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A Willy Wonka superfan's £150,000 world of pure imagination includes exclusive merchandise from the new movie ahead of its release.
Nick Anderton, 44, started collecting memorabilia from the film franchise in 2005 and now has around 2,500 items in his 'Wonka Wing' at his home.
His collection features the handprints of Gene Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film and he even has an original Wonka Bar from the 1971 version of the film.
And he has now been given merchandise from the new film - called Wonka - which will be released on December 15 and stars Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka.
A Willy Wonka superfan's £150,000 world of pure imagination includes exclusive merchandise from the new movie ahead of its release.
Nick Anderton, 44, started collecting memorabilia from the film franchise in 2005 and now has around 2,500 items in his 'Wonka Wing' at his home.
His collection features the handprints of Gene Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film and he even has an original Wonka Bar from the 1971 version of the film.
And he has now been given merchandise from the new film - called Wonka - which will be released on December 15 and stars Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka.
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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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