Boxed board game, Despicable Me Frustration!, made in Ireland by Hasbro in 2015

Despicable Me Frustration! boxed board game consisting of cardboard box lid and base, a moulded white plastic insert housing five playing pieces, with a transparent cover attached to the plastic insert on one side by two pieces of transparent sticky tape. A card insert with four flaps that fold up to stand loosely against the four inner sides of the box. The upper surface is colour printed with text referring to game play and game components and a labelled image of the playing board and pieces.

Game components:
1 game board
1 POP-O-MATIC dice roller
1 siren Bob playing piece
16 Minion playing pieces, four of each single colour: blue, green, yellow and orange
4 adhesive foam pads

Minions are small, yellow, cylindrical characters who appear in the computer animated comedy films Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2, released 2010 and 2013 respectively. A third film in the series is being released during the summer of 2017. Minions are the cheeky, playful, loyal and hardworking henchmen to Gru, a master criminal, and their popularity within the first two Despicable Me films led to them starring in their own film entitled Minions in 2015 and in a mobile/PC action video game Minion Rush, produced in 2013. As of 2017 second Minion film is in production.

Although all minions wear black gloves, small black boots, metal goggles and blue jean overalls with Gru's emblem on the front, the hundreds of minions featured in the films have differing features such as sprouting hair, no hair, one or two eyes of different colours or longer or shorter bodies. For the purpose of easier game play, Frustration! has four different shaped minions produced in four colours, each single colour making up an individual team. The game also includes a playing piece called Siren Bob, which references a scene in Despicable Me 2 where a minion rushes into Gru's office holding a siren and wearing flashing lights on its head. Oddly the game publishers have produced the playing piece as a two-eyed minion named Bob whereas the minion holding the siren in the film is a one-eyed minion named Carl. The image of Carl is depicted on the game box.

Frustration is a Ludo style race game that was first produced in the USA under the name Trouble in 1965. Its unique feature is the Pop-O-Matic dice shaker which, when pressed, shakes the dice and determines how many moves a player may make round the board. This 2015 version of the game features the popular yellow characters called Minions from the Despicable Me and Minion films.

B.970:1 to 12-2015