Who's got the world-record largest minifigure collection?

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

Some time ago, TLG wanted to know who had the largest minifigure collection in the world. You can read this article on The Brothers Brick.

However, the outcome was never announced, and that article is more than two years old. Do we know who has the largest minifigure collection? Also, it would be worth noticing that this depends on whether we count unique figures or total amount of figures.

By the way, this is NOT a topic to discuss how many figures you've got (the mods have pointed out that belongs to this thread ). This topic has a different focus. However, if the mods believe that this topic belongs to that other one, or that this has been discussed before, please point me in the right direction, and even delete this topic if it isn't necessary.

[K-Nut]

Totally madoka. He has a seperate house for his hobby! That's dedication right there.

But in all seriousness, I don't know.

[AmperZand]

Hello Johnny,

I don't know the answer but I do know something about how collection records are set as I was called upon by Guinness to officiate over a collection record claim (a non-Lego one). Guinness stipulates that collections must have been accumulated over a period of time and can't include duplicates unless the item being collected is normally in multiple quantities, e.g. socks or earrings. So some rich person couldn't buy a vast number of the same minifig from TLG and be awarded the record by Guinness.

Amps

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

Hello Johnny,

I don't know the answer but I do know something about how collection records are set as I was called upon by Guinness to officiate over a collection record claim (a non-Lego one). Guinness stipulates that collections must have been accumulated over a period of time and can't include duplicates unless the item being collected is normally in multiple quantities, e.g. socks or earrings. So some rich person couldn't buy a vast number of the same minifig from TLG and be awarded the record by Guinness.

Amps

Thanks for the info AmperZand. On a slightly off-topic note, did they give you the record? Could I ask, what was it on?

By the way, very nice avatar.

So all it would take for somebody who thinks that he has the largest minifigure collection is to make a claim at Guinness? Why don't the people with those monster collection do that? I would love to know the answer to this topic's title.