I had seen before they were selling on-line but didn’t know they shipped to the store for free. Too bad they wont stock the store shelves again, always good for a Revell kit or bottle of paint or two.
well its about time again…I rememeber as a kid going to Kmart and drooling over the Monogram white box kits, planes and cars…in fact bought most of my first kits there…they also had the testors paints and glue…
I dont recall Walmart ever having much in the model department.
“Back in the day” Kmart had a better selection than most hobby shops (at least in my neck of the woods). Cars on one isle. All other types on another isle (or two).
Having been employed by them I would say don,t hold your breath for a return of models to WAL- MART. There is NOTHING like that planned here in TEXAS .I have heard that we in NEW BRAUNFELS will be seeing a new K -MART I don,t expect much.I have always wondered why TOYS are US hasn,t done the deed . They did when they started years ago. The bare fact is , unless there is a sound marketing push that will include models ,don,t expect to see it even in WALGREENS (who , in CA. Used to sell a nice selection ) I just go the LHS (HILL COUNTRY HOBBIES in SAN ANTONIO and KING,S in AUSTIN ) yup 45 miles in either direction but whattya gonna do ?? TANKERBUILDER
Our local Walmart stopped carrying them about 3/4 years ago, but they do get in a small stock of the standard 1/48 kits at X-mas time. Just a self contained, cardboard mid-isle display. 50-60 kits, maybe.
At one time Toys R Us (at least my local one) had a darn good selection. They had all of the Halcyon Aliens models. Unfortunately I didnt pick any of them up.
In the good old days, back in the late 70s/early 80s, the K-Mart closest to me not only had a whole aisle of models in general, the then exotic and very expensive ESCI 1/48 aircraft were stocked there. I could hardly believe it…here I was, a kid reading Scale Modeler at the time, and the kits the ‘pros’ in there were building were showing up on the shelf at a local K-Mart!