Who buys these things, honest question.
Menard’s fans and model railroad enthusiasts.
Folks who like model trains and want to remake their hometown! It’s a small subsection of primarily older-USA-Midwest-autistic folks.
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 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.
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.
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.
Is it just me or is that absolute garbage quality for the price?
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.
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.
My mom told me about this shit when she used to work there, i guess the owner is an insane model train person.
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.
Highly detailed, hand sculpted Jack the
German shepherdYorkshire terrier by the look of itLooks 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!
I’ve never lived in a state with a Menards, and I’m still a big fan. Menards is worthy of some fandom.
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
You’d have to be the saddest, weirdest kind of model train building person ever.
You mean, John Menard?
And inside is another tiny Menards, it’s Menards all the way down
You can’t save big money in a nanoscale Menards.
wtf is a Menards
Menards are stuck to methighs
its what a pirate shouts when you kick him in the crotch
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.”
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.
You forgot the piano, and the skilled person who is sometimes playing said piano.
Last time I went to the one in St Paul the pianist was doing Steely Dan covers and it was awesome
Menards used to be way cheaper than Home Depot but now they’re about the same except Home Depots are usuallymuch cleaner
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.
Yeah the Menards owner is a huge republican asshole. Lowe’s is def the best as far as their politics.
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.
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.
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.
Wtf is a lowes?
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.
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?
It’s a sort of hardware store that absorbed a Walmart.
My nickname when I went to Cornell.
Mi’narddog
this is funny as shit, it’d fit right in with the obvious plant mockups
Amazon selling an Amazon delivery van for kids. https://youtu.be/gfIgp7KQ6k0?feature=shared
Is there an 11%rebate?
There’s always an 11% rebate.
