Dolls you'll never have....

Updating my earlier post a bit, here... But a year and change later, I actually have my impossible-to-find Lati Temple Knight K now.

But... yeah. Still no luck on his Oracle M brother, or that Soul Doll Celestyn. Drat!

 

I yearn to own a Lesser Snow mermaid from Angell Studio, even though she's been long sold out (as far as I know) and I have no idea how to get her 2nd hand. She's what started me into the BJD world proper and I would just love to have her for her gorgeous aesthetic. But I'd go for any of AS's 1/3 dolls, really. All their ladies are so pretty but I've kinda resigned myself to pine for them from a distance, haha

 

LUTS Senior Delf Vega. When I l started out in this hobby, I couldn't really afford BJDs while going to school so I had always hoped that I would be able to buy him after a certain time. Unfortunately I had other things come up and since he was limited, he sold out long before I was finally able afford him. I haven't seen him pop up on the second hand market or knowing of any others who had bought him so for now, I think he's just impossible to get :'3

It also sucks so much because up until now, I still consider him a perfect shell for one of my OCs q_q

 

I really don't feel like any doll is impossible for me to get. I just have to decide if it's worth the effort and money to me to get that doll. Certainly there's dolls with very limited productions that are extremely difficult but if I save up enough money and wait patiently, I know that doll will show up eventually so I can grab it. Generally though, I decide it's not worth the effort. There's a very limited number of dolls that are worth that hardship to me.

I've recently started telling myself that if it doesn't happen, then it's not meant to be. That's alright with me! I can't buy every doll I want anyway. I wouldn't have any space in my house and I would definitely have no money.

 

Soom's original release of Zedo was amazing, in bronze skin with dragon feet and gold translucent dragon wings. I don't like the visible teeth and lack of elf ears with his dreamy-eyed sculpt, but otherwise he's gorgeous. I can get a doll with similar feet, but not those dragon wings in that color. Sigh...

 

I wanted to get more of the 5 Star Doll SDs. I have Tumnus and Edmund, but I waited too long and they have all been discontinued. I was going to get the last Kevin and Bright recently, but someone beat me to it while I was saving up the money, and they are both gone.
I'm really hoping they re-release some, or bring out new sculpts. I love their dolls.

 

Beatrice Dollfie dream, she`s one of my biggest dreams.

 

Volks SD 2019 Dolpha One Off Tea Party Lorina. Wow that dress! Those colors and that dress just really pop! The outfit is really pretty on the Lorina sculpt but it would have looked great on any Volks sculpt. Whoever won that doll is very lucky indeed! The likelihood of that one person selling that outfit with or without the doll I would say are none! One of the prettiest dolls I’ve ever seen tho so I admire any pics I see of it.

 

Soom 2011 Migma-Rauco of Sin full set and Soom 2015 Heliot-White Night Destiny female version.

Got in to the hobby way too late and the current prices I don't even want to know, if they would ever be for sale even

 

For me, it would definitely be the Iplehouse EID Luo. I always thought he was the most handsome male sculpt I’d ever seen. But alas, he was just too big and I never found an appropriate character to fit the sculpt, so I just admired him from afar until his sculpt was finally cancelled by the company.

 

Fairyland's minifee Liria

Really wish I had been in the hobby when she released cuz second hand she is waaay too expensive. I hope one day they re-release her. I think a lot of us FL lovers would purchase her in a heartbeat.

 

I swore I wont get Soom dolls in this lifetime coz they're way over my budget but boy was i wrong. I ended up with 2 id75. So be careful of what you wish for.

 

In my particular case, there are like three subcategories or scenarios in that list:

1. Dolls I definitely would buy but were limited and have disappeared from the world, like Dearmine's Loc Labyrinth.
2. Dolls that don't fit in my crew so I won't buy even though I think they look really good, like Souldoll's Joelle D.
3. Dolls that, even if somehow fitted in my crew, are too big for my comfort (I don't buy anything bigger than MSDs).

There is a small bunch of dolls in every of those categories that I like to look at or search for in doll profiles or flickr.
I'm glad there are others who have those dolls so I canhappily observe them without spending money or space xD

 

Will add Dust of Dolls Roze Heln to this list because her secondhand prices keep getting more ridiculous as time goes on.

 

I have gotten most of the dolls I wanted. However, there are a couple I think I will probably never own.
I used to really want a Dollshe Bermann and would probably be happy if I ended up with one, but at this point, I will probably never get one. Right now the new Bermann is pretty inexpensive on the Dollshe website, but if I decided I had the money for another doll, I would probably get a different one. Dollshe Craft is still one of my favourite companies from an artistic standpoint, but I don't want to deal with the wait times and lack of communication I have seen other people talking about.
I also doubt I will ever get an Iplehouse Kamau. I got the Asa I wanted for so long second-hand, and she's just too big. I am glad I have her, but she is a pain to deal with. I prefer SD and bigger dolls generally, but the EID woman body is so heavy and takes up so much space, I mostly leave her in her box. I cannot imagine I would enjoy dealing with an EID man.

 

I only have a few BJDs (most of my dolls are other kinds) but probably the one I am most in love with but will never have is a large Pepper Annie by Nikki Britt. They're hard to find and oh so much money

 

Volks' SD 16 Lady Oscar and SD 17 Andre. Unfortunately, I couldn't get them when they were released. Availability isn't that much of a problem, they pop up every now and then, but the prices are insane (€ 2000 or more). Not to mention the custom fees I'd have to pay because most sellers are from outside of the EU.

 

Minifee juri 14. I would pay an excessively large sum to have this mini soony but no one is selling one!

 

Mostly likely certain grail dolls. Either because their second hand prices would be out of my price range or because I'm a mint condition or near mint condition kind of collector. But I'm okay with that though. It's fun to see what's available now, and as I see it, dolly technology is always improving so I'm sure there will be many more beautiful and handsome dolls in my future.

 

Yeppers that's my boy grail even though i roughly like realism in dolls. (i just prefer them to look like dolls more than like real people)
Although i could buy him and be happy with him, sadly when he were re-sold from Dollshe again, i wasn't working at the time so no luck for me getting him. I was just watching the DoA MP seeing all venitu go poof.