Toy Aisle Trolls is a feature highlighting acts of vandalism to in-store toy items. If you find a ruined package, a stolen figure, a swapped-out figure, or any other such acts, take a photo (cell phone photos are fine if they’re not blurry) and email them to poe AT poeghostal.com.
Poester T16SkyHopp (I think that’s his handle) sends this one in.
They just stole Egon. And tore off his name tag to make it less obvious he is missing. Lame.
Yeah, Egon. It’s not like we haven’t already had two Egons available via Mattycollector. He’s the most common Ghostbusters Classic figure out there. And the only one this guy stole.
Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly, and apparently, profoundly stupid lot.
JediCreeper
@3B: if it was stolen in store, an employee might not have noticed.. especially during christmas time..
I'm wondering if the jerk just wanted the trap and took the whole thing for the hell of it…
3B
I know the employees aren't always knowledgable about the toys, but WTF?! A whole figure is MISSING from the box! How do they not notice that?
dayraven
may this d-bag get a stocking full of spawn christmas issues and a sound thrashing from the krampus.
muldertp
My TRU actually did have that happen. Someone stole a figure from each of the sets in the store. That just seems like a lot more work than stealing them all from the same package. And a jerk move that prevented anyone else from getting one at that store (since they wouldn't even repackage them together into one set to sell me). I had to drive across town to another TRU to get my set.
Wyngarde
Notice Winston is looking over, wondering where he went? Is this a clue left by the troll? Sick sense of humor.
Barbecue17
For punishment? I'm thinking something that would scare the dude beyond the capacity for rational thought.
Nik
Email is T16skyhopp, I post as Nik. Not sure why… I should just post as T16skyhopp everywhere…
Heli
Maybe he's going to gradually steal one figure from several sets until he has a complete set of Ghostbusters?
Mecha-Shiva
Maybe the thief needed to mod the figure into "Tootsie" so he could have a date.