How Important to You Is It That Your Doll be Absolutely Unique?

It's not too terribly important to me. However, seeing how this hobby is kind of BASED on our own creativity and individuality, I imagine every doll is unique in some way or another. Either the face up, the style, or the character is going to bring something unique to even the most common of sculpts.

 

How important to you is it that your doll be absolutely unique?
Nope, not really

Why?
Well if I like the sculpt I am not going to care if its limited or not... well I would if it is a limited, just because I might not have the money to get it. But yeah... to me it doesn't matter... all it matters whether I like it or not.

 

Thinking about it, I guess I'm really not too worried about uniqueness. ^^; It might be because I only recently joined the BJD hobby and came from other collecting hobbies where the customization aspect was either less emphasized or not present at all. Maybe it's because I've always admired art and the people who create it, but I've never been particularly talented myself - I'm more used to acquiring art created by others rather than creating things of my own.

But for me, if I fall in love with a doll's full set, I don't have any issue with getting it just as it is and being perfectly happy. I'm sure that over time, I will get to the point where I might start tweaking them, but it doesn't really bother me that my doll really could be exactly like somebody else's. I just appreciate that the doll is beautiful as it is.

 

No, they don't have to be completely unique for me.
They'll be pretty unique when I get them home anyway!

 

The amount of potential with BJDs is incredible. You can have several completely different looks with one mold, depending on the makeup, hair and eye choice, fashion etc. I don't think it should matter to have a unique sculpt, but to have a unique character instead. And every character is different. Even in the case of identical twin dolls, their owners always manage to make them just the slightest bit different.

However I can definitely see the allure of having a limited, rare, unique, and/or special doll. When I modded my baby, it struck me that I was now the only person in the entire world with this particular face. It was an overwhelmingly pleasant feeling. It's slightly more special now, because no one else is able to get the same sculpt. The sort of uniqueness you create yourself is the best, because you get that sentimental feeling of, " I did that! That's mine!" I modded this face to suit my needs and it's limited to only me!

 

I don't care too much about someone having the same mold, but I do like my dolls to unique. It's the same with clothes, it's always a bit of a downer when you run into someone with the exact same outfit as yours :P However with dolls this can easily be achieved by face-up, eyes and wig. Of course there is a higher chance of doing exactly the same as somebody else when you purchase a very common doll... But I try not to worry to much about that. If you by any chance run into another person holding the exact same doll, you could always make a nice "long lost twin" story out of that :P It would only be unpleasant if you would not like the other person.

 

Generally, I don't care. However, if someone had a doll that looked 95% like one of mine except that their doll was better looking, it might make me a bit envious. For instance, if someone had the same sculpt, same face-up, same wig, eyes, and outfit, but the company did a better job on the face-up of the other person's doll, I'd wish I had their doll instead of mine. Whereas, if someone's doll looked better than mine, but the dolls looked nothing alike, it wouldn't occur to me to compare mine to theirs. I would just think, "Their doll is beautiful" rather than "Aw, my doll doesn't look as good - I wish I could swap them!".

 

I guess that that's absolutely unimportant for me coz after I had ordered my second doll I found that there was no such kind of dolls in my country (they appeared a little bit later and as I know there are 3 or 4 of them), and I felt no excitement or something like that.

 

I, honestly don't care about how unique the doll is. All that matters is that I like the mold, and whether or not I become emotionally attached to it.

 

There would be a whole lot of disappointed doll owners if "absolutely unique" was a big criteria. Because "unique" does not mean "interesting," or "different than others of its kind" but ONLY ONE. PERIOD. NOT a Limited Edition, but ONE ONLY.


I don't know that there have ever been enough absolutely unique dolls made for us each to have one.

Just sayin'.

 

I think what amazes me is that you can find a so-so mold, and then you see someone post it with this unique face up, and you just go WOW. Going to the different sites on DOA, looking for ideas and different approaches to different molds, I am constantly amazed that you can take one mold and make it look a hundred different ways. Being unique is important to me...although...we are all touched by what someone else does to their dolls, and I think sub-consciously/consciously we add a bit of all that we see to our ultimate creation. Copy-cat to me...not good. Simularity...it happens, and we all hope not intentionally.

 

Doesn't bother me at all because knowing how many other people collect dolls and the popularity of certain molds its practically inevitable that some dolls will share similar properties.

 

i like my dolls to be different from others in someway, which is why i do my own faceups for most of them to make the doll truly "mine" bt as for getting a unique sculpt, i don't care. i usually pick which sculpt to get based on owner pics, especially customizations, so i can see the potential of the sculpt before i get it, though occasionally i've liked the promo pics enough to actually get the face up done by the company.

it wouldn't bother me if someone had a similar look to there doll, hard to avoid really there are only so many ways to look and still look "human" i'd only be bothered if someone copied a faceup i've done EXACTLY, as a deliberate copy. other than that, who cares. i like the dolls for how well they appeal to me, not how many other people have them.

 

I dont really mind if the sculpts are the same but I prefer that their personalities and style be unique.

 

I actually really like seeing other dolls of the same sculpt as mine. It really shows you how diverse things can be with them and i'm usually pretty impressed. Sometimes it's hard to say, Look at another Yume an then look at mine and think. "I really can't believe it's the same doll!". Though i've also gotten that feeling by changing up mine before XD

In terms of unique, if i thought someone was detail for detail, back story and character concept copying mine it might irk me a little bit, but not enough to really waste any energy brooding over.

 

I do like having dolls that are rare and I like things that are different. But no doll, unless it's a OOAK artist sculpt, is ever going to be 100% unique. Not without heavy mods anyway. So it's anything I worry about.

As long as it's a rare LE I'm good LOL!

 

I buy BJDs when I like the mold, when fits a character of my history and when I can afford it. If the mold is limited, unique or basic is not important to me. All my dolls are unique to me and all of them are basic dolls.

 

There's no such a thing as a doll not being unique. Every of them has a character of their own and there's simply no way they could be copied. Do you feel like you could be taken over by some clone? Of course not. You're still you, your doll is still your doll, even if somebody tries to copy the look.
That's why I don't get especially bothered by the fact that my boy is wearing the default face-up instead of a custom one. Or by his clothes being mediocre, it's still him wrapped up inside these. (Not that I wouldn't want him to be perfect in every aspect - but he's just a human being, so that's impossible, no matter what, right? Still, gotta admire all these artistic owners out there.)

Yet, I got really upset when finding out my own cousin was planning to get the very same sculpt my boy is as her first doll. But that was because I felt she wasn't doing Louis any justice. She saw him simply as an object that could be imitated, forgetting all about his character, about him. And, being a kid, she thought it would be okay to mimic me, taking me for her role model. It kind of hurt my feelings that he was so fundamentally misunderstood. I think I'd have been okay with her choosing the same sculpt for her own character, if it indeed was the right one. But isn't it kind of annoying when your friends get the same clothing as you just because they think it's cool?

 

I care, but its not in the way where my doll is unique in every way. My doll isn't a limited, she has the default face up, and I buy her clothes from BJD online shops, I don't hand-make them. Right now, I don't care that she looks like every other Elva with a default face up, if I were to ever meet a doll in person with the same color eyes, same wig, same outfit, and same doll sculpt, I would be a little put off though.

 

How important to you is it that your doll be absolutely unique?
Not very, at all. c: As long as my doll is what I want it to be, and who I feel they are--I am happy. When I get my first doll, I am not going to be worried about "god-moding" (RP term?) it. I just want it to be mine, and that will be plenty good enough for me! >//u//<

Why?
I'm not %100 unique. I don't think anyone is, really! Think about everyooone who inhabits Earth. You wanna tell me there isn't someone else who looks like, or at least acts like, you? :'c We're all special in our own ways, but we can only go so far. I think the same goes will dolls. Sure, your possibilities are endless--but so is everyone else's. c: