The famous game of money and real-estate, Monopoly opened its borders years ago, and allowed various themed versions of the game to be produced under the Monopoly official name. At last in 2012, Sonic gets a Monopoly game! The pieces, board, events, & cards all have a Sonic theme to them, so this game ought to be quite collectible when it appears. The box looks good, with cool poses for everyone, and a neutral chao too. (It's not Cheese). 

Here's what the inside of the box has. There are the recolored hotels & houses (now Workshops & Bases), the cards, money, instructions, game pieces (below) & renamed community chest / chance into item box / badnik cards. The manual is all black/white but well designed. However the utilities have been replaced by the Babylon Rogues & the Chaotix. This is a very cool and clever way to incorporate more characters. The rail roads are also fun vehicles from the series. This is well done, two of them are the Tornado and the Egg OMatic, classic vehicles that re-occur in almost every game. The others are Exteme Gear and Blue Star from "Sonic Riders" & "All-Stars Racing", nice which are nice inclusions of recent Sonic titles

Game pieces.

They appear to be cast aluminum, but there's a lot of 'fins' on the seams from where the metal leaked after the pour and quality control isn't such that they could get rid of it. Notice how Shadow's legs are sort of fused & his arm is connected to his head. The somewhat action-type poses for the figures are nice. It's also good to see they didn't just copy something else /some other pre-existing figure pose. The game pieces are: Sonic, Tails, Amy, Shadow, and a chao. However the pieces have small parts like arms and my Amy piece came broken in the box." Info by Shadowfoxx757

*They do apparently send replacement pieces if you bother customer service. Broken pieces ARE common.

Properties

The properties are designed after zones in the games. Only the 3D levels and remakes since the Sonic Adventure DX and battle games & newer. However there is no order to the levels. Wasteland and polluted zones are mixed with future and jungle zones in the property sets. Most monopoly games would group like property together from lowest value to highest. The scrambling here makes it seem just mixed up.
There are 6 tokens/figures, 28 title deeds, 16 badnik cards, 16 item box cards, 2 dice, 32 house/workshops, 12 hotel/bases, game board & money inside the box.

Game board

The game board itself is nice. It's big, brightly colored, & uses some nice CG art of Sonic Tails & Knuckles. The bright tiles make it look tempting to play. The box back tells about the Sonic theme & shows pictures of some of the items. The dice, workshops /bases are ordinary.

All descriptions in this area by SonicToast. 

Cards

Here are the cards for Chance/Community chest or Badnick/Item Box. They each have CG character or item art & a Sonic related event. This includes "rescue Amy, get ___" or "collect all red stars do ___" or bad actions like "Kidnapped by Metal Sonic go to jail

Instruction book

The instruction book is also Sonic themed, with pictures of the themed items & instructions. The layout is good and it seems easy to understand. There's also a 60 minute speed play variation.

Money

The money is also Sonic themed with a different character for each denomination. Chao is a dollar, Rouge is 5, Shadow 10, Amy 20, Knuckles 50, Tails 100 & Sonic 500. They are all CG art, not stock art.

Over all?
Good game, especially if you like Monopoly anyway. It's costly, but they do replace broken metal tokens. Mysteriously Cream, Silver & E Omega are TOTALLY missing. (Cheese is the chao on the $1) Why they chose not to bring them in is a mystery. (look at all the cards with Sonic on it, you could remove 3 of his duplicates for them) Also, Eggman loves to "monopolize" everything, so why isn't he a game piece? Did they think no one would want to be the greedy villain? It also has a bit of seldom seen CG, like with Jet & Rouges' cards. With loads of great CG art & careful attention to detail, this will certainly be a collector's item, so pick it up in 2012 if you want it!