Compassion Doll

That link doesn't seem to work...

 

Link works for me on mobile! Try without an adblocker if you have one and you’re on desktop.

 

Here, try this link to the taobao shop:
首页-COMPASSION自制-淘宝网

Meanwhile, I'll just be over here being sad that Cheng is no longer listed, boo hoo hoo.

 

You'll have to excuse the terrible photo, my camera is horrible in low light, the closeup is blurry and also the flash washes everything out on the full body view, but I wanted to take a quick picture of both of the dolls I've managed to get! Flynn and Elvis (!!!!). Flynn is Pink Normal Skin, and Elvis is White Skin. The difference between the sculpts are striking, although funny little details like the same feet being used on both make me laugh when viewing them together.

The posing on both of them, but especially Elvis (likely due to his thinner body type), is STUNNING. I can't gush enough about it. All completely double jointed, with sockets that allow the joint to move smoothly. I'll try and snap some pictures of the dolls posing sometime soon if anybody wants to see.

Other things I've learned: The artist behind Compassion Doll is a bit hard to get a hold of. I missed this round of pre-orders for Goden because it was first-to-message-first-served with only ten slots, and when my shopping deputy friend went to send the message (in under a minute), she made the mistake of thinking that he wanted an actual polite, written-out message to buy. Instead, when he posted the fastest people to message him it was all people spamming stuff like "111" or "an333492". Whoops! OTL

He also does not answer any questions from potential customers unfortunately, if you have any questions you're at the mercy of your "rivals" in the chat according to my friend (everyone is apparently very nice and tries to help despite technically being competitors for spots) who have been around the block before and know this artist's particular way of doing thigs. Elvis was a complete lucky fluke of a buy, he randomly dropped a message in his chat that he had two in stock, with zero information on how to purchase them. My deputy just took a wild guess and bought it through the Taobao storefront (a completely different process than how Flynn was purchased, which was another completely different process still from how Goden was supposed to be purchased, it gets a bit hard to keep track of!) which turned out to be the right way to get him.

Basically it's a game of being the quickest on the draw combined with knowing exactly what process he wants you to use in order to get whatever doll he's currently offering. Sorry I can't offer much more info than that, it's pretty hard to get a hold of his stuff. OTL

Now I need to get a hold of Goden, and my mini-grail Boyd, and I'll be a happy guy!

Spoiler: Warning: Doll Nudity!

Edit: Fixed the broken photos. <<;;

 

AAARGH lucky lucky lucky. It is so nice to see actual owner photos of these guys, at least! And two different bodies, to boot. Daaaaang, they're nice. (Those huge knobby wrists on the Elvis, though! I guess the big hands don't fit the smaller arms so well.)

I keep hoping that some day I'll end up with one of these boys, but the artist is such a snowflake that your poor shopping deputy just cannot keep up! She eventually wrote me a very nice note to let me know that she just couldn't do it. It was super nice of her to try, though.

 

I just stumbled into this thread and I am head over heels in love with Elvis. I'm really sad to know it's really hard to get one. I have zero Taobao shopping experience as well unfortunately. He's def going on my wish list tho. Gosh he's so cute.

 

How can I buy from Taobao?

 

Thank you so much! I never looked for Taobao because I thought there are only recasts on there. Maybe we can set up a group order tho? If we find ten people who want the same doll they may be willing to sell to us? (Hope never dies, haha)

 

It's great to finally see owner pictures of these dolls! It proves they aren't impossible to get a hold of. Though to me it seems way too hard to be worth it. But I'd love to see pictures of anyone else's.

 

I would be down for a group order for Elvis. I am head over heels in love with him now.

 

Man, that'd be lovely and I would be in on that immediately, but apparently the artist is extremely a snowflake forever? Like, in order to get a Compassion Doll you have to sit in a chatroom and wait for the artist to say 'oh, I feel artistic, I guess I could make two Elvises this month, first two people to type something in chat get to buy them' and then the chat explodes in people typing '11111' and stuff.

Compassion Doll isn't a business, really - it's a temperamental artist and the artist's small circle of insular fans - and I think the idea of fulfilling a group order in a business-like fashion would cause the artist to get the vapors.

 

Ugh that sucks. So I will never get a handsome tiny boy

 

I'm not sure I've understand right the message on taobao, but it seem that Compassion Doll doesn't sell dolls anymore? For now at least.

 

Ugh I tried to buy a head this week and they weren’t accepting orders again too hopefully they come back!

 

So the user @Rook_Sever politely asked for some pose photos for my Compassion Dolls and I finally had enough free time to sit down and deliver a bit. (Sorry for the wait, like I said in PMs commissions are sucking up all my time which is why my own dolls go neglected!)

Under the spoiler is NSFW doll nudity, just a warning to everyone. Biggish photos as well! I also had to use a cardboard box as an impromptu photo box since I didn't have my lightbox handy. Apologies for the subpar photos

Spoiler: Warning for Doll Nudity!

So, as you can see each doll has a totally different jointing system. Elvis was made after Flynn I believe, and the body for Elvis has the upper hand as far as aesthetics go.

A bit about each doll:

Flynn: Flynn has some pretty good range of motion and the double joints help immensely with many poses. The biggest complaint I have is that due to his bulky body type he tends to be a bit harder to coax in "natural" poses. The bulk of his frame means he tends to look a little stiff sometimes, though this is a complaint I had with literally any more muscular resin doll.

Elvis: Posing on him is definitely more refined and natural. The surprising limitation I have with him where he performs even worse than Flynn does is with poses pulling his thighs up closer to his torso. The range of motion in those poses is almost nonexistent, so he can't really do poses like pulling his knees up to his chest or anything like that though. Otherwise though he's quite expressive and fun to pose, very easy to coax into multiple different poses and even slightly changing the way a limb bends or arches can alter the entire way he emotes.

One strange random observation is that Flynn is smoother than Elvis. Elvis feels like the body has a permanent talcum powder coating, whereas Flynn feels more like his master copy was covered with a semigloss topcoat before casting.

Overall extremely wonderful for the price tag I paid for them, the quality is very much there for dolls that cost under $300 each all said and done. A shame that the artist is closing up shop for the foreseeable future.

 

@TollTheBell ohhhh, thank you so much for photos!!
I love how Elvis poses his knee Okay, I just love him more And I like the skintone, this is "normal", right?
Hope you'll have time soon to make them outfits, wigs, faceups and so on, and post here more photos!

 

Look! It's a Compassion Doll Flynn! Now finally almost complete! Seriously, his wig was lost in the postal system for literally four and a half months. Yiiiiikes.

@TollTheBell was kind enough to sell me this Flynn and you had best believe I jumped on that. Such a beautifully-sculpted doll, with such an amazing face, and - it must be said - a really unpleasant stringing system. Seriously, it's pretty bad. The headcap is held on by the S-hook - a teeny-tiny S-hook that will zip right through the head hole and hide inside the body at the least provocation - and actually wiggling the S-hook through the tiny hole in the headcap's resin without damaging anything is a nightmare. I actually ended up putting a big ol' scratch in his face when I tried to get the head off the first time. His faceup involves a scar on his jaw for a reason.

Also, his legs are held on by an entirely different (terrible) stringing system. There's a weird little separate 'balance beam' piece inside his pelvis that the legs are attached to, and there's only the shallowest little central dent to hold that piece in place during restringing. Looking at it wrong would make the dent fall off the pelvic 'ledge' and require everything to be unstrung and restarted. I am never going to disassemble this little jerk again.

He is super nice to look at, though!

 

Hi-five, @Idoru! He looks great already. Terrible stringing or no, it's a pity these dolls are so rare and hard to get hold of. They look good and pose nicely!