Ever been disappointed? Even a little?

My first doll was that way. There wasn't anything really wrong with her. But she was strung very tightly and I couldn't get her stand or sit properly. I was disappointed because I didn't know that new dolls did this. The only other doll I had seen at the time was bought second hand and didn't have that problem.

There was another time, I trade someone for a doll, the owner said their was a color difference from the head and body. And I said that was fine and the trade went off with a hitch. When I got the doll the color difference was really noticeable to me. Other people said there was much of a difference. It wasn't the owner's fault. She did warn me. But I was a little disappointed.

 

When I got my second doll I was a little bit disappointed, because she had very stiff wrist joints and couldn't move her hands much, otherwise she was perfectly okay.
When I got my third doll I was very disappointed, because I ordered her with the default face-up, but the face-up she came with was nothing like the one in the promo pics. In those promo pics she had a happy smiling face, but the girl that arrived here was looking angry and pouty at me which really didn't fit her character at all. I tried to redo her face-up several times, but wasn't very successful with it, eventually I ended up selling her only a few months later.

 

I am disappointed with my second doll, regrettably, he did not turn out as envisioned. He is a customized doll and extremely expensive. I wanted an Asian Samurai boy but he looks like a mature European lady. All my colleagues, friends and family laughed when I showed them the doll. All said he is a lady. The worse comment I have got thus far was "He looks like a monster, I hate him". I don't dare to bring him out with me for events. One part of me wants to keep him and love him the way he is but another part of me says it's better to find him a new owner who is willing to give him a new face up and correct the mistakes. I do not collect dolls whose face up is not from the company artist and hence cannot redo his face. I am trying to accept him the way he is, still trying different wigs. I'm thinking of putting his head on a Soom Super Gem boy's body to make him look like a boy. He is very beautiful but not what I had envisioned. I am to blame for this outcome. I feel that I owe it to him to love him the way he is and give him a good home.

 

I was disappointed when I got my DIM Edmon in the mail. His official pictures made his facial structure seem softer and more narrow than the reality. He had such a big head and a somewhat squared face. @_@ He didn't work at all for the character I had in mind, so I toyed around with him for awhile and used him to practice faceups.

Eventually I found a look that suited him, but I had so many other doll projects going on that I sold him off so I could take care of the projects I was more interested in.

I also got an Orientdoll Il recently from another DoA'er, and I love him to death. Still, there's a disappointment ATTACHED to him due to lack of female MSD who are mature looking but slightly smaller than him.

He looks like Edward Cullen from Twilight with his current faceup, and I was hoping to get him a Bella.. but I don't much like Orientdoll Cheong's appearance and she's the only MSD girl I can find who is equal to his height (a couple centimeters smaller would be preferable). Every other MSD girl I like is too tall. ><; Eek!

/end rant

 

I have never been disappointed with any of my dolls. Perhaps with the face-ups that they came with but all of that has changed now. My first couple dolls came with face ups but I soon realized that to a certain extent it was a bit of a waste of money. I do my face ups now so I haven't been disappointed by that. I am very careful with my dolls so when I get one I know what to expect.

 

I've been disappointed a few times. I got a minimee head that just didn't work out as I hoped, and it was sold. When I received my DF Lu-wen, his big ol' type 3 body was a big disappointment because his head looked SO SMALL on it o_O;;; I've since sold that body and modded a female to male for him and everything is right in the world again

I also got an Abio Angel female and her arms are just a huge disappointment because she can pretty much only move them in one direction, thanks to the elbows being pivots rather than balls. I was going to sell her but i think I may just mod the joints now.

Otherwise, everything has been pretty good. I was very happy right upon arrival with my Soom Tan Godo and BC LSG pepe. ^_^ Except the way Pepe's knee pops out. But thats just a small annoyance, not a disappointment

 

I've only been slightly dissapointed. When My Soom Topaz arrived I wasn't happy that her fairy parts looked a lot darker and didn't look glossy like the Soom pics. Someone sprayed their parts with a gloss of some kind and they look alot better, I just wish I knew what they used.

 

I just got my first direct-from-the-company limited the other day. She is a truly wonderful and amazing girl with a stunning default faceup and a sensual, slightly-open mouth. She is perfect until you tilt her head a certain way, then you realize the artist painted her with horrible, extremely crooked buck teeth. I could cry.


EDIT: The only other time I have been disappointed was last year, with one of the first heads I sent off for a custom faceup. The artist was pretty well known and respected and the work on her artist thread was just amazing. I felt really lucky to get a slot. I received no updates, no in-progress pics, only a final photo of a finshed and sealed faceup that looked completely amateurish and absolutely nothing like her other work. At the time, I didn't have the courage to ask her to redo it, so he came home to me with this bright, scribbled-on face and I couldn't bear to look at him.

 

Yeah. A customizer not on this board [to my knowledge] made me a wig, among other things, for my DD2, and it.... just looked nothing like the reference pictures at all. A little bit of cutting helped, but it's still really all kinds of wrong... Though it did drive me to learn how to weft to make an all-new wig, so there's an up-side to this whole affair.

 

I was quite disappointed when I got a Breakaway. He was gorgeous and perfect. I loved his body, loved his size, and of course- loved the mold. But it was quite obvious to me from the moment I got him out of the box that I won't be able to bond with him. He was beautiful, but there was something cold and distant about him. Unlike other molds I've seen, he seemed lifeless and no matter what I tried- he kept looking like a pretty sculpture, but not much more. He didn't feel "mine", and as the days went by I got to realize that maybe it wouldn't really matter who I got to do his faceup, or which clothes I got for him- he just wasn't the one for me. Plus, the fact that the character I had in mind for him didn't really work well with him. A short time afterwards something came up and I needed money, so it wasn't too hard to decide to sell him.

 

I was disappointed when I first recieved SOOM Sard. I had requested the default face-up, wig and eyes. I just didn't bond with him for the longest time. I loved his mold but he didn't look the same as he did on the website (at least it seemed that way to me)
There is a happy ending though! I finally worked up the courage to remove his default faceup. I re-did it, gave him a brand new wig, eyes and body-blushing. Though he isn't quite complete yet, he's more my Daemon now then the incubus that arrived at my door last September

 

No, I loved all of mine a lot! I don't know, I guess a mix of luck, good research, and knowing what I like really well got me all dolls I adored. Really, they were all exactly what I thought they would be.

 

I haven't had any major disappointments with any dollies but as far as minor disappointments I definitely have, especially with the size of the feet and/or hands on a couple of them. I have a doll with feet that are shaped like duck's feet (just too darned wide to fit most shoes). Also, one female has way too large hands (man hands LOL!) and feet where I almost have to consider taking them off just to get an outfit on her! Sometimes I call her hands "claws" because they are even shaped that way but I do love everything else about her, especially her face so the good absolutely outweigh the bad and even her large feet and hands have kind of grown on me...they give her a certain distinction from all the rest of the dainty girls around.

 

It wasn't so much that I was dissappointed in a doll that I ordered...rather my friend had told me all about her doll and when I rounded the cornere to see what seemed like the devil in fishy form with a huge crab claw for a right arm... oh, I was crushed. I thought he was a pretty boy, but he creeped me out.

I hope that I do enough research that I am never dissappointed when I welcome home my doll.

 

i'm really let down by the state of my 1st doll. he's second-hand from the marketplace & after a hellish shipping experience, i open the box to find broken pieces, marked up/chipped body parts, *severely* unmatched body parts, etc.

granted, the seller warned me about the different colour hands & some chipping on his torso, but the scuffs/stains all over him? i'm not happy at all. what a crummy way to be introduced to BJD-ing.

 

My second doll was an AOD NiNi...for some reason I just didn't bond with her from the minute I opened the box. We just didn't click D:

 

I felt the same when i got my bobobie sprite, I was like " Yay she here" so after Hmm 15 mins of squeeling and ripping the thick tape with my teeth, it kinda hit me like, " Dang shes just a doll, a blank doll, nothing lovable, pretty doll. Shes not gonna come alive and talk to me like Rozen maiden, she isnt going to move like those movies I saw on youtube, It's just a doll.. and a very quiet one at that. I was mad that I bought it, Mad that I waited for those loong three weeks which felt like three months, Mad that I checked my email every 5 mins waiting for the shipping notice, and even madder that my bf spent the $144 for her when the Chinese customs package says she only worth $18.
Lol it was weird I really hated this doll and wanted to send her back, but then my bf looked at her and told me that shes was really cute and that if I just dye her the right color, and put onher hair she would be alot better than she is now.
Sure enough I did just that
Pulled her white wig up into a massive drow pony tail, put in her two toned eyes, dyed her skin a warm brown and now I love my Sparrow!, and cant imagine my room without her odd little smile and super big hair.

 

I was really dissapointed back when I first got Gavin v-v;
He's my first doll, and I ordered him with all the fixin's because I have little to no experience faceupping and stuff, and just overall liked his default. However, when he came, he came with no eyes or hair, like I had paid for. I was heartbroken, especially since the company proclaimed I had ordered no such product, and their old website had crashed, so I had no record of Items purchased (I had the paypal records, but they said the extra cost was for something I had never paid for, or even knew existed)

Esentially a 900+ dollar lesson >> (I keep records of EVERYTHING now...)

He looked really scary sitting around in his default outfit with a fur wig I had made him and a pair of silver beads for eyes v-v I was beginning to regret getting him (Especially since soom's Heliot had come out just the week after I had bought him D: ) But then I finally ordered him some proper eyes, and a wig, and some new clothes. The instant I put the new things in him I fell in love, like I had so long ago when I had seen the companies pictures, except now, I've made him look like His own character. He never wears his default outfit, save for a necklace, and I couldnt be happier with him now

 

My first BJD just arrived. She is beautiful, but in shipping, her faceplate came off, roll around, and chipped the paint off of her bottom eyelid. It's certainly not the fault of the gal who sold her to me, and it's not major enough to complain to EMS. But it's enough to make me sigh just a little.
What's bugging me more is how long the shipping is taking on a wig from one state away when the doll arrived from New Zealand in a week.

 

When my doll arrived, everything was *almost* perfect. Her body, sculpt, her posability, etc just made me happy (as an artist as well). But I was disappointed - my doll's eyes just didn't suit the character. They were kind of shallow and had a strange, slightly "crazy" look from some angles that creeped me out. At a point I just couldn't stand it anymore and ordered silicone eyes. With those she seems by far gentler, and I do love the way she looks now.