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Ordered late Thursday and gt it today. Pretty good service all considered.

I really like this structure. It is a little modern for my mid 1950's era layout....but I'll say it's brand new!! It looks great although if you look really close you can see a few of the 'tab and slot' connectors....most are well hidden. I see them as I have designed structure kits and have a much more critical eye than 99.999% of people.  Once on a layout no one will ever notice!!  The design is very good with lots of visual cues that make the building look much bigger than it is. Details are well done.....TONS of LED's all over....I keep finding new ones!  It looks like the structure is mostly laser cut MDF and ply. This may be the first mass produced laser cut assembled building....at least this large in O scale. Some parts look like milled wood. The vertical lines in the siding are actually engraved too.......Between all the laser cutting and engraving there is a lot of time put into this building.

The bad???  One VERY  small section on brick foundation was loose, not falling off, just a drop of Gorilla Glue and perfect. I worried that the stickers applied to the building side instructing power, plug location and sign options would mar but I took my time and they came off cleanly. 

The only improvement to be made would be a terminal post for power in case you do not want to use a barrel plug.....but very minor.

Between the size, details, lighting this may be Menard's best yet....and maybe the best value in assembled O scale structures. I give the building a A- overall. Packing a A-, value a A+.  If this is a sign of the direction Menard's is going......I see them becoming a modern 'Madison Hardware' of sorts. Thanks!!power

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Mine comes tomorrow, excited, now more than ever after your great review! I think these buildings just keep getting better and they were very good to begin with! If I had the room I could picture a Menards only layout with just their buildings, their rolling stock, and their track, and just keep adding to it as they release more products! This would of course be in a separate building because my Dear wife would banish me from the house!! Lol

I have been checking my order status so much I wore out my keyboard. It was not that I am frugal and wanted to save shipping costs having it sent to the store. I thought one trip would be better then two but now that I see how long it takes to get to the store I think the next train order will be to the house so I can enjoy it more because I am jealous of those who are enjoying theirs now. But in the same vein I am so focused on Thursday for the next announcement..................Paul

AMCDAVE;      Did you ORDER the FREE Truck? It doesn't come automatically. It has to be ordered at the time the building was ordered. The cost is $14.99, but that gets subtracted when completing the order. My FREE trucks always come with the other item purchased and are in fact banded together so they are handled at the same time, and one box doesn't go one way and the other box another. If you did NOT order the truck, you are probably out of luck.

Hope that wasn't the case for your sake.

AMCDave posted:

It's on the invoice....we'll see....not a biggy.....thx

AMCDave,

Thanks for your review, we hope you thoroughly enjoy this building!

As far as the free truck goes, if it was on the invoice, it should be coming. Just let us know if it doesn't and we'll take car of it.

-Mark the Menards Train Guy

Got mine today as well.    Everything was perfect, no issues and the "Free" truck was "Piggy-Backed" onto the large box with plastic strapping material.  The building is very cool with plenty of LEDs for the lighting effect.   The Santa Fe truck was a nice "Perk" too.   This building will go very nicely with my Lionel Rotary Tipple, (actually, it's a Rotary Car Dumper).   Nice job Menards! 

Chief Bob (Retired) 

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