Models at Walmart!

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I think they do it for Xmas but they had a model section in the toys at Walmart. Marion Walmart for local peeps.
 

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It would be nice to see this hobby return to the young kids......
 
its nice they have them now but I will have to be one who still complains because they are really high priced. what happened to the early 2000s when kits used to be had for around 10 bucks.
 
I'm setting on about 20 unbuilt model car kits right now.
One is a Johan Richard Petty SuperBird 1/25 scale that I bought in 1985 at the Mopar show in Indy. Still new in the box unopened.
I keep telling myself that thats what I will do over the Winter.
Thats been going on for about ten years now. LOL

I keep adding to my collection when something catches my eye.
Loved to do this when I was a kid.
My brother & I would scrap up money, sell pop bottles (remember that) & do what we could, so that every Saturday, we could go to the 5 & dime to get a new model kit.
 
318willrun said:
It would be nice to see this hobby return to the young kids......
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It's hard to convince them it is worthwhile when they can create a 360 degree design on a computer and print one on a 3d printer. That and they think a Honda Civic is a musclecar...........
 
abodylurker said:
It's hard to convince them it is worthwhile when they can create a 360 degree design on a computer and print one on a 3d printer. That and they think a Honda Civic is a musclecar...........
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You mean a Honda civic isn't a muscle car?
 
Kinda like sayin' 3" is a foot. A baby boomer is not a tweener. A screw is not a bolt. Yadda yadda...................
 
ERRRR I hate that they remove or "DUMB DOWN" ANY old hobby, just cause it doesn't sell, so lets remove it and replace with things that go faster then we can toss in the trash, and then NO ONE has a chance....

Don't me started!

DAMN this society.....
 
The last time WalMart carried them then dropped them I was hitting 5 different Walmarts twice a week for a month or so till I bought all they had that I wanted (50 or so @ $3.00 each)

John, it's the wave of society When models came out & were sold everywhere we were a manufacturing society now we are a electronic society
 
I know it Bob, don't get me started, I hate that they just "remove" EVERYTHING in any one department just cause it might sell a hand full a month BUT then they wonder why no kids build anymore, not even rockets and such as they don't give a single kid a chance, all about the mighty dollar don't ya know! GRRRRRRR

THEN thats the crap that drives the price up (Rani)......... You got only a few "select" places that sell models. guys or kids who build, go to those places to buy......... they see this, so they are "moving" product. then the $ signs become those people pupils. and they say if they pay say $12 for a model, now let hike itto say $18. we still buy. then they hike it a few months later to $22, and then we still buy and then NOW we see them $25 even $30. a model! REALLY? It shows that the consumer (us) will spend if we "want" something, and the more we want the more they see dollars in EVERYTHING......Supply and demand, and those places that carried models we bought, are jumping for joy, so they say so. and then someone from one of these other places sees the models selling that took them off the shelves, so NOW they're putting back....in small supply to see if they'll go, and then if they do, the amount they carry will double before you even know it.....Wal-Mart seem to be holding good at $19.97 a model.. thats a bit better then Micheals, till you use a 40% off coupon, then the whole ball game changes! Same for Hobby Lobby!
 
Ohhhh speaking of Wal-Mart, I just made a trip there for household supplies, and at the time my Step-Son went along as he was visiting.....And he and i left his girlfriend and my wife together at home.....LOL the wife asked if I'd go after they left while they were still at our house so Zach, sure I'll go with him. always a good kid he is, well getting there we went in the garden section and that brings us right past the model area, (I had not a single dime to spare for myself as this was all household stuff I had to get) and he seen me look at the Sox & Martin '67 GTX and the Foose '67 Coronet, needless to say while I was headed for toilet paper, he took off, and when I met up with him, I was checking out, to leave and he was walking back in, turns out he bought both, I have them now LOL

Just crap like that with the kid gets me, for no reason just goes and gets them and then gives them to me when we get home, (I actually had no idea what he was up to while I was shopping) Would have been a good Christmas gift for me but he never seems to think that far ahead! But thats ok, The boy was like my own when he was with us, now hes on his own and just turned 20.. my Gawd where does the time go? When I met him, as I was dating his mother, he was 8! 2 years later she and I got married.... Man, I feel old some times!

But like what he did, I at times did the same for him, he wanted a Play Station 2 one year for Christmas, and I like a dumb *** went out, bought it, and brought it home, and NEVER put it away sat it in his room......His mother about bit my head off for that one, LMAO -we had to find another "big gift" for him for Christmas morning.....Yep, a 2-22 riffle! That made his day.....lets say was no moving, pestering, aggravating nuisances, rodents for miles for awhile! LOL
 
It's all about the value of shelf space in retail. A product that's not selling, no matter what it is, gets removed from the shelves fast so it doesn't cost the company money. If that wasn't the way it worked and they didn't remove items that don't sell briskly, the company would go under and not sell anything. They don't care or wonder at all why kids don't build anymore, they need to put whatever will make the most profit in every single square inch of a retail store and move it out if the data shows that it's something different. It's 100% data driven. Maybe just saying the obvious, but just setting that straight. (I work in corporate retail). That's why niche markets are pushed to small retailers, especially online ones, where "shelf" space is less valuable.

I'd love to see models come back as much as anyone. It's why I go into Hobby Lobby (and am always disappointed at the variety, but it's better than nothing). DodgeAddict nailed it. We're a digital and service society now, not manufacturing.
 
Hello new to the forums but as I mentioned in my profile I have been an avid model builder since the mid 70s. Here in PA some Walmart's have models and some don't. I think the thing that discourages most stores from selling them is the people that test spray the paints all over the new kits and everything else within 5 feet of the display. The intelligence of the public at its worst! Anyway I'm a truck driver and I owned a 69 Roadrunner which I sold by regret. I have been building models since the mid 70s and I guess I'm addicted to model kits in a big way. I have been buying kits and storing some away and building some since the early 80s. I currently have over 100 kits new still sealed that date back to the 70s to current. I'm not interested in selling any of them as I don't look at them as investments but rather as my stash of fun. I'm not a guy who can just write a check for whatever the price may be for a collection but I do search websites, clubs, and watch local stores for new or opened kits kits. I spend sometimes up to 3 months on a 1/24th scale musclecar build because I've progressed to painting them by airbrush using custom mixed PPG lacquer paints and clears then wet sanding and polishing them. My built Mopar cars are painted with true auto colors correct for the year. I'm interested in any new, old, or opened kits if the parts are all there. Contact me if you have old opened or sealed kits and you would like to sell them. I would consider purchasing them, thanks
 
motocross066 said:
Hello new to the forums but as I mentioned in my profile I have been an avid model builder since the mid 70s. Here in PA some Walmart's have models and some don't. I think the thing that discourages most stores from selling them is the people that test spray the paints all over the new kits and everything else within 5 feet of the display. The intelligence of the public at its worst! Anyway I'm a truck driver and I owned a 69 Roadrunner which I sold by regret. I have been building models since the mid 70s and I guess I'm addicted to model kits in a big way. I have been buying kits and storing some away and building some since the early 80s. I currently have over 100 kits new still sealed that date back to the 70s to current. I'm not interested in selling any of them as I don't look at them as investments but rather as my stash of fun. I'm not a guy who can just write a check for whatever the price may be for a collection but I do search websites, clubs, and watch local stores for new or opened kits kits. I spend sometimes up to 3 months on a 1/24th scale musclecar build because I've progressed to painting them by airbrush using custom mixed PPG lacquer paints and clears then wet sanding and polishing them. My built Mopar cars are painted with true auto colors correct for the year. I'm interested in any new, old, or opened kits if the parts are all there. Contact me if you have old opened or sealed kits and you would like to sell them. I would consider purchasing them, thanks
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Question, what primer do you use that keeps the lacquer from dissolving the styrene? I'm currently using one of the mirage duplicolors to do a 33 Willys gasser and haven't figured that out yet.
 
I told the wife if I didnt come find her in like 5 minutes to come and get me out of the toy aisle, she didnt and I had an arm full. So I took her out to eat tonight and stopped at Hobby Lobby for her scrapbooking habit and found a M2 69 Charger Daytona 1:64 and bought it.
They also had a 5 pack lift set for $11.99 that I didnt buy because I had already spent $60+ already on cars today and plus I dont wanna open the boxes to put them on the lifts. If I go back in a couple of weeks to buy some tin Mopar signs and they still have them, I may buy me one just in case
 
I'd just like to get my hands on a M2 '70 Dodge Coronet Super Bee! (I wished they'd make it one of the Wal-Mart 50th Anni. Hemi cars!)
 
Here is the latest score at the Carbondale Wally World. They had the 50th anni hauler with a 71 Cuda but the case was broke! I also found the 75th anni 69 Daytona but the rear end was bouncing around inside the box as well as the wing!! And they were the only ones.
 
Abodylurker,
They also had the 1:24 Hemi challenger and cuda on the bottom shelf, just to let you know
 
I had a look at the local Wally-World and all they had locally for "Mopar" was a '67 Sox & Martin GTX, and a '67 Dodge Charger "Foose"...both Revell kits............No others there. will keep an eye out tho!
 
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