Coherent Collection or Motley Crew?

Well, I only have two right now, a pukipuki PongPong and a LatiWhite Belle so it's not much of a crew. Two more is on layaway, an Elfdoll TinyDoll Kai and a PukiPuki Lily set. A Banji will be bought/go on layaway after these two comine in. I am eyeing a Soom MiniGem Aren and am considering going on layaway soonish.

They all have pretty different face sculpts and body proportion sizes. The coherent-ness of the collection is that they are tiny/mini, less than 1/6 scale. I lean more towards the tiny dolls that can fit into 1 inch scale stuff because my primary hobby is building dollhouses and dh furniture. The tinies sort of support my dollhouse stuff, though I do really love them on their own. The MiniGem is purely for enjoying and collecting BJDs as a hobby in itself, so I guess that's different!

 

All my dolls are from different companies. And the companies are Iplehouse, Dream of doll and Crobidoll. Funny is that they all are different size petite, MSD and Sd. Big Iplehouse E.I.D with my very a child looking dod a doll. So they really don't ''suit'' with each another. But I like how they are all so different looking. Well it doesn't bother me.

 

I find this thread very interesting.

My collection started out as a motley crew.

Over time, as my tastes changed and refined/focused themselves, I've found that I collect similar-looking dolls from the same company. I don't purposefully look at that company and only that company. In fact, I love a lot of different dolls. It just seems that the ones I end up bringing home are all very similar.

In short, I started out as a motley collector and became a coherent collector. For now.

 

In between? I only have one but the ones I plan for are all unique and have there own style or theme but they are all normal humans and SD size they jus have their own fashion sense.

 

My collection is pretty coherent right now. When I first got into the hobby, I wanted to try and buy sculpts that complemented each other and were similar in style. Over the years, my taste in dolls is maturing a little and I'm going for more realistic sculpts than the anime-styled ones that I was so into a while back. I have a feeling that as my collection grows, it'll change and I'll wind up with a lot of mismatched dolls. I'll still probably try to keep them grouped by styles and try to maintain a sense of unity even if it's just in their color palettes. I just like things to match. @-@

 

Mine is a motley crew. I like different sculpts and enjoy seeing what different company sculpts are like. I do tend to like realistic sculpts so they do blend in fairly well, but I don't actively hunt for dolls that match. I also like different sizes and have dolls ranging from 18cm to 80cm. I buy the sculpts that interest me and don't worry about how they blend in with my other dolls.

 

I like them to match. Well, my first doll hasn't arrived yet, so strictly speaking there is no one to match or be matching just yet - but I did reason, while looking for the second doll that I definitely want, that I'd like her features to fit his. The two are supposed to be family, for one thing, but I find myself discarding realistic-looking candidates purely because my first isn't a hyper-realistic sculpt.

 

I guess I'm a Mixed person; I focus more on the individual dolls rather than how they look together. I can picture the dolls together when I'm looking around for a new doll, but it's not so important to me that they "fit" together. I do like certain things though, so I imagine that once my collection is "complete" they will have at least one similarity among them, but for the most part, they're going to be very mixed. ^_^

 

I'm with a lot of the others on this thread... A mix of coherency and chaos. In my partner and my shared collection, there's two groups - one of mostly SD's (which has made finding the shortest one a decently muscular body a real pain in the butt) and one of mostly MSD's (where the problem of short, muscular characters is solved relatively easily by the presence of FL's Chicline). Our collection is admittedly mostly Fairyland and Luts, but with some hefty doses of Dollzone, some Souldoll bodies planned, some Dream of Doll and one lonely Doll in Mind.

Since they're all characters in the same world, and some are meant to be related, there is a definite pull towards some sense of coherency as well as a feeling that the proportions need to be correct. (Especially since many of them are planned to cosplay as various anime characters...) But overall, there's a wide variety of aesthetics, skin tones that vary from CP beauty green to DZ tan with a possible Iplehouse ebony on the wishlist and a HUGE variety of hair/eye colours and styles. We're very much looking forward to having the whole crew together so we can take group shots!

 

I always search a doll created before from a character, so all my family is mixed and I think They perhaps don't match each other, but when I'm trying to make a loving couple, or a family kinship, I want they aesthetically match with... So, a little half and half

 

My dolls are most definitely mixed. Some are to eventually have partners, but that's far in to the future. My taste in music, art, fashion and just about everything else is quite eclectic so this reflects in my doll-group. I have too limited funds to put matchiness above "love". However them not matching does bothered me. That's why they are all displayed individually...

 

I think I should make a few of my dolls look like Motley Crue for this...

 

My dolls are a mix of both. At the moment they're all of the same company, but I do plan on other companies as well. As long as the doll fits the character I'm trying to fill then s/he fits in to my family.

 

Mixed for me! My characters are all quite different, so it's unavoidable.
However, I buy my dolls in 'sets'. For example, my dolls are all characters from a series of books I'm working on, so the first three dolls are from the first book, and they all match. The next three will be from the second book, and then I'm getting a set of four for the third book. All the respective sets match one another, if that makes sense :P

 

Mixy beyond belief here. Only two of them are from the same company and they range in size from 62cm to 9cm. None of them have the same color resin and one of them is bright pink. They're very different conceptually as well. Three of them are based on anime characters, two are little girls with personality but no "backstory" and one is a folklore creature. They're all loved, though!

 

I have coherent collections. Or I'm planning them, anyway. I've got a rock band set I'm working on, and I just started my 'monsters' set, which will include non-human characters like a dragon, mermaid, vampire, unicorn, etc, anything unique and interesting I can find to add to it.

 

Coherent collection! I mean they won't look awkward for a group photo and I have a certain preference for realistic dolls. So most of my future dolls will be realistic and since Iplehouse is the only company that matches my standards, my future dolls are probably from there. Coherent collection and a small one is what I am working towards. Allows me to concentrate my already limited time and resources onto my dolls. I think it will be hard to tend to them if I have to divide my free time among 5 or more dolls.

 

I have a coherent collection. All MSD, all Blue Fairy, although I am considering Kid Delf in the future. But I like how they all coordinate, even if they are dressed in different styles, etc. But I think it is fun seeing motley collections, because they seem so adventurous to me! (I just don't want to have to buy clothes, wigs and eyes in all those different sizes.)

 

When I started collecting it was pretty Coherent but then as time past more and more cuties from diff. company started coming out so now my collection is from one end to another end mixed together

 

I look for dollies I like, many seem to be from same companies, but I don't feel there is a probple to get dolls from different places.