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

Rozen Maiden. I saw the Volks Suigintou long before I even knew what BJDs were and craved one. In fact I still do haha!

 

My friend... sort of.

I've known about BJD's for a long time since 2005, but never actually bought and just enjoyed the idea of getting but probably not sort of thing. Instead, I've started out with Pullips in 2009. I've introduced my friend to Pullips and so forth, and showed her BJD's. At first we were like, Nah, we're never going to get something big as a BJD... and... what do you know? My friend went to HK and came back with a BJD in 2011. And from there on... it just happened...?

 

Deviantart and the preeeeetty pictures people post of their resin kids over there. They got me curious so I looked up what they were, then looked at some companies, then found this forum... and then I was DOOMED FOREVER. In a good way, of course.

 

Flickr. Saw a photo (don't remember any specific picture) and that was it.

 

Kingdom Hearts.

I had known about ABJDs before, as I was into customizing Dollfie when Super Dollfie first gained popularity with the Dollfie collectors. I dismissed them at first, thinking he glass eyes looked kind of creepy, and they cost way too much. (and you had to get someone to import them... crazy times)

A few years later, I was playing Kingdom Hearts and couldn't shake the thought that Sora looked like "one of those dolls", so I went to look them up again. In the meantime, a LOT more companies had come out and the styles varied a lot, and I started to find ones that I liked, and got over the eye thing. The first one I really fell in love with was Camine by Dream of Doll, and I couldn't stop staring at his pictures for DAYS. We had a big chunk of money coming in shortly thereafter, so I set aside some to buy a doll, and ended up buying an El.

 

I was into Pullips/Taeyangs for awhile, and it's hard to do a search for those dolls without getting hits for BJDs as well. Also, Pullipstyle.com has a Ringdoll section that I would often look at since I was interested and confused as to what they were. I still have a soft spot for Ringdoll sculpts Then the dA pictures got me hooked, especially the Dollshe Saint. I stopped buying Pullips and switched to BJDs!

 

For me it was really easy to get into the hobby -- I collect dollhouses and I got suckered in by the teeniest tinies that go with dollhouses, namely Pukis and Catsys! And once I had those dolls it was a very slippery slope into YoSD, MSD . . .

 

J-rock.. Visual kei.. It was probably web browsing for pics of Malice Mizer that led me to BJDs.

 

I blame the fact that Barbie Bazaar magazine went out and was 'replaced' by Haute Doll magazine. I had been a Barbie collector and got out of the hobby for several years. A fellow bead artist started talking about dolls and I got to thinking about them again, so to get back into the hobby I went looking for Barbie Bazaar magazine only to find that it no longer existed! Still wanting to satisfy my curiosity about what dolls were out there I bought a copy of Haute Doll magazine and as they say: the rest was history! That was almost 3 years ago! I'm so happy I found bjd's- they've opened a world of creativity for me that I never could enjoy with Barbies!

 

The internet.

But I have no regrets!

 

Ayilachan...She got her first doll and i thought it was amazing on how customizable your doll can be. I saw how much she loves her dolls and I wanted to experience it. I'm really happy about getting into this hobby. Thanks Ayila-chan!

 

My best friend X_x, At first I thought I could never get into the hobby because of how expensive it is yet I proved to myself anything is possible XD

 

Searching Bleach cosplay on deviantArt
I can't find the picture now, but someone had a Volks doll dressed up as Rukia and I thought it was the prettiest thing ever and I immediately wanted one.

 

I blame my mum.
She discovered Blythe dolls and while I thought they were cute I decided to buy a pullip. But when we went to a Blythe meet, someone had brought along a lati yellow lea, a soom centaur, and a soom elf.... I was (and am) smitten by them!

 

i can definitely blame my daughter genes blues for my bjd mania. after she got her first doll, her enthusiasm for the hobby and the gorgeous clothes she kept showing me, just made me a bjd fanatic. so i decided i would get just one.
that was twenty dolls ago.....

 

Rozen Maiden! When I finished watching the first season, I googled "Rozen Maiden Dolls". Of course, I wanted FanArt or something, but I saw a picture of a doll cosplaying Shinku. Clicked on it and read about it on the site where it had been posted. Yep. Pretty much that.

 

Pullips & Blythes.
Originally it was my interest in anime which led me to DD via the internet, but I didn't actually look into purchasing a BJD until I became involved in the Pullip & Blythe hobby and realized that they really weren't as expensive as I thought.

 

a sewing blog where there was suddenly a doll model: a unoa hybrid... I inquired what it was, and that was me: happily doomed into resin-addiction!!! ^_^

 

I think I stumbled a couple on dA and they were so cute, so I reasearched what they were and I just had to have one. C: I should be getting my first one in the mail hopefully soon.

 

I was at a ball jointed doll pannel at an Anime Convention and sitting in the front row. One of the SD dolls took a headder into my lap and when I held that doll for the first time, even though it was breifly to put him back up onto the table, I knew I had to have one.

 

Knibitz posting her pretty pictures on the mlparena. No joke.

 

In 2007 when i was hardcore into anime...(ha, if you can call it hardcore lol) Shojo Beat magazine ran an article on them, and i was DONE for. wish i kept that issue!

 

Cleaning my closet. No, really. I cleaned out my closet and found an old doll of mine, one of those cloth-body with plastic/vinyl arms, head, and legs. Poor thing has been bald for years, so I thought I'd buy her a wig. In my search, I discovered that, hey, maybe a BJD wig would fit her. And then I started researching BJDs. I'd seen them on DeviantArt, but hadn't given too much thought to them. Once I began looking at dolls, I was hooked.

 

The internet.

 

saw them at conventions and just had to have one. :P

 

Having been into dolls my whole life, I can "blame" my participation at an annual Gene Marshall Doll Convention....I think this was GeneCon in 2000. Anyway, there was another Gene fan that brought her Volks Madoka (Japanese version) with her and I reeeally wanted that doll. It wasn't until September of 2004 that I started reading about ABJDs in FDQ and Haute Doll magazines, and saw a full page ad announcing Volks release of SDC Kaede. I missed being able to get her from Volks, and found DoA soon after through the link published in an article in FDQ. Thanks to the Marketplace, and another member who answered my WTB, SDC Kaede became my first doll.

Juli DC

 

Ken.

LOL

I have always loved male dolls, but they've never had enough variety. So I started searching ebay for OOAK Ken dolls...got bored with that...so tried OOAK male...still not much...OOAK guy...which lead to a gorgeous Volks Neo Go Guy....further research lead to BJDs!

 

My fiancee XD

 

DeviantArt :T lol

 

Ebay. Was browsing for antique dolls when I stumbled upon BJD.

 

Loved Drawing > Liked reading pretty Manga and imitating the artists' style to practice getting better at drawing > Fell into the Manga/Anime World > So on vacation in Japan one year, when I was in middle school, I visited Akihabara > Saw detailed Anime Figurines and researched about them > found Obitsu > found Volks = gateway into the BJD world!

I really liked the idea of creating one own doll. I've always loved dolls, but I found dolls like Barbie, Bratz, and Licca chan to be a bit impersonal. I love creating things so bjds were intriguing because it's 3d art! The 60-70cm ones were really neat because they were so big and all the dolls have many posing abilities. Also, they are so much more detailed than any Barbie or toy-doll. And there are so many more reasons why I love bjds, but I can't seem to remember it all right now.

 

I was content looking at the pretty pictures from afar until I visited a friend and held her Volks boy.

He was a SD16, I think, and I was impressed by his size and his heft and his craftsmanship and his beauty.

I think I sat there with him on my knee all evening and held his little hand the entire time.

From that very moment, the tiny ember of "I'm curious but I still don't get it..." sparked into a full-on flame.

That was last October! In less than a year, I've got 3 at home, another on order, and a floating head on its way.

Good grief.

 

I suppose it was Angelic Layer that really drew me in after all. Man, the idea of a little fighting robot that you could customize all your own was what got me coming back when a friend pointed out BJDs years later. I wish my dollies could fight! D:

 

Are you talking about that Korean Horror movie!? OMJ! I LOVE that movie!!!

 

Animazement! I saw one there and it was all over. I knew that I HAD to have one.

 

This girl from this Danish J-Fashion forum... she showed me her dolls, I was completely sold... but it took another few years before I found my first O:

 

My friend Tazi and her always amazing pictures of her dolls. I've always liked/wanted one, but because of her I actually am in the process of getting one.

 

Lol! I can totally understand this, though. She has some amazing pictures.

 

I got into this thing due to one person http://www.denofangels.com/forums/member.php?42213-karla-chan
she commented on one of my pictures on DeviantArt, we started talking, she kept posting awesome pictures of her dolls, and now I want one.

Damn it, I love you Karla-Chan, but what have you gotten me into ?

 

What first got me into BJDs was when I saw a pic of a Luts (not even sure which sculpt) on DA back in the day. Funnily enough, I didn't even know there were other companies that made them at that point, lol.

 

my friend for showing me Dream of Doll's site to show the "creepy eyes" XD that got me hooked even though several years later i ordered form Luts instead XDDD

 

My friend Rachelle and her ridiculously cute boy Eli. I'd seen dolls before and sort of wanted one for years, But the price kept putting me off. It wasn't until I held her boy that I knew I had to have one. I was in a place in my life that I could afford one too and it all just fell into place.

 

MLP. Collecting MLP made me collect Pullips due to MLP collectors who had Pullips. And collecting Pullips made me collecting BJDs due to Pullips collectors who had BJDs. When one of them showed a pic of her Pukifees and I saw her Luna I just had to have her

So if I hadn't had any MLPs as a kid and started collecting them again when I was 19 I don't think I would own any BJDs now...

 

The gorgeous photos I'd seen on Deviant Art is was started it. But it was seeing the love and interaction that went on between owner and doll that sealed the deal.

 

My little apple doll collection, because the store that sold me those switched to BJD, which got me into them.

 

Pretty photos 8D

 

Anime--> Yaoi.

If I didn't like anime I would have never known or liked yaoi and thanks to yaoi, I found BJDs (I was in a yaoi forum). The irony is, none of my male dolls is gay XD

 

Single thing? The 2007 August edition of Haute Doll with the Peakswoods Sky on the front. Took me three years after that to buy a Peakswoods lady, but I blame that

 

Deviant Art. xD I used to see TONS of BJD pictures and I always thought they were sooooo beautiful.
Then I found a users FAQ and read the basics. At first I was turned off by the price but after a while I just couldn't help myself so I bought one. I'm now waiting on my fourth ^_^

 

Wanting to have a doll of my Idol and God Mana-sama.

 

My best friend! I'm not sure how she got into them, but after watching her get her first doll and share the excitement with me it wasn't too long until I got sucked in!

 

The Internet. If I never had internet access I would have never known what they were.
Until I went to my first anime convention and saw them at a panel....lol.

 

I found out what they were at a anime convention and they kinda creeped me out bc they were soo life like. the next year when i went back to the con i saw them again and i started to get curious and alittle less creeped out. and then one day i was like i think i wanna do some research on bjds and fell in love with with a few of them. then i really wanted one. my main reason is so i can make costumes for my doll bc i dont have space and places to wear costumes for myself. plus the customization is just amazing. im a very new owner and so far im loving it!

 

6 years ago I saw a girl in my study hall holding one, Little Emily. I was too afraid to touch her, even though the owner, Emily, said I could, but I knew from that moment on, I wanted in on this hobby.
Then, for my 20th birthday this year (Early March, but birthday is in April), my fiancee presented me with Parabox Alice (40cm Obitsu), and I currently have 2 more dolls and one on layaway; and I wouldn't change it for the world.

 

I'd have to say... my inability for imagining unique face-paint. I googled 'pierrot' on images for a fanfic I was writing and stumbled across Iplehouse Tatiana (the limited Pierrot version) and that planted the seed - then I saw the price.

After spending six months trying to forget about her, I caved. XD

 

A friend told me about BJD's and showed me some photos and it got my interest, so i started to research about BJD's and my interest kept growing until today. and it goes on growing.

 

I think if I wasn't so introverted I wouldn't be into ABJDs, I think. This sounds kind of sad but what really appealed to me about owning a doll is that it can be my... friend. Haha. /hides

 

I doubt anybody will actually read this, but the first ABJD I saw was I think about 6 years ago on China Cart, modeling their clothes on a smaller scale. I took an interest in her, but never thought that I'd actually start collecting expensive dolls someday.

Years later, I'm looking for a realistic, flexible easily posable model and after trying mannequins and looking into various other alternatives, while I was browsing through things, I ran into Iplehouse EID Asa and the moment I saw her face, I knew I had to have her! That opened the floodgates and I just broke right into my savings.

Before I saw her, ball joints were a total turn off for me. But suddenly Asa's face mad the joints seem so trivial. Ever since then I've been obsessed with Iplehouse dolls, but I've also taken a liking to several others, like Asleep Eidolon and such.

 

I did! It's interesting to see how we all got into the hobby, and how different our reasons are. ^^

 

@ Dirili - Thats really neat.

I Blame the Korean Horror movie: The doll master. I fell in love at first sight. Funny how dolls killing humans can get you into that sorta thing ^^;; I just loved how precious they looked. And one of the themes of the movie "If you love something so much, it may get a soul" Kinda intrigued me since i love creepyness. I began searching dolls and came across Dream of Doll. I was still in high school and broke at the time, so i moved away from any doll in that price range. When I found bobobie, i was shocked at the price, but as soon as I saw the Apollo, i knew it was meant to be. 3 weeks after watching that horror flick, i bought the Apollo. To this day "Doll Master" is my favourite asian horror movie. Thank you dolls that murder people, you got me into this hobby