Have you "rebooted" your collection?

I never rebooted all of my (too) big collection. I'm into the hobby since so many years now (wow 2009...). I've sold few dolls, I sold many of my vampire team but not all my dolls. I still have my very first doll because she is very special to me. Even if she is a little lemon doll lol.
But well, I already rebooted some stories. Like my first one. I don't have the same interests and the same ideas compared to the begining. Also, I already changed some molds for some characters because they fit better now for them.
I have so many different size (from 5cm to 90cm lol) so I don't really get bored of my dolls. =)

 

What happens here is that I will let one go and 10 more will come to fill up the void left from the one's departure

 

For years I bought, fixed, and took photos when they would first arrive. Now today I went to sew, photograph, or redress a few and thought I really don't know why I have all these dolls....

Maybe another day they will make me happy again?!?

I did think earlier today I need more functional dolls that pose and I may like them better then the ones that just have that pretty face and clothes..... probably keep them all because I find when I let go, I regret it.

 

I tend to cycle through my hobbies as well but my BJDs never have been...nitpicked and told "you're going to a new home!" I have one I am trying to do that with but I am not trying very hard. It's easier for me to go through their wigs/clothes and rehome that then the doll itself.

But I am also a very sentimental person. I have a hard time giving up anything I collected/received until my emotions aren't so strongly connected to the item. I try to tell myself it's all just stuff, it can't go with me since I am not an Egyptian Pharaoh of old. But actually getting rid of stuff is difficult. Luckily, I don't feel too much regret when I have let go of things - I just have to do it when I am ready.

 

I haven't rebooted my collection, rather it's taken a hard turn in a different direction.
I still have the Tinies and 1/6 dolls that I started with. However, I will probably start to sell some of these once my new dolls arrive and to also fund future dolls.

 

I can understand the desire for a complete reboot very well. I haven't done this with BJDs yet, but in other hobbies. Space is limited and if you are no longer satisfied with the things you have or your taste has changed, it is a liberating feeling to just get rid of everything and start over.

 

I have never thought of selling my dolls, but I can feel I have lost some of my former enthusiasm. Not that I like them any less, I still adore them, their beauty always brings smile on my face. But compared to how much time I used to spent with them... I hardly take any photos of them - while years ago they introduced me to photography, they made me buy my first semi-pro camera. But I don't think it would any make a difference if I had new dolls. Yet, it would still break me to lose them. They are treasures for me - I cherish each.

 

Never sold everything and completely restarted, but I’ve come close—I found a list of who I had in 2018 versus now, and I’ve sold 77% of the full dolls I had, 89% of the heads I had, and strangely few of the bodies?

Basically I keep my dolls in groups—Now I have 4 Worlds, DnD(sub-grouped by campaign), and my Vampire the Masquerade verse. Then I had various subsets of my “reaper” universe, and My 4 worlds storyline. And what happened was that I folded The Rverse completely. It belonged to me, and a person who hurt me, and in the end she was inextricable from it. The Rverse Contained probably 80% of my dolls. So a lot of them got out of my life because of the things they reflected, and some got repainted and hybrided and reused. But as I did that, 4 worlds was getting rewritten, to reflect that same change, because that was also collaboratively written. Shrike and aura were renamed/reshelled, and almost everyone else is new—Mora/Dacrya being the exception. That was a less emotionally bound sales spree, but it also felt very freeing.

To this day, I’m a revolving door. I sell a lot of dolls. But I don’t think I’ll ever have to do anything that extreme again, where I’m getting rid of swathes of dolls that felt wrong. Mercifully I decided to do that around when stim checks/Canada’s plague benefits were coming out and the market was active, so we got it over and restarted, and it gave me money for some of the dolls I treasure the most of my current crew.

 

Doing it now due to arthritis I have to part with several big dolls.

 

I wouldn't call it a reboot so much as a direction change. When I started collecting I had at least one doll in every size and most of them were from different companies. Then Soom started releasing their Teenie Gems with fantasy parts and I lost interest in all my other dolls. Over many years I sold off everything that wasn't a TG and grew my collection of them from 3 to 18. Having the same size and all from the same company makes it easier to buy clothes. I'm much happier with my current collection.

 

Oh my gosh YES!
I have been collecting pretty much my entire life and my tastes and money situation has changed plenty over the years. For a long time I felt guilty and strange for having collected so many different things. Dolls have always been a staple, but I have collected so many different types. One day I wrote out a list of all the different things I have collected over the years and it was insane and I was shocked. Having to put it on paper made it seem so much crazier than I thought. Just the doll section alone was quite long! I have come to terms with how I am and I look at it this way: I have gotten to experience so many different types of things and be a part of different hobby groups, I feel like I have seen and experienced quite a lot and I am grateful for that.
At this point I feel more secure in my collection than I have in a long time. I feel like I finally found as close to what I have been searching for all these years and through all the trial and error I know what I want and what I don't.
The only bad thing is that you can't check things out before you buy. I know what I like but until you hold something in your hand and feel how it moves and the weight of it I can't know if I will keep it or not. Hopefully that makes sense!

 

I feel you, selling is a lot more of a bother than buying, unfortunately. I feel so anxious about something going wrong. My tastes have changed a lot since I first got into the hobby, though, so at some point a few of these guys will need to move on and I'll have to confront my anxieties about selling!

That's a good way of looking at it! All that time was going to pass either way, so might as well spend it trying out fun things. I agree it would be so nice to be able to see and hold something to have a better idea before buying that it's actually suitable, instead of making an educated guess and hoping.

 

I'm kind of between "yes, rarely" and "no, never." I've definitely taken a break from the hobby, which has lasted about eight/nine years, and I'm slowly stepping into it again with plans to buy a new doll now that I'm able to do so again. I have thought about selling a couple of my dolls, but I could never sell my whole collection. The reason for wanting to sell said dolls is because they no longer fit what I have in mind for their characters, so I want to renew them entirely! I'm honestly still on the fence about it since I've had them for almost ten years and it would be a little hard to part with them, but I'll see if it's something I want to move forward with as I still haven't found sculpts to replace them. So overall I suppose I could say I'm in the process of rebooting a part of my collection, but certainly not (and never) all of it!

 

I made many mets with friends and I think it's the best for testing dolls. Lol. Many of my friends have MNF dolls, I love them but now I know that it's not a doll for me. I tested many dolls like that and could make an idea. ^^
It's difficult now with Covid but mets and conventions are the best to have a better idea of a doll. =)

 

I've never done a complete, raze-to-the-ground restructuring of my collection, but I'm in the middle of my second downsizing/reconfiguring right now. I realized earlier this year that I wanted to make more art, myself, but my space was already so full of dolls and plushies and other people's art, I had no room to display anything of my own! first time I downsized, I believe 5 dolls left in one go, and this time it's just 3, plus some assorted pieces.

what really interests me is the dolls who Stay. like, I understand why I'd be unwilling to part with my very first doll (who has been bodyswapped, but is otherwise just as she was!). but I have a completely untouched doll chateau grace, on the centaur body, and it has never once occurred to me to send her away, even when money was tight. I'm hoping to finally get her a faceup soon, she's earned it!

 

Well, after I were unable to access Iplehuse's store although I'm not blocked from their store according to IH, it changed my original plans that involved setting together a modern day family containing IH, Supia and Rainman sculpts.

I moved over to something entierly different! Ancient Chinese characters. I have my first, second and third doll ordered that will be the first 3 characters in an ongoing fantasy background story that I'm creating for them. Telesthesia & Dragon - Rong You, Doll Family H - Ghost General Beilan and Resinsoul - Flame.

I'm a bit upset at not being able to access IH's store, but at the same time very happy I got thrown in another direction. I found something that I really love and that fit well with my interest in Ancient Chinese drama.

I never reboot in the way that I'll get rid of my entire collection to start over, although the feeling of a first doll is always amazing. I have some dolls that I'm just too deeply attached to. Like my very first doll (DOD Luke), that started my whole hobby. And my Luts SDF65 Bliss Sweety version that became feelng like a child to me. But it may happen after many years I decide to do some changes to my hobby!

 

I've never completely cleaned out my collection or started over, I still have my 1st doll, my 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and so ons from way back in the dinosaur days of collecting. But I have sold and bought a lot over the years for various reasons (particular doll sculpt not doing it for me or working out, general financial, moves or sold because my doglet has cancer and I've needed a relatively quick way to earn money for her chemo treatments, so on and so forth). There have been some sold that I very much regret (mostly because they are discontinued and finding them again on the terms I can buy them, i.e. layaway, haha, is difficult) and then some I def don't regret or miss even now. My collection is grouped between "The Core Crews", "Space", "Forest", "Tributes", "Chibi Land", "Miscellaneous", and "Ooohh Shiny New McSparkle Pants Dolls *insert star eyes here*", etc <-while the core crew (my starters) have more or less remained the same over years, the others tend to come and go depending.

I don't just collect bjds though, I have a bunch of different hobbies I circle through, depending on my current fixation. It's a bit of a jenga at times, holes made and wobbly towers happen, but in general, no hobby, this one included, has been wiped clean from my slate entirely. I like them all too much to let them go or start over completely I think ^^;

 

I’ve about half-rebooted several times since joining the BJD hobby in 2017. I’ve never sold off completely all of them, but definitely sold a good chunk of my collection off 3-4 times now. It’s been for a different reasons each time, but in the end it was for the best, because I’m really happy with my collection as it is right now.

 

I've never done even a partial reboot with my BJD collection. I got my first in 2013, and I've sold a few since then. When my first MSD after years of just tinies arrived near the end of 2020, she made me so happy I realized all my dolls should make me that happy. I've since gradually started to refine my collection, though I've bought more than I've sold.

 

Not a total reboot. But in the last few months I am in the process of changing the focus of my collection. I started out wanting only SD size dolls, but ended up buying a good many MSD size dolls. I now realize I am just not that interested in MSDs. So I am gradually selling them off and going back to my original love for the SD size.