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

At first, I got a bit scared of it but after getting into the community and seeing all the other BJDs, I got used to it.

 

Not really I always found them really cool but then again in my childhood I’ve never watched any horror doll movies or seen the documentaries of haunted dolls so that could be a factor in it. That being said however I get hella confused especially if the faceup on a doll is so realistic I may accidentally while quick scrolling or not paying attention may confuse it with a real person. It happens a lot on insta especially when they photoshopped the joints out. So the comments of wow that model looks so cool is quickly followed by awkwardness.

 

I still am depending on the design of the doll....
ANABELLE

 

I really like answering those semi-introspective threads that make me slightly overanalyze the hobby!

Modern BJDs have never creeped me out, neither did my old vinyl dolls once I had them. I can’t now look at American Girl dolls though, nor at reborn dolls either. Too uncanny.

Also no to big, teeth-showing smiles and any resemblance to clowns!

BJD-wise, I was crossed on Doll Chateau sculpts and non-human dolls (insects, cephalopods, half-ripped bodies) as I found them eerily on the verge of horror, but still fascinating. DC are now my favourite company, I wouldn’t buy non-human doll though.

Overall, the more „artistic” the doll, the less uncanny valley effect it has on me.

 

All my childhood I despised a certain commercial doll's bland creepy face. Now I follow a repaint artist on Instagram who gives them such gorgeous natural looking faces. Now I want one! Bjds just have a certain life to them for some reason. The 18 inch 'girls' are creepy still. I wouldn't buy one for my own theoretical kid if she screamed day and night for an AG doll. I'd flip for a BJD and damn the budget, get a 'real' doll. Bland commercial faces are creepy.

 

Mostly only the ones that are meant to be creepy (horror movie dolls)
I've grown up with dolls since I was little (started with barbies of course ) and so I've always thought of them as familiar and more cute!

 

I do enjoy looking at creepy or horror dolls. But I don't like gory or messy dolls for my own. I favor more adult looking dolls instead of childlike dolls. Baby dolls are kind of creepy for me.

 

I have always found porcelain dolls unnerving, but never bjd. I've collected Living Dead Dolls for years, and been interested in bjd since my esrly teens, but it's always been the porcelain dolls that creep me out with their haunting eyes xD

 

I've never found vinyl Dollfies creepy. My first doll really freaked out my sister though... at that size they definitely invoke a response.

I acquired my first resin doll this month (see avatar). I have very mixed feelings about them. I kind of think that they're aimed more at women, although I know a lot of guys collect them. I'm struggling to describe what their faces evoke in me, but I think they have a more distressed kind of look. It's often more noticeable in male resin BJDs. I'm sure the German and Japanese languages have a word to describe this look.

I've actually been trying to make some scary doll videos. My first effort bombed on Youtube, but I'll try some more some time. I don't know if Mytyl will fit into the Miku Hatsune Empty Sekai outfit, but the results could be pretty creepy.

 

So, no, I was never creeped out by dolls (well perhaps the exception is when I was a kid and was given a cabbage patch but I told my mother I found it upsetting because "I couldn't possibly love something so ugly" how awful...) But I never liked dolls especially. I became drawn to bjds a bit randomly through a combination of liking to look at and create figurative art, and thought they might be something interesting to inject into my life.

 

I've never been scared of dolls. I've always liked them. There is obviously some sculpts I don't like (especially some from Doll Chateau and Doll Zone), but they don't scare me or put me off. On the contrary, I kind of see them as "reassuring", despite all the movies with hunted dolls I watched.

 

Yes.. thats why i started looking into them and eventually fell in love!!

 

Not really. I just didn’t particularly care for dolls until I saw anime styled ones. Was more of a stuffed animal person.
Well the exception would be me as a 3rd grader freaking out over Chucky with my peers lmfao but that doesn’t really count.

 

I wouldn't say I found them "creepy", but definitely a little unsettling, depending on the sculpt. It wasn't until I found some of the cuter anthro sculpts that I realized how cute they could be, and then gradually that opened my eyes to the idea that non-anthro sculpts could be cute or pretty as well, even though I still prefer to stick with a more animal-adjacent look. I'm still a little creeped out by dolls with very strong adult male faces, they're a bit uncanny to me!

 

i‘ve always loved dolls! It started with my grandmas procelain dolls that i love then play line dolls like monster high and now bjds.
But these reborn realistic looking baby dolls creep me out big times.

 

I have to admit—it's been quite the opposite of this for me. I'm absolutely smitten with the very strong male faces. It's been, as time has gone on, that the youthful, soft and child-like faces have become more uncanny valley for me. To give more to the theme of this thread in particular on my account—I especially find wide-eyed dolls unsettling when the irises are on the smaller side. It probably also ties into my discomfort with baby dolls growing up in general. Trying to make a super child-like face seem much more mature....it hits in a similar vein to reborn dolls for me.

(I do have a long history with having issues with eyes staring at me going as far back as early childhood, so I'm certain that plays a big part in that factor. Wide eyes have a harsher impact on this )

 

Nope, never found dolls creepy.
Might have something to do with my parents not liking horror, so I didn't have any exposure to horror movies/TV shows as a kid.
Most of my dolls are secondhand, so the idea of a doll being "haunted" doesn't bother me. Two of my MSD girls are wired, and one has kips in nearly every socket, so they were very cared for by their last owner! I like having older dolls that have a bit of history to them

 

I can definitely understand this, honestly! I’m a little weirded out by dolls with a very intentional “baby face” too (really pudgy cheeks, pouty lips, upturned eyes), probably for similar reasons. Childlike dolls are generally fine for me, but baby dolls are a different story. And I definitely get the iris thing; there’s a reason why my Mae has biiiig eyes, I think it’s so endearing, even if the people I know in real life find her big pupil-less eyes creepy!

 

Nope! Always found all of the dolls beautiful. Loved dolls as a kid.

 

bjds, no - I've played with dolls my whole life and I make puppets/love puppet theatre so neither the doll nor marionette likeness creeps me out. They're just too emotive! There's a lil spark in their eye that you never see in old-school porcelain dolls or baby dolls, for instance, and they're stylised enough not to fall into uncanny valley most of the time. Reborn dolls give me the creeps though.