Miracledoll Discussion Thread

@werepope congrats on getting a Melanie ordered, hopefully by the time yours is ready to ship the... person(for lack of some choicier words)... ordering all these tariffs will have backed down again like the last several times. I do think it is very good for companies to still be getting orders despite all this since I also worry about the state of the hobby being affected by this stuff, I can only hope that USAmericans are not so huge a chunk of the market to have the (hopefully temporary) loss of access be too devastating. I am pretty sure lines of shipping will open up again eventually so you should be able to get your doll at some point... but aside from all this doomer nonsense, I'd love to read about your plans for your doll! Still being able to buy older designs is so great, I know stuff gets discontinued for reasons that can include things like the mold running out of uses or something, but it's always such a pleasant surprise when a doll that you might have thought harder to get turns out to be still available!

In my case, I'm hoping to actually attempt a more serious faceup for my Ian I call "Shigadolly" (who I also didn't expect to be able to get when I first discovered the sculpt existed hehe) but I have definitely been noticing more of the posing issues that I could have read about previously in this thread had I looked. I still prefer the aesthetic of the 68cm slim body for the character but for someone whose entire fight style involves grabbing people with his bare hands and turning them into dust, having arms that can only hold 3 positions is kind of an issue. Since I eventually plan on emulating Cloudedmind's thigh mod when I get confident enough, I figure I might as well look into arm posability mods as well if wiring ends up not solving the problem.

I also am still interested in recs for jointed hands or alternative hands in general, I saw earlier in the thread that Doll Legend (?) used to be a good match awhile back but upon looking for more info they seem to have have either taken a long hiatus or shut down so... back to the drawing board there. Unfortunately being in the USA with the tariff nonsense going on it's not likely I can order jointed hands in the near future anyway, so I'm focusing on other things at the moment for him like styling the wig more and attempting a higher quality faceup than the pencil scribbles he currently has. I'm actually going to work on seeing if the pencil is removable without a full wipe tomorrow and possibly experiment some with watercolor pencils instead. I might post progress pics in the appropriate forum if I don't forget it exists again-