Dolls you love that you missed out on?

Dollzone Anson/Moment. HUGE regret. ;;

 

LatiDoll's red-line Oracle M...

I liked him and the Temple Knight K a lot at the time they were released, and thought long and hard about ordering them both... But I didn't. Because they had a very different look and proportion to the mostly-CP/Delf and "Old School" Volks dolls that I owned at the time, and I thought they would look very awkward sitting next to the rest of the gang.

I regretted that.

Eventually I managed to find a Temple Knight K second hand.
I've never seen an Oracle M come up for sale...

I'll keep looking, because hope springs eternal, but given how not-exactly-popular the red-line guys were in general and how few of that particular sculpt are even out there specifically? My odds honestly aren't very good and I know it.

 

There are some dolls I really liked that i didn't get, but mostly what i liked about them was their full sets outfits. So i regret not being able to get those more than not being able to get the dolls. At least in those cases, the basic doll is still available, but I'd have to customise them, so it's easier for me to not get them. That said, I absolutely loved Loongsoul's Yan Ling- C. The outfit and the styling are so, so pretty, but I couldn't justify the cost for the full set when it was available.

Souldoll Caleb is another one, but the doll would've been the wrong size for the character i'd use him for (i want to keep my dolls for that group to 1/4 scale). I also wish I'd known about Miracle doll's Lan Qi when she was being offered, since it's so hard to find muscular 1/4 girls, but maybe she'll turn up second hand or someone else will make a muscular 1/4 girl in the meantime.

 

For me it's easily Doll Chateau Amos. I never would have thought he'd be discontinued, but I came back to the hobby with a fat wallet and saw that he was done and gone. He's on my Super Secret Double Probation Grail List where, should I find him or his head floating around, I will descend upon him like a thousand starved locusts (or, rather, just throw my wallet around).

 

15 years ago when friend of mine "invited" me in world of bjd, i like and wanted some of BuddyDoll BJD (i think it was April, because she has smile, not sad or negative emotion as many or most bjd dolls), when i decided to order this doll, company was already dead. This doll still doll: why i become interested in BJD (well, except of my friend dolls, they was first which i saw in reality, and thanks to Universe - Crobidoll still alive and kicking))
Also as BJD dolls agent in my country (well, this experiment was failed, as i cant make business with studying in university at same time, and when your hobby side-job are not accepted by your family because you - male), well as bjd agent i have Oceanmoon Ha-nee (50cm doll) for short period of time, and actually i really like that doll in that time but i must to sell her (to spread BJD)). That mold was discontinued.

 

I was around during the heyday of CP Delfs and have so many regrets, both in terms of not buying them from luts when available, but also in missing specific secondhand dolls (a modded juri '05 and a juri '06 come to mind). Now they're so hard to find..

Another doll is a Shinydoll Sayuki B on the type 1 body. I've always loved how solemn and wistful she looked, but she's next to impossible to find anywhere. There was also a 'test' head from Shinydoll that wasn't an official release, and I pinged the person selling her too late ;_;

 

I "discovered" the hobby back in ~2010, but didn't really have the funds to start engaging with it in earnest until ~2017 or so, so I've missed out on a lot of dolls! There are many that I wish the stars had aligned enough for me to grab back when they were new and/or readily available (Minifee Shushu, some of the CP Delfs/FL rereleases, Dream of Doll sculpts, etc).

On the other hand, most of the dolls I've fallen in love with over the years were limited sculpts owned by other people. I've been fortunate enough that, with enough time and patience and saving, I've been able to nab several of my pipe dream grail dolls. Most of the ones I feel I've truly "missed out" on now were/are dolls that I would like a lot if everything lined up right, but don't necessarily want to devote that kind of time and money into hunting down. It's a general regretful pining rather than an active personal goal, if that makes sense.

 

I remember wanting a Hypermaniac Nahu - (specifically the opened eye version that was limited to 5) so badly it pained me I would Iove to have any of the Hypermaniacs now that I have money, but sadly the artist doesn’t seem to make them anymore (haven’t seen an update in a while).

 

Even though this is just a small regret, I still regret nontheless that I wasn't able to get Iplehouse Rebecca during their mass discontinuation event. A discontinued sculpt from another company had popped up at the MP at the same time, and I chose to get that instead because I could not afford to buy both.

 

Just missed out on Napi Doll Carol yesterday. Pretty down about that but I'll have to keep an eye out for her sleeping version soon.

 

Souldoll Caleb, fantasy version.
Caleb-Fantasy ver

I sadly was paying off two different layaways at the time, and couldn't possibly handle a third one. I would still love to find one, and maybe I'll find one secondhand one day; but I still kick myself for having so much going on at once that I couldn't have gotten him too.

 

I have 2:

Pukipuki Cupid 3! I have a desperate need for this one, or at least just the face plate as I've got a spare puki body. I WILL have one some day.

The other is Dollzone Hid; that was just a gorgeous sculpt.

 

Supia Doll Jacob in his original tan with the elf ears. By the time I discovered his sculpt, they’d discontinued the resin colour. I ordered a Migidoll Vicente in Latte hoping it would satisfy the itch but nope. Vicente is a beautiful sculpt but I should have just ordered Jacob in white and dyed him instead.

 

I regretted not getting Dream High Studio's Roley and Moley. They were tiny' 3" moles with cute outfits in brown and pale yellow resin. They were just so tiny, and so expensive! Every time I saw a picture of one of those adorable moles I would kick myself for not getting one! Believe it or not, last month I came across BOTH of them, in their cute outfits, and in perfect condition, for the original selling price of one doll! I couldn't hit the buy button fast enough! They had only been listed for 24 hours- I just got very lucky. I promptly made two story picture books of The Wind in the Willows with Blurb, starring Moley, of course! So keep looking for 'the doll that got away' and be persistent!

 

The first BJD I fell in love with was Luts Delf Shiwoo Elf, back in 2004/5.

Limited edition, and already sold out before I discovered BJDs and the luts site.

I might have been able to get him on the secondhand market, back then, if I'd known where to look. The few times he's come up on the secondhand market since then (the ones that I've seen) he's either been snapped up beofre I saw the listing, or I didn't have the money available at the time.

I'm taking the view that if I'm meant to have him, one will happen into my path at the right time for it to work out.

Teddy

 

My case is an odd one in that the doll I loved was available for years and years, yet I could never make myself pull that trigger. It was the Iplehouse EID Luo…and wow, was he ever gorgeous in a manly-man sort of way! Every photo I saw of him was just pure love for me. But I won’t buy a doll unless I can see a character in them…and I just never could in poor Luo, and not for lack of trying let me tell you! But it never came to pass and eventually he was discontinued. I guess that gorgeous hunk of resin just wasn’t meant to be.

 

So many things Muhan! Limited artist runs spiritually hurt so bad

 

More RealPukis - I regret not buying Obi. And I regret even more that I didn't snap up Tyni several times when I found him for sale... Every time I thought there was time enough to get him when money wasn't so tight. Now I'm beginning to fear that FL will never bring them back at all...

And I wish I got PukiPuki ChiChi when he was still available. Not one that you come across very often...

 

I’d love a couple tan PukiPuki! By the time I found them and realized I wanted one they were not being made anymore.

 

I love the SD Kyle/Amon The Hanged Man (gargoyle version) but I didn't have the money when he was released and because he was limited, I couldn't buy him. I've never seen him 2nd hand *sigh*. I'd also love to get my grabby hands on an SD Kowalski/Billion and he was another who was limited and waaaaay out of my budget at the time (just blank he was $1200US and the CAN$ sucks hard so....). I've seen Kowalski 2nd hand twice since he was released nearly 10 years ago and both times I didn't have the cash on hand since it is a fair chunk of change once you factor in exchange rate ($1200US would be approximately $1625CAN at the rate today and that doesn't include shipping, which would be a fair bit as he's 70cm and likely heavy, too).