Did you hate dolls?

I've always loved dolls, even though I was a tomboy. I loved barbies for a long time, and baby dolls when I was really little, but I truly fell in love with my grandmother's fashion dolls, like tonner,etc, that she would let me gently play with and it came up in conversation once or twice about these dolls that cost up to $600 and we were always saying how crazy that would be. Then of course, one thing led to another, here I am.... And now my grandma wants one too! (My GREAT-grandmother, though, had a collection of old porcelain dolls that scared the crap out of me, eep...)

 

I always used to play with my sister's Barbies and I've always had an interest in art dolls so it was only natural that I would be drawn to BJDs

 

I mentioned this in another thread, but I thought BJDs and the people who owned them were absolutely awful for the first ten years I was aware of them.

Come to find out that I'm now one of those people, and the community has very few of the horrible people I thought it was full of.

 

In my case, I havnt Barbie ( because in our country we couldnt buy it) and didnt like dolls, but I was impressed by BJDs and now like not only them ( Barbie,Moxie and so on).My son and husband says that I must have a second baby))) (prefer girl)

 

I loved dolls always, little houses with all the furniture and settings, changes of clothing. I was lucky to have a grandmother that fostered that love of Dolls, and another grandmother that fostered the love of sewing.

 

I never hated them but when I was little I used to play more with toy cars and plush toys than with dolls. Only when I got a bit older I started playing more actively with my dolls. The bigger I get, the more I'm interested in them. But when again, when I was small were wasn't much of choice. There were only Barbie and their look-alike cheap dolls. Kurhn, My Scene and Bratz appeared later, when I wasn't a small kid anymore.

 

Always I love dolls - my first dolls were fashion dolls and in the meantime I prefer BJD ...

 

I always hated baby dolls that were supposed to be ones children dressed up and pushed around in carts etc. I remember playing with a shopping cart like that with my cat instead ^^ I used to dress him up hehe. I liked some dolls like barbies later on because of the fashion and doing their hair and having them to interact with animals like riding horses and things like that, but I never was into any of the doll babys or porcelain dolls.

 

I've always had a weird relationship with dolls. I was never a huge fan as a kid - I used to own a ton of Barbies, but it was partially because my step-sister loved them and it was "normal" for a girl to play with them. My gran tried to give me porcelain dolls, but I never much cared for them.

It wasn't until they came out with the gymnastics jointed Skipper dolls that I started to really like them. They were... useful, I guess? Porcelain dolls couldn't have their clothes changed half the time, which bored me, and Barbies could only do so much, but the jointed ones could be changed, dressed, positioned, played with (they used to go on adventures, including climbing cliffs, saving the world, etc).

I didn't really think about dolls favorably for years until I started to get into BJDs. >_>

 

When I was little I hated dolls. And to be honest when someone I was watching on Deviantart started putting pictures up I would unwatch them. I thought they were creepy. And then I found myself meeting an Iplehouse. Up until that point I had only seen obitsus which don't suit my taste. And then I got hooked. Big change of heart. 10 dolls later XD

 

I had a mixture of everything, as a kid. Dolls, teddy bears, trucks, legos, some action figures. I once wanted a G.I. Joe (he was doll-sized at the time), because I thought he could go with my Barbies. Turned out he was four inches taller than all of them. I even had two porcelain dolls that I named and (gently) played with. I liked anything that interested me.

There were dolls I didn't like, toys I didn't go for. Dolls just weren't one of them.

 

I hated porcelain and baby dolls--they creeped me out. American girl dolls turned me off because of their pricetag(LOL now that I found BJD's, nothing surprises me!) and their unsettling front teeth. Oddly, I loved the dolls that were SUPPOSED to be creepy, like the Living Dead dolls and such. I only put up with fashion dolls because I admired the miniature props that came with them and the detail of some of the more intricate clothing. I always received Barbies for birthdays, and I hated how the hair would get ratty even if I was careful with it. I hated how she couldn't stand on her own. I hated that she didn't have movable joints. I didn't like her blank face or her style.
Then I found BJDs and all my problems were solved('cept the money part), haha!

 

I have always like dolls every since i was little, i mean there was a brief stage in my preeteens where i was like meeeehhhhhh barbies are stupid dolls are stupid, but i was secretly playing with them....i played with barbies til i was like 13 haha.

then at about 15 my friends Kira were hanging out a lot and she ended up showing me Obitsu's then eventually she got a Resin BJD, So i was like WHOA! and i i wanted one sooooooo bad until finally in before i turned twenty the BJD fairy granted my Wish!

 

I hated dolls as a kidl with the exception of Sailor Moon/other anime figure dolls like Cardcaptor Sakura. In my mind they weren't as girly as Barbies; they were heroes, fought evil, and had adventures LOL I had more action figures than actual dolls... Then I got older, and I was starting to lose interest in PLAYING with dolls/figures but I'd still collect them. I saw BJDs for the first time and I wished I had grown up with those instead

 

I didn't really like dolls as a kid, I only ever played with Barbies at my friend's houses. Funny because I enjoy all sorts of dolls now.

 

I can't remember if I posted on this thread...hmm. Anyway:

I fricken loved dolls! I had so many, and I played with Barbies and Bratz dolls all the time up until middle school. Even then, I would still play with them occasionally for hours on end...secretly, though it became weird when suddenly I understood certain...topics, if you know what I mean. I also had five American Girl dolls (I was, apparently spoiled by my grandmother). There are porcelain dolls still in my room as well that once belonged to my Grandma Betty. And I had this favorite doll named Anna (my name's Hannah, so we were similar I guess) who used to belong to my mom. I carried that doll everywhere on a little doll backpack that I had. She still sleeps with me every night and even had to go to a doll hospital once so she could get cleaned up and a new head of hair. So seeing dolls like ball-joined dolls was like "Holy crap! Dolls for older kids. Hoorah!" It's just another stage in my life with dolls, I suppose.

 

I remember being a pretty typical little girl...I had several Barbies and a handful of Madame Alexander dolls, and I loved them all. Then I "grew out of" dolls and didn't give them a second thought until my first child, a daughter, became interested in them when she was five or so. For the most part, she stuck with American Girl dolls, and I purchased a few for her over the years. She, too, grew out of dolls, grew up, went to college and now lives independently in a different city (she's currently 22 years old.)

Fast forward to the present: my second child, also a daughter, is currently 9 years old. She's been through her Barbie phase, and moved away from American Girl dolls about one year ago when she discovered Blythes. I blame her for getting me addicted to Blythes, and more recently for turning me onto BJDs. Lucky for me, she's still young and will be with me for another 8 or so years, so we share both our Blythes and our 2 BJDs. Don't know what will happen when she grows up and moves out on her own; I don't like to think about this inevitability, as I'm so enjoying my little daughter and our dolls!

 

I remember that when I was little I didn't particularly like dolls although I thought the porcelain dolls my grandmother had were pretty. I actively disliked barbies. Probably because I was a tomboy so I hated their pink girly image. I wasn't interested in pretending to go shopping or being all silly which was the image I had of barbies as an 8 year old. I had inherited a bunch from my older sisters but they mostly stayed locked up in the cupboard except for the one or two times I changed their clothes.

For me it was animals, particularly dogs and horses, and I had a couple of neat dragon figures that did come with fantasy styled humans I played with once in a while. But my favorite were definitely the little plastic animals who I would make up characters for and play with by telling myself stories with them.

To be honest that is part of the appeal of bjds and I find myself doing the same thing even as an adult. I can make them into a character and use them to tell stories the same way I did when I was younger. And I can photograph them in interesting ways. Most of the dolls I have/plan to buy don't have a specific character from the start. I think because I worry about making a character I already have into a doll since it would be hard to get it to fit perfectly. But yes...I went from being neutral to/disliking dolls to loving bjds. I still don't particularly like barbies though, they visually don't appeal to me.

 

I'm okay with dolls when I was a little, but as I grew into the middle school age, they become creepy to me, and I see them as a childish toy.

I got involve in bjd about two years ago, along with photography, when I saw a beautiful bjd picture on dA front page.

 

I had dolls as a child, but I wasn't interested in them other than to cut their hair! No, I did not end up as a hairdresser, rather just a graveyard of dolls with punk rock hair doooo's before their time. I tuned into dolls much later in life after espying a ribbon jointed art doll. It quickly progressed from Art Doll to Blythe dolls and then onto aBJD's. I haven't looked back and I doubt my home will ever ever be a doll free zone, rather if I can limit myself to one room....