Name something you wish were different in major bjd companies

Honestly? Pricing. If the prices were lower they could sell more dolls and in the long run make more money.

 

Different skin colors.
Similar price for tan colors or darker colors.
Being able to acquire items from fullsets like wigs or clothes or even shoes.
I would like better eyes. Some companies give you the worst eyes sometimes.... the dolls come out of the box looking so creepy. So I already have a pair of eyes ready for such doll because I know the eyes they come with are so bad.

 

I really wish this was an option too.
They could at least put the outfits up for limited release stock in their clothing sections as a separate listing. Even an option like preorder outfit set only or preorder prop set only on the main doll listing would be great.

There's so many outfits and great accessories and props that I would have loved to own, but the only way I can really see going about getting them as it is right now, would be joining splits or posting WTB posts after people start receiving their fullsets, which isn't even guaranteed to yield what you seek. It seems unnecessarily difficult.

 

I definitely wish more companies were able to have a greater variety of darker skintone options. Most “normal skin” resin colors are lighter than me, and I’m a very pale white girl.

I do understand why this is the case, but I just wish it wasn’t that way.

 

As an SD collector, I want more dolls in the 50-56cm range. I like that size especially since they look like short adults.

 

I wish that 5 Star Doll would come out with either new sculpts in the SD size, or re-issue old sculpts. I have several of their dolls, but there are ones I didn't get while they were still available,. Currently the SDs are all sold out and most of their older sculpts are not even pictured

 

Resin color options that aren't just pale, and REALLY pale, like everyone else. I know they're harder to do, and I understand the toxicity of East Asian beauty standards when it comes to complexion, but I genuinely don't feel either is a valid excuse in 2021 for an international hobby.

 

I want more companies to offer more hand options. You can get different hands for Smart Doll, Volks and Fairyland, but so many dolls come as either that very awkward sort of holding but not hands, flat hands or worse those hands that the fingers could break so easily. Instead of wasting time creating a new sculpt head that doesn't look much different then another head before, make us some hands, we can buy for the dolls we have already from you. I want my doll to hold a cup or at least look like she is, wave with a hand open not a fist, and give an okay or a peace sign not a claw.

 

Most of these have been already said in the thread before, but...

-More skin colour options, not just white, "normal" skin and tan
-More variety in body shape; I would love to have more chubby/thicker doll options
-Option to buy a head and body seperately, many companies don't have this option
-I would love more companies do sort videos for their dolls on instagram, youtube or their website, as it gives better idea how the doll sculpt looks in different angles

 

Idk if it’s been said yet, but I really wish there were more female dolls with small chests (like a-cup flat) that have a more mature look to them. It seems like your options are either “cute and innocent looking girl with tiny breasts, probably from the doll company’s “kid” line or something” or “mature looking face/body with massive boobs”. Bonus points for when you have options for the chest size and they’re like… size c and size e. Like, don’t get me wrong, those body types are nice, but I want to see a flat chested girl who doesn’t look prepubescent, you know?

also, not as frustrating to me, but it might be cool to see some dolls with body hair some time? I think it would work on 1/3 dolls and some 1/4 really well, ones that look more mature/realistic. It would probably be really hard to get the texture right though, like imagine trying to draw leg hair with colored pencils.,. Eyebrows are already hard enough!

 

Now that I've been in the hobby for ten? years, there's something to this. It would be nice to have rereleases of the old dolls that were released in special colors that have not aged well, in a re engineered version of the color now that the companies have had ten years of experience making colored resin, so that people who don't want a beauty green, lemon yellow, green and red striped, or yellow grey doll can get a "new" version that isn't ten years of yellowing. So many companies had amazing concepts that just didn't age well because they yellowed so fast the resin clashes with the faceup or fullset.

 

I think number one would be that companies don’t photoshop their pictures. Of course not all of them do this. But my friend recently got a doll that looked nothing like the promotion pictures which is really sad if you paid that much.

My second very unrealistic wish would be an european volks online shop like the USA Site. When they offered an full choice system order last year I was a bit jealous I think they ship from the us too if I’m not wrong so no extra custom fees or high shipping.

 

Echoing the desire for more skin tones than paper white and off-white. If Resinsoul can do it, I don't know what anyone else's roadblock is.

More body types are always a wish, and more hand options, also. Maybe more common magnetic hand setups, too? That's something that's on my "try this mod" bucket list, because messing with s-hooks is a pain.

I'd really like it if more companies would show picture of sculpts completely blank, from multiple angles, and in multiple poses if it's a body so it's easier to see how the jointing works. I don't need ten slightly different glamour shots of the doll in a fullset. I need to see what it actually looks like as I'll receive it.

 

It's already been said before in this thread, but definitely wish more doll companies updated their websites. Many are stuck in the early 2000s era, which makes it really difficult to navigate and search through products. If you are looking for specific information on a doll body, sculpt, etc., sometimes it can take a lot of webpage scanning and scrolling to find.

To add to this first point--I wish doll companies didn't "delete" discontinued sculpts and bodies from their webpage. It can be really frustrating to have a rare, discontinued doll, and not have the company measurements, blank head, and so on easily available.

 

I would love more options for mature looking sculpts at a smaller scale. I love the aesthetic of sd sized dolls, but 60cm is just too big for me to see myself owning more than one.

 

I wish companies would offer the following.
Paddle hands for helping with dressing dolls.
Full measurements of the bodies, eye openings and head.
Boy part being removable as that bulge can be a pain in pants.
Stronger magnets so parts don't fall off and get lost.

I also wish they would make the area where S-hooks goes a bit deeper so hook doesn't pop off in head. Maybe even allow for head to look up and down by adding a couple more spots for hook.
Also to those companies who make clothes and shoes for dolls, not only give us measurements of doll in photos wearing the stuff, but how about making stuff that could be more like what real people wear, soft jeans, sweaters that button or snap, t-shirts that are loose fitting and shirts with tiny buttons that really snap as big buttons don't look scale. Also stop using pleather for shoes. Can't see spending $25+ on shoes that are going to fall apart. Make them out of good canvas or fabric that can look dressy.

 

I wish there was so much more uniformity in the colors. I am an African American (Sierra Leone/Nigerian) and I am the color of caramel literally. Brought a doll that was listed as caramel. When I got the doll that doll was not caramel at all she could of been light tan at best she was too light. I felt deceived love her anyway lol. Also uniformity in price because I shouldn’t have to pay more for a doll that looks like me. I also don’t like the lack of wig options available at major companies that display a variety of hair textures and styles.

 

Now that it's been made more or less standard by Chinese companies, I wish more Korean houses offered a paid seam sanding service, even if it's just for pale resin. I don't have a safe place to deal with resin dust and I'd rather pay to have the sanding done in-house.

This is a bit annoying too.

 

I have to echo everyone saying more skin color options/darker skin color options. I have some OCs i think it would be fun to shell someday, but the options are pretty limited because of this.

 

I wish companies took their time and spent more time engineering/testing their dolls off-computer. 3D programs and printing allow to churn out new releases fast and they look detailed and exquisite but somehow the posing and posture end up disappointing in comparison to the aesthetics I understand why bigger bjd companies speed things up for business reasons but there is something more satisfying in handling a doll where the movement was planned in play and not solely on the screen.

I'd also love to see the option to have dolls sent unstrung more often - I'll often restring them right away anyway and don't always want to have the company box to save space. Gimme kits! DIYing is all I wanna do!

While I would love to have more resin colours available or that darker colours were the same price - darker tones are a PITA to cast and finish so I fully understand the choice some companies make not to provide them, or provide them as limiteds, in order to offer a quality product at a reasonable price for everyone. It's also difficult to make profitable minimums with niche colours - I really don't understand how Resinsoul does it!