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Is it still hybriding if I make a Frankendoll w/in the same doll company?

Nov 25, 2023

    1. I got a idea a while ago to mix and match my dolls like hybriding within the sme doll company with different resins. What I mean is I want to make Peakswoods FOC doll a frankendoll by switching out her limbs with different resin colors like one arm is lavendar pink and the other is maybe emerald green or blue grey. Then make her legs like Moonlight Gray and maybe urban brown. I want to change her torso to Moonlight Gray or gray and her head maybe blue gray. I'm not sure on what resin colors I would use and how I would mix and match. Is this still considered hybriding because it's the same doll company?

      Edit:
      I would give her 2 different eye colors and a wig with like half one color and half a different or maybe grt one of those rainbow wigs but in pastel colors. I would like her to have fun monster hands painted with alternating colors as well if it isn't too much color overload.
       
      #1 Forever We Are Young, Nov 25, 2023
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    2. I'd say it's still hybriding. "Frankendolling" has been getting more use in relation to making counterfeits these days so depends on how you feel about that I guess.

      A more practical problem might be acquiring the pieces in the right colours without buying multiple bodies for it as the company might not agree to do custom casting in this way.
       
      #2 cobaltconduct, Nov 25, 2023
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    3. What is frankendolling? Is that recast related? No, i have most of Peakswoods dolls in most of fheir fantasty colors. Is it frowned upon fo take the dolls apart and mix and match my legit dolls body parts? I don't buy recast. I guess frankendoll was a bad choice of word. I assumed I made it up because my goal was to make a Frankenstein inspired doll or a nightmare before Christmas Sally themed doll with mix of colors. What is custom casting? Is that what I'm trying to do? I thought it was okay to mix and match parts because people mix bodies and heads together, but i have nearly all of Peakswoods fantasy colors because I collect so many of their dolls when they do release my favorite ones. Sadly, i missed this years.
       
      #3 Forever We Are Young, Nov 25, 2023
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    4. Sorry for the confusion! It's definitely not frowned upon to mix and match body parts!

      I thought you were asking whether "hybriding" or "frankendolling" is a more accurate word for this but maybe I misunderstood your original question. I think both can work accurately, the latter just also comes with some more connotations.

      It sounds like a great project and I'd love to see the outcome :)
       
      #4 cobaltconduct, Nov 25, 2023
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    5. I have alot of ideas. I have to figure out how to take my dolls apart though. I'm afraid.
       
      #5 Forever We Are Young, Nov 25, 2023
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    6. I would normally not consider it as making a hybrid if it's within the same company- like you bought your doll on body A, but realized body B in the same color would be better- but since you're making a multi-color doll, I would consider that making a hybrid.

      That sounds so cool! Peakswoods especially seems perfect for that type of look with the way their sculpts are stylized.
       
      #6 keiko-chan, Nov 25, 2023
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    7. Hybriding parts together in a way which the company does not sell them or initially intend them to be put together is making a hybrid. Mostly this is used to describe swapping out heads or bodies but it doesn't have to be limited to that. I see it as a matter of the company's intentions for their release. Some companies now offer a lot of separate parts that can be used together to mix and match intentionally, so I would not call it a hybrid.

      I have seen "frankendoll" used to describe a bjd put together with mismatched disparate parts, like described above. Arms from one doll, legs/pelvis from another, torso from a third, head from a fourth. But if they are all BJD parts, you could still say it's a hybrid.

      In the greater doll collecting world, frankendoll is now used to describe dolls made to deceive people by putting parts of basic or less expensive dolls together to make it look like a more desirable or expensive doll release to sell. So if non-bjd people see your doll being described this way, they might think your doll was made to trick people. You would have to explain further so they know that's not what you've done.

      I think, for the BJD hobby, it's better to keep it simple and use "hybrid".
       
      #7 idrisfynn, Nov 25, 2023
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    8. That's... actually a really good question.

      As far as I know, there's never really been a firm, collective definition of what exactly constitutes a "Hybrid" and what's just parts-swapping. And Frankendolling hasn't always been a term associated with recast parts. Back in the day it was just a funnier way of saying you'd put together bits that hadn't started out that way. :lol:

      Personally? I'd only call a doll with parts from more than one company a proper Hybrid. Just switching in bits from another line made by the same artists seems more akin to swapping optional sets of hands or feet than real kit-bashing, to borrow a term from the Warhammer miniatures community. The result would be more of a "custom doll" or "custom configuration" in that case. But I'm saying that as the gal who just put her F60 El's head on an F65 bod, and probably won't call him a hybrid. The term really could go either way.
       
      #8 Brightfires, Nov 25, 2023
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    9. I have a Dream Valley Howard II head on a different body than the one he comes with if ordered as a full doll. I ordered the head and body as separate items at the same time and then put them together. I think of him of being a custom head/body combo rather than a hybrid since its all one company. So "custom combo I assembled" could be a term for a single company mixed part doll. Or just stick with hybrid, since that's simpler.
       
      #9 Leo Pheonix, Nov 25, 2023
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    10. Well, you could call it a hybrid color or custom color combo? :XD: But I wouldn't consider the doll a hybrid. All those parts are still made to go together.
      I understand a hybrid to be combining body parts from different makers. Switching the body to different compatible body by the same maker, or switching the hands and feet to other optional parts, and calling it a hybrid might earn you a :? face from me. Switching red arm for blue arm falls under that category.
      But a :? face from me is not significant in any way so you can carry on just as you'd like.

      Taking your doll apart for the first time can be a little intimidating but as long as you stay organized you have nothing to worry about. There are lots of tutorials on how to take bjds apart and put back together. And the parts that you're swapping are made to fit together, it's the easiest "hybrid" that you could make so don't be afraid!!! If you don't like it in the end you can swap them right back with no harm done to the parts.
       
      #10 Novalyna, Nov 25, 2023
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    11. I would call it a customized doll, not a hybrid. Not really any different than buying optional parts, or mixing up heads and bodies within the company--like my Iplehouse Scarlet is an EID woman head on nYID boy body, I don't consider him a hybrid. But he is a customized Iplehouse doll, since he's not sold like that by default. You're doing basically the same thing, taking various parts from the same company, but not sold together by default. And no, I don't think that is a bad thing, at all! This hobby is allllll about customizing and making your doll truly how you want it! As long as you're doing it in a legit way (which you have made it clear that you are), I say go for it! People have definitely ordered ResinSoul dolls with mismatched parts, so why not?
       
      #11 CloakedSchemer, Nov 26, 2023
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