Ollie's strike again

[Mark]

6 hours ago, iBorg said:

Is the AMT 1970 Corvette at a lot of Ollies, a reissue of the old MPC molds?

It's the Nineties AMT kit.  The MPC is now the '75 convertible.

[atomicholiday]

Fort Wayne store is very picked over.  Don’t waste your time there.

[Dave Van]

Same old same old at Lewisburg WV.....hope for the big rigs

[RSchnell]

The Lakeland, FL store still had tons of Hot Wheels Camaros, a few Falcon Rancheros and a fresh case of the Super Sno-Sport which is of no interest to me or anyone else judging by the number of kits on the shelf. It's still interesting to me how this batch of kits seems to be lingering on the shelves. I suppose the resellers are still trying unload the last hoard they got from Ollie's!

I grabbed the last Surfer Van and 2 '70 Corvettes that I found by doing a little digging.

[Dave Van]

My son picked up both Rat Fink kits, the old IMC trailer and the US Mail combo.  He is in Lexington KY........

They had the snow dragster but passed. 

[Dpate]

Mine still doesn’t have the transtar truck, but same everything else. Gotta go out of town Tuesday so I’ll check the Ollie’s there. 

[deuces wild]

On 8/3/2023 at 5:19 PM, deuces wild said:

None in my area have kits on sale.... Maybe next week....

Still no kits at the Westland, Mi. store....????

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Went to the store in Mooresville NC. They had a nice display set up that had the Rat Fink trailers, but no trucks. I looked around the rest of the store and hidden in the back on roll around carts, wedged in between the carpet, to the point you had to literally dig them out, were quite a few toys. There were several of the 4070a Rat Fink trucks. I picked up 3. One thing that I have learned about Ollie stores, is to check the entire store before giving up. The last go around, I found the semi kits in various places around the store.

[fat50]

7 hours ago, deuces wild said:

Still no kits at the Westland, Mi. store....????

I bought the Nova wagon and VW gasser there last week? 

Edited August 21, 2023 by fat50
VW was WV

[deuces wild]

It's funny because they're not showing kits on the flyers...

[ewetwo]

I see the VW gasser on eBay and the guy advertises it as being able to be built Gasser, Custom or Stock. I don't think so. LOL

Edited August 21, 2023 by ewetwo

[fat50]

26 minutes ago, ewetwo said:

I see the VW gasser on eBay and the guy advertises it as being able to be built Gasser, Custom or Stock. I don't think so. LOL

No way this thing can be built stock.  Says shortened body right on the box.

Does say build 1 of 4 ways.  Drag, Street, Dune Beetle, or Open Dune Buggy.

Edited August 21, 2023 by fat50
typo

[fat50]

28 minutes ago, deuces wild said:

It's funny because they're not showing kits on the flyers...

how about actually walking into the store?

[ewetwo]

6 minutes ago, fat50 said:

No way this thing can be built stock.  Says shortened body right on the box.

Does say build 1 of 4 ways.  Drag, Street, Dune Beetle, or Open Dune Buggy.

And it was $30 plus shipping.

 

[fat50]

1 minute ago, ewetwo said:

And it was $30 plus shipping.

 

if they still have them, I can get you one for $12.99 + shipping

[ewetwo]

Thank you Chris. I have two. I might build one as it's not my usually type of build. I usually just do stock. And I'm doing the same thing. Have them on my Facebook Marketplace on my $15.00 kit page.  $15 plus shipping. With state tax it costs me $14.01 for the kit. Plus the cost of a new box. I'm not making anything on it. Just helping people get something they can't get at their Ollies. I have the Post Office truck set aside for someone but haven't heard if they wanted it of not.

Edited August 21, 2023 by ewetwo

[fat50]

2 minutes ago, ewetwo said:

Thank you Chris. I have two. And I'm doing the same thing. Have them on my Facebook Marketplace on my $15.00 kit page.  $15 plus shipping. With state tax it costs me $14.01 for the kit. Plus the cost of a new box. I'm not making anything on it. Just helping people get something they can't get at their Ollies. I have the Post Office truck set aside for someone in the forum but haven't heard if they wanted it of not.

Modelers helping modelers, i'd buy you a beer if you were closer....

[ewetwo]

Thanks bud. I appreciate it. 

Edited August 21, 2023 by ewetwo

[1930fordpickup]

3 hours ago, DRIPTROIT 71 said:

Went to the store in Mooresville NC. They had a nice display set up that had the Rat Fink trailers, but no trucks. I looked around the rest of the store and hidden in the back on roll around carts, wedged in between the carpet, to the point you had to literally dig them out, were quite a few toys. There were several of the 4070a Rat Fink trucks. I picked up 3. One thing that I have learned about Ollie stores, is to check the entire store before giving up. The last go around, I found the semi kits in various places around the store.

Good point. 

[Dpate]

6 hours ago, DRIPTROIT 71 said:

Went to the store in Mooresville NC. They had a nice display set up that had the Rat Fink trailers, but no trucks. I looked around the rest of the store and hidden in the back on roll around carts, wedged in between the carpet, to the point you had to literally dig them out, were quite a few toys. There were several of the 4070a Rat Fink trucks. I picked up 3. One thing that I have learned about Ollie stores, is to check the entire store before giving up. The last go around, I found the semi kits in various places around the store.

That’s true. Store here in rockingham NC has MPC monopoly kits mixed in with the board games lol. 

[OldNYJim]

I hit my local Ollie’s (Merrillville Indiana) to see what they had…bunch of T Depot Hacks, a few Rat Fink trailers, some kinda Wacky Racers kit, the Galaxy kit, a bunch of Hot Wheels Camaros plus one Groove Boss and one Copperhead (both of which followed me home:

I was really hoping to find a second Groove Boss, but their kits were scattered all over the store in different places and my wife didn’t have the patience for me to make a second lap…

[deuces wild]

10 hours ago, fat50 said:

how about actually walking into the store?

Yeah, I'll try and get there tomorrow after work.. Thanks!...

Edited August 22, 2023 by deuces wild

[slusher]

Man, I have been checking Ollie’s and I can’t get one. Of those Rat fink internationals or mail trucks…

[Robberbaron]

On 8/21/2023 at 10:23 PM, CabDriver said:

I hit my local Ollie’s (Merrillville Indiana) to see what they had…bunch of T Depot Hacks, a few Rat Fink trailers, some kinda Wacky Racers kit, the Galaxy kit, a bunch of Hot Wheels Camaros plus one Groove Boss and one Copperhead (both of which followed me home:

I was really hoping to find a second Groove Boss, but their kits were scattered all over the store in different places and my wife didn’t have the patience for me to make a second lap…

Had to run to Lowes last night so I finally had a chance to stop in at the M'ville store.  No restock, and not much left.  One Copperhead dragster misplaced on a shelf in an aisle away from all the other Round 2 kits.

They had maybe 8 of the '64 Galaxie kits left, but get this: a couple were priced at $9.99 instead of $12.99.  I guess that's my threshold, since one of them followed me home even though I already have several earlier issues in the stash...

Edited August 26, 2023 by Robberbaron

[ewetwo]

My Ollies still has a pretty good selection. No Corvettes, vans or semis though. It had 2 Rat Fink trailers.