Based in Montreal, Quebec, Udisco sells everything from plastic models, electric trains, remote control planes, boats, cars, and helicopters, to premium balsa wood, figurines, puzzles, die cast, and more! Udisco also stocks a wide assortment of accessorie
“They built a big forest and spent $2,500 on trees.” Lyon Kunin is talking about the hundreds of miniature trees film set designers recently bought at his store Udisco. Located on Décarie Boulevard in Côte-des-Neiges, Udisco is the largest hobby wholesaler in Canada and was founded by Lyon’s father in 1944. “Hobbies have evolved because people are creative,” says Lyon. “It’s whether the hobby materials that we sell integrate with their ideas.”
People return to Udisco because of the customer service that is not available when buying online, a valuable option when you are investing in products containing rare parts and are intricately constructed. Udisco attracts all kinds of people because of the vast selection of products for common or peculiar, specialized needs.
“Bombardier comes to buy precision tools, architects come for structural and scenic materials and teachers use our rockets to demonstrate the laws of geometry,” Lyon says. Udisco has a 60,000-item inventory ranging from wooden ships, paints, glues, casting materials, figurines, cars, electric trains and more. “Repair is a necessary service that we reserve for customers, only for what we sell,” Lyon says.
