Doll Leaves Mini [45 cm] Discussion part 4

I definitely had to double take at the news. I'm glad it's a cleaning house rather than a closing, at least- and I understand studios sometimes need to refresh their body of work, and I am definitely excited to see what they plan to do next (with hopes that they keep their unique style!), but I am definitely distressed that their ENTIRE catalog is going. Giving 2 1/2 months notice is better than some companies, but still...!!!

I've been wanting Lan for a long, long time, so I'm probably going to get her head and store it until I'm ready to tackle that project. I hummed and hawed about a few other sculpts, but I managed to narrow it down to just her. I don't have too many floating eggs so I'll allow it. I've been pumping the breaks on MSDs, but I just can't let her slip away! Discontinuations are always the worst.

 

Yeah, Color me shocked! I saw their Instagram post. I'm a bit glum about it because many of their slim MSD style sculpts are really uniquely suited to be mature minis, but glad the 1/4 sculpts are still available into the month of March. I have a couple artist heads on order and one is specifically tested to work with the DollLeaves boy body. I'm thinking of buying a few heads and the 1/4 size newer boy body.

I'm also thinking of making some kind of altered shadow box to store and display my floating heads in.

Good luck and safe shipping to everyone making and order!

 

I'm thinking Hily in grey and a Lan, I hadn't intended to buy any bjds for a while this year but they force my hand and I KNOW i'll regret it if I don't do it. But eugh. So stressful.

They fixed Lan's sculpt so she no longer has really wonky eyes right?
I still see some sometimes with that really badly squinted eye.

I'm pondering whether to get Lan as a full doll or just a head for now, but I am starting to get too many floating heads which I find stressful too.

 

I'm so sad to see them discontinuing all their sculpts! D: They're one of my favorite companies~ I'm gonna miss the older style bodies. I might pick up Lan and that one newer myth girl they showed with red hair on insta. Tempted to grab a bunch of heads too xD;;

Anyways, here is my Rabbit I got last year that I named Penelope Anne.

 

Releasing new ones? Great, now I don't know whether to go with ordering Betty or wait for their new dolls. :/

 

Do you think the new stuff will lean more toward their "mythic" style? That's the feeling I get but at the same time, if that is so, why discontinue all them too?
Very odd.

I'm still umming and ahhing over whether to order anything before the discontinuation. It's untangling how much is FOMO and how much I genuinely have a plan for. And that's rough.

 

Yeah I wish they showed some sneak peek of what's coming so we'd know what to expect.

 

Well I emailed them direct to ask them about Hily 2.0 because she's the only doll NOT discounted on ACBJD and they never replied when I asked about the grey resin previously.
we'll see if they respond.

 

They can run their business in any way they like, of course and they don't owe us any explanations, but I can not help but to speculate.
New equipment that required a complete overhaul of their molds or casting process? A change to a different resin or some other change in supplies that required molds to be remade in a different type of silicone? Or some sort of dispute over the rights to their sculpts? Who knows?

At the end of the day, we can wonder but we'll probably never know. And it's all the same in the end, we'll just have to wait and see.
I hope that there is nothing serious going on and that new sculpts will start coming out eventually.

If I were to make a wish it would be that they focus on well posing bodies again. I have an old Wish on the shorter male body and he is the best poser in my collection. This (along with the fact that they were quite affordable) made them very popular for hybrids. But I know that some of the newer bodies, especially the novelty ones, have not lived up to that legacy. I hope that Doll Leaves don't loose that place in the market.

 

It could be as simple as a new artist. Sometimes there's some odd legal grey areas with the rights so if their previous artist left, they may have had to discontinue their work due to contract or something. That was the theory why DC discontinued several of their quite new sculpts, they got a new artist and the old one left.
but who knows what the contracts and rights agreements actually look like.

I do hope they remain affordable because it's one of their big selling points. Yes, it comes at the cost of having very limited resin colour options, but it works for them.
As for posing, i've got the new and old boy bodies and haven't noticed much difference, they both pose fine. The standard girl body is excellent at posing, better than several of my much more expensive dolls honestly. And I do like that they have the options for different body shapes and heights. Where will we get our little shortass boy doll bodies now? lol.
they're SO SHORT.

I'm umming and ahhing over what I want to do here. Do I get full dolls or just heads and hope that there's compatable bodies in the future? Do I want/need more floating heads?
The thing is, several of their sculpts tick my boxes for aesthetic. Big pouty lips, longer noses, sulkiness.
I do love me a sulky doll.

And I admit their newer mythic series does nothing for me in terms of the face sculpts. Too generically "cute" and young looking for me. The body is nice though. What do the teenage dream heads look like on that body? It's a touch smaller but i'm very very curious if they're actually compatable.

 

I don't have any of their older heads, just Leilia and the Myth body but I can plop quite few heads I have on the body and take pictures if you want? I should have about all the dolls I have listed on my profile. Color matches will be completely off though and my Leilia currently has the deer legs installed.

 

Ohh she's so gorgeous! I have Rabbit on layaway, and you're only like the second owner photo I've been able to find anywhere! I have Augus on layaway, too. The price point, aesthetics, and FOMO was too much to resist haha. If they had darker resin colors, I'd have ordered a third!
Does anybody happen to have a MSD Myou Doll boy to compare to a Doll Leaves boy? I know the height is different but I'm hoping the proportions look reasonable next to each other.

 

I preordered Camilla, but she's so pretty I am tempted to preorder her as well!

EDIT: I compromised, and ordered her head in Normal and clothes, Rabbit's blouse is such a lovely piece of clothing, I could not resist

 

aww thank you. I actually managed to find an image from someone which was helpful.

In other news,

I bit the bullet and ordered Hily 2.0 and then Fei and Lan just as heads. I did consider full dolls but i'm trying to keep my budget down so they'll be fine as heads until I can be bothered investing in bodies for them.

 

I impulse bid on a bundle of random doll bits including a Doll Leaves Amara and a Vivian head. The head is a lot newer than the body but I prefer Vivian to Amara so she's the one who got to claim it despite the colour difference.
I was considering getting this head during the discontinuation anyway but talked myself out of it, so I think she was meant to come to me. It's a strange sculpt but I really enjoy quite odd sculpts and she looks beautiful with a face.
her wig was in the bundle but it's so over long that it always looks messy.

I love her little buck teeth but they're not easy to get a photo of.

 

I'm with you. I don't care for Amara either, I never considered Vivian, but I like what you did with her. Just for fun I tried one of the boy heads on a girl body (Angelou and Dreambody) and love how it came out.
IMG_1500 by Victoria Davis, on Flickr

 

Got some surprise money, so decided to grab an Ida from DDE. I had wanted to get her before, but timing was never right, and the stars aligned this time. Very excited to see her sometime next week.