Doll Faux Pas

Hmmm... I'm still a newbie (at least to the forums) and I'm not sure what my biggest newbie mistake was. Probably that I had resigned myself to only getting a SD/SD-13 sized doll... no MSD's for me 'thank-you-very-much'. I did a lot of searching, but never was able to find the only SD sized doll I had fallen in love with... CH's Ceebee. Luckily I didn't fall into the category of "well, I'll just buy the least expensive thing". I had the outlook of "If I am spending this much money, I should love the doll."

Then I stumbled across DOD and absolutely died over the Tender Too and Bee-A dolls. I found out they were MSD sized and just didn't care... I loved them so much. I didn't even know how much they were, just that I had to buy them. And so *smiles* I did... and I've been killing myself with impatience ever since.

I finally have two SD size dolls that I want. Delf Soo and some incarnation of AI CeeBee. Now that I have Too and Bee-A on their way, I am going to start saving for the day fate smiles upon me and drops a Ceebee in my lap *beams*

 

I'm STILL a n00b, and I'm STILL making mistakes. But when I first got into it, I thought that Volks was the only reputable brand, and I didn't want to get a doll from anyone else. Now I'm more partial to Luts and AngelRegion; not only are the dolls just as beautiful as Volks' dolls, they'll be quite a bit easier on my bank account. ^^;

 

probably the worst were 2 within the same post... ops: thought chowon was some sort of customized choa and, of course, a girl; and, did a "quote" that had a picture in it so of course the picture was repeated, and apparently that was some sort of huge no-no.

I still make mistakes all the time, I dunno who's who and I think everybody's a girl, but I'm learning.

 

I don't know who's who unless it's CP dolls or some Volks molds... ^_^;;;

I've been around anime too much, though, so unless I can see boobs or girly makeup, I assume it's a boy until proven otherwise, no matter how girly it looks. XD;;;

The first thing I did with Nai was to drop his headcap five feet to a linoleum floor. Thankfully it was just the headcap, and it didn't break/crack/chip or anything.

I keep trying to type Luts as Lutz, and I probably say it wrong. (Lutz rhymes with 'roots', so I say it like that...)

 

... I saw a whole bunch of Volks SD pictures and assumed they were computer generated.

I thought it was from some Japanese animated television show.

.______. ...That lasted for about two days before I went, "...Oh ;"

 

i thought ttory was a girl...up until about day ago. i'm still a n00b to the max. *sheepish*

however, i wasn't too shocked at how expensive they were when i first found out about them...they were too beautiful to be inexpensive.

 

hmm Im still a n00b but one of my earliest n00b moments was asking what all the abbreviation were, like DOD, MSD, SD, OOAC, ect....ect...
I never really made many post ranting about the prices of bjd because the first dolls I found were Volks and I just imagined that dolls that pretty should rank a 'high' price.
Then I found the DOD site and saw their dolls and fell in love with them! Not because of the price but because I really loved how the faces looked! Then I fell in love with how low the prices are XD

 

I am totally with Sher, I can never remember who is who, and anytime I've tried, i get it wrong. But everyone here has always 9well, mostly) been kind to the questions. I'm just so glad no one gets offended when i ask right out if thier doll is a girl or a boy. Some of those guys are so darned pretty, I can't tell.

 

I've made so many faux pas I wouldn't know where to begin, lol.

I was searching for MSD F-06 pix a few days ago and noticed that in an older thread I even called a Sasha an F-28. Shocking! ops:

Though on a personal level, my biggest mistake is to ever bother saying "I don't like [insert doll type] anymore" because it seems I will like them again anyhow (ie, when I didn't want normal-toned dolls anymore but last month turned around and brought Duncan home). Or else to bother saying "No more!" because I always end up falling in love with another.

It's harder to be a newbie now too because there are so many more doll companies and types then there were a few years ago. Good job to all who figure it out and don't just get frustrated

 

When I first strung my boy, I didn't know that there were separate right and left thighs and managed to mix them up. xD; Poor thing was sitting spread-eagled for DAYS...

 

I still can't tell if El's a girl or a boy, he's too pretty! ops: Heehee!

 

X3 Ahaha, me too.
The worst part is, when I first saw Ttory at the Luts site, I went 'My, what a boyish doll!' and somehow managed to read every 'he' on the page as 'she'. And then proceeded to lament him not being a boy doll and wallow in my ignorance for a good long while. ^_^;;

 

I'm a veteran of a number of special-interest mailing lists and boards, so I tried to do the good-newbie thing and lurk, reading FAQs and posts, and searching before asking questions . . . problem is, the search doesn't always work the way you want it to! I know I've asked questions (like my current one about Franklin Mint clothes) that have probably come up before, but if I can't find the answer in the archives, I might as well ask and get the benefit of other people's experience.

FWIW, Tender Too and Bee-A were my first dolls bought (AND THEY'RE STILL NOT HERE *WAH WAH WAH*), but I didn't get them because they were "cheap" . . . I got them because I think they're beautiful, and I can't wait for them to arrive! I have all their clothes and wigs all laid out ;>

I don't love Aislinn (or my arriving-next-month Aletheia) more than these two just because they're more expensive . . . I'm just as excited about them arriving as I am/was for my others. I don't think DOD is in any way "lesser" just because they offer slightly lower prices!

FWIW, I can't keep ANY of the Volks numbered heads straight . . . I can attach faces to names, but numbers never fail to confuse me

-- Andi (who is more of a Luts girl than a Volks girl, I really don't have any interest in pursuing a Volks doll unless they come out with one who really speaks to me -- some people may think they're "best" because they were first to become popular, but I think each doll company has its strengths and they all make fantastic dolls that appeal to different people!)

 

am still a newbie. Some stuff I knew, some I still don't!

I knew how expensive they were. My first love is DES. I am going to get her. But I orginally thought she would be limited and gone when I finallty had the cash for her. EWrong!

 

Wow, I totally didn't realize that you couldn't get Ttori bi-gendered like a lot of the other Delf kids! of course, the first Ttori I saw was a pretty little elf girl made with the Ttori optional elf head, guess it kind of stuck with me. ^^;

 

I still don't know alot of the abbreviations used in the BJD world.

I think by far my worst noobie mistake was not knowing you could open BJD heads and thinking DoD was the only such company around. ;; I deserved to be shot.

I thought El was a boy. D:

 

I just recently realized that the complete Ttori is a boy. I kept thinking he was a girl and that to get a boy I'd have to use optional parts - although I'll still have to do that cause I changed my mind and I want a girl body with an elf Ttori head. ops:

 

. . . Ttory is a boy??!?

Hehehe, we're ALL still learning no matter how long we've been into BJDs!!!

*giggles*

-- A

 

Truthfully I don't know what my greatest "Newbie Moment" was. I was into Volks' 1/6 Dollfies before I found out about Super Dollfies (and even then, info was hard to come by cause the forum was a Yahoo group and Volks hadn't made an English site yet)

So I just researched and researched and researched until I knew the basics, but even today I forgets things and have to go look for the answer again. While the price knocked me over for a moment, I figured since they were works of beauty, they HAD to be a little pricey. :grin:

I've got about a million bookmarked sites realating to dolls, and I think my greatest talent is being able to recognize which doll head is which pretty quickly just by studying it (though I'm not perfect at it).

Of course, while I don't feel like a newbie, I don't have a doll yet so I suppose you could call me one! ops:

 

And yes, everytime I say "Ball-Jointed-Doll" or BJD, someone breaks out into perverted little giggles (usually my family) ops: