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I Made A Harry Potter Monopoly Board For My Best Friend’s Birthday
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My friend really wanted a Harry Potter monopoly board – but sadly they do not exist. So I made one!
I spent 80+ hours on the board layout, the cards, and all the extra details. I’m so happy with the final product though!
Starting with the final product: board and all the pieces
Mirror image print – creating the board layout was difficult, but also fun to create my own properties
Lay out a layer of polycrylic, lay down the paper, allow to dry, and rub away the paper. It leaves the ink behind
Finished the rubbing with some woodburned edges
Adding the center image and burning the card spaces
An (incomplete) photo of the properties – front and back
Railroads turned to Transportation Methods of the Wizard Community and I turned utilities to newspapers
Charms=Chance, Potions=Community Chess
I used Disney Monopoly pieces and a little spray paint for the houses/hotels
Instead of paper money, I used the Wizard coins of knuts, sickles, and galleons; but with my own variation. I changed the values to simply 10, 50, and 100 values instead
I bought a poker case to hold the money and the cards, tokens, and pieces
I printed out Monopoly Rules (slight HP Variation of course) for the top. Gold spray paint on some wood dividers completed it. (She’s a Gryffindor, hence the color scheme).
Final layout
With another image of the Gringotts logo on the case and I’m all done
Final photo
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this need to go on kickstarter right away!!
he would be sued by Harry Potter as he doesnt have the rights
Ty Duffie um maybe you should look up exactly what kickstarter actually does :) The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life" They don't sell, they help create. the backers sell not them. No one can get sued for putting this on kickstarter because if a project is copyright protected then kickstarter will not allow the project. If it is not copyright protected, which according to the copyright laws its not to a point. there is 4 things that maybe copyright protected. ( hotels/houses and gringotts & leaky Cauldron picture). after fixing those 4 things He may get backers and before it goes up for mass production kickstarter and the backers get permission from whom ever they need to if they need to. There is no profit until the sell of the completed project. Heck he could put this on kickstarter they don't allow it but like his work and he gets backers to create different games.
I don't know why there's not a reply option under Kem Wills' comment but I will reply here. If you would have followed the line of conversation then you would have understood that LD Beatty's comment was in reference to Kjorn's suggestion to go on kickstarter which WOULD be actions of gaining profit off of this clever idea.
Oh Bother. Anyone can make a monopoly game so long as they don't gain a profit out of it. There is nothing on here stating for sale.
You are an AMAZING friend!
I agree
Best friend EVER! This is amazing, the time and patience it had to take to do this. Great job! If you decide to make more and sale them let us know.
this need to go on kickstarter right away!!
he would be sued by Harry Potter as he doesnt have the rights
Ty Duffie um maybe you should look up exactly what kickstarter actually does :) The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life" They don't sell, they help create. the backers sell not them. No one can get sued for putting this on kickstarter because if a project is copyright protected then kickstarter will not allow the project. If it is not copyright protected, which according to the copyright laws its not to a point. there is 4 things that maybe copyright protected. ( hotels/houses and gringotts & leaky Cauldron picture). after fixing those 4 things He may get backers and before it goes up for mass production kickstarter and the backers get permission from whom ever they need to if they need to. There is no profit until the sell of the completed project. Heck he could put this on kickstarter they don't allow it but like his work and he gets backers to create different games.
I don't know why there's not a reply option under Kem Wills' comment but I will reply here. If you would have followed the line of conversation then you would have understood that LD Beatty's comment was in reference to Kjorn's suggestion to go on kickstarter which WOULD be actions of gaining profit off of this clever idea.
Oh Bother. Anyone can make a monopoly game so long as they don't gain a profit out of it. There is nothing on here stating for sale.
You are an AMAZING friend!
I agree
Best friend EVER! This is amazing, the time and patience it had to take to do this. Great job! If you decide to make more and sale them let us know.