what a shame!

[thrill me]

take a look at this pic
I hate this

This is the choice of tamiya models in my local hobby shop!
The bike is $44 and the car is $22

[crab]

Nah, u think that's sad...?

Toys R Us is sad! A few years ago they had an incredibly nice selection of hard to find Revells and Monograms.... like the Esprit Sport 300, Corvette Indy, Nazca... cars that Tamiya wouldn't even bother to look at... and all sorts of weird planes and ships too.

Now, all I could find are a few funny cars, dragsters, nascar and rods, and other stuff that are simply too fugly for my taste.

[Styxnpicks]

First the selection is somewhat limited, and second the price is insane. I remember when a local Hobby Lobby had a sale on all plastic models, 1/2 off, I picked up the Ferrari 360 for 20 bucks, and 5 motorcycle kits for 15 bucks apeice, I couldn't pass up a great deal. I don't know what happened to Toys-R-Us, but my local store Has totaly moved everything around, and they don't have nearly as much as they did before, and I'm not talking about models, I'm talking about everything, the only models I saw were godzilla, and other sci-fi creatures

[daggerlee]

Sucks man! My hobby store is like yours though, as far as prices go. But it has a much bigger selection..some of the prices are totally insane though, like $44 for a Tamiya 300ZX convertible..

[flyonthewall]

Is that it ??? No wonder more and more people shop online if thats the pathetic selection they stock.

[primera man]

That owner needs to be pulled out of that shop and "BITCH SLAPPED"

The model shop i visit here is going on line soon which may give you guys a good choice from here in NZ.
The exchange rate to USA is good for you guys...$0.42USD=$1.00NZD

[tonioseven]

There will be no shortage of customers for Hobbylink!

[Honoturtle]

Man, so a Ferrari 360 for $41 is normal? HLJ has um for about $21. I got so many kits I want to make, but so little time to make um!!

[Vric]

Haha same here.. we have 1 hobby shop and they have 2 or 3 tamiya kit... I was going to Quebec for my vacancy this summer with hobbyshop in mind, i fond one with a lot of stock ! but the price was totally insane ! 79$Can for a Ferrari 360 Spider... nothing below 39$Can !!!! well i stick with tamiyaking... at least i paid my 360 spider 45$Can not 79$can !!

[jaykit21]

Not to change the subject too much but this distributer is selling a few kits (I stress a few) for cheap. I just ordered the Corolla's for myself.

http://www.marcopoloimport.com/insane.htm

The cars are near the bottom right of the page.