How did you discover the BJD hobby?

I have an awesome friend to thank for that. We were just chatting on the Internet one day, and she brought up Dollfies out of the blue. I had never heard of the hobby before that. She starting sharing links of her favorite Dollfies and other BJDs right away, and I looked at them all with interest.

At first, I wasn't so sure about them. I mean, they seemed so expensive at that point in my life. I wasn't sure what you'd do with one! But thanks to my exposure to them, the idea had been sort of fermenting in my imagination for years, and I finally realized that my life needed a BJD.

A few years ago I started seriously looking at sculpts to figure out what kind of doll I would get. At that point, my tastes were too expensive, and I had to wait. I still was obsessed though, and enjoyed looking and talking about the dolls.

I finally got my first BJD this year when I knew I needed something new and special in my life. I have no regrets! I think it's hilarious that I used to get squeamish over even the cheapest BJDs' prices and wonder what you'd do with such a thing. The hobby has been awesome!

 

I'd just finished watching Rozen Maiden for the umpteenth time, and Googled "beautiful doll." What came up was a series of photos, most not to my liking, but there were a few in there that I thought were absolutely stunning. Clicking on one led me to a website (http://www.beautifullife.info/art-works/positive-world-of-beautiful-dolls/) and da-bu-di-bu-da's beautiful dolls. I decided then and there that I had to have one for myself, and dove into research on all the different companies and sizes of dolls. A few weeks and one photo of the Luts Senior Delf Juniper sculpt later, and I ordered my girl. Since she's arrived in the mail a few months back, it's been happily ever after.

 

Hm, tough question. I think, laterally, it must have been my little ponies While I've been aware of BJDs for goodness knows how long, I never had much cause to pay them attention until I got into toy collecting a few years ago. Through collecting My Little Ponies I met a great group of collectors of which a lot were doll owners. I became enraptured with their beautiful dolls, and the love just keeps growing. Earlier this month I met up with a friend at a pony convention and she brought her BJD with her. That was the first time I'd been able to handle an examine one of these resin masterpieces, and it was instant love.

 

I totally got introduced to bjd by my friend Madwren X3 She talks about them so passionately that I just had to go looking on my own and then I just slowly fell in love with the culture and such of them

 

I found out about the hobby by myself.
I noticed a handful of girls carrying them around at cons and displaying them at their artist alley tables. I thought they looked very interesting.
People from DeviantArt also helped pull me into the hobby by their lovely pictures i discovered on accident. ^^;

 

I have been around doll owners for years. Two to be exact, and I am finally caught with the feeling of wanting one myself. Been looking at companies and my roommate, who showed me a doll here and then invited me to this wonderful site, and that was then end. I am attempting to get my hands on a doll now. The collection begins. xD

 

I remember stumbling upon the website of Dream of Doll some 7 years ago. I really loved them yet being 12 or 13 at the time, I really thought I won't ever be able to get my hands on one of them. This hopelessness caused me to try to "move on" and forget about the hobby for a while, until more and more of my friends started owning BJDs.

My really close friend bought a DOD DOC Tender Zen and DOD DOT Luke (I think? I don't quite recall now) around 3 years after I discovered BJDs, and she let me hold them and took me to a lot of doll meets! That really cemented it for me. I knew I really wanted a BJD then but it was only now that it occurred to me that I can finally afford one. (my parents hate them unfortunately, so asking for their help has never been option for me)

 

Well, I can't remember exactly how I stumbled into this hobby.
But, it was around 2004 when I was 14. And I can remember browsing the internet and I found a picture of these dolls and instantly I was dieing to have one! I didn't know much about companies outside of Volks and when I told my mom I wanted one for Christmas she said I was nuts! She said, you're gonna give up all your presents to have a 'doll'? And She went on this weird rant about how Im gonna try to make it my boyfriend. LOL!

But I'm glad I didn't get a doll back then, I didn't know much about them or how to order them.
What my different options were. So BJDs were just something I brought up to friends to show once in a blue moon and just hoped I'd have one someday when I was a grownup.

Then, when I was 18 I attended my first anime convention! A woman had an Abio Angel doll in the dealers room and when I asked her about it she told me about the panel. I went to the BJD panel and it was so great! There was a lot of dolls there and they printed out info packets so that's how I learned about the different companies. Soon after I got my first doll!

Ive been in and out of the hobby because of financial reasons. But now Im sitting here with a doll I really really love and so I'll be workin on her for a while and it all goes from here!

 

I love reading these For me, I had always loved dolls, I had a pretty wild imagination when I was little. I kept thinking to myself, "There has GOT to be something more realistic than a barbie or American Girl (Those were the days)" and with google as my trusty tool I found BJDs. The first few I found were badly done, but after finding Luts and Volks, I was hooked.

 

I never grew out of dolls but about 5 years ago started as a serious collector of barbie and other fashion dolls. I subscribed to a doll mag called Haute Doll which also showcased bjds and bjd artists. This is where I fell in love with them. In the magazine they had a link to a site where I found beautiful bjds and I decided bigger the better. I begged my husband to let me get one and he gave in. I had no idea at the time what I was getting myself into and that there were all these sellers and even a community of collectors!!!

I also remember many a time prior trolling through flikr pictures of these dolls.

 

I have fallen in this hobby for many years, at the very first, I saw some pictures of SD NANA/SHOW in internet, so I started to find what exactly they were and how to own them.

 

I beleive that I saw a bjd on DeviantArt. I'm sure he was a Volks but I don't remember more than that. I assumed that he was probably no taller than a foot because of my experience with barbies and smaller dolls but when I did a search and figures out how large and expensive they were I moved on. Years later they colane up on one of my model horse forums so I looked them up again and was pointed to this forum and now here I am!

 

For me it was a little different. Growing up, I think my grandmother had dolls and I'd always love to look at them. My aunt even had a very beautiful porcelain doll that she kept in a glass case at her house that I was fascinated with. However, as I grew older, I drifted away from dolls and I learned to hate them because my sister had barbies when were younger and I can't stand the things. XD Then last year, my college roommate brought her doll to school with her. She let me hold him and play with him. She soon began showing me doll after doll and before I knew it, I was hooked!

 

I was really into fashion dolls a lot, but then I went on YouTube and saw a video of a lady showing off her dolly collection. One of them happened to be a Soom Sabik (my dream doll) and I was really interested in it. I didn't realize how expensive the dolls were then or how much maintenance went into them, but I love how much people customized their dolls. Eventually I got my own ^__^

 

The first time I found out what a BJD really was I was at a doll meet. I went along with a friend who had just got her first doll and I fell in love with them. I'v been obsessed ever since!

 

I was at an anime convention and for some reason my friend and I decided to go to a BJD panel. I'm glad we did! Both of us are so enchanted with the customization and the idea we could be fashion designers! The price kinda got us, we were like 14? But we found a 27cm obitsu(shush!) and started playing from their. My friend now has three OT dolls and I have one, saving up for another. We both love the hobby and are definately planning to stay

 

I saw beautiful pictures in the internet... And than my friend told me about BJDs. It was expensive for me for the first time, but now I think it's normal))

 

A few years ago someone I was in an online RPG with posted a few photos of her doll to her LiveJournal. I was interested, but at the same time a little creeped out (dolls have always creeped me out). Then I learned to knit and when I decided I wanted to start knitting doll-sized clothes I realized the SD and MSD sized dolls were a scale I wanted to work in. So I started seriously looking at them and found there are a lot I really like. So I bought one... and I have a few others I'm saving up for.

I'm still a little creeped out by dolls.

 

I'd been looking at BJDs since I was younger, always wanting my own but having no income or money to support such a hobby >w<

Just last year though, a friend added me to the local BJD club on facebook and I found that someone was selling their BJD for a pretty decent price :3 I leapt at the chance to get my boy and that was all she wrote

 

I was browsing ebay one day when i was about 12, and I don't remember what I was looking up exactly but it was something to do with clothes or shoes. All the things I liked said "for dollfie dream" or something like that. So I looked them up, and I thought they were awesome! (I don't really like the dollfies now though, lol) and I eventually found more companies that I loved