Soom Idealian 75cm Discussion Part 10

I'm not a Soom expert, but maybe because Garion isn't coming with a dokkebi head this release. At least that's why I'm not buying.

 

York is next? I'm finally going to cave

 

Hello everyone, I have a question. Do you have to order the B.J. hands along an Idealian 75 or can you just leave them out and the doll comes with the normal hands? Not sure about this, since the order form requires you to choose an option and there's only the B.J. hands. I'm planning to order an Idealian 75 somewhere in the future, but I'm not too fond of the jointed hands.

 

You don't have to order them. If you don't it'll just be the default resting static hands the order form makes it confusing, but you don't have to select them.

 

Thank you so much for clearing this up! I was already worried that you couldn't get normal hands.

 

The big deal about the jointed hands was always that I had to order them at the same time as the doll. If you order them later, with Soom’s inconsistent colors, they might not match. But if you know you will never want them, you are safe from this decision.

 

I finally caved and ordered York on a Soom layaway plan! He’s going to be my first ID75 doll, and honestly, I’m feeling a mix of excitement and a bit of worry right now. I’ve been lurking on the Idealian website for quite a while — some dolls sell out super fast, while others stick around for a bit. The Artist version of York really resonated with me the most, so I just had to get him.

I went with the Artist version because it’s way more convenient that he comes with a face-up, instead of me having to hunt down a face-up artist later. According to the fine print, production takes 300 days… which means I won’t be getting him until next August!

Looking back, I probably should’ve just paid for him upfront instead of using the layaway plan, since it adds those annoying international fees. But oh well — I’m planning to pay it off by early next month anyway, hoping that might speed things up a little!

 

congratulations on your first Soom ID75! Did you pick faceup A or B ?

 

Thanks! I chose face-up A for my York doll because the moment I saw him, he reminded me of the Korean actor Lee Chae Min from the Netflix Korean drama, Bon Appétit, Majesty!
But the face-up is very versatile, and I could easily transform his character into an ancient Chinese opera performer.
I just hope it doesn’t really take 300 days for my doll to arrive. That’s such a long wait!

 

Although still a long time, do note that SOOM goes off actual calendar days and not business days, if that makes you feel better. They're almost never overtime, buy they're usually fairly close to the estimated time for full set/makeup options in my experience.

Regarding your question earlier about dolls selling fast, it depends on which dolls are popular, and the largest market for ID75s is the Chinese doll community. So whichever doll is hot there will be the ones flying off the shelves.

As much as I hate SOOM sometimes, to their credit, they have done a relatively good job this year of releasing the popular ones a LOT, so the demand is less crazy than before, making a lot of recent releases of them not sell as fast. Although as someone who enjoys some of the older ones and wants more whacky stuff, it isn't to my favour, but it's saving my wallet lol.

 

I just don’t understand why the Artist Version takes longer, and it doesn’t even include body blushing. I did some calculations:

• Normal Production: 8–12 weeks → that’s about 2 to 3 months (≈ 60–90 days).
• Artist Version Production: 300 days → that’s about 10 months.

So the difference between them is roughly:
300 days − 90 days = 210 days, which is about 7 months longer.

In short: An Artist Version doll takes about 7 months longer to produce than a normal version.

Has it always been that long in the past if you selected a faceup?

Maybe I’m worrying too much about this.

The other thing I wanted to ask is: I’ve already started looking at clothes for my new doll. I’m not sure if I should just wait, since it’ll still be several months before my doll arrives. But I’ve been eyeing some outfits from FreedomTeller — can their doll suits fit the ID75 body? I noticed they use the Dollits 75cm body as a model.

 

Faceups take a long time, I think that sounds about right. Especially when it's on the level on a promo faceup. As Setsura said already, this estimate doesn't include Korean holdiays or weekends. I do think now production is a waiting game and you may be overthinking it.

 

The reason why 'artist version' takes longer is because the faceup is outsourced to independent artists. These aren't artists who work full time with SOOM, but rather SOOM has given these artists a contract which they have accepted to work on their dolls for them as part of the 'official' makeup set. These artists often have their own sets of private commissions running and their own private schedules, and whatever SOOM gives them will be agreed upon to be within their own and SOOM's schedule.

SOOM also employs the exact artist you see in the 'artist version' faceup, and their faceups pretty much look exactly as advertised. Some other companies (such as LUTS for example) may hire a 'promotional' independent faceup artist to show off the doll, but when you order the 'default makeup', it will be one of their in house artists who is replicating the faceup, shortening the time and cost involved.

SOOM is consistent, but they're quite notorious also for not handing the work to the outsourced faceup and full set artists until later in the production line, so it's not always at the problem with the artist either, but rather the way that SOOM decides to schedule things (I say this as someone who's known various people who have worked with SOOM before officially). For example, they may start shipping blank dolls first to get those out quicker and only give the heads to the artists after 70% of the blanks are finished or something (just using random numbers as an example). But as I said before, they are very good at keeping to their promised deadline, so I doubt it will go over the 300 day estimate, it would only be sooner and not later.

Regarding clothes, ID75 is the most commonly sold size at the 75 scale. If it's labelled ID75, it'll fit, and in your case, Dollits is a slightly larger body than ID75, so it will also fit. Freedom Teller has been making clothes for a long time, and if you ask, they can also probably tailor it specifically to ID75 for you.

 

Interestingly, I went to the Idealian website to look at photos of Idealian York, and it seems that the ears are a normal shape. I thought all Idealian dolls came with elf ears, if I’m not mistaken.

Btw, I finally paid off my Idealian York! I guess I didn’t really need the layaway plan after all! It was tough, but at least now I don’t have to worry about payment deadlines. It’s such a relief knowing my doll is fully paid off — now the waiting game begins until it arrives next year!

 

Only specific sculpts or variations of sculpts have elf ears. They dont have an ear changing system and it will just be what the sculpt is made as.

 

Congrats on paying it off.