I'm seriously considering jumping in on the pre-order for darkest tan raspberry elf ! I've always admired these dolls and this might be just the perfect combination to finally get me to hit buy! Does anyone happen to have any pictures of what raspberry looks like next to like an Iplehouse FID or a raccoon doll msd? I'm hoping she looks like a preteen next to them.
The Raspberry elves are so cute, I hope you end up grabbing one! I unfortunately don't have any photos, but Raspberry's 4.5-5.5 cm, or around 2 inches shorter than a female FID body, and is definitely a very slim MSD!
@Nikkirose did you ever receive your doll? Your post from Sept 2020 said you expected about 30 days more wait....just wondering if that was really true. Mostly hoping you really did receive your doll!
@Nikkirose Yay! I got anxious and sent jpop an email asking about approximate delivery times, if 6 months was still accurate or if it was a longer wait now. Layla (who must be Grace's daughter based on the context) explained the extraordinary circumstances leading to the long delays of some orders (which is COVID production delays at the factory combined with the sudden passing of her mother, the former person running Jpopdolls). She said current delivery was 4-6 months. So, I guess I will let ya'll know if things appear are back to normal (I ordered in February, so maybe doll in June-August!)
@skyealloway Sure hope 6 months is the general max wait. That’s about where I am now for my coffee skin Raspberry. Been waiting longer than that since I ordered in October last year, but the dolls aren’t ordered until the preorder ends, which got extended to beginning of November, I believe. P: At least I finally got her eyes ordered ahahaha.
Emailed Jpopdolls about the coffee!Raspberry order since there was still no news about my order. I was told that the factory got backed up so there’s been delays, but they are expecting the coffee skin girls “soon”. Since this is BJDs we’re talking here, soon could be a few weeks to another month lmao. OTL Trying not to get my hopes up too much ahaha. She said she’ll post on their Facebook page as soon as there *is* news though, so if you’re waiting for your doll, that’s the best place to check. Kinda bums me out right now since the artist I wanna send my girl to will be opening up faceup slots tomorrow and won’t be open again until maybe August. Guess on the plus side, I should have the other doll I’m waiting for by then and I can send two heads at once to get painted lmao.
I mean, it's been a year since the Gray Raspberry Elf order closed, and that's still listed as 'in production', so I'm really losing hope it's coming any time soon. If they still aren't caught up from last year's orders, I can't imagine that any of the Raspberrys after that one aren't going to be affected as well. Or, JPop is going to get all of them at once and that will cause its own chaos on their end, wading through them all.
A month later and still no news! elmoonfire.jpeg The coffee girls weren’t ordered until November, so I’m into 8 months now. OTL I know better by now than to fully trust any company/creator with their wait estimates, but it’s still such a bummer when they constantly give over-optimistic quotes (especially when they know for a fact that they got orders that either took longer or they are still waiting on). Like…just tell me I’ll be waiting a year or more so I don’t get to the 6 month point and end up getting miffed over the “it’s coming soon” messages. I’m willing to put up with a long wait for my grail, I just like to have realistic expectations, rather than be left to wonder for months on end. /rant I guess on the plus side, the way wait times have been going all over the doll market (even before the pandemic), I just have more reason to put the brakes on with adding more dolls to my crew. There’s just one last preorder I plan to attempt to get in on in fall/winter this year from another artist and that’ll be that for the foreseeable future for me. It’ll be nice to focus on just clothes, accessories and props for my collection. Lawrd knows some of my dolls need the wardrobe additions. …but ugh seriously i want my raspberry girl home so bad. ; A ; raspberry in a dark brown color has been my grail for years jfsdkalfas. i just want her home in all her glory! How’s everyone else doing with their waits? Better than me, I hope.
Oh my gosh @RinSetsua that is crazy! I thought I had seen some of those come in ..but maybe I'm thinking of a different one. I got a fairly optimistic message too when I asked jpop about wait times, she still is saying 6 months.... I haven't reached the 6 month mark yet but with y'all still missing your dolls I don't have much hope If this goes on for over a year I'll have wished I had held onto my dolly funds for something else Although, there was only one other time I waited well over a year for a doll...and she turned out to be well worth the wait so maybe this will work out too
@RinSetsua That sucks so much. I really hope you’ll hear about your order soon. Annoying that Layla is still giving out the 4-6 month estimates when she’s got orders like yours that have yet to be fulfilled. Hell, orders like both of ours. OTL Really wish she’d actually update the Preorder Status page with more than just showing what is currently available to order and a vague production status (the more anal side of me also wishes she’d get rid of the long list of really old orders lmao). Something like adding an “arrived at shop” date or something would be nice. Just to get an idea of what has and hasn’t made it’s way to her so far. Cross-referencing with Facebook is a pain (especially because I just…really hate using FB now-a-days ). uuuuuggggghhh I might still just do that though. Figure out what preorders have actually made it to Jpop based off the FB postings. If you guys want me to post a screenshot of a table of it let me know and I’ll eventually post it once I figure things out. @skyealloway I really hope you won’t be waiting as long as we have. I’m not too worried that I won’t love the doll once she arrives…only been drooling over her for years. I hope you’ll love what you ordered when it does eventually arrive. And if you don’t…well that’s what the secondhand market is for. :B
Checked in on the Jpopdolls FB page this morning and saw some Asella info in the comments of their recent post about shipping being postponed due to the current heatwave that. Someone asked about the ETA for Coffee Raspberry and Light Tan Rivanone and Jpop replied with late Sept for Raspberry, sometime in October for Rivanone. Crossing my fingers that that’ll be the reality. You hear anything yet about your elf girl, @RinSetsua ?
Don’t know if it was you, Rin, but someone else did also ask abut the Elf girls and those are possibly set to arrive end of August/early September. Nice to have more than a “soon” finally! I really hope the factory Jpop works with sticks with their estimated dates. I want to believe in that light at the end of the tunnel. Tho, even if the coffee girls get to Jpop by the stated time, it probably will still take time for her to get things shipped out. ; ^ ; So I’ll likely have to miss out on the next slot opening with the faceup artist I have been planning to send my girl to. Don’t know if she’ll have another opening after October this year. I’m not too in love with the faceup that the girls should be arriving with, so it’ll be kind of a bummer to have to live with it until potentially next year. I guess it’s better than nothing though.
