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

Nah, I've loved dolls since early childhood, and since getting bjds as an adult I've gone back and gotten some childhood OT dolls back. I never really found any dolls unsettling, though i do find certain dolls unappealing (cheap porcelain dolls, reborns, etc) but who am I to judge (I'm huge into raggedy Ann and Andy, dolls a fair few people find creepy).

 

I wouldn't say creepy, but reborn babies are the most unappealing to me of dolls. When I was little I thought that ventriloquist dummies were awful, despite watching tons of horror movies with them too. Now I think they're a little less ugly, and if I come across one I'm strangely attracted to see it close.

 

I definitely don't like the super realistic babies that look very real...and any doll with "blinking eyes" (IE you lay them down and they close) creep me out so bad. Blythe dolls also freak me out a bunch (I used to have a reoccurring dream about one chasing me with a knife)...but Pullips don't bother me xD I guess it just varies on the sort of doll it is. I find the older they are, the more creepy I find them...mostly because I don't know it's history and it could be haunted.

 

I personally don’t find dolls creepy at all. I started out as a Barbie collector and then families and friends gave me a few porcelain dolls. I strayed away from porcelain dolls for a long time now. I still own Barbies but they’re nothing compared to bjds.
On the other hand though, my families thinks my bjds are creepy. They say it seemed as if they’re alive and that they could move at any moment when you stare at them long enough. I’m like I wished they’d move for me so when I take photos of them they can pose by themselves!
Yeah so most of my family avoid my dolls.

 

No, I've liked dolls since I can remember. I'd even take Chucky into my house and take care of him. I do understand how that can feel. I don't feel comfortable around fake flowers, they give me the heebie-jeebie-skin-crawling, something-is-very-wrong discomfort that must be similar or the same to what people that don't like dolls feel.

Edit: When I think hard on it.... emotionally distraught looking child dolls... why do they exist? Who likes that? Just, why?

 

I think some dolls are creepy, but not in a way they cause me discomfort or fear. There are a few dolls (including BJDs) that have been "off" in some way to make me feel a bit disgusted. I'm especially talking about the (I assume) "porny" dolls with twisted faces. Also some with manical smiles look unintentionally creepy.

The only dolls that make me truly feel discomfort are the reborns. They tend to go the uncanny valley where they look realistic enough for my brain to think they are real, but "off" somehow. I always feel like I'm looking at a baby that's died in some horrible way.

I'm attracted to some sad-looking child dolls because they give me the feeling of wanting to pick them up and comfort them! I remember even as a little child picking the saddest looking My Little Pony because I thought it looked lonely and I wanted to make it feel better.

 

The only dolls that creep me out are really old antique dolls and Chucky dolls, because I was traumatized by that movie as a kid. Even now, if I see media of chucky, or something of him out in public, I immediately click/run away.

 

The only dolls I found creepy were the ones that my grandma had. They looked like they were sculpted out of wood, kind of like a puppet.

 

This might probably sound bizarre, but what happened to me was that it went the other way around.
I've never been in contact with large sized dolls as an adult. My only doll exposure up until I got my first BJD was Barbies and Bratz when I was a kid. Needless to say, I was shocked. By the size, by the way it looked when I put the eyes in. Weirdly, it didn't make me love BJDs any less in pictures and I still had grail dolls, but the reality was that seeing my doll sitting on a shelf, staring at me, was giving me heebie jeebies. I know it sound ridiculous and I'm getting second hand embarrassment from just having to type it out.

I've decided to switch to smaller, MSD sized dolls since then. They don't "creep" me out as much, but that uneasy feeling is still there. It's so weird cause I love BJDs and even want to go back to SD size again because some sculpts hold a really special place in my heart.

 

I can't say I was every really afraid any particular dolls as a kid, or find any particularly creepy. I did have a phobia about being stared at back then, but that went for anything with a pair of eyes aimed my way—posters, magazine photos, my little ponies, dolls, etc. My sister and cousin's baby dolls squicked me a bit, but more in an irritable way than fear.

Granted—reborn can be off-putting, and I'm not too particularly fond of a lot of baby and child-like dolls—especially infants and toddler ones with what I call mumps cheeks. Something about them makes me think they look ill.

Gore doesn't really bother me for the most part (although those Dollzone dolls with the exposed spines really bother me for some reason), but dolls with distorted facial expressions (specifically ones that look like they're being assaulted in a very unpleasant fashion) extremely unnerve me. Same goes for those gaunt faced, practically skeletal Popovy/Pasha-Pasha type dolls. I have to scroll by them very quickly to avoid being completely unnerved by them.

Outside that though...most don't bother me. I wasn't a big doll fan as a kid, and hated Barbie with a passion, but beyond that—nothing notable.

 

Yes!! I found them very creepy! I remember being in first grade, sleeping over at a friends house. convinced that the porcelain dolls eyes were following us haha. I love dolls now but in the same way I used to love Barbie. They aren't the same to me.

 

It was kind of hit or miss with antique or antique-styled porcelain dolls. I think the main deciding factor was the more mature/grown-up the doll looked the less creepy I found it? And younger/baby porcelain dolls were more creepy? I dunno, it wasn't a hard-and-fast rule, some adult dolls were creepy and some little kid dolls were cute.

Clowns. Clown dolls are just no. The only type I might be able to tolerate is the more elegant French/mime style, and even that's a BIG maybe.

I don't do horror, then or now, so no gore, and limited monster tolerance.

Basically the rule of thumb is "Could this doll potentially give me a nightmare? Yes? Then GETITAWAYFROMME!!!! No? I could be persuaded."

 

There are some dolls that I don't find appealing, or that yea - slightly - creep me out. Reborn dolls and some weird smiling sculpts in particular. But generally I've never been weirded out by 98% of dolls, and some part of me suspects that the 'omg dolls are soooo creepy' thing is at least partly just circlejerking.

 

I have always loved barbies and Bratz dolls ever since I was little but the monster high ones were my favorite. the only time i was ever "scared" of a doll was when I lost my draculaura doll's arm and I thought somehow the doll was mad at me for that.

 

I actually really love "creepy dolls" haha but BJD hit a bit differently. Even with a purposefully "creepy" sculpt or aim, they are usually very artistic and beautiful to me. Despite my love of horror, vintage and old vinyl baby dolls creep me out still. They are just wildly unappealing to me but no hate to anyone who loves them though. They are their own art form and fun : )

 

I can vaguely remember being mildly creeped out by BJDs when I first saw them, but now I'm so used to them that I actually forget that a lot of people are disturbed by them. I just see them as art now, but there are a few that I think I would be at least a little unsettled by if I saw them in person / had them in my room at night. I do feel a little anxiety sometimes if I feel like something (not dolls specifically) is watching me, but I haven't felt that way about my 3D printed doll or my Monster High dolls-- I have yet to receive my first resin BJD though, so I might feel differently when she gets here.

 

Porcelain dolls scare me, as do composition dolls. Some BJDs freak me out but dolls themselves don't as a general rule.

 

Only clown dolls.

 

Overall, not really but I do admit that some of the more "toothy grin" dolls freak me out. Reborn baby dolls freak me out in the way that they're TOO realistic and there's something always unsettling to me about seeing someone unbox a doll that looks like a living, breathing baby. I understand and respect the people who collect them but for me personally, they freak me out more than they probably should

The toothy grin ones, like Angel of Dream's Mu Yanzi, make me nervous because it looks like it's plotting...and not in a cute way