Turn Four And A Bit

Lilac Towels. yum.

All Monopoly Teams are challenged to make 2 extra releases on 25th May; One themed to towels, one themed to lilac.

Wanna Know Why? My reason is threefold;
1) Because I am Gog, and I can ;)
2) For Towel Day, in honour of Douglas Adams & h2g2 (you don't need to have read the book. Just so long as you know what a towel is)
3) For The Wearing of the Lilac, in honour of Tezzer Pratchett and Altzheimers research (you also don't need to have read the book. just so long as you know what lilac is.)

I'm not completely mad (well.... not about this, anyway), look;
http://en.wikipedia.org/---/Towel_Day
http://www.towelday.org/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/---/Discworld_%28world%29#The_Glorious_Twenty-Fifth_of_May
http://www.wearthelilac.com/---/about.html

the first year I wore the lilac, I wondered if Pratchett had chosen that day in honour of it's being towel day, as Night Watch (the book the date is referenced in) was published about 9 months after the first towel day... I still don't know. But I know TP and Adams were friends :)

the book you release doesn't have to be Hitchhikers, or Discworld

these TWO releases per team will both count for points as normal, and I will be giving bonus points for the towellyest and lilacyest, or the weirdest or the funniest or the shiniest...

Submit your releases via PM to me by 9PM 26th May, and I'll announce bonus points/blog after that

Turn Four

Submit the details of your teams completed challenge - including a link to the book's page (and pictures if you want) - by PMing Vekiki. Please also post on the forum so we can see your release!
Submissions deadline: 21.00 GMT (that's 9 PM, London time) on Monday 21st May
New Turn will be announced on Tuesday 22nd May
Refresh on how to play here
Chatter about the turn in the forum

Team Battleship
South (Dice Roll 4)

Teams Boot & Racecar
Tower (Dice Roll 10 & 5)

Team Iron
Parks & Playgrounds (Dice Roll 12)

Teams Moneybag & Thimble
Home (Dice Roll 11 & 3)

Team Scottie Dog
Recommend a favourite (Dice Roll 5)

Team Top Hat
Community Bookshelf (Dice Roll 7)

Team Train
West (Dice Roll 8)

Team Tulip
Water (Dice Roll 9)
   + Collect the Utilities

Team Wolf
Fifth Dimension (Dice Roll 8)


GoG
Historic Places (Dice roll 6)

Turn Three Releases

Hungry tree snacks on Team Boot's release

Team Moneybag: Mein erster Märchenschatz (My First Fairy Tale Treasury) at House of The Rainbow Nursey
Team Battleship: For God and Glory on the site of the first Methodist Church in the United States

Team Scottie Dog: The Tortilla Curtain deals with the north/south devide between the US and Mexico, and was left on chilli South Beach
Team Wolf: GeoMap Radwegepläne, Stuttgart und Umgebung (Cycle Maps of Stuttgart & Umgebung) get a view over the edge of the city before strapping on a helmet and whizzing away
Team Tophat: Hangover Square in Millenium Square, along with a hangover kit - found by a very appreciative new member!

Team Racecar stop to play Pooh Sticks

Team Racecar: Kengus Kafe (Ru's Cafe) returnes home to the Hundred Acre Woods 
Team Tulip: The Undutchables next to a pint sized orange tree, on Queen's day
Team Boot: The Kite Runner, in a kite eating tree
Team Train: The Ballard of the Sad Cafe at the aptly named Sad: Cafe
Team Iron:  Taking on the World at Southchurch Park in South end on sea...
Team Thimble: Engeldienste (Services of Angles) below a statue of Angle St. Michael
GoG: Frankenstein, in a thunder & lightening storm (It's ALIVE!)

Bonus Points going out to:
Team Wolf for the cycle helmet :D
Team Train for the most ideally named cafe possible
Team Boot for the Kite Eating Tree

Safety first for Team Wolf; careful not to fall...

Team Thimble at the feet of an angle

Team Top hat were seeing square by the end of the night...

Tulip's cure for homesickness

Turn Three

Submit the details of your teams completed challenge - including a link to the book's page (and pictures if you want) - by PMing Vekiki. Please also post on the forum so we can see your release!
Submissions deadline: 21.00 GMT (that's 9 PM, London time) on Monday 7th May
New Turn will be announced on Tuesday 8th May
Refresh on how to play here
chatter about the turn in the forum

This turns challenges:

Team Battleship
Historic places (Dice roll 9)

Teams Boot & Tulip
Tree (Dice rolls 9 & 7)

Teams Iron & Scottie Dog
South (Dice rolls 8 & 6)

Team Moneybag
Rainbow's End (Dice roll 2)

Team Racecar
Home (Dice roll 11)

Team Thimble
Statues & Monuments (Dice roll 7)

Team Top Hat
Square (Dice roll 10)

Team Train
Cafes & Restaurants (Dice roll 12)

Team Wolf
On the Edge (Dice roll 5)

GoG
Power Station (Dice roll 4)

Have Fun!

Turn Two Releases

Team Racecar over the rainbow

Team Batttleship's origami skills...

Team Racecar: The Rainbow Bridge released at the Dublin Convention, and caught by a conventioneer

Team Battleship: The Silver Chair (the middle of the series) released in the middle of the day in the middle of the month, in the middle of the year, in the middle of Middle Street
Team Thimble: Ten Big Ones in Trinity Collage Library, with some assistance from a lovely librarian
Team Boot: Ystäväni Nahani released to steal a point from Team Wolf (Hope you were careful of their teeth...)
Team Moneybag: La Voie et sa vertu : Tao-tê-king released outside Nouvelles Frontières travel agent, a bi-lingual book splitting the difference between France & China 
Team Wolf: Xena teaches feminism, sword weilding and covert lesbianism at historic Otago Girls High School

Team Tophat bemoan the plexiglass

Team Tulip: Atomised joins in the clean energy debate at the Electric Company of Helsinki
Team Iron: Granted a wish for a copy of Harry Potter e la Pietre Filosofale
Team Scottie Dog: The Copper Beech at the bookies during AinTREE races
Team Tophat: T.J.'s Secret Pitch at an unexpectedly new ball park memorial
GoG: Brussels got lost - not in Belgium, but in with the sprouts!

Bonus Points go to...
 - Team Battleship for the most middles, and excellent origami skills
 - Team Boot for storytelling good enough to make wolves howl

Wait... this isn't the Manneken Pis...

 

Team Tulip get mutated with a nuclear release

Turn Two

Submit the details of your teams completed challenge - including a link to the book's page (and pictures if you want) - by PMing Vekiki. Please also post on the forum so we can see your release!
Submissions deadline: 21.00 GMT (that's 9 PM, London time) on Monday 23rd April
Refresh on how to play here
chatter about the turn in the forum

This Turns Challenges:

Team Battleship
In The Middle (Dice roll 3)

Team Boot
In Jail - point stealing (Dice roll 7)

Team Iron
Community Bookshelf (Dice roll 12)

Team Moneybag
New Frontiers (Dice Roll 2)

Team Racecar
Rainbow's End (Dice Roll 7)

Team Scottie Dog
Tree (Dice Roll 8)

Team Thimble
School (Dice Roll 6)

Team Top Hat
Sports Ground (Dice Roll 9)

Team Train
East (Dice Roll 7)

Team Tulip
Powerstation (Dice Roll 6)

Team Wolf
Historic Places (Dice Roll 10)

GoG
Lost (Dice Roll 6)

Enjoy....

Turn One Releases...

Team Wolf sniff out a story... with some help from Team Dodo

Team Moneybag: La nuit qui ne finit pas (Endless Night) in the middle of the night
Team Battleship: Flyga Drake (The Kite Runner) next to a Draken plane (Draken can be translated to either Dragon or Kite
Team Thimble: Das Echo (The Echo) got lost in a labyrinth (anyone have a map handy?)

In costume for Team Tulip's Release  

Team Racecar: Klassiska porslinsdekorer (Traditional Ceramic Decor) in the Ebbas House museum 
Team Tulip: Emma / Pride & Predjudice in the Milestones Living History Museum (and in costume)
Team Boot: Deception Point next to Club Underground.
Team Train: Little Miss Busy gets lost amongst the big books in a library
Team Scottie Dog: God's Own Country on the frontier of new counties
Team Wolf: Lost in a Good Book hints at the undercover cheese smuggling done by Lush retail (GoG: I knew that smell was suspicious...)
Team Iron: To the Poles without a Beard takes the train (rather than walking), but leaves the shaving gear at home...
Team Top Hat: Het perfecte cadeau (The Perfect Present) released into the hands of Team Top Hat...

GoG landed on community bookshelf, and since her release has not been received yet (damned Bank Holiday post!) she is keeping stum about it for the time being...

Starry skies above Team Moneybag

Bonus Points were really hard to pick, all the releases were brilliant this turn - but I have contemplated, asked just about everyone I know for their opinions (the response was mostly ''book-whating monopoly? what the...?') and finally managed to narrow it down.
Points go to:
 - Team Wolf for sheer stup-illiness*
 - Team Battleship for using dragon breath to send a kite soaring
 - Team Tulip for excellent use of a dressing up box
 - Team Moneybag for poster-making and clever theme ideas
 - Team Top Hat for schizophrenic book-catching....

Scottie Dogs fly away

*stupid-silliness. May not be an actual word...

Team Train challenge you to find their book!