Favorite/Least favorite doll you own?

My Mayfair Sweet is the pride and joy of my small collection. She is currently the only artist doll I own, but I love her because she is super unique and I am pretty sure they aren't made anymore.

 

I dont really like my doll leaves Matthew, he looked nice in the photos but when I got him I wasn't so thrilled..I mean he is nice I guess but meh. so now he just sits in the corner of a display case.

I can't really explain why I don't like him, maybe because it's a small doll ? I don't know. My absolute favourite though is my dollmore lusion (I'm saving up for another one I think haha)

It made me realise that I do prefer the bigger dolls.

 

My current favorite is between volks Cain and kurumi ...

 

Ooh this one's tough. I can pick out things i love and don't love about all my dolls, i think, but i'm not sure i have a "least favourite" necessarily. (At least, not in the crew i'm keeping!)

i think my favourite overall has to be the girl in my profile image, Aurélie (Souldoll Kuu vampire). She's one of two dolls i bought before developing a character and i absolutely love her. My only critiques are the well-known mobility issues with the SoulKid bodies (hers is the "NL big breast" version) and its weird wrists especially.
Briar (a Unoa Chibi Lilin) is a close second, and the other doll i bought before having a character! i love her so much i want to hybrid her to be closer to a 1/4 scale, then reuse the body (because i looooove Unoa bodies!)
Another might get added to the "favourites" list when my Withdoll Rachel vampire's body arrives, she'll be a DFH hybrid.

i guess if i were really pressed i'd say my least favourite might be my Pukifee Luna. i'm not a big Fairyland fan usually, and i think i got the worse end of the trade i got her in, including a few pieces of undisclosed minor damage. But she's perfect for the character i made for her, and she's utterly adorable, and i'm definitely not getting rid of her.

i've sold on most of the dolls i would actually call my "least favourite". For example, i currently have a doll and a floating head that i got that i really hoped to bond with, but they aren't a scale i can work with, so they're up for sale. i've sold more dolls than i've kept at this point, but now i've got a much better idea of what i want for my crew and which dolls i'll bond with.

 

It's hard to pick just a favorite, but I think out of my completed dolls that my Peaks Woods Vampire Fairy Mona. My favorite sculpt overall is my Peaks Woods Hunky Dory, even though she's just a head right now.

My least favorite is my Doll Leaves Betty. It's not like she's a bad doll or anything, she's just not my aesthetic and doesn't really fit in with my other dolls.

 

favorite dolls: eslyndoll, popovy sisters, chimeradoll. Unloved dolls do not live with me. If I don’t like the doll, then she leaves to live in another house.

 

Yeah... I'm thinking it's time to rehome somebody.

 

I don't have a favourite or least favourite doll, I love all of them.

Objectively, I do not like tiny dolls, but even the one tiny doll I have is not my least favourite. She was my one and only grail tiny and I feel her place is perfect in my group, being the littlest one.

I think if I could envision a doll being a least favourite, it probably means that it doesn't belong in my collection.

 

My favorite doll changes depending on who I'm handling at the time, tbh. All of my doll exist in a nebulous space where I love them all and feel nothing for them all at the same time, and whenever I focus on one, my feelings come back. Then there are those where the love no longer exists. Those least favorites tend to be ones I'm ready to sell, and like others have said, least favorites don't stay in my collection for long.

 

Favorite resin BJD is probably Maryse, because of her convenient size, poseability, and sentimental value- but I have only two (soon to be three), so I don't really have a least favorite. As other people have said, if I don't like a doll, I don't hang onto her for very long.

 

I tend to cycle through who gets the most attention at different times but my consistent faves are Michi (DZ shoyo hybrid) and Nuoyi (Doll Legend Nuoyi hybrid). I feel like Vickie and Nonoo get the least attention, although I do love their lil faces a lot so I would't quite call them "least favourite", they just get their turn less often. I also tend to prefer my dolls for different reasons, so it's not always comparable.

Like for many others, the least favourites just get sold after a while. I try to keep my collection small in numbers, which means lining them up and downsizing every now and then, but preferences change and I'd rather not have "filler" I'm unable to enjoy as much.

 

My most favored doll in my collection is definitely Aiyu, thanks to her status as my grail and being the original roots that later grew into the tree of my dolls' "story." While she's not always the doll I reach for or think about (everyone gets their turn!), she gets more than her fair share of time in the spotlight.

I wouldn't say I have a least favorite in my resin collection. If pressed, I may say Marcie, as she is the farthest from being "complete" out of my existing crew, or Phoebe, as she strays the farthest from my typical scaling preferences, or any of my floaters by virtue of being floaters, but I wouldn't say I'm lukewarm on any of them, let alone actively dislike them. As with others, dolls I'm neutral-to-negative about don't stick around for very long, not when the money gained from selling them can be used to fund something I like better.

 

Whoever I'm handling at the moment is my favorite, lol. Though I think Minka (Miyadoll Vivienne), Saga (DF-H Xiao Chan) and Aino (Dollmore Illua Lillia) get the most attention. Minka and Saga I'm the most emotionally attached to, and Aino's face fixes all my problems in 0.5 seconds.

Least favorite at the moment is probably Pihla (Monday/Qianhe Zhizhi) but that's only because of my internal struggle of wanting to mod her face some more but really not wanting to redo her faceup...
(Truthfully, my newest addition, a Huajing and Fatemoons hybrid is the least loved in my collection, but that's only because I haven't had the time to give her a face up or make a wig or clothes. Who knows how obsessed I'll become when I get to paint her)

 

My favorite is soolee Drayton (my little Monica vampire Chloe and volks ludo is a close second favorite)
I don't have a least favorite but vampire Philip is the hardest to deal with because he's more realistic than all my other dolls. He's the only non anime doll I have.

 

Some of my Grail dolls are my least favorite dolls due to their height. I still want a Volks SD16/17 Yukinojo, but I didn't buy him due to his height (and obviously his cost). It was too cumbersome for me as he is super tall and I'm pretty short. I regret not getting him and I still want him because he is handsome and got me first interested in the hobby, but his height will remain an issue for me. Same with my other Grail doll Volks SD13 Amakusa. Took me years to get him, but his height makes it hard to figure out where to put him as he is pretty tall and his fullset outfit kind of lends itself to be displayed prominently with him standing up. Love him and am grateful to have him, but he is a tall boy for me. Like, I really love the tall male BJDs, but their heights are not practical for me.

My longtime favorites were SD10s sizes. But now I find myself favoring Volks DearSD sizes and my one Volks Yo-SD. I have chronic pain now so having something that is easier to carry and lift and is less awkward for me to hold is valuable compared to where I would carry around an SD10 wherever. I miss lugging around my favorite SD10, but I can't anymore. My aesthetics will remain for SD10s, SD13s, SDGrs, and the occasional SD16/17s, but the DearSD and Yo-SD sizes are just so convenient.

Still love anything themed fantasy/sci-fi...but I don't like how much those usually cost. Hahaha.

I also don't like how the BJDs I really like and want tend to be limited editions that are hard to even get. Like, it is a breath of fresh air when I really like a standard doll that is easily accessible to purchase. But it is always those LEs.....My Grail list grows.

 

Dropping my two cents in here

For me my favorite fluctuates because it is hard to separate character from doll. But one of my consistent favs is Nicodemus(switch dojin on old senior self body). I mean all the elaborate lacy, sheer clothing / elaborate jewelry, all the nice eyes and best wigs go to him. Probably because he is one of my oldest OC’s and I spoil him rotten.

My least favorite has got to be my Notdoll Citron bleu who is a shell of Diogenes another old OC. While I am totally in love with the head, I despise the body and with notdoll resin colors being so unique I’ve never found a pinky white resin boy body to match. So alas he says in a box….

 

My favorite is/has always been/will always be, my first doll Nadeko (Standard VOLKS SDG Megu).
Up until recently I would have agreed that choosing a least favorite isn't possible but unfortunately that's no longer true.
My least favorite is beyond a doubt a doll that was gifted to me a few years back. I tried to enjoy her and did for a time but the fact that I never truly wanted her in addition to the person who gifted to me and I have growning apart and are no longer being on speaking terms (as was their decision) has made it even more difficult to enjoy this doll.
I would love to re-home her someday soon but I don't currently have the time to research her current market value nor continuous bump a sales thread to do so.

 

With my doll family being in the triple digits, it's literally impossible to pick a singular favorite. My first two dolls always come to mind, Makenshi and Caspien, and of course Akihito who is so so special to me for so many reasons...but when I go through my list I can easily pick out 20 I couldn't live without who are so deeply loved beyond all the rest. (Caspian, Ember, Shae, Zeph, Miki, Spencer, Ripley, Kris, Kain, Suzabelle, Korin, Arabella, Octavian, Len, Zaeem, Etheirys, Ruben...) I brought them home and they've never left for a reason. It is a mix of character love and doll love, as some on this list are so derpy and have so many issues with posing or breakage (looking at you Spencer..) and objectively they shouldn't be as much of a favorite as they are but their character and overall charm mixed with sentimentality and the experiences I've had with them make them as loved as they are.

Picking least favorites is harder, as I guilt myself over it. But that said...I have a very easy least favorite. My Luts Abadon, Louie. He was bought as the Commander of Blue Knights fullset (minus faceup) and he was awesome in that form. His character helped shape my entire doll world that I have today and he very quickly formed a bond with one of my other dolls. However...his story changed and I fell out of love with his knight body that was stuck in armor boots all the time which was super limiting, so I sold his body and outfit and replaced it with a SSDF body. But...I hate this body for him. It's too short and his hands fall off all the time, and posing it just isn't fun for me. I don't feel the same vibe from the character, and it's changed the relationship he has with the other doll he was bonded with. It's to the point now that I have wanted to sell him for years, but he's tied into my overarching doll story and needs to be in a few more photostories before I can let him go. This is a problem I have created for myself.

Other than him though, I have a handful of dolls who feel sort of empty. They are pretty to look at but they don't speak to me and I don't play with them much if at all. They're low on the list and will likely be rehomed when they no longer spark joy for me. Generally though, I have to really fall out of love with a doll to let them go. Probably why my numbers are so high.

 

i really love my entire doll collection; each doll has their own unique little niche in it and i would honestly feel like something was missing from the whole if any of them were gone.

that said-- i do have a few that would probably qualify as particular favorites. Matilda, my Islanddoll Noah girl, just because she's so ridiculously gorgeous; Vira, my Iplehouse Audrey, because i love the character she represents and i see so much of that personality in her sculpt; Janet, my Dikadoll Aqua girl, because every one of my dolls has their own personal style and hers is so fun to make clothes for.

i don't have a least favorite; even as i was listing the three i just mentioned, i kept thinking of things i really like about all the others. i guess if i had to pick something...my first bjd was a hybrid of an Elfdoll Rita head on a Mirodoll body, and that body was horrible, so much so that I gradually replaced bits of it to make it less sucky. now she has Iplehouse hands and Angell-Studio heel legs. she looks much nicer, but the whole mess is, shall we say not a fantastic poser...and the Mirodoll resin has faded and yellowed much faster than her other parts, so even though the whole hybrid matched well when i put it together, i've had to take her apart and do a bit of a color refresh with dye on just her Miro torso/arms. so her body is definitely a pain and my least favorite doll body...but i can't say that the doll herself overall is my least favorite! i still think she's just as beautiful as i did when i decided she was going to be my first bjd-- probably more so, since over a decade later my doll styling abilities are way improved.

i did have one doll head years and years ago that i didn't keep-- she was the second doll i ever got, a 5Stardoll Becca. i still have her body, but it has a Supia Muriel head on it now. she was so pretty in her sales photos but in person her head just turned out to be way too stylized/cartoony/unrealistic for my taste, especially next to Elfdoll Rita. i'd tried to mod her, but as she was my second doll ever and my first attempt at modding, it came out like butt. i guess in terms of all the dolls i've ever owned, technically she'd be my least favorite, since she's the only one i didn't keep/don't still have.