If you could go back in time...

I don't think I would have made any changes doll wise... perhpas I may have gotten my Elf Lishe when she first came out.

But there are things I would have done differently:
I would not have bought half the clothing I own... and I would have snatched up several outfits I missed out on in place of those. Shoes as well.

And there are several pairs of eyes I have now found that I can indeed live without. Who knew?

 

I think I'd have stayed with just Harumatsu and Jen.

Well, and Teacup... and Kess... and definitely Al... and maybe Issun...

Anyway, like Rynn, I wouldn't have anything like the group I have now. It's much, much easier never to get the dolls in the first place than it is to downsize a collection after you've become attached to all of them.

 

I think if I did it again I probably would have gotten DOC Too and Bee-A instead of my Volks Sakura. Much as I love her I want them too and it took me so long to get a second doll as it is....forget one her size....As it is I found them a couple months after I got her. heh. Ah well I don't regret the way things happened though! I love my little Anathema dearly~

 

I regret the level of responsibility I demonstated in not buying the recent Soom Sard while I still had Beryl on layaway. I REALLY wish I'd gotten him.

I also wish I hadn't gotten Beryl as a full set. Most of my regrets are buying something I liked at the time but decided I didn't like later. Full set Beryl and full set Celine are the two big ones. I wish I'd just bought the dolls. But for the dolls themselves? I only have five, six with Beryl who I just paid off.. I don't regret and wouldn't trade any of them.

 

I acutally wish I had known about BJD's in general alot sooner!!! (just got into them about 5 months ago)
Because then when SOOM's Sard-Night Odessey came out I could have gotten him before he sold out T.T
And I'd probably have my Floy by now too, instead of having to wait a few more months to gather money.... ^^;

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i would have bought extra outfits when i bought my dolls. my boys spend most of their time naked, huddled under a blanket together shivering like a paid of nude homeless people (not because they don't have any clothes, i just prefer to be nude at this stage) but hopefully, once i get some clothes to fit their characters it would be good.

i also wish i had got my Elf Ducan before i got my Homme Ivan...the size difference was a huge shock to me.

 

If I could go back in time...I really would not have purchased certain dolls I have now on impulse!!!.....I wish I had of restrained myself like I can now!! I take my time....I also would not have bought so many outfits for them...as I like to sew now!....I will probably put some of my dolls up for adoption soon!!.....I would be happy to own only Dollstown exclusively...*sigh*......as they(DT) are really the only ones that fit my characters......I'm learing from my mistakes I guess.......

xen

 

I would probably have one more doll than I do now (or have incoming, or plan to order soon).

...I would, however, have had to build a new room for all of the wigs and eyes and boots and bits and pieces that have long ago sold out that could be coerced into fitting them.

 

I would change only one thing:
Yelena's mold.

I wouldn't buy a dollzone cherry, but a CP dark elf soo instead.

However, currently I have decided to safe up and buy a DES to transfer Yelena to a new mold.
The dz cherry will get a different personality/character.

As for my other dolls, they would be the same as they are now.

 

The only thing I would change is some of the accessories I've bought. The only piece of clothing intended for BJDs that I've bought nobody wants to wear, I have a pile of excess blue eyes, and nobody I expect to buy in the next couple years will wear them, and the only thing I got from the Monique wig was that Tanal actually did want long hair.

As far as the dolls? I don't think I could adore Tanal any more, so I'd still get him first. The other two were forced timing because of discontinuation, and I'm kind of glad that I had to get Christopher early... the extra time has let me realize there's a better sculpt for thothep than I'd originally been planning on... and it's cheaper so I can reach the four of them sooner.

 

hmmm going back in time with what I know now would surely make me change some things.

I knew and liked BJD's for 3 years before buying my fist one on fear of discontinuation. so another time around I would just buy him immidiatly.

that would have left me with more money and would have gotten me a DOT Shall on just liking her for a long time.

but I would still have gotten my Tatiana.

so in the end I guess not knowing saved me money because of late I have lost my interest in Shall

 

If i could i would have brought alot less dolls that i went on to sell, an only have the small collection i do now.

 

i wouldn't do anything different now that i entered the hobby, but i'd like i never knew about it. my life would have been so simplier...

 

I would have bought the Shinsengumi Kurogatsu Bermann when he was sitting unsold on the Tensiya site, because I really loved him and I talked myself out of the purchase for weak reasons. But otherwise . . . nope, life's good.

 

I couldn't agree more. I love all my girls NOW but I wish I would have held off buying at least four of them (I couldn't pick which four since I like them all now that I own them)...I NEVER NEVER NEVER wanted more than five....THREE was my ideal number.

 

Things I would have done differently?

1. Prepare a home for them, and finish up their beds, and chairs before they arrived.
2. Bought a new sewing machine before they turned up to make (1.) easier than having to do it with a crappy sewing machine and mostly by hand.

I'm in love with all my dolls, and wouldn't do anything differently with the ordering of them. I'm already ok with the number of dolls I have/will have. The only ones I'm pining for is a hound/ryu/bermann valentine. And since I refuse to spend 4K on a doll, while I'm earning what I'm earning, I wouldn't have bought them earlier anyways.

Asneth

 

I would have gotten a Hound IM when they were still up and I had the money. God knows when Dollshe will start selling again and if I'll have the money then...

 

Oh yeah definatly. I would have saved harder and probably tried for a dollish U-me. Moreso I probably would have waited to get my boy and gotten my dream doll first. I definatly would have gotten some of the clothes and shoes that aren't sold anymore. I would have stocked up like CRAZY on wigs too XD

 

If i could go back in time i would not have bought all the impulse dolls i had bought.

 

I'm happy with all my dolls - no impulse purchases and I love them all.

Most of my regrets are clothing and accessories:
- outfits I bought that really don't suit anyone
- huge wig wardrobe that doesn't work, I don't like, or don't need
- eyes in fantasy colors that I don't use
- the money spent on above I should have used for shoes, especially ones that sold out before I could get them

 

Not getting the Dollshe husky when I had the chance. And then a week later dollshe close down. -_-

 

If I could go back in time, I would find a way of re-acquiring my SD Kun. I sold her nearly a year ago now to be able to afford my Cristal, and I said at the time that the very next doll I would get after Cristal was another Kun. Well, my collection has increased from four to six and a half in that span of a year, and still Kun has not come back home. My problem is that I like browsing Yahoo Japan and reading up on Dolpas too much. If I find something I like on YJ or in a Dolpa, I know I only have a limited time to try to acquire it.

I love all of the dolls I currently have and haven't broken my bank in order to get them, but my collection would probably be less expensive and smaller if I didn't enjoy YJ and Dolpas so much. I adore my custom Amakusa, but if I'd never seen pop up in auction I would have ended up getting Kun instead of him and I'd probably be just as happy with her.

 

Dx
I would've gotten my first about a month sooner so that I could've bought the outfit I wanted for him BEFORE it went out of stock and vanished .__.
my only regret so far =)

 

Ugh. If I could go back in time, I'd prevent myself from making that black mesh shirt that I put on my Obitsu boy. (I was really good about keeping shirts made out of black fabric away from him, but for some reason, I didn't think the mesh was going to stain him. I'm such an idiot. -_-) I probably also wouldn't have wasted my time making some of the wigs and accessories that I made and barely use...

 

If I could go back to when I found these dolls, oh man I would have jumped on chances back then. Those SD Cutes I would have bought one in a second had I known they were limiteds. Same with the Yos. It's torture for me now cause I know what came out in the time I was just discovering what these dolls were like. A couple of the SDs I would have jumped on (Kurumi, Emma, Cyndy). But if going back meant I wouldn't have the three I have now, I don't know if I'd take the chance.

 

If I could go back in time I wouldn't have bought soo many Pullips. Now, If I could go back in time I'd buy a bunch of old Blythes and make some money wouldn't you?

 

I might have waited to get Xavier all at once, knowing he'd come on Halloween, instead of having his head six weeks before his body. Taffy would probobly still be named Taffy but he would have had brown eyes from the start. Definately his blonde wig would fit better.

 

Both of my kids were impulse buys, and I'm not sure I would've gotten the sculpts that I did if I went back and did it over. Don't get me wrong, love my kids, but sometimes the bobobie bodies just really aggravate me. >.< Plus I really want a big kid, so I might've saved and gotten one bigger kid instead of my two midgets.

 

I wish I had known back then whe I was looking at the DS Saint that NOT to um and ah but to BUY. I was new to BJD's back then and wanted a boy, but I decided to get a PW Viyol! argh! Although I love her to bits and don't regret her, I could have got her any time really and should have bought Saint when I had the chance. C'est la vie...

 

I feel the opposite - I wish I'd got into bjd earlier, before my Dad passed away. I think he would have been very amused and pleased by my choice of hobby and we would have had a great time talking about dollmaking and tools and the like. He was a big man with enormous hands that limited the detail work he could craft, but was always enchanted by miniature tools and fine work and felt expensive creative pursuits were worth investing in.

I have no regrets about the dolls I have, and the ones I missed, well - maybe I will be able to catch something even more fabulous in the future because I didn't spend on those. Now that I am seeing people posting their Soom Sards, I kind of wished I'd decided to drop sanity and go for him, but on the other hand...I can now afford more of my beloved tinies.

 

I would have bought the Haute Doll Jun Tachibana... that was right when I first got into the hobby and I thought OMG, $700 for a doll... that's crazy.

Man was I dumb.

 

SAME HERE.

I wanted the Isao Nanjou version 2 - I had the magazine and could order him, but I thought to myself, 'that's way too expensive' and held off on him. Now I really wish I could find his clothes somewhere.

 

I am very happy with my current dolls, but I also bought a bunch of dolls that I ended up selling, most of them at a loss. I wish now that instead of buying them, I had just bought a lot more Dollheart outfits for the dolls I have. There's only one doll I wanted that I didn't buy and that was a Rasendou girl that came in a kit. I saw one on YJ, but I was very new to the dolls and didn't know how to use a shopping service and then, of course, Rasendou went out of business.

 

I think there are a lot of us out there that wished they had realized the beauty and scarcity of Volks Jun T., and tryed to get one before it was to late. I was one of them. But after having my Volks Emma for awhile now, I believe I prefer her. Also not being able to change the past, one enjoys what they have and believes the best about their choices. I believe... I feel extremely fortunate that my choice of doll is the one I would have picked regardless of what was out there or will be there in the future. However there is one dress from Luts that makes me sick that I missed getting for my girl. I would definitly change that.

 

I knew about the hobby about two years before I actually bought a doll. If i went back in time, I would save up and buy one right there and then. Not that I don't enjoy them now, but I'm sure I would have loved them even more when I was younger and it would have really stuck.
Ah well. I guess they would be yellowed even more today.

 

I am quite happy with my current group, as due to my limited budget I can't afford to get attached to too many! XD But still, I would have saved myself some hassle by not buying certain newly released dolls based only on company pics since by the time I saw owner pics and decided I didn't like them it was too late. >.<

I also would have bought a Scarface Cecil when they came out. It would have been less than it is now, I could have afforded it at the time, and by spending the money on Cecil I would have avoided spending it on dolls that didn't work out anyway.

And I would have KEPT the Jun I bought from Haute Doll when she came out, instead of having to buy her back on the secondary market for an arm and a leg years later.

 

I love all my dolls very much, but there was once (right after I got Pandora) that a limited doll came out that I would kill for! Before I could get the money, all the dolls were gone v_v

 

if i could go back in time i would have discovered bjds sooner and bought a lovelyhouse shin b and shin cho. those are 2 dolls i really wish i had.

 

Yes definitely, if I could go back in time, I would have not let those opportunities pass me by, where I could have gotten those dolls I wanted, so easily when they were available at the time. I wouldn't be scouring for every cent to afford those dolls, like I am now, because of higher secondary market value.

 

I would have stopped wasting time looking for a SD (they are just too big for me) and gone straight for the tinies.

 

I think too I would have been a little more selective of the dolls I bought. I would have gotten my Narae much sooner and maybe wouldn't have impulsed on some of the smaller dolls I got so quickly.
Stella

 

I've been in this hobby for over a year, and of course I didn't get my first doll until four months ago. I'm still a bit new to all of this, but I really don't feel any regret getting Kaet as a Bobobie Sprite. I was so afraid when I first bought her that she wouldn't be what I wanted, and I would have wasted all that money. But it's been nothing but the contrary. I love her and can't see my life without her here with me. I do wish though that I would've bought her another pair of shoes instead of more outfits, but there's still time for me to find some more shoes for her.

Now I've just bought myself another doll, and I did jump on her as quick as I could, but it really isn't considered an impulse buy. She's been on my doll want list pretty much ever since the Pukishas came out. I don't regret this decision at all. She's not even home yet and I love her to death.

Really, my only biggest regret is that I didn't become interested in this hobby sooner. I'm pretty sure my collection and knowledge would be greater now, but things work out the way they should in life.

 

I wish I'd paid more attention. I bought my first doll a Lishe in 05 and after that I didn't even go back to the Luts website! It never occured to me that there were things like limiteds and new molds! I don't know why, I just kind of ignored the doll world until joining DoA (which I didn't do even after reading the Haute Doll on Dollfies- mostly due to a slow internet and some problems I had at the time.) So I missed out on a lot.

Plus after reading the Haute Doll article it put the fear of god into me that all dolls other than Volks were cheap horrible knock offs! For awhile- until going to a doll meet at San Diego Comicon- I didn't know there were other perfectly legitmate makers out there.

I though my first doll would be a Volks Kun but I had no idea how to go about getting her. After the afore mentioned doll meet though I saved and saved for a Lishe and a friend of mine ordered her for me.

I sort of wish I'd gotten a Kun because I don't think I ever will now due to a lack funds, and I tend to jump on limiteds when they come up and I want them instead of 'staying the course' to get a standard. I blow my money in little fits to get LE.

 

Absolutely not...I've only gotten into the hobby a few weeks ago and have finally gotten my first doll just yesterday. I know that many have waited much longer, I happen to have gotten lucky. My boy Kazuo is from dollzone 44cm megi-2 and I absolutely love him. I knew about the hobby before I actually got into it, and didn't realize how attached you could actually get. But now that I have gotten one, I don't find myself looking at dolls on websites to actually order. I do look at clothes though. He is all I think about, when I'm not at home and he's not with me. I think about him, sort of like a worried parents. It's kind of scary. I have all these plans for him and what not and I am just sort of blessed that I have him. He's more perfect then I expected him to be.

 

no i don't think i would have done anything differently. actually i would have looked in the market place before hand to see if anyone was selling the doll i wanted for less then what she ended up costing with shipping and stuff.

but i think that i made the right choice. i got into dolls about 3-4 years ago and i spent over a year researching the type of doll i wanted, and making sure that she would be perfect. in the end i am very happy. some times i see dolls that i think are really pretty and i would love to have them. but i don't think i am the type of person to be whatever looks pretty at the moment. the doll would have to be someone important, you know?

 

In theory, I would have been more careful with my first doll. However, I believe that each and every experience shapes us as people, so in practice, I wouldn't change anything, no matter how small.

 

Well, since I am still relatively new to the hobby, I think my answer will probably be a bit different now than it will be in my years to come.

I don't regret buying the two dolls I have bought so far, I love them both so much, even though my second is set to arrive tomorrow. I know I will love her to tiny bits, and I don't think I will end up regretting buying any of my to-be-resin children!

 

If I could go back in time, I would not have talked myself out of getting Soom's incredibly awesome Sard when I had the chance. Im kicking myself now! (Why-oh-why did I choose that moment to be an adult about my doll buying habits?!!)

Additionally, I wish I'd gotten into BJDs sooner! In 2005, I kept hesitating, even thought I was totally enthralled by them in Haute Doll Magazine. Add to that that Im not very computer savve, and I just couldn't figure out how to get one! But, once I finally got my hands on my first BJD in March 2006, (thanks to the now defunct Sunrise Doll Shop) my Barbie, Gene and Tyler collecting days were officially over!

 

I also really wanted Sard, but there's no way I'd trade in my roomie's very first con (Otakon) experience for him. As much as I lust after Sard, I got to see three bands in concert, as well as see my roomie jam out to the concert, and get blown away by the sheer immensity of everything she saw. And those are precious memories.

So no, I wouldn't change anything. Everything in my life - dolls included - happened and will happen in exactly the order it should.


Tacti

 

If I could go back in time, I would have gotten my first doll a lot sooner! I put it off for years. I doubt that I would have gotten my Bobobie Apollo first back then though and I wouldn't trade him for the world (he just gets more beautiful every time I look at him )! So I guess I don't have too much to complain about. n.n

 

I've pondered this question myself... and I don't think I would change anything about my first year of collecting BJDs. Everything seemed to happen for a reason, as far as who I collected, and how their personalities worked out, and the pleasure they brought me. After that, well, there's a few I really could have done without, and not let it get so crowded here... but most of them have a place, and I would hate to break up families.

There are a lot of wigs I sure could've done without!!!

If I could go back in time, I would've bought less fashion dolls, to have to get rid of now that the BJDs consume all my time, energy and devotion...

 

If I could go back in time, I would've never tried to take two of my precious non-ABJD dolls with me to Paris and lose them during inspection of my carry-on luggage. But back on topic, I'm really happy with my ABJD collection and don't think I'd change any of them. I do wish I had known about a few gorgeous outfits when they first came out, or been able to pre-order some that sold out in moments. Oh well, sometimes the quest can be fun, as long as you can claim a few victories now and then.

Juli DC

 

My biggest regret is discovering the MW BW limited Leila only after she was long sold out. And right now I'm having this dilemma on whether to get a doll for the sake of its mold or the love of BW and color coordination. -_-;

 

I would've saved for my KDF Cherry, rather than jumping on the DM Isaac I have. I bought him because he was less expensive, but he definitely did not fit what I had wanted. I did end up getting my Cherry, and while I'm more attatched to him than my first now, I can't sell my Isaac because he was my first and I'm bonded to him.

 

the main thing I owuld do differently is I would have bought a Dollshe SA Husky while they were readily available and waited to get my Mecha Angel Sabik

at the time though it seemed like Dollshe dolls would be available indeffiantlythere was no info on exactly if/when more Mecha Angels would be made , so I did what I thought was sensible at the time lol