Things about this hobby that you find hilarious?

Sorry about the permanent Not-David narration, lol, but seriously glad everyone's enjoying the silliness! @SPhosphate, I was legit cackling at your "sorry, not sorry" line. My Canadian friends would be rolling (I'm not Canadian myself, but I get enough of the cultural reference to lol along with them).

That was definitely startling at first, and I probably would have reacted exactly like you did if I hadn't watched it already forewarned, so thank you for that! I asked my husband what he thinks might make them move, I was wondering if they were magnetic in some way? But he seems to think it's something else. I'll edit the post if he thinks he's figured it out, lol.

EDITED TO ADD: Hubs found this technique for how to make the eyes move, I'm not sure if it's exactly the same, but it's from a couple of years ago. The person explains and demonstrates the process he came up with (I guess he's credited in several places as being the first to come up with the idea and at least share it online). It's really neat!

Video demonstration of moving eyes on Instagram

It's kinda long to watch, but this shows how the OP made the eye socket capable of movement in the first place, using tinfoil. How the person in the later reel managed to make the eyes move may have involved turning the eye sockets from the backside, potentially? Meaning they maybe had the head cavity open, and used an implement to attach to the long posts at the back of the eyes and got the eyes to move by turning the posts, somehow?

Serious ingenuity in the BJD world, whether it's funny, brilliant, or everything in between!

 

When I skimmed the post above and read "snenis" and "moving the eyes", I tried to imagine how the mechanism would work

 

Sorry, our reputation precedes us. As much as we'd love to say that we don't say "sorry" that much... I guess we do? I mean... I suppose we do? Anyway... sorry.

And thanks (to you and hubs!) for finding the tutorial. Now I am really tempted to try this one out on my bigger boys!

It's now canon: The snenis is the source of all surprise joy! All roads lead to snenis!

(Sorry... now I can't get these images out of my head. Thanks a lot, gang!! )

 

Why am I now thinking of those creepy 18th century portraits where the person's eyes seem to watch you wherever you go in the room? Lmao. For real, though, there's a portrait of I think Marie Antoinette I saw as a teenager in a museum in Austria that literally had the effect. A couple of her Habsburg relatives did, too. Seriously weirded me out, lol.

Fwiw, my husband is not Canadian, and he says sorry more than anyone I know, lmao. Just like reflex for him, even when he's repeatedly and gently told he doesn't need to apologize for anything. I try to view it as someone trying to be considerate of others' feelings--which is lovely unless they're regularly neglecting their own.

So glad it's useful, yay! Oooh, that's great you want to try out the tinfoil trick on one of your dolls! I'd love to see photos if you're happy with the results! My husband found some other videos with similar-but-different eye movement techniques, I think he sent me 5 altogether? I could start a thread on that topic and post them, if anyone's interested? (Don't want to go OT in this thread more than I probably have with Not-David Attenborough, lol.)

 

I am! I totally am! I just want to adjust focus those peepers once in a while!
Taking photos for a photostory takes a while if I have to go in to adjust the eyes' line of sight with every other shot. This trick should work out much better!

 

I was joking around but that eye movement gimmick looks really neat. I'd love a thread to discuss that.
Joydoll is also making some sort of eye harness that goes inside the head, but I assume it's only geared for their own dolls.

 

I just posted a new thread on moving eye techniques in Workshop/Customization & Maintenance, hopefully that's the best place for it! That was a really fun rabbit hole to fall into!

 

Oooh, that's a really interesting technique, too! If you find more info on how Unoa does it, please do share it over in that thread, too! We were guessing that the back of the doll's head might be open for something to attach to the long posts on the eyes, but that seems tedious to have to take the cap on and off all the time. Extra holes in the head make a lot of sense to avoid that.

 

Just saw the teaser pic of the new Ringdoll Anubis set. While the first one looks so regal (with a little eyebrow raise on their choice of adding tiddie jewelries ), the second set looks so.....

Spoiler: Not really as revealing as T&D moob window but...why? O.o'''

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The entire topic is filled mostly with people talking about making doll "parts", which I very immaturely also find funny, especially the removable ones, and the person who put them on their fridge is ICONIC. I don't think that adding that part to a doll is necessary, but I do find it funny when companies decide that making them removable is a good idea. Imagine removing the magnetic part and losing it, then your in-laws or a young family member finds them by accident or something that sounds like it would be embarrassing but also quite funny.

 

I clearly have the same sense of humor as you and @Kizumii_chan, lol. My brain immediately started generating Not!David Attenborough rambling on about various creatures accidentally shedding body parts instead of their skin, lmao. He'd end with something along the lines of "Thankfully, those handy magnets mean that as long as the missing part can be found, it'll happily reunite with its owner!"

May the snenis live long in our memories, lolololol.

And a huge thank you to the BJD makers for giving us so much entertainment in places we maybe didn't expect to find it.

 

I think human body parts will never be not funny.
We are usually used to dolls being children's toys, so being anatomically correct (instead of "as smooth as a Ken doll" - bonus if you know where the quote came from!) is something jarring to the system, no matter how old you may be. The thought that some doll companies have decided that they needed to make their already anatomically-correct dolls even more ana-comically correct is a stroke of evil genius. There are some doll makers who give their female dolls very detailed sculpting between their legs, too - they are just fewer of them and the parts are not detachable, which somewhat takes away from the absurdity (and at the same time, hilarity).

I think, if there's a company that came up with inflatable boobs (now that I think of it, it'd probably have to be a vinyl doll of some kind. Resin can't inflate), we'd be having just as much fun falling over ourselves for it.

 

Well, there used to be add-on silicone busts - not much farther to inflatable ones!
MagneticDuckling doesn‘t make them anymore as far as I am aware, but surely there‘s other creators out there who offer them.

Spoiler: Link to YT review

 

No clip on clitoris

Re: squishy boobies - it's more common with anime dolls, especially vinyl - you can get 3rd party silicone parts to use on the frame. Evantasy has a new resin body that offers silicone breasts as an option, too, so it's definitely been thought about.

 

I keep running into Adyka as a silicon option (mainly with Volks or Smart Dolls), that's neat to know there are other brands out there doing the same kind of thing. Like that Evantasy has a mostly resin body with optional silicon parts, that's an interesting hybrid concept that I'll be curious to see whether other brands start doing as well. Or if they find other ways to try and offer different tactile or structural solutions for BJDs.

I ran across a reddit thread last night where someone asked about whether it was just them that had the impression that one BJD brand no longer had the same presence everywhere, and people who'd been collecting for decades weighed in with a fascinating observation--that there are so many makers now, there are a ton of niche doll markets rather than everyone only has these 5 big names to order from. I'm still pondering that one, but it makes a lot of sense, honestly. Lots of BJD makers means more niche things, from snenises to silicon body parts, to who knows what next. It's both awesome and a little weird/funny all at once, but I'm kinda glad I joined the BJD community at this point, too.

 

Aficionados on the vinyl side claim that for obvious reasons it's the only way to have natural looking large busts. Most of the resin/vinyl options look pretty ridiculous to be honest.