Ever been disappointed? Even a little?

I didn't actually get disappointed when I first received my dolls, but one time my first doll, dod e-an cracked her eye while just removing her diffault faceup... that was really a shock!! Maybe their resin is kind of weak? I think?? well, whatever, I don't like dod after that incident... but I'm still in love with her so I think I got over it...

 

yes but the wig was backwards lol
when put on right and brushed it looked good

 

I've never been disappointed by a doll, but I got that Eidelweiss wedding gown from Dollmore, and it was all wrong. One bow was tied wrong. The other was sewn too high. The gloves simply could not go on the hands. I was really, really sad because I wanted to make my Leah a bride

It was a $100 debacle. I went back and forth with customer service, and they ultimately said that all the gowns would be like that and that I'd have to pay for shipping back to South Korea. I eventually decided to keep it as a fixer upper that I haven't fixed up yet. I don't have the skills at all.

I haven't bought anything from Dollmore since. I'm debating whether or not I should. I really want to get new shoes and high heel feet.

 

I take back what I said in an earlier post about how I shouldn't have to sand the head and eyes to make it look like it does in the company pictures. I shouldn't have to, but I admit that I did enjoy working on him. Makes him that much more customized.

 

I was disappointed when I bought my DOC twing-key. She was my dream MSD! I looked at her all the time in her shop photos and even looked at a couple on DOA. I bought her second hand and when i opened her it wasn't the same as when i opened my DOT E-an. something was off. The face up was good, but not exactly what i had wanted ( i commissioned one from the seller) I ended up wiping the faceup and sending the head to DOD where they did the faceup for me. But even after i got the new faceup it wasn't working. I felt keeping her longer would help but I ended up selling her just last week. I dunno I just couldn't bond with her like i did with my other dolls. Guess it happenes a lot

 

Also, continuing with my last post. I feel that I shouldn't need to work hard on a doll. I should be able to open the box and love everything about it. I don't want to have to redo faceups, buy new parts, ect. I know it sounds lazy, but I feel that if I open the box and love everything about the doll then its perfect. If I need to start altering the its no going to work (Unless I bought the doll knowing I'd have to fix something)

 

I have actually been dissapointed many times...by resin quality, seams, etc. I also like the doll to have a heavy feel to it. Maybe, I am just too anal, LOL!!!!All those dolls of course have been sold. I agree with Loli_Doll, if I open the box and I am completely in awe right away, then its a keeper. All the dolls I currently own are from the same company. For me, if I find something that I like, I tend to stick with it.

 

Yes...I was disappointed when I got my DiM Flowne. She was so beautiful, but she was very young-looking in the face while her chest was outrageously large in my view. This dissonance just turned me off to keeping the doll, even though I really liked her face.

 

I have. I thought the guy I ordered was adorable with his pouty lips and all until a month later he arrived and I thought I ordered the wrong sculpt or the company made a mistake. It was actually the mold I ordered and when I put his stuff together he began to resemble the pictures I saw. I'm still bonding with him and I think maybe a different face up will do, but that has to wait for now.

Oh, and this is not the first time I have felt like this. =/

 

I wasn't disappointed in my doll. I don't get the whole bonding thing. If I spend the money on it... I better like it!
I know that when I got some new eyes for my doll instead of the cheapies it came with, it totally changed the look of my doll and made her way more into the character I wanted her to be than I thought was possible before. I wasn't too sure before, you see. I just wanted the doll and was going to make the character fit best I could... but the eyes made me feel a lot better about my doll being who I wanted her to be.
I can't wait for the wig to come. I'm sure she'll be even more perfect when she has everything.

 

my loongsoul xuanbing was such a disappointment ._.

i opened the box and was just... horrified. his faceup was terrible, he wasn't who i wanted him to be. but a couple of weeks and kaede is here, my drug addict pianist, and he's just perfect. even though he still needs a new faceup.

one out of eight ain't bad! XD

 

My 27cm ResinSoul "Ni" was a recent impulse buy on my birthday at an anime convention. My first BJD.

I had to choose between a few of them and I knew I wanted one smaller than 30cm since I wanted to make a doll house and "Ni" was the only one small enough with human ears so I chose her.

She came wigless and the only wigs that were available that would fit her were Liv Doll wigs (you have to snip the peg out of them in order for them to fit on the head) so that was quite disappointing.

When I got home I searched the site for the very doll and noticed the face-up in the photos were more colorful/lively but the face-up on the one I bought was pretty gloomy and dull. No color to the lips, just a greyish tone.

I changed her eyes from a dull hazel-brown color to a vibrant cobalt blue pair I happened to have bought months before and they coincidentally were the same size and after switching to the more colorful pair, her face-up didn't look so dull. Then I chipped the eyeliner off accidentally while straightening the eyes.

I touched it up with colored pencil and chalk and it looked great but I bought the wrong sealant and it pretty much liquefied the face-up she came with and when i managed to wash the still-wet sealant off, 95% of the face-up came off with it.

I ended up painting my own face-up using acrylics, colored pencil, and chalk and liked it but what I had done seemed unnatural (while I wanted a more natural look) so I sat her aside until the doll eyelashes came. Just finally got them on earlier today and with their long length it makes her new face-up look good.

Now I'm just waiting for the wig that's taking forever to process and ship out
I just hope its not too light in shade or it won't fit her natural skin color

 

Yes. An artist I commissioned quite awhile back sent me the end progress photos and I felt that the face-ups looked really great! The detail looked really brilliant and it looked clean and perfectly done.

However, when I collected the heads in person, I was quite disappointed with the actual colour.. The blushing was not proportionate and there were blotches. Specks of pastel were all over the head and there were failed MSC left overs stuck in my doll's ears

The concept still looked great though, just that it was really messy and the colour was off.

 

I've been disappointed by both dolls and faceups. My very first doll was a let down when I received her more for the problems I encountered with the company I bought her from. Then I commissioned a faceup and body blush which not only took over 6 weeks from sending to receiving but was not well done. The default faceup (while smudged) looked better in my opinion (however the new owner is happy with it so it's all a matter of perspective I guess).

Then there were the Custom House dolls I waited 17 weeks for. After anxiously awaiting their arrival (and commiserating with others in the CH waiting room) I realized after the box opening that my tastes in dolls had changed. That and some minor quality issues made me decide to re-home them.

 

Actually... I was a little disappointed with my first doll. Fei came home with wrong face up and her wigs couldn't fit her head. But... When I keep seeing her little happy face and her biggy wiggy innocent eyes, I started to forget about the face up and wigs. She's too cute to be hated... She's totally adorable and I feel blessed for having her~~ I love her no matter what, who care about the wrong face up and wigs ? I can get another face up when I feel it's already dull and she has other wigs I bought for her, hohoho~

 

oops, my bad

 

My very First Doll Was an Abio angel Model San! And although I have other dolls now and can feel the difference in resin, I could not have been happier with him! He is still to this day my favourite doll. His name is Artemys. I didn't like his face-up either, because it was so light it wouldn't even photograph, especially since I got him in white skin. He also yellowed very fast... And has limited mobility because his joints are very basic.. Yes, He's got his problems, but he was my first and I love him. I got him when Abio Angel came to Canada for a convention. I ordered him online ahead of time and picked him up in person.

I mean no disrespect of course, I understand why you feel that way about Abio Angel, they really can't compare. I'm just... Expressing my love for my boy, XD I guess. I guess all of his problems just make him that much more.. unique to me. ​

 

Not disappointed....but reminded. My Dollshe DSAM boys are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO realistic and so incredibly articulated....the ability to pose and hold a pose has really spoiled me. Every time I bring home a non-Dollshe doll....I get surprised at how little range of motion most sculpts have.

 

Yes. I recently received a doll - and I'll admit she was an impulse buy - and I felt nothing but regret when I opened the box. Her faceup did not look as dramatic as it did on the Web site, her dress was a little too "girly-girl, pretty Victorian porcelain-dollish" and her skin was waaaaaay more purple than I had expected. Perhaps if she would have looked more like she did on the Web site, I'd be feeling a little more excited. Right now, I don't even have the desire to take her out of the box. And as we know, the amount of money we spend on these dolls makes "doll remorse" all the more painful. Oof.

I'm never browsing BJDs while I wait for Ambien to kick in again.

 

Yeah.... so I always try to find the least photoshopped, unflattering pictures I can of a doll so I know what 'the worst' to expect is. If the worst pictures are still pretty good, it's usually a safe bet.

But what about when it's a limited doll and there AREN'T any owner photos? Eh... then it's more of a risk. I am always most suspicious when all of the stock photos seem to take the same angle photo of the face. Then I wonder if the face looks good from any other angle (I've seen a couple of dolls where the answer was a definite 'no')