This should prove useful for everyone. List your hobby shops. Give web address, phone or whatever. There are, I am finding, some very small companies out there with great products that are fairly new. List it! I look all over RCU and finds planes that I have never seen before and can't find anywhere. So, let the advertising begin!

Als Hobbies
UK
http://www.alshobbies.com

Favorite hobby shop is the internet. The other type is 90 miles away. I look at practically all the web sites and sign up to have them remind me of sales and specials. There is usually a place on some of the web sites that allow you to shop by manufacturer. Tower's lists all types. Sig also has the same type of site. Anything you can think of can be found on most of the search parts of the webs.
Our local sales tax is 8.6%. Since I usually buy enough at one time to get free shipping from Tower, Omni and others I beat the local tax easily. If I do buy something that doesn't qualify for free shipping the cost is usually still below the local unreasonable sales tax. You can also check the links and find places not otherwise well known. Most of the manufacturers list a web site in their magazine ads. It works for me and anything that saves the gas and aggravation of a 90+ mile drive is pennies from heaven.

I guess I forgot to list some of mine.

www.towerhobbies.com
www.horizonhobby.com
www.btemodels.com

keep them coming

Spoon

Doug's Hobby Shop in Waldorf Maryland.
301/843-7774
Great folks to deal with and a fully stocked store and mail order department.

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HOBBY STOP, Rock Hill SC http://www.hobbystop.com/

Here's mine.

425-259-5929

hayes hobby house
fayettville nc

towerhobbies via internet
quatumhobbies via internet

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Brodak's
Carmichaels, PA

Mostly control-line, lots of accessories, very friendly people.

Trains & Planes Toys and Hobbies, Houston, Texas USA. www.trainsandplaneshobbies.com 713-977-1420

Family owned and operated for 26 years. Sells all R/C planes, radios & motors for 10% less than Tower.

More cool toys in this store than you ever though existed. Not only R/C, but all scales of trains, metal cars, metal airplanes, slot cars, R/C cars, plastics, rockets, kites and all types of other stuff. Lots and lots of really cool stuff.

Bobe's Hobby Shop in Pensacola, FL. I haven't been there in many years but it will always be my favorite because of all the time I spent there with my dad.

Hobby Hut in Pompton Planes, NJ. The best I have found for aircraft. This is about all they do.

Hi Linda!

second chance Hobbies, universal city texas, in this neigborhood, exceeds all others by a long shot with customer service, price and selection.

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Central Florida Hobbies in Orlando, Fla. You just cant find better service, MR.& MRS. Harkey have been flying for 40 years, and they wont steer you in the wrong path, even if it means loosing a sale. Simply the best people I have ever had the pleasure of doing buisness with.

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TOP GUN HOBBIES.

GOOD STOCK GOOD PRICES
EXCELLENT SERVICE AND KNOWLEDGE.

LANCASTER PA
IN THE GRANITE RUN SHOPPING CENTER

JOHN AND TOM ARE WONDERFUL

Where is this store in Orlando?
I have been to the one in Sanford, down from the mall. I have also been to Graves. Where is the one you are mentioning?

Hey Ballgunner,

Where in AZ are you? I live in Gilber/Phoenix and I'm surrounded by 3 LHS all pretty good.

I'm going to be negative here, but the three local hobby shops are manned by young "men" that look at customers an interruption, except maybe Riders in Livonia. They seem to be helpful aside from their ignorance. I always seem to miss the "plane guy" by a half hour.

This has caused me to ask somewhat simplistic questions here on this website, which by the way has given me next to nothing and way more than I could hope for information-wise. Thank you to all that have endured my most likely redundant questions. Thank you for answering my questions. I'm sure that there will be more to come.

PEACE

I've had nothing but good results from QUANTUM MODELS. Everthing I've ordered has come fast and correct
www.quantummodels.com

Say hello to Carla.

In the Twin Cities, look for:

HOBBY WAREHOUSE!!
7120 Chicago Ave S.
Richfield, MN

http://hobbywarehouses.com/hobbywarehouse/index.htm

Udisco here in Montreal, just off the Decarie.
www.udisco.com
Nicer people & less attitude than that 'other' hobbie store in Laval..