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[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks 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.world 10 points 3 weeks 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 points 3 weeks 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

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[-] als 24 points 3 weeks ago
[-] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 59 points 3 weeks ago

Menards are stuck to methighs

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 41 points 3 weeks ago

its what a pirate shouts when you kick him in the crotch

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks 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.social 29 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

You forgot the piano, and the skilled person who is sometimes playing said piano.

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[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks 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.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

It's a sort of hardware store that absorbed a Walmart.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] uienia@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
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[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

My nickname when I went to Cornell.

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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 weeks ago

I vaguely want one for diorama purposes with my MST3k Funko Pops.

It's a playtime of savings, at Menard's!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

And a Giant Spider Invasion of savings!

[-] Window_Error_Noises@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Save big money at Menards, but not on Menards...

^...save ^big ^money-- Gaa! That jingle will never leave me. Damn you, midwest!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

They play it all the time in the store too. It's maddening.

[-] Window_Error_Noises@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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!

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[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

this is funny as shit, it'd fit right in with the obvious plant mockups

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

I'll only buy it if there's a scale model of Menards in the scale model of Menards

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Is it just me or is that absolute garbage quality for the price?

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks 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.

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[-] Corigan@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

There's always an 11% rebate.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Who buys these things, honest question.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks 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.

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[-] sploosh@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Menard's fans and model railroad enthusiasts.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Why would you do such a thing as an employee?

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Well after 10 years with the company, you can't afford healthcare, so you might as well blow up a scale model first.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

To smash in the parking lot as a form of catharsis?

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks 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.

My understanding is it's Home Depot but green and only in flyover states.

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[-] xorollo@leminal.space 6 points 3 weeks ago

Amazon selling an Amazon delivery van for kids. https://youtu.be/gfIgp7KQ6k0?feature=shared

[-] sudoroot@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

I need a Kwik Trip version of this

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] evidences@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

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!

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

My mom told me about this shit when she used to work there, i guess the owner is an insane model train person.

[-] Limonene@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Plays the Menards "Save Big Money" Jingle

I'll just go get my flamethrower.

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