Looking for Most Important and Critical Hobby History DoA Threads

Ooo that is a good idea! I think this may be a good piece of history to preserve:

/threads/the...py-issue-translated-statement-page-27.100051/

Before all of Dollshe’s problems with orders the past few years, Dollshe (the company and creator of their line of tall male dolls) accused Dollmore of recasting their body to be used for their tall male line. The photos of Dollshe’s evidence (seems to be broken now) showed comparison of Dollshe and Dollmore bodies, with Dollmore having the same mold discrepancies as Dollshe. I remember seeing the photos and they were very damning. Dollshe discontinued their partnership with Dollmore- I think after this whole thing, Dollshe disappeared for a while. The creator came back with a new body- one that would be much much harder to replicate and obvious if anyone tried. Dollmore has since pulled “their” initial tall body and have made their own for their tall line.

I think this was the start of the need and importance to buy legitimate and demand to see the artist’s process if ever there was question of copying.

After this, I think the next biggest accusation was Leeke copying the body of an independent doll artist (I think Dust of Dolls?) for one of their doll lines. I remember Leeke providing photos of their sculpting progress and in the photo, you can see the independent doll maker’s doll body specs sheet the artist posted- indicating Leeke had used the body as “inspiration” but they sculpted the body themselves. I remember there was much controversy over this with collectors divided on the issue; some purchased the doll knowing Leeke took an idea from a smaller, independent company and other swearing off Leeke.

 

My first thought is anything about respiratory protection and resin offgasing. I know the info is on here somewhere because I referenced it when a doll I got smelled strongly of resin even days after arrival. And it is important info.

As for old companies, Orientdoll has been out of business for a while, and I think the only info on them is on DOA (I have a couple of Orientdoll So vampires if more pics are needed)

Another hobby history piece would be names of retired sculpts from companies. Some of the older ones there is very little info about.

 

The Wiki should be saved wholesale. It is very outdated at this point, but because of that it holds a ton of info from decades ago that you can't find anywhere else. I learned about so many companies and sculptors who are now gone.

 

I feel like news archive is really important! I use it a lot to collect info and fact check. It goes down to 2005, if I don't make a mistake here. Huge and important part of history:

/forums/news-archive.48/

 

Definitely agree! Thankfully, the Wiki is at least partially backed up on the Internet Archive. You can help fill in any gaps by requesting that un-archived pages get saved—the IA browser extension makes this very easy. One can do the same for News pages, as these are also public-facing.

Honestly, I would focus more preserving on the members-only pages, as these can't get captured by the IA. There's all kinds of invaluable resources and tutorials in the "Workshop" area which can't be found anywhere else on the web. This one on eye sizes/pupil proportions is super helpful, imho: /threads/realistic-eyes-101.581494/

 

This would be great! As long as you can get it in hard form or long term support online. So much I go to research now runs into broken links. And a great off topic online source I replied on is no longer supported or available to view. :/

I've started two discussions this past year, looking for info on Dollinian (a short lived us company, I may be one of the few still owning one) that turned up some useful origin info, the second on a specific Migidoll sculpt which has turned up some useful historical info about the company as well as Yugin specifically.

I was just commenting in that thread on how easily online detailed info can vanish & the few bjd books written around 2005-2009 include many artist & company links that are now broken.

I'm excited to hear what you decide to explore, collect & how you decide to store for future reference!

 

Wiki 100%!

Sold dolls archive is super useful when any kind of pricing info is needed (either to sell old dolls, or know how much to save up etc). I know it's cleared out after a certain time but maybe good to grab all there is now at least.

Product and Service reviews and waiting rooms - even if not up to date any more, it's again great and needed research material when shopping for dolls.

 

O good thinking!

 

Also - personal feedback! I'd recommend backing your threads up somewhere for the future - not sure how much it would be worth after the forum closes but years of transaction proof will surely come in handy when selling second hand.