Dollzone Discussion ~ 60 and 70cm ~ Part VIII

Yes, I noticed Lucius ^_^! Very pretty, he is I admire his brooding face too. Recently, I’ve gotten my fix of pretty boys.. I need more moody boys in my life :P. If $600 magically fell into my lap today, I know what I’d buy ;3c Unfortunately, that doesn’t look like it’ll happen any time soon :v

The 62cm body *is* super cute! Like, really beautiful. Though for the character I’m using it on, the build is actually a bit too handsome >_<) (typical troubles with shelling a character). I’ll probably look into selling it at some point >_> it deserves to go to a person who would appreciate it more than me “^_^).

 

@IzabethS - Ooh a Raymond!! You know how much I am biased towards them.
Your Chen is so pretty! (And new Val is very handsome!)

 

I’ve always liked Raymond and yours are gorgeous! I look forward to getting to paint mine
And thank you! I’m really happy with Val 3.0 and I am so glad I was able to repurpose the Chen head. It’s just too good of a head!

 

IzabethS, how awesome you are getting a Raymond head! I love the Raymond sculpt!

Just to celebrate your in-coming Raymond, here is a company photo of Raymond. Such a gorgeous boy!

 

Thank you! I've not had a chance to take any photos of Azrael this year or even pull out Salmarnir. They're still here being pretty, but in the background.
I am glad you could too! Beautiful old sculpts like that are too nice to forget about.

 

So true, Quiet and Insane. So true.

 

Just thought I’d share my Gene, Ferdinand, fresh back from a faceup from Komorebi.dolls! I finally FINALLY am settled on this guy and he’s no longer the doll that I could sell at a moment’s notice. xD After years, welcome to the family my dude, LOL.

I also thought I’d share this for my own distraction because I need to stop looking at the newly released guy/body… dollzone is apparently my danger company because my knee-jerk reaction to every masculine sculpt 70 cm+ is just like take my money please!

 

He’s beautiful and handsome, congrats on finally clicking with him!

I’m still waiting on my Raymond head to be shipped by a friend to me, but it’s okay, his intended body is just chilling on the couch in my work room XD

 

Sovayne, what a handsome boy!

So glad you decided to share a photo of your boy. There definitely isn’t enough ‘Gene love’ on the forum.

IzabethS, what body do you have waiting for Raymond?

 

You’ll be amused, but it’s Val’s previous body, the B70-003 in the 2015 normal yellow resin. I will need to color match the head, but I’m used to that by now. The color is impossible to match any readily available existing resin heads, so I’m gonna go the color match route!

 

It seems like there's a number of DZ sculpts that barely get any love and I don't know why when they're beautiful. I'm heavily biased towards the lack of attention to Edward but that's because I own one.

 

IzabethS, I’m happy to hear that Val’s old body will be sticking around. It will be perfect for the Raymond head! (But, Old Val will always be in my heart. )

Iron_Dog, I agree! Actually, I never felt like Dollzone dolls, in general, got the love they deserved. Maybe it’s not so much of an issue now, but back when DZ’s early sculpts came out (circa 2006) there was some bias against Chinese companies.

But, now, Dollzone has pretty much tied-up this thread for 1/3 dolls by retiring all of the large dolls and not replacing them with glorious new sculpts. Threads stay alive based on discussion and drooling over new dolls.

I’m still trying to understand why they felt the need to discontinue all their 70m dolls. The only 1/3 doll they have left, boys or girls, is Gray, and he’s 62cm. It’s very disheartening for a DZ fan. (And, it also makes me worry because they have cut back their stable of dolls in all sizes.)

Nevertheless, we have our much-loved retired dolls to still gush about. iron_Dog, we love your Edward, Fei-Lau! And, I know Redfaery has an Edward too, Silfe. I’m so happy you both have an Edward. He a beautiful boy.

And, since I’m praising Edwards, here’s a flashback to his old company photo:

 

I need to get some new photos of Fei-Lau. He has a different wig now as his previous mohair one became matted at the back of his head for some reason.

 

Ah, yes! It's totally great to give the old Dollzone dolls love, and I agree they seem to be/have already done a sweep of their 70cm+ dolls. The ones they have been releasing though kind of give me hope because they seem to be trying to refill the empty slots but I do see how they're .... hm not sure if this is the right word but modernizing? the dolls. Or maybe not 'modernize' but perhaps catering to some specific tastes which seems to leaning toward a beefier body for the larger guys.

@Rabbit-moon Thank you! Yes, I've only seen one other Gene so I need to start sharing mine a lot more! I wish I would have bonded with him quicker but he had quite the body journey with me taking forever to waffle over his winged body... then getting him the wrong sized body and then getting him ~thicker Dollzone 70cm body made me warm BUT I guess the last thing I needed him to have was some painted teeth and not his default company faceup. xD

@IzabethS Thank you so much! I'm totally glad to have finally settled on him too.

 

Seems like a number of companies have been leaning into the taller dolls, too. Like 75cm or even 80cm. Currently that's too much resin for me. I have 2 72cm dolls (OT for here) and while they're not that much taller than Fei-Lau at 69cm, they feel bigger than that if that makes any sense.

 

"Bara adjacent BL look" is the best way to put it! I personally like that look, however, I understand those that don't too. I also really like the 'older' look of classic sort of dolls, I just really don't see Dollzone dipping their toes back into that unless it comes back around which hey, it might. Much like fashion maybe trends will repeat and they'll do some kind of 'lookback' or ... rerelease??

 

I have terrible weakness for the old school sculpts. I don't mind the "bara adjacent BL look" but it needs to fit with a specific character for my purposes.

 

@sovayne - Oooooh he looks stunning! Komorebi does wonderful work.

I'm quite sad that DZ seems to have fallen out of popularity over the last few years. They seemed to be everywhere back when I started collecting, but now they've become quite...not hard to find...just uncommon. The older sculpts especially.

 

They don't seem to have as many new releases as they used to. Not saying they need to pump out new sculpts every month but it feels like they're only releasing maybe one or two new sculpts per year. And then there's the giant cull they did not long ago. Finding the old sculpts is difficult but I recall seeing a Brant in the MP here recently so they do pop up now and again.