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Sculpt name turning you off the doll?

Nov 11, 2012

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    1. i've pretty much only felt this way about one doll as far as i remember. it was impldoll eddy. i just didn't like the name and it kinda did turn me off to the doll.
       
      #21 m0usey, Nov 12, 2012
    2. Company names mean nothing to me, it's not like I'm going to keep the name or anything so a doll can be called boo boo for all I care.

      To the OP: woah!!! my dream doll is called "Woosoo" lol
       
      #22 yumi~, Nov 12, 2012
    3. Some sculpt names I like more than others, but the name itself wouldn't turn me off from buying the doll.
       
      #23 Briana, Nov 12, 2012
    4. Sculpt names would never turn me off from purchasing a doll. xD
      Actually, I think a lot of sculpt names are really odd, and I like how they sound when said aloud! Sometimes I even consider naming another doll, or character, after a really interesting sculpt name.

      What DOES ruin a sculpt for me is when the company gives them a character, and a backstory. It kills me, I know it's silly but agh, I find it so hard to insert my characters into that sculpt once it's been given a character of it's own.
       
      #24 Shlynn, Nov 12, 2012
    5. I'm positive this has already been said, and perhaps multiple times, but the sculpt name means little, in fact, nothing, as I inevitably change the dolls name to something much more suitable....at least for me.
       
      #25 Zelce, Nov 12, 2012
    6. I see dolls and wonder what their sculpt is called, or what company they're from, all the time. So if it's somewhere random I try to share the sculpt at least of my dolls- assuming other people just like to know too. My doll is a Myu. Like "This is my dog, Autumn. This is my Volks Myu, Ariadne."
       
      #26 Catalystflours, Nov 12, 2012
    7. It doesn't stop me from buying a doll, but I really don't like it when they have names I don't care for. It works best for me when they're names I'm not familiar with. I have a Volks Hewitt, for instance and at the dollpa, Volks staff pronounced it "Hewey"-- a name I associate with a cartoon duck. I can't bring myself to pronounce it that way, but I still love the mold.
       
      #27 brighnasa, Nov 12, 2012
    8. I am currently waiting on a doll with a name I'm not entirely sure how to pronounce, which should answer part of that question xD However it would put me off slightly if the doll had a name that meant something bad, specifically in my own area. However I don't know alot of variations of bad words so they'd have to be pretty obvious, and then if I didn't know it I'd get embarrassed saying it out loud and getting weird looks xD
       
      #28 Calabri, Jan 4, 2013
    9. It doesn't ruin it for me at all. I just have problems pronouncing them correctly sometimes. XD
       
      #29 KohakuTenshi, Jan 4, 2013
    10. Sculpt names don't usually turn me off from the doll :) However, the only sole exception so far has been Iplehouse nYID Justin. Not because I dislike the name, but because Justin is the name of a person I know in real life that I have a rather... complication relationship with xD And it doesn't help that they both vaguely share a weird similarity with each other. (Reading any user/owner/hobbyist comments about the sculpt also has me in a fit of giggles, too.) Other than that, sculpt names don't usually bother me. Some times I find them just plain silly.
       
      #30 QAJenova, Jan 4, 2013
    11. Not really. If I like the sculpt nothing else matters,but I have seen some names that made me go :?
       
      #31 DahliaDevere, Jan 4, 2013
    12. I guess my biggest problems with sculpt names is how to pronounce them. It's hard to sound serious about something if you can't even pronounce it correctly
       
      #32 arially, Jan 5, 2013
    13. This has only ever happened to me once, but it literally stopped me in my tracks from buying a doll. I had seen pictures of him, hunted him down, and when I finally found him, I was devastated by his company given name.

      Lucifer.

      I couldn't. I clicked out of the page and deleted all the pictures and never looked back.
       
      #33 Zuka Engel, Jan 5, 2013
    14. If I really love the sculpt, a name will never keep me from buying it. I do, however, remember a doll a while back that unfortunately shared its name with a certain body part... I know a few people bought the doll anyway, but it had become the butt of so many jokes the company renamed him a few weeks later!
       
      #34 cinnabar_rose, Jan 5, 2013
    15. Won't stop me from buying a doll, but I definitely don't care for some names. Can't pronounce others. Never pay attention to company back-stories. Hate some names being un-searchable. But that's just life with bjds, I guess! *_*
       
      #35 april, Jan 5, 2013
    16. I did chuckle a little bit over my Luts Claus' name... But since he *was* supposed to be a Christmas gift, I can't really hold it against him. :lol:
       
      #36 Brightfires, Jan 5, 2013
    17. Well....Wasn't there an Impldoll or something a couple years back that was called Penis?

      ....Yeah...I just stayed back during that and died laughing.
       
      #37 Arashi Uchiha, Jan 5, 2013
    18. Why hasn't anyone mentioned Resinsoul's Dong yet? :p

      Back on-topic; no, I haven't been turned off a doll sculpt based on its name yet. There are a few whose names I wrinkle my nose at, but ultimately it's like company doll backstories to me-- it doesn't really matter for me in the long run, and I disregard it after I insert my own character name/backstory.
       
      #38 syntheticality, Jan 5, 2013
    19. PFFT NOW it just hits me what the name means. XD;;; I'm an idiot.
       
      #39 Arashi Uchiha, Jan 5, 2013
    20. There are a lot of sculpt names I don't like. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't buy the doll. My first one "Homme Ducan", where in the hell did they find that name ? I can hardly pronounce it . But I really adore the sculpt.
      Before I bought my first BJD I already decided that every BJD I would buy would have to have a Japanese name. I simply adore Japanese names.
      Regarding the company-stories : I like to read them but I disregard them. My dolls have there own story to tell.

      Some days ago I read Bimong's story of the Dandelion Mindulrae on Flickr and I found it so very nice that if I would ever have owned that sculpt it would be the only one till now which name I would've kept.
       
      #40 dolls-in-wonderland, Jan 5, 2013
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