I'm disappointed. I happened to see a Hobby Lobby while in KY over the weekend and dashed in (with 5 minutes to spare!) looking for boatloads of cheap JL slot cars. No such luck! Everything was nearly at suggested retail price, like $12 for R7 TJets and $14 for F&F XTs. The pile of cars looked like they'd been thoroughly picked through, with all the white thunders and XT Chargers long since gone. There were some chrome bats. Even the inventory of two (2!) newer Lifelikes were up there around $15, although the older purple Cartoonlike Superbirds (4!) were only $12, which is only $2 more than Lifelike was dumping them online several months ago. The bottom line is that the mere presense of a Hobby Lobby does not guarantee that you'll be able to pick up slot cars on the cheap. All in all, the HL I visited didn't impress me much as a hobby store. It was basically a Michaels or JoAnns craft store with a tiny section with plastic models, surprisingly little diecast, and a tiny handful of HO slot related stuff, mostly Lifelike. No RC, 1/32, trains, planes, rockets, etc. Given a choice between getting a HobbyTown USA and a Hobby Lobby in my town I'd pick the HobbyTown USA any day, but hey, I'm really not into dried flower arranging or sewing oven mitts. But if you can get JL slot cars for less than $5, grab whatever you can carry because that is a great price. It's about what a Pit Kit costs, and what's a better pit spare than an entire spare car?