Did you ever find dolls creepy before you got into BJDs?

I don’t find them particularly creepy and never really have, but I cannot have human/humanoid dolls in the house. For some reason I have a reoccurring nightmare (only if dolls are in the house) of them crawling off their sitting spots and coming to get me.
I like looking at them when they’re not in my house though!

 

Not really! I've been a doll person since I was a kid. I outgrew my Barbies and Bratz at around 10, decided I was too old for dolls, then promptly fell back in on BJDs/Monster High dolls when I was ~13-ish. I find some porcelain/bisque dolls and baby dolls (particularly reborn dolls) to be a bit creepy, but I'm pretty impervious to the creep factor otherwise.

 

Yes I fell for the trope and found them super creepy as a kid. Probably from how they are always protrayed in the media. What started to open my mind was Rozen Maiden, but I still wasn't entirely converted until I started to see professional level photoshoots of BJDs.

 

I wasn't really into dolls as a kid and my mom was really into horror films. So yes.
I mostly outgrew that, but some can definitely give that 'uncanny valley' feeling.
Of course, then I went to this in Japan.
Universal Studios Japan receives letter of protest over haunted house using Shinto shrine’s dolls
Horror renewed. Lol.

 

@yukiri to be honest I would be annoyed as well if something I donated to a religious institution were loaned out to an entertainment studio as a tourist attraction.

I was creeped out by a bisque doll in my mother's house as a kid. Couldn't sleep with it in the room. I went looking for it lately but couldn't find it...

 

Yes. my mom had two wax elves, always on display in the living room around Christmas. they where around SD size, "happy faces", old looking with wrinkles and all that.... don't know what there was with the two of them. but I always felt they were looking at me, no matter where I was in the room.. but then again, I had lots of barbie and was even gifted a porcelain doll ( no joint) on a stand, I loved those. Still hav the porcelain doll and one barbie doll. today there is still some type of doll I'm having a little hard time with, but most bjd are fine

 

The only dolls I've found creepy are baby dolls like reborn dolls, I've collected dolls like barbie and other dolls since I was a kid, I've always loved dolls.

 

I only find kinda creepies the porcelain ones. it's like they have a weird vibe to me.

 

I've never found dolls creepy; at most they're unappealing to me. I don't like antique porcelain dolls or Blythes for example. As a child I found animatronics terrifying but I wouldn't count those as dolls.

In fact I've always been fascinated by miniatures - which first started with Schleich animal models - then Nendoroids, anime figures and now BJD. Even today I gravitate towards smaller sizes like yoSD/MSD.

 

Funny enough I used to be SO scared of dolls when I was a child, enough to get night terrors for years because I had seen Dolls '87 and Child's Play (my family has always been fond of horror movies, it didn't bother me until the doll horror came around).
My grandma had a big collection of porcelain dolls and had to hide them all when I came over her house so I wouldn't panic lmao

BJDs actually allowed me to reconcile with dolls because suddenly I found them beautiful instead of creepy. Thanks to them I'm now cured of my doll phobia

 

No, not creepy, but some are ugly enough I wonder how people can stand to have them in their house. I wouldn't say it's a creep factor as much as an ick factor.

 

I agree with @hospitalitydoll, I find some incredibly ugly rather than creepy.

I know there are plenty of horror movies, stories, legends and such that have been around for years involving dolls but it never really affected my view. For me this is highly unusual as all my life I’ve had problems with certain things repeatedly triggering terrible nightmares.

 

Nope. It was only after getting into the hobby that I first saw Blythes and their eyes. Though after years of coming across them regularly due to some hobbyists I follow on Flickr having some in addition to the BJDs I follow them for, I've gotten mostly desensitized to them by now.

 

I have always been into dolls are a young girl. I find them to be cute and endearing. Yes there are some dolls that I would say look creepy but that just means they are not my esthetic and that’s ok. I don’t need to buy every doll. I love being able to customize my doll to fit my various moods. It allows me to have an avenue to express my creativity.

 

Nope! I've always felt neutral to liked all kinds of dolls. I think it helps I worked at estate sales with my family my whole childhood, so I was used to the idea of vintage items? So even vintage dolls I tend to be endeared to.

 

I've never found dolls creepy. I don't like the look of baby dolls but I don't really enjoy looking at actual babies so I don't think the issue is doll related.

 

A small selection of reborn dolls creep me out a tiny bit, but other than that, no not really. Even dolls that look creepy or "haunted" on purpose don't really creep me out.

 

Creepy- nah. Though looking at dolls like cabbage patch kids, I 100% understand how someone came up with the idea for Chucky definitely uncanny valley.
But yeah I don't think I've ever been scared of dolls or any toys for that matter.

 

Most dolls that are meant to look a bit creepy are not to me.
The porcelain dolls that some people find unsettling were interesting to me as a kid and I never found them creepy either, but when I first saw Reborn baby dolls... no. Not my cup of tea. Just too uncanny valley for my taste.

 

I guess I wasn't exposed to a lot of creepy dolls, when I was younger? Or maybe my thing is, dolls that were meant to be cute but seem to have a pinch of creepy will drive my "that doll's a bit creepy" reaction, way more than a horror themed dolls do.