DiM (Doll in Mind) Mini Discussion Part 5

@RainbowMarbles I'm willing to invest in 4 more, which would bring it down to 9. i've already got 2 in a group order, but one of those is for my girlfriend, so...

I figure I can sell anything I don't want later, I just want to do what I can to get this baby casted.

@Rinoa God, that is frustrating.

ETA: He got back to me too, but a little before @RainbowMarbles. We actually gained one order in the time between those emails, apparently.

 

Ah. That number doesn’t bode so well…

 

Yeah, I thought there were a good number of people interested in Annabeth so I had fingers crossed. Denny told me 12 for Annabeth as well. I don't want to sound negative at all, just realistically, Annabeth was one of the more popular sculpts outside of the 3 and if she's only at 12, I'm not sure if the others are anywhere close to that.

 

12 for annabeth is pretty good to be fair.
I don't think Ican stretch my budget to more than one extra but i'm willing to help if it's needed.

Still, I rather hope that this tells Denny that there IS a demand given how many orders he got in only a short period and that he maybe offers some of the other heads as a short little limited run like this. I feel like if he annouced "okay, annabeth orders" or had she been one of the definitely offered ones, she might have gotten more orders and as it stands, if he waited a few more weeks we probably could get 25.
I mean 12 wishlist orders in what, two weeks? is pretty good going as she wasn't even on the list of available sculpts, people jsut went "ooo can we get her too?"
so it suggests she's quite popular.

So maybe he'll look at these numbers and go "hmmm, this might be viable" and offer something like this again.

Is the 25 number to do with how many casts you get out of one mold you think? I remember someone mentioning that the nature of resin means it basically eats molds so you have to remake and repair them constantly and you only get a fairly small number of casts from each mold.

 

@purple_monkfish So in my discussion with him, it isn’t like he is hand-casting them, so the decision isn’t his alone. He is collecting orders to pay the factory to cast them, so the minimum order is likely a factory requirement.

For that reason, I strongly imagine it is a hard requirement, no wriggle room.

And since he is trying to retire/leave dolls, I don’t think he is looking to do regular small order windows, even though that would totally be a great idea.

 

true, but I wonder why the company has that requirement and wonder if it's to do with how many casts they get from one mold or the cost ratio of resin/mold/time vs profit margin. I'm sure a lot went into factoring all that.
still, when you think about it, 25 isn't really that many heads.
Wish we had the cash to drop to just order up to 25 lol. If only I was rich, then i'd totally request 25 of most of their sculpts and set up shop selling them on lol.

Why did Denny stop doing dolls? Did he just get bored? wasn't financially viable? It's a shame because DIM was a really good company with such unique sculpts. I miss them badly.

 

He was doing it for a REALLY long time to be honest. At least a decade, maybe fifteen years? That’s an extremely long time to be doing anything. He needs to be able to move on with his life perhaps! Conjecture, but as good a reason as any.

I would assume he picked out Laia, Larina, and Flowne as the most popular Happy sculpts presumably ever, and decided they would get the final encore because they were worth the factory’s time.

As disappointing as it is, I am delighted that earlier in the thread, it was pointed out that at least one DiM sculptor is still producing new sculpts solo, which is amazing! They are clearly the one responsible for my personal favourite sculpts, so maybe my crew will expand in future…

 

@purple_monkfish I was thinking the same with Annabeth (and any other head) not being advertised in the original email. With a month and some communication, I think it could've happened.

It's disheartening to watch a grail pass by, but I do have cute ideas for more Larinas, so it's not a total wash. Maybe I'll get a Laia too.

 

Are we still waiting on a final tally of the wishlist heads? If none of my other wished for heads do not make the cut (pretty sure they won’t ) I’ll add another Annabeth to my order

 

I don't think the counts are technically all in, but I'm not confident we can find 9 (or 8) more orders in 24~ hours.

 

I could possibly add a WS Annabeth and WS Laia if it comes back that none of my requests are getting made, which seems likely. I should have just joined the GO cause shipping is expensive for just a couple, but I think I was being too optimistic that some of my requests would be made

 

Yes, I got the sense it was for this reason as well I have no doubt he loved what he was doing (evident by him doing this incredible limited run ) but was ready for a new adventure

Yes I hope so too even if just casual

I don't know if she casts her own heads or if she goes through a company. It seems she sells the heads in small batches in unpredictable times but she claims her resin colors match Dreaming Doll resin (both the normal and peach white). For a while I thought maybe DD was casting them for her but hearing the 25 limit is making me wonder if she is doing them herself
I'll ask her one of these days when she doesn't look busy

 

If that helps, I can order 4 Annabeths, but that's as much as I could do I think.
4 more anyone??

 

Hey I have room in my collection for one!

 

Less than 24 hours, even. And at some point Denny does have to cut off all orders, since they need to be submitted to a factory. If somebody is too late, then they could very well be rejected from having missed the window.

Personally, I don't think I - nor I imagine @Dew_Drops - feel particularly confident waiting around, given what we're shouldering!

EDIT: time in Korea as of editing:
03:53
Tuesday, 31 May 2022

 

I personally hope Nymph can come back so much, I can't believe there was a little Benetia-sister out this whole time. I truly need her!

 

I'm seriously considering going for a second Annabeth, too. If two people (@staghaus and @PhDolls ) go for 4 each, we would only need 5 people to get 1 more, which seems really feasible? Seems like waaay more than 5 people said "I'll get one" haha.

Eta: I sent another email to Denny to add a WS Annabeth to my order before I could overthink it lol

 

If anyone from the UK/EU wants to get an Annabeth and any of the confirmed 3 let me know asap as I'm gonna email Denny soon.

 

I messaged Denny with the order update on my side and waiting what he's got to say. Fingers crossed!

 

Did Denny actually end up telling you what stock he had aside from a white skin ace?