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It's a bonus release Thursday!

Populate your construction zones with these brand-new construction trucks! With scales ranging from 1:50 to 1:55, you are sure to find a piece perfect for your layout! These construction trucks are made of die-cast metal and they are absolutely gorgeous!

Don't forget your free CNW Box Truck! Yes, the die-cast pieces qualify for the free CNW box truck! Just make sure you add them to your cart. The free CNW box truck should be discounted in your cart. Hurry though because the free offer ends at Midnight on Saturday November 12th!

Click here to shop now!

Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy

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Mark, you might want to consider altering your post title to indicate the 1:50-1:55 scale of the vehicles, since there are some who say they'd like more vehicles in something closer to O scale than the typical 1:43 types.

While some may like more American based vehicles, I suspect these are made from existing dies and tooling. When you look at prices of these sorts of 1:50 trucks from other places, the retail costs are usually considerably higher than what Menards is offering here.

If Menards to undertake the investment for brand new tooling for similar scale American sorts of vehicles, I would guess the prices would also be considerably higher. Retail prices not only reflect production costs, but the recouping of new tooling costs also. Burger King may have said "Have it your way," but they also sell millions upon millions of burgers. The 3-rail market is considerably smaller, and the scale 3-rail market is even much smaller than that. Companies that don't make money, don't stay in business... and we've seen evidence of that in this hobby.

From the illustrations here and on the Menards website, these appear to be very nice vehicles for the cost. And then the closer to scale size to boot is an added bonus.

Menards posted:

It's a bonus release Thursday!

Populate your construction zones with these brand-new construction trucks! With scales ranging from 1:50 to 1:55, you are sure to find a piece perfect for your layout! These construction trucks are made of die-cast metal and they are absolutely gorgeous!

Don't forget your free CNW Box Truck! Yes, the die-cast pieces qualify for the free CNW box truck! Just make sure you add them to your cart. The free CNW box truck should be discounted in your cart. Hurry though because the free offer ends at Midnight on Saturday November 12th!

Click here to shop now!

Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy

very nice.  what I would absolutely LOVE would be die cast vehicles with LED lights built-in, with a small power cord and ability to plug into a power adapter.   I buy most non-lit 1/48 cars for about $6 per, and would easily pay a extra dollars for built-in lights (ambulance, police car, emergency vehicle, variety of construction vehicles.  I can't comprehend the near $100 prices some other vendors are charging for their lighted vehicles.

I have purchased 7 or 8 Menards freight flats with Army vehicles, helicopters, and lighted vehicles.  I think Menards product values are the best in the biz and look forward to future offerings.  Stand alone die cast vehicles with LED lights at a great value price point would be an excellent line of items I would definitely start collecting.

Thanks

Garrett

Nairb Rekab posted:

Is the C&NW box truck free if the items are purchased in the store?

Nairb,

Unfortunately, this is an online only promotion.

Our stores don't stock the CNW box trucks, therefore they cannot give them away. You could always order online and ship your items to a store for free.

Thanks for asking!
-Mark the Menards Train Guy

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