UPI – A British board game enthusiast has surpassed his own Guinness World Record for the largest collection of Monopoly board game memorabilia, which now totals an astonishing 4,379 items.
Neil Scallan, whose collection primarily consists of unique Monopoly editions, first claimed the record in 2016 with 1,677 sets. He broke his own record in 2017 with 1,999 sets and again in 2018 with 2,249.
Scallan’s ever-growing collection has solidified his status as the record holder.
“I started with the standard set, then began collecting editions from different countries as I travelled,” Scallan shared with Guinness World Records.
“On the sets, when you’d go abroad, would be places that you’d visited, so it was a nice double whammy. It was nice to have something which was a memento of your trip and all the places you’d been in a collectible.”
Scallan said there is one item still missing from his collection: a rare edition of the game created for the Cronulla Sharks, an Australian rugby team.
“The set that everyone is after, and even myself, is Cronulla Sharks from Australia,” he said.
“I was in the (game board company) Winning Moves headquarters in Sydney, and they had one on the shelf, and I was looking at it saying, ‘Please can I have it?’ But he said, ‘It’s my own personal edition’.”
