Did you play with dolls as a child?

I was a very hardcore doll addict as a young girl. I would make my own doll houses, furniture, sew clothes, write stories, and draw them. I even made some of my own dolls. I didn't limit myself to dolls though, I mixed them with stuffed animals, cars, and other items.

I just genuinely loved telling stories and since I didn't have many friends to act out my stories dolls were the logical option. So I wrote up characters and based them off my dolls. They went on epic adventures solved mysteries, and saved the world.

I wasn't a huge fan of barbie until I was older though. As a kid I thought it was weird her feet weren't flat but when I was a tween and got more into fashion I fell in love with her clothing. I had way more fun with kelly dolls and other small dolls that I could bring around with me.

I also dreamed of having an American girl doll for years but unfortuantley by the time my parents could afford one I had grown out of the doll phase.

Nowadays I still love writing stories, building things, and making things, but it makes no sense to make elaborate homes and have no one live there. I still collect figurines but you can't pose them, you can't make clothes for them as easily and you can't customize them. Hence why I decided to get into the bjd hobby.

 

NO!
Oh god I hated Barbie. My uber christian aunt was determined to force me to be a girly girl, so Barbie was her tool. I threw them in the yard for the girls who didn't like me to fall on like vultures and went off to play baseball with my boy cousins.

I love BJDs because of fashion design. I don't know what it is about them, maybe it's because they feel so much more 'real' or something, or maybe it really is the smell of the resin, but I think because I fell in love with Japanese Bunraku puppets, suddenly seeing BJDs was the answer to a dream. I saw a Bunraku performance and was so amazed that the BJDs took over very easily.

Now I can admire fashion dolls, and there are some very pretty and amazing ones out there, but I wouldn't spend money on one. I find myself thinking, I bet there is an SD girl that looks like that doll I could get my hands on.

 

Yes I had a few Barbies I enjoyed playing with. Myx cousin had about 20 Barbies and I always wished I had her toys!


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Yes, I did, even I was more of a tomboy back then. I loved especially Barbies, I had like 30 of them or so I remember that my friends didn't like Barbies - they just played with their MyScene and Bratz-dolls, which I again hated soo much. Already as a child I liked more realistic things and toys, and I think that's why I like BJD:s today.

 

yes i always played with dolls!

 

I sure did...I had a room full of dolls and doll things. Any problems on the street with friends didn't bother me 'cause I could always go home and play with my dolls who loved me. I didn't care for Barbie because she was just to look at, not loving at all. So for me it was dolls and books,

 

I was a bit of a tomboy as a child and grew up preferring to poke my hands in the mud and climb trees with the boys rather than playing daintily with dolls together with girls my age, so as a young child I hated barbie and thought she was hideous looking. The baby dolls I owned often wound up without feet or with nail-polish smeared all over their faces and hair mutilated beyond repair. Heh.

Ah, HOWEVER when I was about 10 or 11 I fell in love with Lego Scala and was mildly obsessed with getting all the sets, the horses and all the clothes. That obsession lasted until I was about 14 and grew tired of hiding away all the dolls I had because I was afraid my classmates would poke fun of me for still having them. At that point of time I knew about ball jointed dolls, but they were so insanely expensive I didn't believe I'd ever own one myself.

 

I don't play with dolls when im a child. Cause i have a brother and mostly i would follow him when im small. So i tend to like boyish stuff. I also find it hard to play with barbies as helping them wear clothes is difficult x.x
Because i don't play with doll when young.. when i get my first doll.. my mother laugh at me cause i does not know how to help them wear clothes. Even though i don't really love doll when im young but right now im in love with bjd!!

 

I used to play with Barbie dolls when I was younger. I still have a few of them in the toy box that sits in the corner of my room.

 

I had a few dolls when I was a child. I never liked them and refused to sleep in the same room as them, so I rarely played with them at all. I'm afraid of almost any type of doll, excluding BJDs.

 

I've always played with dolls, though the type changed. Before I got into BJDs I was still playing occasionally with my Groovy Girls. It was a strange shift from ragdolls to the jointed girls I have now, but I was able to re-use some of the clothes for my first doll.

The collectable porcelain dolls that some of my classmates had creeped me out and the only Barbies I played with after the age of eleven were the vintage ones my Granny had.

 

Yes definitely!
But I remember that I couldn't stand them looking the way they did when I bougth them. I always cut their hair and painted their faces xp
I guess I've always liked to customize my dolls ^^'

 

Eheh, ironically yes despite the fact that my early childhood years were spent being absolutely terrified of dolls (due to accidentally watching a Chuckie movie..) but I eventually got over that. I played with Barbies, Bratz dolls (lol), and I eventually got my mom to give into me begging for an American girl doll for Christmas one year. :>

 

I have loved dolls since I am a child, I have somehow convinced myself that an adult wasn't allowed to play with dolls but I am so happy I have proved myself wrong. In fact its while I was looking after a doll I never was allowed to have a a child that I started to collect dolls again as an adult and got introduced to all sorts of other dolls I had no idea existed like the BJDs.

 

I always loved dolls. However, I was never a doll "mommy". They were never my children, they were my companions. I had three older brothers and lived in the country. I had one neighbor within walking distance and she was a total tomboy (still is) with no interest in dolls. So I did all the tomboy stuff with her and my brothers - climbing trees, shooting bb guns and bows and arrows, playing with cars in the dirt, etc.
But I also really loved girly stuff, I just didn't have anyone to play with. So my dolls were my friends who came along with me. My favorite was my tiny Betsy McCall (with the bendy knees), because she could fit into my pocket.
I had one of the very first Barbies- a brunette bubblecut Barbie. I hated her. I wanted the blond ponytail Barbie my in-town friends had. She looked scary and mean to me, and those boobs.....????? I liked my skipper better because she looked like me. I had a Ken, but he was such a passionless sap that I preferred my more manly and wayyyy more fun GI Joe. He had a full wetsuit (who knew many years later I would end up married to a big time diver and underwater photographer???).
I remember being laughed at by a boy in my 8th grade class who sneered at me and said, "She still plays with dolls..." (those were the LIddle Kiddles I built an entire town for). I put them away then, but still always harbored a secret love of them. I loved to go to toy stores, or to museum displays of old dolls.
I grew up with the Edith the Lonely Doll series, and also the photographs of the Betsy McCall doll in the monthly paperdoll stories in McCall's Magazine. I always loved doll photographs.
Then I got married and had two little girls. My oldest daughter loved dolls, so that gave me an excuse to buy every doll I could, plus all of the stuff. I loved it when the new American Girl's catalog came, it was almost like getting the Wards and Sears Christmas wish books when I was a little girl.
My little daughter didn't really like dolls. She inherited all of her big sister's barbies, and liked to pull their heads off and then tie their bodies to trees. She is 24 years old now- every once in a while I still find an old headless corpse outside in our little woods.
After the girls outgrew dolls I realized that I still wanted them, and began collecting vintage dolls from my childhood.
Then finally- I discovered BJDs, and the rest is history. I had finally found the "perfect" doll- very poseable, and with every doll completely unique- I finally had a doll that a million other people didn't have the same version of.
I just published my second doll book, and have photographs in one of Judith Izen's (vintage doll) books. I've had shows of my photographs at art centers and galleries, and have lectured and given slide shows on BJDs.
So- yeah. Always loved dolls, always will.

 

I did, I was always the boy with Barbies lol. BJDs were just the next step for me, hah!

 

As a kid i always had dolls, action figures and tons of other toys. I didn't really have any female friends and mainly played with the boys. So i did all of the things like sports, getting dirty and games with them. For me, my dolls were just another creative outlet and something just for me. They all had their own stories, likes and dislikes. I love to write and make up stories, so dolls were just one more outlet for that. Even when kids my age stopped playing with them, I still did and do. I've never cared much what people thought of me, so when I first saw BJD's it was like oooooh something else I can have to play with and make into cool characters. I just like anything that inspires me, even if some people will think it's weird.

 

I played with dolls a lot growing up. My grandmother would make clothes for my Barbies and I also had little Maple Town figures and My Little Ponies and action figures. I got a PJ Sparkles for Christmas one year and I was so freaking happy. I craved an American Girl Doll (heck, I STILL want Samantha and the matching real size outfits they made for her even though they totally wouldn't fit me now) and when my best friend got one I was pretty jealous (but also stoked that I could see/play with her, too).

Over the years, I eyed Bratz dolls and some of the nicer fashion Barbies they put out, always going 'oh, this one would make a great [character name]' or 'this one looks just like [so and so]', but I never bit the bullet and bought any to customize.

I really think the customization factors are what draws me to collecting dolls (whether I've actually bought any or not).

 

i actually only had the 11.5" sailor moon dolls that i would play with, and an american girl doll Kirsten who still looks brand new and stays in her case/trunk most of the time...

 

I really loved dolls! I had (and I have them nowadays) LOTS of barbies :_D I really love them, but I don't have space for having all of them in good conditions at home... u.u