Are your dolls replaceable?

Could you maybe swap out parts?? Like keep the head, and purchase a new body? Especially if its damaged... :/

 

I could never actually replace a doll. It wouldn't be the same to me. The first one is always, well... it for me. It's the item itself that I have bonded with. If I get a second one I like it too, but it could never be anything like the first one. I do this with regular items too, like stuffed animals for example. The first one I see is the one I have to buy, even if it has faults that the others don't. Because that's the one I saw and went, oh, I have to have this! I had to have that specific one. I'm rambling a bit, but yeah. I could never replace my dolls.

As a doll itself, I definitely could, even though a few are limiteds and it would be difficult. But as for an emotional connection, or any kind of connection, it just wouldn't be the same. I think, for a doll, this only applies to the head... I have no trouble switching bodies out. The face is what you connect with most of the time, after all.

 

Although I'm by no means emotional and too attached to my dolls, I realised a long while ago I wouldn't be able to get the same doll once again. And I mean by just mold and brand.

I don't make OCs from my dolls but every each of them joined the collection due to some characteristics which I considered personally appealing or personal for some reason. And as much as I don't have trouble selling dolls when life strikes hard and I'm in need of funds, I kind of let a particular character go. Irreplacable one. I allow the new owner to find some new bonds with my ex doll but I never seek to recreate the character. I like searching for new personalities, new features and I think there's still plenty of dolls to "meet". I like this variety and I enjoy allowing new dolls into my collection/family because it's like meating new people, in a way, lol. : D

 

I suppose it depends on the doll. Fable is irreplaceable. She didn't even have a character until she got here, all she had was a name. Being shelled as a doll gave her a personality and a 'being' I suppose. It would be really hard for me to loose her, and I don't feel like I could just replace her. My LTF Baby Rara that is coming with my PKF pong is replaceable. Actually, my plan isn't even to keep the faceplate, only the body. Her character, Nova, is one I feel is better suited to a LTF Chloe, because she looks older.
So all in all, my dolls' replaceability is a case by case basis. If I don't feel connected to them, they don't stay. Simple as that.

 

I would replace my dolls if something were to happen to them; what's done is done and I rather still be able to enjoy the sculpts I obtained than settle for an alternative just because of my sadness toward whatever happened to destroy them. The only heart-sinking part would be when I realize that even the same dolls with the "same" stock face-ups, aren't really ever the same and the differences would be so noticeable to me but it wouldn't make me stray away from replacing the original doll with that one.

 

I would say that my dolls are irreplaceable. For a few, it's because if something happened to them, I'm not so in love with them that I would have it in me to buy an expensive object that I'd already bought before. They're dolls that I'm 'in like with' more than 'in love with', if you know what I mean. I bought two primarily because they were so cheap, and the third was a adopted from a friend.

My first doll is the doll I'm easily the most attached to. My feelings for her are largely sentimental at this point, so I honestly don't feel like it would be the same to buy a replacement. But then again, maybe I would, who knows. I don't really know just how heartbroken I would be if I truly lost her forever somehow. Maybe those feelings would be enough to want to console myself with an exact copy, regardless of if it's 'not really the same'. Or maybe I would take it as a signal to take a break from BJDs as a hobby for now and reconsider my collection. While I love the concept of BJDs, lots of the BJD clothes and options, and seeing other's beautiful BJDs, very, very few of the actual dolls on the market appeal to what I'd want myself, and my taste has only gotten more picky since I've received my first.

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I do not think I can replace my doll. At least, not completely. If a part of his body becomes damaged somehow, I would replace that part because I want my doll to be in his best possible condition.

 

I'm way too attached to Dionne, if he were to be damaged or destroyed I could never replace him. To me he's one of a kind.

 

Yes, pretty easily. That's one of the reasons I like RS and Miro so much. It would be very easy to replace parts or even the dolls themselves if I absolutely had to. They're not limited and parts are pretty standard which is good.

 

I'm super attached to my Shiloh. I would be absolutely heartbroken if she were completely damaged or destroyed. I could never replace her, cause in a sense I feel like it'd be like trying to replace a pet that died. Even though she's not really alive, I like to believe she has a soul of her own and to replace her would be pointless because her character would be gone. But that's just me being super over emotional and attached, though
But seriously, even if she broke off one of her fingers I'd be really upset cause she's my little resin baby

 

My dolls' bodies are all replaceable. But I feel like the "soul" is in the head, and I've bonded with my dolls too much to let them go forever (not counting dolls that I haven't bonded with and\or ended up selling). I feel like if any of my dolls were ever going to be discontinued from their companies forever, I would get a bunch of backup heads to have in storage so I could do my best to "replace" them in the worst case scenario(s?), but it wouldn't be the same. I have several dolls with heavy modifications that I wouldn't want to replicate, knowing I could never get that exact doll back. These dolls are some of my best friends, and I love them almost like a mother loves her children (though let's be clear, that's not what they are to me. I don't think of myself as their mother.) So no, if anything were to happen to them to ruin them beyond repair or they were taken away from me, never to be seen again, I wouldn't try to get tham back in the form of another doll. I would start over with new characters.

 

I had never really thought about whether or not my dolls are irreplaceable, until I read your question. Now, that you mention it, I do have some that I feel are absolutely irreplaceable. Not because of the character, but because my two Minifee’s were my first. And honestly, my dolls are not shells for characters, but all of them would be incredibly difficult to replace and would cost a fortune to replace them.

 

June, iris, chaim, and Lily are irreplaceable. June is the only one readily available, iris, chaim and Lily either the companies are dead or they are limited dolls. Even so I can't just get them again and have them exactly the same.

Isaac and Bella don't have faces and there for are still molding in their characters so they have much more flexibility if something we're to happen.

 

Even though Phinny was a character in a story of mine, before a physical doll...he's definitely irreplaceable. I've had him for almost seven years now, and even though the story he was apart of is complete and I rarely re-read it, he's still that character. And more than that, since he also represents my first BJD I ever owned, ever saw in person, and the first BJD I ever saw and said, "Wow, I absolutely love him, I need him." He was perfect for me before I got him, and buying him secondhand didn't make him any less perfect. If something were to happen to him, I could never just replace him, even if I managed to get the "exact" same one...

 

mine are for the most part right now, but i have the feeling with some future ones they wouldnt be

 

I could replace them, yes. But it wouldn't be the same, no doubt of it. I really love the dolls and characters they represent and it would hurt a lot if I couldn't avoid to lost and replace them...


Uhmm, I wouldn't care much about the body as long as I keep the head, because is not necessary the 'doll' but the moments we've had together and how I feel towards it ;w; so I couldn't replace them at all, just a part, and thinking about this breaks my shipping heart omg i cant -runs away-

 

All my girls are irreplaceable; somewhat so. They are all limited editions. If I were able to find them again from another person, they would cost double to triple to replace. And my heart, that could never be replaced. harleyfae

 

man, im still not really over the loss of my favorite my little pony from childhood even though i have 6 of her now. I don't even want to know what i would be like with any of my dolls! The newer ones that are still finding themselves, not so much. But the older ones.... O_o I think if it was a fire or something it would not be as bad, but if they were stolen or someone broke them or something....... I'll probably be a complete mess for a really long time.

 

Even if i could just re buy the exact same doll, it wouldn't be 100% a replacement. Every doll has their own personality. To me they are like people! Plus if it is a doll I have customized, there is not way I could get it to look the exact same way so it wouldn't feel like a replacement at all.

 

I could easily replace my dolls if something happened to them. Or, well, assuming I had the funds and the means, there'd be no emotional barrier to replacing them. What's special to me about my dolls is their characters, and they exist independently of the resin dolls. As long as I could get all the same parts (right skintone, right fantasy parts, right wig and eyes), I'd be just as happy with a replacement (maybe even moreso, if the replacement was less yellowed than the original).