Getting taller dolls

I actually started with a 58cm girl and worked my way down all the way to a 16cm. I just kinda wanted a doll in each size. Then I wanted a big girl so i got a 68cm girl and that has become my favorite size. So my last 3 dolls have been 65-70cm range. I just really like the presence they have. The weight helps too. Plus as I'm sure others have mentioned they're easier to make stuff for and find props for. Unfortunately with the larger size also comes a larger pricetag lol.

 

I started with 62cm and wanted to collect in that range but not taller.. but ended up going to 70cm, as well as smaller to a little 46cm. For me it's totally about the sculpt. I think tiny dolls are adorable but every time it's a choice between a little tiny and a bigger doll; the bigger doll wins. Plus I'm a sucker for the accuracy and detail you can find in larger dolls, clothing and accessories.

 

I started with two baby sized. No kids. Got two teen size dolls then an adult. I have another adult on layaway. I'm thinking of getting a really tall boy next.

I would like to get another baby and probably get a 1/4 kid doll at some point. I have thought of getting a real puki just because they are so tiny and cute.

I think the majority I collect will be older sculpts though.

 

My first doll was an MSD... my second as well... My third? A full 70cm giant... and then a 16cm tiny. I am not very obsessively moving upwards or downwards, I simply buy dolls I love. My favorite molds and sizes in real life are SDs but at the same time I prefer the ease of play the MSD and smaller provide while I'd never go bellow 16cm as that's as low as I'd ever like to get to. That being said, while I don't want smalled than 16cm I 'am' planning to own an 80cm doll in the future -u- he'll be over 1/2 for me considering I "tower" at only 151cm...

 

All of my dolls are 46cm or smaller. I have a 70cm guy on the way though. I just felt like going for it. I don't even plan on getting another big guy like that. If anything I am going to get a 52cm doll then another 42cm doll.

 

I started with 60cm because back in 2004 there were no Tinies and only a few Minis available.

I did not want LARGER dolls, but the sizes have been creeping up despite this! I think it's because so many companies are making larger dolls now and I've always liked more mature sculpts, so it's hard for me to totally avoid getting 70cm + dolls!

I PREFER 60-65cm, though, since they are big, but not TOO big (and heavy and hard to pose and hard to find clothes for and hard to carry around!!!). But there are sculpts I really like that are in the large sizes, so I'm sort of forced to buy (ha-ha... like I'm 'forced' to buy bjds in general!).

 

My first two dolls are SD sized, one 60cm the other 62cm. I'm now waiting for my third, which will be 42cm.

For me, I just liked the idea of having a bigger doll. I'd seen them at anime conventions and the larger dolls have just always seemed more appealing. I think it's partly because they look a little more mature and I like the idea of my dolls being adults.

I like variety though so that's part of the reason why I'm trying an MSD size next (the other part being that I fell in love with her sculpt). I think I'll see how I like a smaller doll and then see where I go from there.

 

Lol, I'm moving into smaller dolls. Started in msd and pretty much thought, yup, can't do anything bigger. I love a lot of the bigger sculpts but I wouldn't have anywhere to even display them.

I've definitely moved into smaller though. Recently got two yosd sized and a few tinies. I think I can stop at 16cm. Smaller than that and the clothes are no fun anymore.

 

I'm just an "I love dolls" sort. I'm also an artist and a writer, and that's influenced my doll choices.

When I first found out about ABJDs (I have an old wooden BJD in storage at my parents' house) my reaction was "Neat new canvas" and yes, my dolls all come home blank, and I do plenty of hybrids and mods. I also had experience with a range of sizes of other dolls, having had a doll house, a Barbie collection, and a mother with an 18" Miss Revlon that I was allowed to et out as a reward for good behaviour. So I quite happily decided I wanted a bigger doll than I'd ever had before, and ordered what the website described as a 60cm boy... he actually measures in at 65cm. And here's where the writer part comes in, when he came home, one of the characters from one of my stories claimed him as his vessel, so now I'm working on dolling more of my characters, and trying to keep them as close to correct relative heights as possible. The heights of my dolls, in the order acquired: 65, 59, 69, 46, 45, 42, 52, 80... my next planned doll order will be a body for my floating head, which should make her 46cm tall, and a 14cm boy. My grail is the 105cm tall Dollmore Trinity...

I love the look and dressing potential of the large dolls (I sew for them by shrinking human patterns) but I also love the portability of the smaller dolls... the twins (42 and 45) get the most travel time in because they are fabulous posers and lightweight (that original 65cm boy is actually heavier than the 69cm). The really tiny ones aren't for holding existing characters, but rather because I have a lovely dollhouse sitting vacant... which is somewhat frustrating after all the time I spent renovating it during high school...

And for a bit of a laugh... when my mum first saw my original 65cm boy she looked him over, then turned to me and said, "He's too tall for Miss Revlon." Which, now that I think on it, is even funnier given the height difference between my grandparents...

 

This happened to me as well! I started with 40++ cm dolls but recently moved up to 60+ cm ones. Back then I thought MSD-sized dolls would be the limit for me since SD-sized ones were intimidatingly huge but it's amusing how quickly I've changed my stance on that. As I spent time in this hobby, my characters I created got older, and I preferred older characters too, and so it makes sense to progress to larger dolls. 60-65cm would be my limit, though. 70cm would be just too huge, and most of my characters share an age range so having similar heights will do.

 

I started with a 16cm and immediately bumped up to a 45

Since then, though, I've only gotten 45cm dolls. They had a nice weight to them that eased my "I'MMA BREAK IT!" Fears I had had with my smaller girl. But in my opinion, anything bigger than that is too big for me (both weight and space taken up)

 

Before I started collecting bjd I collected other dolls, most of them were big dolls, I just like bigger dolls. The only problem is finding space to display them!

 

I happen to love all sizes . My first doll was an MSD, but that was a coincidence rather than a conscious choice; I just fell in love with the sculpt. My second was 67 cm, and when she arrived I discovered than I am really bad at estimating doll sizes. She was a lot taller than I thought, and I didn't think I would be able to handle more than two of that size. Now I have, um, eight.

But I never bought them for their size. The only doll I bought for her size is my Yo-sd, Anna, because that was the only regular size I didn't have yet, and I was just so curious... My crew now ranges from 12 cm to 67. The really small ones are not strictly my cup of tea in the sense that I tend to treat them like props more than characters, which hardly seems fair. But I am exceedingly fond of anything 25 cm and upwards. Every size seems to have its own charms for me. I love how portable the 25/30 cm dolls are; in some ways I think they are my favourite size. But the dolls I like to look at most, and that I love photographing most, are my SDs. Though smaller dolls are cuter, I adore my tall dolls' adult faces and bodies. But they are heavy, which means not so portable, and it takes a measure of strength to restring them. I have so far refrained from any attempts at restringing any doll over 56 cm, but changing flat feet for heel feet has not been a walk in the park, so I'm kind of dreading the day I have to replace an elastic :/.

MSDs... well, in several ways I think of them as comfort dolls. They aren't so small as to be fiddly and it is easy to find or make clothes for them. They aren't too heavy, but tall enough to set them apart from many other types of dolls. I don't have to worry about restringing them. Easy peasy!

One of my major weaknesses in this hobby is that I love each size so much that I tend to want my favourite characters in all sizes. That is terrible. Tall Gawain, Comfort Gawain, Ultimately Portable Gawain... Wah!

 

My first doll was a 45cm and so far I'm quite happy with her size, but I am definitely aiming to get bigger dolls in the future. I feel like 45cm is a good starting range because it's kind of the "in-between" size of all the other bjds, and probably helps you figure out right away if you want more dolls to be bigger or smaller. I already have a collection of 90+ Monster High dolls, therefor anything smaller than 45cm doesn't interest me in the slightest, because I already have an army of those xD they're just not actual bjds. Bigger dolls, as others have stated, are way easier to sew for, and also fit into their surroundings better for photographs. And yes, the bigger, the better they are for cuddling! I love sitting with my MSD in my lap while I'm cruising around on the interwebz but unfortunately they can't fit into your purse, which makes traveling with them a bit harder if you're not used to carrying them around in plain sight.

 

The first doll I ever purchased was a 70cm boy. I just knew that was the size I wanted! If there are two sizes of figures, plush, dolls, etc, I'm going to pick the larger one. I also like the mature sculpts of the dolls in the 65-70cm range, so it worked out great I do like a small selection of anthro tinies, but I don't have unlimited doll funds so I usually go for the larger dolls. I had a tiny at one time but I never did anything with him so I ended up selling him.

 

Did this happen to anyone else and you gradually brought home taller dolls? Or did you start with something much larger with your first doll? What is the appeal of large dolls in the 30-70cm+ range? How did you "know/feel" that you wanted your first doll to be in that particular range?
I started right up the top end of the range, with 65-70cm dolls. For me, larger dolls were far more interesting than smaller dolls. Tinies and Minis are much more like common children's toys (size-wise), and so there wasn't really anything exciting about them. But I've never seen anything like my Soom dolls made for children (the closest contenders seem to be American Girl dolls, but they are child dolls, not lovely adults). After awhile in the hobby, I began to appreciate sculpts of smaller dolls - I actually jumped down to tinies pretty quickly (Soom's fantasy tinies are just lovely). And then I discovered Rosette girls and ended up in the mini range, and now I have my first Soom mini coming home as well.

 

I started with a MSD and am now waiting for a 35cm (dollmore).I just hope to get used to this last one before I think to go larger !

 

I started with MSD 45cm, then went smaller to 27cm, then larger to 64cm, then smaller to 29cm. I'm on a roller coaster ride of heights! Whoopee! Don't know where I'll go next. But I've fallen in love with LittleFee. :-) Soooooo . . . .

 

I knew I wanted 60cm dolls right away-- I fell in love with the Volks SD13 Tokyo Boys series and knew I wanted them all! But I first bought a 45cm one to get my feet wet with the idea of spending hundreds of dollars on a single toy. I didn't want any tiny dolls, but somehow, 5 of them have found their way here just by dint of being really really weird. I didn't want a 70cm doll either, but then Iplehouse came out with the magnificent EID men, and I had to have several of those (boy, are they a storage commitment). I also have one majestic 80cm Mecha Angel-- again, not a size I wanted, but dammit, he's a merman and he is perfect, so I had to have him too. But the majority of the collection is 60-65ish.

I like the long-legged presence and posture of taller dolls. They take up a lot of space, and the way they seem so real at-a-glance, the eye snags on them as very small humans at first. And tall guys look so wonderful in clothing; half the fun of owning them is dressing them up in fabulous fashions. Finding great clothes that are all realistically in-scale, with in-scale fabrics/patterns, and in-scale fasteners & accessories, is much easier for big dolls than it is for smaller dolls.

I also find big dolls much easier to dress, assemble, and handle than small dolls. I have big hands and long arms; I can't hug a Mini, no matter how cute he is. ^^ I like a doll who can fill up my lap. EID Super Hero men are like big teddybears to me.

 

I started with the small too...One tiny, a yo-sd, another 2 yo-sd and 2 tinies now, I'm waiting for my first MSD^^ Bigger doll are yet too big for me, but I like them, I Think one day I'lll get one^^

When I started I didn't like the mature dolls, and prefered the childs, now I like all of them!!!!