In love with a discontinued sculpt

I thought I'd never be on this train but I've really quite fallen for a few SDCute sculpts and of course Volks doesn't want to produce them much I'd love a Renée or SWD Kaede, but the first is too expensive second hand and the latter isn't on sale very often. And so I wait for an affordable Y!J miracle.

 

I desparately miss my SDC Kaede! She had the cutest little smile.

 

I regret not ordering Niko from ShouShou Doll when she was made available. It was cute that she was originally made available with the resin wig and transparent clear faun parts.

 

As someone who has been in the hobby for a long time (I started in 2006) and then took a long hiatus, I think every doll that is on my wish list these days is a discontinued sculpt. I like the older models and they make me happy so I just bide my time and wait. Even though waiting drives me crazy. But like some others have said, the search is half the fun in this hobby and keeps me interested and coming back. I keep looking for my grails and wait it out. It also gives me something to save for and work towards.

 

A couple of older Impldoll sculpts… I wished that I’d bought them when they were still available but they always seemed like a “one day” for me and there were so many other dolls that I wanted at that time… then suddenly Impldoll discontinued them I’d love a Granado Enoch also and wish I purchased him when I could and a few less popular Iplehouse limited sculpts that were available via their Doll Choice but were then taken off…

 

Doll Chateau Dennis. I love DV Vine and DZ Gray, and Dennis has that same feel to him. I'd love to get him to round out my boys, but he's been discontinued for so long ;;

 

The old Fairyland PukiPuki Sugar and Pongpong. Such cute sculpts and a shame that they don't have them as basics.

 

I missed out on the Dream of Doll era due to being too young to purchase dolls myself and wish I could’ve grabbed a Ducan, Elf I-Ra, or E-An.

 

I've only recently started to have "big girl money" to actually start collecting, but I remember lurking on forums and different sites while not knowing anything about the hobby other than "ooooh that looks cool!" haha. If I could go back and beg my parents on my hands and knees, I would really like to get a Dollzone Yui Fullset. I remember being soooo in love with her for like a year or so and just pulling up the dollzone website to look at her.

 

Old Dollzone dolls have my heart too, I was the same way when Stramonium and Tulip came out. Hopefully you come across Yui, I’m sure she’s out there somewhere!!!

 

if there's anything I'm regretting in recent memory, it's missing out on Dream Valley's Ghost Moth. I'm not into smaller dolls and ended up getting something else instead, but I keep looking her up again... what a gorgeous girl.

 

She really is stunning. Her extra limbs feel very natural and smooth too. Her sculpt just flows so nicely I don't know how to explain it.

 

There are many dolls I *think* I would want to have bought but in reality it's their company pics with company faceups and fullsets I'd fallen in love with, which is not really how I prefer to collect. So I'm happy with just the dream image I have of Petsha and Tender Shall I guess! Even though it would be fun to go back in time and see DOD still bang out amazing visions with their dolls!

Something I'll never find second hand is a Delf Dambi... but as a girl. I really wish I could travel back in time and put in an order for this rare one, maybe also get a sleeping head. Also Abio Angel dolls because the faces are so sweet and they, too, never seem to surface in the second hand market.

 

Doll Chateau Hugh.
they didn't even say they were discontinuing him! He wasn't on the list! they discontinued him anyway!
I'm still upset.

 

I need like 5 more Iplehouse Louis heads. This was a huge oversight on my part.

 

So many Souldolls (especially from their early Double line)... I have admired their company over the years, but at the time I started collecting I was focused on other companies like Luts/Volks and limited releases. So I never really focused on getting basic releases.

Souldoll has had several masss discontinuations of their dolls/lines. And now that I've shifted my collection in their direction, I'm realizing how hard it is to find some of their old standard dolls! Some sculpts were popular enough that you can find them 2nd hand fairly easily... and others are so hard to find an owner picture of, that I wonder how many dolls were actually produced of certain sculpts!

If I had a time machine the one I'd go back and get is the Double Star and Double Leroy (Leloy? - there were some different spellings on the site).

 

This wasn't even long ago, but last year Dolk released a character doll based off the anime series Mononoke. I was in between jobs at the time and figured he'd pop up on the secondhand market in time. It's been a year and I haven't found him, but even if I did, US shipping tariffs would make it impossible to nab him now. Mononoke

 

I heavily regret not getting that doll too he’s so beautiful and Mononoke merch is so hard to come by.

 

They had a doll for the medicine man!?!?! Oh my god noooo I would've given my left leg for him. I love Mononoke so much