How did you discover the BJD hobby?

I think I stumbled across a box opening on Youtube and immediately fell in love with everything about them!

 

The first time I saw BJD on Deviantart five years ago. And I messed she with a real model.
When I realized my mistake, I signed the verdict
Since then I BJD positive...

 

My best friend got really into them and kept linking me to pictures and all that. I actually kind of hated them at first and thought they were weird, but they grew on me and now I absolutely adore them (and so does she!)

 

I found this hobby because a favorite character of mine is made into limited DD like around 3-4 years ago when I was still student and the price pop out eye
After researching dolls, finally found put about BJD and fallen in love while seeing lot of picture in internet. Since then I'm so hooked with the doll and finally can afford one ^^

 

I'm not entirely sure WHERE I first found them, as I discovered them many, many years ago. I started to consider actually buying one when my best friend bought one and took him over to my place where I could look at the cutie in awe. Since then I've ordered my first doll, and... Here I am!

 

My story is funny.
My sister is an artist, specializing on traditional arts and clothing. She likes sewing.
So several years ago they were given an assignment to make a variant of traditional clothes of a small size, like for a doll. She was going to use a doll head on the top of a stiick to imitate a human. And I got an idea to get her a small wooden mannequin to have somewhat a real body. Than I searched through the web and found that there are dolls that look much better then wood, they have faces and mooved better. This way I found Momoko dolls. But very soon I discovered even more beautiful, humanlike dolls, more customizable and moving better that Momoko dolls. These were my first steps in BJD world.
My sister still owns that first Momoko doll that I gave her as a gift. She is not so interested in BJds but she is not judging me for liking them, often ready to give an advice on sewing or help with artistic materials.

 

I saw a thread on another site asking if there were other collectors around and when I clicked in and saw all the pictures I fell in love. I always liked dolls but my bjds are much prettier then anything else I own.

 

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I was first obsessed with the anime Rozen Maiden, watched the entire anime and bought the manga. I loved the dolls so much I kept reading about them and Googling when I see the Rozen Maiden Pullip dolls. More searching was done and suddenly, a wild BJD appears!! I spot the Shinku, Suigintou, Hinaichigo and the rest of the crew all "come to life" in BJD form, which were I think SD-sized and just the way they are portrayed in the anime! Since they were event dolls or whatnot and so extremely expensive at the time, I started looking at many other alternative BJDs and that's how it snowballed into a new hobby for me :P

 

ahahaha an evil friend showed me her dolls and prompted me to buy a doll, and then came my pukipuki pongpong (Lila)... and now I can't stop to see bjds

 

I remember first seeing them when I started going to anime and comic conventions. I thought it was kinda weird initially, until I looked at them up close and saw how gorgeous they were! Now I make it a point to visit the doll meet up every time I'm at a convention, to see all the different dolls and a few familiar ones. I also enjoy the photography posted on tumblr, it makes me want one so bad!

 

I saw Andreja face up video and I thought they were really pretty. Currently attempting to get a job and save for my first doll.

 

Because of my Grandma and later my aunt She once showed me an article about them and how they could be changed and stuff and the clothes that could be made for them. But at that time I wasn't really a doll person, but somehow it got stuck in my head. After a few years I saw them at a fair and was reminded of them again. I asked my mother for one, but she said it was way to expencive (can't really blame her) So it mellowed out again, but then my aunt showed up with a beautiful Iple house bjd and I was won over. Now I'm waiting on my first dolls to arive hopefully in a few weeks.

 

I find this funny because it's so similar to my own. I met my friends Tip and Zia almost six years ago in an RP group, and we were playing a hero game. Tip was super excited because she just got a doll of her character. And I thought he was pretty cool. (He was cute too but I know the character and he'd get all squirmy if I called him cute. XD) Over the years, I've watched her collection grow and Zia begin one, and I always wanted one myself but never... really took the initiative. Then about two and a half years ago, my friend Akai got a doll body from Dollzone and didn't think it fit her character. At the time, I was in love with the Helen mold but wanted a different face up. So after much thought (and my first doll meet), I purchased the body from my friend and ordered the head from Mint on Card. Akai also did her face up. That's how I got Zee. Zee has a twin brother named Zack--who is owned by Tip, the friend who introduced me to the hobby. So it really comes full circle.

 

My first time seeing them was the first year I went to Anime Iowa. A convention in my home state and there were two people there who were walking around with each of their dolls on their arms and I was interested in them. So I asked what they were because they were very beautiful. They told me and said there was a meet up and one of them was a dealer and she handed me a card just in case I was interested in buying. I have since then been interested but have never had the money till the spring of my first semester of college to buy one and now I plan on buying at least one a year if not two. Until I have all of the ones for my story.

 

at first I just thought they were beautiful but could not afford them..

I think it because I love ACG so much, so when Dollfie Dream Doll comes to me.. and the character is whom I love... I just buy it!!!!

 

I saw a doll on deviant art and thought it was human. Clicked the picture and realized that it was a doll. Put it on my list of things to someday get, but I wasn't planning to do so soon. But I kept going back to look at those dolls, and as a major art lover I got hooked. I looked them up and found volks first, and the price tag turned me off. Next, I found Iplehouse, and truly fell in love with bjds. After seeing Iplehouse's dolls I knew there was no going back, price tag or no. (I was only 15 then, and jobless) I looked for cheaper options, but Resinsoul's dolls didn't appeal to me. Instead I resolved to save and get a doll I truly loved. in the meantime, I started to do research, and researched for about 5 months before then going to a convention and attending their bjd panel, where I met my future bjd comm and interacted with dolls for the first time. From then, I was totally hooked, and two months later, after painstaking research, I made a hybrid-DC Colin on a resinsoul body-and purchased my first bjd! A year later, I still love him to death, and now have three dolls and a floating head. (For being jobless, I seemed to have a penchant for making money, as I couldn't imagine asking my parents for something so expensive) Now though, I do have a job, and I'm preparing to buy the first doll I ever fell in love with- Iplehouse Douglas.

 

I remember when i was about the age of twelve, I went to my first anime con and at a table in the middle of the room was a table full of beautiful dolls. I went over and ended up asking a bunch of questions. I found out what they were called and from the moment on i have been pretty obsessed. I am so happy to have found the hobby, and the other people who partake in it.

 

Over 10 years ago is when I first learned about BJDs. I was trying to find work as an animator and was browsing many artists' and illustrators' sites for inspiration. Somehow I found Aimee Major's website and loved all her drawings. From there I found her page about Super Dollfie dolls. I found them pretty interesting, but this was back when they were extremely hard to get and of course I didn't have a job so I wouldn't conceive of getting any expensive dolls.

I forgot about the whole thing until recently when I was browsing a hobbies subforum at a site I visit and found a thread about BJDs, with pictures of awesome modded dolls and lots of links... and now I have a good job, so I've bought my first BJD with two more on the way

 

For me.. I found out about them through my classmates who collected Blythe dolls...
There was this doll event going on and he invited me and another friend along with him..

It's an event that takes place every 2 years, and he went 2 years ago.. (mainly to buy wigs)
Let's just say, after the event, we all fell for them bjds and promised each other to own one & bring them along, when the event takes place 2 years later...
& we did. ^^

 

I got interested in Heisejinyao artwork and while browsing her deviantart gallery i saw pictures of her dolls and then i already planned to buy one for myself someday. Later on one of yaoicons i saw the real thing and it confirmed my feelings about having one.