How Big is Too Big?

My biggest is 65cm and personally I'm a bit disappointed about how the companies' ranges of size are steadily getting taller. It's a bit Freudian. There need to be more 50cm range boys, they're so cute! Also a lot of clothing companies are putting more effort into bigger dolls. Dollheart's best stuff is for SD+ sizes, which I feel is a bit of a shame.

 

I have an OT doll who is 79 cm, almost the size of a Dollmore Lusion but much thinner (and oddly proportioned--an Italian art doll), and she made me *want* the Lusion I've since ordered. Yeah, huge, but also very easy to handle. I also have a couple of 42" vinyls that are bears to dress by comparison. I'm really looking forward to my Lusion, and as those bigger ones weigh 26 lbs each, the Lusion weighs 4.2 kg, which is *nothing* in comparison. Also, I've hauled around toddler kids, and there is nothing harder to deal with than those!

Pukipukis, by comparison, are mosquitoes.

I'd love a shorter life-size doll to dress, but space is an issue. I wish the makers of the 90cm bjds would make a girl, or a head with less sharp-angled features; I'd buy that.

 

As long as I have the space and time to take care of it properly, it isn't too big. I have more issues with dolls being too small or having proportions that I doing particularly favor. I don't mind any size really, as long as they look nice and have a decent variety of clothing/accessories available.

 

I don't think any doll is really too big. I love them all! But for me when I saw my friends SD, I decided they are just too big for me. I prefer anything MSD or smaller, but I do love randomly playing with SD's XP - Who knows, maybe someday I will want one!

 

I don't like small dolls personally. Big ones (75-60cm) is what I head towards.

 

Too big for me would probably be when I have trouble carrying it around comfortably, or finding nice clothes for it. Currently, my maximum is at 70 cm.

 

When you have to build an annexe just for the doll.......

Just kidding - its all personal preference - I like the dolls to look proportionate but not too life like - Lusion Dahlia from Dollmore wigs me out a bit because she's so big and could pass for a petite toddler at the right angle.... *shudder*

 

I think anything bigger than 60-65 cm is not for me
I like MSD-sized dollies, I have only one taller doll (a Migidoll Miho) on my wishlist~
I'm only 153cm (which is like...5 feet?) and 45 kg (99 pounds), a Lusion Dahlia would be more than half my height xD I'm actually often confused with a 14-15 year old, which has brought me a number of amusing situations...
There is this shop near to where I live that sells porcelain dolls. Their tallest is a 120cm child-like doll with huge puffy dress...that creeps me out every time I enter

 

I love dolls of all sizes and shapes. My largest is a 72cm Dragondoll. My smallest is a Littlefee. I wouldn't say I really have a favorite size. They're all pretty awesome. I like my big dolls, because I can carry them perched on my arm, and I like my LTF because I can stash her in my purse. Still, I have no desire to get a mecha angel or a 90cm doll. That does seem just a little big for my tastes.

 

I started out with Zaoll, and she's my perfect size as for now, which is a problem because most dolls I fall in love with are 65 and up ^^;. Right now I'm waiting for a 70cm Dollshe and I'm worried he will be too big for me..

 

To echo some previous responses, it's not so much a height problem than weight. I've a small stature naturally, so 70cm dolls look quite large next to me already, but I enjoy them so long as I don't have to carry them for very long.

I think that I wouldn't purchase any doll the size of an Idealian or similar because I was fortunate enough to have met a doll that size to realize it's not for me. I would decide that he would be too difficult to do anything with and I like to hug and play with my dolls; That size would definitely not do.

 

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Anyway,

What would be your opinion of a "life sized" BJD? I'm not necessarily meaning one that's 6 feet tall, cause holy cow that would be a lot of resin! I'm talking ones that are more like... 4 or 5 feet, the average height of someone who is maybe a teenager or a young adult. Since the 90 cm dolls are in existence already, that's the size of a child.


For example, I'm an adult and permanently at 5'4", so having something almost my height sitting in the corner of my room or on a chair could be potentially awesome or potentially frightening.

I'm going to vote for awesome because you could buy regular clothes for him/her

 

I can't even begin to imagine how much that would cost... or how I would transport it....

Furthermore... I'd be soooooo creeped out. Omg. Soooo creeped. It'd be like having a corpse in the house. D8

 

I think it'd be pretty creepy. xD And heavy! If somebody were really into the idea I suppose they could modify a mannequin to have ball joints, but I think it'd just be impractical/unwieldy.

There's also things like Realdolls, but...that's different territory.

 

I wouldn't want a lifesize doll. I think a standard sized SD is perfect for me. Also we get enough people going "hur hur sex doll" without it being life sized.

Unrelated, but in what country is 4' tall average for a teen-young adult? O_o I was 5'7" when I was 12 and only slightly taller than average in my class.

 

While it sounds awesome, I think it would be incredibly impractical in regards to the cost of the doll, shipping, and the sheer weight and challenge of dressing it. I already fight dressing a 60cm doll with slaphappy arms sometimes, I would probably be swearing up a storm doing it on human scale haha.

As an aside, full scale bjds do exist on some level already - http://www.pmoon-toushindai.com/.
Papermoon dolls are off topic (though there was someone on here many years ago with a Chii, when it was allowed) but they're basically 1:1 scale.

 

Once, back in the day, someone here on DoA had a doll custom made to be life size. Paper Moon was the company who did it, I think, and the doll (who was supposed to be a life size Chobits Chi) cost initially I think, around several thousand dollars, and then shipping. Her owner wheeled her around in a wheelchair, if I remember, and eventually tried to resell her at I'm sure half the cost, at least.

I personally thought that there was no need for a doll of that size, but I pimplore the girl for her dedication to her hobby, I guess. I like small SDs and don't tend to delve too far out of that size range.

Edit; WHAT SCHTIEL SAID!

 

I wouldn't personally see any use for a life size BJD (would that be called a 1 scale?). The appeal of them for me is to have a little human like thing that I can create and dress up etc - 'little' being the emphasis in that sentence (although I do like the look of 70cm dolls - that's as big as I'd go though!)

And I agree with the average height thing. I was 5"9 at 13, and most of my friends were about 5"3/5"4. By young adulthood (around 16-20 in my opinion) most of my friends caught me up in height, and I'm now 19 and 5"11.

 

On April 1, 2010, Crobi doll released a 1:1 scale girl called Lancelia (the notice - sorry, I can't find her order page). She could travel to you herself, dress herself, and put on her own faceup. (LOL.)

Honestly... That's the only way I think a 1:1 scale BJD would be practical - if the doll could actually take care of itself... but then you're getting into the realm of heavy electronics and Persocoms... so I don't think that would even qualify as a BJD.

 

Lol, I come from a land of small people. You 5'7" and taller are like whoah! And yeah, I forgot about the whole sex doll thing...I have no interest in that as much as the novelty of a really big doll.