00:00 My name's Nick Anderton and I own the world's largest Wonka collection,
00:04 surrounded by over 2,500 items currently and growing by the day.
00:08 Personally, I'm not a massive fan of chocolate. Shock horror.
00:12 So the Wonka collection grows each and every day. Currently, I'm tipping about 2,500 items.
00:17 The collection began in 2004, 2005 when the Johnny Depp film came out
00:22 and I started collecting Wonka bars from that film,
00:25 thinking I'd never be able to earn anything from the original film.
00:28 Over time, I managed to go to Comic Cons and to set up a group online, Wonka Fanatics.
00:34 So there's over 3,000 people in that group and they all find things all over the world for me
00:40 and for their collections. So that's how the collection's grown pretty quickly over the last
00:45 15, 20 years. So this was originally called the Wonka Room. It's a spare room in my house.
00:51 And for me to be actually sat here, I've had to move all the boxes and crates that are full of
00:56 more memorabilia out of here to actually fit in the room. So yeah, this is the Wonka Wing.
01:03 It's nice candy stripe wallpaper. It houses the collection pretty nicely.
01:07 The idea was to have it as like a bit of a can and a candy shop.
01:10 Over time, it's got bigger and bigger. So my top three favourite things in the
01:13 collection are Gene Wilder's handprints. I've also got a chair back that Gene Wilder
01:17 used on the set of Alice in Wonderland in the 90s. And also this screen used Wonka bar.
01:23 Similar one sold at auction in 2022 in December for £23,000. So everything kind of holds its value.
01:32 Currently, if the entire collection was to be sold at high end prices at auction to
01:36 real collectors out there, you'd be looking at about £150,000.
01:40 So I've got many golden tickets. This one is signed by Veruca Salt, Julie Dawn Cole.
01:47 Chocolate, I can kind of live with it, live without it, but it's a confectionery.
01:52 What did they say in the film? It's everybody's non-pollutionary,
01:55 anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun.
01:58 That's what they said when the film came out. So this is my own Wonka Wing of fun, if you will.
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