Things about this hobby that you find hilarious?

It's is very immature of me and not at all original, but the concept of removable interchangeable male privates is my current amusement. I don't have any of these dolls myself but find many funny moments out of context in the community. Nudity isn't weird, anatomically correct dolls aren't weird it's simply the idea that these fellas need to come fully prepared for so many impossible situations with apparatuses. I think the animism gets out of control in my head, it's a very colorful saga. I worry for the ones who end up with all their parts lost to the ages and so on and so forth. It will be my favorite thing to tell non-hobby people about forever.

 

100% The funniest thing I can think of for a BJD! Because I am also a five year old! I am that immature!

 

The "Flower bed" is actually a word-by-word translation of a micro-lending service called "Hua-bei". It's like the Chinese version of Klarna. In Chinses it's meant to sound like "Just spend it", but when translated word by word... "Flower bed."

 

Thank you for that context!! I was gonna wonder about that haha!

 

No worries!
Now it's time for me to figure out the bit about the vegetarians. I haven't wrapped my head around that one yet!

 

The “vegetarian” could be a machine translation of blank head / body (素头/素体) as the word 素 can mean both unprocessed/ unpainted as well as vegetarian, but I don’t understand the part on “full amount” under size description

 

Oh thank you for this! I think it was a body listing so I assume they mean an unblushed body, paid in full?

 

I think you are right! Mystery solved!!

 

For me it’s dolly dates. I love going on outings with my dolls but I do sometimes have that little The Office style blank stare moment when I see myself from a 3rd person perspective sitting next to a very well dressed person who is two rulers tall.

 

In regards to this, I actually got my updated Maydoll Lemon Cat (human ver.) body at the warehouse yesterday night, and.... I saw the pictures of the boy body before this, and it went over my head that he would have a detachable winkie until I saw the photos from the warehouse! I think you can tell how amused I was by that!

 

@MaleficentMrsofEvil I think you'll also need to specify whether it's a "fat uncle" or not

 

Uncle means 1/3 scale by the way!

 

You know how sometimes we use euphemisms for someone who is of a bigger size than usual?
Instead of calling someone "fat", we call them "big", or "hefty", or "fluffy" (sorry, Gabriel Iglesias...). Well, in China, the word they use is "Strong". So they would mention that so-and-so is a "100kg strong man" so they don't have to call him "fat". Well, Auto-translate is really bad with euphemisms. So now, a "Strong Uncle" (which means a visibly heavily muscled 70+ doll, think the new broad-shouldered, Dorito-looking guys) now becomes a "Fat uncle".

Also, @MaleficentMrsofEvil if you want, you can forward the sales page to me in a DM, I can probably help you to read through the page without the Auto-translate hilarity.

 

I rationally understand that size and weight change things dramatically, but before BJDs I only dabbled in 1:12 scale figures and whenever someone praises a doll's posing with "I love how well she stands!" or "she can sit so well!" I think it's funny because even the worst action figures have no trouble with that. Especially considering that BJDs have far more range of motion on average.

Packaged dolls always remind me of cartoon characters all plastered up after an accident.

 

The funniest BJD thing I've ever seen was when a friend of mine got a giant doll chateau guy. Magnetic peens are one thing, but DC is all about going that extra mile.
...his was jointed.

I'm not ashamed to admit we both wiggled it around for a while, just giggling over it.

 

Really gives a new meaning to floppy out of the box.
...I hope it wasn't kicky.

 

I totally forgot DC has jointed “attachments” LOL. how would you even blush that…