denominations of these Banco Disneylandia
notes are (colors are of the backside): 5
- 10 - 20
- 50 - 100
and 500. The currency is oros (Gold
coin?) and all notes are signed by Rico Mc.Plato in person.
There are but 4 plastic pawns as tokens. The 30 plastic houses
are red and the 10 castles yellow.
Both small (side of 12 mm) dice are white with black pips.
The Rules are printed on the bottom of the box.
This set was "Hecho en Colombia" (Made in Colombia). The roguish little lion,
Ronda's logo, is in large on the bottom.
The price of this set amounted to COP 19,990 (€ 9.-) December 1998.
Edition:
International
Spanish language ed., Ref.8009
"Juego de Intercambio de Finca Raíz de Parker Brothers" (Game of exchange of properties, originally P.B.)
Publisher: Parker Brothers, Inc. - Beverly - 1985
Dimensions of the box: 25.6 x 51.0 cm
The game:
This set has been issued by Parker Brothers in all North-, Middle- and South
American countries where Spanish is spoken, so most probably in Colombia as well.
It concerns the well-known American standard edition in the white box with the
streets of Atlantic City, but in the Spanish language.
From Go (¡Adelante!) on all properties
of the International Spanish language edition are:
Avenida Mediterráneo - Arca Comunal
(Community Chest) - Avenida
Báltica - Impuesto sobre Ingresos (Income Tax)
- Ferrocarril Reading - Avenida Oriental -
Casualidad (Chance) - Avenida
Vermont - Avenida Connecticut - En
la .../De visita no más - Plaza San Carlos - Compañía
de Electricidad - Avenida de los Estados -
Avenida Virginia - Ferrocarril
de Pensilvania - Plaza Santiago - Arca
Comunal - Avenida Tennessee - Avenida Nueva York -
Parada Libre (Free Parking) - Avenida Kentucky -
Casualidad - Avenida
Indiana - Avenida Illinóis - Ferrocarril
B. & O. - Avenida Atlántico - Avenida
Ventnor - Obras de agua potable (Drinking-water
Works) - Jardines
Marvin - !Váyase a la Cárcel! (Go to Jail)
- Avenida
Pacífico - Avenida Carolina del Norte
- Arca Comunal - Avenida Pensilvania -
Ferrocarril Short
Line - Casualidad - Plaza del Parque
- Impuesto sobre posesiones de lujo (Luxury Tax) and Paseo
Tablado.
The lid of this "long box" shows the last part of the 4th side
and Go. On top is the red
bar with Rich Uncle Pennybags in the middle O. The dice show numbers 3
and 5. The bottom of the box is un-printed.
The back of the solid game board is blue.
The word Monopoly goes in closed characters in a black frame
sloping over the board. The innerbox
contains except for a small plastic insert with 7 holes for the banknotes also a
filling up piece of blue cardboard on which
the "13 frequently asked questions" are printed in Spanish.
The game is entirely in the Spanish language but the money is in dollars. It are the
well-known banknotes with the mention "Copyright
1935 by Parker Brothers Inc." in the centre circle. The Casualidad (Chance) cards are red and the Arca Comunal
(Community Chest) cards are yellow, both illustrated
with funny pictures of Rich Uncle Pennybags identical to those of the original
American issue.
There are 10 metal tokens "made in Hong Kong", viz.: car
- hat - thimble - dog - boat - iron - canon - rider-on-horse - shoe and wheelbarrow.
The dark green houses and red
hotels with overhanging roofs are made of plastic and do have a centrally
placed chimney. Both dice are white with black pips.
This edition was "Fabricado en los EE.UU". (Made in
the USA)
Edition:
Monopoly Edicion Colombia, Ref. 051004
"Juego de Intercambio de Finca Raíz de Parker Brothers" (Game of exchange of properties, originally P.B.)
Publisher: Industrias Ronda Ltda. - Bogotá - ±1985
Dimensions:
50.5 x 25.5 cm
The game:
This edition is owned by David Miller - UK.
The Spanish text in the middle of the lid says:
"An original way to get to know our country. With this new monopoly edition
on a pleasant way presenting the main streets and squares of our Colombian
cities."
The green map of the
country shows the 8 cities concerned. And in order to know which
properties are of which cities the dots marking the cities have the color of the
concerning property bars, so
From Salida onwards all spaces are:
Popoyan:
Avenida
José Hilario López
- Arca
Comunal - Avenida Don Bosco - Impuesto sobre Ingresos
Terminal de
Transporte
Cali
(bus
with beige stripe)
Cucuta:
Avenida los Libertadores - Casualidad
- Avenida 0 (Cero) -El Melecón
En la ... /De visita no mas
Manizales:
Avenida Santander - Empresa de Energia Electrica - Parque Caldas -
Avenida Centenario
Terminal
de
Transporte Pereira (bus
with red stripe)
Cali:
Avenida Roosevelt - Arca Comunal - Plaza Caicedo - Avenida Colombia
Estacionamento Gratis
Cartagena:
Avenida Pedro de Heredia - Casualidad
- Cartagena Colonial - Avenida San Martin
Terminal de
Transporte Medellín
(bus
with green stripe)
San Andres:
Johnny
Cay - San Luis - Empresa de Acueducto - Avenida Colon
¡Váyase A La
Cárcel!
Medellín:
Parque de Berrio - Avenida la Playa - Arca
Comunal - Avenida Nutibara
Terminal
de
Transporte Bogata (bus
with blue stripe)
Bogotá:
Casualidad
- Carrera 15 - Impuesto
sobre posesiones de lujo
- Avenida Chile
The board is a single folded cardboard board.
The back is plain yellow
with no tape over the joint. The Parker red
Monopoly bar is on the board but relatively small and not in the middle.
Although the whole game radiates a certain cooperation between Ronda (the maker)
and Parker Brothers (the
licencee)
this edition has a lot of deviations from the Parker design, such as:
The innerbox
contains except for a small cardboard insert with 7 holes for the
banknotes also a filling up piece of blue
cardboard on which the "13 frequently asked questions".
The currency of the money is Peso, indicated by the $-sign.
The 7 banknotes consist of black printed colored paper and the
denominations are: 1 - 5 -10
- 20 - 50 -100
and 500.
The Casualidad
cards are red
and the Arca Comunal
cards yellow.
All these cards are illustrated with amusing incidents with Rich Uncle
Pennybags.
The houses and hotels
are made of hollow plastic. The tokens are 6 simple plastic pawns on a
large base.
Both plastic dice are red with white
pips.
This editon was "hecho en Colombia" (made
in Colombia).
Edition: Turista Mundial, Ref.Nr.
5102
Publisher: Parker Brothers/Hasbro/Ronda
S.A.- Santa Fé - ± 1990
Dimensions of the box: 47 x 24 x 3 cm
The game:
This is probably the first Turista edition issued in Colombia, or at least the
first one authorized by Parker Brothers/Hasbro. Turista is a Mexican game
originally, which is clearly proven by the Mexican flag and statue
in the Salida start space. The properties on the game board are, counter-clockwise
divided over 4 continents, resp. showing the flags of the
countries:
- America: Argentine - Brasil
- Colombia - Puerto
Rico - United States - Canada
- Africa: Marocco - Saudi
Arabia - Egypt - Ethiopia
- Cameroon - South
Africa
- Asia: South Korea - Israel
- Soviet Union - China
- India - Japan
- Europe: Sweden - Germany
- Italy - Spain
- France - England
The sizes of the very thin plastic coated game board are 45.5 x 45.5 cm. It's midfield shows the above mentioned countries on the world
map in the same colors.
Instead of stations there are 4 (not exsisting) airlines called
American Airline - African Airline - Asian Airline and European Airline. The 3
corners after Salida moving counter-clockwise are: Migración/Vaya a la
O.N.U. - Loteria Internaciónal - O.N.U.
The upper left corner of the blue lid
(exactly the same as of the Mexican version, except for the Hasbro logo) shows a
small red Monopoly bar whereas the lower right
corner shows the Parker Brothers logo. The pawns shown on the
flags do not exactly correspond to those belonging to the game. These are
aggravation pawns. The Rules are printed on the inside of the lid. Along with the rules is also a
chart of statistical information about the continents and many of the countries in around the globe. The information includes land mass in
km², population, languages, capitals, and currency. The game was obviously made before 2002 because the European currencies are the old
ones.
The game comes with white inserts completely covering the playing equipment. When turned upside down insert is folded into two compartments with perforations all along the common edge of the compartments. It is apparently intended to use as an
inner box to hold the
playing equipment. It can also be used as a banker's tray. However it only has the two big compartments (no money compartments).
The cards are called Carta and Telegrama.
There are but 5 denominations of Turista money (however with the
Monopoly design, i.e. with the illustrations of a locomotive and house)
consisting of one sided color-printed white paper . They are:
10.000 - 20.000 -
50.000 - 100.000 and 500.000.
The buildings are the green
plastic casas (houses) and red
hoteles, both with chimney.
Both dice are white with black pips.
This set was "Fabrique en Colombia".
Edition:
Metropolio
¡Hagase rico monopolizando la ciudad!
(Become rich by monopolizing the city!)
Publisher: hola! Colina - Medellín - ±1997
Dimensions of the box: 29.6 x 42.7 cm
The game:
The full-color lid shows the game board with tokensand cards,
while the Rules are printed on the bottom of the box. (This in contrast
to the Parker Brothers/Hasbro issues, where the picture of the board is always
on the bottom of the box).
This issue, made by an inland manufacturer, also have a game board made of heavy
cardboard that is folded the playside outwards. The Salida corner has the
arrow pointing to the right, meaning the game has to be played anticlockwise.
The 1st and 3rd side have 11 spaces between the corners
whereas the others have but 9. Never before I saw the color bars printed at the
bottom of the (empty) spaces and the matching illustrations both printed under
as well as on top of the space. The fact you receive $ 20.000 over Salida
and the first streets cost $ 6,000 clearly show the designer has looked at
Parker/Hasbro Monopoly. Besides the stations situated in the middle of each
side cannot be a coincidence.
From Salida onwards all spaces are successively:
Cinema - Museo
- Teatro - ImpuestosPague
$ 20.000 - Estación de Servicio Sur
- Zoologico - Circo
- Trafic light red - Parque
de Diversiones - Estación de Television
- Cárcel - Pizzeria
- Trafic light green - Bar
Discoteca - Restaurante - Estación
de Servicio Oriente - Plaza de Mercado
- Supermercado - Trafic light red
- Centro Comercial - Loteria
- Club Campestre - Trafic light green
-
Hosteria - Hotel - Impuestos
Pague $ 7.500
- Estación de Servicio Norte - Jardin
Infantil - Colegio - Trafic light red
-
Universidad - Fraude/vayase
directamente a la Cárcel - Centro de Urgencias - Clinica de Fracturas
- Trafic light green - Hospital - Estación de Servicio
Occidente
- Industria Textil - Industria
de Plasticos - Trafic light red
and Industria Automotriz.
Consequently the 8 groups of properties are: Culture - Amusement - Restaurants -
Food companies - Accommodation - Education - Medical Care and Industries.
The centrefield of the blue board does not
show the name of the game. It only has 2 spaces for the trafic lights
red and green
cards and some pictures of a strange little-man-with-banknotes (certainly no
Rich Uncle) are distributed over the board. Strangely enough this silly looking
little man is carried off by a policeman at the Fraude
corner.
The innerbox has an insert of black plastic into which the name
hola! collina is formed in large characters. It further contains 11 holes for
the banknotes and accessories. The property cards show the
"streetname" in the color bar at the bottom, while the top of the card
show the corresponding picture. The mortgage-side of these cards is white.
Of course the back of "Trafic lights green"
is green and that of the red
consequently is red. A few texts of these
cards read:
The Metropolio banknotes (48x94 mm) are printed both sides with a.o.
the same portrait of a head of state (?), its value in Pesos and 2x the mention "Este billete tiene ningun valor comercial" (This
note has no commercial value). The denominations of the 7 notes are: 100 - 500
- 1.000 - 2.000
- 5.000 - 10.000
and 50.000. The cuurency is Peso,
indicated by the $-sign.
Instead of houses here is talk of Inversiones
(investments), small round stackable caps. The red
caps are called Servicio
de Lujo (Luxury service). The tokens are
6 hollow plastic pawns.
Both dice are cream with black
pips.
This set was "Made in Colombia".
The price of this set amounted to COP 19,990 (= € 9.-) December
1998.
Edition: International
Spanish language edition, ref.08009
"Juego de Compraventa de Inmuebles, de Parker
Brothers" (Property trading game, of Parker Brothers)
Publisher: Parker Brothers/Hasbro Inc.
- Pawtucket - 1999
Dimensions of the box: 26.9 x 40.2 cm
The game:
The lid of this new "standard box" (shorter than the 1985 issue) also shows the last part of the
4th side and Go. On top is the red
bar with Rich Uncle Pennybags in the middle O. The dice now show the
numbers 3 and 6 but the race car is still on the Paseo Tablado.
The bottom of the box is still un-printed, unlike the similar European editions
showing a "laughing family" around a table playing Monopoly.
In this new box is one narrow, white plastic tray with but 5 slots for the
banknotes and all other equipment. The remainder of the innerbox is
filled up with a light green cardboard
insert showing again the "13 most frequently asked questions".The board is
folded in four and consequently it lies about in the box. The red
Monopoly bar is sloping across the
board. On the game board are the nice looking Casualidad and Arca Comunal
cards.
As addinional (11th) token the "moneybag" has been
added, the winning token from the ±1998 Monopoly new token campaign.
The green
plastic houses and red
hotels have a chimney in the middle of the roof.
Both dice are white with black pips.
This edition also is "Fabricado en los EE.UU" (Made
in USA).
Edition:
Entre al mundo de los negocios con ... Tio Rico Mc.Pato
- long box, ref. 0510 01
(In the world of trade with ... Scrooge McDuck)
Publisher: Ronda S.A. - Bogotá - ±2010
Dimensions of the box: 27.5 x 40 cm
The game:
It was Diego Puls who pointed this set out to me. It is shown in Ronda's
catalogue of 2010, reason why it must be made in this year as well.
Remember that this game has to be played anticlockwise!
A comparison of this picture with the version from ±1975 tells us the
following: