Did you ever buy a doll and just hate it?

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Yes. When I first got my Soom Alk well he was blank and his blank face just isn't that cute.
Same thing with Iv. He was so cute in pictures but in person these chubby cheeks bothered me.

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
With a faceup he looked better. But sorta lacking the character I wanted.
With more time and his character more developed that I know what he... well she should look like. Now I love her. (yepp, he decided to be a girl instead!)

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
I had the right wig for him before I even received the doll, which helped, but I couldn't for the life of me find the right eyes for him, as they're an odd color. I was really tempted to wipe the faceup and start over completely, but I decided to reserve final judgement until I found him a pair of decent eyes. After I had a pair of custom acrylics made and popped them in his head, my opinion changed completely! He really was a perfect fit for the character, I just needed him to be accurate before I could see it
for myself. XD
Same thing with Iv.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
Well it happens. I am glad that in the end I ended up liking them.

 

It's not happened to me but I'm still waiting for my 2nd doll ever. I ordered him after looking at the promo pics for months but without seeing the owner pics. I've since managed to find some and I'm fairly confident I made the right decision. Also, he's a DZ Cosmo and DZ had un-faceupped and naked posing photos so I felt i had a good idea to begin with. Still, I'm really nervous I won't like him when he arrives.
If the worst did happen and I knew he wasn't going to grow on me I'd sell him straight away.
I'd feel guilty, perhaps for spending the money but probably for not liking the doll. I know thats daft but I can't shake the feeling.
I loved my Zaoll muse wigless, blank faced and straight out of the box. And that was such a good feeling I'd hate to miss out on it with my 2nd.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
It seems Soom would be the most misleading company here huh? I do admit their dolls are lovely, but to me it seems when they get backed up they just ship anything out. From the Promo pictures, I really fell for their MD Chrom. I went all out and got a full set, everything but his shoes. And what a wait it was to get him. I waited 8 months for him, and I bought him within the first week he went on sale, in one payment. It was hard spending that much money, and not having a doll even 8 months later. Well he arrived to me shortly after Christmas. It seemed like I was one of the last ones to even get him. And I'm sure all the waiting didn't help my opinion of him out too much. When he arrived, the first thing I noticed was the painting on his paws. One paw was ALOT shinier than the other. Like perhaps they didn't spray a layer of clear coat on it. After waiting for so long I didn't bother to complain to soom about it. I figured I might as well change the color anyway, as I wanted them black instead of brown. But that wasn't WHY I hated him. And I'm sure I'm not the only one that got this response form the mold. His face up and stuff was really good, but for some reason the sculpt of his face kind of disappointed me. His nose seemed pretty huge, and the his face just seemed dour, and miserable. It's strange though, cause in photo's I love chrom. Even when I take photos of my own, I see the things I liked about him, and still do. But in 3-d, they just aren't there for me. It's so weird. Apparently I only like pictures of Chrom. >>;;

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
No. I've had him for four months now, and I still feel about the same about him.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
I've changed his eyes, I've tried various different wigs on him, and I still feel the same. His face just doesn't do it for me. I'd buy him a different head, but I'm not sure which ones will go well on soom bodies. He's too lanky and his arms and legs just seem really long. Specially with the wolf feet on. I kind of expected him to seem more proportionate. The more I do try to bond with him the less I do. I'm almost considering selling him, but keeping the wolf feet, because they were probably the thing that sold him for me anyway. And his outfit.. it's complicated. I don't think I've managed to get it on him right yet, so he wears a hound outfit I bought for him while waiting.


Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
I Feel bad about wanting him so much, and not liking him when he got here. So I've just kind of kept him out, on my book shelf. And despite my attempts to bond with him it's just not working well. I haven't even managed to come up with a name for him. Though my bf seems to think he's cool, and refers to him as "Bane." Maybe the doll didn't bond with me, but him instead? xD

As of now, I'm going to wait, and think before selling him. Maybe try a few other things and see if that works. He just looks really realistic compared to my luts and fairyland dolls, and is sort of an oddball. Oddly enough my Soony's head is way bigger than his, and he's like, way taller than her. She comes up to his chest. xD I'm not too sure what I'm going to do with him, really.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Okay, it wasn't exactly hate, but it was a major disappointment. It happened with my third doll. She was just so totally different from what I was expecting. The face-up was very different from the one advertised in her promotional pictures and to make it worse that batch of resin she was made from was horribly pink.

Did your opinion change after a few minutes?
No. I've kept her for about a year and tried to get along with her, but I never liked her nearly as much as my other dolls.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
I've changed her eyes, her wig, her dress and tried to redo her face-up. She looked a little bit better in the end, but not good enough to change my general opinion on her, so eventually I ended up selling her.


Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
I do not really feel bad about it, but it tought me to try to check owner photos of dolls before buying them. At least if it is a regular, non-limited sculpt. Would I have looked at owner photos before getting her, I would have noticed that more people were getting those horrible face-ups around that time and I would have been warned and would not have got the default face-up for her.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
I wouldn't say *hate* exactly... but 5 of my dolls haven't been what I was expecting... In all cases the wait for them has been longer than I expected and the 'buzz' wore off before they got here - I try to buy from the MP now!

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
No.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
Oh yeah, I've tried different wigs and eyes, changes of clothes, playing with them a lot - taking lots of pics... but if it's not there for me it never will be. I'd rather sell them and get one I love than try and try.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
A little bit... but I'd rather have someone I love and adore without having one to work for it. I know all the dolls I've rehomed have gone to very loving homes so it's all good.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight? I also wouldn't say "Hate" but I felt indifferent. I purchaced a Luts Ttory when they first came out long ago. He looked really sweet and cute from the photographs and that's why I wanted him. I ordered him without a face up and painted him myself.

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
Yes. My horrible face up job made it worse. I didn't want to photograph him or play with him because I just wasn't bonding with him.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect). Maybe a year later I redid his face up a lot better than the last time. Thank goodness for the lesson at Volks because that really helped me. He looked better. Plus I got him some better wigs and lighter eyes and I really love him now. I think because of the bad face up and the dark eyes he came with, that made him unappealing.

 

Yes. I was in a really bad/depressed mood and some friends on flickr were posting photos of DollNDoll girls. So I TOTALLY bought a DnD Bubble on impulse. Her photos were gorgeous, but in person I hated her. I took her out of the box once, put her back, and left her there. Sold her soon after. There have been some that arrived and it took me a little bit to "warm up" to. Sometimes all it takes is changing out the eyes and wig to make the doll really "yours" and if I am enjoying finding their "look" then I know I love them. At least that is my experience anyway.

 

Oh no. All this has me very worried and I haven't even decided on a doll yet! I can't imagine doing all that researching, saving, choosing, and waiting only to be disappointed when I open the box. Gahh. Sounds like a nightmare. I don't have the money for a collection or even for several so I had darned well better LOVE anything I choose or I will never hear the end of it from my husband.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Oh yes, Domuya Fin that I bought second hand. She had looked so great in photos but when she arrived - I just didn't like anything about her. Her faceup was bland and her limbs were too long for my liking. I was disappointed.

Did your opinion change after a few minutes?
No, so I put her back in her box and took a couple of days to think about what to do next.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, etc).
I decided to commission a new faceup for her. This definitely made some difference but I still wasn't liking her body so I put her back in her box again. I left the hobby for a couple of years so Fin ended up staying in her box for a couple of years. I'm just getting back into dolls again and decided to sell of dolls that I wasn't enjoying so Fin has a new home.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
Fin wasn't an impulse buy. I'd done my research first however when I saw her in person I just didn't like her. Looking back I think that I should have sold her instead of going to the added expense of commissioning an faceup in the hopes of connecting with her.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight? It happened to me the last month... I was waiting 4 months for my Loretta-Cat to arrive and when I opened the box I just thougth "what was I thinking???!!"

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
No. The doll is pretty but I didn't like her at all

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect). I sold her

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Yes, my second doll was a Happydoll Dorothy. My first was Elfdoll Soah and she arrived with seams sanded, beautiful body sculpt and was absolutely perfect which made Dorothy such a let-down. The Dorothy was a fullset and I had looked at her and loved her for ages. At the time, the exchange rate was working against the AUD so Dorothy cost me $1000 and I had to save for ages to pay her off. When she arrived, it was more than hate, it was total horror! Dorothy's headcap magnet had been glued in the wrong way so her headcap wouldn't work. The strings were sticking out of her headcap and she looked like frankendolly. Her seams were so rough and so prominent, I could have cut my fingers on them. She arrived naked and her sculpt was awful. Her hands looked like claws. Not only that, I swear there was a bump under her face-up where they should have sanded the resin. I hated everything about her. The fact that I had paid so much for her only made it worse. I still love her face to this day, but the rest of her was only suitable for the bin. I ended up selling her after swapping the headcap magnet around. She was not worth the money I paid for her and in the end, Happydoll ended up closing up shop mostly because most people loved the faces but hated their bodies.
Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
Nope, from opening her up to the day I sold her my feeling was "I've been done, I want my money back".
If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
I tried different eyes, different wigs, but the problem was always her sculpt so I sold her at a vastly reduced price to a friend who wanted her.
Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
I still feel like I threw my money away on her and I don't think I've ever lost as much money on a doll as I did on Dorothy. It really hurt at the time, but I grew a lot more careful on what I spent my money and I've never been reluctant to sell a BJD once I tire of them since.

 

i sounds like to me anyways that you expected it to look like the pictures or you thought it looked nice with the wig it had on at the time rather then reseaching the doll. i only have two dolls at the moment and thats why i know exactly what im going to get. since I'm picky i tend to reseach alot ..... and even if i was not inlove with a doll i really think most dolls are not ugly, just maybe not my style i think this happens some times with owners and thats why they cant bond with the doll

 

No the sculpt was pretty bad in comparison to the companies around then and they were fairly highly priced dolls. The hands were literally clawlike. I was assuming that you paid high price, you'd get a good quality doll and I was certainly mistaken. I've owned 50? BJDs since then and still think she had one of the ugliest body sculpts I've ever seen. The hands were certainly the worst. All over the sculpting looked rough and unfinished. But I definitely learned my lesson about examining the pictures carefully and looking at reviews before checking. This was also before I was a member on DoA so that made it harder. This was 6 years ago so the hobby was still starting to grow.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
I would say hate but I was disappointed. After months of waiting for my DOI limited Kalix when he arrived he just didn't look like the pictures on the sight. I'm sure the way DOD handled the whole thing didn't help but really he just wasn't what I expected.
Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
No, my opinion never really changed.
If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
Because he was limited and I was having trouble bonding I didn't want to wipe his face up. Also I think part of my problem was with handling the DOI body. It is a gorgeous body but I don't like the way it poses and it always seems more fragile than my other dolls. You would think I would have been aware of this as my hubby has a DOI boy, but I just don't handle him that much. He is gorgeous to look at. I gave him his wig, and his eyes, put KIPs in his joints. I played with his clothes and tried taking pictures but just could never really feel like he was the character he was supposed to be.
Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
A little bit. He was an expensive doll and I wanted him so badly. Hubby purchased him for me for Christmas and I felt bad not falling for him like I thought I would. In the end I sold him. As I was taking pictures of him for sale with his default eyes in I did catch just the right angle and for a moment he looked like the pictures from the sight and I almost decided to keep him, but I stopped myself. I don't regret selling him now. I will find a doll that fits the character better.

 

I did feel that way about my BBB Mei, but only about her body. I never noticed how the Resinsoul bodies looked until then. I was sill happy with her, but even today, after having her for over a year, I don't really like it. I've just come to accept it, being as I can't do much about it. (no money, hahah).

Coincidentally though, let me know if you wanna trade bodies! She's a 43cm girl. I have been looking ino it, but I just ordered my SD, so I'm a bit broke.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Yes, Her face was different than her photos made her appear. Her nose was too pointy. My 5 year old even thought so. Her ears were too high also and she has a large forehead.

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
For me it took a few days. I had ordered a girl and got a girl head with a boys body.
If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect). I contacted the company. They apologized and sent me out a new female body. I got a new wig for her. Its really fluffy and curly so it hides her ears and large forehead. I have since fallen in love with her.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain. I love her now. Sometimes she still looks a bit odd to me but I don't mind so much.

 

Fortunately I have never had this happen to me, where I really hated the doll.

With my first girl I was a little dissapointed when I opened her to see how chubby her cheeks were. But I quickly got over that one little speedbump of total adoration of my little princess.

I have met dolls in person that I have instantly disliked, but they were not mine, and they were at a meet-up, so I didn't really spend that much time with them to see if it was a sculpt that I could learn to like.

 

on what Miss_Pygmalion said, its true that I've seen some UGLY dolls a cons. It made me sad that I didn't bring Ophie to be like, troll princess, lmao. But I suppose that if the owners love them, then it isn't my place to judge.

 

Not the doll itself I hated but: I opened my AE Meijia with default faceup, which I LOVED in the pictures. The faceup was horrible, absolutely awful. Worse than something I would do. Indescribable. I was sooo upset. I immediately wiped her and sent her off, and loved her with her great new faceup. But I still shudder at the thought of that faceup.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Not really HATE but...I bought this DIM head (odelia 2008 head) and someone did a custom faceup on it.
All of the pictures of the faceup looked amazing, and it just had this certain beauty to it. Very angelic looking.
I had planned on it being my OC's (named Ava) representation.
In the pictures, a wig had been put on the head for effect and eyes also. I was so excited and couldn't wait to
get it. When it finally arrived at my door, I opened up the box and thought "that's it?" o_O
The makeup looked much brighter and noticeable I guess in the pictures and the blushing didn't look the same either.
I don't know if it was the lighting or camera or what but I was disappointed. My husband was with me when I opened it
and he said "wow what a pretty faceup" and I just nodded and said "yeah it is" and tried to hide my disappointment.

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
After looking at her for a while, I thought well it's not bad and it's rather pretty
but it's def. not what I expected from the photos. And now it def. won't work for my Ava.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
Well like I said it sort of changed but I still was upset because now my Ava was
not happening and I didn't know what on earth to do with this head. A few days later
I took her out of the box again and was just toying around with some things. I inserted
some purple eyes in her just to see how they'd look, and put this black wig on her
(both had been intended for whenever I bought a doll to depict my OC Neeka)
and after I did that I kinda held her back and looked at her. She looked really pretty.
And I loved the faceup with that hair and eye pairing even more so than the pairing
that was in the photos of the faceup. Then I just stared blankly for a few mins before
shouting "OMG IT'S MY NEEKA!" I made my husband come look when he got home.
It was so funny I kept saying "no hurry! you have to look! I found Neeka!"
and he was just like ".....What!?"

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
Not really because I absolutely adore her now. Sounds odd but maybe
it was just the fact she was without hair and eyes. Some dolls look
completely 100% different once you get hair on them and eyes in them.
I think she's completely gorgeous now. Now to buy her body ^^;