Are your dolls replaceable?

Physically speaking my dolls are some of the most replacable ones on the market. Sentiment wise they're completely irreplaceable. You could give me dolls of exactly the same mold and everything and they just wouldn't be the same.

 

From my insurance's standpoint, yes they are monetarily replaceable. I could recoup the loss. However, would another Fairyland Realpuki PoPo be my little Gryllinae? I don't think so. There is an emotional tie to creating the characters. I couldn't plop down the same sculpt & pick up like nothing happened. My nephew has identical twin daughters. In my opinion it would be like asking him, so if something fatal happened to Caitlyn, could you just use Christyn as a replacement? I think I would get a different doll and create a new adventure while fondly remembering the lost one.

 

I don't even wanna think about something happening to my dolls. Their all special to me, my first girl has discolored a little, she's been through almost every doll first of mine. First wig, first good outfit sewn, first swap, first photograph, those are all special moments...I remember each and every one of their box openings (I never recorded it because I was so excited) and remember how overjoyed I was and how happy I am just looking at them now. I don't touch them all the time sometimes I have days where I can't stop playing with them sometimes I just leave them in the same place for weeks...I'm fine with it because it makes me happy still and if something happened to them..? I don't know if I could get them to be exactly 'as they were' as two are second hand and with original face ups.

I think I'd be heart broken if something happened to my Arcani, or my sweet Kaname. Haruka as devious as she is...She's a dime a dozen I could easily buy the same exact mold, exact, wig exact eyes and it'd still be my bratty face up less first doll who gets EVERYTHING.

 

Irreplacable! The dolls I have in my collection now are really special to me for various reasons.
Most of them have been with me for a long time and have their own little nicks and yellowing, so if I bought a brand spanking new doll it would be just that and not the character it was before.
Much like a child's well loved teddybear can't be replaced by a new identical one.

 

I think so... I don't know though... I would be really upset if anything happened to any of my dolls that made me need to replace them, but at the same time, if I could find the parts, I would probably do it.

I am actually thinking of getting an F60 Soony if she is released, to replace my Delf Soony. I would keep my delf girl as the Queen of the Dollies... but if she broke and I had to replace her, I don't know, but I think it'd be a bit different to me.

 

I don't think anyone's doll is replaceable.I mean we spent so much time and love on them! I see them as my family members!

 

As of today there are only 2 of mine that are not replaceable. In fact, if they were destroyed it would most likely make me sell the others and leave the hobby altogether. But, it is also possible that 6 months from now I will feel the same way about all of them.

Still, even if I did continue in the hobby I would not get the same sculpt(s) of the ones that were destroyed because it would be too strong a reminder.

I realize dolls are inanimate objects but some objects can't be replaced.

 

I generally consider dolls replaceable. I don't seem to "bond" with them as strongly as a lot of people here do, probably because I don't have much of a creative/artistic side, so they don't really turn into complete characters in my mind.

 

I believe some dolls have their own "soul" and these dolls are not replaceable. If they break, you can repair them, but not replace them.

Dolls that don't have souls, that are just "play-things", can be replaced whenever.

 

My dolls are so irreplacable to me I'd probably have some kind of doll funeral if any of them were destroyed completely.. I'd maybe buy the same sculpts again but wouldn't give them the same names or expect them to be like the same dolls. Six of my nine dolls are limited (or um "discontinued" since Notdoll disappeared into nowhere) anyway and would be harder to replace.. I'd have to buy from the marketplace then send some of them back to the company for custom faceups (since 4/9 have custom faceups from DoD) if I wanted them to look exactly how the old versions did.

 

No. No. No.

My dolls are based off my two favorite creations, and they literally are my little horcruxes. I've put so much time and effort and soul into these characters. I've barely scratched the surface of what I could do to their doll shells; they don't have any custom face-ups or anything like that, but they are still special, and I'm strongly 'bonded' to both of them, as some would say. I take them places and photograph them like crazy.

One of them, I scrimped and I saved to get, and finally bought him secondhand. The other, I bought from a friend who didn't want the doll any more with my 18th birthday money. But, oddly enough, the fact that the second was practically a gift didn't matter when it came to how much I treasure her.

Sure, I would replace their body parts, but if their heads were destroyed, I would be crushed. Sure, I could buy the sculpts again. They're both Bobobies, and very common. But, they just wouldn't be the same.

My dolls are sentimental, and having the money repaid to buy a new doll wouldn't help at all. They'd be lost. Simple as that. As I read earlier in this thread, it would be like trying to replace a child's destroyed teddy bear. I feel the same way about my own teddy bear as I feel about my dolls.

 

Yes and no. Some of them are LE sculpts or are LE skin tones that would be difficult to replace. Faceups are things I can redo, wigs I can find again, etc. Many of my dolls are not LE so they can be bought again.

My characters came before my dolls and my dolls are just shells. Sure, I'd be upset if something happens to them (my grail especially) but many of them could be replicated.

 

On the most literal level, I'd have to say no, I'd have a hard time replacing my dolls as a lot of them are older and have been discontinued or were limited to begin with.

On an emotional level, and assuming I'd be able to re-buy the same sculpt down the road, I wouldn't have a problem with it. To me, it'd be like wiping a face-up; I have dolls that have had multiple face-ups and I didn't feel as though they were literally a different doll every time. So as long as the sculpt was the same and had a good replication of the current face-up, then yes, I could stand to part with them.

 

I don't think I could replace my guys if something were to happen to any of them. It's hard to say when nothing bad has happened to any of them, but I don't think it would feel the same to replace them even if the doll looked the same.

 

I couldn't replace my dolls. They all have a personality and back story. It they got destroyed, it would be like they died. If I got a replacement I would feel like a mother who lost a child and then had another one to replace it, as if nothing ever happened. Now before someone says those are two completely different scenarios, yes I know. Yeah, my dolls aren't living things and I know that but replacing my dolls like that would give me a similar feeling. I just can't do it.

 

I would be very upset, but I would replace them, none of mine are limited, all have default face ups. Maybe I will feel different in a few years, but at the moment I would just order them again, they are all covered on the house insurance. I would have to bond with them all over again but better them never getting them back.

 

Every doll has little things here and there that are unique. Even dolls that are the same sculpt and should be the same aren't. Chulyen's got a nick from where I put on his watch too carelessly. Mattie's mellowed to a lovely cream color I really like. Things like that and others. Even if it wasn't for all the charming quirks, the other problem I have is just about all my dolls are discontinued!

Chulyen's a version 1 Hound. Dollshe still makes dolls, but they don't make his version anymore. Hannah's an Iplehouse Cocori. Iplehouse discontinued her body type and head sculpt. Roane's a Sleepy Igon by Gomidoll. I don't think Gomidoll is even around anymore. Qwill is a Luts event head from 2008. Kaz is a DIM minimee head of Nakama Yukie, and I've only seen 2, one of which is the one I bought! Mattie is a snowskin Leeke Love. Leeke seems like they've pretty much quit making the Yo-SD line that she comes from, near as I can tell. So yeah. Replacing any of them would be next to impossible.

 

Hmm... Some of my dolls are limiteds, and, in that sense, they are difficult to go about replacing.

But, assuming I can just go and re-buy the doll, and that my insurance people cough up like they're supposed to... The dolls are completely replaceable. I would be upset about it, of course, since having any of your things destroyed is upsetting, and it would be sad to see something I enjoyed break or be stolen. But, in reality, I would likely... not even re-buy most of them, and just hang out to the insurance money and get a very select few. I've been wanting to downsize, but selling dolls is time consuming (not saying I want this to happen, just to be clear, lol).

I don't really believe in attaching too much of yourself to stuff... It comes and goes, goes and comes.

 

The first doll I ever bought was damaged, and it was her face no less! Now I have to make this difficult decision on whether to replace her or not. It's taken me months and I still have no answer. Oh dear!

 

I think it would not be the same if I simply bought a new one of the same sculpt. But I am not sure. I guess I won't know for sure until the day it needs to be done.
But I would certainly try to save the original doll if at all possible.