Obsessed with another owner's doll?

For me, seeing other lovely dolls in great photosonly inspires me to make my dolls be lovely like that, but my dolls have a story to them and thier own personalities, so doing face-ups that don't go with that is just a waste to me.

other than that, ANY HEATH!! I love that doll.

 

Heh heh... yes ^^;


I bought a Bee-A because I was in love with chun's adorable girl Two years on I still adore my little princess. My Dawn was originally planend to have a dark with and blue eyes, so she would look nothing like chun's even though it was her's that made me fall in love.

I also got a Tender Too because I fell in love with one on this bored ^^ The name escapes me - I think it was Rorek? Well she has a lovely little gentlemen.

Unfortunatly, when I got my own Tender Too, I was dissapointed. Quite frankly, he looked girly because of his DoD face-up and I could never make him look as beautiful as the one I fell in love with =( I think - like you - I was in love with the character.

My Lishe was a different matter XD I just adored her sculpt and the attitude it seemed to show

Unfortunatly, I'm afraid I'm about to fall into the same trap x.x;

I am about to buy a Shiwoo. I never liked the sculpt and frankly I hate the make-up Luts has for him =/

But I'm buying him because the moment I saw Belladonna's gothy Shiwoo, I thought of one of my characters, Nicky, and knew I had to dollif him - into THAT doll.

I do feel a litte guilty this time though ^^; I want him to have a face-up similar to Belladonna's too. He won't be a vampire elf like her's, and I do want some differences (like some neon pink and femininity in the look). Over all though, he might have a similar enough face-up

I don't consider it copying though ^_^ If you order a doll from a company with a default face-up, you're going to have to accept the fact it will look just like dozens, maybe hundreds of others in some ways.

I think you really need to make a doll your own, even if it was bought from modeling it off another's doll.

 

Hmm.. Thank God, I never became obsessed with someone else's doll. I found the Volks site (somehow) when I was about 15 or 16 years old (I think?) And fell in love with BJDs. I forgot about them because they were WAY too expensive and I didn't even get an allowance at this point. I just asked for what I wanted and it was bought for me. :/ In any case, my love of BJDs was rekindled when I saw that an acquaintance of mine had pictures of her BJD on her DA site. I quickly ran to Wal*Mart to ask her where she got her dolls. X3 I didn't really like her doll, it just reminded me of my love for them. After that, it's history! I got my very first BJD (Kid Delf Cherry Girl) yesterday and I'm totally in love with her. (I'll be even more in love when I get her faceup on X|..)

 

I'm going to go out on a limb and mention the people's dolls that i love that have not been mentioned gazillion times already.

IMO, one of the most beautiful dolls in this community is Dream_of_Isis' Bastien.

Another one is Syndal_Lynn's Gabe He's too cool for words

I also love Dwarfgirl's Jack Sparrow

 

I wouldn't go as far as obsessed, but I really love a few peoples dolls. Like Frozen Wing's and Ataru [I forgot the owner, sorry XD].
But it's not an obsession, its more like, OMG THEY HAVE ANOTHER GALLERY POST *hurries and looks*. Hahaha.

 

Completely obsessed!! I love to see others'dolls *.*! And I've felt in love with some dolls because customs of people owo! [and I ever look for customs before I put a doll on my wl!]

I know better spanish dolls, but there're a lot of dolls here, in DoA, that drives me crazy *^*!

 

the more i see others' dolls the more i get into BJD, the more I appreciate mine and other friends its soooo fascinating to me to see how people customize them and such

I know this isn't a popularity contest but I have to mention the fact that im SOOO totally in love w/ a site called Aveelenato and im pretty sure im not the only one

and i *heart* SDink's dolls ^,^;;

and dollface - omg omgi LOVEEE tsukasa pls convince ur sister to post pictures if she hasn't already!!

 

I really like Helene's F-16, Tripp. He's one of my favorite sculpts and has a really nice natural faceup and really cute spikey hair!! I just love his whole look and it makes me want an F-16 soo bad! He's just too adorable!

 

LOL
I would say no except - at a doll meet, there is a lovely lovely girl I like a lot an am always happy to see, and her owner was saying "eh, maybe I'll sell her someday" so I said "If you do, please put me first in line!" Someone else came up about ten minutes later and said "If you ever sell her, think of me," and I snapped "Hey! I'm in line!" Ooopsie, didn't think that would sound that snappity....

I will put it down to no breakfast that day.... LOL

 

I've seen quite a few beautiful dolls around the internet and on this forums, but I never found myself wanting that doll, because it wasn't my character. I've never wanted the doll just because someone else 'customized' it to make it awesome, knowing mine wouldn't look like that, then maybe not even have my own theme in mind to make him unique to me.

I always look at the main base doll on sites like luts and dod, then go around looking at different eyes and wigs amd imagining what they'd look together until I find something I think it just as gorgous to myself.

 

I like looking at other people's dolls and occasionally seeing how they photograph them and/or their outfits but I don't think I'd feel right ripping off someone else's doll. Besides that, Taira would /kill/ me. He's got more than enough personality on his own without taking from some other source! XD

 

Guide. Freakin' Guide. He's the most wonderful, creepy, vaguely-Miyazaki-esque dorrie I've ever seen and probably ever will see. It's too bad he's a minimee, so I'll never even get the opportunity to have one of my own unless Owner-Guide decides to sell the second head... ;w;

 

Yesss and he's a limited that will be out soon before I'll be able to get him

 

i love lexalot's eiji and lachlana's taji~ and i really want a mnf shiwoo someday
and luts is taking so damn long to ship me my mnf vamp shiwoo
when i get my shiwoo i want him to be just like taji and eiji~ so so sweet and cute!!! but don't ALL mnf shiwoos look sweet and cute so i guess it isn't really copying:P

 

I WANT TINYBEARS MOON!!!!! About 6 months ago I was reading in the forums (before I became a member) and I saw this avatar picture and was like *grabby hands* and then I was always looking for pics of her!! but when I finally had the nerve to ask tinybear who the doll was and I went to order one I was 'oh, its not as cute as hers...?' sad and disapointed!! But I'm hoping against the odds that Tinybear will either

1. Take pity on me and give me moon :lol OR
2. I'll just kidnap her and leave a cheque...

either way OBSESSED!!!!

 

Thank you so much!!!
I'm soooww glad that you like ataru XD
I'ts really a honour ^^

 

I don't know about obsessed...I suppose the closest I got was this particular Saint, whose faceup was very unique and - at least for a short time - caused me to consider getting a Saint. But ultimately I found that while I loved that doll, I don't care for Saint. I don't think it would've worked out if I'd actually bought a Saint, even with a similar face-up.

Popularity contest aside, this is an interesting thread. I wonder how many people have been swayed toward wanting/owning a sculpt because of seeing someone else's doll? I think that's usually how I become attracted to a sculpt - by seeing owner's/customizer's takes on it, aside from the official company pics.

 

I wouldn't say obsessed (I like my own dolls the best by far XD) but I do have an attachment and attraction to quite a few other dolls. O: I don't think it's a bad thing because it helps me decide if I love a mold or not. ^^ I've always loved Lishe but seeing Frozen_Wings Ayaka was what made me determined to get my own. XD So I don't see it as a bad thing.

But If I can't see myself getting that mold without copying their's... then well, either I just admire their's and don't get one or copying isn't really a problem to me.^^ It's hard to explain. But I do believe in changing a few things. So yes, I do have attachments to other dolls. XD Some of which are:

Ataru's Ataru XD
AngeliPrimarosa (sp?)- Ruki and Hana XD
Frozen_Wings - Ayaka
Sugarcoatedstars - Yuki T-T and Jetta.
Hiritai - Haydie XD I can't remember his full name.

 

I've had this happen both ways... getting my "dream doll" of the moment and loving it, and other times I've had it fail miserably. Some dolls are great in pics I see on my computer, but don't fit in with me/my other dolls/my home etc.

It's terrible when you've spent big bucks on your "dream doll" and then it doesn't work out. But it can happen with dolls you hope they will make too... When Luts put out Elf Chiwoo I was in orbit... but in person it just didn't work. I think maybe I'd just gone beyond that mold or whoknowswhat.

The good thing is you can sell them on to someone for whom it may actually work out great!

Raven
(who in no way claims to be at all logical)

 

@:OddEthics: Thank you soooww much!!!!