Did you hate dolls?

I was never a big doll fan, I had a barbie or two, but as a child i never played too much with them. I preferred my plushies and toy horses! I did play with them for a period when I was about 12 I think? But that was more a stepping stone into writing and drawing, since I was always a big storyteller and needed an outlet. Then I moved out, found out about Doll customisation (and BJDs) and bought my first Monster high. And it only went downhill from there

So, it was an in and out relationship, really. I'm glad I found my way back to appreciating dolls though

 

I actually never played with Dolls, even when I was a Kid. But 2014, I kind of began to like those Monster High Dolls. I still got a few of them at home. I really liked the fact that they were monster and at the same time fashion dolls. But since I have my BJD, I do not collect them anymore. Just go to the Toy Store to look at the new once.

 

I was strangely uncomfortable around dolls for over a decade although I have photographic proof that I liked dolls at some point during my early childhood. I wouldn't call it hate. I would call it watching too much Alfred Hitchcock as a child. My sister and I also had an agreement that she would get all my dolls and I would get all of her toy animals and plushies. It worked well for us.

 

See, that's how I was as a kid. I didn't like dolls. I didn't like baby dolls (still don't, honestly) and Barbies weren't my thing either. I would play with Barbies though if my friends wanted to but I never owned any of my own. But I did like the Sailor Moon ones as I got older. I was more into stuffed animals and My Little Pony (unfortunately I don't have any of my old MLP). I'm still really big into stuffed animals. I like BJDs and Pullips and the little Azone dolls. But I still don't really care to much for Barbies or baby dolls. And porcelain dolls still make me uncomfortable. No offense to those who enjoy them. They are just not for me. But yes, BJDs are my love. I do appreciate dolls now as an adult.

 

As a child I was quite scared of dolls. As much as I loved my Aunt I would dread going to her house because I was afraid of her collection (Dolls are all we talk about now). My mother couldn't purchase dolls without me seeing them first or I would go insane. I barely had barbies because they were boring to me because I felt like they were all the same. I fell in love with Bratz and had collected them all through high school until the company got sued by mattel which stopped production. In college I discovered Pullips and BJDs which really made me love dolls because of the customization involved.

 

No, I have always loved dolls!

When I was very young, I preferred plush animals but by the age of 10 I was pretty well hooked on dolls for life, heh.

 

I used to hate most of the basic supermarket dolls as a kid. I'm pretty good at associating and I remember to always have thought that the look on Bratz dolls' faces says, "The heck ya lookin' at, kid? We're soo much cooler than you." Also, the few dolls I didn't dislike weren't quite suitable for me since I just loved customizing them and as you know, usually a 8-year-old kid and an idea of altering her barbie's haircut a bit won't result to anything good.

I also remember absolutely hating and shaming male dolls. My mom once bought me a Winx Club Brandon to make my collection perfect and oh boy was I embarrassed after seeing that she had bought a MALE doll. I don't even know why was I such a young sexist, but nowadays the situation is more like opposite. I would like to collect all the male bjd:s this world provides but can't seem to find a proper female one that has no puppy look on her face.

Then, when I heard of bjd:s that were amazingly customizable and demonstrated some detailed sculpt work, I fell in love. I had always hated the way most of the dolls I had owned had lacked something: why can't they have more realistic muscles? Do their hands need to be such floppy and their fingers glued together? Why do all these dolls have the same face mold and impression stuck on their faces? Bjd:s were such a heaven in comparison with all I had owned.

 

Oh yes I did, as a little girl. I couldn't stand being near one, especially those that close their eyes when you lay them down. Sometimes they even made me cry when they were large enough. The irony is, I am after a doll on the large category these days, although at least she has good adult female proportions, and she (most likely will) not close her eyes when I go to bed at night. ^_^

 

I hated dolls, my relatives always bought me dolls as presents so I got sick of them pretty fadt so my brothers friends and I would pull the dolls apart and destroy them for fun.
It's weird having dolls I actually care about remembering how much I hated dolls.

 

I hated dolls with a passion as a child. Hated. But then, when others my age were oohing and aahing over posters of cute kittens at our school's book fair, I just wanted to buy the poster of the sleek 'n sexy Corvette*.

*My third-grade-self did purchase that poster, btw---for anyone wondering!

 

As a child I love barbies, but I Hate their face Coz its always smiles even if im mad .. so some of them are headless ... but I love my pullip dolls so much and now I joined this hobby... BJD I think is the doll for me...

 

I dont like colloid dolls because they look so weird I love bjd especially some realistic figures like dz and ih

 

I really have to blame my sister for my opinion of dolls as a kid. And my one cousin to some extent.

See, my sister was the one who liked dolls while we were growing up. And by dolls, that meant Barbie and baby dolls. My sister had a baby doll named Emma that drove me nuts. (I never really liked baby dolls. That's also the kind that my cousin had, which she just had to drag everywhere and make a huge deal out of) I was more into plushes and animal toys, which included the original MLPs. We had Barbies, which my sister was persistent we play with, which probably only added on to my hatred of that particular doll. It doesn't help that Barbie was so boring--that her arms and limbs were stiff, proportions were unrealistic, face painted on in a Stepford Smiler fashion, and that blond dolls were never interesting to me. As a kid I was more interested in destroying Barbie than owning one.

It was around the time I started getting into anime and discovered Pullip that I started liking dolls. I guess it's the more expressive or realistic dolls that are for me. I had a few Bratz and Winx Club dolls for a bit after that (I stuck with the Pullips) but dropped those and eventually got into BJDs.

I seriously hated them as a kid, but now...I just can't get enough dolls

 

I didn't like dolls as a child, in fact i was a bit of a tomboy, preferring toy cars and pea shooters to dolls of any kind. It wasn't until i saw BJD dolls that i thought wow those are different and now i am a convert.

 

I only owned a few dolls as a child and surprisingly they describe me pretty well: Vet barbie, and Pocahontas barbie ( I ended up studying veterinary science lol!). I also had some porcelain ones from my grandmother but those were really creepy.
I preferred plush toys as a child but I do remember really wanting a Bratz doll, however none of my friends played with dolls so I felt insecure about asking for one.

I still hate some types of dolls, but I can appreciate the effort that has been put into painting them or hand making clothes.

 

Yes! As a child I was never really interested in dolls. What got me with BJDs is the customization factor (and how freaking pretty they are). If I'd never started writing or drawing though, where I've made many characters I've really connected with, I probably would not have gotten into the hobby.

 

Nope! I had a ton of Barbies growing up, and I still have all of the (unboxed) 12in Sailor Moon dolls. I guess it's only natural that I love BJDs as well.

 

When I was a kid I loved dolls. I made a dollhouse out of a cardboard box for lego people, plastic figures, paper dolls. I had a lot of all kinds of dolls but then I had to emigrate. And I left everything behind. Then when I was in my teens, young adult... I just didn't want anything to do with girly stuff. I loved Sailor Moon but I felt like girl things were weak. I think a lot of us go thru this stage. I collected action figures and anime and gundams (which I still collect). But I put that part of my world aside because I felt like the world was saying to me that girl stuff wasn't cool.

But I always liked to walk through the doll aisle in Toys R Us. And one day I was making a Persona cosplay costume for my husband. And I thought it would be cool for him to have a pixie he could summon. So I bought an Ever After doll and made it tiny wings and a costume and colored her hair! I loved her!

Then I just kept going back and going back and one day I bought a Monster High just because I wanted one. I should say that day I bought 3! Now I have a bunch of those, Ever Afters...

And I saw Pullips online and I became just obsessed! Now I own like 15 or so of them.

Now I'm hoping to get my Doll Chateau Lydia.

I guess I just keep upgrading! lol

It was a long journey from denying what I always loved to coming back to what feels like home.

 

I think I was probably born with a doll and will die with one. I have always loved them and always will.

 

I started off loving dolls as a child. Barbies, at least. As I grew older and things happened, I felt like I had grown out of dolls when I got more into anime and started to collect that stuff. Barbies just weren't good enough anymore. Then when I turned about 16, I started to unconciously collect porcelain dolls! I thought it was because I thought they were creepy (I'm a huge horror fan, so creepyness has an appeal to me). But then one day my friend showed me a LUTS BJD, and I couldn't help myself. It was like an upgrade from creepy to soft and beautiful. I didn't even know that was I wanted! I didn't end up getting a LUTS, but they were the first ones I saw. Now I can't stop.