• @wjrii
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    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 SquidOP
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      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
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        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
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        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

      • walden
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        221 days ago

        I’ve never lived in a state with a Menards, and I’m still a big fan. Menards is worthy of some fandom.

  • The Pantser
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    And inside is another tiny Menards, it’s Menards all the way down

    • Flying SquidOP
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      You can’t save big money in a nanoscale Menards.

      • Flying SquidOP
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        922 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.”

    • @[email protected]
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      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
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        Menards used to be way cheaper than Home Depot but now they’re about the same except Home Depots are usuallymuch cleaner

        • @MutilationWave
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          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.

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

        • ditty
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          221 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        321 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
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          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.

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        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.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      It’s a sort of hardware store that absorbed a Walmart.

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      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.

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        Wtf is a lowes?

        • @MutilationWave
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          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
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        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
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    Save big money at Menards, but not on Menards…

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

    • Flying SquidOP
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      They play it all the time in the store too. It’s maddening.

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        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!

        • Flying SquidOP
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          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.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    I vaguely want one for diorama purposes with my MST3k Funko Pops.

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

    • Flying SquidOP
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      And a Giant Spider Invasion of savings!

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

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    I’ll only buy it if there’s a scale model of Menards in the scale model of Menards

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

    • @Maalus
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      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.

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      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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    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 SquidOP
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      The whole Midwest. I’m in Indiana.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          Oh yeah, I think you’re right in that case. I think it’s Wisconsin.

  • Victor
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    Who buys these things, honest question.

    • @sploosh
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      Menard’s fans and model railroad enthusiasts.

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

      • Victor
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        lol, cool cool. Whatever makes 'em happy, eh. ☺️

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          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!”

    • Flying SquidOP
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      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.

      • Victor
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        I imagine so 😁

  • root
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    I need a Kwik Trip version of this

    • @Zorque
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      321 days ago

      I’d prefer a Culver’s.

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

    • Flying SquidOP
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      Why would you do such a thing as an employee?

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

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