Love at first sight turning into feelings of blah

This has happened to me with pretty much every DOD sculpt now. When I first got interested in the hobby, of course I loved Ducan (who didn't?) and the same happened with quite a few others by the same company but over time I got just like '.. nah .. not really.'
Don't get me wrong, I still think their dolls are awfully pretty but just not what I really want for the crew that I'm slowly building right now.

Maybe that's also why I waited so long until I actually bought my first bjd (or more like my first bjdS + floating heads all at once @_@) because even after months I was still sure that these are the dolls for me.

I believe it's pretty normal that views change over time and that it's easy to fall in love with pretty company pictures. But that's not limited to BJDs, happens to me all the time when I go shopping in general.

 

This has happened for me when I see a gorgeous custom face up on a doll, and I fall in love so I start to research the doll. I find a lot of times I do not like the doll without that custom face up. I love IP Jessica on DOA there are a few customs I just love but the normal default does nothing for me. I also get this lot with Volks dolls. Volks have gorgeous sculpts but with a blah face up they dont look nearly as gorgeous.

 

Aww, I (sadly) know this stuff from own experience. When SOOM Beryl came out, I loved it's hooves, but I didnt have the money for the whole doll, and I didnt quite like the face. But I bought the hooves from a person that got her Beryl but didnt want the hooves, and I was happiest ever. I blushed the couple of times, and dreamed of the complete doll.. But about 6 moths ago, I realised that those hooves couldnt fit my story, and anyway they felt really "blah" when nowdays everybody has hooved doll. Well, now I've put a feeler of them to the Finnish BJD-forum, and maybe I'll put here too if I someday get enough posts. ^^'

 

When I was 13, about 4 years ago, and first discovered BJDs (well... just Luts. somebody gave me that link and I thought those were the *only* dolls. xDD; ) I used to get on the computer every day after school and stare at luts kid delf Boory and drool over him and think he was the greatest doll ever and I just HAD to have him.

Now when I see him I just feel... blah. He's not the right size or proportions or anything.

 

I think I've had that happen a time or two, mostly I hadn't gotten to buying them thankfully, but I'm finding that the dolls I really like wind up being the dolls I didn't quite go for at first lol, go figure ^^;

 

DOT SHA, for awhile it was love...but after a while I saw I was in love with the website photos...I would never be able to make him my own...

 

I feel like this with pretty much every doll I see, instant love at first, but then I look around at owner pics and I think....hmm, no, there's always something I don't like about them. The only doll that I am really sure about (and still sure about) is DoT E-an which is lucky because I've ordered her

 

Arrrrrgh, it's happened to me several times.

It's generally not so much of a bad thing (except for the "I'LL NEVER FIND THE PERFECT ONE" feeling), since it saves you money and disappointment. I had my heart SET on Souldoll human Chiron, and now when I look at him, man, his neck freaks me out. Still love the face, but I don't want gray skin, so the reddish faceup on normal skin would look weird as crap, and I'd feel awful about messing up his face if I tried it myself...

I'm going with buying a nice, floating head to lavish artistic love on, and when I'm confident, I'll come back to Chiron. Maybe. That neck, man. That NECK. Also, his head is TINY. ...With any luck, I'll get good enough at face-upping that I'll just buy a body for my head and fall in love with him. :]

I also can't stop looking at Luts Flood, but his honker is HUGE. ;_;

 

I've been doing this so many times since I began the hobby! Dollzone is the worst culprit, all of their 1/4 boys appeal to me in some way, but none has grabbed me hard enough or long enough for me to make the actual purchase. Ray, Hid, Mo, Lola, Leo, Ulli, and Fei have all slapped me with the "HOMG want!!!1!" but none of them give me that sudden pang of joy anymore. I grow bored with them. I've had the same issue with a few DoD and many Fairyland sculpts.

I also have the unfortunate luck of falling for dolls that are rather unpopular or really new. I'm apparently one of 3 people on DoA who have an AE Mo, although mine currently sits in layaway limbo, so I only half own her but, despite that, all that I have seen of her, body details, various face-ups, everything has made me love her more. I impulsed her a bit, since I bought her fast while MoC was selling her for $95 below pre-order price, something that will never happen again, but she was and still is the only dreaming sculpt anywhere that really appeals to me, so as of right now, I do not regret it.

The other AE lady I was initially saving for, Lemon, now gives me the "blah" feeling.

 

Happened to me with Sabik and Hound. When I was getting my first BJD they were two of the three between which I had to choose. I chose to get Ark, kinda thinking: "Oh, I'll get those other two later." Now, I'm glad I didn't cos I don't really like them all that much anymore. I look at pics of them and go "Ok, nice - but I don't want them." I still think, however, that Elf Sabik probably got the nicest-looking elf-ears of all BJDs. I really can't stand those overly huge elf-ears most elf-dolls come with.

 

Yes it happens again and again! It is worse when you make that impulse buy because of your initial feelings but after a couple of weeks of owning the doll you realise you're just not that into it.
Look at it another way - anything over $100 is a major purchase and you want to be sure that you're going to enjoy what you buy right? So why not be picky. Why not keep looking until you find the one you feel sure about?

I don't see any reason to feel bad about that.

 

I have a doll right now that I just can't seem to bond with. I keep changing her wig, her clothes etc etc but I still haven't connected with her 'sigh'

 

This is how my doll wishlist changes so often. I see the pretty pictures the company puts up and I get all excited but accept I can't buy right then. Then I look at owner pictures when dolls arrive and see some at meets and the first thought that comes to mind is "what the heck did I ever see in that doll?" with some of the pictures.

Although Glot and Glati I wish I had jumped on them at the time. But at the time the Yo Nono was out and I had the money to buy her and I got her. I've seen a couple in person and the face is something I don't like as much as I did. I just wanted the hooves and now there is a company that does just hooves and I'm a lot happier with the idea of spending $90 on a set of hooves opposed to spending $500+ on a doll I probably wouldn't have been 100% happy with.

 

Aughhh this happened to me.....

When I first saw Souldoll's Chiron, it was love at first sight! Oh how I wanted him sooo bad! But I didn't have money at the time.....
As I started seeing more owner pictures of him, my love for him faded picture by picture. Even looking at the promo pics on the Souldoll site doesn't help.

Edit: I forgot to add that this is an up and down feeling...there are times I love him and times I don't....lol

 

This ALWAYS happens to me! Except...I don't get blah until AFTER I buy the doll! That is why my very first doll turned into my first 5... Usually they come in and don't turn out being what I expected. For example, I had no idea my Leeke Florence was a blyth (I AM NOT FOND OF BLYTHS) so none of my msd sized wigs (that were meant for her) fit her... And then I ruined my first faceup on my new msd head replacement... Then crobidoll forgot my faceup and so when my blank crobiboy head came in I didn't remeber the chin and brows looking so huge!

In the end I fell back in love with my angelic (big headed) Florence... my MSD head is clean and ready for a fresh start... and my crobiboy has the most beautiful faceup and a lovely new wig (that came as an apology present from crobidoll).

If you ever get a doll that you fall out of love with, just bond with it, play with it, or connect it to something you love (I like dressing my dolls up like my fav anime characters) and the love will return. Sometimes remembering the price tag is the only thing creating doubts and keeping you from giving your doll the affection you truly feel.

 

Was JUST there very recently. Not for the first time either. I've been looking for the perfect mould for my boy since September of 2009 and have had no luck. I find a mould and for a few weeks I'm excited about it, think they're the right one... and then eventually that unsettling feeling of "is this really the doll for me?" kicks in. It's frustrating but part of the hobby I think. Thankfully eventually we do find moulds that speak to us and keep on speaking and it kind of rekindles and reminds you what makes this hobby so charming. My girl on order has kept me on the clouds for weeks now, living off promo photos because there WAS no owner pictures, she was a huge leap of faith - finally today there is the first owner pictures and she's gorgeous. I may have found a potential mould for my boy after almost a year too. It can take forever, hours of looking searching, and monthes of waiting and searching... but eventually you find the one that you fall in love with and then stay in love with.

 

I've had this happen a lot when it comes to sculpts I just adore and become obsessed with. I'll want them forever and then just feel...meh about them later. Recently I've had several heads I just LOVED and as soon as they were complete....not so much. I can't even figure out what it is I don't like about them!!

 

YES! it happens to me very often!
but the worst is when you already paid for it! xD it happened to me when i was buying a doll (or part of it) in layaway

 

Actually this hasn't really happened with me... tbh I find often it is the opposite - I start out not liking the doll and then can't stop thinking about it and wanting to look at it and then bam... LOVE Either that or its love at first site that doesn't go away. I don't fall in love easily so my wishlist isn't *too* long