Mid-South Hobbies is a large, family-owned hobby shop founded in 1996. It is described as the only hobby store left in Memphis and a treasure with a huge selection. The store has everything for hobbyists, including a wide variety of trains, tracks, and model train accessories. It features an indoor slot car track, a rock crawling course, and a mini car race track. The business carries RC boats, planes, trucks, and cars, supported by a large RC parts and accessories department. It also specializes in rare and hard-to-find plastic model kits, from antique cars to military vehicles and planes, plus the largest selection of paints, glues, and accessories. The store offers a wide variety of collectibles like action figures and comic books, as well as board games, embroidery kits, puzzles, and literally anything fun and creative. The environment is lovely, making visitors feel like a kid again. Employees are amazing, helpful, and provide a pressure-free experience where families can play and have fun. The store has the widest selection of hobbies in the Mid-South and is a highly recommended experience.
Awesome old school hobby shop. Have a huge slot car racetrack inside along with a mini off-road track for your rock cars. Race tracks outside for events that they have. And a huge selection of trains and RC cars and parts definitely recommend
April 2026
Always a pleasure to visit. Very friendly and knowledgeable staff. If they don't have what you need, you won't be able to find it anywhere else. Love them.
March 2026
I've been going here since I was a kid, and I still carry my son to crawl on their crawler course. Employees have always been helpful and treat you like family.
