ALLIANCE – At the Troll Hole Museum in Alliance, owner Sherry Groom hopes she is about to breaking her own world record for the largest collection of troll dolls in one location.
Groom’s 2,290 unique dolls is currently the Guinness World Records certified world’s largest collection, but Groom re-submitted her collection to Guinness last month in an attempt to more than double her record to over 8,000 of the pointy-haired dolls.
A team of experts and witnesses, led by Ethan Clearfield of Miami University, spent six months documenting the collection and submitted the results, including 210 minutes of video footage and over 8,000 individual photographs, to Guinness World Records on Sept. 20 and plans a “grand reveal” of the record-setting collection on Oct. 27, Groom said.
The museum houses over 20,000 pieces of troll memorabilia, including two buses, dedicated to a creature from Scandinavian folklore which became the second-d highest grossing toy in history.
Groom received her first troll doll when she was five years old and began her collection trolls in large numbers in late 1990s after the second troll craze fizzled and collectors dumped their doll collections by the hundreds, she said.