Hobby & Model Shops in Wisconsin

The Radio Shack in Southridge Mall is part of a national corporate chain of retailers specializing in electronic wares. The store offers a variety of gadgets to help talk on the phone, listen to music, play games and watch television or DVDs. Located on the upper level of the mall across from Kohl's, Radio Shack is easy to find.

Lucky Bob's Raceway, located on Forest Home Avenue at 58th Street, is a competitive slot car race track. It has in stock more than 500 slot cars for purchase and thousands of parts for repairs. Slot car racing is a competitive hobby of racing with powered miniature models of actual cars, which are guided by grooves or slots in the track on which they are run. Lucky Bob's offers GT-1 racing on Mondays, Drag racing on Tuesdays, HO racing on Thursdays and 4" NASCAR and Hard Body NASCAR racing on Fridays. Party packages are available for birthdays and other events.

The Joke Shop in Waukesha is the oldest and largest magic shop in all of Wisconsin. Owner Jeffrey Campbell says his store is "Good, clean, family fun!" Still a practicing magician, Campbell has owned and run the Joke Shop since 1972. He says, "Waukesha is still a small enough town that everybody knows me." He's even been recognized as far away as Florida while on vacation.

Campbell just enjoys seeing people laugh and have fun. He says that occasionally some of the residents of the nearby retirement home will come by, look at themselves in his fun house mirror and have a few laughs, then go back home.

The store is a lot of fun just to go in to browse to see what might peak your interest. Often Campbell will do some magic card or other tricks for you. It carries magic tricks and supplies, costumes, gags, cards, magic and joke books, DVDs, clown and juggling supplies—all kinds of interesting goodies.