The piece was the winner of a competition sponsored by the Fremont Arts Council in 1990, and was built the same year. The Troll was sculpted by four local artists Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter and Ross Whitehead. He is interactive—visitors are encouraged to clamber on him or try to poke out his one good eye (a hubcap). The Troll is 5.5 m high, weighs two tons (1814 kg), and is made of steel rebar, wire and ferroconcrete. The artists have chosen to exercise their copyright to control commercial use of Troll images, however, postcards, beer, and other products approved by the artists are commercially available and use is free to non profit organizations.
Now look at our bridge and tell me you wouldn't love to see a troll? But then again the troll has already been claimed. Perhaps a marmot, or some other desident of Peaceful Valley. Whatever might be sculpted it would be a huge improvement to the illegal hideout that currently takes up resident here.