Dolls You Love But Will Never Own

1/4 scale and smaller. I love a lot of the sculpts (unoa and puyoo, especially) but the only ones I ever end up clicking with are 1/3 scale. I’ve bought an Unoa Lusis on three separate occasions since 2003 but always ended up selling them. I’ll content myself with looking at other’s collections and just stick with my “big kids.”

 

I definitely second people talking about the big loongsoul boys. The dragons with the wings and the staff and the various complicated outfits. But where would I put them? Oh the eternal collector dilemma

 

Any Do Dolls Dreams Teacup Marionette. I think they look so cute, but I don't really collect anything smaller than 1/4 outside of the odd fashion doll here and there.

I also like some of Luts' Honey31 Delfs but I won't get any for the same reason.

 

Soom Alex. I'm a sucker for elves, Soom is usually out of my price range, and Alex is waaaaay rare long discontinued event sculpt.

Maybe Dream of Doll Sha, but that's also because I've fallen out of love with the sculpt. DoD's clothing though...

 

Single jointed dolls! The first example that comes to mind is Dust of Dolls... aesthetically they're beautiful, Zouh was one of my first grails early in the hobby! But I know now that I just can't settle for single joints, they're so frustrating for me that I actually find them unattractive aesthetically now.

I even passed up on an opportunity to get an Irrealdoll Nur, one of my all-time grail head sculpts, because his body is single jointed.

 

Nabarro Sumner — I really like to have him and I ve been looking for him for ages, but never seen anyone selling him. Well, I guess I don’t have the luck to have him.
Fairyland Sylvia — I want the 65 Sylvia full set in tan so bad. I don’t have the money when they released it.

 

I had to think on this but a lot of Ringdoll’s stuff especially their fullsets. I love looking at them but with all those fiddly accessories I think I would find them too overwhelming to handle. Same goes for the Loongsoul dragons.

 

Anything above MSD size, honestly. So many companies make the most beautiful big dolls (oh man, Loongsoul) but I just can’t see myself owning a doll that big—and I don’t even mean something unusual like 90cm, 60cm is already huge to my eyes! But there’s a lot more variety among MSDs these days than there was when I first joined the hobby, so at least I don’t feel as left out with regards to mature sculpts anymore!

 

Migidoll Miho.

Miho is my favourite out of all the Migidolls, I'm always happy to see owner photos of him, and I enjoy seeing how others have customized him. I've often contemplated getting a Miho for myself... but frankly, it's unlikely to happen. My time to buy him has passed. His sculpt is in the older style that I loved as a BJD newbie in mid/late 00s. If I'd bought Miho before I went on my very long hiatus away from the hobby, he would've been a keeper. But now? I realize my taste has shifted and I'm more interested in having other kinds of dolls in my collection. While I still love seeing these older dolls around, I don't quite want to buy them anymore.

I guess I won't get to enjoy Miho as my own doll and character, but I can still admire the many different versions of him out there. And I'm OK with that.

 

I am so in love with older Dollzone, Faewoods and KaniBoom dolls, and they are super hard to come by as their owner usually don’t let them go.

 

A Dollmore Trinity doll. I think several of them are stunning and I love to look at them. But they're too expensive, and also their weight just would scare me IRL. So I admire them in pictures instead.

 

Over the years of my hobby, I have understood which authors I like and I would like to have them in my collection. There are authors that I also like, but I will never buy them, I will just admire the photo: meadowdolls, I will also not buy some Chinese authors, because I think their price is too high

 

I'm the exact same way. I love the style and everything about vinyl dolls, but I've learned that I do not like the feel of vinyl and plus, I always worry about staining.

Also super realistic big dolls. I love to look at them because they look so cool but I can't bring myself to own one.

 

I think a lot of dolls have ended up in this category for me lately. I used to feel the need to have EVERY doll I liked looking at -- of course that was never financially feasible, but I'd put them all on my wishlist and plan to buy them eventually. It also led to me buying quite a few dolls that I didn't end up bonding with and sold quickly, and not really having a direction to go with my collection. (Of course the not bonding thing is common and can happen to anyone really, I just think because of my past outlook, it made it more frequent for me.)

Anyway, lately with BJDs and other collections I have, I have come to the realization that I can in fact enjoy things from afar and don't have to OWN everything, which is really freeing actually, LOL. I still have a long wishlist, but I don't really imagine I'll ever own half the dolls on it.

Ok, for specific examples... many dolls I LOVED and desperately wanted in my early years in the hobby are no longer my style. I was totally planning to buy Mystic Kids Francis when I first started collecting, but he's not my thing anymore. I still think he's adorable, I just wouldn't buy him. Another one was Crobidoll Tei! Just loved him, but I doubt I will own him. Many many Super Dollfies, because I love Volks but I really can't just own all of them, LOL. Honey Delf Lolly! They're all coming back to me now...

Then there are those who wouldn't be feasible for me to own, like Dollmore Lusion Dahlia. I'm hoping to get the smaller version (I think she's called Ilua Dahlia or something like that?) because I love her face. But I don't think I could deal with the size or price of the big one! And then really rare and pricey dolls like Volks Suiseiseki and Chii, just lovely, but I'm not invested enough to keep scouring the internet for listings or shell out multi thousands for them sadly. But I'll admire them from afar ~~

 

For me, it’s definitely a Switch Ryuzo:Persona. Sometimes I just go on the site to look at him cause I love him so much, but when I joined the hobby I decided to only collect MSD/Slim MSD sized dolls so that I didn’t have to worry about various sizes for clothing/accessories, and also because I have very limited space. So I just daydream about him lol.

 

I completely get it! I have 3 huge dolls (idelians) at home and the display for them will occupy practically half of my room. But it was love at first sight, I started with the big ones right away

 

A Dollmore Trinity. I love the look of them, and have some fun ideas for giant deity-sized doll towering over an SD-sized doll, but I don't have the room or the budget...

 

I love Dream of Doll sculpts so much, they must have been the first ones I fell in love with... but the company no longer exists and they pop up second-hand very rarely (I understand, I would also not want to part with a DOD!). I also don't have the space for 1/3s, which of theirs are my favourite, so I don't think I'll ever squeeze one to fit in with the minis. It always makes me happy to see any of them pop up in the photo galleries or otherwise, though!

 

I keep a running list to remind myself in the original Dolls you'll never have... thread.

But I think it boils down to Elfdoll Vivien or Emma who pop up only rarely on the second hand market, go quickly, and are very very expensive.

 

Volks Lady Oscar, preferably the blue coat version.

Linda S.
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