Did you hate dolls?

I actually grew up loving barbies and bratz dolls. I played with them all the time, obviously I've grown out of barbies and bratz, but I still love dolls. I've never hated them. I actually used to tell people I hated dolls or they scared me because I was embarrassed of my obsession with them, but now I couldn't care less of what people think of my doll obsession.

 

I can relate to the poster fully, I never played with dolls as a child, (or actually I didn't even play with other girls...) I had 3 elder brothers, so it was obvious whose toys I was using. :3

Even now I hate everything pink and princessy and looveydoovey, sinse I'm a metallist-gamer-chick, but I DO love BJDs. I think it's mostly because I'm into yaoi and that kind of stuff and it's impossible to find cute boy dolls anywhere else.

So I still hate barbies and any new girly toys that are out there, but BJDs are totally in their own league. And one plus for that is also, that not everybody has them. :3

 

I played with all kinds of toys, growing up.
My aunt would bring over toys from Japan whenever she would go and visit her family, and she would always bring me back souvenirs. I grew up playing with Jenny and Licca, the Sylvanian Families, and much more. When I came to U.S, I started to play with barbies.

But I wasn't as kind to my dolls as I am now, no, I was that evil kid in Toys Story.
I used to do 'experiments' with them, re-painted their face with permanent marker to give a menacing look from their usual happy exterior, painting their hair or giving them pixie cuts and sometimes just throw them in middle of the street to see if they would survive a car crash. (They were the cheap ones, I swear!)

So, I don't know whether to say if I hated dolls as a kid, or just really liked them enough to torture them...

 

I always really like dolls when I was younger. When I was really little I had tons of baby dolls that my mom sewed things for and I had a whole room of stuff for them. When I got a little older barbies took over. I taught myself to sew for barbies and made elaborate outfits for them that matched the worlds that my sister and I would imagine they lived in.

I was also always dissatisfied with them and the later dolls that I had because of their lack of motion and I always felt they were just too smiley. I am now sort of creeped out by porcelain dolls which is odd because I thought they were fascinating when I was younger.

 

I never hated dolls. I had a ton of dolls when I was a kid. Now, I'll admit there was a period of time when I decided I was too old to play with dolls (I was 14, and had just started my frist year of high school when I decided that...) and got rid of all my old Barbies and things... and not long after that I started collecting anime dolls and figures ... and 11 years later, I discovered the world of BJDs.

So, yeah... never hated dolls even when I tried to break the habit.

 

I always loved dolls, even at a very young age. I was suprised actually when I got my BJD and some people were creeped out by them, I never knew one could be afraid of dolls. I've always loved them, and found them beautiful.

 

I loved dolls when I was a child. I played with barbies frequently until I turned 12. I loved changing their clothes and inventing stories with them. I had a huge amount of barbies, clothes, furniture and accessories.

 

I didnt like most dolls, except my cabbage patch kid. never into barbies. didnt like bjds at first.

 

always loved dolls which made this an easy addiction to develope.

 

I think what I had was less of a disliking and more of a fear of dolls. I couldn't be left in a room alone with a humanoid like doll without freaking out mentally. They're features were all too realistic, like they'd come to life at any moment and come after me. I just couldn't stand it. Even when I first found out about BJDs I had a little mental freak out and did what most fearful people did; I made fun of them. My friend would not hear the end of it from me, I did not like them, and i let her know it.
I don't really know what made me change my mind about dolls. It could have been the whole idea of having my own little drawing model, it could have been a random whim, or maybe when I first saw a doll in person I just didn't find it as scary as most other dolls. Or, it could have been a mixture of all those things. Whatever the reason, I ended up getting a BJD and I will never regret that. He's been so helpful for my drawings, not to mention just fun to take pictures of.

 

I used to play with Barbies when I was a kid, but only for a short time. When I saw one of those lifelike porcelain dolls for the first time, I became scared of dolls in general. XD I don't remember how exactly I found out about BJDs, but for some strange reason, I found them to be more beautiful than creepy. That was how I overcame my fear of dolls!

 

I loved dolls as a little girl; my barbies used to fight my dinosaurs and my shlvqnniqn families used to have dramatic story lines and lived in my dolls house (which i still have). My favourite dolls used to be 'Whatsherface' dolls. I don't know if any of you remember them, they were these dolls which came with several outfits and wigs and you could draw on the faces. I had different personalities for each combination oh outfit and wig and I'd make up back stories for them, they lived on the windowsill by my bed and then I got into customising My Little Ponies and buying Munnys as I got older so I think I was always destined to like bjds

I stumbled across abjds on the Internet when I was about 14-15 and loved them off the bat Ben though I could have never afforded them and didn't really know anything about them. I found a couple of the seller sites (I remember finding Iplehouse) and sat for days making metaphorical combinations of doll, faceup, eyes, wig and clothes for each of my characters before wincing at the price, thinking that such things were never achievable. I sort of put them out of mind, but I'd return, just to look, every few years. Then when I was 19 my brother introduced me to a friend of his whom I later found out had bjds and as she and I have grown closer things have sort of gone from there

 

Well, I certainly never hated dolls! I grew up with a lot of Barbies and, eventually, Bratz. (I never really have been attached to porcelain dolls, except for the ONE I own.)
I just couldn't seem to "get away" from dolls as I grew up. I had a friend who gave some of her Barbie stuff to me because she was losing interest in Barbie and the like, and that was in 5th grade.
In wintertime of 2010/2011, I was looking up the lawsuit between Mattel (Barbie) and MGA (Bratz) and came across Liv dolls. Next I found Monster High dolls, which led to Pullips and Taeyangs, and eventually I started coming across ball-jointed dolls. I'm mostly trying to stay out of the Barbie/Bratz/Liv/Monster High hobby because there are many Pullips and BJD's I like, and I can't save money for them if I'm spending it on a bunch of cheaper dolls. ("Cheaper" stuff can add up REALLY fast.)
If it hadn't been for the Internet, I wouldn't even be collecting dolls now. (Well, I would probably be collecting Faith & Friends, but that's about it. And I'm pretty much done collecting them.)

 

I was always a huge doll lover. I still have all my dolls that I had as a child. Mind you a few of them have no hair now because I thought I could cut a better style or have no close. Because as a kid the FIRST thing you had to do was take off all its cloths!! LOL

Anyway the joke growing up was I used to pile all my dolls in the bed with me and when I fell asleep I'd turn over and knock them all off the bed. So my mother would wait for the sounds of the thuds and thumps of doll hitting the floor, then she knew for sure I was asleep....

 

I NEVER played with dolls when I was a child. I thought it was extremely boring and so I prefered to just draw or play with my borther's toys.
however I did always love Porcelain dolls. we had several and my mom was always mad at me for playing with her expensive porcelain dolls and not my own dolls.

 

I have always loved dolls, so that made slipping into this hobby extra easy. I had a porcelain doll collection for years, and made clothes for those and all of the others that I had. Now, instead of china dolls, I love BJDs!

 

I am so much into bjd yet I still hate dolls in any other forms, maybe I just don't see bjd as a toy

 

no, i have always loved dolls (and toys)- it just took me over 20 years to graduate from Barbies to BJDs.

 

I loved Barbies growing up, but I always tried to modify them. I would cut their hair and repaint their makeup. I would sew clothes for them and make furniture out of shoeboxes. My parents never bought me a dollhouse So, bjds are the ultimate doll for me! Not only is there a feeling of nostalgia attatched to them, but now I can modify to my hearts content

 

I really hated dolls as a child. You couldn't make me play with a baby-doll for love or money. Then again, I wasn't really into "girl" things like that. I would rather run around pretending to be a GI Joe with my brother than play with dolls and pretend to be a mommy. I really didn't like Barbie either. I don't know why that was at all. Perhaps it was because of how unrealistic they were. I prefered building plane and anime models.

Fast foward to now.

I've wanted a BJD for a few years. They're beautiful and can be so realistic. They aren't fake and plastic like Barbie. They're more like the model planes I loved to build. I know I've matured....still...I have that same feeling. I won't ever get a small or childlike BJD...I just don't do the mommy thing.