Did you hate dolls?

I have loved dolls all my life. I am 62 and still have some from my childhood. I love many different types of dolls too. I never get bored with them.

 

I never hated dolls. I like them, but just wasn't all too interested in them during my childhood. I did like my Barbies though, since I could dress them and play out stories that I'd made up with them. I eventually forgot about dolls altogether for a while, until I happened to walk in on conversation about BJDs between two of my friends. I decided to Google them out of curiosity and was immediately fascinated with the beautiful designs. Ball-jointed dolls are really such works of art.

 

Never ever. They have been something I've loved as long as I can remember.

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I've always loved dolls, and planned to become a porcelain doll collector since I was a kid, so when my friend told me about BJD's I can't get enough of them and I am now saving for my first, and I am endlessly planning her arrival!

 

I don't think I hated dolls because I played with barbies for a while until 4th or 5th grade, but I hated the life-size dolls. Like the ones that would close their eyes when you tipped them back. They sacred the heck out of me because they reminded me of chuckie.

 

I played with barbies when I was younger… but wasn't really a doll-girl. I was more busy with drawing and reading (Well.. looking at pictures until I actually could read). Thou at around 10 years old I got two porcelain dolls and I loved them. Since then I like 'art' dolls. Porcelain but also the apple dolls and soon, of course, the ball jointed dolls. I know some don't like dolls besides the bjd's because they're creepy. I like creepy

 

I'm kind of scared of dolls, haha. The movie Chucky really freaked me out as a kid, so baby dolls and vintage dolls give me shivers sometimes. As for fashion dolls, I'm not really interested (except for Monster High but that's mostly because I'm a monster nut). So I guess it depends on the doll.

As a kid I did go through a "psh dolls and girly things are LAME" phase, but it was pretty short-lived. Because dolls are awesome x)

 

I have the same feeling for vintage dolls and "reborn baby dolls" as goshogee. But I have always loved playing with dolls, even if they were my cousin's Geyperman XD

 

I remember prefering Lego over dolls and Barbies, but I did make dresses for my Lego figures using scrap fabrics from my mom's quilting hobby xD

 

I have always loved dolls from the time I could see lol. I'm actually surprised I didn't discover BJD's sooner. Lucky for my parents that I didn't discover them until I was an adult

 

I hated dolls so much, i didn't want anything to do with anything girly, and then a couple years ago i got into art and fashion design and recently decided to get a doll to practice making clothes for.

 

Nope, never. If there are two things I have loved since I could talk, they are dolls and shoes...so, I collect shoes for my dolls.

 

Nope! I've always loved dolls more than any other toy. I used to play with all kinds of dolls--Barbies, My Scene dolls, Polly Pockets, Bratz. My mom also collected Madame Alexanders to an extent and I still have all my sets tucked away safely. I went through a short stage where my displayed MAs creeped me out, but I was only about eight or nine. Nowadays I have dolls aaaaaall over my room. I collect off-topic Disney dolls and bjds, of course. I can safely say I've always loved dolls.

 

Was a doll addict as a kid, from baby dolls, to barbies, to a set of Olsen Twin dolls, (to which became my favorites for a good two years) Cabbage Patch (I cringe looking back on this one) small Strawberry shortcakes and Barbies again...A vintage articulated ballerina Barbie is still around here somewhere, she actually sits good and her ankles actually move (though her en-pointe shoes are permanently painted on, as a kid I didn't care) Winx Club dolls, had and still have a collection of old fashioned Polly Pockets...Back when stepping on Polly Pocket was considered as painful as stepping on a lego (I also had the more modernized bigger dolls, but to me my little pocket worlds were the BEST, I used to get my favorite little figures all set up, with all my "playsets" set up in a row and they'd travel on adventures to the different worlds. I spent hours doing this as a kid. Drove my folks a LITTLE crazy.) And American Girl Dolls...I still have three of them, my absolute favorites. I sold off my Samantha when I got Avalon to help pay him off and to get him the basics, I don't regret it since I never touched her. But yes...Dolls til the end for me. XD

Also I had Bratz for a short time, I had that awesome Mini Bratz, room box, the one you could change the look of, all the walls were magnetic, you could change the floor, open the roof up, things lit up from tiny little plugs, and had a cool daybed...I loved that thing...Then stupidly when I was saving up for a video game, I sold it...At a loss...>_>;; I still kick myself because a year and a half later I was collecting dolls again, and I wish I could get ahold of it again now that I got tinies...I love the doll house I got yes, but that one was COOL...I still got the couch.

 

I did hate dolls as a child. The hate later turned into fear when I was given a 3 foot doll. Since then, I would always cringe at the sight of the doll. But I was given tons of them!

I saw some amazing photography of BJD's online, but didn't think they were creepy at all. I think it was because when I saw them they kind of reminded me of Final Fantasy characters. I was hooked when my friend brought the head of one of her dolls to school. Before I thought the were just pretty, very expensive things. But I realized the amount of artistry that an go into them.

 

I have liked all kinds of dolls my whole life. I had barbies, cabbage patch kids, strawberry shortcake, sailor moon and random dolls. I also played with action figures. But I don't really link my obsession with ball jointed dolls to my love for dolls when I was a kid. They are all really different. I know that bjds are dolls but I don't consider them just a doll.

 

I didn't hate dolls but I used to be not interested in them when I was child, until I saw BJD first time from my friend's link. Afterward I began to do more and more research about them and ended up getting many dolls.

 

I liked dolls as a child, I had a lot of Barbies and a couple American Girl dolls, and some smaller fashion dolls, and later in Middle / High School I bought some sailor moon dolls. I never cut my dolls hair or anything; I was really big on trying to not mess them up; and I got a little upset when their hair started to tangle and friz out.
My favorite things were the clothes and coming up with stories though, and I was pretty particular about which clothes I liked. I had a handful of favorite things and I really hated having to use the more tacky clothes. Which is funny because I was never really fashionable as a kid. Particular about what I liked, sure, but I was always pretty geeky.

 

I didn't hate dolls, but I wasn't obsessed with them or anything. My parents didn't exactly allow me or my sisters to play with Barbies growing up, so I never got that experience of being able to play with doll clothes and stuff. My mom once got me a little 1/12 scale doll house with a little plastic doll family, and I loved the miniature furniture. Part of the appeal of dolls to me is miniaturizing their worlds. It's so cute and fun!

 

I've always loved dolls but my mother didn't. She seemed to resent my sister's and my love of dolls. So we'd save our money and buy them on the sly at a store or more often, from rummage sales. We'd cut out paper people from magazines and catalogs. It seems weird now, but we called them "peoples." We'd dig through garbage cans too. My sister once found an antique doll there. Sometimes I'd make them from paper, or scraps of material with yarn for hair. The brothers against the street from my house had the coolest collection of GI Joes. They even had jeeps! During the summer the whole neighborhood would drag out their Barbies and GIs and play for days under the elm tree in our front yard. We'd pick up in the mornings where we left off the day before. There were enough dolls among all the kids so everyone had a doll to play with. We loved them all - including the handmade ones.

I got into BJDs shortly after I started to collect modern dolls like Kish, Tonner and Silkstone Barbies. Once I discovered BJDs that was it for the others. I'm in the process of selling them all since I'd like to get more BJDs!