Figuring out what doll size suits you.

My first doll was an MSD. I had a doll plan for a mini, a tiny and an SD. After I got my SD I felt like he was a bit too big, (even after handeling my friend's SD numerous times) but now I like soooo many more SD sculpts than MSD sculpts. I still love MSDs, though. I love their size~ I also own 3 tinies.... Tinies are just too cute! Easy to carry around, too. Right now, I don't think I could bond with a doll taller than 65 cm or smaller than 20 cm. But who knows? My tastes may (and probably will) change in the future!

 

For me it was all about trial and error.
I started with several slim msd's in my first year. I really found them pleasant to handle and their weight was very comfortable.
In that time I had also purchased a fairyland Puki, twice (they're around 10cm tall) and had to give them up because they were too tiny for me. I just couldn't do as much with them as I wanted.
So for a long time (about two years) I kept collecting slim msd's and I kept telling myself I would never get an SD. But then I fell for one and eventually bought it. She just confirmed my dislike for SD's, so after that I just stuck to slim msd's again and I found that I couldn't stay away from Littlefee's (yo-sd).
This hobby was mostly about buying and selling for me it seemed. I would fall in love, but something was always wrong so I ended up selling most again.
But then I got myself a Zaoll, which is 52cm, and she was the first SD that stuck with me. I got her almost two years ago now I believe. She remained my only SD for about a year, until I found an SD limited head I just had to have.
ANd that's kind of how my collection literally started growing. That head is on a Supia body, and is about 62cm tall. I also got a Limhwa and am waiting on a Supergem body. I will also get an SD boy in the future (need to find him a body) so my slim msd's will be quite outnumbered in the end.
I never thought my collection would turn out this way.
SD's are a lot less fidgety and you can work out details better in their scale. But the weight of them has a lot to do with it. For instance, I love some of the larger Iplehouse dolls, but they weigh way too much for me to carry around sadly.

 

I got an MSD first and I really love the size. I am planning on a 60 and 70cm but most of my dolls are MSD. Its not like I don't like the larger sizes or smaller sizes but I just love MSDs. It might change later but up till recently I haven't liked an SD enough to buy it. Most of my dolls are/will be MSD.

 

I purchased my MSD Kid Delf girl first, because I was (and still am) smitten with her sculpt and she was the only girl I could afford, and fell in love with the size. It's really my ideal dolly size, and I just love the proportions. Personally, I believe MSDs are the most versatile, and can assume many "ages". I won't consider acquiring a doll larger than, oh, say fifty-five centimeters in height (about the size of a large MSD, so yay, Zaoll Luv fits that criteria!! ), or smaller than twenty-four (I'm partial to YoSDs, too '3'). MSDs are always gonna be the perfect size for me.

 

For me, how the doll looks and whether or not it makes me feel like "yeah,that's totally my character." matter first then size. I like to vary them in size. Since Caesar, my Chiwoo,is young and he's my first doll, I opted to get MSD because it fit the "young factor" and he would be easier for me to carry around. However,I do have older characters that I would like SD because most SD molds that I like have a mature sense about them or carry themselves in a similar way that my character would.

I don't see myself getting anything smaller since I'm terrified I'd lose it, but things change so you never know

 

My first resin bjd was a tiny, like really tiny...

I have then fallen in love with a yosd doll... not available at that time... and I went searching to discover some wonderful msd sculpt around. I was quite afraid of the size... but I went for them anyway. Now I have only one msd, Seola DT, at home and I am waiting for the others to arrive.
I think I will be able to get used to msd size...

But I still thought I wouldn't own a SD because it was really too big for me... until I've found Chrom... or to be more exact his paws...

So now I have a tiny, a msd, some sd parts and I am waiting for more tiny, yosd and msd to come.

About Chrom paws, I think I'll take a little time to get more used to msd size first, I wouldn't mind seing SD for real, have to check the next dolly meet around...

 

I think that one of the hidden factors in finding the size that works for you is what you are going to DO with your dolls. If they're one big universe, and you plan on doing a lot of photo stories with them together, then you want them to be in scale. So a 27cm doll should look like a little kid, and a 60cm doll like an adult. You wouldn't want a Limhwa ToYou Sara, because even though she's 27cm, she looks like a grown girl, not a kid.

If you want your doll so you can dress it up in a lot of elaborate gothic punk outfits, then a Puki is probably not for you. That style of clothing is uncommon in that size, and they are harder to sew for. But those kinds of clothes are readily available for the 60cm market, so an SD would be a good choice. Then there are people who buy all different sizes for different reasons. So they have an army of Pukis that wear little kiddie clothes and live in a dollhouse, as well as SDs in gothic lolita fashion.

Personally I have SD and tinies, and love both. All of my dolls are mature looking sculpts, so they don't interact with each other, as they are not in scale. My 14cm Elfdolls are fairies that live in a lantern in the real world. My 1/6 27cm fashion size dolls live in a Barbie house that is their real world. My SDs stand around and look pretty and get their clothes changed a lot.

I don't have any MSDs, and I don't plan to. As much as I love Unoa Sist, I can't afford a new size of doll that would need yet another size of clothes, eyes, wigs, and accessories. So that is more of a financial decision that anything to do with how much I would like the size.

In the end, sometimes a particular doll just grabs you. I was thinking of getting out of SDs altogether when I saw Iplehouse's rose gray Luna. Even though I was afraid she'd be too big for me, I bought her. And when I got her I was initially shocked at her size and proportions (those hips!). But I kept playing with her and handling her, and now I love her just as much as my tiny dolls. She doesn't even feel heavy to me anymore. So you just never know!

 

Well, I started on Barbies as a kid, so 1/6th was my first real doll experience and it was nice. I bought a Hujoo 1/12th next because I wanted to try strung and she was the cheapest I could find and looooved it. Blew 1/6th completely out of the water. But she was so small and I wanted to try something bigger. Ended up with a 1/4th BBB Ariel and I was sold. My Aisling was my only resin for almost a year when I decided I wanted to go for the big one. I had been eyeing 1/3rd for a while and decided to try a 70cm, my Fionan. He's a little big and finding patterns is infuriating, so I decided to scale down a little and went for a 60cm. Perfection.

The most surprising part for me is when I first started it seemed that everybody had a size they stuck to and I figured that once I tried a few I would find the one for me, but in all honesty I love all the sizes except 1/6th. They all have their appeal and I doubt I'll ever move to just one size.

 

What a great question! I remember the first time I was introduced to a BJD...I was totally shocked at the size and weigh of the doll that it totally turned me off to BJDs. I was dead set against owning a huge, oversized and overweight doll. But, after some quick research and a friendly BJD doll shop by my apartment, I realized that BJDs came in all sorts of sizes and I could see first hand who and what worked best for me.
I think that MSDs and minis are really the best size for me and my photography. I find it more difficult to photograph large dolls than smaller ones.

 

I started off with an MSD sized doll when I first got into bjds. I didn't really know what I wanted so I just got something I could afford and that I thought was cute. I really didn't have any size rules or preferences yet. And then I saw an SD size doll on the marketplace here and decided I wanted him because I thought he was adorable.

After that I pretty much just got whatever size as long as I liked the look of the doll, but I realized a few years down the line that anything smaller than ~60cm didn't get much play time. So I sold most of them and now only have two smaller dolls. I'm really not sure why I prefer the larger dolls, but I've found that I do so that's what I tend to get now.

 

Just choose the one you like, no matter what size s/he is. So my first one happens to be a 1/3 size boy. But I always like 70cm dolls so I ordered another 70cm body... Anyway, even if you find you want another size you can always change the doll's size by giving him/her a new body

 

At first I wanted to get a 50 cm doll but then I saw a bigger doll and thought that than one would be ok...and the I saw another one that I like way more than the other one and I'm saving up the money to get it but I don't know at this rate maybe I'll see another one I like more,they just keep getting bigger xD.

 

My first dolls were a pair of MSDs which I picked partially because they were the size of doll I'd seen the most of at the time, and because they weren't as expensive as the larger sizes. But now I stick to MSDs mainly because I feel like the larger sizes are just too much doll for me. I'm pretty short, and a 50~60cm doll would be as tall as my torso. o.o

 

I started the BJD hobby with an MSD sized doll and then a few months after, I bought a YoSd. I actually found myself spending much more time with my little Yosd. My MSD on the other hand, was strange for me to handle. I never enjoyed lugging him around anywhere and he was never fun to pose or to take pictures of in comparison to my little one. Oddly enough, I decided to sell my tiny and get a Minifee. I was pretty intrigued by their bodies, and figured maybe a "slimmer/smaller" MSD would be better suited for me. Well, despite having awesome posing abilities he still had that same awkward, big and stiff feeling my first doll had. In the end, I sold both my MSDs and went back to YoSds. xD

 

I like MSDs and SDs. My first doll was an MSD-sized doll, and while I bought my doll due to price, many people actually find MSDs easier to hold, care for, keep. When I got my doll, I thought she was a good size, but I'd had bigger dolls that were around the same height as standard SD's are, so I figured why not.

Big difference for some reason. He might be a bigger doll, and he might not have as much of the ease to take out and put back as the MSD, but his size is so much more convenient. He's much easier to sew for because he's bigger - sewing for my MSD is hard.

I don't think I'd want anything bigger than that, like a 70cm, and I know I don't want a Lusion which is way too big. Anything after 60cm and it looks like a small, very skinny, real person beside me, and that might prove to be a tad unsettling.

 

My first doll was 45cm. He's a little iplehouse boy, and I do quite like him and I loved him when I got him and when he was my only doll. Then I finally got a 65cm doll from iple... well, I still do like my Louis, but I find myself growing away from him now. Part of it is that he simply doesn't pose as well, part of it was I meant him to be mature, but he doesn't hold up to that image so well against the other doll I have. I'm trying to bond with him but if things don't work out I'll sell him.

I'm getting a pukipuki I bought on impulse-- I'm not sure if I'l be comfortable with it, but I'm hoping I will as they are so adorable and something that small just seems delightful. (BJD in my purse!? why sure!)

All the doll meets in my area are kinda far away for someone without their own car, so I just buy dolls I'm interested in. I thought my 65cm doll would be much too big for me but he's more comfortably sized. Personally, I like his weight and how he handles-- it takes more than a breeze to shift him when I'm posing him, and the slightest touch to a limb doesn't send it flipping about.

 

i have all sized dolls, yosd- msd and sd and i am really attached to my sd doll. i like msd dolls but love sd's the most.

 

I've wanted two dolls of every size, though I originally lumped 60-70cm altogether but now I want two 70cm range dolls and two 60cm range dolls. I dunno what I count my Zaoll as... @_@

I started with a 45cm doll. I figured the middle would be the best choice and i was originally worried about the big dolls since I'm a short person. I've since moved larger. My big dolls make my first doll feel so tiny!

On the larger end, 70cm is kind of pushing it. So heavy... On the lower end, my cutoff is "too tiny to use a sewing machine for their clothes."

I can't handle the super tiny dolls because doing their clothes is too hard and sewing for my dolls is one of my favorite things to do, so I find it troublesome to bond with a doll I can't sew for.


I think the 50cm range is my favorite. My Zaoll's size feels just right. 60cm is big 70cm is BIG. 80-90cm is probably too much.

I want to try 26cm since they're so adorable, but I don't think I'll ever go below that size. I sewed some clothes for tinies while trying to make up my mind to make sure sewing for them would not frustrate me the way sewing for an 11cm doll would.

 

Being as I hadn't been able to actually see a BJD in person before I bought one, I just had to wing it when it came to buying my first doll, who was an SD. Once she arrived, I couldn't think of having any other size than an SD - I love their proportions. I might change my mind later on down the track (some of the puki's are just so cute!), but for now it's just SDs.

 

Hm.. never seen any BJD in real before I bought my first.. so I started with SD 60cm size and well found out I even wanted to go bigger ^^ so the second doll was actually 72cm.
Most of my crew is now 60cm< and I am quiet happy about it. Though there will be a Teeny-Event from Soom and that might actually be were I get my first Teenies... am curious. But I guess the major part of my collection will always be over 60cm.