What originally got you into BJDs?

Other dolls brought me to bjd's, but what I really like is to able to pose them as well as the fact that even though lots of people may have the same doll, they all look so different due to all the customizing you can do with them.

 

I met my first BJD in person at NY Toy Fair in 2003 (I think) when Volks showed there. I was immediately drawn to them and started talking to people on the West Coast, who were into them. I found out about the Austin BJD Con so trotted out to Texas, where I bought my first BJD, a less expensive and smaller, Limwha for You. Now my doll room is full of BJDs and don't think I could ever go back to other, less pose-able dolls. I still have my earlier artist dolls, but I find myself getting frustrated when I attempt to "play" with them, which is now practically never...

My two favorites are my big buys (Iplehouse EID & SID) completely modded by PamSD, but I've got some beautiful Elf Dolls by Rainman, a Dollstown girl, and am afraid to actually count them all.

jill

 

Was it 4 or 5 years ago?.. hmm.. well 4-5 years ago I watched a tv show named Outsiders, there was this girl named Sabina she collected these gorgeous dolls!!
I watched the show online over and over again as she showed a website, the text was so blurry but finally i figured it out. Bobobie. I made all kinds of research and just loved the idea of making dioramas and clothes so I fell in love with them. Even though i wanted one so bad, I was too young so i waited and now, finally, Ive got my favourite bjd of all. Bobobie Apollo

 

I'm very much into cosplay. Back in 2005 I remember rozen maiden was a popular anime at that time. It was about Ball Jointed Dolls. I also really liked the outfits and got interested. After that I saw some of the bjd cosplaying as anime characters. I was instantly hooked up by how beautiful they are. And the rest is history.

 

I actually got into dolls via a somewhat strange fascination with mannequins. Over time (the last five years) that fascination extended towards dolls of every kind. My friends and I at uni used to all joke about me making *adult* dolls after graduation (I studied tech arts and something like a RealDoll is the type of thing I can use those skills for) I love the engineering of some of them and the history of dolls is incredibly rich. It's amazing what some artists were able to do hundreds of years ago with basic materials.

My actual interest started during my last project of my second year. I wanted to create prosthetics to change myself into a living doll. My research consisted a lot on old dolls and eventually reached into contemporary dolls.

For my final degree piece I made an 89cm tall BJD and now I am absolutely dedicated to it as a career and passion. You know when you love doing something or a particular type of art so much that you can't imagine your life without it?

 

A friend at university was studying film and we would watch loads of movies as 'research' for his work. One of the films we watched was Doll Master and I was fascinated by the amazing dolls in the film. I looked into BJDs but at the time I couldn't afford to get myself one and put the idea on hold. I forgot about them for a few years really and then earlier this year while talking to an old friend she started to tell me about her off topic dolls she had started to collect. I decided to look up BJDs again and finally ordered my first in March this year. Now I have two and a wish list that gets longer every day

 

A friend of mine got a MSD and brought it to our house. I thought it was cool and so, but never really realized that I could get one too. When my mom saw it she said: "Wow, what a fun thing? Shouldn't you get one too?" At first i was a little surprised, but then I realized I wanted one and just said yes. The summer passed and in the beginning of fall I went to London (I didn't buy much there, since I wanted to save my money for the doll) and the day after I got back home I ordered my first SD. It was all kind of an impulse, but I'm so glad I did it!

 

I think the first place I saw BJDs was from http://puppet.tumblr.com/ I was already interested in Blythe dolls (I have just one) and I think I somehow go to their page from looking up Blythe in the Tumblr tags. I ended up following them and have been periodically reminded of the existence of BJDs. I think it took awhile for it to sink in that there were lots of interesting and cute boy dolls as well, which appeal to me more, since so many of the pictures are of girl dolls.

 

I saw one of my favorite artist's tumblr. She was posting pictures of dolls on it, and I got really interested in them. Found out they were BJDs looked around a little, but then forgot about them and never thought back about them.
My friend then reunited with an old online friend and she told her that she was going to get a BJD. So my friend shared with me about them and sent me SOOOO many pictures of diff sculpts. After a few days of BJD spam, I started wanting one. XDD
Fell for a DZ Yue at first then some others, but when my friend sent me the link to Fairyland, I wanted an FL Chloe soooo bad, kept going back to the site to look at her. She's probably the sculpt I wanted most and now I have her~ Just as a boy. xD But in the future i'll get her as a girl~

 

there was a forum which i was in and it's gallery had "dollfies" in it and i decided to check it out. They were so gorgeous and i felt like i need to have one of those. So that's how i got into BJDs. Not really too special, much really a typical thing i guess.

 

I was surfing DeviantArt a couple years back while looking for inspiration on one of my art projects. I came across them and had no idea what they were! I saw them again about a year later and completely fell in love

 

A looooooooong long time ago my cousin showed me images of BJDs from Dream of Doll... I thought Shall was pretty but not for that price! Then I went and did my own research on other BJD companies and now I'm stuck in this hobby ^^;

 

I have a few Blythe and saw some BJD dolls I liked on the Blythe forums

 

i know about bjd for a long time coz some of my fellow cosplayers brings their bjds with them when cosplaying. i thought bjd is too impossible for me as its pricey, so i collect pullip dolls instead. but this year i decided to buy one coz i've saved plenty of money for it XD and now i have two, yey!

 

I stumbled upon BJD's somehow on the internet years ago. And because I saw so many expensive ones (and didn't know anything about them besides the price) I put the idea of having one aside.. until years later when I came across a beautiful one that I'm saving for.

 

I'm first and foremost an avid Blythe collector and with that is a love of Flickr where I've had the wonderful opportunity to become exposed to many beautiful BJD's. My first was a Lati Yellow, still love 'em (and lots of others)

 

I saw bjd firstly on internet and feel attract to them. One year later I saw some bjds on an exposition and I made my decision to have one. I hesitate 6 month more before I finally bought one.

 

A doll magazine. It may have been Art Doll Quarterly. There was a tiny black and white photo in the back of the magazine and I just HAD to know what that beautiful girl was. Turns out she was a Volks (Megu, I think).

This was in...I don't know...2003?

 

There's a popular comic artist named Keith in Malaysia and in the last five pages or so of his comics, there's a section called Keith's blog that he shows his recently bought/ received figurines.One of the volume of his comic showed a BJD he bought he bought recently and I got curious. I googled the word 'BJD', searched articles about it and so on and since then, I've been hooked

 

Well, I had been collecting dolls (primarily Barbies and Madame Alexanders) for a long while and ever since I had even started playing with dolls I wanted one that was ideally about 2' tall, poseable, had a lot of clothes, wigs, pretty eyes and a lovely face. So, BJDs fit into this perfectly, of course I didn't find them until I was in university and could only start affording them recently. I found them, as at least one or two in this thread have, through Angelic Layer.