Menards new Hotel Royale pictures

I feel like I just watched Rear Window

TShearer posted:

I feel like I just watched Rear Window

TOO funny !!  these pictures were shot by a drone.. LOL..

An excellent review and great pics to boot.

I also bought the Hotel and like mine a lot.

Thanks, Cabinet Bob.

Donald

Great pics Dad. Their best building yet. I was torn on buying it. It is an impressive building. But the way it looks so big and only takes up a small footprint........Great job Menards ( again ). And Dad it looks real good on your layout. I am glad to see you have finally used the drone I got you for Christmas LOL..........Paul

Those are great photos Cabinet Bob. It is a super product from our RR friends @ Menards. The good Wisconsin folk have "leap-frogged" the other model suppliers.. I just wonder if the other guys have taken a nap?  I get the connection to Rear Window. Let's hope there are no nefarious deeds going on in the backyard of the Royale. I love the fictional movie almost as mush as the fine new product. I have often wondered WHAT was with the Jimmy Steward when Grace Kelly was in the room. A modern day head shrink would think the peeping voyeur had problems below the belt far beyond a "broken leg". Fine job by creative Menards product people. Thank you. 

That's a winner!!!

Needs one of these on top lol

Looks like the Ecto 1 should be pulling up to the pinnacle.

Thank you for the images. Quite a striking building on your (or any!) layout.

Bob, I think Menardsville has just become Menards City!  Looks great on your layout!

Looks really great, my order just went in!

A little  video to go with it

Wow, it's awesome!

The windows are much better then the train stations, However one sore point on the windows is that there seems to be a person looking through the blinds at the same point on each window, I think.

Bob  the hotel looks spectacular on your layout.  Should gets lots of oohs and aahs.

John Pignatelli JR. posted:

The windows are much better then the train stations, However one sore point on the windows is that there seems to be a person looking through the blinds at the same point on each window, I think.

Ahh...maybe there is.....the plot thickens..Just wait...you maybe surprised what they are looking at...I would tell you, but I just can't...stay tuned...........

The address on the hotel is the address of the York Fairgrounds.

Neal Jeter

cabinet Bob posted:

John Pignatelli JR. posted:

The windows are much better then the train stations, However one sore point on the windows is that there seems to be a person looking through the blinds at the same point on each window, I think.

Ahh...maybe there is.....the plot thickens..Just wait...you maybe surprised what they are looking at...I would tell you, but I just can't...stay tuned...........

Maybe it is a private eye convention in town.

A bunch of spys

A swimming pool full of attractive ladies.

Politicians spying on each other.

All of the above.

There needs to be a helipad on the roof!

Model railroaders seem ( group fix) to have lots of imaginary images dancing in our brain. IS your hotel placement on the "good" side of the tracks .. OR is your town hotel well past it's prime? You know some people would say,  " Were you brought up on the wrong side of the tracks"? The Royale  as we now know resides close to the Fairgrounds. It's not really in the same class as the Waldorf but instead a suitable middle-class joint with clean rooms that don't attract the seedy side with by the hour rates.  Face it, a hotel too close to the noise and dirt of the railroad is not a very good business model. Hollywood is full of images of big city hotels .. joints where you never want to close your eyes for more than about 10 mins. Here's a few links from the movie internet database. 

1. Bad Day at BlackRock ( Great Railroad opening scene in small western town ) 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047849/

2. Barton Fink ( Chet will let you check-in.. Now you are here but can't really check out )

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101410/

3. Shining ( a nice place with CREEPY room #237)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/

4. The Anderson tapes ( A robbery of a really upscale living space ) 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066767/

Men behind peering broken blinds @ Royale are really Russian agents probably leftover from the Nixon era plumbers ? It should be evident I have thought about this subject TOO much.