Ever been disappointed? Even a little?

This seems a little dramatic,
If we started a thread about people who've been flabbergasted by how WONDERFUL their dolls ended up being I think it would be longer, the good outweighs the bad. I hope your doll comes and shocks you with it's amazing, like all of mine have.

 

Every time I get a doll from Luts this happens. I love the molds in pictures and I like the dolls my friends own, but when I get my own doll from Luts after the initial "OMG NEW THING" mood dies down I just become disappointed. I've had four Luts dolls and sold every single one of them. Luts is so popular though so I feel like I am missing something here, their dolls just do nothing for me once they're in my possession.

 

I've never been massively disappointed in a doll -- certainly never to the point of wanting to sell them or anything. But I have been mildly disappointed a couple of times.

When Hotaru and Kaoru first arrived, it was so exciting. Two dolls at once! And on my birthday no less! Yay! Now, prior to this, my dolls had come with the eyes shown in the shop pictures -- Ryuuki's eyes were the lovely blue in the old El pictures, and Harumei's are the same gray they show for Miyu. So I had started to assume that Luts just said the dolls came with random eyes to ward off special requests or something (no, that doesn't make much sense, but bear with me here :p). So I thought Hotaru and Kaoru would also come with the eyes shown for the Ani and Bory. I opened Kaoru first and discovered that he didn't have green eyes like the picture of Bory on the site. His eyes were a nice teal color though, so I was okay with that. Then I opened Hotaru. On the site, Ani is shown with blue eyes, and I loved those eyes...but my Hotaru had gold eyes. Gold. Not even close to the blue I had been expecting. Now, the color is pretty, but it doesn't suit Hotaru at all. I felt like it made her look like a crazy serial killer or something. It was the first time a BJD had ever struck me as really creepy. Fortunately I had a pair of free eyes from Dollmore that were the right size, so after sleeping on it for a night and deciding the gold just wasn't working, I was able to switch them out for the ones from Dollmore. Those were better but still not perfect, so I wound up ordering some different eyes for her. Now she has light gray eyes that reflect the colors around her, and they suit her much better. I adore my little girl, so we have a happy ending.

Masuyo was a little disappointing too, but not in the same way. His eyes aren't the same color as on the site photos either (Shine is shown with blue, Masuyo's are more a dark blue-green) but that wasn't the problem. I just couldn't believe how serious he looked. Like, scary-serious. Almost like he was angry to have wound up in my house somehow. But since then his face as grown on me, and now he seems more thoughtful or introspective than angry-serious. He's sitting on the couch next to me now and it often looks like he's watching TV and really thinking hard about what's on at the moment. One time his hand had popped up in such a way that it looked like he was studying his nails. That right there melted my heart (even if it is a bit vain on his part...) and made me more comfortable with him and his features. So now I adore him too. Another happy ending for us.

 

I completely understand where you are coming from here, because I've done this very thing with Volks. I see them, i "ooh" and "aah" over them, but then when i get them, the spark just is not there. I end up selling them and getting something that i do love more. And i too think to myself "What am i missing here? EVERYONE loves Volks so much, why do i not stay attached past the intial 'new thing' phase?"

 

I actually went looking for this thread today....even though no-ones posted on it in a while....I'm in a state of slight sock about my boy Sable. I've had him since August, and we really aren't bonding at all....I was sooo excited when I saw that he had been shipped, but when he got here and I took him out of his box, the feeling was really......lackluster....I'm trying as hard as I can to love him, but something's just not clicking.....I think I'll wait a while and see if I feel better about him, but if I don't soon, i think i'll look into selling him.....

 

Wow, i know that some people felt that way about Abio angels resin, but I didn't know how much. I myself have An Abio angel San, who is my first (and curently only) doll. (my new girl is in the mail) And I love him dearly. I guess these dolls are just not for everyone, But I can tell you that I'm very happy with him. I did of course do my research and go to doll meets before buying him, and even though yes, he does feel just a tad different than say his girlfriend (Doll-zone Lotus) but It never bothered me in the slightest. I re-did his face-up in my own style because I ordered him in white skin, and his face-up was so light that his face wouldn't even show up in pictures.
The only dissapointment that I faced with him, was just that his arms are jointed in such a way that it is very hard to turn his arms from side to side at the elbow joint. But that only bugged my for about a month, until I started posing him working around it.
Bottom line is, I love my boy, no matter how different his resin may or may not be, or his mobility. He is my little angel.

 

Yes - it happened to me this morning. Yesterday my Luts Dahlia arrived and I was soooo excited! After waiting 2 months for her, and she's my first girl BJD! I spent a lot of time looking at girls, and she was my favorite.

But when I opened her this morning, I am totally underwhelmed. While her head and face are pretty, I am disappointed in her body. Her quality doesn't seem to match that of my Dollzone guys. It's going to take a lot of additional expense, I think, to get her where I might be able to bond with her - body blushing, nails painting, high-heel feet, etc. I am just so disappointed.

Hugs,

Jan

 

My biggest disappointments came with Minimees. With one, the finished nose was a totally different shape from the nose in the preview photos. ..totally different.

With another, I was disappointed in the end product after other participants in the group order made numerous changes before casting. The previews looked.. workable, but more changes were made and the end result was disasterous, in my opinion.

The only other time I wasn't completely happy with a doll is when my Tender Too girl arrived. From the DOD photos, I did not realise her body would be so thick - like a tree trunk. The original "DOC" bodies (before they were called DOC) were larger in proportion to most other immature minis, such as Volks' MSDs. She couldn't wear MSD clothing. The angle at which DOD photographed the body for their website was a little misleading.

 

I've only been disappointed once, when my fisrt doll arrived.
I had ordered a girl and when 'she' arrived, I screamed with joy and was tremblind when opening the box.
Slowly, while unpacking, I realized that the head was a different scullpt, her breasts weren't quite the same size as in the pictures and that she... had 'boy parts'!
They sent me the wrong doll and at first I was devastated. After some communication and the initial shock, things finally settled with my mon buying the boy and me getting the girl after all

Otherwise, every doll has lived up to his/her promiss. I especially have owners to thank for taking such wonderful pictures, they really help with deciding (not for every doll, but many).

 

I was a little dissapointed when my Nikolai (Cherishdoll Favian) arrived. I love him to bits, but his joints annoy me a lot, not to mention the fact that he feels a bit more like cheap plastic than resin.

But even so ~

 

Yea... I was pretty disappointed with my soom IO... I've been trying to bond with him, but just can't. I've even considered selling him, but I'm too afraid I'll regret it.

 

I was kind of disappointed with my NaNuRi06's faceup when I got him. It's a Luts faceup, but he looks nothing like the promo pics. His lips are very red and his eyelashes are loooooooong! The NaNuRi06 on the promo pics looks like a boy. Mine did not.

Of course, now that's just a part of who he is, and on dollshows we've had over here he's even been referred to one of the manliest dolls present. May have something to do with his penchant for showing off his lovely (non-existant Luts-y) pectorals though.

 

The only 'disappointment' I've had is about the skin colour of my Iplehouse Lion.

I ordered "normal skin" and expected something to be a peachy, fleshy colour- imagine my surprise on Christmas morning to find that he was actually more yellow-y than flesh

I looked around and realized that Iplehouse uses a yellowish resin for their normal skin, however it looks FINE AND FLESHY in photos!

Silly, I know.

Not a big one, none of my dollies have really disappointed me yet.

 

When I got my first boy, I was expecting something more proportionate. I had a mild shock and a twinge of disapointment when i saw the length of his legs compared to the rest of his body. They were way too long compared to what I imagined. His face-up was also a tad too reddish around the eyes. He was also strung way to tightly and the resin on the inside of his head was damaged slightly. I've never paid for anything as expensive as him (besides my xbox 360) so I guess I was expecting something next to amazing. But I guess that I got used to the sizes and the face-up is redone, so now he's comfortably sitting in my room.

 

When I first got my doll I was a little dissapointed because one I had to buy second hand because the company wasn't responding to my inquires and other people informed me that they don't have good customer service so I didn't want to wait for them and I had my friend search the market for months to find him and we did and when he came he had a weird mark on his face and his fingernails and toenails were painted black and my heart fell a little because I was like I can't connect with this doll, he's not mine and I can't make him mine. But now I'm happy with him, got rid of the nail polish and the mole and I'm even more in love with him now then I ever had been. So it had a happy ending after all.

 

When I got my first doll, I was very very disapointed. I thought she would be more posable and I thought I would be in love with her but ... I was just wondering if it was a good idea to spent so much money on this

 

I was a little disappointed of my Unidoll Jace... I had ordered him without faceup and Unidoll had put some very light pink eyes in, and they were also put in terribly crossed-eyed. He looked like an Alien to me.
Also I didn't expect him to be almost whiteskin. I took him out of his box, put his original Unidoll Jeans and a new Dollmore turtleneck shirt on - just for 1 minute photoshooting - and after this I undressed him, and his body was all over stained!!! His almost white body stained in grey and dark blue, he looked like a three days dead Alien now...

Also my husband said he looks weird, like a freak. This didn't help much about my disappointment .

Well, today I love him! Faceup, cleaned body, nice wig and wonderful eyes really helped a lot!

 

When I received my dollzone fox, he was the cutest sweetest lil' thing I've ever seen. However, the more he stays with me, the more I feel the distance between him and me. He was very cute, but...just not fitting I'd guess. Even the doll I wanted to give the fox as a pet to could not bond with him... Oh well.

 

I shouldn't read things like this . . . it'll make me too scared. I don't have a doll yet, but am saving for a limhwa mano. but i'm getting him without a face-up, without wig and without eyes . . . I'm kind of scared I will get him and be overwhelmed by his undone-ness, but the character for him is very specific in my mind and if he came with those things, I know I would feel it was not him and that I was trying to make someone else into him. I'm hoping that if I get him as a "blank canvas" I can pull it off and make him who he is supposed to be . . .

 

I opened my doll's box to find a lot of things that didn't match. My own fault.