Things about this hobby that you find hilarious?

While not exclusive to this hobby, as it's quite popular in Japan for general things, the lotteries for the chance to buy a doll. While I do prefer them to the alternatives personally, it's a bit funny to step back and think "I'm getting all wound up over the chance to be able to buy a $800+ doll" which honestly eases my anxiety about some of them.

 

OK... It was bugging me, so I went and searched and found the doll I mentioned. She was called the Bleu Citron and produced by Notdoll Labs... still disturbs me just a bit...

 

As a sort of newbie to the hobby, I didn't really think about this until now, but today I picked up the mail and pulled the tiniest pair of underwear out of a box which felt absolutely comical. I had ordered a pair of briefs for an upcoming doll a little bit ago (because I didn't want him to sit around totally naked when he arrives while I decide on his outfits) and I think I forgot about it because I was sitting there baffled for a moment like..., why on earth did I order miniature tighty-whities...

A new experience to get used to, forgetting what you ordered and finding out it's doll underwear LOL

 

I totally agree. I see photos of people's dolls which are obviously something they are proud to show off, but the eyes are really wonky, pointing in different direction, etc. Did they not look at their doll before taking that photo and posting it?

I find the cyclops dolls weird and humorous. Makes me think WTF?

 

So, I was looking through some posts in the projects section on the forum, and 3D printing came up in a few threads. This ended up leading my mind down a rather—interesting rabbit hole...

So—I have a love and appreciation for male bjds with those adjustable manbits. There's been more than a few occasions where I sought out bodies for hybridizing with that particular concept in mind. A couple of the ones I did receive...they're limited with the available options—one a direct from company that arrived with general manbits in two different sizes, another arrived from secondhand with only the default option included. I've thought about ordering sets from DF-H/DF-A (can't recall, maybe both offer them) as replacements, but there's the possibility of requiring mods to make them work—

But then...a thought occurred to me. As mentioned in the beginning of this comment, it arrived to me through the magic of 3D printer conversation. "A 3D printer could come in handy—I could sculpt some of those needed replacement bits myself in a 3D program..." I think you'll get where that train of thought is going.

Manbits make collecting bjds so much fun

 

What's funny to me are the cutesy food names for bjds. You see this a lot with anime-style dolls, and it really makes me want to get a cutesy anime doll and name her something not cute at all. Forget Momo, Macaron, Cherry. Name your doll Cheeseburger. French Onion Soup. Sardines. Purina Dog Chow.

 

Every hobby has its amusing traits and it’s eye rolling cringe worthy traits. I’m with the others who mentioned conversations with non BJD people as giving more than a few laughs…..

I was talking to a friend on Skype ages ago whilst changing out the eyes on one of my dolls unbeknownst to her. Suddenly I disappeared from view and all she could hear was me scrabbling about and swearing to myself.

Friend: What on earth are you doing? You ok?

Me: Yes, sorry my eyes fell out and rolled under the desk!

Friend: Your what?!!

Me: My eyes….oh hang on, I found one…damn it…it’s a bit dusty now…..

Friend: How the hell?!….

Me: Oop found the other one…..just stood on it…yup it’s ok. *scrabbles back onto chair and sees rather shocked and confused look on friend’s face* Quick wipe and it’ll be fine to pop back in.

Friend: *blank stare*

Me: Doll eyes…..I dropped my doll’s eyes as I was changing them and talking to you…….there…done….now to reattach the back of her head……

Friend: You’re a special kind of strange aren’t you *laughs*

 

oh no!!!!! I feel called out!!! Two of my anime dolls are sister and brother Eclaire and Millefeuille... French onion soup totally gave me an idea though... so now we've just got to have a Potage Parmentier join the gang!!!

 

Two words for adult male BJD's: removable/replaceable....hooha's (I might get in trouble by saying the correct name).

 

We're surely all the same kind of immature because frankly the Detachable Option Parts never stops being funny! *Especially* the April Fools/silly versions one company made, I can't recall who. Or the one that's a "Handy" part.

 

This thread is great! I'm dying

So, to add to the topic of magnificent detachable eggplants, I showed a friend my new Dollshe boy and she cracked up at the sight of him... and has since encouraged me to add gloss to his nipples and eggplant to accentuate their qualities...

As for my experiences handling him so far, he is strung rather loosely I think, and his thighs tend to spread out awkwardly when I least expect it. Always gives me a chuckle, especially considering that the character he is supposed to represent flusters rather easily

 

Based on the above, I think nipple-glossing might just be the funniest-sounding activity ever, in the doll hobby or not.

 

Also based on the above, I can somewhat tolerate nipple-glossing on male sculpts since it's normal for them to be displayed shirtless. But glossing the....eggplants?

Excuse me while I go rolling on the floor in laughter.

 

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Apart from the many things allready metioned so... I think unplanned/unexpected movement is one of thos things that never stops being funny.
I had a doll that had a slightly unbalanced elbow (long since fixed now) and she had a tendency to snap her arm into a bent position. A combination of how her hands are posed and the shape and distance of things made it so that she more than once suddenly appeared to be picking her nose. The first time it happened was when I was a very new BJD owner. I had just posed her for a photo, went to get the camera and when I come back, she sits there with the finger up her nose and I swear she looked guilty.

Another time a friend had their dolls over and one of their dolls constantly snapped her armes upp as if to defend herself whenever one of my male dolls was posed close. There was one time where we left all the dolls posed together as if the were just hanging out and when we came back a little later it seriously looked as if this doll was trying to fend mine off. We had a very good laugh about that.

A third instance of unplanned movement was during the award ceremony during the first BJD convention I ever went to. One of the dolls on display suddenly had a part that came loose from its display and without missing a beat, the ceremony stopped until the owner was located and could go and rescue her doll, then everything continued as if nothing had happend. The non doll people that were there as helpers found that very funny.

I could go on, but I'm sure many people here have similar experiences with dolls that refuse to behave when dressed in clothes they "don't like" or tend to fall over when paired with a certain other doll or similar.

 

"I have a bunch of floating heads" is a perfectly understandable statement.

 

Going to agree with the original poster the fact I have some detachable male genitalia because of my dollies does make me laugh.

Also the floating eyes.

 

One of my favorite things are purposely bad hybrids Like a small, baby-faced, bug eyed head on a very big muscular body, or the other way around, a chad head with square jaw on a too small baby body. When their resin match is perfect it's even more funny!

Also trying to put eyes into a doll and getting all sorts of possessed + creepy expressions before I get it right.

And definitely conversations about detaching heads and changing eyes around non-doll people, for example in a public transport. Their side eye and confusion is amusing, but it also makes me want to loudly announce that we talk about dolls, so they won't have to wonder what that was about for days (or a lifetime xD)