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In 1959 Thomas Dam was an unemployed danish fisherman. With no money to buy a Christmas gift for his daughter Lajla, he used his family's carving talents to make a gift. He created a wooden, troll doll modeling it after his own mirror image. 51 years later the trolls are going to Hollywood. On June 22nd DreamWorks Animation Inc. announced a deal with Dam Things from Denmark to use the popular Good Luck Troll dolls in a major animated film.
Dam's original troll was so popular that he made more and more and began to make lots of money. The family business, now in its 50th year and based in a small town in northern Jutland, original carved the trolls from wood, then went on to make versions using natural rubber stuffed with sawdust and with hair made from leftover bits of lambskin. The trolls became wildly popular in the hippie 60's and sold in many tourists shops in the capitol, Copenhagen.
Today the trolls are made of synthetics and come in every possible color and size, with troll animals and many other assorted toy products. The trolls are almost a danish icon and are seen in every child's bedroom in Scandinavia. Thomas Dam died in 1989, but the family business thrives to this day. And one can only imaging the demand for these cute little guys after the Hollywood wonder boys and makers of Shriek get their Lucky Troll movie out the on big screen.
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