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Ever been disappointed? Even a little?

Sep 16, 2008

    1. I have had huge dolly disappointments lately I spent hours looking at photos and they were just like the photos, I read tons of owner reviews and while they were somewhat helpful... the dolls were just not as great as I expected. It was really disappointing for me and for my best friend who had been thinking of getting the same type. She handled them and was just as let down by the engineering as I was. It's been a great learning curve though so at the end once they're sold off to happy loving homes - it will all be good. I've realized my preferences in dolls so much more from the experiences I've had so it's been worth it in alot of ways - although abit frustrating at the time wasted haha.
       
    2. I was. By my first doll. Because the transaction was handled by someone else before I got on DoA, I didn't know I was getting Tom instead of Bill (despite my repeated trying-to-make sure he was going to be right), so his faceup was all wrong and he had a superglued-on piercing I did not want. Also, the shots of the Bill-version head looked slimmer, but that may have been a deceiving photo angle... either way, he wasn't what I was expecting, and will take a lot of careful, paranoid work on my part, or money to commission said careful work, to make him perfect.

      Oh well. It was made a little worse when I ordered the FDoll body and not only was the resin match not as close as I was told it would be, I quickly learned that not all doll bodies were double jointed as I had always thought. Keep in mind, I got my doll before I got on DoA. The body doesn't bug me too much now, even if he's strung a little too tight...

      I don't mind so much now that I have my Migidoll Ryu, who was a thousand times more amazing than I ever imagined he would be. I'm more in love with him now than I was when I first saw him. And just today as I was walking to my car after work, it hit me - for about the third time since he arrived and its only been four days - "...omg. I have a Ryu~"

      And now my beloved and treasured and all-wrong Kaulitz head is sitting in a box under my TV. So much for true love, I guess. He'll get fixed eventually...
       
    3. I waited so long for my soom cass. She was lost by the shipping company for an additional month, too. When I opened her, she was perfect, except for two snapped off fingers. That was my first case of shipping damage. I super glued them back on.
       
    4. I've bought several cheapy dolls because "ooh cheap!" and been disappointed with all of them. -_- They all got sold pretty fast.
       
    5. So far, I haven't been overly disappointed in my dolls. Though, the only one that I kind of have a problem with is my Pipos Baha. I lusted after the Baha and wanted one so badly, but when I got one home finally and tried to work with it, I quickly went from "Yay!" to "...meh." I found it to be too top-heavy and I don't really care for how hard it is to get it to stand. I'm used to my boy, who stands like a champ, and my girl, who poses like a pro.

      Still on the fence about whether or not I want to sell it, since the bonding has been pretty nil so far. :(
       
    6. There have been a few times, but it was never really the quality of the doll (well, one time it was a sculptural issue, but that is being sorted out by the company currently). Sometimes the sculpt just was not working for me and that's always sad! I decided at the beginning of the year to stop filing away the dolls I didn't really love and put them up for sale. They all went to absolutely wonderful people who could love them more than I ever did. I'm waiting on my last girl to come home (at least I think she's the last ;)) and I am as close as I am getting to filling each of the characters I have always imagined.
       
    7. I'm not disappointed as such, just apprehensive. Like, I'm afraid of restringing her (which she desperately needs - SO KICKY) and I'm afraid I'll get bored of her. I'm a teenager and it took me a LONG time to save up enough money to buy my girl. It's a huge commitment and I'm terrified I'll get bored of her - during the waiting I was certain I wouldn't and she is beautiful, but I don't trust myself.

      UPDATE:
      I'd just like to let everyone know that now Elyssa's been here for a couple of weeks I am bonding with her and I don't think I'm gonna sell :)
       
    8. Yes. I was all fallen over the DZ Xi-Aleister (back with the old hands and single-joint body and manicure and tattoo and everything), and I ordered him off Junkyspot because it said limited so I was in a real hurry to get him before he sold out, but when I got him for $300 he was.... wow. Not what I expected. Not what I wanted. I mean, yeah, the faceup was pretty kickass but... there was no manicure, no tattoo. The hands were not the ones in the picture. Besides the faceup, he looked nothing like the pictures. I was crushed. It was bad. I tried to like him, but... no. I couldn't like him. So I sold him...
       
    9. I'm disappointed and my doll hasn't even arrived yet.

      I ordered Lucy of the 2nd Zombie Edition from Glorydoll. But the more I go back and look at her pictures, the more I think, "What was I thinking????" Add to that the complete FRUSTRATION of communicating with Glorydoll - my order status has been "Confirm receipt(Credit)" for a month even though I've already PAID OFF that charge on my credit card by now - and I don't even want the doll anymore. And she's limited, so I can't cancel my order.

      So yes, I associate that doll with stress and regret, and she hasn't even gotten here. I don't believe in love at first doll sight anymore, at least not in my case. The next time I see a doll I think I want, I'm going to give it 24 hours and look at it again.
       
    10. I don't have a BJD (yet!) so I can't totally relate to this, but I've collected Blythes and have had this happen to me. There was a doll I've wanted for the longest time that I could never afford, but once I saw one in my price range up for sale years later, I grabbed it without a second thought! After all, it was my "holy grail" doll. But when she came in the mail and I opened up the box, my reaction was just, "Oh. This is her." It was upsetting because I really wanted to bond with her because she was very pretty nevertheless, but it just didn't work out, and after over a year I finally gave up and sent her away in a trade (which I don't regret at all).
       
    11. I was disapointed with my first doll. I had sort of talked myself into thinking she was the right doll for me, rather than going with my gut, big mistake.
      When I first got her it was OMG she's so tiny she's so cute, after a few days reality started to hit. She is so tiny, it was hard to take pictures of her. I didn't buy clothes ahead of time for her, so for a while I couldn't really do anything with her. I didn't have anything to keep her wig on and it came off with the slightest movement. I had created a very developed character for her before she got to me, but when she got here it was just so wrong for her, I couldn't pose her at all. I had also been trying to prepare myself ahead of time that I wasn't going to like her first couple faceups, but when I actually did her first one it wasn't just that I didn't like it, I hated it.
      So, I had this very expensive, tiny doll with no clothes, a wig that constantly fell off, I could barely get her to stand, she didn't fit her character, and had a hidious faceup.
      She just kind of sat in her box for about a week, with me occasionally taking her out just to look sadly at her, until I kind of snapped. All at once, I ordered her some clothes, I scrubbed her face off, I bought a wigcap, and it sort of became my mission to learn marcro photography, I also scrapped her character completely. I still can't pose her that well, but I think that can be fixed.
      I don't think she will ever be my favorite doll, but I certainly like her better now.

      It also taught me some lessons for my next two dolls who are coming within the next month.
      • Buy clothes ahead of time
      • If you don't like the faceup, redo it
      • Don't go with small just because it's cheaper
      • Don't over build the character ahead of time
      • and most of all go with your gut when ordering, even a day or so after ordering her I was beginning to doubt my descion. With my next two, I've looked at their photos daily and haven't doubted either of them for a second :)
       
    12. Sure. I ordered a body recently, waited months for it to arrive from the company, and then discovered that it isn't as flexible as I wanted for the character I had in mind. I bought a different body secondhand and have been thrilled with it. It was disappointing to say the least, having waited and waited only to have it not be what I hoped.

      But it will find a good home through the marketplace and I'm sure that it will be exactly what someone else is looking for!
       
    13. Everything I've been disappointed in hasn't stayed long. I don't like looking at it.

      Fortunately, that's only been a few heads and some random odds and ends.
       
    14. I was another soom md dissapointed person - I bought cuprit - I think partly because of all they hype surrounding these dolls and also because she looked beautiful. And when she arrived, she was, except for being a terrible poser!!! no double jointing. And her bazoombas were just too big for me. And also she was in total just a bit too big for me. So I sold her, although at the end she was starting to grow on me, I just couldnt stand the terrible posing and engineering!

      I also have a supia rosy, whose face I adore, but whose body posing is not so great, so I just keep her dressed and standing looking beautiful, rather than playing a bit more with her.

      I have also tried to hybrid some dolls - a unoa with a bought headback on a mnf body, a leeke head on volks body, an ail on several bodies, and a supia lina on several bodies. I find that the slightest resin mismatch or lack of head movement/ gaps really bothers me so I have learned that I only really like full dolls from the same company. Although I am persisting with my ail head and supia lina because I love them so much. I have found a lovely body for my ail and am still looking for my supia lina. She lies bodiless, looking wistful on one of my shelves still
       
    15. ugh yes, several times...sometimes seeing something in your hands can really make you change your mind >_>''
       
    16. i waited months for my resinsoul dai and was a little disappointed....her factory faceup was awful....the eye lines were offline and there were blobs of paint inside her eyes....i was so pleased with the head sculpt because i couldn't wait to get rid of the awful paint job and do my own....the body was the biggest disappointment...she is so thin is a nightmare to pose and has been re-strung more than i can to remember to no avail...but she's my girl and i would part with her
       
    17. I bought a Dollzone Megi and Shoyo (cat version) and ended up not liking their bodies. O_O; And I hated the fact the wig needed holes for the Shoyo. I butchered the first wig for her. Then I took some photos of them... and they weren't anywhere near the looks of the website. (They were full sets.) Then when I got my kid delf and loved him! I guess it was good that I looked up owner photos for him first.
       
    18. I'm a little disappointed with my Crobi Gillian. I've had to do a lot of work on him, and tomorrow I'll probably wipe his face-up for the second time and do some more. The picture of Gillian-B on their website looked just like what I want for my character, but when it arrived it doesn't look like that at all. He looked angry and cross-eyed and that face isn't as round as it looks from the pictures. There were no owner pics to check out first, either. I still really like the fullness of the mouth and nose, but the eyes bummed be out. So much sanding. I shouldn't have to sand it... though the nerd in me kinda does.
       
    19. There's one thing that really disappointed me about my Max--he is made up of two different bodies, the upper part of which belongs to a 55cm ball-joint model body. The thing that is annoying about this is...well, when they say that you lose some posability with the ball-joint body, they really mean it, especially when it comes to the arms. His arms are so incredibly irking to pose for me that I'm thinking of just flat-out replacing them with the normal type. I mean, I read it was bad, but I had no idea it'd be THIS bad. :doh
       
    20. I have been. I bought a very fragile and beautiful doll an when she arrived little beads on her fell off.