Did you ever buy a doll and just hate it?

Ok see about a year ago I had ordered my first doll (Nov 14th 2008) and she arrived Jan 27th 2009....after waiting and waiting...of loving and adoring her picture everyday she finally arrived that day. She was my first ordered and 2nd to arrive, so I had my other one watching...I opened the box, taking pictures but (maybe contrary to what my Box opening says?) I really hated her....My DOC leya wasnt what she looked like on the site, nothing close while my KDF ani looked like his pictures.

I stuffed her box and didnt take her out for months. Besides her face looking different her eyes were something I never liked (and she still has them in ) but I forced myself to spend time with her and I grew to like her and still think the pictures are way different! It sometimes take time and I refused to give up on her.

 

I think perhaps I am one of those odd people who can see the sculpt through the faceup, so I am rarely shocked when I see a doll, with or without faceup, for the first time. I have never instantly hated a doll, I HAVE instantly hated a faceup. When I buy it is never for the faceup, but for the doll itself, the sculpt. The closest I have ever come to hating the doll is when I see things in the sculpt that I dislike, but I have never hated.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?

Yes, I bought an Iplehouse Luo and as soon as I opened the massive box and took him out I kinda went "Ewww" and felt really bad and guilty - because he was way too big and butch and heavy and masculine for my tastes.

Also I bought a Dollzone Celine fullset and I knew as soon as she was out of the box that she was not for me even though I LOVE nearly all of the other Dollzone dolls and have a lot of them.

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?

No in both cases.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
Luo - I tried taking on wigs and clothes and taking photos but it just confirmed my viewpoint more so I sold him pretty quickly.

Celine - I put her away again and listed her for sale within a day. I just knew she wasn't for me.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.

Luo - Not really. He's the biggest doll I ever ordered and I just wasn't prepared for how big, heavy he was. Also I liked his face on the site but in person it wasn't as nice and I just couldn't get past the huge body.

It taught me to stick with what I know I like.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Yes, it has.

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
I tried hard, but it didn't.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
I had decided that my first doll would be an Angelregion Ren, but the company took 6 months to ship him and I got other 3 dolls in the middle. When my long-awaited Ren arrived... I thought he looked horrible, not like all the other Rens I had seen around the forums. I thought it was because of the makeup, so I changed it twice, I even sent him out to get a professional one... and he looked great, but I think I never got over the first impression and I wasn't able to bond with him. He ended up on sale and I really was happy to see him go to another house where he'd be loved properly.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
I feel bad because I wasn't expecting that reaction toward such a long awaited doll. I really hope it doesn't happen again

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight? - I wouldn't say it was hate, but more like apathy. I took a chance and ordered an F38 right when they were first released based off of all of 2 pictures. He seemed like he would work for the character who had I had been looking to reshell and I love ordering FCS dolls so I figured why not? He arrived, I was all excited, and I looked at him and went "Ugh, he's entirely too pleasant looking" The faceup was gorgeous and everything I had asked for and he still looked too nice. It's just in the sculpt and not something I would have guessed based on the pictures.

Did you opinion change after a few minutes? Nope. If I dislike a doll for a character, I'm not going to change my opinion on it. The doll was purchased to be that character, and if it doesn't work, the doll is being sold.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next? Sold the doll within a week of him arriving.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain. I don't feel bad at all. I have very specific ideas about what I want my dolls to be, and if they don't fit them, they go. I've even sold dolls I've owned and enjoyed for several years once I stop feeling anything for them and grow tired of looking at them.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
I was somewhat shocked when I received my Angell-Studio Kana. I didn't hate her by any means but she didn't look like what I expected her to look like.

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
It took a couple of days and conferring with friends before my opinion changed. xD

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
I changed her eyes which helped A LOT. She had a very dark smokey face up but bright blue piercing eyes which weireded me out. I changed them to a cheap pair of life like brown dollmore acrylics but she looked so much better and more 'friendly' after that! (She still has said cheap dollmore acrylics because they actually look quite nice! :P)

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
A little bit but its all good now.

 

I like this. A lot. It's touching and makes a lot of sense ;_; ♥

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Well, it took me awhile to warm up to my DM Torrie. Also my Honig Sidra I feel was a bit of a mistake- but now I'm stuck with her...

Did you opinion change after a few minutes?
My opinion of both changed slowly. After a couple weeks with my Torrie I ADORED her. Sidra- she's cute but I would sell her if anyone would buy her. Sadly that's unlikely and that's why I'm stuck with her. But I tinker with her clothes and wigs and she's fun to pose so it's not a total loss.

If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
Well, with Sidra a new pair of eyes and a new wig did help a lot. But I've never been 100% on her. But I can live with her. For Torrie I didn't change a thing escept her outfit once in awhile and I can't get enough of her.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
Well, no. You feel how you feel about them just like anything.

 

Same thing happened to me with both my dolls.
When i received my first doll, i had a feeling that was a mix of curiosity and disappoint. For example, i've had trouble moving her and she was squeaky. But it was soon love.
For my second doll, i simply stared at her in surprise for a few minutes because i realized that she was *NOTHING* like she was supposed to be, and i had wasted over 70 EU on clothes and shoes for a character she could never fit it. But i still like her.
I think it has to do with the fact of "wanting something too much". You think about the item so much you idolize it, and when you see it in reality, there's always a bit of disappointment.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Sure, but I remember the first time the best, it was an MSD Schulze, which I'd traded my vampire Shiwoo for several years ago. When I looked at his face it was just *instant dislike* (poor fellow!)

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). The person I'd traded him from was very happy with my Vampire Shiwoo, and it wasn't his fault I didn't like Schulze in person, so I didn't bother him about any of it, I just set about preparing Schulze for sale. He sold fairly quickly, as I recall.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
Not at all! These dolls are too expensive to keep unless one is 100% over the moon for them!!! Besides, I felt he deserved to be in a 'loving home', lol. The person who subsequently adopted him was very pleased with him when he arrived! And I had funds to try something new. All's well that ends well! ^_^

Raven

 

It only happened to me with my first doll. As many waiting for the first doll, I wasn't sure I made the right choice and it didn't help that I was expecting her face-up to be very close to default on the site, only to find out that it wasn't. Don't get me wrong, it was fabulous (coming from Luts, you can't expect less), but eyebrows were different shape from default, lips pink instead of red and she had much lighter eyelashes. The feeling of disappointment lightened up after I put the wig on her and dressed her up, but it never went away completely. If I dared to repaint her, I might have ended up loving her, but I couldn't force myself to remove a $55 worth factory face-up, so I ended up selling her.

I still feel bad I never got this precious "OMG She's so perfect and amazing!!" first doll box opening moment. But I'm not sure if I was ever capable of it anyway Waiting for the first one was such a rollercoaster ride for me, I'm not sure ANY doll, no matter how perfect, would satisfy me 100%.

 

Before I open the box (being the worrywart I am) I wonder if I will actually LIKE the doll. Unless there is a similar case to Aine, whereas she was limited, I usually take a month or so to ponder whether I want the doll or not. This usually ends up in liking the doll when I open the box.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Not hate, but was really shocked by the pink/purpleness of my DoD Real Rain when I opened him up. Just... such a shocker. I'd seen pictures of him by the seller, and I guess the lighting was just yellow enough that it hid the true color of the doll.
Plus his faceup just didn't look like the promo pictures...

Did your opinion change after a few minutes?
If it didn't, please explain what you did next (did you change the faceup, eyes, wig, ect).
No. I did try for quite a while to love him. He was a lovely looking thing, but...
I couldn't get the "right" wig. Couldn't get the "right" faceup.
Then the body was a fiddly pain.
I finally gave up and sold him becasue he was more of a constant irritant whenever I looked at him, because I just couldn't make him "right".

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
I always feel bad and guilty when a doll just doesn't match my expectations, or I can't adjust to accept them as-is, and I don't feel the love I thought I would.
I always feel like I failed somehow, when it comes down to it, and I have to sell a doll.
Finding a buyer that is at least happy with their purchase, goes a long way to making me feel better though.
But it's always such a difficult struggle, finally coming to the conclusion that one has got to go.

 

Oh lord, yes.

When I got my Ringdoll Dylan it was when the company first started. I was in love with the B type they show in their pictures (you know, pink faceup, nice skin, innocentish). I asked around and was told that the pictured boy was probably normal skin.

Well, as it turns out Ringdoll normal skin is yellow. Very yellow.

The faceup looked awful on him and, since I had this character worked out perfectly in my mind, I was devastated. It didn't help that my dad was yelling at me at the time to "send the defect product back", not understanding that you can't do that with custom ordered dolls that aren't defective, but rather just a victim of poor photographic representations of skin color.

Anyway, I put him away for the day, took him out, played around with my wigs and eyes (I ended up having to order completely new ones to match his coloration, and now he's not only a treasured member of my doll family, but also one of the loudest and most doted upon. Plus, taking the red blush off his cheeks was a big help XD.

I think it's hard to let go of characters that you've had in your head for so long and waited for so eagerly when the doll you get turns out not to work for them. But as long as you like the underlying sculpt and are willing and able to let go of your predictions of character and style, they can still turn out to be great members of the family and take on all new personalities that work even better than you'd initially intended.

 

It wasn't hate; I felt disappointment once opening a doll. When I ordered my Paran from Dollmore, I requested a custom faceup and submitted a picture. At the time I got my shipping notice, there was a new picture of a Paran modeling an outfit on their site wearing the wig I'd requested. She had a default faceup with pink eyeshadow instead of the tan from the picture I'd submitted, and her mouth looked thin with a totally purplish color rather than the very full bright pink lips I'd been expecting. I felt a nagging in the pit of my stomach knowing this was going to be my girl. I figured Dollmore would probably be willing to make it right, but I kept hoping I was wrong about the doll's identity.

Once my doll arrived, it was indeed the doll from the pictures. But she was much prettier in person. Part of me loved her on spot, and part of me was disappointed that she wasn't what I'd asked for. They used an interference color on her lip. It shows up when the light hits it. Their lighting hadn't done it justice, so a large part of her mouth hadn't really shown up in the pictures. The pink eyeshadow was nice, and it didn't make her as "matchy matchy" with my Celine as I had feared. Her eyelashes and brows were actually much nicer than I'd expected. As I put her wigs and eyes in her, I started to bond with her. She fit her character just the way she was. I decided not to contact Dollmore about it, because she quickly became just darling to me. I do feel bad about my initial disappointment, so I spoil her rotten now.

 

Yeah I know this feeling too. As I got my lati blue boy. He wasn't right from the start. Much to small head and much to less face up. He didn't match my beloved Ran at all. So I changed his head into one from the same brand as Ran is (B&G). But even as I opened him I was a bit dissapointed. he looked completly different then any other Sharon mold I've ever seen. And his ears were to small.
But I fix that by sanding RANs ears a bit smaller. About the mold, well yes he didn't look like a Sharon. But now I love him and think he is more uniqe this way ^^. Maybe they changed the molding without taking pictures. Don't know how this could happend. B&G never answered my Question about it. And now I don't care anymore ^^;

 

And he has found a home where he is very much loved. But honestly, stories like this are why I don't want a doll brand new from DZ (I've heard a lot about their faceups not being what the photos show, on many dolls) and why I'm a bit wary of buying dolls in general, or atleast buying them based solely on company photos-too often they end up not looking sanything like them. I've never gotten a doll and hated it straight away, but I have had moments of "This is not what I was expecting". A good example is the aforementioned X's twin brother, whose head I purchased new. Whe he arrived, I was a bit disappointed with his faceup. It isn't that it was bad, precisely, more that it just...wasn't what it was supposed to be and required a little enhancing. In all cases, though, I got over it and those dolls are now all very much treasured members of the Menagerie. It usually takes a change of eyes and/or wig and possibly a new faceup for me to really like them in those cases. For a couple of them, my issues have been with the bodies rather than the faceups and on those I've just had to cover the bodies up and ignore them, as there's not much I can do about them. I will say, I do feel kind of bad about it when there's any aspect of a doll I buy which makes me cringe or dislike it in any way. I don't know why I do, honestly, but that's how I feel.
I've actually had one or two which made me go "I really shouldn't have bought this", but again, a change of eyes/clothes/wig made me feel much better about them and I felt bad for even having thought such a thing. >.<
I suppose it's mostly because of how much money is generally spent on them and even though those reactions have been to some of my less expensive dolls, it's still a lot of money to have that kind of feeling about. I try to make absolutely sure that I'm going to love a doll before I buy it so that this doesn't happen to me, but I do sometimes still have those moments. A couple of dolls I've wanted have gone off my wishlist because I've realised that no, I didn't actually like them as much as I thought I did. I can't tell you how disappointed I would have been had I not been able to see some of those in person and simply bought them, received them and *then* realised I didn't really like them.

 

Has anyone else ever opened a doll and hated it upon first sight?
Yes, it happened to me 3 times in the past 4 years =_= I perfectly remember the dolls but I prefer not to write them here, to respect who own a similar mold, cause I disliked them so much that I really hated them (and I still hate them).

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).
I coldly took photos of them to start a sale. And I sold them in few days.

Do you feel bad about it now, or not? Explain.
I feel bad about my total wrong purchase. I was able to buy for three time dolls that were nice in photos but very bad in person and I feel bad about it, not about the sale. Now I am a bit more selective and I hope I will not be "cheated" again by photos.

 

I've owned somewhere in the region of 50 dolls (I buy and sell a lot, trying to stop that now) and it's only happened to me once.

I've always loved other people's Delf Soony's in photos, so last year I bought one. I opened the box and thought 'yuck!'. The resin was bright pink and I didn't like the body at all.

I sold her that afternoon and now just continue to admire other people's Soonys!

 

I'm still saving for my first doll, but that was a common question in my head. After spending so much money, being happy about your doll should be on the top of your list. That's why I haven't made my choice yet on the doll I'm going to purchase. xD