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 K. sends in this sad commentary on some of the people in our hobby.

Writes K.:

At my local Walmart in Lockport, IL, which is rated by the company as one of its top 5 stores in the country somehow, I am constantly finding these horrible swap outs. I’ve brought them to the store’s attention and different managers many times. I am pretty sure it is the same troll that has been doing this to at least 30 figures I’ve found since the Rise of Cobra line came out.

Yesterday’s find of the just-released vhtf Low-Light was particularly horrible and I had to take a picture before I turned him over to the Toy Department Manager.

For some reason, this one just out-and-out pisses me off as an example of blatant theft. I’m not even going to make fun of the creepy shirtless dude in the helmet. I’m just going to wish the worst upon the human being who did this, no doubt created when an irradiated sperm met a gangrenous egg.

But I commend K. for actually taking some action this time–if he reads this post, perhaps he can let us know whether the manager actually took the thing off the shelf?