Hobby lobby has a dismal stock of models. They never seem to get anything new in stock, and their prices are a bit on the high end of the scale. I don't buy any kits from hobby lobby any more. I admit their 1/64 scale vehicles are nice, but they are for collecting only.
Good times Tim Man, I got a hobby lobby close to me and I buy my paint and evergreen plastic there ,, little known fact,, hobby lobby has that sale every other week,,yup good to know, catch you later buddy, Glen
Deerfield IL Hobby Lobby the very same kits & supplies shelves--a very serviceable selection of paints, accessories and diorama supplies. This was a fun video! Best JP
There's 3 in my area of E. Tn. and it appears they have all the same stuff. In fact, I rarely buy from Hobby Lobby nowadays because I've pretty much gotten everything I'm interested in from them. I still get my supplies there, though. I mostly order online or make an occasional trip to the Hobbytown about an hour away from where I live.
I'm in East Tennessee too and I've also got about everything I'm interested in from the surrounding Hobby Lobbys. You're right, they rarely have different kits. Usually always the same stuff. And yes I too make an occasional trip to Hobbytown. They are proud of their kits for sure but if they have something that I just can't live without I'll pay the extra $ to have it.
I was pleasantly surprised on my first trip to the local Hobby Lobby. I was expecting a few kits, some glue and a Testors paint rack. Instead they had a good selection of kits, Evergreen and K&S racks, along with many different tools and modeling supplies. They even had Tamiya accessories and weathering powders. Not a full line hobby store but a lot more than just a retail store.
Hi Tim, thanks for the tour, or should I say two tours. Where I live, the only hobby store in town is Hobby Lobby. There were a couple of mom & pop type stores, but they closed years ago. I haven't been in any stores, Hobby Lobby or others since Covid started. I get all my kits and supplies online and have them delivered right to my door. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day! Jeff
I understand that Jeff, and you have a good day too. I just put up a model contest video you will really enjoy today. Let me know what you think about it.
lol just like walking into the one here were I live ,think its every 2 weeks kits are 40% 0ff .thanks for the look at the ones near you Tim👍,If You have an Ollies near you they have kits sometimes too .
😉👍I'm from Tahlequah, Oklahoma and the Hobby Lobby in Muskogee has a pretty good model selection of all kinds of various types of kits and various modeling tools and paints and so forth indeed!,👌.
Great question. I do believe they are in the south. In Georgia what I seen at four different Hobby Lobby they are petty much the same. Thanks for doing your investigation lol. Have a great weekend buddy.
My Hobby Lobby, in Bluefield, WV, looks just like the two you showed in this video. It is a great place to start in the hobby. I am very thankful that we have a Hobby Lobby with in 10 miles of my house. Thanks for sharing.
My Hobby Lobby in NJ has the exact same kits except for the white corvette. Shame that they can't stock some of the newer kits that are coming out each month. I generally buy my kits on Ebay now since the selection is larger and you can pretty much pay what you feel the kit is worth.
Yeah, pretty much the same for the ones in my area. However, I HAVE seen some stores will have quite a few models in the discount section while others have none. - Tom
Hobby Lobby #1 was awesome. My Hobby Lobby in Billings Montana has about a 1/3 of the kits. Lots of same empty spaces month after month. Checked out a Hobby Lobby in Parkersburg WV last week while at Good Guys car show held in Canton OH. That HL was about the same as ours but better stocked. No sales going on though- otherwise I’d filled the back seat of the truck with kits. 😉
Got two hobby lobbys by me they pretty much have the same thing I always check the clearence section I scored to large football 🏈 display boxes for $7 each that will make great diorama displays.
Not much difference between the 2 KY stores & the 2 AZ stores. That Luka must have been in energy saver mode. He did not do any digging. lol You showed the Old Pro Nova. I wish that Round2 would bring back it's sister kit that was issued only once back in 1972. The Pontiac Ventura II Sprint. On the box art the car pictured was named "Poncho" Thanks for the tour Tim.
I had several Old Pro kits when I was a kid.. I made one into a short track dirt car...looked awesome!! I deleted the front bumper/grille and used a piece of sprue for a makeshift tube bumper and used black steel mesh for the grille. I used a set of steelies for the wheels. I was proud of that..no idea what happened to it.
My wife works at the local Hobby Lobby (and I work at an old style mom and pop hobby shop). Hobby Lobby sets up their stores and stocks the merchandise as close to the same as they can so when you go to one you know what to expect and have an idea about where to find it. All the stock comes from the same warehouse in Oklahoma City and what is stocked at each store is selected at the cooperate office.
@@thehobbyshop5306 Hobby Lobby just went through a "reset" where they change the layout a little and reduce the amount of slower moving items and increase stock of faster moving items. Most businesses do that these days which sadly effects those that have interest in areas that do not sell as well as other areas.
Pretty much any given day they are all about the same. I live close to a state line, the one in the other state used to always get new kits first, but I don't think anyone is getting New kits anymore
About the same here in California. When they first opened around me, they had a better selection of subjects. Lot more Tamiya kits than the M41 Walker Bulldog tank and minimal supplies they might usually have these days. They had older Tamiya kits that were < $20 like the Panzer II, Pak 40 anti-tank gun, Sdkfz 251 half-track (each came with additional figures- essentially a diorama in a box.) For about $40 you could get an A-10 Thunderbolt II, M-60A1 Patton, M4 Sherman, the USS Missouri was $100, US Modern (1980's) Infantry, brick wall, sandbag & weapon sets went for $5. The last Tamiya kit I ever bought there was the then-new M561 Gama Goat. After that, they mostly disappeared. 40% off? Hell, that was every day if you used the coupon on their app. But since they stopped that, I deleted their app. . . Worthless. Other than the Bandai kits, All Hobby Lobby does is push junky, old domestic kits from clapped-out molds by Round 2 and Revell. 😩 New kits are rare and far between. Latest ones I saw were the 84' and 85' Olds Cutlass kits.
I was at the hobby lobby in Flint Michigan today and they had all of the same kits that you showed and the ones that Luca Cee showed off. Awesome video and thanks for sharing! 👍👍
There is a Hobby Lobby in Dover, Delaware now, and that's where I find all my 1/64 Scale Trucks that I kitbash from just a typical truck into some type of Fire or Rescue Truck. They even have a few 1/64 Scale Pickup Trucks with Skid Units in the Truck bed that have a Pump, Tank, and Hose Reel, complete with plumbing between the Tank, Pump, and Hose Reel, and the Trucks also have Red Emergency Lights on them. I will buy one of those Trucks, and a completely different Truck with a Utility Bed in place of the Pickup Bed, and then I remove the Skid Unit and Red Emergency Lights from the Pickup Truck, and reinstall them in the Truck with the Utility Bed, and using parts sourced from other parts trucks, I will add highrise Hose Packs along the top of both sides of the Utility Bed, along with a Telescopic Light Tower, and an Extended Front Bumper with a built in winch. One could make believe that each compartment of the Utility Bed has extra equipment such as the Jaws of Life, and other life saving equipment mounted inside them.
I work for hobby lobby and that is my department, most stores will sell the same selection, what they like to do is have one sku but 2-3 different types so looking online doesn't always help. Biggest issue I see is getting the product in to sell have a lot of open spaces because back order.
Hi John if someone like me might know of a kit who might he talk to or is it even possible to get it ordered? There used to be a hobby shop nearby that had a catalog of models he could get and he had them right out for us all to view. He’s gone and to find a shop I would have to drive 65 miles of so. Does Ho-Lo ordered from Round 2 or the like?
Cool. My Hobby Lobby looks pretty much exactly like yours. Although, as of a week ago the selection had been picked clean, lot's of empty shelves. Thanks for sharing, have a great day. -David
I have 3 Hobby Lobby’s in the nearest city to me. All three use to have 1/4 of their inventory be different from the other two. That was nice since I always had a reason to go to all three knowing I would see different model kits to an extent at each one. Ever since Covid and the latest clearance of 2021, all three stores have the exact same kit all in the exact same spots on the shelves. Even the supplies are exactly the same. I see Hobby Lobby removed carrying Tamiya products and now started carrying Mr. Hobby. I hope they start to have the Mr Hobby Super clear as I only have ever seen Mr Hobby Matte in stock. Prices are similar to HobbyTown and other online competitions. Nice video, Tim.
Looks exactly the same as my Hobby Lobby here and the Hobby Lobby a few towns over here in Texas exact same model kits exact same supplies btw all of those Coca-Cola kits you can find right now at Walmart. $15 for car kits $25 for the semi trucks. The snow plow and the cab over you looked at are $24 at Walmart
I've recently been feeling the love for getting back into the hobby after a 40 year hiatus. Last week I went to our local Hobby Lobby in east Texas and was shocked to find a boxed model kit priced over $26. I just couldn't bring myself to pay that much for a model car kit. Since it seems everything else is going up in price, but not my income, that leaves fewer dollars left for hobbies. I know there are more expensive kits than these, but I still am bummed out about this cost. I also remember when I was doing this full time (circa 60's - 80's) there was much, much more of a selection at KMart than what I see here. Maybe because I've been out of the hobby for so long, I didn't get real excited about the current inventory. There were a few for sure I'd like to build, but used to, oh my, I remember thinking it would take me a lifetime to build all the kits I would have like to have! Geesh, this hobby seems to have shrunk, or is it just me? Happy modeling!
@@pearltiger2003 The secret for Hobby Lobby is every other week they put the model kits at 40% off so you just have to go every other week find out when it's going and then just adjust accordingly and you can find $15 and $25 kits at Walmart. Hope that helps you get back into the hobby ⚡😎👍
Our Hobby Lobby in Altoona Pa. is well stocked with a variety of models. Not everything but that goes with the times! The paints and accents, and accessories are well stocked and are reasonably priced! Nice! I manage to visit Hobby-Lobby once a week and always leave with a kit. Thanks Hobby Lobby!
Yep they look the same here in New Jersey too. I’m looking for all 4 of modified dirt track cars and hemi under glass always strike out. But going the stores for the hunt is just as fun. They just picked up the gundam paints. I think they are a mr hobby brand I’ve used it and love it. You never know what you’ll find. Don’t for get to hit the clearance section too 👊🤘👍
The HOBBY LOBBY here in TOLEDO OHIO, close to me hasn’t received any new stock… HOBBY TOWN either… YEP , that looks like the HOBBY LOBBY here … I like to build aircraft and tanks, they do have some good DIORAMA SUPPLIES GREAT VIDEO… CHRIS from OHIO
I live in Illinois and we have went to most of the hobby lobby’s in the southern part of the state and they look like your trips. My wife loves that store. Have a great one
Looks like the Hobby Lobbies around me here in central west Florida. There are four about 20 minutes from me in different directions of my home. Each one may have a couple kits that the other doesn't but for the most part all the same. That AMT '23 Chopped T is one I haven't seen in our area for quite awhile now and the '29 roadster is starting to show less frequently. Nice showing Tim. Thanks for the tours.
Lol… I was just waiting for you to scan the military section and there it was… the walker bulldog. That kit is in every hobby lobby in northern indiana. And so is the big firebird.
The Hobby Lobby’s around me in Springfield and Branson Missouri look a lot like the shown in your videos ! Definitely fun place to go especially when wife needs her yarn an other crafting supplies! Win,win!
My Hobby Lobby’s in Oklahoma: Ponca City and McAlester are almost the same as both you and Luka C showed. One difference I noticed was that the rattle cans are locked up. In Ponca City we have a problem with paint huffers. BTW I’m an aircraft guy who stumbled into a car guys video. I do plan to build a car soon for first time in 40 years for a group build where we “model on”.
I definitely enjoy building an airplane as a change of pace. I like older prop driven aircraft. But I am primarily a car and truck builder. I wish Hobby Lobby would carry Tamiya paints.
The few hobby lobbys by me, southwest side of Chicago and suburbs, has the exact same inventory. I prefer the one little further away from me cause they have more in the clearance section, $8 for a kit, I'll buy them all day long!! My girlfriend, who collects old books, hides books on shelves to come back to them later in the week, I'm very familiar with that tactic.. lol. Cool video tho, enjoy seeing what's around the country
Very cool Chris, yes, it's always fun to find a GREAT bargain on a kit or two! I feel like a kid hiding stuff sometimes, that is funny about your girlfriend hiding books..... 🙂
We just had one store in my area, now we have 4. Awhile back they used to get NEW kits in twice a year and would make room having a clearance on some older kits on a separate table in the aisle. Some great bargains were to be had.
I have 2 stores near me and every once in a while they'll add a couple of new ones but for the most part it's the same old stuff . I built most of the cars they have that interest me.
I WILL BE DAMNED!!! I'm in Bluffton, SC and we've had a Hobby Lobby about 5 mins. from where I live for years, (with a rather LARGE looking store), but I never went in because somebody told me that they were strictly an "Arts and Craft-sy" place, (pottery, basket-making, rope stuff, gardening, etc.) but made NO mention of the AMT kits, the Estes rocket kits, HO Train stuff, etc. This is thrilling info. to me in that I thought ALL this stuff LITERALLY went off the planet back in the late 60's. I just wonder if anybody out there got the same info. that I did and "we" stayed away in droves. They're Marketing, (or lack thereof), astounds me! Why not let the general public know what's in your store for God's sake!...it's Marketing 101 at least! I'm SO there in about 2 hours and possibly apply for a job...perhaps in Marketing, but just being in the environment would be cool for me. Oh, and did I mention that I'm a 68 year old guy? 'Didn't think so.
That's not a bad deal , The price that you see on the box is the regular price , So that Model kit for $29.99 with 40% is only = $18.00 + Tax , I hear They have a Sale like that every other week, You get the same thing at the Online store but have to pay shipping , Great Video dude .
Impressive! I was in the Hobby Lobby in Uniontown, Pa, a couple years ago, and I didn't see a single kit. I haven't checked out the store here in Tullahoma, Tennessee yet.
Last time I was in a H-L, admittedly years ago, there were no plastic kits at all. No RC planes or cars/trucks. No model railroading, or rocketry. It was just a huge craft store. The only scale modeling of anything was wood kits of medieval catapults and trebuchet. Hopefully things have changed now.
The hobby lobby’s in Evansville Indiana and Owensboro Ky usually have a different variation of kits. You can get a good deal on the semi trucks when they have their 40 percent off sale.
If Hobby Lobby listened to modelers, they would probably sell more models. Imagine if they had Dragon Models, Trumpeter, Tamiya etc, etc. I would be there every week for the stash. Not enough armor, planes or ships.
The San Antonio Texas stores have the same stuff, but rarely fully stocked. Lots of empty spaces and not even half the paints in the first ones. It would be nice if they'd change their stock like they used to. I used to buy a lot of kits from them when they did that. I've purchased maybe one kit in years, as I've long since bought what I wanted from them. They used to be so good, Tamiya F1, and sports cars, polar lights NASCAR and drag......
Just got the 72 ramp truck today. Semi kits don't last long at my hobby lobby. 40% off is every other week. The A10 is an ok kit. I have 2 of them and Caracal Decals for the Fort Wayne guard Black Snakes. Great video 👍
I have 3 Hobby Lobby stores within 20mi of me here in Buffalo NY and they all look just like yours and Luka C's. I am happy to have so many close by but I do wish they would change things up a little. They have had the same kits forever.
I always like checking out Hobby Lobby for kits and supplies. I see many of the same models from your video. My store is in California. One nice thing is that the 40% off sale comes around every two weeks so no need to pay full price.
The hobby Lobby here in Moline Il carries a fantastic selection of kits. Cars , Planes and model ships. And a very fine paint selection along with artist brushes. And if you can't find what you need there just go to a hobby store called Thunder Road. Also in Moline Il.
My mom wanted me to take her to ABQ hobby lobby. I was thinking other than a nice day trip I was just going to be waiting around while she picks up art supplies. Guess I'll be stocking up on some modeling supplies myself. The big plane models and the Gundams are a happy surprise.
I’m into ho slot cars, besides models. Last summer I took my mom to Alabama to see my brothers. So from the Texas panhandle to there we hit a bunch of hobby lobby’s. I was able to get some slot cars that were different place to place. That modified you’re seeing, Wild One. I’m trying to find the “Slammer”. I went to Dallas and stopped at all the hobby lobbies between here and there. Models are almost the same everywhere…no slammer tho. I’m still trying to find one..I did t see any in your video..
I use to buy those same models back in the 1960s for $1.50 to $2.00. I know prices and inflation have influenced the prices. I remember we bought glue before you needed a prescription from a doctor.
My last builds were the M-41, M-48 and the no longer carried T-55 and M-46 tanks that are from a North East Ohio area Hobby Lobby. I did buy the F-84 Thunder Streak a few months ago. I have added so much to my car stash over the years but have not worked on cars this year. So far.
When I was a tadpole I won every model car contest I entered...detail was the key....such as spark plug wires made from sewing thread and a 4 hair paint brush to paint brake lines and a match to paint nombers on a speedometer. What did I do for a living before I retired? A shop owner ASE Certified Master Mechanic...I retired at 70 and sold the shop.
I love hobby lobby and thier sales normally I do online but when you go to the store you see the ones you cannt get online seeing whats there at the stores you visited especially supplys .
Looks pretty much the same as the Hobby Lobby near me in Texas. They get newer kits in from time to time. I only buy kits when they are 40% off every other week. Craft acrylic paints are on sale the weeks in between.
TL:DW...Round2, a LOT of Round2 stuff with a smattering of Revell. Academy, Revell, and Atlantis aircraft and ships and Gundams. Hobby Lobby has some kind of a deal with Round2, hence all the AMT, MPC, and Lindbergh kits plus the Johnny Lighting and Auto World 1/64 stuff. Although, I've talked to 2 different Hobby Lobby store managers who both told me, about 2 years ago, that Hobby Lobby was supposed to be dropping the Testors paint racks and replacing them with Revell's paints. But that hasn't materialized yet.
Some of my highly collectable 1/12 model kits I bought way back in the early nineties was from hobby lobby, like my large-scale 69 Camaro or my 57 Chevy or the ultra rare and hard-to-find 1927 golden t bucket and a few other 1/25 hobby lobby's got them pretty cool kits time to time
The two near Lansing Michigan have a decent selection. It's not huge. Some good muscle cars, a lot of military, some ships, nice selection of paint, tools are limited to mostly just the basics.
There are four Hobby Lobby's now on Long Island NY. I happen to be at one today and the model isle looked almost identical as the ones you showed almost kit for kit. And yes I picked up some kits the Reval Yanko Nova and Pontiac Street Stocker.
Exact same as my hobby lobby here in mobile Al and we have three hobby lobbies both same kits as this plus Tamiya weathering powders all kinds of paints glues clears spray paints for models all ever green you can think of all the tubing knives saws hand drills tons of kits all the same stuff you got here even Tamiya tapes and all
My local Hobby Lobby, (Opelika Alabama), pretty much has the same stuff. We used to have a small hobby store called "Hobby Town USA" but it went out of business a few years ago. I'm glad we have a Hobby Lobby, but I hate that the small "Mom & Pop" stores can't compete and end up going out of business. We have another store here called Michael's and it has a nice selection of model cars and accessories as well. Two cars on the shelf that I would like to build, the 1970 Corvette and the 1968 Camaro Z/28 by AMT, I like the retro look to the packaging and the models have options, like stock or custom, so you will have extra parts, I know the Camaro has some really cool Cragar wheels. Anyhoo, good video and along with Luka Cee's video, it looks like Hobby Lobby is a good place to get some stuff to keep the hobby going for sure!!! 👍👍👍
We had 3 HT-USA stores in the area I live in, now just one but it's doing great. They finally started expanding into imports and products from Japanese companies.
Disabled Veteran from Southeast Alabama . We live near an Army base where there are many types of helicopters that pilots are being trained on . However Hobby Lobby here does not carry any sort of helicopter models .
Hobby lobby on 83rd and bell road here in Peoria Arizona they got rid of there alumilite casting resin and RTV. They only carry the sheep craft stuff now if you try to get a can of spray paint they take it up front till you are ready to check out
Looks like Hobby Lobby being a national retailer seams to have the same inventory nation wide. Luka's video was so shaky that it made me dizzy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I check them every other week for the 40% off but I have about all of the ones that I am interested in, always hoping for something new.
Here in the UK our hobby shops used to be like this in the 80's and 90's. Quite often you'd find the full range of AMT stuff. My parents even bought me the first issue of 1/8 Pontiac by Monogram. Now all you can get is a few revell Camaro's, Mustangs and corvettes and the odd snap kit .
@@THROTTLEPOWER I did...It lasted about a year, before it went into decline as I was a novice builder then. To be fair though, the hood had a massive dip in it from the factory, so it was never perfect. I messed up the big bird decal to. I've since bought the revell Re-issue. Luckily I kept the smoked t-roof panels off the old kit to put on this new one to replace the clear panels. I still have the old one from about 1992. But its broken and unrepairable.
@@THROTTLEPOWER I always try incorporate a piece or two from old wrecked childhood kits into a new one of the same model if I can. I bought the last re-issue of AMT's 69 Firebird built up off ebay, and it only came with one hood option, so I used the remaining alternative hood from my childhood 1992 Issue on it. No idea why I do it, just nice to make sure a piece of my model making history is re-used and saved.
