Did you play with dolls as a child?

Yeah! My little sister and I would play with all kinds of dolls when we were younger. Mostly Barbies though. :3
We would make up all kinds of stories, have them go to work, on adventures and whatnot. It was quite fun.
When I got older I grew out of it and thought it was too girly to be interested any more.
When I got into high school I found out about BJDs and loved them too much to resist.
Since then I've also discovered Monster High dolls and started collecting them. The different unique designs are just awesome.
Now that I'm older I don't really care if people think it's girly, I just love it and that's all that matters. :3

 

I remember playing with dolls as a child. I really liked them but was terrible at taking care of them xD but for some reason, probably due to some horror film I watched, I became scared of them for some time. I got over that eventually of course and here I am getting hooked in BJDs c:

I personally think my current love for dolls has nothing to do with my childhood experience with them. In fact, I'm not too interested in any other dolls aside from BJDs. I'm simply enthralled by their beauty.

 

I like this thread..I was a tom boy, who also made dolls..at school my classmates would trade me paper and bits of stuff, so I could make dolls for them lol..whenever I went through crisis or depression, I would always find comfort in a doll, any thing, I've even made a paper doll with hair I pilfered from my grandmother's bathroom rug lol!!! These are some cool posts here guys :-)

 

I played with my Barbies all the time. I loved creating this dramatic stories between them and I remember them fighting all the time. I grew up as an only child and wasn't the most social person so I got lost in my own little world with them. A lot of my stories were probably influenced by novels that I watched as a child. There are plenty of fond memories of my Barbies I especially always wanted an American Girl but they were always too expensive to buy.

Seems like I never really outgrew my love for dolls.

 

I was obsessed with dressing up my dolls and setting up their houses just so...and then never actually carrying out a storyline. I guess that's why even now I'm mostly interested in the customization aspect as opposed to the storytelling aspect of the hobby. What can I say, I was always more drawn to the visual arts than I was to writing and role playing. But even so, many hours were spent with barbies, groovy girls, Polly pockets, Bratz and myScene dolls as a child.


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Oh, absolutely! I have played with dolls for as long as I can remember - and I kept playing with them longer than most... The first doll I really remember playing with was my "baby doll", Sophie, who was quite large, and at first it was quite a chore to carry her around .

Later I started to play with Barbie, for whom in the end I would make clothes, and even a car out of a shoebox. My Barbies had names, backstories, and got involved in elaborate plots. I also had My Little Ponies and Lady Lovelylocks, whom I adored because her clothes were "medieval".

I think my last childhood doll passion was with Sylvanian Families. They were so cute.

 

@sigune its nice to see, that we are all from different countries, and cultural background, even in different time periods/era..but we did and pretty much do, the same thing...(play with dolls) how awesome is that :-)

 

As a girl I never liked dolls and never wished for them as birthday or christmas presents. My grandmother gave me some nevertheless but I cut off their hair, scribbled over their faces and tortured them >.< Today I still don't like dolls like Barbie or Monster High, but I love BJDs as I see them as pieces of art. I love to dress them up in different outfits that fit their characters and - when the weather is nice - take pictures of them.

 

I always loved to look at dolls and dress them up, but after that, my reaction was often, "Now what?" I generally didn't play a lot with toys the way other kids would. The toys could never be as interesting as my imagination. So for me, dolls were always about the aesthetic appeal. Though I guess I did tend to imagine, almost in spite of myself, that they were alive, so it was important not to neglect or harm them in any way. The sight of a mistreated doll or toy always made me depressed. I blame "The Velveteen Rabbit."

 

I never played with dolls as a child - The ones available to me were Barbies and Cindies, which were expensive and not really things which I could be creative with - I much preferred painting Warhammer figurines, making things in plasticine, and sewing cuddly toys out of scraps of fabric and old clothes. My Beanie Babies were the things which got the stories and characters and personalities projected onto them

It was considered to be somewhat out of character when I went out and bought a huge, expensive doll, until my friends realised that it was just another canvas to play with, and something to build things around. And, half-secretly, the dolls get characters and stories just like the Beanie Babies used to.

Now, a few years later, I'm sculpting my own tiny doll, and planning an entire doll's house around her.

Funnily enough, I watched Toy Story Of Terror last night, and I felt a hint of that old sense of toys-as-living-things that I used to have as a small child. It was actually sort of lovely.

 

So. Did you play with dolls as a child? Yes! I have always loved Dolls. I have always been the beyond girly girl and still am

Why or why not? Probably because I have always drawn, painted, sculpted ever since I can remember. They were "playable art" to me as a kid.

If yes, did your childhood love of dolls get you into BJDs or was it something else? Yes it did. My childhood nostalgia brought me around to BJD's

If no, how did your lack of childhood dolliness effect your BJD hobby (did it make you feel self-conscious/etc)? N/A

 

I owned 17 Barbie dolls and a lot of stuff and props for them... One day I got rid of all of it though, I still don't know why... Must have got fed up

 

I actually disliked baby dolls. I thought ghey were boring, unimaginative and plain fugly as a kid. My mom only ever attempted a baby doll on me once and it came with a crib. Welp, I took all the clothes off the doll put them on my cat and used her instead in thr crob. And when playing with my MLP the crib was a prison. Buwahah~

I liked barbie and didn't mind those. Also my Gem. When I was seven I got my first porcelain doll then I started collecting the, stopped though around 12th grade. However I would never get rid of them.

 

Oh Yes! Loved, loved dolls as a kid. Was never into baby dolls, but loved Barbie and even antique dolls. Mom and I had a joint doll collection that contained all kinds. That's also how I began sewing. I used to make all my dolls clothes ... then made cloth dolls and even some of those bisque/porcelain kits you can get to make antique reproductions. My collection and taste has changed over the years, but I've never lost my love for dolls. BJDs seem a natural extension as my taste and style have matured.

 

i collected every kind of doll when i was younger: mainly barbies.. but i used to get frustrated with how similar and inanimate they all were were…Resulting in a collection of barbie dolls with nail varnish tattoos, dodgy hair cuts and toilet paper outfit monstrosities. Then i threw out all my dolls and discovered bjd's years later!

 

I played with Barbies as a child, but I also played with dinosaurs and horses [you know, the Grand Champions?] and Star Wars action figures. My interests were wide and varied. XD I didn't like baby dolls either though, they always weirded me out a bit. I think like a lot of people I enjoyed making up stories with their Barbies when they're kids though. Whenever I had friends over that's what we would do. I don't think there's really a relation between my childhood interests and my interest in BJDs now, though; I threw out all of the things I played with as a kid in middle school.

 

I've always had dolls and action figures as a kid wether it was porcelain dolls or barbies. I only really messed with the barbies and action figures though. I never really thought about wether having dolls as a kid affected my bjd hobby now, but in a way I guess it kind of did. I'd always had stories for my barbies and things, and Bjds are way cooler in my eyes so I guess it was sort of natural for me to be interested in them.

 

Believe it or not I really didn't care for dolls growing up. I had a lot of barbies, even the barbie dream house which I turned into stables for my breyer collection. It really wasn't until I found BJDs did I ever consider getting doll, outside of the crochet type dolls I would make.

 

Kind of strange, but as a child I hated dolls ._.
They felt so ugly, you couldn't move them completely an I even didn't liked the faces of them (When I played a sad scene with a doll and the doll had a lucky face! No go!). Fat, little babydolls or electronic-moving dolls...annoying barbies wich couldn't move the knees...

I still don't like "children dolls to play with", but I like "neutral" dolls wich can move perfectly...BJDs are awesome xD

 

All the time! I used to make my sister play along with my silly story lines I had for my Bratz and Barbie dolls and I could spend hours and hours dresisng them, brushing their hair and posing them. I guess BJDs was just the natural progression for me as I got older.