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Did you hate dolls?

May 15, 2010

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    1. I had baby dolls and Barbies as a child and loved them. But I always modded my Barbie dolls, I cut and painted their hair and made clothes for them. If I had strated to repaint their faces and had kept going on with all of that I would be a pretty talented customizer today I think^^
       
      #161 Lil Spark, Jul 11, 2012
    2. When I was young I hated everything girly. If it was pink then it was stink. So Dolls were out of the question and any that had the misfortune of being gifted to me usually ended up beheaded. :mwahaha

      It wasn't till just with in the last few years that I found the beauty of BJD's. They are wonderful and are more like works of art to me.:aheartbea
       
      #162 keyla, Jul 12, 2012
    3. When I was little I went through different phases. I hadthe barbie phase, the bratz phase, the polly pocket phase, the "I'm a big girl and can't buy dolls" phase, the "I just saw dead silence and now I'm scared of dolls" phase. And now I love BJDs, there are some dolls that creep me out, like the marionette/dummy type, any clown ones (ugh, clowns). But now I'm more of the opinion that it doesn't matter about your age, and besides, BJDs aren't intended for children.
       
      #163 loves_little_angel, Jul 12, 2012
    4. I never hated dolls. Though, I never really considered collecting, because my mom used to take over when we'd play... now I am obsessed... maybe it's an age thing in my family. LOL!?
       
      #164 PureHalo, Jul 13, 2012
    5. I did, I'll admit it. I used to get Barbies as gifts and I'd burn them, just like I got makeup when I was 7 and I just spread it in the backyard. I hated "girl" things because they had no action or story. No one died, no one got eaten by large monsters no one did anything fun. I spent most of my wishes and requests on dinosaurs and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. :3

      Only withing the last five years have I been okay with dolls and that's because I now have a loving and supporting husband who says that I should just get what makes me happy. The great thing about these dolls is that they can be whatever you want, even large monsters.
       
      #165 Duskkodesh, Jul 13, 2012
    6. i now wright??! the cool toys where for the boys and us girls all the barbies and other ugly dolls LOL i did burn and cut they hair so many times xD ,and now wit BJD i can make so many gorgeous dolls that i DO like, different and out of the box looks like zombies ,vampire , monster etc ...^^ ! i love my BJDS :3
       
      #166 POSSESKAIRIS, Jul 13, 2012
    7. I'm the exact same way. I "played" with Barbie once...by attaching her to a firework and setting it off. Good times. I still have and adore all of my plastic dinosaurs...I even took a couple to college with me to decorate my desk <3

      I got roped into BJDs mostly due to my biology and bird obsession. Imagine, I can make an attractive-and-not-creepy doll with awesome wings? Sign me up!
       
      #167 Silver, Jul 13, 2012
    8. I've ALWAYS LOVED dolls!
       
      #168 TwilightBJDbooks, Jul 14, 2012
    9. I loved toys of any kind and I made no distinction between who could play with who. I had TMNTs, ponies, barbies, jem, transformers, she-ra, and gi joes all sharing houses together. At one point I tried to set up Gotham City with cardboard boxes and doll houses.

      About the only thing I didn't like were my baby dolls. I had some, but I didn't play with them very much. Any time I played with the baby dolls my mother and grandmother would get misty eyes and tell me they couldn't wait until I was a mother. To date, I am almost 32 and still don't plan on being a mom and I don't have any dolls that are baby or toddler-types. XD I like being an aunt tho!
       
      #169 batchix, Jul 14, 2012
    10. It was the other way around actually. I always thought dolls were so beautiful and wanted to play with them as a kid, but being a boy means dolls are totally off limits obviously, so that made them even more mystical to me... then I found out about BJDs and I almost died when I saw how beautiful they were (the first BJD I ever saw was Shall from Dream of Doll, but I can't remember how I came to find it), and I was mildly horrified when I read how big they were, I thought they were all Barbie-sized... haha!
      It only took me 7 years to actually muster the courage and buy myself a doll, but I have always been intrigued and enchanted by dolls.
       
      #170 blue_starkiller, Jul 14, 2012
    11. i was a big doll girl ... i loved any type ... cabbage patch kids, barbies the lot so this is like the next natural step for me
       
      #171 Rouxheart, Jul 15, 2012
    12. the only dolls i really hated, and still get the heebies from, are the black-eyed, classic porcalin dolls.
      without my glasses, people would look like black-pitted eyeless monsters. so those dolls just remind me of that creepyness. *shudder*
       
      #172 siead_lietrathua, Jul 15, 2012
    13. Wow!!! This reminds of me. Another boy who lived enchanted by the beauty of dolls. The same way i love the toys for boys i loved dolls from Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura, Jem and The Holograms, Barbie collectors and so much more. I decided to be me and there were no more things to hide.

      I'm very glad you did the same :).

      I knew bjds thanks to some website navigation in 2000 and when i saw Seina U-Noss i felt in love!!! Then bjds became my dream dolls and they are the dolls i love until this day.

      Now having a beautiful BJD family is one of the best things in my life :D.
       
      #173 Soma, Jul 15, 2012
    14. My parents only have girls but dolls are not that popular in the house. we dont hate dolls, it just that we used to break barbie dolls. i dont know why, they dont stay a week in the house. the result, our parents stopped buying dolls for us... huhuhuhu i remember the misery of wnting one.

      i came upon BJD's from a horror movie (the doll master) and some animes (rozen maiden and princess vampire miyu... there is one more but i cant remember the title) then i accidentally bought Haute doll magazine... I never thought they really exist... in the magazine there were lots of website address. And now, i manage to buy one obitsu 50cm and 2 70cm dolls....
       
      #174 violetdepravity, Jul 15, 2012
    15. As a child, I loved Barbies. In my teenage years, I grew a sort of disgust for baby dolls because of the ones that look just like real babies that people have substituted for actual children. Plus they creep me out. But I was fine withixies, my scene, bratz (didnt like them but didnt hate them). BJDs were my entry back into dollhood.
       
      #175 HoushiChan, Jul 15, 2012
    16. I don't really hate dolls~ I did play with Barbies, but end up chopping one up to see the mechanism inside. I am curious that way. At least I now know how barbies bend their knees.
      I had some paperdolls in elementary when Sailor Moon was famous. TuT I don't know where they are now.
      I'm not really one to collect things, so my doll family will end up small. The amount of maintenance needed still bothers me.
       
      #176 joankagami, Jul 16, 2012
    17. I can totally relate to this question because I was very unsure of what to do with dolls as a child.

      I had barbies, but they only came out of their storage at the request of friends. When we played with them, I didn't really get it. It just seemed like dressing them up to enact a quick scene and then dressing them up again almost immediately to do another five seconds of role-play, etc. Some of my friends wanted to pretend the most obvious things in my mind: Barbie meets a boy, they have a date, they get married, they have a baby, so on and so on. It was kind of boring to me.

      I also got a lovely porcelain doll for my 11th birthday, but I remember being put-off by her eyes so she lived in the closet with the doors shut. I hung onto her for a long time because I was grateful for her, but I didn't love her. After I was grown up, I put her into a pretty basket and gave her to a young girl who loved dollies. It was a little melancholy when I saw how much she loved my poor doll. I felt like I was a jerk or something for not "getting it," though I was glad that the doll went on to a good home.

      Through college I gradually developed a "girlier" sense of myself, and eventually came to like all these things that I didn't get as a little girl. In a way, it's like I'm making up for lost time. (Not that there's anything wasteful about spending time with other things.) My latest expression of that is to indulge in the BJD hobby.

      Now I get it. I really enjoy working with my resin doll and consider her one of my prize belongings. She's a piece of art, an indulgence, an expression of my sense of beauty, and even a friend. I'm glad I came around to seeing how awesome dolls can be.

      (I also want to add that I don't think BJDs or dolls are exclusively "girl" hobbies. This was just my personal experience and is not meant to imply that people have to be in touch with "girliness" to enjoy dolls.)
       
      #177 Maedwe, Jul 17, 2012
    18. Yeah I guess so, I beat the crap out of my cousin's barbies when I was like 4 xD I was a typical little boy lol I like bjds because they are so customizable and they are great for photography :D
       
      #178 Marvel, Jul 17, 2012
    19. Nah. I went through a phase where dolls scared the crap out of me... but then later on, I went through a phase where I loved barbies, bratz, just dolls in general. Then another where I thought dolls were stupid. And look at me now. Trying three years to save for the most expensive doll I have ever even considered owning thus far.
       
      #179 Ethra_VII, Jul 17, 2012
    20. I really enjoyed Barbies when I was a kid (but not baby dolls, which didn't appeal to me and still don't), though I often lamented the lack of boy dolls that I found appealing. I didn't get into Blythe, and now BJDs, until I was an adult. Perhaps my tastes are more sophisticated now and/or I am better at doing the research to find the types of dolls I would want.
       
      #180 Mooglefan, Dec 28, 2012
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