Simpson's Hobbies Shop — Local services in Wilmington

The advent of online shopping is slowly killing the small store, so to find one still in operation is such a rarity and a real blast of nostalgia for people within a certain age bracket. The owner tries to open up by 12:00 most days and having reached a venerable age serving the model enthusiasts of his community has certainly earned the right to this eccentricity. For a relatively small property there is a good stock to browse through. Being a tourist from the UK I can hardly become a regular customer, but I can at least urge any model makers in the Chadds Ford ,Pa area to pay a visit, chat with the owner for a while and buy a few items however small. One day soon we will no longer be able just go look for something interesting and talk with someone of...

I don't know the man's name, but I just refer to him as Simpson. He is a very nice and patient guy, and I thought I owed it to him to recommend his shop to others. He sells items for a wide variety of hobbies you may be into as well as some jewelry and other things. I went in there looking to price out small RC helicopters and walked out with a rocket kit like I had when I was a kid. He walked us through the whole building and launching process as my memory slowly started to fill in the rest. That day, we built it, launched it, and lost it and came back the next day for another. He told us what we did wrong and gave us even more tips. In all, it is a really nice shop managed by a very...

Met the owner. A very nice gentleman with a 96 yrs old wow to see what a century looks like. I wonder if he's a ww2 vet? He's old enough to be a member of the greatest generation when the call for patriots was given the nation rallied to defeat an enemy threatening to take over the known world. Any way I think everyone who reads this review should go check this pla e out he has everything a hobbyist would ever need. I visited uz my son and I run Traxxis truck. He has all the parts and accessories you'll ever need from rockets to rc planes to slot cars trains a d verious rc cars too. Need gentleman to talk with. . Spend some time there you...