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Box Openings: Awesome or Boring?

Nov 2, 2011

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Do you do box openings?

  1. Yes! I love to do those

  2. Sometimes depening on the doll

  3. I only take pictures

  4. I never take the doll out of the box much

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    1. I love watching box openings on YouTube and on forums, but some can be boring. To me it doesn't matter if it's a doll i have my eye on or not. I love the reaction of the person opening the box, and ofcourse the doll itself.
       
      #521 Develin, May 12, 2015
    2. It depends on who is doing them I have a couple of people I follow and I would watch them opening a box. Others frustrate me so I usually quit watching before they can get the box open.
       
      #522 Windwoman, May 14, 2015
    3. I'm not really into box opening videos, but photo posts of box openings? Yeah, I love those.
      They're a pretty fantastic way to get a look at dolls before the owner adds all their own touches to them, so you can better assess whether that sculpt/body/doll would be a good fit for your own resin family. There's also some anticipation to then see those special, personal touches later on and see how they both alter and compliment the doll.
      Plus you're getting to discover the doll the same way the owner did, you're getting to see all the details and quirks the new owner is most enamoured with, with photos you're pretty much literally seeing the doll through the owner's eyes. That feels a little bit special to me, honestly.
       
      #523 Neut, May 14, 2015
    4. I love box opening photos! Such opportunity for a narrative between your house's current members and the new one.
       
      #524 Jobee, May 15, 2015
    5. Occasionally awesome & occasionally boring.
      I'll go to box openings to observe different dolls before considering them. Looking at them helps me a little when doing the long wait for my dolls to come in the mail too. Especially if its the same doll I'm waiting for. :)

      As for videos, I enjoy the ones where the shipping box is already put away, and the doll box just needs the lid removed. Like actually seeing the doll too. Some take forever & you don't even get to see the dolls face!!
       
      #525 Advntr.gal, May 15, 2015
    6. I enjoy box openings, both the videos and the pictures but more so the pictures.
       
      #526 Kimaeril, May 15, 2015
    7. I enjoy box opening photos, for sense of scale, resin colors in more "natural" lighting (in the sense of how I would normally see the doll--without photography lighting), aspects of the sculpt that I may have missed from the website. Sometimes box opening photos make me want a doll that I originally hated from factory photos, or conversely, hate a doll I thought I loved from the promos.

      For example, box opening photos from Or-Doll Orlando made me want him because I discovered that he had a faceplate system with teeth built into the headback! So cool!
       
      #527 americanseamstress, May 16, 2015
    8. I love watching box openings. I love looking for people's reactions especially those who are getting their dolls the first time. It kinda makes you think, is this how I reacted when I got my first doll?
       
      #528 Cyberwings, May 16, 2015
    9. I like watching the ones where they test out the doll's range of motion and poseability. You know, showing off the doll instead of the boxes it came in.

      I tend to have the video on mute, too. Not all the time, but enough that I've noticed myself auto muting a couple before it even starts out of habit. I prefer to look, rather than listen.
       
      #529 Temishi, May 16, 2015
    10. I love box openings,however when it comes to myself doing the box openings I'm shy.I tend to only do box openings with family,and I don't record them either.
      I love box openings mostly because it can show how poseable the doll can be,how its packed or if its been damaged (due to bad packaging,which can put me off a company).
       
      #530 Ivis, May 16, 2015
    11. I always look for a box opening on YouTube when I like a doll, I used to really like them when I first started out but now their getting a little more boring, it matters if I'm really interested in it, sometime I just skip to when I can see the doll.
       
      #531 cocopopx3, May 17, 2015
    12. I will admit that I haven't searched out and/or watched very many box opening videos, but the ones I have seen were boring or (don't hate) obnoxious. I've happened to see ones where people are very analytical and clinically unexcited about the arrival; It seems like a burden of the job of social media to them. Also, they have tended to ramble on and on before actually getting to doing anything. I guess, if someone were to ask for my feedback on how to do a box opening: keep it concise and professional, but fun. Show your face, don't tell me about your day, keep the camera in place and with decent lighting, and for goodness sake, enjoy your new doll a little! :)

      Again, my opinions come from watching very few opening and tutorial videos... :) thanks to everyone who takes the time to do them at all!
       
      #532 angelmecha, May 17, 2015
    13. I enjoy photo box openings but not videos so much
       
      #533 aledmunds, May 22, 2015
    14. on a scale of 1-10, 10 being total freaking out i would be and 11. i literally had a pukipuki pongpong face from the post office to my house while hugging the box the whole time. i know that sounds rediculous but i just find so much joy in opening things. its like my own personal holiday!
       
      #534 AlexaHearts, May 24, 2015
    15. I love box openings, It helps me get a good grasp on the scale of the doll (1/3's are BIG :o)
       
      #535 Vendoll, Jun 20, 2015
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