board game, True Dough Mania
Report a Mistake- Date Made 1982
- Event --
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Chieftain Products Inc.
- Object Number 1999.124.116 a-n
- Place of Origin Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Ontario, Municipality - Downsview
- Category Recreational artifacts
- Sub-category Toy
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1982/01/01
- Latest 1982/12/31
- Inscription (top of box/sur la boîte) TRUE DOUGH MANIA/A GAME OF CHANCE WHERE YOU HAVE NO CHANCE/2-6 PLAYERS .../AGES 12 TO ADULT. (Bottom of box) TRUE DOUGH MANIA/A GAME OF CHANCE WHERE YOU HAVE NO CHANCE/You are the PROUD owner of a flourishing business/in the resource, manufacturing or service sector, when/suddenly, government bureaucracy and red tape/begin to eat into your profits/Your business is subjected to everything from Dock/Strikes and Acid Rain to Rail Squabbles and/Metrification. Just when you feel comfortable with/the game rules, yuo are hit with a new Constitution or/Cabinet Shuffle, and then to top it all, the/government goes broke and issues more inflation-/causing Savings Bonds./Of course, the Free Trade Zone allows you to relax for/awhile and sell some shares to the government, but/sooner or later, everyone will go broke. After all, that/is the idea of the game - be the first to lose all your/assets to the government and be declared the/undisputed winner.
- Materials Paper, Plastic, Metal, Ink
- Geo-Cultural Code 4.D.4.2-AR.3
- Person / Institution Subject, Trudeau, The Right Honourable Pierre ElliottAssociated political figure, Trudeau, The Right Honourable Pierre Elliott
- Measurements Height 4.0 cm, Width 51.5 cm, Depth 30.5 cm
- Caption Politics as Product
- Additional Information More so than perhaps any other prime minister in Canadian history, the charismatic Pierre Trudeau inspired humorous commercial products and political parody. Notice the board game, "a game of chance where you have no chance", and the bottle of "Pierre eh!" that contains "almost nothing that's good for you". The bear's face resembles Trudeau's.