DreamOfDoll (Dream Of Children) Discussion (DoC) Part 3

[MENTION=27623]Nijjy[/MENTION] Your boy is SO AMAZING. He proves Zen is my favorite DOC boy, hands-down.

Thank you for sharing him. Please post more photos soon!

 

Thank you guyss, I really love my sweet boy (and Zen mold in general)
Unfortunately I have to wipe off his face up soon, his face is getting really dirty (it has been 6 years after all).
Will update here again once I got him a new face up

 

[MENTION=27623]Nijjy[/MENTION] your Zen is beautiful!

I too would love to see Si, if anyone has him. He will always be a favorite of mine.

 

Does anybody know what's going on with DOD's payment system?
Credit card system doesn't seem to be working, paypal isn't available, and wire transfer costs extra $20...
I'm trying to order my first DOC ever but just can't seem to get to the payment page.

 

Hi everyone !

My Pitts got a new face up and finally it's so easy for me to change her head, cause she had older neck hole & she got her neck hole modded.



@CMBato
Oh.. I can't find any announcement related with problem in paypal payment.
But... They said this in the notice board about the credit card payment :

How about send them a print screen about the problem ?

 

Your Pitts looks beautiful, @Vienni!

 

@PeppermintPocky
Hehe, thanks, Dear~
I'm glad to have her for my first doll, since 6 years ago~
Hoping to see more of your Petsha~~

 

Bumping this thread up, cause I started paying attention to my dolls again, and here's Gabriel, my first DOC, he was my second doll, a 2006 U. xD

 

What a handsome dude you have there, @himitsu!

 

Aww, thanks, @PeppermintPocky
I think he was the first doll I ever wanted to own when I was new to the hobby. I still love him to bits!

We need to see more DOCs, I agree with all of you, we don't see too much of them anymore. Dx

 

Hi! May I ask DoD/DoC fans what sort of head closure mehanism is typical for this company / size range / perhaps specifically Bee-A?

I have come into ownership (from DoA marketplace) of what appears to be a well-loved Bee-A head and am tying to verify her legitimacy. The head cap is a twist-on style which concerns me - then again, I'm not familiar with DoD. Is a twist-on cap normal?

I haven't been able to find anything on Google about counterfeits of Too/Bee-A, though! Are DoCs known to be victims of counterfeiting? I really want this head to turn out to be legit! She is lovely despite her scuffs and stains. This head fits on both MSD and 50cm size bodies so nicely!

 

@Lokinta I'm not sure if they've added magnets to the newer dolls, but DoCs used to have the S-hook connect to the headcap (if that's what you mean by twist-on style), so there's a very high chance she's legit. I've had a ton of DoC heads come through between 2005 and 2009 and they all had that kind of headcap. I don't think there are recasts of them anyway, because they're not popular enough and go for quite cheap on the second hand market as well.


This is what they look like.

 

Thanks very much for the visual @Yenna! That's entirely different from what I have..

(Removed image of my head cap's closure)

 

Oh, well that's definitely clearly modded, and I think I heard of someone doing that years ago, too. I like my DoCs having the s-hook in the headcap, although it's harder to remove, because it improves the posebility of the neck, but that's a really well done mod. There's no way it could be a modded fairyland head anyway, they use a completely different light, shiny, pink/orange resin (in normal skin) and their heads are so thin there's not much room to carve grooves like that. Only their big dolls use the twist -style anyway.

I wish you'd show us her face too. :3

 

Congrats on your girl, @Lokinta! I'd love to see her face, as well! Not enough DOCs these days.

I agree with @Yenna RE: the legitimacy of your Bee-A head. I have never seen any of the DOCs flagged on recast lists, although the DOTs and larger have been copied (unfortunately). Shame we have to worry about that. My bet is the doll is modded, because if you look at the top part of the headcap, it almost looks like that "ridge" in uneven which may have occurred while sculpting/modding the area.

If you are still questioning her authenticity, you can always share photos of her (privately) with the mods in the "Ask the Mods" section of the forum. I've read they are happy to help in that scenario, especially if the trade was initiated via the MP.

 

Thanks @PeppermintPocky! Yes, I was being careful to not post her face anywhere due to not knowing what she was & dreading bad news. I am way pleased to find out who she is!

Last time I had recast-on-DOA concerns I was advised in Ask The Mods to "ask the seller," and "ask in the discussion thread about what's typical"
So this time I tried to cut to the chase without being all-out.. "out.." if there was an unfavorable diagnosis!

Ahh, I'm not Fairyland savvy so all of that is nifty new comparison info to me. Thanks, @Yenna! Even so, I don't know how thick FL recasts are, and that's what I was mainly afraid of her being.. I spent hours looking at FL sculpts, ruling out meticulously, "could she have been modded from that? ..no, probably not that one. next.." The ears were what eventually convinced me she is a DoD and the deeep and long sweeping eyelids are what narrowed me down to either Too, or Bee-a.. DoD are all new in my eyes, so it has been an exciting investigation!

(Removed image of face..)

Heh, sorry for a cross-eyed shot. The 16mm eyes weren't sitting well in her head.

One last "thanks!" for your thoughts and help! Please introduce us to some new DoC friends!

 

@Lokinta, you're welcome. However, now that you posted the photo of the face, I'm sorry to tell you that that's not a Bee-A. She may be modded from the original sculpt, but she's not a DoC sculpt at all. I don't think there's any doubt of her legitimacy, though. She reminds me more of some chinese company sculpts (but I can't tell them apart, because I haven't looked into them). If you're interested in finding the actual sculpt, I'm sure someone would know if you posted in the picture request threads asking who she is.

Edit// My friend found her. She's Asleep Eidolon Cherry. There are some blank photos of her in flickr too, and it's definitely her.

 

Echoing what's already been said---her face sculpt is certainly not like any DOC I've seen, and Bee-A's head, in particular, has a chin that comes to a more pronounced point (example here). Perhaps her body is still a DOC body, though? Could be a hybrid. Would you be kind enough to post a photo of her body, too, @Lokinta?

If she is indeed an AE Cherry, AE minis have heads with approx 18cm circumferences. My DOC Petsha, for comparison, is closer to 16.5cm (although to be fair Petsha is one of the smaller DOC heads). I own a lot of minis made by Chinese companies, but unfortunately AE is not one of them.

You may want to share photos of her in the AE mini thread to see if she should have any defining marks, etc. since a few AE minis (including Cherry) are on the recast list. I'm not suggesting your doll isn't legitimate, but it would be beneficial to you to get additional opinions from current/past AE owners.

She is a cutie, regardless of sculpt.

 

Awh no! I'm really sorry to have generated excitement over the wrong thing! I'll look more into that company and sculpt. Thanks. And now back to the sinking feeling..!

I measured this head at 18.3cm
Since the head cap system seemed so apparently re-done though, I questioned how much the upper head may have been reshaped.

I bought the head alone on the MP, it was labeled only as unknown faceup and mod practice head. I took the chance because I trusted DoA's MP to be a safe place to buy and thinking I could research the sculpt after the fact.

The bodies I have been using with this head are Bluefairy Tinyfairy (Mini size). It fits well, but with the neck opening being wide (silicone kip keeps it stable) and the resin match rather close.

Thanks you two, I was so excited and pretty sure! Thanks for fine-tuning my search for the truth

 

The head size alone isn't a good enough distinction in Dream of Doll's case. I have a Yen who has a teeny tiny head, but I also have a Mir whose head is also in the 18cm circumference range, so... Their head sizes vary a ton. The aesthetic alone is a good enough basis because there aren't many dolls with the same kind of sculpting around, it's very distinctive.

That's no problem. I know that current AE heads have magnets so something could've happened to that and that's why it's modded, or then they didn't always have magnets and that's why it's modded... who knows. xD