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A termination notice was issued on Wednesday, directed at a 78-year-old. After decades of silent service, the iron is out – out of Monopoly board games that is.

Hasbro, the manufacturer of the popular board game invented in the 1930s, announced that the iron, one of eight game pieces, was to be replaced by the cat, following a vote on Facebook.

The iron was the odd piece out after it received the fewest number of votes among the original pieces. The cat got the highest number of votes among five possible new tokens, beating out a robot, guitar, helicopter and diamond ring.

But the iron won’t disappear right away. It will still be included in original Monopoly games that will be sold for most of the rest of this year.