Models at Walmart!

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I remember buying my first models at WalMart. I gave model building a shot and was absolutely no good at it. I have no eye or talent for art and wound up spending more time getting all of the glue off of my fingers than anything else, I think, but it was still fun to try. I'm thinking about seeing if my 6 year old might be interested in trying this, or at least having some input into paint color. He has liked the simple snap together planes I have gotten him in the past (an A-10 and a F-4) so cars might be good.

I still have a 70 AAR Cuda and a 71 340 Duster from the mid 90s I have never put together, but I'll probably start with something else, first. I never put those together because I wanted them to look good and I didn't have the skill back then to do it. $25 a model seems steep, but they were $10, at WalMart, 18 years ago, so it probably isn't too unreasonable, especially if the demand is smaller.
 
Was at my local Wal Mart and happened to see the Foose 67' Dodge Coronet...haven't seen a '67 Coronet model before so had to pick it up since I have a 1:1 scale in my garage. :D It actually looks like a decent model though and I thought it was just a "custom" from the box pictures, but it can be built in stock configuration which is what I was hoping for....but oh my...how the prices have gone up since I was into them as a kid. No wonder more of the youth are not into this hobby. At $25 bucks just for the model without glue, paint, xacto blades, brushes, etc., that's almost the cost of one of those brain cell sucking video games they would rather pop in their machines. Time it is all said and done a kid will easily have over $50 bucks in a finished model...not sure how many kids these day can or would invest that kind of dough in an inanimate object to sit on a shelf and just look at.
 
pitbill,
That '67 Coronet is a GREAT model, as it actually can be built one of several ways right out of the box! "Foose" is just one of the custom ways! DEPENDING on the kit, the '67 Charger can ALSO supply you parts for that '67 Coronet as the 2 models are interchangeable and have different details for the same common 426 Hemi engine! I have both kits actually and have one of them sort of started!

On your mentioning of the cost of kits, your NOT kidding! I thought back in the day paying $12.00 for a model kit was bad...... HELL $25 even $30 today in some cases for a model kit, and sadly, my daughter is 9, and she picked up one of those so called video games for $5........ so. which you'd be right, they're not going to spend that kinda money, for something that sits and collects dust.............. Sadly tho......its gotten to be an "adult" hobby and the cost of suck older kits just astounds me. and then to think what I lost in "value" from a house fire.......I musta had 15 of the old Dodge truck models. go on ebay and look up Dodge Truck models once! You'll see what I mean with this last comment of mine!
 
67 Power Wagon said:
pitbill,
That '67 Coronet is a GREAT model, as it actually can be built one of several ways right out of the box! "Foose" is just one of the custom ways! DEPENDING on the kit, the '67 Charger can ALSO supply you parts for that '67 Coronet as the 2 models are interchangeable and have different details for the same common 426 Hemi engine! I have both kits actually and have one of them sort of started!

On your mentioning of the cost of kits, your NOT kidding! I thought back in the day paying $12.00 for a model kit was bad...... HELL $25 even $30 today in some cases for a model kit, and sadly, my daughter is 9, and she picked up one of those so called video games for $5........ so. which you'd be right, they're not going to spend that kinda money, for something that sits and collects dust.............. Sadly tho......its gotten to be an "adult" hobby and the cost of suck older kits just astounds me. and then to think what I lost in "value" from a house fire.......I musta had 15 of the old Dodge truck models. go on ebay and look up Dodge Truck models once! You'll see what I mean with this last comment of mine!
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Some kits are way over priced its not even funny
 
Yer not kiddin Asa! I can't believe what some of the late '70's Dodge pick ups go for. makes me sick too, thats all my family owned for the most part and trying to model them is a ***** these days! NEVER MIND the late '70's early '80's Dodge Vans,

BUT you can pick up a Chebby or a Ferd truck or van for pennies on the dollar their so common!
 
360Scamp said:
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.
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Hey 360 scamp,

Nice haul from wally world, but on the 50th anni v Hemi small models, theres a 6th one your missing. Its a 68 Hemi cuda.

Matr
 
Sadly both Walmarts in my area got rid of all their models and paints as well as their 1:24 scale muscle car diecsts. :(

Oh and both Hobby stores as well closed down.
 
moparmat2000 said:
Hey 360 scamp,

Nice haul from wally world, but on the 50th anni v Hemi small models, theres a 6th one your missing. Its a 68 Hemi cuda.

Matr
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Yea I know, i have been looking and cant find one

67 power wagon was gonna try and find me one and I was gonna trade an extra 69 daytona i have for it. But I guess no such luck on his end
 
Yeah, I look EVERY time I go to ANY Wally-World and to date NOTHING by M2 at all.. I do not know whats going on there but. maybe they stopped production of those 50th Anni Hemi cars!? BUT they literally had NOTHING under the M2 badging so..

I will however keep looking!
 
I hear ya 67, I found a 50th anni hauler with a Daytona and I bought but it had a ripped open and taped back together. I bought it anyway.
 
when i saw models at wallmart, i thought we were gonna see models at wallmart

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Well. We finally got the model CARS at the Walmart up here in Wisconsin again. Found about 8-10 different kits about a month ago. Been out for a long time. So I picked up a 70 Challenger and believe it or not. Even got a V Dub kit. Wanted to build my version of the Dung Beetle from Street Outlaws.
 
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