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Did you play with dolls as a child?

Mar 3, 2012

    1. YES. I played with dolls until I was 12, and then I got into bjds. But I would like, actually love dolls. I would make up developed stories, I would build them little rooms, I was a very creative child hahahah
       
    2. My grandma loved dolls and so did my mom. The got me playing with them when I was little and few had a few that were collecting only and it taught me the appreciate dolls. As I got older playing with them faded but just switched to other things my mom always told me your never to old. The stories I played turned from simple kid things and more adult situations. I had heard of BJD's but only thought you could get them in Japan and they were called Anime Dolls. So finally one day I was going threw my old dolls and seeing there were so many ruined and wanted to find away to fix them. I searched the web and came across some doll repair sites and studied them. In the searches I found BJD's Obitsu came across them and started working with them, the little ones. Then I saved up and got the big ones and now as of this year the collection is finally becoming a family and I hope it keeps growing.
       
    3. I had all kinda dolls when I was little, barbies, too. I mainly had barbies because my other three sisters loved them, so dad used to buy us all barbies and stuff. I remember when I used to play, my barbies were all tomboys, I'd turn the story setting into a jungle and my sisters and cousins didn't like it. I preferred video games, especially fighting games. I was such a tomboy.

      I liked stuffed animals too. Since I was little I thought of dolls as silent living creatures and always treated them with care. I don't know if that has anything do with my love for BJDs.
       
    4. I played with Barbie dolls as a child but had a fear of any doll larger than barbie. I would mainly play with stuffed animals, but now I have many large dolls.
       
    5. Me and my twin sister had a running soap operas connected to our barbies and our other toys. Each type of toy had it's own universe and story arcs. We still keep the "main cast" of our barbies out of sentimentality
       
    6. I never played with dolls! I was a complete nurd girl, totally into science-y stuff. I did like stuffed animals, but only if they were realistic-looking.
       
    7. I would play with the dolls, together with other toys, half of which were for boys (cars, constructors, building kits). I was interested in various toys, but the problem was, my family wasn't rich and I couldn't get even such "precious" dolls like Barbies. They were rare in Lithuania in late 80s/early 90s, and weren't cheap. Later the times changed and I got s few, and after some more years I found BJDs :)
       
    8. I had a porcelain one and barbies, but other than that... I guess? XD Such a tomboy...
       
    9. Did you play with dolls as a child?
      Nope!

      I used to torture them lol.. I used to cut the barbies hair and I scribbled on their faces with markers LOL and when it came to the life size dolls...-.- NOPE! Terrified of them. I would throw them in the closet and stare at the door at night and hope to gosh that they wouldn't open the door to stare at me at night.

      To this day baby dolls terrify me and I hate them with a passion but when it comes to BJDs I just love the way they look. Some of them are SO beautiful it's hard to not want them <3
       
    10. I used to love playing with dolls (Barbie's and BratZ dolls :P)when I was younger. I probably played with them up until I was 12 ish? I don't quite remember. But never had any baby dolls and porcelain dolls scared me... So me ending up with the liking for BJD's is beyond me.
       
    11. My sister and I played Barbies pretty extensively when we were growing up! We also had all kinds of other playline dolls, although Barbies were our favorites. We played with them until we were about 12 or so, and we had a whole separate room (the guest room) that we deemed "Barbieland," which was filled with all of our Barbie houses, cars, furniture, and makeshift apartments (we used chairs, shoeboxes, pieces of cardboard, and other "found" objects to create walls, beds, and other structures). Like some others have mentioned, we had a main cast of characters, and they all had really intricate story arcs. (Bratz, My Scene, and their ilk came out when we were in high school, way past playing with dolls.)
       
    12. I had a few dolls as a kid, mostly baby dolls and liked them well enough. I had a water filled one that I tugged around because I liked the weight. Guess this is why I like SD's huh? I didn't care for barbies much though.
      I did really like Polly Pockets though because I could dress them!
       
    13. No, I don't play with them. They are just displayed.
       
    14. I had all sorts of dolls when I was younger. I used to have Bratz, Barbie, Polly Pocket, and some other dolls that I haven't heard of for years. I had one or two Cabbage Patch Kids. I didn't change what my dolls were wearing that often because the clothes usually fit poorly, especially for the Bratz, which barely fit :|

      However I was always a tomboy. I loved getting outdoors (well, until I got a computer and was introduced to the internet :P), I would love adventuring and exploring, and one of my favourite pastimes was climbing trees. I would always get excited when my father got out his electric guitar, and I would sit and watch as he played it, with my older and slightly disinterested brother trying to find something to do. I would play with my brother using lego, dinosaurs, and we played tag in the backyard.

      I was also quite a morbid child. It's not surprising to me that my favourite scenes in movies are where characters are hurt badly or killed; I always had a strange fascination with pain and death. All of the stories that the lego characters were in; there was a fire and one of them got badly hurt, maybe they were all secret agents trying to kill each other. I remember some of them always being gravely hurt and them having to find a remedy and take care of their friend until either they died or they got better. Even my pokemon to my saddle club plush horses shared the same fates. There was one particular story I remember so well with my horse plushies; one was a large saddle club horse, the other two were about a third of the size and I loved all three dearly. The mother horse (the largest one) was captured by people and then escaped, but with fatal wounds. She could only utter a few words of her love to her children before she passed away, leaving her two foals to fend for themselves..... yeah, it was a happy story.

      I started to become a fan of BJDs when I was 12 and one of my friends gave me a link to a picture of one because she thought they looked cool. It's only now that I'm 14 and I've saved up and I am able to buy one though :)
       
    15. No, I didn't. That's what makes my mother so puzzled over this hobby of mine. But I still don't "play" with my dolls. I make them clothes and take pictures of them. I was more of a lego-person, and I did much rather read a book than anything else. Perhaps if Barbies and other dolls were less pink and pretty or even if there were a broader market for Ken dolls I might have been more interested. Even now, the "pretty" doll-like BJD don't speak to me. Hadn't the BJD companies started making dolls to look more realistic and less anime, I probably wouldn't had been interested at all ;3
       
    16. Did you play with dolls as a child? Yes! Lots and lots of dolls. Everything from Barbie to Holly Hobbie. In fact, my entire room was decorated in Holly Hobbie until I was probably 11 or 12.
      Why or why not? ~ Dolls, and doll collecting was a really big deal for the close female members in my household. They were constantly ordering or collecting every limited edition, or number doll they could find. Which pretty much answered the question of what I got as gifts growing up for birthdays or Christmas. Yup, I had many, many dolls. LOL
      If yes, did your childhood love of dolls get you into BJDs or was it something else? Oddly enough the answer is no. :o I found Bjd's through a different hobby that was totally unrelated to dolls.
       
    17. As a child I loved Barbies and Polly Pockets and played with them with my friends. Never really had much of an interest in baby dolls, though I did have one that I liked.
      I always strongly preferred animal figures and plush toys to human dolls.

      My experiences with dolls as a child and my BJD interest aren't really connected at all, save for my love of customization. I had grown out of actually playing with dolls long before I discovered BJDs.
       
    18. Nope, I played with slingshots, wrist rockets and BB guns. As a teenager my step-father, in an attempt to keep me away from my sissy indoor activities of reading, painting and listening to records, made my brother and I go out hunting with shotguns and .22 rifles. It didn't work, I still preferred intellectual activities over killing things out in the woods but did become a crack shot. Now that I think of it I did have some stuffed animals when I was younger and did play with those but that ended when I was 9 or 10. No GI Joes or anything like that either.
       
    19. Heck, yeah! My sister and I played with dolls- Barbie, Jem, Licca and all kinds of action figures. We would make paper dolls out of the pictures our awesome, older cousin would draw for us. As we got older, we would use dolls to act out movies and film them with our crappy video camera. We did a rendition of The Blair Witch Project using action figures- Ryouko and Tenchi from Tenchi Muyo and Ash Ketchum from Pokemon (haha!) We used an old, decrepit wooden dog house for the shack in the last scene. Our version was pretty good, if I might say so. Possibly, better than the original, though I don't think that means much. XD