(10/31/17) Plug & Play Lighted Cars & Trucks from Menards!

Having every building Menards has offered and multiples of several, I will certainly find the accessory kit a must have. Will need several.

Great idea Menards! Keep up the great offerings. They are much appreciated by all.

Super idea.....I have said I would do this to autos on the layout. BUT....even the great vintage Mustang is 10 years to new.....but I'll be watching!!! 

Thank you Mark ! You Listened to what we need again.. Bob

Pretty cool stuff!  

Note that the vehicles are all 1:48 too. Way to go Menards.

Menards is awesome!!!! please please please make more of these.  It would be great to have a "heritage" line of 40s-60s vehicles in addition to the modern vehicles.  Police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, tow trucks, all sorts of vehicles with auxiliary lights in addition to the cars with standard headlights/taillights.  The lighted vehicle aspect of the hobby is sorely lacking for product and I am very excited about the possible new products.  One request- please keep the vehicles make/model distinctly American and not some generic Chinese stuff.  Great opening move with the Mustangs and Ford pickups

Sweet !!

Love those Mustangs! Have one in storage but without the pigtail! LOL 

So I guess we must be the children at play.  Not only a home run but back to back grand slams.

coach joe posted:

So I guess we must be the children at play.  Not only a home run but back to back grand slams.

Ahhh. Just wait for the next home run !

Ok I love these but have one complaint...that's a whole lot of cars with their lights on but no one driving!  How bout some people in those cars!

is it me? the mustangs except the black one are the ones in Sally's Mustang Restoration Shop. So if you buy the 5 cars you could have the shop to if you bought the shop for the same money. I know they say in the shop only 2 lights work, the two 1967 shelby's. With that said I might be tempted to buy the 67's and 65 and replace them in the restoration garage. Of coarse the restoration garage would have to get a new name as couldn't have 65 & 67 mustangs in for restoration in the late 60's now could we. Maybe just Sally's Garage

Bossman284 posted:

Ok I love these but have one complaint...that's a whole lot of cars with their lights on but no one driving!  How bout some people in those cars!

Wonder how hard it would be to trim and put some of them people you can get from China?

Love the idea BUT what about those of us who model the 40's and 50's? These great cars won't work for us.

Billy Bassoon

I could use those automobiles for my scenery. The way to hide the cables is to put actual scale manholes in the roads.

Andrew

AMCDave posted:

Super idea.....I have said I would do this to autos on the layout. BUT....even the great vintage Mustang is 10 years to new.....but I'll be watching!!! 

Exactly. Anyone modeling the steam era wouldn't find any of these vehicles useful for their layouts. I sincerely hope they'll offer something much further back in time than this.

Mustang looks great how about some camaros in the next run

Marty

p51 posted:

AMCDave posted:

Super idea.....I have said I would do this to autos on the layout. BUT....even the great vintage Mustang is 10 years to new.....but I'll be watching!!! 

Exactly. Anyone modeling the steam era wouldn't find any of these vehicles useful for their layouts. I sincerely hope they'll offer something much further back in time than this.

I agree 100%.  Menards needs to start offering more steam era vehicles.

The model years for these autos and trucks are 1965 to the present. That is fine for my time period of Post-1970.

The management would have to find the existing molds for all of the 1930's to 1950's autos and trucks, then put lighting inside them when people assemble them in the factory. 

Andrew

Great idea, and makes it easy to add lighted cars to the layout.  The hit's just keep on coming!

Terrific product.  I especially like the 1/48 scale.  Now, how about some older models, say 40s and 50s??  Great job, guys.

The box car schemes like ILLINOIS CENTRAL, Chessie System, SOO LINE, CP Rail, THE ROCK, Norfolk Southern are all in the Diesel Era. The autos and truck would be in the same time period as most of the box cars and the hoppers.  

Andrew

falconservice posted:

The box car schemes like ILLINOIS CENTRAL, Chessie System, SOO LINE, CP Rail, THE ROCK, Norfolk Southern are all in the Diesel Era. The autos and truck would be in the same time period as most of the box cars and the hoppers.  

Andrew

.......as are a majority of the OGR folks.

I know one truck M will NEVER make in any form:  DOGCATCHER.

A little too late for the era I model, but the '65 and '67 Shelby's are cool!  I may have to get one.  Now if I could decide on the color......

A plug in Tesla would be very interesting.

FrankfordJunction posted:

Terrific product.  I especially like the 1/48 scale.  Now, how about some older models, say 40s and 50s??  Great job, guys.

Dare I say it, how about even older than that? You can never go wrong with older cars being in a specific place, but you can't have cars that were made after the time frame, only during or before. And even though there are a lot of people interested in diesel era stuff or the latest things for Rolling Stock, there will always be a huge number of people in the hobby, especially into 3 rail, who are interested in the steam era.

And whatever era you do, please just make them the normal Vehicles. There are way too many high-end and rare car models out there as it is. I think most modellers would appreciate just your standard basic cars, from whatever era is being modeled. There are way too many sports cars out there for models as it is.

AWESOME!!! Modern vehicles with national brands on the box trucks and lighting...this is a walk off grand slam in the World Series!!!!

falconservice posted:

The model years for these autos and trucks are 1965 to the present. That is fine for my time period of Post-1970.

The management would have to find the existing molds for all of the 1930's to 1950's autos and trucks, then put lighting inside them when people assemble them in the factory. 

Andrew

Well, if 1930s-50s molds could be found, Menards could make kits and we could assemble them.. 

Billy Bassoon

falconservice posted:

The box car schemes like ILLINOIS CENTRAL, Chessie System, SOO LINE, CP Rail, THE ROCK, Norfolk Southern are all in the Diesel Era. The autos and truck would be in the same time period as most of the box cars and the hoppers.  

Andrew

Yup and some more older box car art would be appreciated

Billy Bassoon

Bossman284 posted:

Ok I love these but have one complaint...that's a whole lot of cars with their lights on but no one driving!  How bout some people in those cars!

Bossman, let me know how you get some people in them! That would be one hell of a kit bash! LOL

cabinet Bob posted:

Sweet !!

Looks good Bob, did you get any trucks to go with them?

Now, Which color Shelby should I get?  Normally I don't like red; but somehow I think I should get red.

I agree with those that want older cars . I'm modeling late 50's -early 60's.

Remember that Menard's also sells these cars in their stores in big bins meant to grab the eye of a child.   And kids are attracted to modern.  Many more of these cars are sold this way than to train people like us.  Could be one reason why Menard's only puts out modern cars.  That or the company they do business with only has molds for the newer cars.

Mark Boyce posted:

Now, Which color Shelby should I get?  Normally I don't like red; but somehow I think I should get red.

Yes Mark order red,  I did. I then ordered the black one also. 

Btw red is my favorite color.

Dave

These are the same cars that can be bought at Menards and look great on the layout too, just without the  great  new features.

Thanks Dave!!

Dave, think of it this way, in real life those 2 cars would cost 100,000 plus! What a bargain you have! LOL