Holiday Disappointment, or I gotz the Kitbash Fodder Blues:
I’m very bummed out this year. Christmas season used to be the high holy days for acquiring cheap large scale rolling stock fodder, but the economic downturn and crazy inflation this year has really taken the toll this year on the previous widespread availability of large scale Xmas tree train sets that I used to mine for cheap rolling stock and parts.
Consider findings in years past:
Sam’s Club: Carried Bachmann starter sets for a very fair price, I didn’t buy these as the stock is too large for my layout but the woes and lamentations of fellow online members to their not being offered this year tells me I’m not the only one suffering from large scale blues this year.
: Orchard Supply Hardware also traditionally stocked Bachmann sets at a great price of only $99.95, but last year the sets were a full MSRP of $199.95 Yikes! They didn’t sell many, but instead of red tagging them 50% off on the
Thats the problem Bob, I’m more cash strapped than ever right now, probably just as well that I’m directing more effort lately towards the layout building and much less towards the workbench. Lot of unfinished projects on the bench that will have to wait for awhile. But plaster is cheap, foam can be scavanged, and scenery stuffs can be pilfered from a country roadside. [oX)]
I didnt do a rocket car, do you remember who did it?
Holiday Disappointment, or I gotz the Kitbash Fodder Blues:
I’m very bummed out this year. Christmas season used to be the high holy days for acquiring cheap large scale rolling stock fodder, but the economic downturn and crazy inflation this year has really taken the toll this year on the previous widespread availability of large scale Xmas tree train sets that I used to mine for cheap rolling stock and parts.
Consider findings in years past:
Sam’s Club: Carried Bachmann starter sets for a very fair price, I didn’t buy these as the stock is too large for my layout but the woes and lamentations of fellow online members to their not being offered this year tells me I’m not the only one suffering from large scale blues this year.
OSH: Orchard Supply Hardware also traditionally stocked Bachmann sets at a great price of only $99.95, but last year the sets were a full MSRP of $199.95 Yikes! They didn’t sell many, but instead of red tagging them 50% off on the 26th like in years past, they were whisked off to a warehouse to be stored till this year! And this year the few leftovers were still $199.95
Thats what my wife says. Not quite as politely though. I have to have most of the stuff I buy sent to me at work and then I take it through the side gate to my shed when I get home. What a way to run a railroad.
The local OSH still has those two left overs from last year sitting there at $229.00 each. They finally had the train calenders though [:D]