Sculpts you love (but will probably never get)

Volks Shinku. ;_; Way back when I was still active in this hobby she was already going for around $6000 and now, coming back into it her price has only gone up (which blows my mind, really).

Actually the rest of the Rozen Maiden Volks dolls, as well; their prices have also gone up a lot over the last five years and it's getting to where it's not worth it anymore.

 

Iplehouse old version Kamau on special realskin and one of the original default faceups, on the super hero body with veins. He was very expensive for me at the time, isn't really seen in the marketplace, is not poseable enough for the price and... for the price, I'm not willing to deal with Iple's old resin's greening issues.

If I happen to see a tan head in the marketplace, I might go for that and find an Impldoll body to hybrid it with, but.... it's very unlikely.

 

Iplehouse SID Soo for me. I don't even neccessarily want her super badly at this point, but this sculpt is just so... Freaking. Beautiful. The thing is that she really does come with quite a price tag and I wouldn't feel comfortable with a doll like that yet. But I'm pretty certain that she will haunt me to some day in the future :p

 

A Volks FCS MSD F-14 boy and girl in Ebony skin, because 1) Volks never offered their Ebony skin as an FCS choice, at least not in the U.S., 2) I'm not sure Volks even has any plans to make any more dolls in the Ebony skin color, and 3) Volks completely retired the F-14 Kohaku/Hisui sculpt, even as an FCS choice, I don't think it's even available in Japan anymore.

Lol, and while we're at it, new Volks SDC boys in Sunlight and Ebony skin, so that I can steal their bodies for my Sunlight skinned FCS F-14 boys, and the Ebony skinned F-14 that I'll never have.

 

Nabarro's Har head is my ultimate grail but he's very sought after and a lot of factors would have to come together: I would have to find one for sale at a time when I had the money for at least a down payment and I'd have to either be able to contact the seller first or hope there wasn't someone else offering a better deal or faster payment. It's very unlikely but I can dream!

 

I would really love Impldoll Nicolas, but I really have no character for him and I doubt I'll ever actually add him to my dolly family. He's one of those dolls that you want, but never actually get. :/

 

Eventhough I don't like to say "never", I think that the chances that I could get a Fifth Motif Venitu someday are quite low.

 

I absolutely love love LOVE Lillycat Cerisedolls Kitty Jolie in every colour she's available in but due to the limited ordering periods plus the price that is twice the number in my currency I don't think I'll ever own 3 let alone one.

It's a shame but at least I can see everyone else's pictures of their gorgeous Kitty Jolies.

 

Volks Amelia...Maybe someday when Volks decides to release her again, I would get her.

 

I would want a black doll that looks like me. I haven't seen any male black dolls with a similar build to Smart Dolls or Dollfies. I'm new and I'm not up on the different terms for bodies. I mean the type that are more human like. I actually haven't seen many of the non human like bodies for black males either but I don't really care about those dolls.

 

IoS infernale and tauros. Infernale is unique and fancy but way too big (a 80cm fellow) since I am already horrified by the 60cm ones. Holding him would be as good as impossible. And with a smaller body... maybe, but he's kinda just a cool sculpt I want to own, I would never bond with him and thus bother painting him or getting him all the stuff I need.

And as for tauros - I could never paint him. I'm not that skilled yet.

 

For a long time, it was the Dollshe Ausley Love--I stumbled across her somehow, I don't even remember how, and was instantly in love, despite the price tag--at the time--of something like $900. It didn't take me long to come up with a character and a story, and while I bought other dolls around her, she was always my grail, beautiful and unobtainable until I was independently supporting myself. Flashforward to this summer, and my checking back (as I often did) on her price at a whim. Suddenly, she was limited, and once she sold out, she was going to be gone. I didn't even try to stop myself. I moved around some money, pulled from my emergency funds, and paid the 700+ she cost at the time. A little while later, sales knocked her price down to just 510, and on my birthday, Dollshe refunded me the 200 dollars between what I paid and her sale price.

She's sitting in my room, on a beautiful velvet-covered chair. Grail achieved.

Now I think I'm moving on to the bizarre and probably impossible dream of a Dollshe Saint head on a muscular woman's body. Looking at that face just makes me want an Amazon in the family.

 

Dollshe David Kuncci and 5th Motif Venitu probably.
They are both incredibly handsome and I would buy them just cause of that if I won the lottery or something, but otherwise they probably don't fit in with my other dolls.
Also all 70+ cm dolls probably. I am sometimes toying with the idea to get a Hound and split him and a 65 cm boy or so away from my main group, but I own SDs and I want them to work together size wise. I do not like the idea of having a bunch 60-65 cm dolls and then one huge 70 cm titan that looks out of place...
I gotta say I love a ton of sculpts that would get them all in a flash if I had the funds to spare but I do not, and so I won't ever own most of them.

 

NS Minifee Sia. If I'm ever able to find one, It'd probably be after I purchase a different doll for the character she's perfect for. Sigh...

 

Angel Region Lillica. Probably never going to happen, but oh well.

 

More and more companies are offering a wider variety of skin tones. Dollshe probably has the widest variety (that I have seen), but currently they have been selling mostly in the 40cm-50cm range and smaller.
If all else fails and you like the sculpt but it doesn't come in a shade you like, buy the palest one and dye it. The workshop section can be very helpful with this.
Good Luck.

 

Iplehouse Yur Money Issues

 

I would love to have a Resin Enchanted Doll by Marina Bychkova, but even if the high price was not a problem, they just are not available. Which makes me embellish my unlikely idea of owning one by imagining I could happen upon a full set Resin Enchanted Doll at an estate sale on a table among other unwanted items/knick knacks marked down to 2 dollars!

 

Thankfully I haven't become obsessed with any impossible-to-find-or-obtain dolls. I've had my moments (falling in love with discontinued sculpts and such), but with the MP, never say never! And ALWAYS have money saved just in case. It also helps that I never, ever peruse the Soom site, and RARELY if EVER look at Ringdoll. Curse those amazing limiteds. CURSE THEM. It's Ringdoll's fault that I have a completely unplanned open-mouth Dracula B head on the way...

 

I feel like all three of my Grail dolls are so hard/impossible to find Souldoll Junia Elf Head, Minifee Siean head, and Minifee Nanuri14. Junia and Siean especially are so perfect for my characters, I'm sooo sad they're so rare and of course everyone else loves them too haha