What do you consider a hybrid?

Both could be hybrids depending on the model and what you're mixing and matching.

Like, there's the typical "head from one company, body from another."

But what if you bought three Soom fantasy sets and took specific bits from each? Like, let's say one Soom has back wings, one has hoof feet, and one had really detailed arms with fox claws. And they all fit on an MSD Soom body because it's the same company brand, so all parts are compatible.

So you take the wings, feet and arms from three different dolls to make this one hyper fantasy one. Boom! I say that aught to be considered a hybrid because it has parts from completely different sets provided by the same company.

But that's my personal view.

 

Theoretically yes, as long as there's parts swapping happening it's a hybrid regardless of what company they're from (people in the fashion doll world hybridize dolls from the same company all the time) but most BJDs of the same gender/size from the same company will have identical bodies. So functionally nothing would change, I guess?

 

depends, I think.

If someone put an Iplehouse head on an SID body when it originally came on an HID body, I wouldn't consider that a hybrid because both bodies were designed to work with most Iplehouse SD heads anyways so they're effectively interchangeable. However, if you, say, bought a Doll Chateau Evangeline head and put it on a Doll Chateau Gladys mechanical body, I'd think of that as a hybrid because the Gladys body is fundamentally different than the body that came with the Evangeline head originally.

but yes, generally I consider hybrids to be a head and body from 2 different companies.

 

I would consider it to be a doll with at least two substantial pieces from different companies, like head/body, body/legs, body/fantasy parts. If something very small has been switched or added, like hands or horns, then I'd just consider it as "X Company doll with Y Company part". For dolls mixed within the same company, I don't consider them hybrids, especially if you can order them that way (like my AoD girl head on a boy body came that was special ordered straight from the company). But there is so much grey area, it's really hard to define sometimes!

 

I personally wouldn't say hybrid unless it's parts coming from different companies. Like if it comes from the same company and the parts fit together, I don't really see it as a hybrid, more of just a mod maybe. But say just a male head on a female body both from the same company I wouldn't consider it a hybrid or a mod. I have a couple like that that I just made a request to the company and bought that way. So when I say what it is I just say company-sculpt-girl body

 

So-- technically it depends, sometimes I consider my girl a hybrid mostly because-

1. her head and body have a 10 yr design gap
2. I'm always saying "She's a Senior Delf Maria on a delf body"
3. she came with two COAs

besides that I guess its kinda just up to the person and situation...

 

Both are hybrids in my book.

I think of it as basically any doll with parts that weren't originally part of that doll. It covers heads from companies that don't make/sell bodies on bodies from other companies, heads on bodies they weren't originally marketed on regardless of whether they're from a different range from the same company or not, replacement hands, or feet, or whatever, from another doll range or company... etc.

Teddy

 

I see it more as a doll put together from different companies. If you buy the head first, then order the body but it's the same company, I don't see that as a hybrid, I see that as just putting the doll together. If there is a body from one company and a head from another, I see that as a hybrid.

I am not really sure is jointed hands would qualify as making a doll a hybrid, if it's the only thing different. I would note it, if someone asked. Maybe the dolls company doesn't make jointed hands so you grab some Doll Family hands for it. The head and body is still from the same company, and you still have the original hands. So, I don't see that as a hybrid.

I saw someone mention above about mixing different sized dolls from the same company to make one mega awesome fantasy doll, and they do make a good point, but I don't really know if I see that as a hybrid though, because it's all parts from the same company.

I see a hybrid as two of more companies, and it being the main parts, head or body, or limbs.

 

I would say so, particularly if there's a large gap in time between manufacturing of the dolls; around a decade in time, like what EggEnthusiast mentioned. In that time, things can change in terms of the style of the body and how different parts connect. However, I can see why people wouldn't necessarily agree with that. This is just my opinion, as someone who kind of just reads up on collecting BJDs.

 

I feel that a hybrid usually means major components from different companies, like the common idea of putting a head from one company on a body made by a different one. I have a doll who has hands from a different company because I didn't like the ones she came with, but as others have said, I'd describe her as being from one company with hands switched to those from a different one.

I'm waiting on a doll now that is a head and body from the same company that are size compatible so I know they'll work perfectly as one doll, but the company doesn't sell that combination as a full doll. So I might call him a custom combination of head/body rather than a hybrid.