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Jun Plannin RESIN Ai Doll Is She Now On Topic?

Jan 28, 2014

    1. The only other thread I could find with the site search engine was pretty old and it seems in at one time these dolls were made of plastic like some of the Obitsus, but the one I just got as a gift is clearly labeled RESIN BJD on her paperwork. So I'm wondering does this mean my new tiny girl is on topic or still off topic? I tried to access the BJD wiki just now to find out what I could but apparently there is no access? I could use some help here. I don't want to post pics of an OT doll but it would seem to me that if she is indeed a RESIN Ai that she might be okay? She's too, too cute and I do want to share her with everybody but I wanted to make sure first. I checked Amazon just now. Some say resin for Ai, dolls, but some don't, so I am thinking there might be both? She's marked $100.00 ORP though I gather the person who bought her for me didn't pay that. That's a lot more expensive than the ones I'm seeing on Amazon. Thanks!

      Oh wait, here she is on Amazon, and it's a bit less than that there:

      http://www.amazon.com/Ball-Jointed-...0948362&sr=1-54&keywords=Ball-jointed+Doll+Ai

      This be her and it does say RESIN, not plastic on Amazon as well as in her papers. Which is not what the person doing this review says though, so I'm confused!!!! She looks like a resin BJD to me but then again I'm new to BJD's so please help? Which is she?

      http://onceuponadollcollection.blogspot.com/2014/01/ball-jointed-dolls-found-at-tuesday.html
       
      #1 magkelly, Jan 28, 2014
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    2. Hmm...This I'm confused on..It would explain why some of the Ai dolls are more expensive then the other ones...O.o;; ....I'm gonna have to check that Blackberry I almost got...
       
      #2 Arashi Uchiha, Jan 29, 2014
    3. After doing some more research it looks to me like they can be either. It's very confusing. I'm seeing the very same dolls with some being marked resin and some not. My cute Thyme says so but some of the ads for don't and some do. Could it be they just re-issued her in resin?
       
      #3 magkelly, Jan 29, 2014
    4. It's highly possible...Hm...I'm confused myself, I guess it's the luck of the draw. If I find one again (or if I buy one for myself with birthday money) I'll have to check.
       
      #4 Arashi Uchiha, Jan 29, 2014
    5. Well, I guess I'll wait and see what TPTB say. I don't want to just post her and get into trouble. I don't see why she wouldn't me though considering she is. She's definitely got that whole BJD ascetic going on and if it's just being resin vs not that was the problem then I guess that's solved with her documents saying so. I can post pics of her papers tomorrow if they are required. :)
       
      #5 magkelly, Jan 29, 2014
    6. Well if they are resin now that's awesome. ^^
       
      #6 Arashi Uchiha, Jan 29, 2014
    7. I was curious so I took her out of the box and undressed her? She's got a lot more weight than a plastic doll her size would likely have. She's a heavy little thing and she does feel like resin in my hand. She feels like one of my big dolls, just smaller. I have Jun Planning's plastic J Dolls? They feel nothing like this little girl. This little girl is solid, very well made and has all the normal parts that a real BJD would have. I've never seen anything but a picture of an Obitsu, but she doesn't look anything like their plastic or like vinyl to me. She's definitely got that hefty smooth resin feel to her. I even opened up her head, checked out her eyes and that. She's really intricately made with wonderful hands and feet. It's very impressive in a doll her size. I'm not totally sure, but I'm thinking it's very likely. This is my first experience of a tiny doll though so I'm not sure of what to expect.

      I emailed a friend of mine who is a JP doll fan and she says she thinks that there are mostly heavy plastic ones, and that all the earliest ones were, but she thinks there were also a few limited edition ones that might have actually been cast in resin that were a lot more expensive. So it might be that I just somehow ended up with a limited edition one and not the regular Thyme? But honestly other than the words "resin BJD" on a little white slip in her box I can't find anything else except a few later listings for some Ai dolls at 3X the price than seems normal for most of the ones I am seeing. $35 vs over $100. But some of the ones that are more have material listed as "resin" while the cheaper ones mostly don't list it. It's not on the box itself, what I can read of it. (It's mostly written in a foreign language. Chinese I think.) It's just on that one small piece of paperwork, that's got it and I don't quite trust that because the company logo is not on that. It's just got a pic of the doll and that. The other two pieces of paperwork, nothing. No description of the material at all in English.

      Anybody read Chinese? I'm going to take a pic of the box tomorrow. Maybe someone can read it and tell me what I was just given? LOL
       
      #7 magkelly, Jan 29, 2014
    8. There's no mention about a resin version online other than the Amazon seller. All the Ais I've seen have definitely not been resin, so unless this is a recent change, I'd be pretty dubious.
       
      #8 clochette, Jan 29, 2014
    9. Jun Planning went out of business several years ago, and their brand has been taken over by a company called Groove Inc., which produces collectible fashion doll editions. While the prices may vary on these dolls (older, discontinued sets likely going for more), Groove Inc. is still bringing out new theme sets. Some sets are initially priced much higher and then marked down for "sales" while those with simpler outfits or accessories start off less expensive (e.g., a matador-costumed Ai on the Groove website started at about $177 and has been marked down to about $77). According to fashiondollsdownunder.com:

      To date, we don't know of any Ai dolls confirmed as being casted in resin. The plastic used is a much better quality than in most mass-market dolls, and is probably similar to the smooth, thick ABS plastic used for the strung Freya cat dolls. An Amazon seller calling them "resin" doesn't necessarily make it so, since some production factories use the terms "resin" and "plastic" interchangeably, although "resin" should only refer to dolls made of polyurethane and not of a half-dozen or so other types of materials. We've already encountered this term confusion before, and even had to get proof to clarify the point with doll artists stepping into the BJD market, who weren't sure exactly what their finished dolls were being made of. I've searched through the Groove Inc site and a number of others, and have only found mention of several types of plastic.
       
      #9 hobbywhelmed, Jan 29, 2014
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