Things about this hobby that you find hilarious?

My 2D 75cm body was listed as "2D 75 mummy body" when I ordered it.
Cause he's got dem big tiddies

I also have the DF-A snake peens and one of them is pretty large. The balls on them is what makes me laugh the most though lmao

 

When you are talking about mods, I know what you mean. I have an off topic doll that had painted eyes and I was trying to cut new eyes for him and my family was super creeped out!

 

While browsing the list of Ringdoll bjd's, I came across this handsome fellow. It would have been an awesome fullset if not for the design of this rather...interesting head accessory.

Lu Su, 78cm Ring Doll - BJD, BJD Doll, Ball Jointed Dolls - Alice's Collections

Ringdoll, why does the headpiece look like a large golden....

Spoiler: ....hooboy *facepalms*

 

I think the funniest things to me are those situations where we've become so desensitized to how bizarre customization/disassembly/etc. can look from the outside and then someone sees us doing our hobby and is like "...wtf" lol. My housemates have become accustomed to seeing various doll bits and pieces/uncanny scenes around the house and now it's something we all joke about. I like to think I keep life interesting for them.

 

Hahahaha!!! That was my reaction too after a second look at the photos.

While I understand that the headpiece is supposed to resemble a dragon with a gaping maw, why design it in a way that when viewing on a different angle, it looks like a large golden <beep!!!> standing proudly on top of the dorrie head? Maaaaan!!!

 

Okay so I was watching an Ask A Mortician video on Youtube about a guy who stole and sold body parts from Harvard Medical School to various people. Obviously, terrible situation for the people whose relatives donated their bodies to help train doctors and instead got sold for profit.

But the thing that tickled me and the reason I find this related to this thread (other than one of the purchasers being someone who created custom creepy non-bjd dolls, fully knowing she was using human parts) was some of written descriptions of Paypal transactions reported in the news. Including a memo that said 'Head Number 7'.

And I'm sitting here realising I've probably sent payments via Paypal with very similar notes on them.

 

I was thinking of this last night… I always found it funny the fact that Dollmore named that one sculpt Huey Lewis

@Crissaegrim OMG I remember reading about that… kind of reminds me of one customs form I got for a BJD where the seller wrote “Barbie Doll head” on it

 

It took me far too long to realize Luts has an "Eddy" and the "Tide". They're always listed in the opposite order! I really like this naming trend.

 

@nyaaain hahaha it’s a little like with Dollshe Saint and Bernard

 

I have yet again found some mistranslations that I can't help but chuckle at (that are certainly v problematic out of context)

I know there is no need to spend! Yet I do!

 

“No need to spend” versus “flowerbed” is hilarious—I’m guessing one is a layaway deposit, and the other is payment in full, but flowerbed has me scratching my head.

 

In swedish, "rabatt" is a homonym meaning both "flowerbed" and "discount". Maybe there is some similar quirk of the original language this was translated from? Othewise I have no idea. It's certainly funny either way.

 

That’s good to know, thank you for the information!

 

This explains why the "full amount is vegetarian only"... I think?

 

Hopefully.

 

It's is very immature of me and not at all original, but the concept of removable interchangeable male privates is my current amusement. I don't have any of these dolls myself but find many funny moments out of context in the community. Nudity isn't weird, anatomically correct dolls aren't weird it's simply the idea that these fellas need to come fully prepared for so many impossible situations with apparatuses. I think the animism gets out of control in my head, it's a very colorful saga. I worry for the ones who end up with all their parts lost to the ages and so on and so forth. It will be my favorite thing to tell non-hobby people about forever.

 

100% The funniest thing I can think of for a BJD! Because I am also a five year old! I am that immature!

 

The "Flower bed" is actually a word-by-word translation of a micro-lending service called "Hua-bei". It's like the Chinese version of Klarna. In Chinses it's meant to sound like "Just spend it", but when translated word by word... "Flower bed."

 

Thank you for that context!! I was gonna wonder about that haha!

 

No worries!
Now it's time for me to figure out the bit about the vegetarians. I haven't wrapped my head around that one yet!

 

The “vegetarian” could be a machine translation of blank head / body (素头/素体) as the word 素 can mean both unprocessed/ unpainted as well as vegetarian, but I don’t understand the part on “full amount” under size description

 

Oh thank you for this! I think it was a body listing so I assume they mean an unblushed body, paid in full?

 

I think you are right! Mystery solved!!

 

For me it’s dolly dates. I love going on outings with my dolls but I do sometimes have that little The Office style blank stare moment when I see myself from a 3rd person perspective sitting next to a very well dressed person who is two rulers tall.

 

In regards to this, I actually got my updated Maydoll Lemon Cat (human ver.) body at the warehouse yesterday night, and.... I saw the pictures of the boy body before this, and it went over my head that he would have a detachable winkie until I saw the photos from the warehouse! I think you can tell how amused I was by that!

 

@MaleficentMrsofEvil I think you'll also need to specify whether it's a "fat uncle" or not

 

Uncle means 1/3 scale by the way!

 

You know how sometimes we use euphemisms for someone who is of a bigger size than usual?
Instead of calling someone "fat", we call them "big", or "hefty", or "fluffy" (sorry, Gabriel Iglesias...). Well, in China, the word they use is "Strong". So they would mention that so-and-so is a "100kg strong man" so they don't have to call him "fat". Well, Auto-translate is really bad with euphemisms. So now, a "Strong Uncle" (which means a visibly heavily muscled 70+ doll, think the new broad-shouldered, Dorito-looking guys) now becomes a "Fat uncle".

Also, @MaleficentMrsofEvil if you want, you can forward the sales page to me in a DM, I can probably help you to read through the page without the Auto-translate hilarity.

 

I rationally understand that size and weight change things dramatically, but before BJDs I only dabbled in 1:12 scale figures and whenever someone praises a doll's posing with "I love how well she stands!" or "she can sit so well!" I think it's funny because even the worst action figures have no trouble with that. Especially considering that BJDs have far more range of motion on average.

Packaged dolls always remind me of cartoon characters all plastered up after an accident.

 

The funniest BJD thing I've ever seen was when a friend of mine got a giant doll chateau guy. Magnetic peens are one thing, but DC is all about going that extra mile.
...his was jointed.

I'm not ashamed to admit we both wiggled it around for a while, just giggling over it.

 

Really gives a new meaning to floppy out of the box.
...I hope it wasn't kicky.

 

I totally forgot DC has jointed “attachments” LOL. how would you even blush that…

 

Detachable peens are funny as is, but jointed!? I'm gonna die laughing if I end up seeing one!

 

Yes! A friend of mine has two dolls from an older company called Dream Realm. And the peen is attached with a peg into a hole cut into the lower abdomen. So they do spin like a helicopter!
(The downside is they also have the propensity to fall into the torso itself. So there's the possibility of using your doll as a giant resin maraca as you shake frantically for that lost peen. Double the fun! )

 

Then you lose your patience and he becomes a peeñata.
(I'm sorry, I'll leave now)

 

Maraca to 'peen'ata.....I am *wheezing!!!* in laughter just visualizing that darn moment (when shaking the body reeeeally hard fails to recover the hooha)!!!

 

@MaleficentMrsofEvil That brings me back to Nobilitydoll's advertisement of the "twisting action" on the junk of one of their male bodies. It forever became known as, "The Amazing Spinning Boybits."

 

We must never ever forget the service Nobility doll once did for this hobby. In "press papilla good feel" we trust. Truly ahead of the times.

 

I saw this one the other day!! I also got a good laugh out of it

I do my face ups at a café by my house, and the looks I get are always very funny to me

 

I always laugh when everything is perfect but a minor detail seems to have slipped the attention... like those funky impldoll feet.

 

buying a terribly expensive doll and buying the doll cheap toys for them to play with hahaha, or buying them vintage doll clothes off of other dolls ....it makes me laugh to spoil them with weird things ...I remember buying my SD13 a miniature glowworm one Christmas

 

That man has more cleavage than some of my femme dolls

 

I was looking for a few props on Dollmore but it's all Holy Bibles and BDSM gear, and I doubt the former are for the Christian collectors... How about a choker that doesn't have either a cross or a leash attached to it

 

T&D really are big fans of big squishy moobs on their male dorries. XDXDXD

 

Dolls with extreme expressions are such a delight. Even sculpts that have simple features like half-closed eyes can look higher than the sky from the right angle or with the wrong pair of eyes. Add a mouth with a specific pose for instant hilarity.

 

So... I have two Dollshe boys in the same scale, and one in particular happens to be very oversized. Oversized hands, oversized feet, and of course... oversized eggplant I wonder how they would feel about this dramatic inequality.

Spoiler: Eggplant Comparison - Supermodel Body vs. Mystic Body

 

Dear gosh... If I were the Mystic or any female sculpt, I'd feel intimidated. The fact that it's jointed and removable too...

...Supermodel better watch his extra junk carefully; it might walk away on him.

 

Ahaha I mean, it's possible. I imagine zippers can be quite scary.

 

omg, imagine using that thing like a dishwasher magnet.... flip up for dirty, down for clean...

On that topic, I got my first 75cm guy, I knew they had optional wieners because my friend collects a lot of big boys. I remembered her showing me that, so she doesn't lose them and in case she needs them to adjust the pants fit, she keeps them inside the doll's head So nifty, I thought, I will totally do it too.
As it turns out, each of my Loongsoul boy's ballpark franks is about the size of one of my fingers So...... that's not happening.