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.

Leonardo T. Dragon sends along this example of douchebaggery.

Says LTD:

Spotted this little “gem” at the Walmart Super Center in East Peoria, IL.  Apparently Carl “Crusher” Creel (aka Absorbing Man) has performed the greatest use of his signature power yet!  He’s absorbed the shape and articulation of a 25th Anniversary Cobra Viper!  Not only that, but Mr. Creel appears to have forgotten to mimic the Viper’s goggles which are sadly missing.  No word on what happened to the Wasp as this time.

This is the same store where the swapper replaced the Marvel Universe Doom with a Super Hero Showdown Doom– from the same set!!  (If you’re going to be a scumbag, just steal the whole pack instead of doing this.  At least then he’d have had the potential to be nabbed for shoplifting.)

Sigh…

In the spirit of this pitiful creature’s theft, I hope he “absorbs” an intestinal parasite.