Ever been disappointed? Even a little?

I'm disappointed now, and haven't even gotten my next doll. ._. I finally broke down and ordered a MNF Seorin for one of my oldest characters, but was upset that I had to get the super-muscled body in order to get the more posable body for him. Of course, when he's set to ship any day now, Fairyland is about to come out with an active line body for the boys that isn't super buff. Well, guess I'll be putting up a trade thread in a few months, when the bodies start coming in.

 

I'll admit, I was a little disappointed with my CH boy when he first arrived. I'd been waiting so long and all that time I'd been imagining how he was going to be, and then when he arrived, he just wasn't what I imagined. But now he has new eyes and a new outfit and I love him :'D I don't know why eyes make such a big difference, but they do~

 

My biggest shock was my yuu. I ordered a NS Yuu a little while back and after a relatively short wait I finally got him. I went over to my good friend's house and decided to do the box opening there. I was speechless at the faceup. It looked NOTHING like the picture. His head was so horrible in my eyes that I wiped out the magic eraser, there and then and wiped his face clean. He has a new faceup now that I am rather pleased with. I luv my yuu (Damien) and Im glad I got him but from that day on my friend and I vowed to never get a doll with a face up ever again.

 

I've been dissapointed PLENTY of times in 2 1/2 years....

lesse....
- dollzone recall - i was one of the winners and they were taking requests for faceups so i requested and got NOTHING relatively near what i requested, but made it work, then the doll didn't really fit into the family and i sold him
- DIM achernar - got him, he was okay, but I HATED the knees on the old type body and got so frustrated with him I convinced myself he was too baby faced for the character and sold him
- I was disappointed by ssdelf flood becuase upon applying a faceup to him one side of his upper lip is slightly upturned making him appear to have a snarl, and there's no angle on the luts page where I EVER saw that. sold the head which i'd intended to do anyway becuase i ordered to get the 08man who is prefect
- crobidoll's dreaming doll hue, i hate the body a lot... someone is buying him off me right now actually.

those are the things that come to mind... it seems with me if there's something that disappoints me about a doll it doesn't seem to stay with me.

 

Only once have I been disappointed initially by a doll, and actually it wasn't a doll I've sold.

-Souldoll Jinwoo~ I received him as a blank head and because stylistically he was sooooo different from the other dolls I had, I wasn't sure I really liked him. I attempted a faceup on him twice, failed both times- and really wasn't sure he was fitting in. As a last resort, I sent him away for faceup, and never looked back. True he still is very different from my other boys, but I really love him. X3

-The other two dolls I've sold, I wasn't really disappointed with them, just outgrew them and wanted another doll. ^^;

 

When I got my second doll, I had my doubts. My first doll was a sturdy DoT boy and compared to him my Unidoll UH-14 girl looked so small and fragile and I wasn't used to French resin. It freaked me out to hear her squeek with each movement. I was so afraid to break her and I was quite sad that she was not like my first doll, but after playing with er for a few days I learned she's just as sturdy as my first doll.

With my Mega Angel Sabik Cyborg I was quite thrilled, but after the box opening I looked at him and thought "Okay, now what?" His hands were too small to my liking, he couldn't pose well and there was a lot more I didn't like.
After a while I got used to him, because I will never get back what I paid for him, so I don't like thinking about selling him.

Then I got my Batchix Machina Alpha. While I followed the development of this artist doll at Batchix' livejournal I was quite excited about the body. It looks so unique and poses very well. The wait was long and when I got her out of the box it was just "yeegawhdsNO." I don't know why I got such a strong negative feeling after looking forward to her for so long. Maybe because the doll couldn't stand at all and had very large seam lines. (Which I expected by the way. My machina is one of the last machina dolls cast by Batchix herself and artist cast doll have known flaws like this.)
After some modding, seam removal and restringing she poses like a happy child and looks much better. ^_^

 

My achernar oh god was that a disaster and a half, from start to finish. First off half way through paying for him, three was a layoff scare at work, I thought I wouldnt' get him. Then I saw a heavy sd in person and realized it was a bad idea way too much doll for me! And sold it off before It even got to me, only to have that buyer flake on me at the last minute. So... needless to say I wasn't exactly thrilled so when he arrived the words "crestfallen" come to mind.

I opened the box and it was bad... the body was pretty dirty, the faceup was harsh to put it mildly. (which I had planned to change) But once that was removed there turned out to be mods undisclosed. And I was so heartbroken my first sd was a disaster. He got stuffed in a box and for about a month I refused to do much more but curse at the box. Eventually tho I decided to use the "disaster" for a faceup practice figuring I wouldn't have much luck reselling a love boy with mods.

Happy ending on this one tho.

After about 4 months of work I finished the mods to even them out, replaced the "fail dim" body with a souldoll double. Extensive faceup and blushing matchwork. New eyes and a whole learning curve of faceups he is a real looker now, probibly the sd i'm most attached to after all we have been through *laugh*.

 

Unfortunately yes. I bought an Elfdoll Wu in the winter of 2006 and when I got him I was extremely excited. I loved his face, his body, everything, but when I put clothes on him I was shocked to see how bobble-headed he was. Especially with wig on too? Nope. It was...not attractive to me. I hate the bobble-head. I hate how short he is.

I put him back into his box and over the years (yes, years) I would take him out hoping to customize him in a way that'll let me bond. I carefully sanded his cheeks, I tried giving him a face-up but at the time I just didn't have my heart in it so I wiped off the light blushing and put him away for two years. I am now pretty-ing him up to be sold. ;_;

Because of him it took me years to settle on another bjd. Almost every abjd out there is bobble-headed and discouraged me from the hobby for a good long while. I took a gamble to buy the Soom Spinel head and I'm so, so, so, sooooo freaking happy I did. I'm very much in love with the hobby all over again.

However, I did not buy the Soom Super Gem body after seeing owner pics of the full doll. I knew I would go crazy bitterly nitpicking the narrow shoulders, the tiny forearms and how stumpy the body looked. Instead I hunted around for a Soom special long legged body because the legs made everything else look porportionate. I already know I'll have to keep him in structured shirts to give his shoulders some width and his arms will probably always be covered. But I'm okay with it now that I'm getting the special body.

 

I was so excited when I got my doll I cried. Only later did I find out he was a recast. That made me slightly dissapointed, but I still love him!

 

The body for my Evie arrived damaged, and I've been disappointed ever since--

1. Her face always photographs as yellow with black holes for eyes, unless she's in direct sunlight, which is hard to find this time of year, especially when I leave and come home in the dark.

2. Her head (CP Shiwoo) does not fit properly on her Soom body, even with the Luts neckpiece. She always looks downward, no matter how I arrange it.

3. I knew she had been modified when I bought her, but when she came I found out that aparently the mods had been done by a blind monkey with an exacto knife and a power sander. Her breasts had been sanded off completely and uneveny, she had suicide scars cut deeply into her wrists, and a multitude of other scratches and nicks.

4. She's horribly yellowed, and it's especially evident in the areas where she was sanded to repair the damage. Not even body blushing has been able to hide it.

5. Two fingers on her hands were broken when she arrived. I bought her new hands, and they match neither her body nor her face.

6. She doens't stand unless my roommate sets her carefully on her bare feet.

7. She doesn't poes well. At all.

8. It's nearly impossible to make her something that is both cute and properly fitting.

I'm so frustrated right now. She's my first doll, and I bought her back in October. I've thought about upgrading to a new body, but after already investing so much in her, and having a body that may or may not sell to recoup what I put into it, I'm at an impass. I hardly play with her, even though her face is the perfect sculp for her character. She fights me on everything I do, and I fear that my $450 doll is doomed to sit on a shelf until she disintigrates into a pile of yellow resin dust.

 

I'm having two disappointments right now. My iplehouse girl body and my new B&G Freya.

I had bought the limited harin head so I needed a body for her. I ordered the body from iplehouse, but when I got her, the skin color was dramarically different (luckily, the difference does not photgraph very well, but it is still noticeable when I look at her). But then again, the harin head is a couple of years old so I guess a little bit of yellowing and changes to iple's resin formula make sense, but that is not my real disappointment. She is so floppy! her joints just don't want to work right and her torso keeps popping. I can hardly handle her because she pops open every time I try to pick her up! Her seams need sanding (which I am willing to have taken care of) and I need to have her restrung and sueded. hopefully that will fix that problem.

and with my Freya, I had bought one of the original Freyas a year ago and fell in love with the new bodies and new freya face when B&G re-released her. So I bought her. I don't think I've ever been so disappointed. I LOVE the new body! the resin feels great, she poses fantastically (she's a little tight, but she'll loosen up after a bit), the body details look excellent, but I almost cried when I saw her face. She was without a face-up and to see the changes made to the face made me sad. She doesn't look like Freya at all! I tried giving both of my Freya's a face-up last night (which went horribly because I cannot do lower lashes so it was an epic fail!) hoping that it would help me bond with the new Freya face, but I'm not sure it helped. Maybe once I get a successful face-up on them both and get them back onto their bodies and see them complete then maybe I will feel better about having her, but until then I just feel so bummed about the new Freya.

 

When I got the Delf Elf yder, my second doll, I was really disappointed, those who have him know that his head is sort of funny shaped, and a lot of them came from that "beauty green" not beauty white phase of Luts resin, but on top of that he looked tubby on the Delf body, I mean really he just looked wrong, when the photos had looked so impressive, brooding, even a little harsh! I nearly sold him once, planning to replace him with an elf Ducan, and am so glad I didn't, in the end the vamp head was modded and went on the Delf body, becoming my werewolf Gunther, and the normal head was put on a Ducan body I managed to snag on the marketplace, suddenly all was right with the world.

 

My first step in BJDland was a Volks SD13 Lucas in Picadilly, who I still love, and am currently re-facing. My second BJD, a CP Shiwoo Elf. I waited forever for him, and when he arrived...bleah. I kept him for a couple of months, but just couldn't fall in love. My third/fourth, Too-Be and Be-A. Hard to admit, but they were too 'cute'. I was expecting more mature bodies than they had, and her chest was weird, not breast shaped at all, just two oddly pointed peaks. They sold separately, to a couple of very nice ladies, he went to Arizona, she went to Germany. I'm currently waiting for my newest, a Unidoll Rio, and am hoping for the love at first sight I felt when I saw his picture.

 

I must admit I was disappointed with Volks FCS face up. It wasn't order, it was standard face up. So I thought I'm gonna get smth like on their pictures, but it turned out totally different... I was very upset, and changed the face up myself ^^;;

 

I don't remember if it was zane or tsushi, but for one of them, I could not make myself happy while looking at them. although it had nothing to do with the doll itself. before I was on the bc, I was totally hormonal and I was so mad at myself because I couldn't be happy when my doll had arrived. :X;; But I think Miles was entirely normal upon receiving him... actually, when I got him, the wigs I bought him didn't fit his fat chiwoo head so I was a little disappointed there.

 

Oh god that's what I'm afraid of ;w;. That my first doll will be a total disappointment and i'll be turned off by the whole BJD world. I don't think i'll be that troubled though since the dolls in question that I want had really good reviews but....
*sweat sweat sweat* blow off 400-500 dollars for an unsatisfied doll? *sweat sweat*

 

When first opening the box containing my Daniel/BBB Apollo my first thought was NOOOES!! Where's the normal skin?? He has the light tan! OoO After some poking and close looking Nineveh came to the conclusion that she had been wrong due to only having NS resin family members from Dollmore and Iplehouse up till then... That's pale for ya! XD

 

I've only ever had major disapointment in the hobby once, and that was with a BC Bella Bambi. I fell in love with her on the website, she was SO beautiful and I have a CB bambi that she looked just like, so I planned for them to be sisters. Then she arrived...and it was an instant no right out of the box, in person she just was SO childlike, the CB looked older than her despite being 3 inches shorter and she had SUCH a kiddy body it was awful after waiting and wishing for her for so long! She got sold on pretty quickly, and I learnt my lesson on waiting to see owner pics before buying!

 

I had that uncertain feeling about my Puki, and it resulted in me selling here. I'm good and happy with my other two though, and only wish I'd bought a better wig for the latter of them.

 

While I wasn't dissapointed persay with my newest boy, a Little Monica Kliff who I just recieved a few days ago, I do admit I was very upset when I unwrapped his right hand to realize one of his fingers had broken off in transit. I was already feeling very overwhelmed by his size as I'm used to minis, but it was a good kind of overwhelmed and I was just so excited for him to be him as he's my very first big boy I still absolutely adore him and I think he's just beautiful, but I do admit the first few hours were shaky as I just didn't want to look at him with that poory, missing finger.

Glued it back on now though and was told there's a new one on the way so all is much better