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===Deluxe editions=== Hasbro sells a ''Deluxe Edition'', which is mostly identical to the classic edition but has wooden houses and hotels and gold-toned tokens, including one token in addition to the standard eleven, a railroad [[locomotive]]. Other additions to the ''Deluxe Edition'' include a card carousel, which holds the title deed cards, and money printed with two colors of ink.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MONOPOLY – Deluxe Edition |url=http://www.hasbro.com/monopoly/en_US/shop/details.cfm?R=8EE06EFB-6D40-1014-8BF0-9EFBF894F9D4:en_US |access-date=August 1, 2013 |archive-date=April 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414045833/http://www.hasbro.com/monopoly/en_US/shop/details.cfm?R=8EE06EFB-6D40-1014-8BF0-9EFBF894F9D4:en_US }}</ref> In 1978, retailer [[Neiman Marcus]] manufactured and sold an all-chocolate edition of ''Monopoly'' through its [[Neiman Marcus#"His and Hers" and "Fantasy" gifts|''Christmas Wish Book'']] for that year. The entire set was edible, including the money, dice, hotels, properties, tokens and playing board. The set retailed for $600.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Orbanes, Philip |url=https://archive.org/details/monopolycompanio0000orba/page/20 |title=The Monopoly Companion |publisher=Bob Adams, Inc. |year=1988 |isbn=1-55850-950-X |edition=First |page=[https://archive.org/details/monopolycompanio0000orba/page/20 20] |author-link=Philip Orbanes}}</ref> In 2000, the [[FAO Schwarz]] store in New York City sold a custom version called ''One-Of-A-Kind Monopoly'' for $100,000.<ref>[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_Sept_19/ai_65295755/pg_3 Archived article] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050115102011/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_Sept_19/ai_65295755/pg_3 |date=January 15, 2005 }} from ''Business Wire'', stored at Findarticles.com. Retrieved January 1, 2006.</ref> This special edition comes in a locking [[briefcase|attaché case]] made with Napolino leather and lined in suede, and features include: * 18-[[carat (purity)|carat]] (75%) gold tokens, houses, and hotels * [[Rosewood]] board * Street names written in [[gold leaf]] * [[Emerald]]s around the Chance icon * [[Sapphire]]s around the Community Chest * [[Rubies]] in the brake lights of the car on the Free Parking Space * The money is real, negotiable [[United States currency]] The ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'' states that a set worth $2,000,000 and made of 23-carat gold, with rubies and sapphires atop the chimneys of the houses and hotels, is the most expensive ''Monopoly'' set ever produced.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=43436|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209000057/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=43436 |title=Most Expensive ''Monopoly'' Set world record.|archive-date=February 9, 2015}}</ref> This set was designed by artist [[Sidney Mobell]] to honor the game's 50th anniversary in 1985, and is now in the Smithsonian Institution.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stromberg |first=Joseph |title=The Jeweled Art of Sidney Mobell |language=en |work=Smithsonian |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-jeweled-art-of-sidney-mobell-86945772/ |access-date=December 7, 2017}}</ref>
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