Hi Hi

{waves from Wimbledon!}

Hello from another UK based member!!

Good luck with the saving and deciding which one to get first

They can be a little addictive. Back in 2004 when I got my first, I thought he'd be the one BJD example in my already huge collection of other types of dolls {LAUGH!!!} I can't remember how quickly I reached the 30s and then went on to having over 50 of the buggers.

Teddy

 

Welcome to posting...and enjoy making that decision on who your first one to bring home will be! I shall always remember my first, so much fun and energy felt during the search, finding her, waiting.. waiting...waiting for her arrival! Then the unboxing and seeing her in person is just so much fun! Hope you share photos once you decide.

 

Welcome to DOA!! I was also a lurker for a long time, but I've been collecting since 2015 and grew up around them since I was a child. So, they've kind of always been in my life lol.

Other than Doll Chateau, are there any other companies you've been considering buying your first doll from?

 

Lifelong collector of dolls, so I already had over 30 years worth of dolls in the house before BJDs came onto the market. This is just one corner of our living room:

(about ten years old - I don't have any pictures from the pre-BJD days)

These days I try NOT to because I ran out of doll display space about a dozen dolls back. But new ones keep sneaking through the cracks. I see new releases here in my daily look at the |New Threads forum here on DoA, or see pictures of a sculpt I like that someone posts etc. I follow a few (VERY few) makers on Instagram too. If I absolutely fall fro the sculpt and HAVE to have it - I check out th details on the makers/company website, to seeif I can afford it, if they offer layayway (I don't like doing that, I'd rathe rhave all the money for it up front), whether it's a limited release that might sell out beofre I save enough etc. and place an order or Pre-order if it's not yet been released. If it's an older/discontinued doll, I check the marketplace here and various other places second hand dolls get listed. Quite often I'm just looking for the head instead of the entire doll as most of my BJDs are children and (especially in SD size) many head sculpts I like are released on bodies that are far too mature to represent pre-teens (or even younger teens), so I then have to find a body that the head will fit on to hybrid a ful doll together. Pickings are slim in one-third/SD-size for immature bodies for boys or girls. Most of my boys are on variations of the Volks SD10 body (I prefer the one with thwe torso joint) with different limb lengths for height variations among them. Likewise, many of my girls are on variations of the Volks SD10 girls body, though some are on the "angel" (genderless) bodies or ones from other companies (some modded to flat-chested by sanding down the boobs), or on Volks boy bodies with the "boy-bits" removed.

The tallest boy (with the black hair, in the brown suit) is my first BJD.

Which is probably more detail than you needed. Sorry - I tend to waffle

My first is the boy in red and blue in my little icon picture. He's a Luts CP Delf Chiwoo. Back in the mid 2000s there were far fewer companies and a lot less choice than there is now. I looked through the offerings on company websites. I fell in love with the Limityed Edition Luts CP Delf Shiwoo. He was already sold-out but I also liked the human Chiwoo so, when I saw one listed second hand on eBay I bought him.

The price for getting him second hand with an otutfit, eyes and wig, wasn't any cheaper than buying new from Luts but I preferred seeing a picture of the actual doll with the actual faceup I would be getting, rather than a generic company faceup on the example on the company website. Also, I was worried about ordering from a company whose first language wasn't English - in case any problems arose with the order and the language barreier made it harder to get it sorted out ( I subsequently found that has not been an issue with any of the companies I've bought from)

Teddy

 

Hii! I just wanted to say I wish you the best of luck in finding your dream doll. I am sure he is waiting for you somewhere.

 

You can indeed. Make sure the neck socket on the head is compatible witht he neck on the body you want and the resin colour is close-enough for your tollerences (some people demand a perfect match, I don't, because most people have varying skin colours between their face and their body), and that's msoto f the hard part done (that and actually gettign hoold of the head and body you want to put together).

Teddy

 

Thank you so much!! He really is a beauty, but I also discovered the Cheshire Cat Ringdoll and now I don't know who to save for first. Guess I'll simply have to save and then go with my gut, haha. Ringdoll really has amazing dolls with such beautiful designs and clothes!

I also checked out your dream doll and he's so cute (and such a mood)! I really hope you can find him... There are so many options to style him. I wonder what the actual original design was though. Guess I have to do some more research on that.

I wonder what made you notice. I love Omori so much, it's one of my comfort games. I can't sew with sewing machines for the life of it but I actually made a few Omori plusies by hand (Cap. Spaceboy, Sprout moles...) and they turned out quite well. In general Omori really got me into doing more diy stuff, so I am a bit hopeful when it comes to making doll clothing in the future by hand.

 

I am also a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland themes. The variety of customes and designs are just endless! His little smile really his my heart melting. I'll really just have to wait and see at what feels right, but before I buy a doll, I'll spent some money on vacation for next year, so we'll see when I'll actually buy one, I hope I manage to save up quickly.

He is! He's so funny but in such a cute adorable way! Oh, I'll see if I can check them out! But honestly, the doll-hobby really lives from creativity and making new versions and designs! Maybe it doesn't have to be in a parallel universe, maybe you get lucky somehow!! Who knows! Sometimes you find things you never expect online or even at flea markets. I went to one the other day and I am a huge greek mythology fan and I discovered the exact sculpture I wanted of the deity I like the most. You just never know!

And omg yes! Just imagine how cute he would look... or Basil. Or Hero. Or all of them! Ahhh!! It'd be so perfect! Maybe I can show you via a private convo. I just have to figure out how it works. Ohh, probably something related to egyptian or greek mythology, something simple, though, just to get started!
Also I can very much recommend finishing the game, it just gets better and better and the ending ... I still cry everytime I play the ending or watch the ending during a let's play. It's so sad, but so beautiful.

 

Okay sadly it does not seem possible to post pictures without having them online somewhere so I could add the URL. I don't have any pics of my plushies uploaded online. Sorry, I would love to show you.

 

Plushies would be off-topic anyway, so you couldn't post them here. You'd need to post them over in the Brigadoon section where there's a thread for off topic figures etc.

Teddy