Available for $24.95 on lateforthesky.com and different stores around town. If you want to know where to get this after reading my scathing, unforgiving opinion of it, I will tell you. Email me at shannon@syncweekly.com. Otherwise, I don't want to make these stores appear silly by association.

Little Rock-OPOLY. I assume this product was created and manufactured for folks who are on a desperate gift hunt for people they don’t know much about.  They see “Little Rock” plastered on a box and think, “Well, hey, Shannon lives in Little Rock and she likes games;  I’ll get her this.  She’ll love it! What with all the clever allusions to the city of Little Rock that I’m sure are all very accurate, this lucid interpretation of the city will make a great addition to her game closet.”

Please, please, do not buy me this. Or for anyone else unless your intention is for them to re-gift it to a non-mutual friend.

At first glance I thought the box made the game seem fun and cute because everything familiar seems fun and cute in the beginning, but then I looked closer.  The properties aren’t neighborhoods rather they are Little Rock institutions like the Arkansas Queen (which is in North Little Rock).  Evidently the grouping of these properties are not required to make sense.  One grouping contains the following: Little Rock Zoo, Big Dam Bridge and the Peabody Hotel.  The only thing in common between these three is that they all have duck inhabitants.

A section of the board and look at a property card and "contingency" card.

Upon further googling I found this which is a call for opinions on how to create a game that represents the city of Little Rock.  I’m unsure where the person got the original institution ideas but I would guess poor internet research supplied 97% of them.  Luckily some people commented with helpful suggestions like, “NLR is a separate city not a neighborhood in LR.”

Lateforthesky.com makes an -OPOLY game for anything and everything including Horse-OPOLY, Grillin-OPOLY and Canada-OPOLY.  Friend and frequent commentator on this blog, Johnnie owns Earth-OPOLY.  It’s been sitting in his car trunk, unopened, as long as I’ve known him.  And even though I know these things are worthless my heart still skips a beat when I read Dino-OPOLY and Monsters-OPOLY.

Game Details

The Pieces: They’re the same for most of the City-OPOLY games and include a High Five, Big Smile, Heart, Pretzel, The Dog and Old Shoe.

Utilities: Greek Food Festival and Riverfest

Railroads: Cantrell Road, Chenal Parkway, Markham Street and Kavanaugh –They got this one right.

Property Groupings:

Little Rock National Airport and River Rail Trolley –Both are transportation.

Arkansas Queen, Cajun’s Wharf and Riverfest Ampitheatre –All on the river. Okay, I’ll buy that.

Little Rock Zoo, Big Dam Bridge and Peabody Hotel –???

The Rep, Old State House and MacArthur Park –They meant the Arkansas Arts Center rather than the Repertory Theatre.  Too bad they blew it.

Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock Central High School and War Memorial Stadium –Um. All have football? nope.  All have “events.”  Eh, yeeeah. Good enough.

Arkansas Arts Center, Museum of Discovery and Clinton Presidential Center –All museums… though the AAC shouldn’t be here, perhaps the Historic Arkansas Museum or the Arkansas Studies Institute instead?

Riverfront Park, Quapaw Quarter and Arkansas State Capitol –Which landmarks and areas did we forget? Oh I know, we’ll put them here.

Metropolitan National Bank Tower and La Petite Roche –I guess I never realized how important the Metropolitan National Bank Tower was.  It is tall.

As you may have noticed, Flying Fish isn’t in any of these groupings.  That’s cool since it’s logo is on the cover of the box.