Ever been disappointed? Even a little?

i think i've basically always been disappointed when a new doll arrived. in pictures they always pose so well, but in real life i can't make them do 1/4 of all those poses. and their posability was what got me into them in the first place. but i have learnt to downscale my expectation and only focus on their beautiful faces.

- karina

 

Nothing way too drastic but I was a bit disappointed when I received my first SD doll and saw how big he actually was next to my MSD doll. He makes her look so tiny! But, I will live since they both embody characters dear to me and I couldn't ever think of replacing either of them. It made me want to post a picture of them and say "Okay, he is 26 and about 6" and she is roughly around 13ish and like 4" Does this make any sense!?!" Of course I didn't. I'm almost afraid she looks like she's 3 or something lol I over think. >.<

...and sadly recently I received awesome Crobi arm warmers. I squeed when I saw them but then when I tried them on they were just too big! I guess I failed to realize they're made to fit both SD17 and SD13 so they should be big on an SD13...so it's really no ones fault but my own. I will make them fit...or they will meet their DOOM....evil laugh? no... ^.^'

 

No, I think I never been disappointed. When I opened my dolls, I always been overjoyed !
I just been surprised by my first BJD. Before I got him, I never imagined his head was small like this ^^" and he has such big ears XD
But I loved him immediately !

 

Only mildly disappointed when my face-up less Elfdoll Soah arrived. It took 6 months to get her face done, but now she is my secret favorite.
(company face ups for me, from now on!)

 

I wasn't dissappointed, but more worried I suppose when I got my Epidos because I'd spent so much money on him and felt kinda like... this doll is faaarrrr too valuable for me to do anything with, got myself in too deep here. Also his tail and headcap were faulty so that delayed the 'joy' a bit. I loved him to bits though from the get go... during the time when I was waiting for the parts to be fixed etc I sueded and restrung the body which helped me get used to being more hands on with him, and once I had him all assembled and with his right wig, I never looked back! I'm a lot less precious about him now, bit of his leg broke the other day actually because I'd strung him too tightly, after a few failed superglue attempts I just sanded it down and now it's a barely noticeable cosmetic quirk, or battle scar if you will.

 

I know what you mean about delayed joy. My Dollzone Cosmo arrived very tightly strung (as I've heared is the way with DZ) and his upper torso part had separated and needed glueing (it sorta comes in an inner and outer part as far as I can tell) I still need to fix that, re-string and suede him and do a proper photoshoot with him and as much as I love him, kicky and slouchy as he is right now I know I'll love him more when I've bonded with him by working on him. I don't mind a long process. It takes me so long to save for dolls I have to be patient!
I'm not too precious about a few 'scars', either. If it can be hidden by clothes, I don't really mind. I understand how that sort of thing would bother a lot of people though.
Also, it's not like I could ever think of selling him - once I've got a doll in my hands I love it and I know I can't part with it. So as long as I don't mind the scars I don't mind if it reduces the doll's value.

Having said that, he was a risk as I got him soon after he was released and normally I spend ages looking at owner photos on flickr and DOA to make sure I love the sculpt from all angles. I was glad DZ at least had photos of the head blank on their site. I'd really have to work up some courage to buy a LE!

I WAS very disappointed with a DZ fur wig - it was misshapen and unstylable. But it wasn't terrible disappointment. I just felt bad I'd wasted my money on it. it's not like I invested a lot of emotion in waiting for the wig! And another time I ordered a wig from another comapany and after waiting for it to be delivered for aaages I was told they didn't have it and could I chose something else or accept credit. I chose something else but I reallly really wanted that original wig. Havent seen one like it since.
If I bought a doll and failed to love it after I'd tried to bond with it for a while I'd sell it and hope to recoup a lot of what I paid so that wouldnt bother me as much. My main disappointments have been dolls discontinued before I could buy them or ebay auctions I failed to win! I can deal with small things like that though. I guess I'm quite hard to disappoint.

 

The only time I have been disappointed with a doll was when I got a JDF body from the MP. This was through no fault of the owner, but more because he was terribly engineered- I mean, terribly. It's not just that he couldn't pose, but all his poses looked ugly and awkward. I blame Luts for this, their standards have really slipped. It's basically a SDF body in miniature, minus the muscles, but what works at 63cm doesn't work at 58cm. Particularly those ugly hands.
However! I modded him to within an inch of his life and swapped his hands for Dollmore ones. Now, although he's still not perfect, he's much better than he was. But I would never buy a JDF body again. It's a nightmare!

 

When I got my Latiwhite Belle, there was some dirt or smudges or something on her face that was not easily cleaned off. It looked like someone with dirty fingers handled her face and head. Also, prior to having her, my first doll was a PukiPuki and they pose so well. I was expecting the same or similar posing capabilities with my Latiwhite, but I could barely get her to stand when she got here.

With all of that going on, I was really tempted to sell her because I was so disappointed. But since I waited for her for 5.5 months, I couldn't let her go without a fight. After some work, I managed to remove some of the dirtiness from her face using heavy duty masking tape to clean away the marks. There's still some left, but not as horribly noticeable as when she arrived. And after spending some time playing with her and getting used to her joints and structure, things are much better now.

At this point, I don't think I can let her go. Love her to bits.

 

Mmm... I don't remember any 'why did I have to buy this doll?' moments from right after opening them, but it's happened to me a few months or days later, and I've found myself wondering why I bought the doll... Whenever I get these feelings, they end up on the MP. It normally doesn't work if I wonder why I bought the doll.

 

I was sort of dissapointed when I got my Feeple Riff, but not with the doll itself. When I first fell in love, he came with shoes and a stand. When I got him, he came with a metal plate thing that looked like an ornament for a Christmas tree and no shoes. Shame on me for not reading, since it had been a long time waiting to get him, but I still felt a bit dissapointed that they weren't offering stands with the full package anymore.

 

I have been disappointed several times. My very first disappointment was SoulKid Linn, who was so tightly strung that she arrived sitting in her box. She came with red-brown eyes and a dishwater blonde wig and looked nothing like her promo photos at all. Four years later she is slightly looser, though not loose by any means, and I have changed her eyes and wig many times to give her different personalities. She has turned out to be one of my favorite sculpts.

Limhwa's ToYou Sara also disappointed. I opened the box, looked at this small, Barbie-like creature and wondered, "What was I thinking?" I shut her back into her box and didn't even blog about her.

My most recent disappointment is DoC Twing-key. We are not bonding at all. Again, it's the promo photos. They created a certain expectation - a vision that I carried in mind for 2 months waiting for her. But she looks nothing like the photos, and nothing I have tried on her has re-created the vision. I don't think I'll be keeping her.

Disappointments are bound to happen when dolls must be ordered sight unseen, except for photos. In my case, if I had been able to see and handle these dolls in a doll store, or even at a doll meet, I would not have ordered some of them. Sending them back, when there is no damage, is not an option.

Oddly enough, I have had better luck with previously-owned dolls. It's not that owner photos are any better. It's just that knowing the doll is already second-hand makes it easier to deal with little imperfections. Don't like the faceup? Send it out for an artist faceup or better yet, try to do one yourself. Stringing a little loose? Here is a great opportunity to try restringing. Somehow, the fact that the doll is not brand new takes the fear out of handling and customizing it, at least for me.

 

Sadly enough, I have felt a level of disappointment over both of my dolls.

The first disappointment concerned the DZ Hong full-set I had ordered when I bought the Hong himself. I loved it on the website, but once I got it home and put it one him, I couldn&#8217;t stand it. The jacket was too stiff, the boots wouldn&#8217;t zip up all the way, and the hot pants kept getting caught in his hip joints (the doll version of a wedgey). While the Hong on the DZ site looked graceful and genteel, in real life, he looks more like a cheep rent boy. Thankfully, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with the doll himself, so all I need to do is get off my lazy self and sell the clothes.

The second disappointment, unfortunately, did concern a doll. My second doll, a DZ Luke Tan, came home over Christmas. I was so excited when he came home, but when I opened the box, my heart dropped into my stomach. I found that he was a lot lighter than the site-pic&#8217;s of DZ tan&#8217;s lead me to believe. While I know they disclaim that the actual color may be different than what you see on your computer and they probably use special lights and Photoshop&#8217;s for their promotional pictures, I was still surprised at how light my &#8220;tan&#8221; doll was, especially considering how much more a tan doll costs. His skin almost matches his blond hair. WTF? I&#8217;ll eventually get used to it, I&#8217;m sure, but it was still a heavy disappointment. The character I bought the Luke to portray (Mordrant) technically needs to be a darker mold, but I think I&#8217;ll be able to work my way around that.

 

I was rather disappointed with my DiM Alpon when I first opened him. As there were only a couple of owners of his sculpt when I ordered him I was really taking a leap of faith in placing my order for him, especially since on some of his pics I really thought he was quite ugly. I was also hesitant since I'd been pretty sure I wouldn't order a mini again as their size just doesn't suit me, but the character called for it in relation to my other dolls and as I knew DiM Happy's were a bit taller than the average mini I figured I could handle it. And his lips and eyes captured me so I took the gamble.

I ordered him through a 4 month layaway with DDE and let me say, after 4 months you really need something fantastic. What I got was a doll that was much slimmer than I was expecting, cast into his box with no pillows and barely any bubble wrap and a wig that I couldn't be bothered to put on him for longer than five minutes as it was sewn terribly. Needless to say I felt pretty stupid about ordering him as he really did have some of those ugly angles on his face as well that I was so worried about.

Happy ending however. Once I calmed and took a better look at him I could see they send him with just a beautiful set of eyes. It took some searching but I found him an absolutely perfect wig and dressed him appropriately. While his facial features are still quite strong they've grown on me, though I did take the sandpaper to him and modded a bit on his nose and forehead. Is he the bell of the ball? Nah. But I never really intended him to be. And while I'm still not crazy about his height, he is still much taller than my other minis which I quite like. All in all, I think he'll stick around

 

Well when i got Alexander's body (D.I.M Minimee Male Body) i thought it looked great and was SO happy it had come
and i no longer had a floating head but then when i put on His head, it looked a bit small and the resin was a little off
(i knew it wasn't going to be perfect but i still kinda hoped >.<; ) since my friends were there i acted like it didn't matter :/
and i sorta put him away in his box for a little while
But after i got his wig on and got him dressed he looks perfect with his body
you can hardly even notice the difference in resin and i couldn't be happier ^-^
(just gotta work on posing with that body >.>

Now that I think about it, I was a little upset with Pandora's face-up, I had gotten her in a split GO (and a very last minute buy)
because of her face-up and at the time she was the Limited Warriors In Darkness Bory and the face-up was just so perfect for character.
and when i got her head her eyebrows were a little bit more blond than grey/silver than i hoped :/ and a little more frayed out D:
but now i look at her more and more and it just fits her better and i think she is absolutely beautiful and i can't even
think of parting with her! and people say our eyebrows look alike xD so what's not to love~

 

Not really, my resin kids are perfect for me.
Though I must admit I was a little spoiled by my first doll, a shinydoll suzune and her amazing posability, that when I got my single-jointed little ones I was kind of sad how badly they posed in comparison to her.
But that was to be expected, and as long as I don't directly compare their bodies with her, it's all good (and really, they stand so well, almost like rocks. that makes up for a lot XD)

 

Yup, very disappointed.
I have been wanting a bjd for over two years. Finally, after months of saving up and weeks of waiting, Sansa arrived home. His mold was stunning, but something was off. He didn't photograph well and light shone through him like he was transculent, making it impossible to get a good shot outside. But I tried to ignore that, I thought that it was how it was supposed to be. Now, a few months later, I found what his problem was. He was in french resin, and not uruthane as promised. N00b in this hoby, I didn't even know french resin existed. And when someone showed me how it looked, I realized that I had been fooled. My plans and expectations lies in ruins and to be honest, it feels like I've been robbed of my bjd joy.

 

I never been disappointed yet,when open box and check the doll I really like very much.Have nothing to disappointed .>W<

 

I can honestly say I have had two disappointments, both concerning the actual dolls. The first isn't really a big deal anymore. It concerns my Sugarble Christine and her lack of a double-jointed body. I really think that Sugarble should make some double-jointed bodies. It would really improve their posing abilities. But like I said though, it no longer bugs me and I've come to love her quite a bit even though she is still without a face-up .

The second disappointment was quite major for me. For months I had been looking at Crobidoll's Yeon-ho (both on the company website and the Gallery here on DoA) and just drooling over him. He seemed absolutely flawless and when I got a chance to buy him here on the Marketplace I jumped at it. When I first got him everything was great! But as I handled him more, I got a better look at his body..........*sigh*. There were places where the sculpt looked unfinished, particularly his feet and his behind. Both of those areas looked like they rushed to finish it, the feet were blocky and his behind wasn't rounded (natural looking). These things, along with the general feel he had, just bugged me to no end, until I finally decided to sell him.

I kept comparing his quality to that of my Iplehouse Ryan, who is just amazing to me. Crobidoll just didn't cut it for me. I doubt I'll buy from them again, not unless they release a new body and I can see it in detail.

 

A lot of the first posts I was reading was how much they were disappointed with the doll or the sellers of the doll that they bought, but I was more disappointed with myself. When I bought my Iplehouse doll I went the cheap basic route and got her with no clothes, or face-up, or wig. I wish I had bought more stuff with her when I got her and I really wish I had gotten the face up done and not been cheap. (I also bought a new fridge that week and it amazed me that my doll was more than my fridge!) I have been slowing working on my face up skills and it is looking better and better each time, and it is teaching me how to enjoy more aspects of the hobby but I still wish I had more for her.

 

Oh yes. My first experience with buying a BJD did not go very well. I ordered from Aidolls (Custom House). I ordered a Bisou UU and paid for make up and eyelashes. I wasn't aware at the time that they came without wigs and it doesn't say anywhere on the site (and I know some companies it's included and some not, I just assumed it was because it didn't say).

After ordering I read all these horror stories about ridiculous waits so I prepared myself for a very long wait. I was pleasantly surprised to get a shipping notice in a normal time period. The box arrived and it was absolutely crushed. I panicked. I thought for sure it would be broken.

So I open this huge crushed box and inside is another big box. I open that and inside that with nothing else is this doll wrapped in bubble wrap. The box is huge and there's nothing else in there so the doll bounced around in this huge box but miraculously she was fine except...

I unwrap her and there's this bald, naked, corpse. No hair (of course). No EYES. None included! No make up. No eyelashes.

I was furious. I shot off an email to them and explained the issue and included photos and my order number. They wrote back saying they needed to see photos and needed the order number. I wrote back again with the order number and the same photos. They wrote back again saying they could see the doll but needed to see photos showing that it didn't have make up. I was like ????? The photos clearly showed this.

So I replied again with the photos, a link to my Flickr and said I'd also blogged about it and would never buy from them again and intended to tell everyone I could about this. They wrote back and said they'd send another head with make up (and eyelashes and eyes).

Fine, that's great. I was actually quite pleased and thought I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and possibly a second chance. The head actually shipped really fast. So again, crushed box, tiny head. I open it. The eyes aren't in the head, they're separate. No putty to put them in. The head had make up yes but honestly it looked like the minimal amount of work to say it was actually on there. The eyelashes had been crushed by the bubblewrap and I think they hadn't set yet. They were very messed up on one side. I ended up just pulling them off eventually. Also the eyes looked weirdly small...

Anyway, I love her, I really do but I wasn't sure I would or could at first. But even as a little corpse girl, I started to love her because I felt so sorry for her. I even put a dress on this faceless, eyeless thing while I waited.

I guess on the plus side I have 2 heads now and I've decided I'm going to find someone to do a face up on one of the heads so she can have the face she deserves.

Since "someone" (*cough*Sher*cough*) sent me a gift of another Bisou I've been questioning the fact that Anne is "normal" skin colour too. I ordered "normal". But next to Diana (Shushu) she's very white. So it looks like they 100% screwed up my order. At least I got it? Yeah...