• wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      17·
      23 days ago

      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?

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        23 days ago

        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!

      • bluGill@fedia.io
        5·
        23 days ago

        There is at least one Menards with a railroad siding, or at least was 20 years ago when I lived in the area. (oakdale mn) I undrestand some deliveries came via rail to that store and them by truck to the rest of

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
        9·
        23 days ago

        A pirate is at a party and a fellow party-goer notices the pirate has a wheel in his pants.

        “What’s the wheel for,” they ask the pirate.

        “Arr,” replies the pirate, “I don’t know, but it be drivin’ me nuts.”

    • BlueLineBae@midwest.socialEnglish
      31·
      23 days ago

      Since nobody actually answered the question: Menards is a massive hardware store chain in the Midwest. When I say it’s massive, it has everything you could ever need in a hardware store and more. Like there are usually multiple floors, a lumber yard, highly specialized sections, and even a small grocery section with food, pet supplies, clothing, etc. it’s definitely the greatest hardware store ever conceived, but unfortunately the man who owns them is batshit crazy in classic Wisconsin fashion.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        9·
        23 days ago

        Menards used to be way cheaper than Home Depot but now they’re about the same except Home Depots are usuallymuch cleaner

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
          6·
          23 days ago

          I’ve heard bad shit about where Menards money goes and I know for a fact Home Depot donates to batshit gay conversion bullshit so I only buy at Lowe’s if I can.

          • steal_your_face@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            22 days ago

            Yeah the Menards owner is a huge republican asshole. Lowe’s is def the best as far as their politics.

        • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          22 days ago

          Last time I went to the one in St Paul the pianist was doing Steely Dan covers and it was awesome

      • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        23 days ago

        Aww man I’ve never been to a two-floor+ Menards :( none of the ones around me are (they do have the lumber loft but that hardly counts).

        Now I feel like I’m missing out.

        • Zahille7@lemmy.world
          2·
          22 days ago

          The Menards close to me has a second floor of their lighting section. That’s the only really accessible second level to non-employees though.

      • toddestan@lemm.ee
        1·
        22 days ago

        As someone who’s grown up in the Midwest, Menards used to be just a hardware store/lumber yard but in the last 15-20 years really has branched out to more than just a hardware store. Hence the home goods, pet supplies, clothing, groceries, appliances, etc in addition to the hardware store/lumber yard bit. In some ways it’s a lot more like Fleet Farm than it is like Home Depot, though Menard’s doesn’t have the farming supplies and tractor parts and stuff like that which can be found at a Fleet Farm.

        Since they made this change, the newer and remodeled stores are the ones with the multiple floors since they need all the floor space. But I remember some of the original and smaller stores were also multiple floors (electrical was typically upstairs), but those might be all gone by now. The one we went to when I was a kid wouldn’t be anyway close to being ADA compliant today. That store moved locations and the old building is long gone now.

    • adarzaEnglish
      71·
      23 days ago

      a midwestern knockoff of a lowes with some extra product selection you’d find at a walmart or farm store; owned by a far-right, anti-union billionaire.

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
          1·
          22 days ago

          Lowe’s is a huge chain of pretty good hardware stores in the US. It seems like all the other big names support terrible politics so I always try to go to Lowe’s unless I can’t find something there and have to go somewhere else. And I go a lot for work.

      • walden@sub.wetshaving.social
        2·
        23 days ago

        Shoot, I had remained ignorant to that last part until now. Is Lowe’s the only big box hardware store I can still support? How about Ace?

      • Windows_Error_Noises@lemmy.world
        3·
        22 days ago

        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!

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
      6·
      22 days ago

      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.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      22 days ago

      My friend brought me to a model train museum and this isn’t terrible quality for the price. Model train stuff is very expensive, and this is pretty detailed as the shelves and people in the store are actual pieces and not just, like… a sticker.

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    22 days ago

    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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      22 days ago

      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.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      22 days ago

      Folks who like model trains and want to remake their hometown! It’s a small subsection of primarily older-USA-Midwest-autistic folks.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          22 days ago

          I don’t get it either, but I love people being happy! My friend took me to a model train museum and they were BEAMING the whole time. I was like “ah, neat! Twains!”

  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
    6·
    23 days ago

    This is something you could buy with employee incentive reward points(company store dollars) that somehow made it onto shelves.