How did you discover the BJD hobby?

Ok, I don't really quite remember where I discovered them, but, being a doll lover(though a conflicting doll phobia tries to ruin them for me), I was naturally curious. So I consulted the all knowing Google(lol), and one of the first things that came up was a list of different BJD sites.
I then found the Ringdoll site and fell head over heels in love with their Spencer mold, and am now currently saving up for one of my own(except instead of the boys body mine will have the 59cm girls body).

 

:/ I've known about them since at least 9th grade, but never really had interest in them until recently. Once I began handling them I began to really like them. Now it's just a matter of getting the money together in order to afford one. Obviously living expenses are going to take priority (I've given up some of my cheaper hobbies to help though).

 

One of my friends has four dolls, and she will always sharing the photos of her dolls to us..when I first time saw the dolls, I fell in love with them, then I asked her which is that doll called, and where I can get the dolls.

 

Koffeey bought her first doll maybe two years ago (or a bit more), and because of her I met with BJDs. But before it I had seen dolly pictures without knowing anything about them.

 

It first started in 2008 when i went to my first anime convention. I was first drawn to the artist alley where I saw quite a few artists who had them sitting beside them. Some selling little accessories for other BJD's. I don't know why, but I didn't want to approach them about their dolls. Perhaps I was just overwhelmed with the how many people were at the con and I didn't really talk at all without my friends around.

The next year at the same convention I saw the dolls again only down in the dealers hall for sale. They had actually caught my friends eye first and she asked them about the dolls. After hearing the price we were both a bit apprehensive in actually buying one. At the time.

Now I have been painting re-born dolls which reminded me of the BJD's (not that they are anyway similar other than being dolls). The re-born dolls were cute and fun to paint; they just weren't the type of thing I would keep. I was trying to learn more about BJD's but was having a hard time since it was a bit overwhelming for me.

Right around the time I was doing this my friend was also getting into the hobby. She had her doll picked out and everything. I believe it is now on layaway. Anyway she had done a lot better at finding out about these dolls and shared the information she had found. After getting a little bit of help I had no trouble getting to know about the hobby and all the things one should know about the hobby.

I currently don't have a doll to call my own, but am saving for my first doll.

 

My story is pretty similar to Reine-de-Scorpion's- I first saw a bjd on DeviantART, where I have been a member for going on 5 years now, and was greatly intrigued by the beauty and realism of a Luts doll. At the time, I had no idea Luts was just one of many BJD companies out there, but I really wanted to get a Kum-ran. Unfortunately it was too expensive at the time, so I never got one.

Fast-forward a few years to the present, and I am a happily married woman, and I happen to stumble upon Junkyspot. Once I started browsing the site and doing a little more reasearch, I learned more and more about BJDs, and was finally able to get my first one in November. I still have yet to purchase a Kum-ran, but honestly it's okay with me- there are several other sculpts I like more that I never would have known about before. ^^

 

it was back in 2007. I went to a barn and noble as i did back in the day a lot. I was scanning the manga book and reading for hours! I moved to the back and were the magazine were. i looking a new type which it still was in the US but sitting on top of the stack of them was a new doll fancy! i pick in up and in the back pages of the magazine was these sweet looking dolls i have never seen before! they did faces up and made clothes for these kind of dolls! i went home a looked up more about them and googled so many picture. from then on i was hooked. I love my family now and happy i picked up the magazine and gave it a look over.

 

i knew them since i was in 17 , i found out some clothes and kimono for the BJD is so pretty and i save a lot of their pictures.but i have forget after my computer broke down and send to factory to repair. Few years later one of my friend has sent me their dolls picture,and i search through the internet and i knew they called BJD,and they are cute and adorable, i did not found out they creppy at all.After two year my friend told me she wanted to sell one of her BJD's and i asked her to sell it for me...Now i have about 4 BJD's now

 

I saw them on a Art site ( not sure if allowed to name sites ) and thought some was really odd and sum really coo. Then thought nothing of it. I won a Tonner Jessica Rabbit in a silly competion lol and wanted to dress her up in underwear to start taking pics for said site, Now i am confused and needing help on a GOOD BJD to use, bench why i am here

 

I discovered them by searching the word 'sd dolls'

 

I remember a long time ago reading an amusing story about someone having to deal with an awkward mailman about her giant doll, and I think it was a Soom. (I can remember that from years ago, yet I can't remember anyone's name =.= )
but I didn't really understand what a bjd actually was until early last December when I was looking at other painted dolls on DA like monster high dolls and stumbled across bjds again, and I have been stalking certain sculpts ever since c:

 

My sister sent me a link to one of the doll sites about 3 years ago and I went on and thought who in their right mind would pay $600+ for a doll; that's just insane. They were beautiful dolls. Have no idea what site it was. Then, my niece moved in with me in order to go to college and started getting her doll collection. Now I'm seeing them live and in person. Still thinking too much money involved to be realistic. Well, as tax time approached, and I went and had my taxes done, and since my niece moved in, my refund was quite a chunk of change, there I am sitting at the computer searching for my own BJDs. Guess what? Within 3 months, I was the proud parent of four MSD size dolls and I'm now looking at the SD size guys. I'm hooked, and $600 is not too much to spend on a doll. What was I thinking?

 

When I was young, I saw an article in a magazine, Time I think, about Volks. I instantly fell in love, but they were too expensive, so I was forced to forget about them. Then a couple months ago, I rediscovered Volks on ebay by accident. I fell in love again, only to find out that they are 2 times more expensive than they were when I was 10! I couldn't believe it! So now I just bit the bullet, and purchased one. My MSD Myu is worth every single penny!

 

First saw them online on Deviantart. But just was like "oh look, a doll." *searches for fanart*

Later, saw some at a con. "Oh look, some dolls."

Then curiosity struck. The rest is history.

 

Browsing flickr.

 

A friend showed me PWs website and told me she wanted one (Goldie).
I said that they were really pretty and I wanted one too (Lavin), but I never thought I'd buy one because of the price.
I never thought she'd buy one either

A few months later she had not only gotten a Goldie, but also a WU Lottie and I came to her house and we played a little with them.
It was here I REALLY felt like I wanted my Lavin. So I saved up money, looked around lots of websites, because I couldn't know that Lavin really was the one.

A few months later I bought Lavin, and am already planning two more dolls ahead.
I'm really happy she showed me BJDs, and we have this in common apart from everything else now. She is one of the two owners I know IRL.

 

There was a post about bjds on omonatheydidnt@lj about sculpts mimicking 2NE1 and there was a discussion about them (amidst all the "omg freaky doll") on the comments with links and stuff so I clicked and I saw some really beautiful sculpts (it was a ninodoll site). And I had to learn more about them so I googled like mad and tadah! It was a good thing that membership to DoA wasn't moderated at that time too.

 

I was watching someone's art blog and some pics of the person's BJDs came up. They were so pretty, I searched them for a few days and then forgot about them for a few years. Then my best friend online got addicted to BJDs over the summer and re-introduced them to me~ Since she and i weren't on DoA, i did most of my searching on ebay at first, fell in love with Dollzone Yue there~ then discovered about company sites and now I have a long wish list of SD size~ >w<
Now i'm trying to convert my friends in RL into BJD lovers so i have people near me~ One seems really interested~ >w< but yeah... that's it~ Nothing special.

 

I think I first saw them on DA, but I didn't really pay much attention to them other than, of course, realizing that a lot of them were beautiful! I started seeing a lot more of them when I became more involved in other doll communities, but I never thought I'd get one. Now I've got one, with one on the way, and more on my want list, haha!

 

Not very original, but Deviantart.