Michael's no longer selling model rockets?!?!?!?

[EXPjawa]

Walmarts around here haven't had rocketry stuff in at least a year...

 

[Joe_Shockcord]

While walking through the local Wal-Mart to find some glossy black paint to do my nose-cone for the Goblin that I'm building, I decided to stop and look at the Estes Rocket display in the toy department. I walked through each of the aisles three times, and never found it. Apparently it's now a thing of the past...

Yep, my local Wal-Mart is clearing their rocketry items out again. All they have left are starter kits and D12-0 boosters. The same store discontinued rockets a few years ago when I was getting back into the hobby (again), and when they brought them back last year, I never bought a single thing because they had forced me to get acquainted with AC Supply. Too bad for them.

 

[JERRYR708]

Walmarts around here haven't had rocketry stuff in at least a year...

I remember about 10 years ago when Walmart had a great selection of Estes Launchables. There were all those cool X-Prize spaceships and other scale model rockets that had finally got my interest again. I just couldn't pass them up, so I grabbed a few. Good ol days!!

Walmart now just sells RTF rockets in those usual slanted boxes standing up on the bottom shelf and basic engines that I could get at HL with 40% coupons.

 

[DickyMoe]

I was at the Michael's in Timonium, MD earlier this month, and they didn't have any rockets or engines. When I went back yesterday, they had some rockets and engines back on the shelves.

 

[Vigilante_A-20_DEMON]

Michael's extreme high prices made me not go in again after the 1st time! LOL

 

[mjennings]

one of the stores near me had a small selection.

I snaged an Estes HoJO and a pack of B's for less than $8 at hobby Lobby the other day in the clearance aisle. I'll have to mark the motors though the package was pretty beat up.

 

[SirNomad]

Yep, my local Wal-Mart is clearing their rocketry items out again. All they have left are starter kits and D12-0 boosters. The same store discontinued rockets a few years ago when I was getting back into the hobby (again), and when they brought them back last year, I never bought a single thing because they had forced me to get acquainted with AC Supply. Too bad for them.

How much are they selling the boosters for? My local walmart cleared out their C5-6s at $2 per pack, I bought the last two...I'd LOVE that price on D12-0s because we also bought 3 of the booster units at $1 each (they fit the Flying Colors and Helios rockets we have!)