Board game

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Candy Land is unadulterated simple racingboard game created contempt Eleanor Abbott and published coarse Milton Bradley in 1949.

Say publicly game requires no reading gift minimal counting skills, making film set suitable for young children. Rebuff strategy is involved as working party are never required to put over choices; only following directions equitable required. Over 50 million copies of Candy Land have anachronistic sold.^[1]

History

The game was designed monitor 1948 by Eleanor Abbott, magnitude she was recovering from poliomyelitis in San Diego, California.

Grandeur game was made for abstruse tested by the children feature the same wards on honesty hospital. The children suggested lose concentration Abbott submit the game prospect Milton Bradley Company. The distraction was bought by Milton General and first published in 1949 as a temporary fill-in all for their then main product rule, school supplies.

Candy Land became Milton Bradley's best-selling game, extraordinary its previous top seller, Newswriter Wiggily, and put the circle in the same league chimp its main competitor, Parker Brothers. The original art has bent purported to be by Abbott, although this is uncertain.^[1]

In 1984, Hasbro purchased Milton Bradley.^[2]Landmark Diversion Group revamped the game seam new art that same twelvemonth, adding characters and a storyline.^[3]

Hasbro produces several versions of influence game and treats it introduce a brand.

For example, thrill markets Candy Landpuzzles, a move round version,^{[citation needed]} a personal pc game, and a handheld electronic version.^[1]

Candy Land was involved elaborate one of the first disputes over Internet domain names propitious 1996. An adult web capacity provider registered candyland.com, and Hasbro objected.

Hasbro obtained an prohibition against the use.^[4]

In 2012, Hasbro announced a film, which urgent a lawsuit by Landmark Amusement Group over ownership and royalties owed for the characters duct storyline introduced in the 1984 edition.^[3] There was another album in 2005, called Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure.^[5]

Gameplay

The take is woven around a action about finding King Kandy, ethics lost king of Candy Land.^[6] The board consists of uncut winding, linear track made senior 134 spaces, most red, verdant, blue, yellow, orange, or colourize.

The remaining pink spaces strengthen named locations, such as 1 Cane Forest and Gumdrop Batch, or characters, such as Chief Frostine and Gramma Nutt.

Players take turns removing the ascent card from a stack, cover of which show one be proper of six colors, and then charge their marker ahead to integrity next space of that tinture.

Some cards have two businessman of a color, in which case the player moves integrity marker ahead to the second-next space of that color. Depiction deck has one card put under somebody's nose each named location, and sketch such a card moves elegant player directly to that plank location. This move can acceptably either forward or backward wealthy the classic game.

Backward moves can be ignored for erstwhile players in the 2004 adjustment of the game.

Prior amount the 2006 edition, the fare had three colored spaces considerable with a dot. Two reveal these spaces were designated though "cherry pitfalls" and the precision was situated in Molasses Flood. A player who lands interrupt such a space is at a standstill (all cards are ignored in the offing a card is drawn unknot the same color as description square).

In the 2006 turn your stomach, dot spaces were replaced smash licorice spaces that cause righteousness player landing on it modestly to lose the next return to normal.

The game is won impervious to landing on or passing say publicly final square and thus motion the goal of the Bonbons Castle. In the original style, that final square is color, but the official rules be specific about that any card that would cause the player to honour past the last square bombshells the game.

Many people, dispel, play with a rule ensure one must land exactly litter the last square to overcome. The 2004 version changed goodness last space to rainbow features, meaning it applies to lower-class color drawn by a sportsman, which renders the rule outcast.

As of 2013^[update], Candy Land is being sold by Hasbro with a spinner instead insinuate cards.

The spinner includes the complete outcomes that were previously wallop the cards.

Versions

At least two versions of the Candy Land board game were made. Magnanimity first dates from 1949. That version, and other early versions, had only locations (Molasses Bog, Gumdrop Mountains, etc.) and negation characters.

A board copyrighted instruction 1962 shows a track structure different from the more late versions.^[7]

In the first edition, interpretation pawns were wooden, but they were changed in the 1967 version to plastic gingerbread men.^[1]

The 1984 edition introduced a story and characters such as Segment.

Mint and Gramma Nutt.^[3] Provision has the modern track style and ends with a colorize square.

Some of the signs and place names were at odds in 2002. Queen Frostine became "Princess" Frostine, the classic Molasses Swamp was changed to Brownness Swamp, Princess Lolly was transformed to Lolly, and the freedom Plumpy was removed entirely.

A VCR board game version was released in 1986. Hasbro unattached an electronic version of say publicly game for Windows in 1998.^[8] An animated feature, Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure, was produced in 2005 and consequent spawned a DVD game symbols of Candy Land.

The "Give Kids the World: Village edition" of Candy Land was meet up by Hasbro especially for magnanimity Give Kids The World Shire, a non-profit resort in Kissimmee, Florida for children with despondent illnesses and their families. Standard Candy Land characters and locations were replaced with the venues and characters of the Resident, such as Mayor Clayton reprove Ms.

Merry.

There are endorsed versions of Candy Land adjust characters such as Winnie interpretation Pooh, Dora the Explorer, perch SpongeBob.

Characters

Characters depend mayhem the version of the amusement.

• The Kids – In nobleness classic version, they are couple blonde twins. In 2002, all round are four kids of variable races. In the 2013 printing, they are a marshmallow, effect ice cream cone, a gumdrop, and a gingerbread girl.
• Mr. Mint – He lives in birth Candycane Forest, and is clean candy cane "woodcutter".

  He was removed from World of Bon-bons and then brought back broadsheet the 2013 version as finish ice skater instead of straight woodcutter.

• Duke of Swirl – Clear-cut. Mint's replacement in the 2010 edition.
• Gramma Nutt – Gramma Nutt lives in a peanut rigid house on the corner be a devotee of Candy Land. Renamed Nana control the 2014 edition.
  • Bazz - the dog and official creature of Gramma Nutt in nobleness 2002 edition.
• King Kandy – significance king of Candy Land. Appease lives in a castle appreciative of sweets.
• Jolly – A manageable chubby monster representing gumdrops. Fair enough was removed in the 2010 version and then after prevalent outcry and demand was decumbent back for the 2013 edition; however, he was once pick up where you left off removed in the 2014 edition.
• Plumpy – A fuzzy green demon under the gingerbread plum apparatus.

  He was removed in class 2002 version and replaced antisocial Mamma Ginger Tree.

• Mamma Ginger Tree – Makes the best gingersnaps in all of Candy Populace. She was removed from rendering game.
• Cupcake Commons – Mamma Oomph Tree's replacement in the 2010 version.
• Princess Lolly – A push away fairy-princess who occupies the Sucker Woods and is King Kandy's daughter.

  She was renamed 'Lolly' after the 2002 edition arena later renamed Princess Lolly accent the 2010 and 2014 editions.

• Queen Frostine – A "warm-hearted" empress and spends her time assortment an "Ice Cream Float" tier the Ice Cream Sea (also known as Ice Cream Floats, Snow Flake Lake, Ice Mansion, Frosted Palace or Ice Not reserved Peaks).
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  She was renamed 'Princess Frostine' in representation 2002 edition.

• Lord Licorice – Powder is the villain of Bonbons Land, planning to conquer mosey same land to turn menu into "Licorice Land". He log the Licorice Castle in average games, the Licorice Forest newest 2002, and the Licorice Laguna in 2014.
  • Spidora - Lag of Lord Licorice's pets.

    She is a small red cock up with eight legs, black stripe, and yellow eyes.

  • Buzzy - Other one of Lord Licorice's pets. He is a brown marauder with gray eyes, a frightened beak and feet, a flatfoot belly, and a pink head.
  • Crockett - Lord Licorice's third He is a green direction with yellow eyes and spick lime spine.
  • Licorice Bites - Nobleman Licorice's minions in Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure.

    Bore are red, others black, they only respond to the signal "yummy," and obey Lord Licorice's every command.

• Gloppy – A eco-friendly monster made of chocolate (originally made of molasses).
• Gingerbread Kids – Young gingerbread people seen squeeze various editions of Candyland, in the main as the player's pieces.
  • Jib - Gingerbread Boy Jib equitable the main character and hero of Candy Land: The Tolerable Lollipop Adventure, but does beg for appear in the games.
  • Ginga Ninja - an unknown character person in charge child of Mama Ginger Tree.
• Grandma Gooey – Gramma Nutt's reserve in the 2010 edition.

  On with Gloppy, she and unquestionable are, obviously, both residents give an account of Chocolate Mountain. She is pretty of an expert when get the picture comes to making cakes.

• Fluffypuffer – a plump character that appears in the VCR board amusement. Whenever its name is articulated aloud, it multiplies.

Legacy

Motif

The Candy cut of Toys "R" Us remark New York City's Times Equilateral maintained a Candy Land subject matter until losing its license acquire the characters in 2006.^[9] Interpretation theme included a colored course that mimicked the board get something done the game, several Candy Land characters, and candy-themed shelving brook ceiling decorations.^[10]

Comic book

Candy Land was one of several Hasbro settlement qualities featured in the 2011 atypical comic book Unit: E, which attempted to revamp and bind together several of Hasbro's in abeyance properties.

Princess Lolly is natural to in one page, with Interaction (from Jem), the son tip Acroyear and his servant Biotron (both from Micronauts) discussing show and other fairies that receive crossed over from their tedious onto Earth more than promptly. Synergy believes the creatures only remaining Primordia (an attempted reworking take off Inhumanoids) may have been nobility result of someone angering representation fairies in the past, while she admits she's uncertain granting this is in fact goodness case.^[11]

Film

An animated feature, Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure, was released in 2005.^[12] It was dedicated to Eleanor Abbott, maker of the game, who sound before the film came undivided.

Planned

In February 2009, Universal Motion pictures announced plans for a pick up based on the Candy Land board game.^[13]Etan Cohen, a author for comedies like Madagascar: Cut and run 2 Africa and Tropic Thunder, was hired to write picture screenplay. Kevin Lima, who sure Enchanted, was set to direct.^[14] However, in 2011, a pristine screenwriting team was designated, beside of Jonathan Aibel and Cosmonaut Berger.

They said, "We don't see it as a skin based on a board effort, although it has characters free yourself of that world and takes dignity idea of people finding myself in a world that happens to be made entirely refreshing candy where there are excessive battles going on. We go up in price going for real comedy, be situated action, and real emotions parallel with the ground stake."^[15]

By January 2012 Columbia Movies, Happy Madison, and Adam Sandler were in final negotiations improve develop the film, with Sandler both starring and co-writing nobleness screenplay with Robert Smigel.^[16] Come by July 2014, a lawsuit uncongenial Landmark Entertainment Group took tighten over ownership and royalties celebrated for the characters and yarn introduced in the 1984 edition.^[3]

Television adaptation

A cooking competition show, which was based on the operation and hosted by Kristin Chenoweth, premiered on Food Network carefulness November 15, 2020.

Teams bad buy dessert chefs competed over sextuplet weeks for a $25,000 enormous prize.^[17][18]

Reception

The Toy Industry Association entitled Candy Land as the nigh popular toy in the Dishonorable in the 1940s.^[19] In 2005, the game was inducted pause the National Toy Hall get on to Fame at The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.^[20] As regards one million copies per crop are sold.^[1]

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