1/3 Telesthesia Dolls

I personally think the 68cm TD dolls look perfectly fine proportion-wise. It's indeed a question of what type of aesthetic one is used too ^-^ The so-called pin-headed look is actually far more realistic (if you look at yourself in the mirror, you'll start noticing how "pin-headed" we are ourselves xD). That's especially true for a lot of male dolls in the 70cm+ category and I personally appreciate that since I don't want my dolls to be too cartoon-y ^_^

I have a 21.5cm TD head on their 74cm body and was very worried about the head being too small for such a buff body prior to his arrival. But once he's dressed and has his wig on, his proportions are perfectly normal and exactly my taste ♡

 

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My Xiao Bei came today! Annnnnd the faceup is nothing like the promos. There was someone a while back on here who said their telesthesia doll from acbjd was given a random faceup, and I think that's what happened with mine as well. I mean red eyebrows?! lol I'm gonna wipe it and try to do my own, and if I can't I have a couple artists in mind!

His wig is the one from the promos, but no wigs look exactly like the photos lol! He was also given random eyes that are way to big for him, I'm getting him ones with a smaller iris soon!

Other than that, I'd say he's pretty cute

 

That's very different looking. And I see you got the red eyebrows as well! But he's still very cute even like this

In my case I expected to get the same faceup as in the promos, because I bought the fullset with the wig and outfit! But I luckily grew to really love my Rong You as a fiery ginger, and am thinking of sending him to get a different kind of ginger faceup, one that is very heavilly freckled, once I have the chance to do so.

I remember many years ago I ordered an individual MNM order of an idol of mine. He too got red eybrows like that, and the faceup looked nothing like my idol. I wonder maybe red eyebrows like this is easier and takes less time to paint?!

 

Oh wow, those really aren't alike! He's still super cute though! Did you get him on the 62 or 68 cm body?

 

Oh right!! You were the one that happened to! That's great that you grew to love the gingerness lol! Mine's a shell of an oc for me the red brows are a nope lol! That's also so weird that so many dolls are getting red brows!!

 

68cm! He is the Xiao Bei who's supposed to be on the 62cm, but that body felt too MSDish if that makes sense. So since the neck sizes are the same, I got him on the 68cm body! However I don't know what hands they gave him. They are abnormally HUGE and almost match the ones in the promo pics for the 75cm body, however all of their bodies have hands with that extra wrist ball joint. These hands don't, so I have no idea where they came from ahahahah. They are beautiful though and I can't stop staring at them so I'm not too mad lolol

 

Yes that were me XD If it is supposed to be an OC then I can see why the wrong faceup would be a problem. But it would be a problem either way, especially if you were expecting to get the same faceup as in the official images!

I had actually based part of my Rong You's character on the faceup in the official images, so I were a bit disappointed at first. But I love Rong You not only for the faceup he have in the images, so I think I would be able to love him in many different faceup styles as well.


Once I had a closer look at his face, more sides to add to his original background story quickly came to me

 

Also I'm not sure if you can tell from my pictures, but his hands are HUGE. So beautiful, but huge. Through some digging I really think he was given hands for the 72cm body! I'm so torn because they are way prettier than the original hands for the 68cm body, but they really do look abnormally large in person.

 

Long alien fingers! by ManabuLi010, on Flickr

Huge hands you say They are beautifully sculpted but so large it look really off on my boy as well!

Thelesthesia & Dragon Rong You

I did undress my Rong You yesterday just to see how I felt about the head and body proportions, and he does not look nearly as bad as I remembered it. But the problem for me is still that I feel that type of face does not belong on a body like that. It's just when I see very feminine, almost childlike face sculpts on big muscular bodies it look wrong to me.

But one of the main problems is also the kind of character my Rong You were always meant to be, and this body does not fit with that kind of character type.

My character are not supposed to be this tall and leggy, he were originally supposed to be a bit more smaller in comparison to my demon king 72 cm tall DF H Beilan. I have in mind a kind of background story, with some elements similar to Mo Dao Zu Shi and The Untamed mixed with some other fantasy ideas. Beilan is this big demon my Rong You encounter oneday. It's important that the size difference between these 2 characters are not too similar, so Rong You are definitely going to get a smaller body once I have the chance to.

Alice's Collections only offered Rong You on the 68 cm body. If I had only known that Legend Doll had the 62 cm body option available for him as well with the fullset, then I would have ordered from there!

My plans now is to later order 62 cm Xiao Bei as soon as I'm able to and swap heads when he arrive. When I have no idea yet as I have some other non-hobby things around the house to tend to at the moment.

 

Oh!! So it looks like we both got those hands for the 68cm body. Interesting, because they don't match the ones from the body promo pictures

 

From the images I took it looks like long fingered alien hands XD Are adult hands supposed to be able to cover the entire face, because mine doesn't! The tip of my midle finger got some cm to go before it reaches my hairline.

Looking at both the 68 and 72 cm body, I feel that neither of the hands shown in the images is what I got!

I tried to see if Alice's Collections or Legend Doll sold separate hands, but they didn't. Alice's Collections sells some jointed hands though that look very nice. Maybe I'll get those for the 68 cm body when I order the new body for my Rong You later.

 

I have a new 74cm body and a 68cm. The 74cm is really huge, also his hands, but they don't look too large for the body.
Here is a picture of both next together (both are in light tan - the smaller one is from 2018, the large one arrived a few weeks ago):


I once painted a 72cm boy in dark tan for a friend some years ago (before 2018), her is a picture if you are interested (sorry for the bad quality):

 

Update on the hands! I emailed acbjd who contacted TD for me, and apparently those large hands are the new standard hands for the 68cm body. They must be so new though that they haven't updated the photos

 

Large hands definitely look good on most dolls. The dolls in your pictures look great this way

But personaly I feel that if a face sculpt is very feminine, or also even a bit child like, it fit better with less huge manly hands, and also better on a smaller type of body. Big hands are great on the right sculpt and character, but with my Rong You, in his background character story he's not tall and leggy like this. He's supposed to be shorter than my Doll Family H .Beilan.

OK, I see!


I realize I have some hand preferences when it comes to dolls. Pretty much my whole life in this hobby I've had dolls that had hands that were sculpted a bit more realistic looking. I'm not talking about the size of the hands, but the shape! Some years back I got a DZ Devon on the 62 cm body. His hands are not big man hands, it's the right size for his body. But it were my first encounter with, "uh, I don't like these hans so much". I got the same kind of alien or long thin anime fingered hands feeling from them. And now I see that TD and DF H have this kind of hands too, but in the large man hands size. I guess some companies go for the alien, anime kind of hand aesthetic.

I like the hands sculpted by Iplehouse, Rainman, Luts, Dream of Doll, and my Dollmore Kid hands better. Most my dolls are from these companies. At least the dolls I have from these companies don't have the kind of hands I'm not to fond of. Idk, how all their sculpts are. But it also really depends on the character whether I like it or not, as my gray skin DollZone Carter got thin alien fingers too, but for him I don't mind. He's a strange character that fit these kinds of hands!

 

Does anyone have a ZheBie with a non company faceup? His sculpt is perfect, but I need a softer look for my character.

 

does anyone own a mochen sculp? i am interested in him but have never seen a owner photo so it's hard to know what he really looks like.

 

Happy to share that my Xiao Bei came in yesterday! I missed the shipping email, so it was a big surprise since I paid for him in… July, I believe? Wasn’t expecting him until like December. His head is smaller than I thought, so will need to look for a new wig. The faceup is also different from promos, definitely a lot more red/pink. Wondering why, it’s clearly more brown/gray toned in the photos. Doubt that was a filter. But he’s still cute! I will post photos once I take some in decent quality. And yes, the body came with the extra parts. Made me laugh so hard

 

Waiting impatiently for photos

 

Congrats Same with me, I were surprized by the size of the head. I thought it would be a bit bigger. I don't mind the size, but personally I want to place him on a smaller body. His character were meant to be around the 63cm size anyways. But I bought my Rong You on the 68cm body because I thought that were the only option. Turns out I could have ordered Rong You on the 62cm body had I only ordered from Legend Doll!