Was your first doll a doll you wanted?

YES!
After I needed to sell my doll because of some issues I was now able to buy a doll again and I went with the same head, body type, and chest size as before! I'm truly happy about my Minifee Chloe and I'll never give her away again!
I mean, buying her a second time really shows me how much I loved her!

 

Nope, because the doll I wanted was no longer produced (the site was closed).

 

No. I haven't recieved her yet, but after browsing Mandarake for a bit I found an outrageously cheap Leekeworld YOSD and took the plunge.

 

I've heard stories about some newbies bought a cheaper doll when they first join the hobby, but later on found out that they don't like the doll as much as they expected. I think it's important to start with a doll that you really like rather than to buy a doll just because it is more affordable. I bought my first doll when I was a college student and I worked parttime to save up money for him.

 

I did not like the first bjd I ever had.
I did really love one of the first bjd's I bought myself.
She was an msd Spirit doll snowdrop limited full set girl in a pure white resin.
I really loved her.
I chose to sell her eventually because my Volks obsession took hold, and that is a beast I can't contain.

 

I got a job and saved and my first will be on his way before the new year He was nearly $800 with a sale. I adored him at first sight and having experienced wanting a doll and being too broke at the time to buy him; I couldn’t miss this chance a second time

 

Yes, at that time, it is. But during the long waiting, I changed my mind... Now my sense about doll have changed many times, it is not my type now.

 

Yes, though he wasn't my first choice. I went through a few possibilities: Iplehouse, fairyland, Elfdoll, Iplehouse again, then Fairyland. I missed an Elfdoll SD (the sculptor was closing shop) by an hair, then learned about Iplehouse's lack of posability before I could buy Lonnie ( I am quite happy about it as I discovered later that I preferred Joy ), this meant I went back to Fairyland Littlefees.
At this point, I was concentrating on a Chiwoo boy, unfortunately I felt I needed him in tan, something Fairyland wasn't proposing at the time. Surfing the web, I discovered a lovely picture of a Shiwoo girl. As I could only find a Shiwoo boy ready to ship, I decided to order this Shiwoo boy and a Chiwoo elf girl. I assumed wrongly that both dolls were ready to be shipped. My aim was to put the Shiwoo head on the girl body. Totally back fired . I received the boy quickly as he was in stock and waited for the girl for months... The result of this was that I got used to my will-be girl being a boy, and ended keeping both dolls.

 

Yes, it was at the time. Later on, more realistic dolls came up and I thought about changing the character to another doll, but I never did as I do actually love her (she's a customized CP Chiwoo)

 

I don't actually have the first doll I purchased yet... And may not have her for years to come yet - the waiting time is abysmal. But it's worse it because it is my grail doll - I wanted her for over 10 years now... Not likely to change my mind any time soon. I did end up grabbing a second doll, with more reasonable wait time and because I like her a lot and there was a big discount on her, so it was really a good time to get her. So the first doll I'll get in my hands is going to be one I really like, while the first one I bought is a grail for me.

 

Yes, and I loved him, but unfortunately he was too big and heavy, and the lack of clothing options I liked kind of ruined it for me.

 

Absolutely. I had been wishing for her for a long time and one day I went to a doll show (usually never go). There she was, for sale, exactly the one Narae I had been dreaming of with her butterfly smile.

 

I wanted my first BJD so badly, and she lived up to my expectations. I still have her now and I’m quite fond of her!

But my first doll of any sort I didn’t want at all. I was a kid and I wanted plastic farm animals and Pokémon cards. :p Little did I know it would put me down an entirely new (and expensive!) path!

 

Blueblood Genx Nile still want him still till this day can't find him anywhere.

 

I feel like I forced myself to like my first doll. I was 14, saving up money was no easy task with almost no income, and I didn't have the guts to order or buy dolls from overseas, so I had to buy a doll from another hobbyist. There was not much to choose from, so I kind of picked the one that fit my budget and was right size and sex.

 

Yes - I knew I needed to buy him from the moment he was announced, so I bit the bullet and paid for both him and another doll that I had been considering purchasing second hand (the company did a re-release of him at the same time). It took about a year from payment to arrive and I was NOT disappointed when they came!

 

Yes! As soon as I knew that Volks was going to release a collaboration with The Rose of Versailles, I decided that no matter the cost, Oscar would be mine. Lucky was on my side, because a friend of mine could attend the dolpa and get a nice spot to enter the limited shop. Once he bought her for me, I had to wait him to come back to my country. Oscar travel safe in his suitcase.

 

Not particularly, to be frank. I saw a cute doll on eBay, made sure it wasn't a bootleg, and I purchased her. The reason I bought her was because she was affordable and available and I really did love her when I first got her but over time, the charm wore off and I found other sculpts I found more to my liking. I felt bad but taste changes over time and I have a bit more money to buy more detailed dolls.

 

My first was ResinSoul Ya. I couldn't afford a more expensive doll, Ya was really expensive to me at the time. I thought she was meh, but was hoping that I'd grow attached to her once I started crafting for her etc. When she got here I couldn't bond at all. I don't know why, but I find it really hard to bond with dolls that are very pale, which is most BJDs. I like dolls that look like me (medium skin tone).

 

Honestly...he was not! A friend of mine had planned and ordered her doll first--this was back when Dream of Doll had a set of MSD boys based very generally off of the Four Symbols--and we thought it would be neat to collect them all among ourselves and friends. Turns out I was the only one who jumped along that peer pressure plan, as the first doll I really wanted was Cerberus Project Yder.

Which was apparently okay, since joke's on me and all; I still have my Wi. I never stopped admiring his tall pointy noise and gently serious eyes. He'd have to be pried from my dead body.