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. Also, please note: I’m deliberately being over-the-top with my condemnation of these people–I don’t actually wish bodily harm upon them. Just severe mental anguish.

Today’s edition of Toy Aisle Trolls comes courtesy of Mark D.

“I was getting some supplies at a local Walmart near my college campus in San Diego, CA,  where I spotted something odd. Many collectors by now have read about the Masterpiece Skywarp figure is on clearance for $30, from the regular price of $60. Well, it seems like the person who returned this made this Skywarp more than meets the eye. Not only is the main figure missing, but he was kind enough to put in some replacements (ROTF Arcee and others)…Attached are 2 photos from my iPhone.”

I think I speak for everyone when I say: really, Walmart? I mean, really. One of those things is clearly not like the other ones.

Karmic Payback: One day, the fellow who perpetrated this crime is walking down the street when he spots a wallet lying on the sidewalk. Inside the wallet is some ID and a hundred-dollar bill. At this point the fellow has three choices: take the $100 and turn in the wallet to the police, take the $100 and toss the wallet away, or turn in both the wallet and the $100 to the police. Given his nature, he takes the $100 and tosses the wallet. As it turns out, the wallet belongs to an undercover cop who was recently murdered by drug dealers.

When the police find the wallet, they find our Skywarp-loving friend’s fingerprints and track him down. He isn’t charged, but due to the anxiety from the brutal interrogation, he develops a phobia to printed money and is incapable of ever making a cash purchase again. His over-reliance on credit cards eventually catches up with him in the form of massive debt, finally driving him, ironically, into mugging people and stealing their wallets (though due to his fear of printed money, he has to handle bills with a pair of fireplace tongs at all times). He’s eventually caught by the police, arrested, and sent to jail for five years. Meanwhile Walmart lowers the clearance price of his mispackaged Skywarp another 5%.