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Elderly Scuplts Anyone?

Aug 11, 2024

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    1. Hi all!

      As the time goes on and I watch my cute little collection and I see how my interests in sculpts change. I used to absolutely WORSHIP doll chateau and now... I think they are very nice but not very much what I like anymore. I find myself gravitating towards the less common pretty faced doll. (Not at all hating on them though, because pretty and beautiful dolls are always pretty and beautiful!)

      Then, I suddenly was struck by a jolt of LOVE! I found elderly bjd sculpts! I found a few scuplts with Dream High Studio.

      I found a scuplt named Laila and I want to cry because I would have bought her right at that moment if she wasn't sold out. ( I have reached out to ask if she will ever be available again and await an answer :eusa_pray)

      I also found Svetlana Germanova and again, OBSESSED! but then I found out that this doll isn't available right now either! :...(

      I wonder if anyone else has found any other sculpts of elderly dolls, or shares in my sadness that there arent more?
       
      #1 D.S.ummers, Aug 11, 2024
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    2. Elderly dolls are a rarety in the hobby, sadly. I own only one elderly doll, and she is no longer available, like dream high studio cuties.

      She is an Otherside Dione:
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      She is both very massive and short, I love her. She is around 35-40 cm ? I never measured her.


      Edit: there is currently The Broken Maiden making an old man sculpt but I do neither know when he will be available, nor how much he will measure or cost....
       
      #2 Follow-the-Wind, Aug 11, 2024
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    3. He's not available for sale currently (idk if he ever will be, only time will tell!) but The Broken Maiden recently showed their adorable old man doll!
       
      #3 0bsequi0us, Aug 11, 2024
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    4. I would love some grandma and grandpa dolls ... like the ones one can found in wooden/clay marionette variety really elderly people but till now it's mostly young looking dolls with some more "realistic" ones that can pass as 40s or 50s the most. I would love to see the elderly ones!!!!
       
      #4 Agnes-Agatha, Aug 11, 2024
    5. She is so beautiful, I love her tattoos!!! woah that sculpt is so cool!!!! I love how the body is staying aged up!!!

      That is so COOL!!! The scuplter keeping the body at the same age is amazing! I realized that the Dream High Studio uses the same bodies as the younger dolls use so you either would have to body blush, keep the body covered, or just live with it.

      Elderly marrionettes are so fun and interesting to look at!!

      I really want to see more than the usual pretty and young faces I feel like I geek out over almost anything going outside of those lines. I'm really lucky, LulaDoll said they have three more Laila dolls available so I will get her after all! I hope to see more sculpters age up their dolls because I find age to be such a cool portrayal in dolls!
       
      #5 D.S.ummers, Aug 11, 2024
    6. Not a marionette-type doll, but JR Shick’s Arthur makes for a wonderfully gritty (and grumpy) old man.
       
      #6 Genesblues, Aug 11, 2024
    7. When I clicked on the link for Laila she was available. Maybe try again?

      I had that too, when I started out I absolutely loved those ultra cute faces of fairyland and soom (thinking erin and rico mermaids from back in the day) but then eventually grew to like more adult ish sculpts, which somehow are so hard to come by!? Like whyyy!? I also absolutely ADORED DC, but they discontinued almost all their dolls at this point and what made them stand out originally, like Elizabeth on the spider body, seems gone now sadly
       
      #7 JJ3_dolls, Aug 11, 2024
    8. Oh my gosh I love that sculpt!! We need more middle aged and older sculpts

      I'm actually so excited because LulaDoll responded and said they still had 3 dolls in stock and updated the website!! I'm going to buy one tomorrow!!! (They have one in white skin and two in sunset skin!)

      I knowww!! Why are aged up sculpts so rare?! I find them sooo amazing to look at! Like the baby faces and very young faces are pretty and I'll smile at them but they all kinda start looking the same after a while sadly. I want variety! I also want to knit them all little sweaters hahaha
      DC had some really cool dolls when I first joined the hobby but now (idk if its them or me) but they just don't strike me as hard as they used too. Its so sad because they were a major reason I was into bjds specifically!
       
      #8 D.S.ummers, Aug 11, 2024
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    9. Thats amazing!! Im glad you can get her :D awww and little sweaters sound fantastic.

      Yeah, they were REALLY weird when I started in 2016. A bit too weird for me at first but they quickly grew on me and became my favorite companyand now? Hmm... Normal. A bit too anime fantasy ish imo. A bit too commercial. Lost their spark. I mean, that kid centaur body with the spikey legs and boney torso? AmAzing. All the youth sculpts? Amazing, Evangeling is not my favorite but still beautiful. I want one youth dc doll so badly I dont even totally care which sculpt. Their faces were very strange too to some extent and that was just amazing. :( I really miss those days, now sadly I think they are all getting a bit too anime, which is still great, dont get me wrong, but the mainstream arsthetic kf the hobby has shifted a bit
       
      #9 JJ3_dolls, Aug 11, 2024
    10. Ohhhhhh my gosh don't even get me started on the DC centaur bodies. They had me in an absolute chokehold when I first got into the hobby, (funny enough I also think I joined the bjd hobby in 2016) no other company could compare. DC was just so weird and different and now, you're so right. They've gone very mainstream anime vibes and, while a pretty look, it's not at all what I fell in love with them for.

      Maybe one day they will start to move back to where they started but for now its giving basic (not trying to be mean, basic is still pretty :XD:)
       
      #10 D.S.ummers, Aug 11, 2024
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    11. YEAHHHH I agree. Alan elf centaur was the first doll I really actually fell in love with. I obsessed over him for YEARS. Yes, YEARS. I was still in highschool back then and couldnt afford him then. I was very much in the doll needs to have a character and full story wave of that time so I fabricated a whole story and character to justify getting that doll eventand now it seems like he's taking over the whole story, although he's not the main character. Sure, Alan is far from a really crazy sculpt, but yeah. Their sculpts were too nice and I loved the weird proportions of their bodies :c
       
      #11 JJ3_dolls, Aug 11, 2024
    12. ALAN OMG YES HE WAS MY BIG OBSESSION TOO!!! Ahhhh! I couldn't justify it at the time I wasn't used to the prices yet so I legit kept the browser open just to look at him lmfaooo I ended up settling for a minifee as my first doll and ended up giving her away a few years later sadly. I wanted all of the crazy wild DC sculpts but Alan was my one that I felt i couldn't live without :lol:
      I've always been so impressed with the story tellers in this community! not gonna lie, half of my dolls still don't have names and I've had all of them for a minimum of 3 years at this point! I just cant decide!
       
      #12 D.S.ummers, Aug 11, 2024
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    13. Haha yeah I feel the same. Although now I have him, I have a harder time bonding with the doll :/ had a bit of a breakthrough lately though, but man had him for a fee years already, life got in the way I didnt do much with any of my dolls.

      Im sure you'll figure their names out! But names are hard, too many pretty names in the world!!!!
      Storytelling is nice, but its a lot of work amd thinking and breaking your head over things and plots and stuff
       
      #13 JJ3_dolls, Aug 11, 2024
    14. Oof I feel that about connecting to the dolls, I now have two secondhand DC dollies and neither of them made me super invested in them. One is a regular body and the other is a mermaid and both of them just didn't hit that og DC feel. I'm starting to get back into the hobby again after doing a bunch of moving last year. Here's to hoping we both can get back into our crafting and dolls again!

      I think I don't even know where to start with names! I have no stories for them, I just think they're neat :lol: I want to do a bunch of faceups and body blushing and hopefully their names will come to me as I do that!
       
      #14 D.S.ummers, Aug 11, 2024
    15. I hope you have a good time, faceups are so much fun and crafting for dollies is everything!
      I mean, dolls are pretty, one doesnt need stories to admire them :D I also love dolls just for their sake!
       
      #15 JJ3_dolls, Aug 11, 2024
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    16. I do have to re buy some products but I'm actually eager to get going on these faceups! Yeah they are so cute no matter if they have names or not!
       
      #16 D.S.ummers, Aug 12, 2024
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    17. I got interested in having a an older male doll this year. I couldn't find what I wanted for the character, so I have been working on one.

      Since I use dolls to have physical versions of characters I like, I like having some variety. The cast can't only be young hotties lol
       
      #17 zekarmisama, Aug 12, 2024
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    18. message Lula doll about Laila she may well have one! she often has a few held back. The owner is pretty responsive on instagram lula doll
       
      #18 TreeLore, Aug 12, 2024
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    19. I wish there were more elderly-looking dragon dolls! A lot of them look quite ageless, which is lovely, but it would be nice to see some takes on older versions.
       
      #19 Cuon, Aug 12, 2024
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    20. I have seen on Instagram Zjakazumi dolls, she has 1:12 scale grandparents, aunts, uncles, babies, kids, young slender, young chubby, both male and female. I think they are on topic.
       
      #20 AllSmokeAndMirrors, Aug 13, 2024
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