My Strange collection: Think you're a Disney fan? Here's a 20,000 piece collection

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This man collects anything related to Disney. He's accumulated more than 20,000 items in his house and even received the Guinness World Records certificate for the largest Donald Duck collection in 2012.

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00:00My name is Steffen Gerdes. I'm a collector of anything related to Disney's dogs and mice.

00:10Close to 20,000 items. About 5,000, 6,000 magazines, books, booklets.

00:17I have most Donald Duck merchandise in the world.

00:23I started the collection of Disney when I met my wife in 1986.

00:28She had a lot of Disney magazines. I was collecting Beetle Bailey.

00:33We swapped the Beetle collection with Disney magazines.

00:41I buy some on the Internet, but mostly friends and family.

00:48I actually don't want to think about how much money I've spent,

00:51but the insurance company has agreed to pay me a million Danish Kroners if the worst thing should happen.

00:59I have a dream of opening a museum once, but as you can see around me, there's no place for visitors.

01:07I have 120 square meters. My wife says that's it. I don't have to expand into the living room area.

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