What single thing can you blame for getting you into BJDs?

I watched dollmaster and my jaw dropped, I just had to find and have one! I did not know what they were called but found them on ebay and ordered a msd and here I am today with my family of bjd's. So very very happy.

 

Littlest Pet Shop. I was really active with them and then that collaboration with Blythes came out and I was like "WTH are Blythes?" It got me researching the dolls and in the process I came across BJDs, specifically Resin Soul Mu who I drooled at for some time before I could afford him. XD

 

I've been a doll lover all of my life.. I randomly found out about BJD's from googling doll collecting. After I saw a picture of one, I knew I had to have one! hahaha I started looking them up on Youtube and Flickr, and gradually became more obsessed! I blame the internet and people on the internet for getting me BJD crazy. But I wouldn't change a thing, because I love BJD's sooooooo much!!!

 

Ha, that's easy! The LiveJournal outage of 2005! DaisyDayes and I ended up shopping online and stumbled across the LUTS site. Now it was a while before I admitted I liked and wanted a 2 foot doll with a mile high price tag, but that's what planted the seed!

 

My friend is my reason she had been collecting about 2 yrs and i never was interested in them until one day i paid some attention and knew i just wanted one ,have had several since coming and going and now i am addicted

 

My (absurdly) true, mad and deep love for Arthurian characters in general and Sir Gawain in particular. I blame T.H. White, whose Once and Future King I read when I was 13. T.H. White got me into bjds! Seriously!

 

My fiance. I had no idea what they were until she introduced me and of course the rest is history.

 

I can completely, wholly, and without any guilt whatsoever blame my girlfriend for getting me into this hobby. I would never have heard of BJDs if I hadn't met her, and would have spent the rest of my life blithely oblivious and ignorant of these lovely creations.

That, and she was the one who gave me her Obitsu and showed me the sales thread for my Dollmore Thinking Larme. She bears my blame well, I must say. And a bit smugly.

 

Seeing all the absolutely gorgeous pictures people take of their dolls and learning about their almost limitless possibilities when it comes to customization. Its a big draw for an art student XD

 

Seeing pictures posted of them by a friend on Facebook.

Their eyes instantly captivated me.

 

fun fact, i was looking up werewolf dolls one day and found the angelheim luka... i said of heck no at first... and then i found out my cousins had them and i got to see them in real life... they were just too beautiful...

 

My girlfriend, a BJD aesthetics artist.

 

What single thing can I blame?

Me.

Me and my tendencies for random non-mainstream hobbies, to be specific.

 

I blame my friend akasora.

She knows I like birds, and fantasy things. So she showed me a pic of a SOOM Euclase...and my fear of dolls vanished like that XD

Me: "You can make BIRD dolls!?!?" O__O

 

I love dolls.

 

I person posted a pic of her doll on an art website (it was a Happy Doll as I recall) and she mentioned in the posting that it was an Asian ball jointed doll. That was the beginning of the end of my nondoll person status.

 

Deviantart. Random browsing turned out to be a blessing and a curse that day

 

Ebay. One day in 2004, I was looking at dolls on ebay and spotted an ABJ doll (listed in the wrong category). I bought her and when she arrived, I googled "Souldoll" which was written on her box, and that's when I discovered that there were others of her kind.

 

Hmm, my source of blame? I guess I would say my immense love for everything beautiful and arty. I indulge in almost every form of art hobbies there is out there occassionally, you know, to see how it works out for me but I just knew I had to have a BJD when I first laid eyes on them.

 

Ebay for me too. I forget how I found them exactly, but I did. I thought they were out of my range. Fast forward a few months. I was saving for DragonCon later that year, and realized I was going to be blowing it at there...so I went ahead and got my first, an El.

 

Curiosity.

When first saw BJDs I wasn't instantly captivated by them, but I was very curious. A google search later and I found a company full of dolls that I wanted :<

 

Its My Friends Fault!!!! And An Anime Convention We Went To A Bjd Table And The Ladies Had Beautiful SD BJDs and Since Then I Became Interested In BJDs and Itx Been A Year Now xD Still Doll Less Though xD

 

I blame my friend Saraqael who showed me Soom and Iplehouse's websites and suggested I join this board (2 years and 15 BJDs later.....)

 

I am a fan of the artist Amy Brown and she had several BJD's that she owned pictured on her site once. I believe that she sometimes used them as models for her paintings. That is what first got me curious as I had never heard of that type of doll before.

 

A girl on LJ who had a doll based on Omi from Weiss Kreuz. Someone (I can't remember that person, unfortunately) linked me to them because I liked Yami no Matsuei (Muraki in particular because a love for dolls) and i just...about...died.

And that led me to other dolls...and other dolls...and I WANTED.

So yeah. That doll.

 

I blame Resinsoul! I got my first because I stumbled across their site. Their Feng sculpt was perfect for one of my characters and within a price range that I could save for!

 

A friend introduced me to them, but it was her Crobidoll Yeon-ho that really pulled me in. She plopped him in my arms and I was hooked!

 

internet..as I was browsing something 5 or 4 years ago..and accidentally stumbled upon the site of dream of doll..and instantly fell in love with them..but since I can't afford at that moment, I just made a promise to myself to own one in the future..and now I have 1, and incoming 2 dolls..

 

Anime Cons. Seeing them in person was like WHOA O.O

 

Well, the lolita fashion is what first made me aware of their existence, but Rozen Maiden is what made me become interested enough to start researching BJDs etc etc.

 

I blame some photo that I found on internet.
And I start to search what is this doll and later I'm in love with them >w<

 

Rosen Maiden.

I'd seen them before but seeing this show definitely made me look into them more.

 

My interest in dolls since I was a child that has stuck with me... and seeing how unique each one is.

 

Anime Iowa's swap meet and BJD panel. A few weeks before the con in their swap meet forum there was girl looking to trade a male BJD to someone else so I started doing some research on them but it wasn't until their panel made me really to want to get into it.

 

I blame a writer i followed on FF.net, she got one and before i knew it, i had to have one.

 

Well it's not the nicest thing in the world, but I remember a girl I went to college with in one of my classes, she had a BJD. It wasn't a huge doll, may e between 30-40cm I would say, but big enough that it was quite noticeable. Now while I had never said a word to this girl, I had heard about her around the gossip tree, how she would carry him around and talk to him, leave him outside the women's restroom so as not to offend as he shouldn't be in there she once said. People were admittedly quite rude and severely judgmental of her while I was simply curious, but that didn't seem to stop her at all, so I got my first taste of what BJDs looked like, and have been quite taken by them ever since. I do hope she made it through college okay without too much turmoil though, wish I had said something to her as I think about it now years later...

 

Death Note!
Medicom, (..? I'm pretty sure that's who made them), released a series of fully articulated 12" figures of the 3 main DN characters and I lusted after them the second I read about their upcoming debut on an anime forum, but the price tags were very high, (oh had I but known!), and it was going to be a while before they were released. So I decided I wanted to make my own DN dolls, which lead me to searches for customisable dolls, which lead me to Volks 1:6 dollfies, which eventually lead me to BJD

 

A scanlation credits page ^^ I saw it, and decided that I needed that vampire boy to add to my anime figure collection. A Google search later, and I found an army of bjd boys that I wanted to bring home! Darn those wallet-draining pretty boys

 

My mother. She saw a red haired vampire doll on Ebay and then my interest exploded from there. So yep, totally to blame.

 

I blame DeviantArt, coupled with my determined/obsessive/hoarder personality.
I don't think I would have discovered BJDs if I wasn't on DeviantArt, but of course discovering them isn't enough. As a person, I am prone to give in to cravings and temptations and once I WANT something, I know I will get it

 

Single thing: a trip to my friend's house one fateful evening. I think she had read about them in either a manga or a book about lolita fashion (she had wanted to get lolita dresses at that time, too), and she told me about these dolls from Volks, and we ended up finding out how expensive they were...

 

In a word? Webcomics. Before I was obsessed with dolls I was obsessed with webcomics. Well... truth be told, I still absolutely love them. But seeing comic artists with these enormous, articulated doll versions of their characters just totally threw me off the edge. The first time I stumbled upon a picture of one via a livejournal link, I immediately knew that I HAD to have one of these gorgeous creatures in my life. That was almost six years ago and the rest, as they say, is history!

 

A friend of mine who also was into collecting Manga shitajiki and tradingcards like me, told me she would like to buy one of those pretty dolls one day - she showed me a picture and that was the start of my addiction.

 

it was seeing someone on a blythe forum with an alice cherry blossom, then I HAD to have her... and became interested in other bjds as a result.

 

Saw a girl's story with her dolls as the characters on another doll forum that allowed all types of dolls. Realized thatw as what I wanted to tell stories, not just take pics. Did some research, asked questions all at this poor girl. Then sold all my other dolls and bought my first 3 BJD kids. I have been in the hobby for almost 5 years now.

 

Well, modelhorses. Or better, their rider dolls. We were contemplating on another forum whether ABJDs could be better rider dolls. At that time, I did not yet know anything about sizes.

Then I did a bit of research, saw some pics, saw BJDcollecstace...I found them absolutely amazing. Although I kept telling myself for quite some time that I do not need one, that I already have a time-consuming hobby...

Then I registered on Doa. What was some kind of mistake. I fell about the DIY-section, discovered what wonderful, detailed clothed you can make for them. And photography.

And if you have a horse big enough, you can also connect both hobbies. Well, my daughter gave her rocking horse to me...just right for a 60-65 cm guy. At that time, I started to search seriously for a sculpt I really love. At the same time, I made a full BJD of my own, but as I really want to play with him, he was not what I wanted.

Now I have a nice floating head, who is eagerly awaiting his body. However, I am hesitant to sew anything, as I am better at that with the actual guy around.

Oh, and I am heavily selling modelhorse stuff. I discovered its not so much the horses any longer, but the rider dolls. And you can do much nicer things with a big boy...

 

Probably the anime Rozen Maiden (which is really about 6 BJD's) I googled Rozen maiden dolls because I really wanted my own little Shinku or Suiseiseki and I found the Volks line of limited editions. The price put me off at first but then I shopped around a bit and got my Angel of Dream girl called Tomoe ^_^

 

Puppetry. I love puppets and puppetry. BJDs are just a fancy, beautiful puppets in my eyes. Some types of dolls can be pretty, but BJDs can really come to life!

 

Oh my I think i am one of the most random!
It was like this...One day there was a girl on youtube who had posted some greenday music I think. So I subscribed randomly. A year later , same girl posts a video called "My Favourite Doll". The vid was about Crobi doll Yeon-ho , and even before I watched the vid , I told said out loud " OH MY GOSH! I just have to have one of those"! And here I am 2 and somethiny years later with 9 BJDs .
So It`s a random video that got me obssesed .

 

I like how they can pose and how you can make them into almost anything you want them to be, I enjoy the creative availability with these type of dolls.

 

Photographs. The amazing things people can do with a camera and dolls...

 

My source of blame? I'm already a doll collector, and most of my non-BJD's are female. It was a combination of desire for more male dolls and the customization factor that has drawn me to ball-jointed dolls.

 

I blame my friend chai! For bringing in her gorgeous Hime! He stole my heart! :P

 

I blame myself for curiosity haha. Started off with just pullips and went into ABJD purely cause of curiosity haha. Now Im stuck!

 

The ABJD group and Doll clothes group on Ravelry. I have a bunch of playline dolls Liv, Moxie Teenz, monster high, I was looking for more patterns when I found those groups, then someone linked to Denver Doll and I was sunk.

 

The photography is what really got me wanting a doll. I came across a bunch of beautiful pictures of dolls and just fell in love! I'm saving up for a DSLR so hopefully I can start taking quality photos of bjds.

 

CLOTHES of course!

 

Blythe. Buying my first Blythe sorta set the ball rolling on gathering up lots of modern dolls. I went from Blythe to Pullip to BJD (with some others sprinkled in there, too). BJDs have become my primary focus though.

 

I blame myself XD When I love something I must have it.. I found dolls years and years ago (without knowing what they were) and knew I HAD to have one.

Also blame my friend Elle. She got a doll before me and that catapulted me into getting one.. Once she had one I had my first doll within a few months. So I blame her for actually making (ok not making but getting me to actually get one) get a doll