What are the worst things you’ve seen happen to a doll?

shared this story before, but I had a KDF An with a company faceup from back in 2009. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I had to leave all my stuff behind and asked a friend to take care of him while I was gone. I wasn't gone as long as I thought and after three months, I came back to find his faceup chipped, a fingertip missing, scratches and scrapes all over him. It broke my heart and I was so upset I didn't just put him in storage. But at the time, I didn't have the ability to fix him and she was really passionate about owning him now, so I sold him to her. Took me two years to get my money. I don't speak to this friend anymore :u

 

I want to start off by saying no dollies were harmed in any of these little incidents, but having a larger group meet up incidents are bound to happen.

I've seen a large EID Iplehouse male who "stood like a rock" take a tumble forward on the doll display...onto a few mature minis.

I also had a lady (who was in the hobby, brought multiple dolls) ask if she could hold my doll to see how heavy she was because she was interested in SDs. I said okay, figured I didn't need to go over the basics. I answered another question and turned to see the woman stroking/brushing her fingers along my doll's face. She explained there was a spec of dirt on the face she was trying to rub off. Said doll has an obvious beauty mark and she was really trying to rub it off.

I've also witnessed a faceplate or two pop off due to someone shifting the doll (with permission) and not realizing it had a faceplate/holding it wrong. One even bounced a few feet away from the display but fortunately the floors were carpet and nothing was damaged.

 

I luckily haven’t had anything too bad happen to my dolls. The worst thing that I think has ever happened is when I was young, one took a tumble while I was taking photos and lost some fingers.
The worst story I’ve ever seen though was about a doll that was absolutely destroyed by a dog. A person here had decided to take the doll on and fix it up as a project but if I remember there were bite marks everywhere and the face was half missing - absolutely torn to shreds

 

My sister cut the elastic of one of my vinyl dolls and buried the parts in multiple different places around my aunt's property out of spite (I promise, nothing I did warranted that response!). I have not found everything yet (a lower arm, both hands, and her head are still MIA), and I'm sure when I do, the doll will be moldy. This was an expensive doll, too. She was of course also my favorite doll.

 

I recall around 10 years ago seeing photos of a doll that had been destroyed in the mail. Apparently it fell onto the runway and a plane ran over it? The whole doll looked like it had been cut into pieces and crushed.

 

There's a man in Tokyo who mutilates Dollfie Dreams and sells the bodies to Mandarake. He carves up the crotches with an exacto knife. Not in any kind of artistic, aesthetic, or anatomical way (hence my assumption that it's a man, because That's Not Where The Bits Go), jusr in a clear-and-obvious-emotional-problems way.

I thought mine was a special nightmare case, but then I found on Tumblr that there have been DOZENS of them over the years??? and that he used to do it to the heads. Somebody I follow has a DD whose mouth had been stabbed over and over.

The fact that this person does this horrible thing and then sells them to the secondhand store is what gets me. I wonder if it's a form of harassment against the Mandarake employees who do the evaluations for the Nakano location, that's where they're all coming out of. I also can't stop wondering if they come in with mutilated heads and those are disposed of before the bodies are listed.

 

I got a second hand mermaid Angell Studios shipped from China to Canada. I paid nearly 1k for the doll and when the package came, her fins were crushed in small pieces. The package was opened on one side so many of broken pieces fell out and missing. Then when I asked the company if I could pay for them to remake the fins part they said no. They told my agent that they wanted to sell me another mermaid body with scratches on stomach for $730. Fun fact is the original price for the mermaid body was around $500 or so. I’m not happy one bit, especially I bought 4 dolls all SD from them. Guess I’ll spend my money somewhere else

 

I feel...morbidly intrigued by the blood story. If anyone wants to link it to me in a PM I need some shocking reading

Back in 2011 or so, my best friend and I went to a doll meet at a local mall. I had a Pukipuki rose with me, and they had their Dream of Doll E-An. My friend suddenly felt ill and ran to the bathroom. They ended up getting sick all over themselves and their doll got a bit uh, coated. I tried my best to rescue the doll but she still suffered. My friend ended up having some sort of episode and we had to call an ambulance. They told the police they were born in 1847, didn't remember their name, it was a whole weird thing. I just had to go home and clean up their doll in a panic while waiting for news. Had to replace the elastic and everything.

Nothing said "look at the weird doll people" like me, standing at the mall entrance, holding a puke-covered doll in front of an ambulance. Fortunately, my friend was okay, and the doll also was salvaged!

I know @Roterwolkenvogel got a doll off of Y!J that had uh, some interesting modifications and potentially bodily fluids. If they would like to share some "Not Safe for Life" photos!

 

This thread is definitely amusing but I would enjoy it even more if there were PHOTOS!

 

Do you know of anywhere to see images of the DDs? I'm really curious

 

(editing broken links, hang on)

Since @dunceclown asked...
Here's the mutilated DD I got, NSFW and also just! Bad!: Mandarakecrotchmangler
She went straight into a bucket of Oxyclean; the grime came off with acetone and most of the damage sanded out.

And here's the stabbed gal that DollsOnMain fixed: Tumblr-l-32073307765720
Sorry for reuploading, I can't find the original Tumblr post link.

 

I wasn't around at the time, but I heard that there were Dollfie Dreams that that were modified for... adult fun times. I never saw the photos, but others claimed that they did.

As for something with proof, there is the sad story of an early tan doll greening before the owner's eyes in the sun.

 

i hope this is okay to share, i won't be using names or identifying sculpt info. added, this was over ten years ago and the anonymous newbie in question is definitely no longer in the hobby.

a newbie had a brand new MSD and they gave it a face up and um... well, they didn't use sealant, and they'd never painted before a day in their life. it was rough, but people were offering really nice suggestions on how to clean it up. we were all newbies once! except, this newbie didn't clean the head very well before redoing the face up. and still didn't use sealant. somehow they got the idea maybe learning to body blush would be easier but... they still used paint.

people started wondering what they were cleaning with and why it wasn't coming off, like, at all. turns out they were using a combination of acrylics and oil paints since they didn't know the difference between the two. and not using soap for some reason. so all the attempts just kept getting piled on layer after layer.

finally, they started getting frustrated with paints and ended up using "a marker" for eyeliner. yes, it was sharpie.

it does not stop there, unfortunately. the newbie was kind of despondent that their doll was pretty much ruined. a really nice user who had experience in faceups and restoration offered to fix their doll for free.

and they did! they sent them back all cleaned up with a nice simple face up, similar to what the newbie's attempts intended. was totally a happy ending.

..................but then the newbie decided they wanted to "tweak the faceup a bit."

the restoration lasted about a week before the doll was back to its pre-restoration state.

tl;dr newbie got in way over their head, ruined their doll, got it restored for free, then ruined it again and in the end up sold it to someone else who wanted to re-restore it, but that person never shared any pics after that and afaik fell out of the hobby. the newbie also left, realizing BJDs definitely was not for them.

i still wonder what happened to that poor MSD, though. i had the user who bought it bookmarked for a while hoping they'd either post their restoration or resell it, but they went inactive and my bookmark got lost when DOA had their big website move a few years ago.

 

Oh wow. Those are all...terrible.

I think - in regards to my own horror stories - the worst has been when my B&G Doll arrived with the wrong eyes, broken hands, and I think even his face up was wrong. The dealer helped me out and I got new hands, new eyes, a partial refund, and some accessories to make up for it.

Other horror stories have been that a few of my dolls will get marks on their feet or bodies or head caps that I can clean off. Hewitt took a tumblr and I had to gently fix his face up. My Crobi T-line Doll also has chipped face up on his one ear. It's usually hidden by his wig so you can't tell but someday I should probably pay someone to fix it. (I honestly can't tell if it is layers of sealant that came off or actually a thin layer of resin.)

I have seen incredibly moldy dolls on Y!JA and sometimes on Mandarake. They are a hard pass and make me wonder what people are doing with their dolls.

 

Oh nooooo, that was my boy! I'm grateful the other dolls were okay - EIDs are seven pound of resin chonk to get squished by.

 

I once saw a doll restoration thread where a person bought a broken doll to repair. Someone had apparently dropped it, causing the thigh's ball joint to shatter. I don't know if that's "worst," but I was impressed that it was even possible.

 

There's a thread somewhere here about a pair of dolls that were caught in a house fire... They were smoke-stained and had some melting. It was really awful. I think those need to be somewhere on the list of Seriously Damaged Dolls.

Someone took on the task of fixing both of them up, though, and was pretty successful at getting both of the pair back into at least a reasonable state of repair. It was a fun thread to read.