Ever been disappointed? Even a little?

I haven't even ordered my first doll, though I'm saving up for a FOB from Peak's Woods, but I'm feeling horribly scared that I will be disappointed now. I'm still excited about him, though, since I find him really cute.
What scares me the most is whether or not the face up looks good. I decided to buy him with the default face-up due to the fact I don't want to mess up my first doll with my horribly shaky hands, which gets even shakier due to my need to take medicines...
But as I said, I'm still excited about him moving in with me, and I'm sure I'll love him.

 

It seems to me a lot of people have gotten disappointed because face ups looking different then they had imagined. I guess I am lucky when it comes to that.
Even before ordering my first bjd I knew that I wanted to learn how to do face ups myself. I am waaaay to picky to let anyone handle something as important as that when it comes to my boys.
I have gotten a bit frustrated in my lack of skills the first few times but know I am quite pleased with the results I am getting. (So an-tan, if you need help with face ups you have got a fellow Svensk dock-nörd here that can be of assistance.)

The closest I have gotten to feeling disappointed is when I got my first 70cm (A Dollmore Huey Lewis). At first I thought they had sent me the wrong sculpt. I thought he was a Lawrence Owen because the two of them look really similar without their face ups.
But after suspiciously eyeing him for a while I calmed down, Dollmore had sent me the right doll. But I was then starting to wonder if I had made a mistake getting him. He looked really different then I had expected and well... quite ugly to be honest. And there was just something oddly familiar about him that gave me the chills.

He had a gorgeous grey wig that actually suited the character I had in mind perfectly, but I was so unsure about him that I tried another wig and ended up giving him a face up to match it. He still looked off to me.
So I just let him sit on my sofa and every ones and a while I looked at him, contemplating who the hell he was suppose to be! Because by then I had no idea what character he was going to portray.

Then for some reason I switched back to his default wig. And as I stared at him my heart started racing. And those chills were back again. WHY!? Why am I feeling this uneasiness? I asked myself. He resembles someone doesn't he?
I looked at him from every angle and then it hit me! Muraki!? (Muraki is a manga and anime character from Yami no Matsuei) I even said it out loud. As I said that name it looked to me as an evil smirk spread across his lips.
And I just went into hyper fanboy mode.
I gave him a new face up to match his chilly personality and just utterly fell head over heals for him. He is not suppose to be Muraki, he just reminds me (and others) of that character.

I let out a very embarrassing squeel every now and then as I look at him because he is just so freaking gorgeous! But only one of my friends dare touching him. Everyone else feel a bit intimidated by his gaze and smirk.

 

Nihmo: Doing the face ups yourself definitely will give you more power to love your doll. And I'm happy you're offering your assistance. Inspires me to try doing a face up on my first doll too... But then i need stuff to work with too...

That kind of incident would be both awesome and scary, seriously. I would cry out of fright the first few times after realizing who the doll was reminding me of someone and I actually knew who it was. XD;

 

My very first bjd, DIM LE Ballerina Choseol. I wasn't in the fandom at all, and I'd thought I didn't like child dolls and wasn't interested in bjds, but there was something about her that caught at me.

Then she arrived. I was so excited. I unpacked her... and had to fight against the feeling that I'd just wasted a lot of money. I think the problem was her factory faceup, which was very pink, and very sloppy work. Really badly and amateurishly done. I'm beginning to gather that DIM factory faceups aren't up to scratch. I hadn't also realised the white resin would be paper white. And little things like - I hadn't expected that a dressed doll wouldn't have shoes. And then I started reading up on bjds, and had the sinking feeling that poor little Choseol wasn't up to scratch. She wasn't (and isn't) very poseable or balanced. I had to learn about restringing because her s-hooks were so rubbish they unbent and her legs fell off. And so on... I was used to dolls that arrive exquisite and perfect, even vintage ones, and spending so much on something so flawed was a huge disappointment that I didn't quite allow myself to admit to.

But she was so much fun to have, and hunting out porcelain dolls to cannabilise their wigs and costumes was fun, and when I finally gained courage and took off her faceup, I realised again just how beautiful her sculpt - face and body - is. Her darling little hands, and her sharp childlike features - she is so much lovelier freed of all that messy pink! I've started sewing for her, and I'll give her faceup another go or send her off, and I wouldn't part with her now. I'm very attached to her.

But to be honest, if I was doing it all over again - I wouldn't have bought her in the first place.

 

I almost cried when I got my AoD Wang Zi, he was gorgeous... but OMG IS HE SKINNY!

He has this super manly man ripped chest and abs and these girly girl arms and thighs. Up against my DZ MSD he looks so slender and feminine! And his character is the bigger of the two boys... so I'm crossing my fingers for an MSD body that will be bulkier without making him look like a pinhead!

 

Yup i was heavily disapointed with my Kid Delf Bory. Luts did a custom face-up on him and he looked like he was going to constantly cry, i just couldn't bond with him ;_;

 

I've definately gone through this.
The first time was when I ordered my Sard. I waited, waited and waited and when he finally got here I wasn't very excited. He barely left his box and I finally sold him. He had the company paint and I thought it was because of that, but he was my first really expensive doll so I was scared to remove it.

Then I used the money to buy a Beryl, and the same thing seems to be happening. I erased the company paint work and re did her face and blushing myself but I'm still just not as pleased with her as I thought I would be. I'm wondering if I'm ever gonna bond with her.

 

I have been a little, usually its when a doll has undisclosed damage.
Or finding out marianne is a mature body doll who is hard to find clothes for,
when the original default pics looked child like, but I still like her.

 

I've never been disappointed by a head sculpt... I spent years and years just dreaming of the ones I have and planning and looking them up on databases here and on Japanese databases that there's no way I could've ever not have known what to expect when I got them home...

Funny thing is though, that they're a million times better in person!!! (o_o);;

I really think that it's best to do as much research as possible when you're buying a doll... Owner pics are a must ((IMO)) since company photos can be very unreliable... sadly someone has to take the first plunge though XD. Srsly though, why the hell do so many companies photoshop their pictures to death?? It's already bad enough when some of them put crazy faceups on them but then when you can't even tell where the nose is... it's practically impossible to figure out if you like a sculpt or not... ((I'm very annoyed with Luts to be completely honest... I can barely tell what their senior delfs look like... Though I'm pretty sure I love Regen... I can't tell %100 lol)) LAY OFF ON THE GAUSSIAN BLUR FILTER!!! lol

I think... if companies did a better job of just focusing what the doll actually looked like instead of trying to make beautiful photos a lot of people would perhaps be less disappointed when their doll arrives because they'd know what they were getting for sure.

 

There have been a couple of dolls I never really bonded with and eventually sold on, but only one that actually disappointed right out of the box - a Juri 06 head. I'd had real hopes for the head; one of the few where I actually had a character in mind right from the start. Then the head arrived, I took it out of the box and bubble wrap, and was all "Oh." Just one look and I knew it just wouldn't work - no point even wasting paint on a face-up. I kept it out long enough to take a few photos before wrapping it back up and sticking it straight up for sale in the Marketplace.

On the whole though, I've been lucky; I currently have 14 complete dolls and one head, and I've only sold on 3 complete dolls and 2 heads in total. I'd say that's pretty good odds.

 

Hmm... Even though I am selling my first doll after one month, I can't really say I am disappoined... more like impatient... I feel kinda doll-less. The boy is in his box and keeps waiting for a new owner, my second doll is on layaway, one head on the way... Yes, I feel impatient. I hope that my next planned doll will be a good choice...

 

When I first got my doll, the company made a mistake and sent her without a face-up. I ended up spending money on getting her face-up done by someone else, then there were problems with customs charging her for a head she was sending back, and I had to pay the customs bill. When she finally got here, I did love her, but I always felt guilty looking at her and she left a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth, and kept her in her box most of the time.

I've bonded with her a little more now, and she has a name now, but she still doesn't have the right eyes and wig for her character. : (

 

Actually yes. I have a Siamese cat and really wanted a Siamese Baha ( well one painted up to look like one). I found one on the marketplace which was lovely I might add), but when she arrived, I just didn't get on with her, and gave her to my daughter.I do however have another Baha( in avi), which I absolutely love to bits. So I find it quite strange that I have two dolls of the same sculpt but only love one of them.

 

Hmmm, funny that I ran across this thread today. Just this morning I received my (much anticipated) Volks Iris. I opened the box to see her, and was instantly disappointed. Still not sure why - she looks just like her pictures. But I knew right away that she won't be staying with me.

 

When I opened Mira, I was so disappointed to see her eyes were the wrong color >< I had asked Bobobie for brown eyes, and all my messages were unanswered, so, I've been so sad ever since then. v-v

But I'm waiting to buy her her browns. :3

 

Honestly, I've felt this way about most of them since the first two, but in most cases, it ended up working out for me.

I had a very small one with my first doll. I really, really wanted my Elfdoll Red to come with the blue eyes on the site, though I knew there were no guarantees. But when he arrived he had these snake yellow ones that made me recoil slightly. But, as I had no eyes to replace them with, they stayed and now he just doesn't look right with any other colour. I love them now ^_^

The other disappointments were much bigger.

I loved the Unidoll UH-13 on the site, and she was perfect. Out of the box, she didn't smile. At all. The default faceup made her look like she didn't want to be here. Since she was supposed to be the love interest for my first doll, it frustrated me that she didn't look happy with him. Eventually I broke down and got her a new faceup where she does smile. I still haven't really bonded with her much, but at least she looks happy with life.

Since I was a bit short on money, I bought a body for my DOC Si a couple months before buying his head direct from DOD. I hadn't done my research, and bought an old body, while the head was the new pinky DOD resin. When the head arrived, I took an aversion to it for some reason I can't explain, and that was before I put it on the body. When I realized the resin didn't match, it didn't help. But I didn't give up on him. A couple months into owning him, I decided to change his eye colour, and that changed everything. I like him much more now. He's cute.

The Elfdoll K/Domuya hybrid I bought was lovely except that I came to hate that body with a passion. He was probably the closest to 'impulse' buy I've ever gotten, and I bought him much sooner than I should have. He's ended up costing me way more than he should have with the replacement body and the high exchange rate with our dollar just at the time I decided to invest in that replacement. In retrospect, I probably would have just bought new from Elfdoll had I known what I know now, so the money guilt gets to me with him. But I love Patrick now, despite his flaws and what he ended up costing me.

I used to really love my ANF Lily, but recently I'm just not feeling it for her anymore. She's gotten a bit of a reprieve with a couple new outfits, but I'm still waffling. I feel bad since my home is her third, and I'd feel bad rehoming her again. The same is true for my AOD Rao. I'm waflling constantly because the doll is just not telling me who she is, even now that I've freed her from the character I intended for her to be. I'm thinking I'm just not ready to hear her story yet. I'll just cross my fingers on that.

My latest, my Elfdoll Lydia...I'm still honestly not sure about her. I had several ideas for scuplts for this character, but I kept coming back to the Lydia every time, therefore assumed she was the right one. But now that she's here and the faceup I wanted done has been done... I just don't know. She hasn't been around long enough for me to have figured out exactly what bothers me about her, but she doesn't feel 'right'. But I'm willing to bet she'll still be here in six months, since I'm always reluctant to sell dolls and would rather make them work somehow.

Admittedly, I think I just have a problem with girl dolls. I don't think I have the ability to bond with them, and it a little frustrating. But I can sew for them, which is the main reason most of them are still around.

So yes, I think 'disappointed' is a word I'm getting familiar with all too much in this hobby...to think two of the remaining four dolls on my list are girls...argh.

 

Just once. I bought a limited lillis liv from Dollmore.net. As most people expect from a limited doll, I expected no imperfections T_T Well there were globs of resin in the joints that I had to use a dremel on, otherwise she wouldn't pose . . . at all. So I was disappointed, but it could have been a lot worse.

 

I've always been suuuuper happy with all of my dolls upon opening...only case of slight disappointment was with my girl Ember. (CH Lubi) She's sooo pretty, but her hands....I don't really like them. xD And her tummy looked strange to me at first, but now I love it. 3 I bought her for her face though...not her body. lol

Hmm, now that I think about it, two of my boys came to me with their inner torso joints loose and rattling around. xD I wasn't disappointed, just worried. ;P

 

i was dissapointed only a bit that single jointed dolls can pose well >.<
but thats it!

 

Unfortunately yea... I got my first doll, Iplehosue Tatiana. Now I think she is lovely and adorable, but I keep having this impending feeling she isn't right for the character I had in mind. I keep looking at her but part of her can't see it. I keep thinking I got my mind set on buying her and ignored my doubts out of stubborness. I hope that we bond really well, I don't want to sel her but I know I can't get another doll for a while (besides the floating head I'm ordering).

So lets hope that this is just temporary and me and Midori become good friends.