How did you discover the BJD hobby?

I was an American Girl collector and someone on the board got a Delf head (and I couldn't believe they spent more than an AG on it lol) I also stumbled on one on Ebay.
Since I prefer the concept of character dolls, they very much appeal to me (now if I could magically make enough room for more than a doll or two)

 

Well, my friends were the first to find the hobby. When my best friend finally got her own and showed me I was pretty excited. After about a year or so I finally decided that I wanted to buy one. I ended up buying two and I think I'll be done for now. ^ ^

 

I saw one on Deviantart and thought, wow she's really pretty. The more I researched the more I was pulled in

 

Some friends on Facebook were posting links to BJD sites on each other's walls ogling over these pictures of BJDs. The links showed up on y newsfeed, and seeing the little pictures that appear when you post links from Facebook, it made me curious, so I clicked the link that led to DoD's H Ducan page and just stared at him because I though he was just so beautiful. Over the next few months, I would occasionally go back to the DoD website to look at dolls when I was bored, until one day I wanted to know more about these dolls and actually get one for my own

 

One of my cousins posted a picture on fb of dollfies on display at the cosplay convention, and i loved the dolls n doll's dresses, so did some research on the different dolls really just wanting to have a doll to dress up in those beautiful dresses...i was quite hesitant to spend $500 on a doll with accessories and all...but my mum said go for it, and before long i now have a huge family of dolls!

 

I honestly don't even remember. As you can see, I've been a member since 2009, so it's been a couple years, and I don't think this is even my first account--the first was purged for inactivity. So it's been even longer than that!

In all that time, I've never seen or touched a BJD in person, so it wasn't that. I must have found it via the internet somehow...

 

I found out about them from photography on deviantART.

 

like others i saw here. it started with pictures on deviantArt. I saw them and was just amazed at them. i tracked them down and then was all sad face when i saw the price. i forgot about them for a while then saw them later that same year and was back in love again (as if i had actually stopped loving them). After convincing my parents to get me my first one, the one i fell in love with in the pictures, it of course went down hill. now i've got 24 and have been an enabler with my girlfriend and bringing her to 4 (5 but shhh)

 

I'm not sure when, where or how I first heard about ABJDs.

I'm fairly sure I came to be aware of it partly due to the internet, and partly due to my having been fairly deep into various anime fandoms during my time in high school. I'd thought them to be an interesting concept, but so very expensive(and yet, isn't that how it always begins? Lol).

High school came and went, and ABJDs were kind of earmarked as "interesting thing" but not something thought too deeply about. I had been operating under this silly misconception that they were very small, though; that most of them were Barbie-sized or smaller. It was only when I went to a convention and happened across someone carrying around a couple of SDs that I went "Wait....Are those...?" and then "...Oh my goodness I didn't know they could be that big! " because the SDs just struck me as being an awesome sized doll to be working with.

I'm pretty sure that it was shortly after that, if not in that moment itself, that I wound up getting hooked....even if it wound up being a year or two later before I finally got my first doll. XD;

 

I can't actually remember how I discovered them. I think it may have been through some cosplay friends and spotted photos of their dolls on their dA or Flickr or something.

As for how I got into them, I was looking for a way to visually represent two of my OCs that I've been using for writing for years. I think it was something like three years ago, I took one look at Iplehouse's Lee and said, 'He is perfect for Damon'. Been looking through them ever since for someone to fit his boyfriend.

 

I have had Blythe for a few years and seen photos of some BJD dolls crop up on Blythe forums. I fell for the secret person dolls (waiting on my first) and ordered a JerryBerry too.


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Back in 2007 I was browsing the internet and I stumbled upon a website. I can't even remember what I was looking for, but I have a feeling it was lolita because the site was the personal website of a girl who was into the lolita fashion. In several of the pictures, she had a Volks MSD (can't even remember which one). I sent an email asking her about it out of curiousity, she directed me to Angels Den and then told me if I wanted to learn more I should register here. So I did... kinda went from there, lol.

 

It was 3 years ago when I was bored so I watched a horror movie on YouTube called The Doll Master and I started to think how detailed and amazing the dolls were and I just started searching them and that just led on

 

Back when I was a teenager I was a big fan of lolita fashion, this was before I realized it's not the most practical or professional looking clothing. Someone linked either an Obitsu or Dollfie dressed in lolita and I googled it and I loved the dolls, but couldn't afford them at the time. Several years later, I got a job so I'm patiently saving up for them.

 

I never even imagined such a thing existed until I was searching for some amigurumi patterns and came across a Pullip in some very kawaii crocheted dresses. I immediately ordered one, and then in the search for shoes for her on etsy, I saw PukiPukis and fell in love! My Puki search led me to DoA and to find my first BJD... and I thought Pullip was expensive!!

 

I've been seeing the pictures of them on Deviantart for years and just never thought too much of them, not to the point of wanting to buy one, anyway.. especially after seeing the price tags.

Last year I started to get into Monster High, then that eventually lead to Pullips. Then, I guess from there I just started to look at bjds.. but at this point I'm definitely more of a looker than a buyer. I love so many but I can't have 'em all.

 

Was doing research for a game i was working on at the time (2 years ago) and came across a picture of Ducan (D.O.T) on tumblr... was pretty much love at first sight :P

And while i was in Japan for an exchange program (last year) , i came across some Pullips in Harajuku and decided to buy her cuz she was toooooo cute to resist. Those eyes are really really hard to say no to...
She was saying "Take me home!! -puppy eyes-" and i did..... :/

 

I was just surfing around on dA, and came across someone's page, full of dolls. And I'd never seen anything like them, ever. I remember spending hours that day looking at all the pictures, marvelling at how beautiful the dolls were, their clothing and jewellery, horns, accessories. I read everything on that page, I actually think it was Andrejas page, come to think of it, and in one of the FAQ things it mentioned DoA, so i went straight here, and luckily it was open for applications, and I made an account.
Then I read and read and read, looked at doll pictures and searched doll companies, and ended up falling head over heels for Ail's Daryl, and got her shortly after

 

I am collecting other type of dolls, very different from the BJDs lol, they are called my child dolls. I signed up on Flickr and added some my child collectors to my list of contacts. I saw their uploads of their BJDs and got too curious not to asked about them, that's how I got hooked and addicted :0)

 

I'm fairly certain it was through my Mlp forum (Mlp Arena). I joined there about a year ago and in their Dollhouse section there are quite a few BJD owners, so it was probably there I first heard of BJDs. That's also where I bought my Alyss.