FIGURE SWAPPERS NOT EVEN TRYING ANYMORE !
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FIGURE SWAPPERS NOT EVEN TRYING ANYMORE !
If you live near a Walmart and are lucky enough, you might have witnessed some "figure swaps", or "fig swaps", a lost art that consists on having someone (generally, a selfish, greedy a**hole) buy a figure from Walmart, go home, open it, pick whatever he wants from the package, then putting some other, cheaper, or less-wanted figure back in the package, and bringing it back to the store for a refund. The Walmart employees are generally clueless about it, and, let's be honest, are not paid enough to care.
ToyFarce News has collected a few absurd ones over the years on various Facebook groups and Instagram, and here are a few that should give you a chuckle. Oh, and if you do that... maybe, please don't?
Remember that time when the Bat-Family and KGBeast were in Star Wars? ToyFarce News remembers... Man, those crossovers are getting a bit out of hand!
The Marvel Legends figures are usually victims of figure swaps, due to the 'resealable' aspect of the packaging. Here, we can see Allen Iverson as Shang-Chi, the master of Kung Fu, and the Probe droid from Empire Strikes Back, *CRAMMED* into a Black Cat blister.
That one time when Shuri from Black Panther was the yellow power ranger. There was a crossover with the Ninja Turtles in Power Rangers in Space, so why not a crossover with T'Challa?
At least, this one is honest, saying it is missing pieces... when the entire figure and its accessories are completely missing. I know that Rhodey/War Machine has been recasted already once, but that might be too much.
Last but not least, this is just beautiful. The figure didn't even fit, and in the entire chain of people that interacted with it, nobody at any point, cared. From the idiot putting that figure back in the blister, to the cashier that refunded it, to the worker that put it back in the shelves, not a single person actually thought 'Ok, there might be something wrong'. Amazing!
ToyFarce News has reached out to Walmart to ask if there was a plan to educate their employees to recognize a fig swap, which would include a 20h training, several tests, a quick pop-culture guide to recognize characters and the franchises they belong to, etc... and Walmart simply replied " LOL, no. "
The worrying part is that some people do this for figures of pretty much the same value, replacing a figure worth $20 to a figure worth $20. If you don't have $20, but still need to get the new figures, and technically steal them from the store, you might want to review your priorities and choices in life...
For more fig swaps, go check @swapthefig on Instagram, there are some amazing ones!
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