Ever been disappointed? Even a little?

I will probably get ripped apart for this, but the only dol I was very disappointed with was.. My Unoa.
I got a Unoa Sist from the marketplace years ago when the mad Unoa Boom was going on. Dont get me wrong I loved the mold and body sculpt, still do. But i think even for the retail price, they are a little over priced. The resin doesnt feel like resin at all. More like run of the mill plastic, like Barbies torso, its even more grainy and cheap feeling. I think they should definately make all Unoa in french resin, like Araki's dolls.
I was also disappointed because all the "cool" clothes were awfully expensive (rightfully so, like mio brand ect.) and at the time, and I feel even now, most Unoas all look the same and have mostly the same wordrobe due to the limitations of what is out there for them. So in the end, I sold her, got an SD16 Olivia and sold her for the same clothing reasons. *head plant into palm*
*Jen

 

Let's see, I feel like there was some pretty high expectations for each doll of mine! XD When I got Shin (Isao Nanjou v.1), my first doll, I was disappointed that he wasn't a Version 2. However, I got over that really quick, and Shin's still my favorite!

I bought Azel's (SchA) head off of EBay, and when it got to me, there was gunk all in the inside of his head, and he had SUPER long eyelashes that didn't fit him at all. I was disappointed about that until I took his eyelashes out and cleaned up his head, and later got a new faceup for him.

Melange (Aika U-noss), well - when I saw her in the store I bought her at, she was already a disappointment. Loosely strung, disgusting faceup, a bit of a ratty wig -- but I was determined to get her and mod her until she was gorgeous. And now she is. I also got a faceup from ShallowSleep, and when I had okay'ed everything, I was disappointed when I got the head back. However, she suggested I add eyelashes to the doll, and incredibly that made everything gel together really well!

C: What a difference eyelashes make!

 

I love everything about my first doll. She was perfect.

Same with the second one. I had special plans for my little puki and was so happy that she was completely white when she came. I thought she would just be pale pink or something.

The came the delf... I don't know why I didn't research more about FL and Luts skin tones. When I opened the box and saw he was paper white, I didn't know what to do. It was just so wrong. I Barely did anything with him for weeks. He had no clothes and no face up and I was so sad about it. But when I finally got him a face and some clothes, it all changed. I love the white skin now. The only tiny problem still there is that he has his own little personality which isn't what I had though up for him. But he has become my favorite doll because of that.

 

I'm often disappointed with Soom dolls because they have so much photoshop on their photos. I bought Heliot and sold him, I bought Sphaler and do not like the home photos... It seems I will never buy a doll before I see it with my own eyes.

 

When i opened my Pukipuki Lily, i was. ^^; She was so tiny! I was honestly surprised. My brother had to talk me down from it! All the pictures i had seen were of Puki's fitting into their owner's hands, and my poor Malinowski barely made it to the end of my palm! And then my brother brought up the big fact that i'd probably overlooked at one point; "Becca, you're almost 5'9". You've got bigass hands."
Needless to say, i felt kind of stupid. ^_^;;;
It was really hard to bond with her, and I did have the thoughts of "Was this a good idea? Should i sell it?" I couldnt get her to stand right, and she had no hair. I thought she was downright ugly. D:

But! About two months later, i love the little dear I'd take her with me everywhere in my pockets if i wasnt always carrying pens with me XD;

 

When Volks first released Shirou (2003-ish) I fell in love hard. He was this cute little bad-boy with his leather jacket, biker boots, and dark, tight denim! I had inherited some money and I HAD to have him, so I paid someone to get him at the Dolpa for me (a much simpler endeavor at the time.)

He came and I was so excited and he just..was so sweet. I was expecting this bad boy and when he arrived he was this sweet little thing.

I tried everything. I repainted him, I modded his eyes, I made him new clothes, bought him new shoes, everything I could think of.

I had intended him to be a companion for my other doll, Kellen. Every time I took pictures of them together they looked so bored and passionless.

In the end he was never what I wanted. I sold him to a girl on the board and she loves him! Kellen has a new beau too now so everything worked out in the end.

 

I have a bit of buyer's remorse about my MNF, Katya. She is beautiful, but I wish I had gotten the A-line body, for the greater poseability. It was more expensive, and I had a hard enough time justify buying her at all (I have the hardest time spending on myself.) But it wasn't THAT much more expensive, and now I wish I had sprung for it.

 

my AoD Juli was my second choice (B&G Aurora is the one I really wanted)
And since there was no name that fit the Juli I couldn't reall bond with her at all..
Now she has a name, and I find that I've started bonding.. =)

 

I'm feeling a bit of the disappointment and fighting it as well. I ordered the new RS 61cm body and decided I didn't really like the look of the Gang head because his face looked crooked to me. I really like Long's face though so after looking at sizes and seeing that Gang's head was only 1cm larger than Long, I figured the head would be a perfect match.

When he finally arrived though it was kind of a blow. He's kind of got the bobble head thing going as in the head is just HUGE on this body. Though looking at pictures with the Gang head on, I think this body just has really narrow shoulders. It's horrible because I love both the body and the head but I've been having problems bonding with him because I can't get over how awkward he looks.

 

I have a MNF Soo. I had planned to get a second one and they would be twins, one boy and one girl. But I just did a face-up on the head to look like the boy, and he looks like a girl still. I think I'll get someone who has done a lot of face-ups to do him in the new year, but now I'm thinking that I will be getting a different doll entirely for this character.

 

I was a bit disappointed with my first doll, an AOD Mimi. I liked her well enough when I first got her, but in the end I decided to sell her. She didn't pose very well, her face started to scare me, and the size was just awkward. (no more yo's for me...) I think part of it was that I "settled" just because she was cheap.

My puki... I was only disappointed when I got her because DDE sent me a pipi instead of chuchu. But it all got sorted out, and I LOVELOVELOVE Tziporah. She's definitely going to be sticking around for a long time.

 

I have another "disappointing doll" story...

The first doll I ever paid for was my AoD Zi Yuan. I loved her so much as my only female doll for a long time, and I thought she was the prettiest thing. In fact, I spent the most on her buying outfits, shoes and wigs. That is, until I got some more expensive dolls, and I slowly began to realize that the sculpting quality on my Zi Yuan was much lower. Her face began to look ugly and her body simple and awkward. After a long time, I noticed that my Zi Yuan wasn't being played with as much and had become a wallflower. The poor thing is now sitting in an unused chair with a towel over her body. So with a heavy heart, I decided to sell her and she is now listed in the marketplace. I can only hope that someone will love her with the same love I once had for her.

 

Yes, because I have a terrible habit of impulse buying. When I first received my Kana I was disappointed and slightly freak out because she looked nothing like how I expected her to be- but with a bit of reassurance and help from a friend I would never want to let of of Kana now. I was also a little suprised with my Hinaichigo, what with her being so small and costing quite a lot- but the cuteness overrode any negative thoughts.

 

My D.O.D Camine was kinda a impulse buy. He was going to be a character I made but never fit. for a wile I hardly took him out but once I got a new wig he seems to have gone on me. I still wounder if it was a good choice to get him but for some reason I don't think I could let him go, he is my first doll. I think after I get him more into another character I made i will be much more happy.
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Yes. I actually had a lot of disappointing experiences...

Case 1: Raurencio Studio Baal
When I first got my raurencio studio Baal, he had the ugliest sculpt I've ever seem. I regretted so much on getting him.
Well, he was purchased because I need his body for my Soom Spinel (whom I still have hard time to bond with). I wasn't care how ugly Baal was, I needed the body anyway. But the body has limited movement. Really bad poser compared to my DM Kara.
I was planning to make Baal as practice head. I re-mod him so much that one day after putting face-up on him, I fall in love with him. ODD!!! lol
Now, he's got his body back and I still love him so much. I don't even care about how bad he poses, he is just too handsome. Well, who'd expect that in the beginning??

Case 2: DOD H. Kirill
I bought him because he was the first doll I fall in love with. He was probably also the first "luxury doll" I've ever purchased. I felt regretted right after I opened his package. He was much smaller than my Kara (who I bought second but came first) The face-up was bad. Two eye brows were in different length.
The face are nothing like what I had fall in love with. DOD edited their promo pictures a LOT!! I was having a hard time bonding with him... but after I re-did his face-up.. and change his arm joint.. everything seemed to work out a bit... He is now my own Archie who is unique and irreplaceable.

Case 3: Soom Spinel
Alright, yes, I am still having trouble bonding with him. But I just can't let him go.. I thought about selling him, but when I look him, I just can't. He is really beautiful, but wasn't something I was expected in the beginning. But I can't let him go.

Case 4: IH Akando
Got him as a gift from my friend. It's not that I don't like him or what, but I don't like his joint system.. I'd wish he was the simple joint system than mobility one.......................

 

I've had a few disappointments, but not all of them have been enough to stop me from bonding with the doll.

My first doll, a DoI Luke, was the love of my life for quite awhile. Eventually though, his body started to drive me nuts. Not only did I feel he was too big at 70cm, he was just so stiff too. It was probably because of his stringing, but I can't stand a body where the legs and knees just stick straight out when you pick it up. I like for them to move around like a person would, makes them feel more alive to me! So I ended up selling him and replacing him with a 60cm doll with better flexibility.

I had a Volks Shizuku for a hot minute there too, but she was waaaaayy cuter in the Volks pictures than when I got her. She just kinda looked like an alien. I ended up selling her pretty quickly.

I kinda impulse bought a Glorydoll Karin since I did like the sculpt and was getting a Lucy, so I figured I would just get them together. However, the Karin did not fit her character as much as I would have liked her to, and I sold her after a couple months. She is a beautiful mold though. I also reshelled my Senior Delf Howl for similar reasons. He's a great mold, but I wasn't completely in love with him. I liked Howl, but I have to be insane about a doll for it to work out in the long run it seems. I gave his body to my School C, Ozka, and let my boyfriend keep his head for his wacky projects. XD

I had various problems and disappointments with a lot of my dolls, but they haven't made me want to get rid of them. Tarot, my Sard, is difficult to dress and a pain in the butt to carry around due to his size, weight, and the hooves and horns of course, but he's far too charismatic and beautiful for me to ever want to do without him. My Volks Kaelin, Blisdon, was stiff as a board, but changing his body fixed all that. Ti, my Leekeworld Milch, had numerous problems right away; she was floppy, impossible to pose, and her neckhole seemed way too big for her neck. With some work on her body though, her situation has improved, and she is just too silly and unique to sell. Loa's default hands sucked hardcore, they were completely flat and pretty chubby (I called them Play Dough hands), but getting her some jointed fingies changed all that! My Glorydoll Lucy, Myrtle, gave me a lot of problems for a long time too, because I just couldn't get her aesthetic right. Lucy has been one of my dream molds since I got into this hobby, and I loved her face immediately when I got her, but the hair and outfits I originally intended and bought for her just were not suiting her at all... she was too frumpy. I struggled for awhile to get her personality to pop, but it just wasn't happening. After several fix ups on her faceup, costume changes, and receiving her new tinybear wig today, I really feel like I've finally gotten her right. Hallelujah!

So, due to my experiences, I usually try to give it some time before giving up and selling a doll. In most instances, I've found that the right wig, eyes, body, clothes, are not always easy to figure out right away and take some work. The work has paid off more often than not for me.

 

My first bjd was an Elf doll tiny Min Del Re. I knew she was small but I didn't know how small then. I had a hard time trying to justify the price with the size. I've never resold a doll before and I was determined to wait and see first. I'm glad I did because I really like her now and even bought her other little friends to play with.

 

Hmmm.. I'm going to have to agree with the Soom comment. I ordered an Aren Punky Nyugi Mini Gem and the picture of her on the site makes her look SOO white and SO adorable. When I got her her.. she was still adorable, but her face looked very plain and her resin was a bit darker/creamier than I had thought. I wish they wouldn't photoshop their pictures so much; it makes the doll look completely different. I've added more makeup to her face to give it a darker look and it helped, but still needs work.

 

not so much as disappointment but when i first got my delf kid mill (first doll ) i wasn't sure if he was the right choice, i wanted him in white resin (which he doesn't come in) and his lips looked really small to me.I got used to the lips i just wasn't very familiar with smaller doll proportions yet and the size worked out because as much as i wanted an SD i know i wouldn't have been able to handle it xD and the skin colour fixed it self O___O he yellowed so he looks like an old white skin delf which i'm actually a lot happier with then the pink (and he's just such a cutey >w<)

now my second doll was a bit of an adventure. I wanted a girl preferably with a luts delf girl body (so beautiful) but the only smaller SD girls i liked wore from dollmore so a hybrid it was. I didn't know if the dollmore/luts hybrid would actually work out but after much research i finally found a luts girl next to a Chami (the sculpt i wanted!) the proportions looked alright so i went for it. when i got the body and head together the neck was to thick at the top (and skin didn't match at all which i was aware of before hand ) but i wasn't deterred making a hybrid i foresaw something like that happening. so some sanding and blushing and fun restringing =__= (her hook needs to be small to fit in her head but that way it would drop in the neck... so inventive measures wore taken to stop that) i got her PERFECT, but she just didn't seem..mine >: but her nose diving down a set of concrete stairs fixed that LOL i sanded her nose a bit and forehead not changing the sculpt at all but i liked her so much more xD

and my k-doll kasis i was disappointed with how different his face proportions were from my other 2 dolls for 5 minutes.. and then it was love

 

Before I bought my first doll, I had very high expectation of the skin texture. When I received my first doll, I was a bit disappointed. But after a while I got used to it and loved it very much.