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Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« on: April 07, 2021, 10:02:34 AM »
Saw this for the first time today and wondered if anyone else has noticed:



The new artwork Tower has a shopping cart with tiles in it.

One tile is a Besiegers tile in the old art work. And a Spiel 14 tile, that was only limited for short time!

Anyone else notice any oddities like this?

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2021, 10:26:07 AM »
Nope!  :o :o :o

Is this a recent box?
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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2021, 10:30:27 AM »
I've had it a few years. It current houses some non-Carcasonne things. I probably ordered it from Cundco a few months after the new artwork was available.

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2021, 10:33:38 AM »
Is this a foreshadowing about the Besiegers being re-released in C2? Or a Spiel Tile bundle with 8 tiles available in 2021?  ;)

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2021, 10:40:32 AM »
I think it's either foreshadowing a mini Carcassonne that Meeple can play.

Or it foreshadowed the mega meeple released a few weeks ago.

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2021, 11:52:37 AM »
Did you go shopping with your mega meeple?

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2021, 11:56:20 AM »
We’re missing the even more obvious expansion foreshadowing, ladies and gents... bear with me here, I think I have it... new Mini-Expansion: Shopping Spree.

Includes a mini shopping cart for you to store your tiles, compatible with the house rules of drawing three tiles at the start of the game with one following each turn thereafter— a new and exciting way to store your three tiles between turns. Also includes eight new tiles featuring a shopping mall, a tile that completes a road feature and immediately scores the player placing it two points per completed city within the the fields (similar to scoring a farmer.)

Also compatible with Catapult expansion... a given player may choose to launch their shopping cart (with the catapult) in lieu of drawing a tile. It doesn’t add any gameplay or score points or anything like that, but it mimics the real-world phenomenon of shopping carts crashing or running amok, bringing either irritation or laughs to the other shoppers.

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2021, 12:22:56 PM »
Ha ha, merit for this  ;D

My C2 tower box, from Zman games, French version, doesn't have this illustration  :o
« Last Edit: April 07, 2021, 12:33:50 PM by Decar, Reason: No need to quote the previous post »

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2021, 12:50:35 PM »
They wanted to cover their tracks...

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2021, 03:23:16 PM »
I have my Tower from Romania, no shopping cart there

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2021, 03:32:42 PM »
My 2018 English version of The Tower does not have it either.

I did notice that the Polish version of The Castle has a game of "Tic-tac-toe" engraved next to the gate entrance.
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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2021, 01:50:29 AM »
Looks good for Crosses  :(y)

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2021, 03:17:55 AM »
I have the same version of the C2 Tower box, but I have never noticed before this cute Ad of the Cundco shop!
Saw this for the first time today and wondered if anyone else has noticed:



The new artwork Tower has a shopping cart with tiles in it.

One tile is a Besiegers tile in the old art work. And a Spiel 14 tile, that was only limited for short time!

Anyone else notice any oddities like this?

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2021, 06:50:35 AM »
Saw this for the first time today and wondered if anyone else has noticed:



The new artwork Tower has a shopping cart with tiles in it.

One tile is a Besiegers tile in the old art work. And a Spiel 14 tile, that was only limited for short time!

Anyone else notice any oddities like this?
Unfortunately, not in French C2 version...  :'(

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Re: Anyone ever notice this on the Tower box?
« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2021, 08:09:07 AM »
... and it wasn't April 1st when Decar posted it ...
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