That ONE item you just about never want from a fullset

I bought only one fullset and it did have an item that i didn't like. The doll was Impldoll Nicolas and he had a skull chest piece and his body was sprayed with black paint around it

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This thing really boxes him in a few creepy looks, but thankfully impldoll had an option not to get it.

 

I'm very disenchanted with pleather pieces or accessories with fullsets. Knowing how quickly they begin to wear and disintegrate is such a hassle. They make such a mess too. I'm starting to just give them away. :/

 

For me, it's usually the wig that gets tossed aside. I'm picky about hair.

 

I don't buy doll full sets, but I did buy outfit full sets often in the past.

Hats were also always the thing that ended up in storage right away. I remember the old Dollheart days and how they always had to include some ugly head accessory
Nobody in our group liked them, and nobody ever wanted to buy them either.

Otherwise, if I'd buy doll full-sets I know that wigs certainly would not stay (I prefer angora for mine) and eyes most likely too (picky about color/type).

 

Eyes. Whether they're the cheap "random" set of toss in eyes or specific for that doll I rarely end up using them. Especially if they're glass. Most of the glass eyes I've come across have pretty high domes and I really hate the way high dome eyes make the eyes look like they're looking in different directions when you view the doll from the side.

 

Hmmm...interesting question! I'm definitely in agreement on the faux leather stuff (it's just a waste of money!).

I don't actually buy full-sets, but I do buy clothing for dolls and sometimes hats come with them - I like hats! They can be a bit same-y, but I figure anything with decent components can be deconstructed and used to make something else.

I'm choosy about wigs and eyes, too, so they would probably get stored.

Other things I don't like? Eh, I don't really care for frilly arm-band-like accessories. Kind of "fake sleeves" if you know what I mean. I'd prefer an actual blouse/sweater.

Also, I don't care for purses. Mori-style satchels, backpacks, etc. are great, but nothing like a designer purse or similar.

 

I don't buy fullsets unless it's the same price with it as without (like secondhand or something), but the thing that comes with dolls that I always find useless is eyes! I have no idea why, but I feel like the majority of default eyes are the wrong size, usually much too big, or the doll needs small irises and the defaults are huge. What is up with that? The default eyes are often poor quality (which is fine, they're free, I don't expect high end), or a color I'd never use, as well. I'm going to buy my own eyes in the end anyway, so now I just have a box of default eyes I'll never use.

In clothing sets, it's usually the fake sleeves like @StellMarigold mentioned, or socks. Unless they are really distinctive and make the set look complete, I am never going to use those.

On the other hand, one thing i love to see included with a doll is extra string! I am guaranteed to need that at some point, even if it's for a different doll. I usually even toss a couple extra sets of string into the cart when I order a new doll.

 

I don't buy dolls as fullsets and I have very rarely ended up with clothing sets, too. Sometimes I do get tempted to buy a fullset of clothes, however - but there are always things that either turn me off or I'd only like to have one item and don't want to hassle splitting the rest. I'd only buy if it seemed like a set I could mix and match with other items I already own.

I agree with head accessories - I like animal ears, horns, proper hats and such, but simple headbands with a ribbony-flowery add-on don't really add value to me, same for armbands, legwarmers etc - I always feel like they are filler rather than nice items to have. What I do like seeing are full garments (aka shirt and a dress, not dress and separate sleeves) and shoe options (especially if it's a fullset including a doll! It's so weird to me if the company pics have shoes/wig and the fullset comes without). I am also more inclined to buy if the garments are something I can't make myself (detailed work, not basic casuals, or including specific resin-cast elements for instance).

 

I almost never buy full sets. One of the aspects I like best about my dolls is putting together outfits myself.

For full set dolls, specifically, it's always the wig that just doesn't do it for me and/or the shoes.

For outfits, I only buy the dealer made full sets if there aren't options to buy the pieces separately. I rather dislike the little accessories tbh. I know they make the set feel complete but it just ends up being filler junk that drives the price up and gets tossed aside for me. Jewelry, especially the broach accessory that every single set seems to have, feel so pointless.

 

I almost always like everything that comes with full sets. One thing though was a full set I got that had a tech gear outfit with a face mask and I never used the face mask as it was black material and didn't want to stain that part of the doll. If I had to pick something I never want in full sets, it would be the eyes as I always have a nice pair handy and the ones that come with the set are usually weird and ugly colors.

 

I'm also on team "rarely buys fullsets" and "doesn't use fullset eyes."

My only fullset dolls have been limited Dollfie Dreams and Volks is pretty infamous for having flat, uninteresting anime eyes. They just don't have the same "alive" feeling that artist eyes tend to have! All of my vinyl girls get upgraded to nicer eyes down the line.

 

Same for rarely buys full sets. Like, it needs really cool accessories like armor.

But I can not bond if it already has a face up. It's not mine. Not my vision, not my really my choice. It's like, I paid for something that's not even mine. It's a shame really because they can still be so beautiful and I am not very good yet.

 

I’ve been in this hobby for a very long time, and I do occasionally buy fullsets to add a bit of diversity to my own faceups and sewing. I find a little change up in the crew is nice. But for me, it’s those darned random eyes they send! Eyes are so important to my characters, I’m very picky about them. And I swear by now I have an entire bag full of pale yellowish caramel glass eyes I’ll never use.

 

I’ve only once ever bought a fullset and there wasn’t really anything in it that was a problem but I do agree with the ‘pleather’ remarks wholeheartedly, that would definitely put me off.

Another thing I’ve seen in some fullsets that I’d avoid is real fur, I’ve seen rabbit, mink and what looks like fox used quite recently in fullsets by some of the major and well known BJD companies. That’s a big ‘Nope’ for me, I draw the line with purely fur-trade items.

 

I love full sets but it's always the wigs and eyes I toss back in the box.
I really don't like the wig texture unless it's a soy or yarn type fibre or mohair type. The eyes I get tend to be dark brown or yellow which is not my vibe either. I don't split them off though, always keep them with the box and coa so I have the full set original because lets face it, life can get hairy and sometimes I need to part with them and the having the original to pass on is important to me. Plus I always feel that the value is better if it's all original. I agree with Blodeuwedd, anything with real fur automatically gets a no from me.

 

It's not so much not wanting it but I hate it when full set clothing take hours to put onto the doll. I have chronic pain and I distinctly remembered that it took my husband and I to dress our Volks DDdy 2B like 4 hours. We took frequent breaks and we were determined to get her fully dressed because her outfit and props are her character from the game and all that. The clothing was so precisely made that even being like a millimeter or two off wouldn't fit her. Once she was in her outfit, it was a thing of beauty and amazing engineering, but dear gawd...it took me out. I needed the rest of the day to recover and possibly the rest of the week. No joke. I think we had another doll that took 2 or 3 hours but that 2B shall always be the one that nearly broke us with exhaustion.

Oh, and gloves. Love the way they look in pictures and on the doll once you can get them on, but same thing...such precision to put them on. I think we ended up having one of our dolls wear one glove but we gave up with the other glove because it took a long time with lots of care to put it on correctly and not to break any fingers. Haha. I wouldn't sell them as they are part of the whole ensemble, but I cringe when I see gloves are part of the full set package and I hope the hands of the doll have fingers which allow easier accessibility into the glove.

 

In the beginning I didn't get fullsets to save money. IF the full set mostly fits my character I'll grab it, if not, I'll give it a miss. 99.9% of the time full set eyes are wrong for my character. I have an annoyingly 'samey' collection of eyes in a bag with wigs that also came with sets and were not right, or wigs I bought that were not as 'right' in person. Now I'll only get a full set if most of the components will fit the doll they come with or the character of 1 of my other dolls!

'pleather' <-- I never understood this until the last few years. I've been collecting about 10 years now. and all my dolls and thier stuff are kept in boxes to keep them safe! I have noticed that a lot of the shoes and belts and just... disintegrating! I thought it was something I have done... stored them wrong? but now I understand... their 'life' is just rubbish lol Makes me so sad as I LOVE some of my doll's shoes. The fullset ones that came with my Soom Trachy/Lami specifically. and to see that they are starting to have tiny parts of the 'leather' peel away from me just looking at them is a little disheartening :< But I'm glad its not something I've done, and that this is just something that happens I guess :<

and omg! some outfits are made of real fur?!?!!? OMG why?!!? I'm horrified O.O

 

I agree with the hats. But I hate hats in general. Unless it's a pirate set but I don't have a pirate set. (Yet)

Pleather- I hate it so much. It's dry were I live so sitting in a box it doesn't crumble but after lots of use it does. And it feels like I am littering and the creation of the stuff is extremely bad for the environment. You also can never wash it unless you want to put more micro plastics in the water. I don't understand why they can just upsycle real leather. (Or use the leather made of fruit but not sure how long it lasts)

I don't mind props but I don't use them. I find when I buy a full set I don't want to split anything. Because I want to keep the full set even if I don't use it all. It also help keeps the value of the doll. Not that I plan to sell them, but you never know!

 

For me it’s wigs. I have very clear ideas about how I’d like my characters hair to look and the fullset wig almost never lives up to my idea. Additionally the fullset I have bought has a disappointingly dry and crunchy wig that doesn’t look very good.

 

A doll with eyes I can't remove. I'm 90% decided to sell a doll because I can't figure it out. (The eyes are 40% of it.)

 

I rarely buy full sets, but I have occasionally bought some second-hand.

I think for me the biggest pain is if here's an extra head. I absolutely detest having floating heads, and I always end up buying a body. Or in the case of my Soom Trachy his "surprise head" sister is on a franken-body made out of spare Soom parts, because I could not buy a second brick red body. She does have brick red hands, and I managed to blush the top of her neck to a decent match, but otherwise she's covered chin to toes in clothing because most of the rest of her body is white skin (which is all I was able to buy second-hand). (Yes, I need to pluck up my courage and dye her!)

 

Agreeing with everyone who’s said the wig. It’s never in the colour my character needs. I have a feeple60 Sia fullset wig on another doll because my Sia needed purple hair. I have a very large dollmore blonde wig that came with a fullset gal that I have dressed in a different wig. I seem to be collecting fullset wigs and they just sit in my wig box.

 

The stuffed animal.

 

Made me think of annoying Volks dolls with eyes well glued

Normally the wig of low quality....and I have to keep all the unwanted stuff to make it a "complete" set. You are right, it's true that the extra head is a pain, I insist that every head has its matching body, and if I want to keep it. I may also have to have her a makeup. That's complicated, thankfully most heads (of white or normal skin) are easy to resell

 

It’s the wig for me too. I was excited for a wig on one and when it came I was so disappointed.

 

I'm also on team wig I guess. I'll use hats and accessories and all the strange little things that come with fullsets but the wig? Very likely to end up being sold or given to another doll. (or stored for eternity, as is likely the fate of my Reisner's wig lmao) Generally though I don't go for fullsets, mostly because of the price. I will say the exception is my Soom Heliot, who still wears his fullset wig to this day and I just can't imagine him not being a fluffy palomino unicorn. Fullsets can be fun to mix and match though! If I had the funds I'd buy them more often just to do that.

 

I'd have to agree with everyone saying pleather! I'll add on elastic in clothes too. I've only ever bought one fullset (a DD character doll) and it was pretty old (about 11 years I think? maybe more) and all the elastic holding some outfit parts together had crumbled or snapped! I had to repair what was an otherwise "new" outfit set which was not very fun.

I think if I bought a non-character fullset, it would mainly be for the outfit, so I'd probably sell the wig if it wasn't of use to me, and the eyes, since even with non-character dolls I tend to turn them into existing OCs.

Honestly, some companies have such gorgeous clothes with their fullsets, I'm often tempted to buy and split one just to keep the outfit and sell the doll (I'm looking at you, asleep eidolon!! please sell your gorgeous fullset clothes separately) but that's not really in my budget right now.

 

I basically never buy fullsets but if I did? We are ditching the sheer number of stuff covered in huge Crosses. If I wanted a goth-evangelical/catholic doll, I'd ask for one. I really don't like how designers splash those on everything like they don't know it's a religious symbol with specific context and that it's not just a design element that looks cool. None of my dolls are Fantasy Super Vampire Fighting Catholics. Not one. (One is a vampire- and he's strictly Anglican, lol)

 

Hats, head pieces, and the "fussy" bits.
Although my real crime is, I promptly tear full sets apart and put pieces on different dolls. Perfect example: so I just got the Ringdoll Carmilla full set outfit. She comes with some sort of head covering - that promptly went into the drawer. The waist corset was put on another doll to hide the waist band. She's also got some hair pieces that need to be wired into a wig. Can't be bothered. Also placed in a drawer.
Basically, if it falls off the doll easily (those headdress pieces are a NIGHTMARE with cats), nope. In the drawer it goes.
Also, I am the belt terminator. I destroy belts. Not intentionally, mind you. I just haven't figured out how to put them on dolls without promptly destroying them. So belts stay in their baggies, forlorn and unused.
Oh - anything held together with hot glue stays in the bag it came in. Learned that lesson the hard way after a beautiful, ornate shell headdress promptly started snowing glitter and little shell bits with the slightest amount of handling. And it promptly fell off the doll's head, so...

 

My full sets, including the wigs are just stored away.

One doll I got fullset from Mint on Card as it was closing. she was in this adorable Lolita style out fit. I got her home admired her, took it off, packed it up, and changed everything about her, including the wig.

The second one was also an instock doll, but I really liked the fullset until I got it home. Fullsets can be hard to drape like the company pictures. What looked awesome and apocalyptic in the company photos looked like draped rags on my doll, his wig also just looked kind of limp and the part was messy. That outfit was also packed up.

If a company offers a wig that comes with the fullset, but you don't have to buy the fullset and can just get the wig. I have done that. But this is kind of opposite of the question asked. Because I would want the fullset wig, without the fullset. lol

 

Ok for me weirdly it’s shoes sometimes there have been beautiful fullset outfits but the shoes have been so ugly its just thrown me off from wanting to buy the fullset

I am ok with gift heads although I don’t really want anymore floating heads… but a pet peeve of mine is when the company doesn’t actually say what the sculpt is (and its not an event specific head) I had a couple from one company that don’t have any ID markings in their heads and I’m still at a loss for what their sculpts actually are

 

For me when i was super active in buying it was almost the wigs. I almost NEVER like the style/color.

Coming back years later? I wish i’d gotten a few of them. They’d work for ones I was considering now.

 

The doll.
I often see fullsets from companies whose dolls look all samey-samey and are not that appealing to me.
But the outfits and/or accessories catch my eye.
I would have to want those extras awfully bad to go through the hassle of buying the whole thing
and then reselling, but I'm not averse to looking for a split.
That's how I got my Fairyland Absolems!

 

Besides pleather, those hook and thread loops used on garments are a pain to me. While I definitely prefer them to Velcro or even snaps because they make garments lay nicely flat, fastening the hook to the tread loops annoys me.

 

Oh god yes. I agree on the hook and threads. They NEVER want to lay pretty. Give me tiny snaps anyday.

 

So you know what I mean. Aligning the hook to catch the thread loop is difficult for me. Tiny snaps work great. Larger snaps get bulky.

 

I have to agree with a lot of posts here

1.Pleather- down with pleather I say! I’ve lost so many beautiful outfits because they just delaminated…
2.Wigs- never the color, quality or style I like.
3. Random colored eyes. I must have a box of random eyes that are just collecting dust lol

 

I am also on team pleather. I just...hate it so much. I've actually passed up on full sets because of pleather items. Sure, it looks nice in photos, but it won't be long before it betrays me and peels apart. I'd honestly rather pay more for real leather.