Did you play with dolls as a child?

I was never especially into dolls as a kid. I had a few barbies that I played with sometimes, but I also had cars, stuffed animals, and lots of wooden toys my dad made me. I had a phase when i was really into My Little Pony when i was 6 or 7, but don't remember a similar doll phase. I mostly liked to read and play with art and crafty toys. I had a phase in my early 20's where I started to customise barbies and make them outfits to make them look like people I knew, but quickly got bored of it.

My getting interested in BJDs has definitely come about not because of a childhood love of dolls, but because of a love of knitting/making things, and photography. Being able to make things and then have an awesome model to display them on for photos is great!

 

Yes I did I had a large collection of Barbies and Skipper. Oh I wish I had them now.

 

I've had barbies as a youngen... in fact, I didn't like them at first until later into my childhood. Then I got rid of them all at around 15 years of age... Some part of me died inside... So yes, I think the BJDs helped in refilling the gap of what I loved most about my childhood. I won't collect barbies again though, I think BJDs are far more interesting.

 

I loved fashion dolls (like Barbie) as a child... I had a zillion Barbies, I loved Whatsherface dolls, I had polly pockets, paper dolls, a Divastar doll, fashion polly's... I wish I had kept more of my childhood dolls; I only have a few Barbies left now.

AND DESPITE my Barbie obsession as a child, my parents where still surprised when I showed interest in BJDs LOL

 

I was never in love with Barbies as a kid because I couldn't stand their lack of articulation, so I started a little collection of female action figures so I could have female dolls but with lots more points of articulations for the action scenes that I wanted to act out. Getting into bjd's is a perfect way to fuse my desire for lovely female dolls with the high level of articulation that I wanted as a kid!

 

I used to really hate dolls when I was a kid! Especially barbies; I remember someone giving me one when I was maybe 6(?) and I managed to decapitate it somehow (I pulled it's head off... ). I was really against 'girly things' and absolutely haaated the colour pink (I still don't really like it that much (wearing it, mainly), but I am much more tolerant and really don't mind the colour anymore), and anything to do with makeup or skirts and dresses was a big nope. But nowadays I love wearing skirts and dresses and love seeing cute frilly things! I don't consider myself to be girly at all, but I have come to appreciate pretty things >w< aaand that includes BJDs hehe Still not too keen on fashion dolls though, but people can do some amazing customisations on those things :0

I think what attracted me to BJDs was the fact that you can customise them so much and that there are so many varieties of companies and sculpts, and I was like "I can make my characters... in 3D?!! Hell yes!"

 

I didn't play with dolls in the sense of them having cups of tea and weddings etc. I did however collect polly pockets and had an Aladdin and Jasmine doll that I promptly stripped the clothes off to see what the bodies were like.

 

yes i have played with dolls basically my entire life...my family thinks i will grow out of them eventually lol they are so foolish I'm 19 if i haven't stopped yet i never will

 

I've always liked dolls, but it seems like over the years, the dolls I have my eye on get bigger and bigger... I wonder if one day I'll be fawning over those 90cm boys!

 

I had barbies and other similar dolls and I loved collecting them until I was about ... 12 years old. Sadly, I loved to take their clothes off and give all the clothes to my favorites >.<
So if I was gonna take them out of the attic, I'm pretty sure that more than half are gonna be naked XP

 

Like most of you guys, I've been into Barbies, polly pockets and vinyl dolls too when I was young. So when I got into BJDs my family wasn't surprised at all

 

Polly pockets, masses of barbies, life-size barbies, the works! I loved toys when I was a kid and I had way more than I needed to. It was probably inevitable that I'd end up with BJDs. XD

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I never really liked dolls, I was one of those barbie torturers as a kid lol, I liked soft toys better. But now I like BJD's and similar dolls more for the art and crafting possibilities, it's kinda easier to make clothes and characters with dolls :3 but I still love my plushies

 

Barbies were boring and dumb, but Ninja Turtles were awesome! We had a bunch of Littlest Pet Shop animals and more than a few dinosaurs, including a Godzilla that I mistook for a T-Rex. The stuff I like about BJDs (and off topic dolls) with clothes, painting, making wigs, and rerooting hair would have been either way too tedious, hard to find materials for, and I would have been too young to do a good job.

I'm surprised at how many people on here didn't like dolls growing up.

 

Absolutely! My sisters and I played with them ALL the time even though my mother had issues with dolls. I have no idea why. We had to borrow our young aunt's dolls or play with our neighbors dolls. We'd share each other's one doll and sneak off to buy dolls at rummage sales or at the store with our babysitting money. We were so young to sit outside the home.

 

It's weird, I wouldn't consider myself as particularly being in to dolls as a child. I was a bit of a tom boy and I HATED barbies... BUT I did enjoy playing house with my Cabbage Patch dolls. My friends and I would come up with all sorts of crazy dramatic stuff when we played house I also remember desperately wanting American girl dolls (which at the time seemed very, very expensive to me) and when I finally got a couple for Christmas I ended up taking very poor care of them and now they're buried somewhere in my closet with tangled hair and their original outfits nowhere in sight.

 

I've enjoyed dolls since as far back as I can remember (although not baby dolls XD). I'd play with Barbies and other dolls (like a little, porcelain Dutch doll I got once upon a time ago lol). I, too, wanted an American doll very badly but we could never afford it. I got into bjds primarily because they're great for artwork and because they're simply gorgeous. So yeah! I guess I've always been into dolls in one form or another...

 

I've always loved dolls! Being the youngest child in a big family, nearly all of my toys were hand-me-downs but I always loved playing with any kind of doll, whether it was a baby doll, cabbage patch doll, barbies, polly pockets, you name it! I loved to play with toy animals too though, so it wasn't always just dolls.
When I got a little older and into anime, I used what little money I could to start a collection of anime figurines. I don't know if you could count them as 'dolls' but I played with them like they were XD.

So basically for me I guess you could say that getting into BJDs was a bit of a natural progression? Considering the fact that I didn't often get to choose my dolls as a child (them being mostly hand-me-downs) means that being able to choose from so many different sculpts and then customise my dolls however I like is kind of like a dream come true for me!

 

I played with Barbies. I would make them fight and have wild adventures xD I was never really interested in the clothes/customization aspect until I got a Whats-Her-Face doll in middle school. Does anyone remember those dolls? You drew her face on and gave her different wigs. I loved that doll like crazy.

 

It weirds me out to that I am in this hobby cause I used to mutilate my barbies when I was little. I hated them and people insisted on continuing to buy them for me. My friend and I were just laughing about how obsessed I am with dolls now.