Mori 9 Dolls

I also got Lyra! Mori missed a color on my first invoice (115), and my second invoice to correct it was 122!

 

I saw some people say they didn't get Hayato but haven't seen any of that this time around with Lyra. Thats awesome! I wonder if the demand was less or she increased capacity? She didn't have an order limit on this time (Hayato was 2 per person) and offered more colors so I assume more people this time got more than 1 too. Perhaps she still had a hard cap (but just didn't hit it this time around) so Lottery was the safest bet?

I just checked my invoice number for Hayato was 0014 but I also timed an email to send exactly when the lottery opened lol. This time with Lyra I waited until the next day during normal PST hours. I imagine the lower numbers are domestic orders since it released GMT.

 

I think there were losers on the CN/Weibo side of things, but so far I haven't seen anyone in the English speaking side of the hobby say they lost, which is really refreshing that we won't to have to go through multiple hoops to grab them off Xianyu.

I do think her "lottery" (at least this time) is more of a cover to just check entrants to make sure they aren't resellers/recast owners, etc, since she asks for your SNS.

 

Yes, I have a Weibo account and I did see a handful of people under the comment section saying that they didn’t get selected.

Mainland domestic orders use WW/zfb to pay so I doubt they use paypal invoices I was so close on entering the lottery on Weibo instead of Insta since I have heard that getting selected is easier if you order from mainland; but looks like it’s the opposite this time

 

That was my assumption too. It's kind of the only line of defense at this point.

 

I dunno. My socials don’t have a super ton of doll stuff on them and I don’t have any BJD terminology at all in my about (do I even have an about on insta?). I still got a spot. Maybe it’s just watching for like any obvious tells (like wonky looking dolls)?

 

Yeah I also figured she was using socials to confirm. I feel like as long as you weren't overtly sketchy you could still get a spot. Having an active or long standing account, even if not really about doll stuff would be better than one with nothing at all or a bunch of recent spammy like posts.

But the invoice numbers are not generated from Paypal, those have a completely different invoice number/transaction ID. I would guess they are more likely her internal system to keep track of orders.

Also quite a few people ordered multiples of heads as well so even with around 120 invoices I imagine theres probably at least 200 heads being made. So even those who missed out should be able to get one at a reasonable price later. I know for Hayato there were lots of order transfer up until shipping and WTS once they did ship on xianyu.

 

Paypal invoices have their own numbers that are separate from the transaction ID, which is only for payments. The invoice number is automatically generated by Paypal, but you can customize it yourself and then Paypal will automatically continue what you made. So if you typed in DOLL01, Paypal would autofill the next invoice with DOLL02. I believe Paypal's default is something like INV-001, so yeah Mori is probably using the invoice numbers to keep track of things. I think the numbers are a continuation from the Hayato orders, though, and like @lynox said the mainland buyers wouldn't use Paypal so there may be a whole different set of numbers associated with those orders... hmm!

Seems like it must be a nice big batch of Lyras. We have months to wait but I'm already excited to see everybody's Lyras painted and styled up!!! I saw someone on IG made an inspiration board for theirs and now I wanna make one too! I feel kinda bad, but... one of the main reasons I rationalized getting Lyra was because of all the 75cm clothes I love that would be out of character for my Austaras Sooo the entire basis for my Lyra's character is that he's very extra and will wear anything. I always feel guilty when one of my dolls only exists because of another doll but here I am doing it again! Oh my god and I need to think of a name for him. Aaaarrgghh

 

I suspect I'll be waiting at least a year until I do anything with my Lyra, but my inspiration for him is 90s visual kei/probably just sending a few photos of Atsushi Sakurai from that era to a faceup artist and having them to have fun with it. I ordered NS and WS, and I suspect I'm going to end up keeping the WS one, and that it might be easier to find a preexisting resin color to match to since the NS looks so peachy. I couldn't decide which one I liked better though since Mori's photos weren't that great, so I guess I'll pick which one I prefer when they arrive.

I also found out that the DF-H 75cm body that I was thinking of getting for him is uh, much larger than 75cm? I'm not sure how much that would affect clothing options. That was the only 75cm body from a company that offers color matching that I was willing to settle for, so now I'm back to waiting and hoping that Vings releases their 75cm and that I don't hate it and that it comes in a wide variety of colors like their smaller bodies have been available in T_T

I think most people I know wound up with at least 2 Lyras, so that's a lot of Lyras for me locally, at least!

 

Hehe I know I've seen comments on Mori's posts saying they were reminded of Atsushi Sakurai I really liked the Amano vibes a lot of Mori's photos had, so that's the direction I'm going in with my Lyra! I got white skin he will probably have dark eyes and lipstick with light hair. I've also been playing a lot of Zelda lately so I might do some Fierce Deity inspired facepaint/tattoos I like the thin eyebrows Mori usually paints on him but... I don't know if I can help myself and might give him big eyebrows. lol His lips are kind of interesting because sometimes they look serious but other times a little smirky. I might try for a smirk since my Austaras is so serious.

 

I agree! He's reminiscent Amano art x Atsushi and I'm here for it! I'd been wanting to make a 90s VK inspired doll for years now so I guess Lyra gets to be the one. I also really like the thin eyebrows Mori has been painting on her Lyra samples, and was planning to do a mockup to see how he'd look with those thin, half eyebrows that Atsushi has too >w<. I honestly don't think Lyra's face is all that similar to Atsushi's, but the vibes are just right to where I think using photos of Atsushi for inspiration works really well?

I'm really excited to see how they all end up looking! I know we're a long ways off so I'm going to be chomping at my bit until they start arriving.

 

Ah I see what you mean. I've worked supply chain before so I was assuming she was using a system on her end to keep track overall orders rather than have a different set of ones for domestic and international. It's usually what even small businesses would do to maintain efficiency as all the orders would be placed to the supplier or caster in this case as one order so going between two different invoicing systems to would be extra work. But I have to remember these are small artists who probably are likely doing it all out of excel and probably aren't using even basic business software lol.

 

My Lyra is going to get done up like Gwi from Scholar Who Walks the Night and then probably live on a bust stand until they start making 75cm doll bodies that I vibe with and complete my office renovation. Lol

 

Like, years for me LOL. He's in line after my Vadim (probably).

I was poking around on DF-H's Taobao and the listing for that body actually says it's 78cm with a head (why is he a 75, then?!), so you were close. I think most of the extra height is in its legs, but the torso looks like it might be bigger. I asked Steppencat if they'd tried dressing him up yet and how badly 75cm clothes fit, so hopefully they'll be able to answer me.
The feet look real big too. It's so far my favorite of the existing 75cm* bodies though, but it's bigger than what I'd wanted to put Lyra on I wish there were slimmer 75cm bodies, but for the shoulders to balance out the head size of most dolls meant for 75cm bodies, you'd probably have to scale it up to 80cm anyway.
So far the Bodies-for-Lyra situation is so dire that I can't believe I'm actually considering hunting down a cream white ID75 and hoping for the best.

*... lol

 

@idrisfynn that will depend on how fast I can decide on a body and faceup artist for them, haha! I'm not making any decisions until I have them in hand

I did get a few of my 70+ bodies back from blushing so I can try my Hayato on them! That should give me a better idea of how Mori's 75 heads fit on various bodies, but that's assuming Lyra will be similar to Hayato... I don't know how much variation there is in size and neck hole shape between their various releases

Perhaps we should have a big body testing party when all our blank Lyras arrive! I think between all of us, we have a big variety of bodies covered @Grimalkin is local, too!

 

omg NICE. Lyra even has Lee Soo-Hyuk's nose!!

That's Mori's photo that inspires me the most, too! I'm sure my faceup will be clearly inspired by it, kind of unusual for me since I think most of my dolls look nothing like how their makers styled them

@Constance, If y'all do a body testing party I hope you'll share photos! Tho to be honest I'll probably at least try to have a body ready for him before he gets here... but still, I wanna see the possibilities