Looks like it’s built to model railroading “O” scale.
EDIT: Oh, duh. It says so right in your picture. I guess if you want the sweet authenticity that only product placement can buy, this is your set.
To spend almost $140 on a Menards model for your model railroad, you either want some sort of very accurate representation of somewhere that has a Menards or you are way too big a fan of Menards.
Also, pretty much everyone I’ve known into model railroads is into HO scale, so who is even going to buy this?
Also, pretty much everyone I’ve known into model railroads is into HO scale, so who is even going to buy this?
Sounds like some of them nerds need to go big or fuckin’ go home!
And inside is another tiny Menards, it’s Menards all the way down
You can’t save big money in a nanoscale Menards.
Save big money at Menards, but not on Menards…
^…save ^big ^money– Gaa! That jingle will never leave me. Damn you, midwest!
They play it all the time in the store too. It’s maddening.
Oh, no, that’s too much. Being from the Chicago suburbs, between Menards and Empire Carpet (before their growth to add the -Today- addendum), there’s a deep groove upon my brain made by those jingles. That, and John Madden’s congested cadence for various advertisements. Simply John Maddening.
^…588-2300 --damn, it!
Did you notice how they created the “800” before the “588-2300” through a bit of creative audio editing of the original singing when they added the 800 part? If you didn’t, you will now.
I can perfectly hear your post.
This is something you could buy with employee incentive reward points(company store dollars) that somehow made it onto shelves.
Why would you do such a thing as an employee?
Well after 10 years with the company, you can’t afford healthcare, so you might as well blow up a scale model first.
To smash in the parking lot as a form of catharsis?
Is it just me or is that absolute garbage quality for the price?
It’s prebuilt and handmade, hence the price. Making it cheaper - molds and better plastic in them would never pay for itself. It’s a large model so either a huge injection molder, or one wall at a time. Add to it the fact that probably between 30 - 50k needs to be spent per mold (one for a single wall) Add in time for the dude to supervise the machine. Etc etc. Shit would add up. For this, an artist probably makes them, assembles them en masse, could probably use low volume techniques. It’ll be more expensive, but you can put 2 - 3 in each shop, not many people would buy them anyway and it gets free marketing (as we can see in this post). Depending on the time it takes to make one, the dude could easily be making $50 an hour doing that.
Home Depot and Lowe’s are selling similar things this year. The depot actually had one for Halloween and one for Christmas, perfect to add to you Christmas village!
Plays the Menards “Save Big Money” Jingle
I’ll just go get my flamethrower.
I’ll only buy it if there’s a scale model of Menards in the scale model of Menards
Ah, that’s sweet. Best we have here in CA would be Target selling it’s own brands as toys for kid pretend shopping (and no way am I picking that up, it’s clearly brand brainwashing lol). A train set model, though? That’s gotta be one of the most wholesome ways to go about it.
Sheetz just came out with voting for their stupid mascots I guess. You can get a keychain voting. I’m immune to (I think) all scams but the stock market at this point.
But give me a free sticker? Sure what do you want?
Not any worse that my first time voting, Starbucks gave us a free small black coffee. They didn’t do it to bribe back then, too.
Who buys these things, honest question.
Menard’s fans and model railroad enthusiasts.
No clue. Someone who is a big Menards fan and also an O-scale model railroad fanatic. Which must be a pretty small intersection on an already tiny Venn diagram.
I imagine so 😁
I am from California and can practically feel the mid western energy radiating from this picture. I also have no clue what the fuck a Menards is but ill hazard a guess that it is either a Minnesota or Wisconsin thing.
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My understanding is it’s Home Depot but green and only in flyover states.
Ohio and Michigan. It’s like if a Home Depot merged with WalMart
The whole Midwest. I’m in Indiana.
I meant where Menards started, kinda like how Wal-Mart is an Arkansaner company.
Oh yeah, I think you’re right in that case. I think it’s Wisconsin.
Fucken A, my guess was entirely based off the fact it sounds like a great lakes Norwegian name.
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I’m in Indiana. It’s already turned up to 11.
You’d have to be the saddest, weirdest kind of model train building person ever.
You mean, John Menard?
