Am I the only one who think company produced is enough?

I've never bought a fullset. It's not really appealing to me. I like working on my dolls and if it arrived already perfect I wouldn't know what to do with it! I do think a lot of fullsets are beautiful but they're just not really for me.

 

I love looking at fullset pictures on company websites, but I don't know if I could have a doll that was just like the picture- I tried with Pukifee Mio and even then I ended up changing her eyes, and finding her a new outfit...

I guess I look around and see the potential past the company image, and all the different things that my dolls could be, and I want to push them to the limits of what I like about them.

 

Out of the 10 dolls I now own (Luts and Volks DD) 6 of them are fullsets and have stayed as they were when I got them. All 6 are still in their original outfits, wigs, eyes etc. and I have no plans to change them. The other 4 mainly just change outfits and wigs but their face ups remain the same (done by the company). I guess I'm the odd one, where I like to keep them as I see them online when I buy them. I don't have much creativity in terms of making up characters and I have no desire to do any customizing. And yet, I love them all so much and they all mean so much to me.

 

I thought that way at first with my Kid Delf Lolly, I was completely in love with the outfit an wig and face up that she came with, and then a friend let me try her out in a different dress and it completely changed the way I looked at her. Now she's hardly ever in her original outfit and I'm starting to consider other face up options for her.

 

I like crafting for my dolls so I never really think "this is enough." It's more like "this is enough for now"

Handcrafting is one of the reasons why this hobby is so endearing to me. I like that my dolls give me motivation to make things. It really helps when I'm stuck in a slump.

 

I got a fullset tiny from my dad and I love the little gal as she is, same wig, face up eyes, only thing that I change on occasion are her outfits because I love sewing for my dolls. Making them a few really nice outfits is my way of bonding with them. XD

 

I don't buy fullsets, so maybe I'm not the most qualified person to answer this question. For me, I usually have something specific in mind for each doll and I love to customize them. There really aren't that many fullsets out there that I like enough to justify purchasing one, and even if I did, I don't think I could be happy if I never changed them at all. I like to change my dolls' clothes all the time. Sometimes I change their wigs too.

As for company faceups, I've gotten some dolls with company faceups that I think are perfect and don't want to change. Others I've decided to change the faceup on, and yet others I purchased blank because I didn't like the company faceup. My grail doll is Dollmore Ipsae (layaway just paid off yesterday!!!) and she is coming with the Dollmore company faceup and default wig, because I think they look lovely for her and work well with my character. She will be getting brown eyes though and obviously she'll be getting various outfits to wear, because her default "outfit" is lingerie and stockings. XD

 

I build my own fullset. I would buy the nude doll and oneday i would nail down an outfit for her and a specific look of faceup and i just...leave it there.

 

Company produced is never enough for me. I have never gotten a fullset BJD and I'll probably never will unless I really want the doll and it's available only as a fullset but I'd get rid of the stuff as soon as it gets in my hands. I got all my Isul dolls as fullsets but I changed their eyes/wigs/face ups on some/outfits everything!...their fullset stuff is somewhere forgotten in my room.

Also, I prefer custom face ups or do my own...Soom does very nice face ups though, it's the only company I choose to keep the default face up on for awhile.

 

I feel the same way Although I'm not the most talented creatively, I enjoy crafting and working on projects for my dolls helps to keep me from becoming discouraged when the results aren't always the best haha!

But I have no objections to fullsets! I think I bond better with dolls that I customize a little, even if it's something simple like finding (or attempting to make lol) the perfect wig, so it would probably be (for lack of better words) an "exception to the rule" for me to buy a full set doll, but I am definitely open to the idea of it!

 

I bought my dollzone fox on the secondhand market last summer. I opened her, and found that she was perfect. I didn't want to change a thing. I was a bit annoyed because she was supposed to a be project doll. Of course, I can still work on her because she needs some... bits... removed. But, her overall aesthetic won't change.

 

I have always wanted to change at least *something* on my fullsets. I've got three fullset Volks, and although I like the default clothes that came with my two SD13s, they don't wear them everyday. I immediately changed my Volks Tony's hair and eyes because I wanted him to be darker. I might not have chosen a fullset if I could have got him some other way, but he was perfect for the character I wanted him to be, and I couldn't risk not trying for him in the lottery. His clothes suit him very well.

I was inspired to write some history for one of my male characters when I first saw Volks Emma, and I also loved the doll just for herself. So I finally gave in and bought her. BUT... my characters are hopelessly modern day and don't dress in fantasy or historical elaborate costumes. (So many fullsets are like that!) So she almost never wears her fullset clothes.

However... my Volks MSD Enn wears his fullset clothes almost all the time! It is part of his character... but I did change his hair and eyes too.

The rest of my BJDs were customized or changed almost completely. I prefer it that way. I rarely love everything about a fullset.

Linda S.
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I think for me it depends on the doll and the set in question.

Agatha didn't have a full set beyond some stuff her previous owner included in her sale; her previous owner had gotten her in blank parts, so the company had little say in what she became (either in her previous owner's hands or in mine).

I do have one fullset character doll currently though, and two more incoming, which are all staying their company defined characters. With them it's sort of a mix: Yes, I am very glad to have their fullsets as options (Nanoha's default seems to get dusted off once or twice a year solely because she looks damn cool in it; I expect Homura and Miku will follow a similar pattern). I do like to change them into other stuff though, especially for holidays or when I just decide it's group steampunk time. XD

But it's not like they're going to stay that way full time, and there will definitely be some permanent or semi-permanent changes to them. Nanoha will probably never wear her default eyes again, even when the rest of her default stuff is out. Homura may either get an eye opening mod or get a complete swap to an open-eyed head. Depending on how she feels in person, Miku may be getting an eye change and/or some faceup edits (can't tell yet how much those teal eyelashes are going to clash with stuff).

TL;DR: I do like well-done company fullset stuff, but it's an option rather than a full-time display state. More permanent changes depend on how I feel when the doll turns up.

 

Some dolls I buy simply because I like the looks of the full set. I don't want to change a thing. Others I bought because, I had an idea and I am in the process of aquiring the items I need to make the character come to life.

 

I don't really have a girl character doll in mind at the moment, but I really want a girl just for the fact of dressing her up in cute clothes....aka someone I can lavish my girly side on. So I look at many company sculpts...and there are a few I want looking JUST like the company photos, because that's how I fell in love with them in the first place. A couple examples are Luts KDF Lemon and Cherry (elf eared head), and the DC Christina looks lovely the way the company painted her neck and head pieces for the full set.

 

It depends on which doll I buy. I haven't bought a full set one but I would if this doll were one of my dream dolls. But closest for now must be my SSDF...He isn't a LE on but I really love how he looks like on company photos, so I ordered him with default face up, same eyes, same wig, same skin and even same shoes, only part that I didn't order, is his default outfit because I want him to look like my own character somehow.

 

I only own one doll right now, and she is perfect! I love her face-up and wouldn't want to change it. I feel that same way about dolls like DC Christina. One of the big reasons I want her is because her company pics make her so beautiful! If she looked different, I don't think I would like her as much. Then, there are dolls like DC Alberta where I just see creative potential and want to do everything myself.

 

I don't think I could ever feel that way about a doll. 90% of the fun of BJD's for me is taking a blank doll and completely putting it together myself. I want to do its faceup and body blushing, I even want to make as much of its outfit as possible. I don't think I would like to play with a LE or a fullset because I wouldn't feel like I could replicate its look if necessary like I can when I do most of the work myself. Basically I would worry too much!

 

When I buy a fullset, the clothes and wigs are usually going to someone else. My characters have lived through different eras so when I put them in a particular setting, their hair and clothes must reflect that era. So no, it's rare that a doll will come complete.
There is one doll that I bought as a fullset and I never got anything else for her, but I find her boring and I've been thinking about selling her.

 

I can see why some would be happy with not changing anything. I think this hobby for many people is strongly about modding and handicraft and not just about owning dolls, that's why many people want to custom their dolls.