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Check your local Ollie's discount store

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Fort Knox
Check your local Ollie's discount store
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Saturday, September 30, 2023 7:27 PM

My local Ollie's had the Polar Lights Star Trek Discovery USS Enterprise and The Wrath of Khan USS Reliant for $12.99.

They also had the Bandai Boba Fett and Transformers Starscream for the same amount. StarScream looked like the old model kit that Monogram marketed as Leader-1 of the Go-Bots cartoon. 

  • Member since
    November 2005
  • From: Formerly Bryan, now Arlington, Texas
Posted by CapnMac82 on Sunday, October 1, 2023 1:03 PM

Sadly, this DFW metroplex is not graced with an Ollie's.

Sounds like smashing good discounts.

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Sunday, October 1, 2023 11:14 PM

I believe they originate in Akron, Ohio and have recently started to expand. When I was in Texas and Alabama, it was akin to Big Lots or Odd Lots (Job Lots?); however, the current version of Big Lots is more like a Dollar General or pared down Walmart and not like Ollie's.

In the mid 90s I was stationed in Alabama and the Big Lots had stacks of AMT/Ertl kits on clearance for about 50-75% the regular price. Thirty dollar T-55 or M60A1 kits for $4.99. Star Trek Runabouts for $9.99. I remember buying many of them.

Today, all Big lots tend to have the same stuff. Ollie's has various stuff here and there depending on the location.

GAF
  • Member since
    June 2012
  • From: Anniston, AL
Posted by GAF on Sunday, October 1, 2023 11:49 PM

I noticed my local one had the AMT (Polar Lights) 1/32nd Green Hornet "Black Beauty" for the car buffs.

Gary

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Monday, October 2, 2023 12:05 PM

GAF

I noticed my local one had the AMT (Polar Lights) 1/32nd Green Hornet "Black Beauty" for the car buffs.

Gary

 

Mine also had the Batman Forever Batwing (which was originally a Revell-Monogram kit), but in an AMT box along with the Cartoon version of Speed Racer's Mach 5 and the Black Beauty.

It seems to be a real hodge podge of kits.

  • Member since
    July 2011
  • From: Armpit of NY
Posted by MJames70 on Monday, October 2, 2023 5:34 PM

Most definitely different Ollie's locations do not get the same stock to every location. My local store has had some Atlantis and Revell stuff, and mostly cars. Not a single Trek or Bandai kit in sight. 

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Monday, October 2, 2023 11:14 PM

MJames70

Most definitely different Ollie's locations do not get the same stock to every location. My local store has had some Atlantis and Revell stuff, and mostly cars. Not a single Trek or Bandai kit in sight. 

mine had them in stacks near the check out, not in the toy aisles or the end caps of the aisles. They were intermixed with all sorts of other toys and games.

There was also a Transformer Star Scream jet model. It kind of looked cool.

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