A man found collecting spice dolls for years!

 Here at Ripley’s, we take delight in honoring the implausible. So while Adam Weatherly came to our interest, we felt forced to speak with him and honor his series. Adam has spent many years gathering the entirety and some thing related to the Spice women dolls, and he has the largest and most expansive series in the global!

We had the privilege of speakme with Adam approximately no longer simplest his series, but additionally about how he were given commenced and where he desires to take it, together with his purpose being to get the Spice women dolls identified with the aid of the countrywide Toy hall of fame!

So, with out in addition ado, please revel in our communication with Adam Weatherly:

tell our target audience a bit bit about your self.

My name is Adam Weatherly; I’m 37. I’m an artist and collector. I gather many stuff, toys being my principal consciousness. I currently live in Christiansburg, Virginia (that’s very near Virginia Tech for those not familiar.) i used to be born and raised in Princeton, West Virginia.

How influential was your family in developing your ardour for amassing?

I’m very fortunate on the subject of my own family. i've had such a lot of adult male collectors inform me their mother and father wouldn’t let them play with or collect dolls. no one in my existence has ever advised me that I shouldn’t play with or collect dolls.

My first doll changed into given to me by means of my Aunt Sally; it turned into a Strawberry Shortcake doll. She additionally accrued celeb dolls. So, my love of Strawberry Shortcake and superstar dolls started together with her. My cousin Sonya accumulated KISS products; my Aunt Rosa accumulated Bryer horses; my mom accrued Snoopy, Rudolph and the Beatles; and my father amassed information and westerns.

My biggest have an impact on turned into my brother Jason and his love of Dolly Parton. He has collected everything he can get of her his whole lifestyles. He taught me greater approximately gathering than i can even begin to listing.

you presently have the world’s largest collection of Spice women dolls. What changed into it about the Spice women that inspired you to start your series?

i was completely obsessed on the Spice girls from the instant I noticed them on tv. It simply made sense for me to acquire them but also, it’s like some thing simply known as me to them. I recollect seeing the prototypes on the information being discovered in London. At that moment I desired not anything extra than the ones dolls. I’m still searching for that very set of prototypes. I sincerely wrote Galoob [the toy company] a letter asking if I may want to have them. I nevertheless have the response letter that became a well mannered “no.”

I unluckily wouldn’t get the primary set of dolls called female electricity till I had eBay as an person. They offered out so fast; I by no means even noticed them on cabinets. another time units came out, I promised myself i used to be going to have they all. right here i'm, almost 25 years later with 500 plus dolls and that i’m no longer executed. I be counted every version and bootleg and that i ought to have them boxed and loose.