Monopoly is dropping the thimble from its selection of tokens

The makers of Monopoly have announced that the thimble is to be scrapped as a game piece in its next edition.Hasbro recently put the board game tokens to a public vote  in order to determine which symbols should be employed by players in its new editions, and which should be dropped.The thimble has been a standard-issue part of  Monopoly since the board game was first launched in 1935 - along with a top hat, iron, shoe, battleship and cannon, the last of which has a