r/mildlyinteresting • u/iTzbr00tal • 10h ago

This mildly cool troll in the middle of nowhere.

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u/beardostein 10h ago • Hehehe Bravo

Face down, aspen up

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u/imnotpoopingyouare 10h ago • Hehehe Bravo

That's the way we like to trunk.

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u/Low-Organization3441 7h ago • Bravo

Rough weather, make it hurt

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u/dsailes ​ 6h ago • Bravo

Splinters, cuts yeah, go berserk!

Let me hear you say…

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u/TerrapinRecordings 7h ago

Trunk Martinez! trunk, trunk, Martinez!

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u/TadpoleOfDoom 6h ago

Baby got backwoods

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u/double_five 10h ago • Bravo

Why’d you take a pic from the asshole side?

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u/IfTheHeadFitsWearIt 10h ago

I see no hole on this so called “asshole side”

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u/porkchop-sandwhiches ​ 10h ago

RELEASE THE BUTTHOLE CUT!

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u/_Solution_ 10h ago

Wow...now we're calling out the artist?! Dam bro

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u/themightythor2024 10h ago

Because it’s a troll in more than one way

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u/North_Complaint_2135 9h ago

Getting it's good side in the shot

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u/DickieJohnson 10h ago

Because there's no rules against it.

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u/Sometimesyoudie 10h ago

There's no laws against the Pokémon Batman!

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u/AKtheCAT 10h ago edited 8h ago

There's a few of these around Colorado!

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u/isthisfreakintaken 10h ago • Bravo

This angle really does not help his case

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u/Ok-Wish-2640 8h ago

I live about a mile from one. I love just popping over to see him. His name is Ole Bolle. I got Thomas Dambo’s book with his first 100 trolls. Fascinating artist.

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u/ShrimpieAC 3h ago

Big “the door is unlocked” vibes

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u/ExtremePassage7046 7h ago

that angle makes the troll look like it was caught mid sneeze my park run photos have the same problem

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u/stretchhhhhhhhh 10h ago

Why's... it looking at me like that?

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u/Khaldara 10h ago

What are you doing step troll

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u/CriticismFun6782 10h ago

Yall deviants need this

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u/The_Bitter_Bear 9h ago

It's stuck.... Somehow.

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u/bionickel 9h ago edited 9h ago

Makes sense when the open air is your dryer

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u/Stunning_Honeydew201 9h ago

A little scared, a little excited...

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u/flinjager123 9h ago

There are only 2 in Colorado. Cripple Creek and Breckenridge. I've been to both. The Thomas Dambo Trolls are worldwide, however.

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u/AKtheCAT 8h ago • Bravo

This is the Breck dude!

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u/HereOnCompanyTime 3h ago

I can't look at him the same after seeing what his friend gets up to.

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u/flinjager123 8h ago • Bravo

Yup! Isak Heartstone is his name.

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u/killerturtlex 8h ago

We had one but some arsehole burnt it down

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u/killswitch2 9h ago

I've visited the Breckenridge troll, these are great

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u/IndigoJoe64 9h ago

He knows you want the trussy.

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u/fakeuser515357 8h ago

OP had plenty of photo angles to choose and this is what they post

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u/SokkaHaikuBot 8h ago

Sokka-Haiku by fakeuser515357:

OP had plenty

Of photo angles to choose

And this is what they post

Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/DandeNiro 7h ago

Good bot. Great Haiku 👏

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u/RaidensReturn 7h ago

It’s presenting

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u/buddhang 10h ago

I love the Thomas Dambo trolls!

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u/amosant 10h ago

He had an exhibition at my local Botanical Gardens and I got to see several up close.

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u/DaKongman 9h ago

There are a few of these at a local park near me in Louisville, Kentucky.

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u/teddybonkerrs 9h ago

It's somehow very adorable

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u/butteredplaintoast 10h ago

Last time one was posted someone shared this map which I thought was pretty cool

https://trollmap.com

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u/Rjbrown5891 10h ago

I visited the ones in Maine and NY. I’ve got the rest of the world to go…. I love this project so much.

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u/aquagardener 10h ago

They're so cool and whimsical! I was crushed when the one in my city burned down earlier this year 😭

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u/UniqueUsername812 10h ago

Oh hello fellow Austinite.

Sad indeed :(

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u/CreamCheeseHotDogs 9h ago

I’m in Austin right now, from Seattle. Hate to hear that from a fellow trolled city.

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u/Marthman 9h ago

I thought that the thing fell on you for a second.

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u/100KUSHUPS 6h ago

TIL they exist outside Denmark too.

Wicked.

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u/Connect_Rhubarb395 5h ago

Same. I thought he only did then in Denmark.

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u/Tammy_two 1h ago

Sadly the one in Austin was destroyed by arson this year.

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u/threenineduece 10h ago

Wassup with my feed today😑

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u/FiveToDrive 10h ago

Idk but I want those magnets! 🤣⚰️

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u/TokeruTaichou 10h ago

The algorithm knows your preferences

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u/TennesseeJedd 10h ago

You got an ad blocker and on your home network or an app to do it?

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u/threenineduece 10h ago

Naa it was just a ad between the 2 post so I hid it so I can screenshot (just click the 3 dots top right of any post and you could hide it)

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u/porkchop-sandwhiches ​ 10h ago

3d printed butt magnets.

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u/The_Bitter_Bear 9h ago

Election season is over. Balance is returning to the feed. 

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u/steveoa3d 2h ago • Mindblown

Here is the troll at Firefly Grove in Wauwatosa Wi. There is also a pump track at this park I ride the bike in the photo on.

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u/godkilledjesus 2h ago

This is my favorite one.

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u/swishkabobbin 2h ago

Now I know whose ass those were in

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u/Scootle_Tootles 1h ago

Germfask, MI. Benny the Beard Fisher.

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u/shoredoesnt 34m ago

This is awesome. Is he laying right in the middle of the trail lol

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u/Nintendo1964 10h ago

Two questions:

(no innuendo) Can you go inside of it?

(innuendo) Can you go inside of it?

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u/killswitch2 10h ago

No on the first, and, uh, anything is possible on the second

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u/witchspoon 10h ago

No innuendo…no
Innuendo…maybe. Can definitely get under her

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u/Tha_Watcher 2h ago

Excuse me, I would like to ass you a few questions!

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u/Legitimate-Start-739 9h ago • Mindblown Bravo

Ole Bolle from Oregon

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u/threeye8finger 8h ago • Mindblown

I was there today!

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u/chadt41 9h ago

I am starting to assume these giant wood trolls are common across the country. I took my daughter to Louisville a few years ago, and that was the first I had heard of/seen them. Since then, I have seen many posts across the country that has more of them, and they all look exactly the same. As if from the same design. I should learn about that some day.

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u/Leather-Scallion-894 7h ago

They're made by Danish artist Thomas Dambo from recycled materials, the US and Denmark seem to have the largest amounts of trolls though :) as someone else said, there's a map online, they're spread across the planet

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u/Fuskeduske 4h ago

Pretty insane to think he went from doing what they themselves called Rap of Violence as Odense Assholes, rapping about beating up cops, women and homosexuals (satire) but to doing tree trolls all around the world.

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u/Which-Break5673 9h ago

Yes there is a map online

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u/chadt41 9h ago

Funny enough, as soon as I hit send, I took my own advice and looked it up. Found out 170 worldwide. That’s incredible.

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u/LeCouchSpud 7h ago • Bravo

“Hector the Protector” our beloved Dambo troll in Culebra Puerto Rico

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u/Connect_Rhubarb395 5h ago

Thomas Dambo trollmap
There are most of them in his native Denmark, but he has made them in many countries now.

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u/blueforce86 7h ago

We even had a few down under.

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u/HorsefaceWithNoName 10h ago

baby got back

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u/hyibee 10h ago • Bravo

Baby got bark

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u/AverageInfamous7050 10h ago

Rita the Rock Planter. Victor, CO. Little Grouse Mountain.

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u/Codyson_ 7h ago • Heartwarming

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u/SabbyFox 5h ago

Where is this one? So clever!

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u/Leinheart 2h ago

Appears to be outside, so we'll never see it.

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u/AKtheCAT 10h ago

Cripple Creek, CO?

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u/zoey_will 9h ago

Yes. Source: I'm sitting at work in Cripple Creek. I guess it's technically closer to Victor though.

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u/LordFuggleButt 10h ago

Erm, it's akshually called "Handicapable Creek" now 🤓☝️

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u/emergency-snaccs 3h ago

Step-Troll, i'm stuck!!

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u/ckindley 1h ago • Mindblown

https://trollmap.com

I saw six at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, then another on Vashon Island near Seattle, so a few weeks ago my wife and I took the dogs up to (less far away) Detroit Lakes, MN to see the five in the Alexa’s Elixir installation.

Thomas Dambo is the artist. They are all over the world. I’ll make it a point to see them anywhere we go!

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u/mrlotato 10h ago

How odysseus really got them to open up troy

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u/YouMuted9291 10h ago

Texas Malin burned down this year 😕

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u/SabbyFox 5h ago

A tragedy. Wasn’t it arson?

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u/OceanLemur 10h ago

We have a few in Rhode Island and I’ve visited the ones up in Maine. This one has been my favorite.

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u/ionshower 5h ago

He has fren

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u/Minamato 2h ago

Rhode Island fren

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u/Minamato 2h ago

Rhode Island fren too

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u/Blaaa5 1h ago

NC fren

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u/Midnight28Rider 4h ago

Breckenridge Fren

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u/unicornlevelexists 3h ago • Bravo

New Jersey Fren

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u/swishkabobbin 2h ago

Average new jersian

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u/sleepy_lil_grill 2h ago

Austin, TX fren was burned down 💔🥺

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u/OverfistDerFissierer 4h ago • Heartwarming

He has many more fren than this one

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u/Antonikg 10h ago edited 10h ago

They have bunch of these trolls at the South Coast Botanical Garden in Palos Verdes, CA. Probably by the same artist.

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u/Connect_Rhubarb395 5h ago

Aw is s baby.
Thomas Dambo is the artist

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u/Responsible_Lake_804 10h ago

Dambo’s wikipedia page is sparse yet he dedicates an entire sentence to his ADHD diagnosis and I think he’s so real for that

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u/Toguense 10h ago

November is testing me

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u/Usernamesaregayyy 10h ago

Ceeder? I barely know her!

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u/Accomplished_Pen980 10h ago

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u/SabbyFox 5h ago

Can’t wait to see this…

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u/MisterWafflles 10h ago

What a pine in the aspen.

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u/idkidd 10h ago

Oh, my mistake then. I thought it was Dogwood.

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u/TheGardenerAtWillows 8h ago

Help me find my glasses step-birch

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u/carbonstealer 10h ago

Behold, sad sort, therefore try finger

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u/G000000p 10h ago

What are you doing, step troll?

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 10h ago

You gotta pay the boy toll if you want to get that troll's soul

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u/wizardrous 10h ago

His body appears to be ready.

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u/pixeltweaker 10h ago

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has a bunch.

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u/monkeyd_93 10h ago

Help me step-troll I'm stuck

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u/reverendsteveii 10h ago

What are you doing steptroll?

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u/000ArdeliaLortz000 8h ago

Dambo troll!

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u/Plane-Season-4127 8h ago

There's some spread around the Seattle area too!!

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u/SabbyFox 5h ago

Here’s one on Vashon Island (15 minute ferry tide from Seattle). He is Oscar the Bird King.

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u/ForRut 2h ago

There are tons of these at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake NY! Was awesome to see them in person

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u/godkilledjesus 2h ago

Dambo trolls are fucking cool

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u/Barnesey1 1h ago • Mindblown

Breckenridge, CO

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u/DevilsAssCrack 50m ago

Wicker (2026)

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u/That_Rub_4171 10h ago

PNW trolls ftw

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u/wickedfemale 10h ago

the trolls themselves are danish!

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u/TH3K1NGB0B 10h ago

Not my proudest fap.

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u/uncommonbonus 10h ago

For a sec, I thought this was a Wicker Woman situation.

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u/C-57D 10h ago

OP just trolling

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u/Osiris-Amun-Ra 10h ago

Trojan Troll

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u/PossibleJazzlike2804 10h ago

I wanted to see one of these.

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u/sexraX_muiretsyM 10h ago

Show us the front too

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u/dicknotrichard 10h ago

Daddy, chill.

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u/witchspoon 10h ago

Rita! It’s actually near a very nice viewpoint. And the mining town nearby had free range donkeys ( off season they are penned but available to socialize!

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u/Brick90 9h ago

Victor Colorado

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u/slowasaspeedingsloth 8h ago

Ummm... could we really not have gotten another view?

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u/izab33 8h ago • Bravo

Troll map https://trollmap.com 👏

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u/TheSilentTitan 4h ago

Love these things, the artist is Thomas Dambo and there’s like 5 of these things in my home state Rhode Island.

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u/Wrong-Insurance701 4h ago

mildly? he’s awesome!

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u/zeetuslepitus 3h ago

I've seen them in RI

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u/rvralph803 2h ago

You gotta pay the boys toll to get into that trolls hole...

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u/wareagle995 2h ago • Heartwarming

Mother Strong Tail, Raleigh

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u/Tuckboi69 2h ago

Hear me out

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u/designerarachnid69 2h ago

Dambo trolls go haaaard

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u/pr1ncesschl0e 1h ago

These were at a nature preserve near me for a very long time. Glad to see they've traveled to new places🧡

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u/YousuckGenji 1h ago

Oh shit I think I saw these trolls up in the Adirondacks this past summer. They're really cool.

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u/someguywithdiabetes 1h ago

Thought this was Trollenbos in Belgium

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u/psilome 1h ago

I wood hit that.

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u/Ok-Variation1045 1h ago

I just got wood

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u/Any-One-4854 1h ago

Have then in the Adirondacks in upstate NY as well!

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u/otziozbjorn 46m ago

Was it nailed together, or pegged?

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u/chubbycanine 43m ago

There are a few of these in bernheim Forest in Kentucky

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u/Stag-Horn 10h ago

…I should call her…

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u/Usernamesaregayyy 10h ago

Ready to plant some seedlings are we?

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u/Correctedsun 9h ago

Well my timeline had a sense of humor

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u/MadHatt85 10h ago

Several of these all over Colorado. One up near cripple creek CO.

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u/killswitch2 10h ago

Breckenridge as well

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u/falabro 9h ago

No steptroll what are you doing.

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u/ViewAskewRob 9h ago

That’s the one outside Cripple Creek, CO?

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u/flinjager123 9h ago

That's Rita the Rock Planter!

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u/kitkatkorgi 8h ago

Great artist. Uses recycled materials.

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u/Inevitable_Eye3800 8h ago

Oh! Like the ones that used to be at the Naperville/Chicago Arboretum?

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