Is a backstory a turn-off or turn-on when buying a doll?

When it comes to buying the doll, I ignore the backstory completely. The mould (and face up) is everything to me.

But I do love backstories, and spend some time reading them on the sides of the doll companies who have them. They're cute, and I love them even though the backstory of the DoD U doesn't fit at all with my Rasmus' story.

 

I don't pay attention to them... I'm sure I have read what Iplehouse has written about Soo Ri, for example, but I can't remember a word of it. It's kinda cute that they make these stories, but they don't influence my decision to buy or not to buy a doll.

 

i think they're fun to read..but beyond being mildly entertaining i dont pay much attention to them..

Kodona is a red-headed, soft spoken, girly boy....whereas his orginal self was a blonde outspoken witch in training who fails at spells. '

i really have ZERO interest in something like that for Kodona XD;

 

They amuse me, actualy. You can include it, but that doesn't mean you need to.
Take Xander; the Sha mold is aparently a 17 year old wizard; In his story, Xander starts out as 17, and moves through a fw years; ending up a wizard.

 

They're kind of silly so they make no difference to me, though I know some poeple who seem pretty crazy about them.

Sera~

 

I've never really thought about it before but I really like that idea. It makes me want to go back and re-read all of my current doll's backstories... if they have any ^^

 

I totally ignore the backstory since I have my own storylines but I know some people like them

 

I like reading the backstories. I think it's charming that a doll would have a story that goes with her/him. It doesn't affect my decision to buy or not buy, though. I don't think of their official backstories as pertaining to the actual doll I bought, I suppose. I never keep the backstories as the official background of my own dolls, if that makes sense.

 

I like to think that it's the company's way of sharing their own take on the doll, like what everyone on the forums does. So it's just like 'oh, XYZ company's doll is like this, and ABC forum member's doll is like that, and mine is like this'. ^_^

 

The backstories are always cute and vague so it's no real problem to overwrite them. I think it's just the company's way of showing that they think about the dolls like we do, and care enough to give them names and stories. I don't think they mean for owners to keep those names and stories. It would be more of a turn-off for me if a company just named all of their dolls "Head #1", "Head #2", etc., because a face without a name doesn't make as much of an impression.

 

I think they're endearing, I love reading backstories because it sort of puts in perspective how much though goes into the concept of the doll. Not that they've actually made any sort of impact on my purchases, but I tend to gravitate toward the vaguer backstories like SD Carol ("Who is that girl?" Her name is "Carol," this is all we know about her.) lol, vague, and cute. I know I'll be following Carol's backsory in the future...

 

I like them on a creative marketing level... But I would ignore them as far as my own personal doll's character and backstory was concerned.

 

I don't think I'd pay too much attention to the backstory (unless I really liked it and wanted to use it.) If I love the way a doll looks, it's easy to ignore the backstory. ^_^

 

I love reading them.. gives another level of depth when all I can afford to do is add a doll to my wishlist for the time being.

I don't consider it binding when the company sets up a backstory, though. The doll becomes who I want it to be when it arrives.

 

I like it. Like how Lady Sylvie, Cyndy, Cecile and Williams are all connected to each other; I always thought that was interesting. It also helps me to remember the dolls better. Williams may have floated to the back of my mind and gotten almost no notice from me had it not been for his connection to the other doll's story.

 

Backstories tend to color my opinion of a certain doll. Like, I will initially think of a doll as an "intellectual type" if s/he is described as such. But that is forgotten/put to the side by the time I decide to buy one and write my own story.

 

Exactlly, it mostly an issue of what the doll looks like and if I can make it look my character.

 

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As a previous owner of some redistributed dolls, I don't much mind when the new owners decide to keep the dolls personality or their names ~ because in those instances, I liked the doll but didn't have a character for them. It's heartwarming when they do. ^_^

Now, if i'm not bonding with a doll that I created specifically for a character I had in mind, then all rights to the character would stay mine if I were ever to sell that particular doll. In that aspect, the doll has a 'history' and background, but it's not one they're going to keep with the new owner.

Also...
As I just recently traded dolls with girlwholived... her 'Harold' came to live with me, and is now reincarnated into my 'Kiba'. And my 'Haku' lives with her now, and has become the new 'Harold'. In that instance, as a doll owner, you remember who they 'were'... but for both of us, it doesn't have anything to do with who they're character incarnations 'are', now.

*_____*? ((Hope that didn't confuse anyone))

 

I feel that reading company backstories is a lot like reading another owner's backstories!

 

I dont mind if they have backstorys. It gives them a personality and a name. It's kind of heartwarming.