Walmart

It appears the one here in my area of Oklahoma is heading down the same road, models are basically gone. The few that are left are in the reduced, get rid of it aisle.

Jim

I didn't see any plastic models on my last trip to the Jamestown, ND Walmart either.

Pat

Thisdisturbig,Moebius Models will be releasing a new slew of kits this coming may,but the site didnt' say if it'd be in stores,or direct from them.

Any other stores in town?

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Either way, that LIS Chariot looks real promising. And 1:25 scale to boot. Looks like I'll be unloading that Lunar Models Chariot to ePay.... The Landing Pod looks nice to.

hit all the walmarts in the area, find the closeout shelves. most of the stores here didn't have much, a few ripped kits for $7, but one of them had all the model paint for 75 cents a bottle, and the testors airbrush/compressor kit for $21. and a couple of packages of rocket engines, too.

I to have looked at two walmarts. One no models at all. One hand 6 weirdos models left. They wanted 12.00 for each.

Dan aka modelar7

Thanks for the tip!! Checked out the Wally World in my neighborhood. No models in sight, asked the manager. They had stuff in the back getting ready to put on closeout. He sold me a whole rack of paints (very full) and threw in the rack for $25. I'll be checking back tomorrow to see what he wants for the left over models.

Wally Worlds in the Quad Cities (Moline & Rock Island, IL, Davenport & Bettendorf, IA) have completely denuded shelves of anything model-related. Fortunately(?) we have a Hobby Lobby, a Hobbytown USA and a couple good family-owned brick and mortars.

-- Message posted using

my damn hickmart had nothing and has nothing to closeout.

d a couple good

Shelves look like a bomb hit them. Nothing left at all but the assembled painted kits, which could be deassembled in a pinch. Based on the human wreckage in the aisle, Wally got tired of them bringing back kits and complaining that they were broke.

Who this is really going to hit hard is Revell-Monogram; that was probably one of their main sources of sales. Anyone seen what the situation is at Toys "R" Us? I wonder if they will drop them also.

Pat

If there's no competition they're as good as they 'need' to be.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

on 2/8/2008 8:46 PM Pat Flannery said the following:

My Toys R Us has nothing.

Literally. Every Christmas is said to be their last, and the decision may have been made this year. OTOH, there's a small town chain called Fairway that carries a small, decent assortment of cars and planes, mainly Revell/Monogram.

thats what i want to snag the pod & chariot,2 of both if possible.