Love at first sight?

Ringdoll's Leper King Baldwin, I only wanted anime dolls and then I saw him lmao!

 

Ironically, it was the first doll I ever got, a Resinsoul Pixiu. I just adored their little face and all the dragon parts and knew they had to be my first doll! I have no regrets even all this time later

 

I found that doll, unfortunately only 30 were released I feel incomplete without that volks x moi meme moitie doll and I can’t find one anywhere

 

Dollzone's Devil Tarot, specifically the beast version with the cat head. Also Dream Valley's 1/4 dragon, lmao.

 

Oh, I had to give up on those. Cat head beast was so pretty, too.

 

Back in February, I was exploring the Luts website for fun and saw a Kid Delf with a really precious face. He immediately stood out to me, but I decided to keep looking, since I wasn’t planning on buying anyone soon. Then, I saw another doll and went, “wow!” only to realize it was the same doll, but his Senior Delf version. It was then that I knew I needed to have him. So, technically, I fell in love with him twice! A few days later, I purchased the Kid Delf Kai that I had my eyes on initially. I can’t wait to get my sweet boy!!

 

There were two dolls I felt this way with:
Gem of Doll Nymph
Ringdoll Anubis
The gut feeling didn't let me down, I love both dolls!

 

Dollstown Yujin loved that face from the moment I've seen her in a WIP gallery for a body. I'm waiting for a second one. Absolutely in love with that sculpt.

 

This is hard—I fell in love at first sight with a few sculpts. One of them was IG Angelos.Johan. There’s something special about him; I felt an instant, magnetic pull the moment I saw his sculpt and photos. I also never really planned on collecting 75cm boys, but then I saw ID75 R. Dokkebi Garion (Baby Pink, LE, After Event SHDSP2024), and knew I needed to bring him home. Of course, he dropped at a time when I couldn’t afford him. But! Luckily, I managed to find someone rehoming him—and now he’s finally home with me, and I couldn’t be happier.

 

When I first got into this hobby, I was a bit overwhelmed by all of the sculpts and companies, and there wasn't a specific doll that drew me in. Dolls in general have always appealed to me though.

Once getting a doll was going to become a reality, and I was in a position to finally pick one out, I was quickly drawn towards Souldoll Katie.A. She was new from Souldoll at the time and very few photos of her existed outside of Souldoll's website. I remember looking for new pictures obsessively during the waiting period lol.

The other doll that really stood out to me was Volks Suiseiseki. Initially this was because I really liked (and still like) Rozen Maiden, but later I was consistently finding a certain sculpt, loving it, and it was always Suiseiseki/Souseiseki. She became my grail doll, and I still feel lucky to this day for being able to get her at the time. She was my third doll.

 

Another love at first sight doll: Volks SD-F-26. She literally arrested me in my tracks: I was scrolling through Dollyteria's doll listings very fast, looking for something else. I blew past this listing of a girl doll with a custom faceup, went "whoa whoa hold up who did I just see??!!! Volks made a narrow-eyed girl?? I need to know who she is" and backpedalled to look at her. I don't know why hadn't noticed F-26 before, but now I saw a squinty-eyed, foxy girl in this custom faceup, and fell in love with that vision. I'd also been looking for a Volks doll to fall in love with, but despite looking at so many sculpts no one moved the needle... until F-26.

That custom F-26 on Dollyteria got sold, and I ended up ordering my doll from Volks FCS. I have my squinty, foxy girl and I'm thoroughly in love with her.

 

The only doll I have had this feeling about was my Luts KDF Kai. He was also my first doll and introduction into bjds. Something about his sculpt just gripped me while I was scrolling through the luts site and I just knew I had to get him! So I saved up for about a month so I could buy him. Even after a year I still catch myself taking him out just to stare at his cute little face and snap some pics

I also ended up getting the romance version of Kai and now I am picking up the elf version. I really feel like I can never get enough of this one sculpt!

 

Absolutely, Loongsoul's He Yi kicked off my entire BJD journey because I fell in love the moment I saw him. The irony is that he wasn't my first acquisition, not by a long shot — he's actually my most recent one as of right now! I missed out on his fullset by several years, but one just came up for sale secondhand, so now I can finally say that I own the one that started it all.

It's been love at first sight for pretty much all the ones I have, though, with very few exceptions. The sculpts I chose for my Resinsoul gang didn't wow me initially (the site's pictures don't do their work justice), but seeing owner pictures and learning about the customization completely changed my opinion. When they arrived, I adored them immediately, so I guess it was a roundabout love at first sight. Didn't love the "base" models the way I've loved sculpts from other brands, but absolutely loved the ones that were made just for me!

 

When I first saw Dark Elf Soo as Ariel here on DoA it was love and first sight and knew I wanted her for my OC character. So when I got the funds I purchased her from Luts and she has been with me for 20 years.

 

I also fell in love at first sight with the dragon. And then after months of worrying whether I'd love the real dragon as much as the pictures, I fell in love at first sight again when he finally arrived.

Also SartoriaJ's Jude, who I have two versions of and kind of impulse bought both of them. The human one because he was being discontinued and the elf one because he was limited time.

 

Ooh, this is an interesting question... honestly, it would have to be the one that became my first BJD - my ResinSoul pup. The one in my icon. While I'd seen plenty of BJDs before then, it was finding this one that made me actually start putting the money aside properly to be able to get one. I still utterly adore him even now. Spoiled first child that he is.

 

Iplehouse Bichun, he’s perfection.

 

The Impldoll Plump body
I bought one with the Susu head the literal day it became available. (Thankfully for me that meant getting them on sale)

 

Yes, definitely! Dream of Doll Ives was definitely my love at first sight. Sadly, I was a broke college student at the time, and by the time I graduated and was stable enough to purchase him, the company closed down...