Interesting Shop in Lancaster, OH

[Axis Nightmare]

Look closely at the pictures. Note the familiar 21st Century boxes and the loose 1/6 stuff.

I better stay away from Lancaster, OH. Would be hard not to spend money in there....

Fortunately it is over 100 Miles north-east of me.

I'm also guessing that like any brick and mortar store, the prices are going to be high to compensate for lease/rent, insurance, utilities, wages, etc. that are higher than a virtual online mail order or eBay store.

http://chillicothe.craigslist.org/tad/5020424297.html

[Razor17019]

WOW! Cool looking store!
Thanks, Axis
Razor

[USCGMK2]

Hmmmmm. My wife is from Blue Ash but she would be suspicious if I asked if we could go up there and stay with her parents. I want to go back to Wright-Patterson and see this place also. Seems like there's a plethora of 1 18 stuff in Ohio.

[Studly]

Bloody Hell !!. If i walked in there i wouldn't come out LOL. Thanks for sharing Axis.


Cheers
Studly

[pickelhaube]

Looks like the good ole days at walmart with an e-tailer thrown in for good measure .

I remember my epic ( yes I did say it ) trip from Virginia down to New Orleans back in '04 . Stopping at EVERY Walmart off of the interstate .

My dad gave me is 2002 Chevy pickup because he said he was getting older and did not need it and I did .

I was being vectored by the HUN and he was plotting my course as I went to make sure I did not miss any Walmarts along the 1,200 mile drive.

That Chevy tuck was full by the time I got back home .

If I could tell the future back then I would have gotten a camper shell for the Chevy and pulled a U-Haul trailer . I could have filled those up as well.

The most unexpected finds were 3 D-Day Spitfires in Fredericksburg VA and a Langley P-40 in North Carolina

[tmanthegreat]

Reminds me of a couple years ago when my local Hobbytown USA store bought up someone's collection of XD and BBI vehicles and suddenly had a shelf full of all the old goodies - MIB and for decent prices. I picked up several US & German halftracks, a Pak-40, a diecast Tiger I, and F-104 all at their original retail prices. In fact, that was the last XD I ever purchased in person at a store.

On a similar note, in Bakersfield, CA, I discovered an amazing store called Ryan's Toy Connection. I can only describe it as what eBay would look like if it were a physical place. Basically floor to ceiling with action figures of all types - things on shelves, hanging on pegs, and boxes of uninventoried merchandise yet to be stocked (so much so that a few passages are blocked and one has to move around the boxes!) Not as much of our small scale military items or GI Joe, but they do have an entire room of Star Wars figures and vehicles

Here's a link to their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ryans-To ... tos_stream
If you look in the "Photos" section, you can see some shots of the interior of the store...