I was always the Scottie dog growing up. My brother was the race car. And the iron, sad symbol of domestic drudgery? My mom took that one. Decades later, I’ve still got that same vintage Monopoly board game, the one from my childhood. There’s sand in the box from countless beach trips. The board is warped and smells vaguely of popcorn and mildew. The paper money is stained and soft, which makes it kind of hard to stack.

When Hasbro crowd-sourced Monopoly’s token retirement selection on Facebook, board game enthusiasts from its 10 million-strong fan community weighed in from 120 different countries. As a result of this interactive ballot, the lowly iron, my mom’s personal totem, was officially retired. It garnered a measly eight percent of the vote. My Scottie dog got its own Get-out-of-Jail Free pass with 29 percent of participants voting to keep it. Among the new tokens, the house cat beat out a robot, a guitar, a helicopter and a diamond ring to become the shiny new kid on the Boardwalk with 31 percent of the vote.

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Laura Mansfield Bower is Senior Vice President and Director of Public Relations and Social Media for The Tombras Group.