Volks Super Dollfie - SD, SD13, SD16, SD17, SDGr, SDGou & FCS - XXXIII

No emails for me on the USA lotto. I thought the USA one actually sends a lose email?

 

I posted in the other forum, but I won SDGr Boy SD-F-10! I really excited to get my first one-off doll!

 

Congratulations!! @Rinablood

 

They only notify the winners now, and it can take up to two weeks (probably if there is non-payment from a winner and they need to select an alternate). So there is still hope!

 

Congratulations to @Reynardine and @Rinablood !

Crawling out from under my lurker rock to add to the US lottery list. I...definitely did not expect to win. At all. To the point that when I saw the email in my inbox this morning, I just saw "Volks" and "One-Off Model" and immediately assumed it was an announcement about a new set of one-off auctions coming up in the near future. I completely managed to filter out the "Invoice" part of the email subject until after I opened it.

I'll be bringing home Alice.

 

Malaryush! Congratulations!! I'm so happy for you. Gorgeous doll

 

For anyone who won JP/International Best Selections or One-offs, mine have shipped today (and my Yo-Lieselotte preorder but she's OT for this thread) instead of starting tomorrow as the original listing said.
Now the obsessive tracking refreshing begins...

 

Oof does anyone know when the Volks USA Sapphires are meant to ship? I lost my email. I thought it was "Winter 2023" but I'm not sure. And if it is - does anyone have experience with "Winter" dates from Volks? Does that mean strictly within 2023 or could it actually be next year as it's still Winter then (in the northern hemisphere anyway)?

 

I thought they shipped a while back..? @BeyondTime is someone I know who won her through USA and he said his shipped at the end of October, and has photos of her from early November. Silly question, but have you paid for her?

That’s weird, my friend got the Boyhood Cecile from that same release via volks USA and had him in either November or early December. I don’t know if Will was different though.

 

I finished a month of daily Williams drawings and decided I will be entering for him. May Mother SD recognize my efforts.

Volks uploaded a video of the wig stoppers.
https://twitter.com/volks_doll/status/1732625987857224074
It was painful enough that they were on the headcap, but they're on the head itself too

There's also a Oath of Silver Coin book that will be given as a gift to people who buy one of the characters at Dolpa! I would sure like to romantic glance at one
ドールズ パーティー50 - 銀貨の誓い ～Oath of Silver Coin～ 20周年

 

Whoa. Oh my god. I understand that wigs can be annoying, but... this is not the way!! Say goodbye to custom hardcap wigs! And will this even work for all kinds of stretchy wig caps, or just Volks ones? Also I feel like handling the head will be really uncomfortable? It takes many hours to do a faceup, my fingers are totally going to rub against that awkward chunk sticking out on the back. Not to mention that BJDs have been moving in a direction of hiding the "doll" elements like joints and string channels when possible. Even though the vast majority of doll heads get covered with hair, it would bug me to have these random protrusions on my doll's head.

Maybe I'm being dramatic but I really, really dislike this design and I can't believe it got put into production without even, like, polling fans or something first??

 

"I have my xacto knife and I'm really afraid to use it!!!"

Maybe we should pretend this is like buying an unoa kit where you have to remove the casting gate at the top of the head yourself. I'd really prefer they don't add this to all future heads.

 

Yeah that's a no from me...I prefer silicone wig rings to sticking-out resin bits...

 

Well, I don't hate it, I don't mind my dolls to look like dolls, it will be covered, and seems easy enough to cut off. But I don't really see the benefits.
It doesn't look much easier to put on the wig. And it seems like tight fitting wigs won't work with it... most of my Volks wigs have been challenging to squeeze on the dolls and are not very elastic.
Maybe you won't get surprise baldy moments, but there are other grips you can use that are less obtrusive, and you can take them off if you're using a tighter wig. Unlike these.
I like that they are trying to innovate. But I'm thankful that none of my dolls have this gimmick.

 

Uhhhhh.... just no on that resin wig stopper. good grief.

 

This feels like one of those bad infomercial inventions...
"DO YOU STRUGGLE WITH PUTTING ON YOUR DOLLS WIG?!" *dramatically missing the head every time resulting in the doll being flung across the room* INTRODUCING TENSHI NO BUMPIT! The easy to use, ugly mechanism to hook on your doll's hairpiece, and give them that extra lift no one asked for!

Oh Volks... I do admire their innovative spirit, but I think this is too drastic of a solution to a very easily remedied problem. I hope that they limit this innovation to just this release...

 

Yikes.
Those things are.. really something. And not in a good way.

If they end up putting those things on everyone's head in the future, the dremel tool and I will be having some very pointed conversations with any new Volks arrivals in the crew. I just don't like the look of them at all.