In light of recent news, I am interested in trying to use my software engineering skills for some good in this dying world (having a slight crisis about the AI push everywhere ). While we hope DoA will remain with a host/domain paid for, it is entirely possible it will not in the future, and will be lost to us forever. I am interested in trying to back up as much as I can. I am wanting to start with what I think is most important and that DoA has served us so well for all of these years; hobby history. For example, do you know of an obscure company that released a doll otherwise undocumented? Do you have photos of markings of a doll no one else even knows what you're talking about? Any interesting recollections of something a company released or did 20 years ago that matters to its history? Or anything else you can think of. Please feel free to link the entire thread here, if you can find it. There is such a wealth of knowledge built here over the years, and it would be catastrophic if it was lost.
Ooo that is a good idea! I think this may be a good piece of history to preserve: https://denofangels.com/threads/the...py-issue-translated-statement-page-27.100051/ Before all of Dollshe’s problems with orders the past few years, Dollshe (the company and creator of their line of tall male dolls) accused Dollmore of recasting their body to be used for their tall male line. The photos of Dollshe’s evidence (seems to be broken now) showed comparison of Dollshe and Dollmore bodies, with Dollmore having the same mold discrepancies as Dollshe. I remember seeing the photos and they were very damning. Dollshe discontinued their partnership with Dollmore- I think after this whole thing, Dollshe disappeared for a while. The creator came back with a new body- one that would be much much harder to replicate and obvious if anyone tried. Dollmore has since pulled “their” initial tall body and have made their own for their tall line. I think this was the start of the need and importance to buy legitimate and demand to see the artist’s process if ever there was question of copying. After this, I think the next biggest accusation was Leeke copying the body of an independent doll artist (I think Dust of Dolls?) for one of their doll lines. I remember Leeke providing photos of their sculpting progress and in the photo, you can see the independent doll maker’s doll body specs sheet the artist posted- indicating Leeke had used the body as “inspiration” but they sculpted the body themselves. I remember there was much controversy over this with collectors divided on the issue; some purchased the doll knowing Leeke took an idea from a smaller, independent company and other swearing off Leeke.
My first thought is anything about respiratory protection and resin offgasing. I know the info is on here somewhere because I referenced it when a doll I got smelled strongly of resin even days after arrival. And it is important info. As for old companies, Orientdoll has been out of business for a while, and I think the only info on them is on DOA (I have a couple of Orientdoll So vampires if more pics are needed) Another hobby history piece would be names of retired sculpts from companies. Some of the older ones there is very little info about.
The Wiki should be saved wholesale. It is very outdated at this point, but because of that it holds a ton of info from decades ago that you can't find anywhere else. I learned about so many companies and sculptors who are now gone.
