“Because of the lengthy court process and appeals, the legal status of Parker Brothers’ trademarks on the game was not settled until the late 1970s. They were distributed to prisoners by secret service-created fake charity groups. Hidden inside these games were maps, compasses, real money, and other objects useful for escaping. ![]() “In 1941, the British Secret Service had John Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of the game outside the U.S., create a special edition for World War II prisoners of war held by the Nazis. By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore: it was printed in the game’s instructions and even in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World’s Most Popular Game by Maxine Brady. Several people, mostly in the Midwestern United States and near the East Coast, contributed to the game’s design and evolution. By 1934, a board game called Monopoly had been created which formed the basis of the game sold by Parker Brothers and its parent companies through the rest of the 20th century, and into the 21st. A series of variant board games based on her concept were developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land and the development of that land. Her game, The Landlord’s Game, was commercially published in 1923. Magie Phillips created a game through which she hoped to be able to explain the single tax theory of Henry George (it was intended to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies). “The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1904, when an American woman named Elizabeth (Lizzie) J. By 1973 Lionel was folded into General Mills subsidiary Fundimensions, which carried on the Lionel tradition with many trains that equaled or bettered the originals.” ![]() ![]() It had leased the Lionel name to Minneapolis-based General Mills, which bought other toy companies like Parker Brothers, Kenner, and MPC. “By the 1970s, what remained of the original Lionel Corporation was a holding company specializing in toy stores. E*Train Issue: Jan 2016 | Posted in: 1970-now Modern Era, Collecting
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