What originally got you into BJDs?

I had a friend over who is as big on anime as I am and she mentioned that she had a doll, I asked her to send me a link on where she got her one and just fell in love with how beautiful they are

 

Off-topic dolls were the gateway drug to BJD. I had seen someone's BJD on deviantart, and researched them... back then, there weren't as many options and they were too expensive for still-in-highschool me. (If you couldn't already tell from my join date, was awhile ago... heh)

I focused on my other dolls for a long time before returning to BJD recently to finally get myself one!

 

My friend showed me her dolls, I was amazed and now after few years have to order my own one.

 

My story is banal. One day I was surfing the net and just run into some photos of the bjds by chance. Then I read an article where it was said about their customisation - wigs and eyes change, faceup, etc. And then I started dreaming of one and secretely hoping for

 

I was looking up dolls on ebay, and I came across momoko dolls. After that, pullips came, and then I saw Nenstra's pictures of Lena and I fell in love

 

I think my very first awareness of BJDs came from a Pullip tutorial for putting a Pullip head on an SD body. And many people in the Pullip community also shared photos of their BJDs. I never thought BJDs were anything special, but then I stumbled onto Soom's site while looking for references for a centaur body I wanted to make for my Pullips. The rest is history

 

Googling about BJDs - images, reviews etc. :3

 

Some good friend of mine got me into these gorgeous dolls. I don't have one right now, but I hope to save up for one soon. Anyway, two of my friends currently collect them. Some time ago, they were talking about BJDs in a chat on another site that we frequent. Curious about what they were discussing, I googled the subject and was immediately infatuated with the beautiful designs. I didn't think about saving up for my own until very recently, thanks to them showing me so many pretty sculpts.

 

Actually one of my best friends told me about them, it is all his fault because now I'm totally in the hobby and I am saving for my first girl!

 

WEll how i got to the hobby real really good topic and Question too i was surfing the web and look at dolls until i spotted some kind of nice attractive doll that is way more diff. Than barbies and action figure so long story short i showed it to a good old friend i used to hang back in high school '06 she told me about them i was so so into it so i order that doll book and i love it. So in 2010 i order my first doll (b4 i did that i research my work and i saw a youtuber name asenva and that when i figure i order the doll in junkypost further out i order my second doll last year in 2012) so so worth it i glad. And i really don't regret what i buoyed for sure i really love them both as my babies and will keep spoiling them sooner or later.

 

Danny Choo. That's really all I can say. After, I was hooked.

 

My sister sent me a link for the theme song to Rozen Maiden, which she liked the music to. I looked up the anime and wondered if there were actual dolls of the characters. That, of course, led me to Volks. I didn't look too much further than that for a couple of years and thought that Volks was the only ABJD company in existence.
It wasn't until I had some extra funds to throw around a few years later that I found out that there was a lot more out there and I threw myself happily into the hobby.

Oddly enough, my sister who got me into the hobby with that song link likes neither the anime it came from nor the dolls.

 

I have basically the longest story so I will try to make it as short as possible.

One day I stumbled on an advertisement while watching youtube for the "Furby Boom". This thing brought back a ton of childhood nostalgia so I decided to go get one. When I went to Toys R Us to pick up the Furby I happened to walk by "Novi Stars." I didn't get a novi star that day but went back the next day to pick one up. While I was playing with it, I realized it wasn't poseable or flexible or really much fun at all so I looked into Monster High dolls. I got a few of those and joined a forum. Someone on that forum showed me a picture of an upcoming Disney Limited Edition Elsa Doll. I went early to pick her up and brought her home. She loses the value out of the box and you can't do much with her without ruining her so I just stared at her. Then while on youtube searching for Disney doll reviews I stumbled on a user who made BJD video's. I fell in love with them and it all went from there!

My boyfriend likes to joke with me..... First it was a $15 dollar doll at walmart, then $20 dolls, then $100 doll and now over $500 doll. He is wondering where it is going to go next lol. Apparently I was searching for something particular and I REALLY think I have found it with the BJD's.

 

My roommate at the time did it to me. I'd had a previous roommate who kept getting the idea, but only really understood it as far as the (OT here) small Volks dolls, and the larger ones of them. (She didn't really have a concept of the size differences between them, either.) Thought about some of those a few times, but never really went in for them, they just didn't appeal to me at all. Moved in with a new roommate who figured it all out much more thoroughly! She decided we should make clothes for them, found a dealer site (JunkySpot), and even found a sculpt I totally fell for and could afford with my (sadly meager that year) tax return! For both of us, it kind of snowballed from there. I've lost touch with her for now so I don't know if she's still in the hobby, and I took a break for a couple of years, but it hasn't really gone away since that first doll she found me.

 

I was first in MH dolls. Then seen a really cute doll picture and researched some more! I now own three! Hopefully get my first minifee in the next year!

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I was reading manga a little over a year ago and glanced down at the ads and saw Migidoll Ryu. I had never heard of a BJD, so that night I was on google for hours soaking it all in.

 

another shout out to Danny Choo, lol ...yeah he seems to have got a lot of people into dollfies, i think i remember stumbling across the blog where he made the decision to switch from figures to getting his first Volks DD, i collected lots of figures at the time and i saw this awesome giant anime figure so naturally i wanted one then i think a year later i finally decided to get one

 

I learned of BJDs maaany years ago (back when I was 14-ish) and was like "okay" about them, but since I've always been a "doll girl" (the kind of girl who played with Barbie and Lego Belville until she was teenager) I had some sort of unknown fascination of them. Over time I've seen more and more dolls at anime conventions and on Deviantart, and my curiosity grew. Then, one day, I sat down and googled them. Fell in love with the whole BJD thing (dressing them, making stories, posing them, taking pictures, etc.), and have been longing for one for about 3 years now. Every time I stumbled across a BJD picture, I would think to myself that I really wanted one. And now, less than two weeks ago, I decided that I didn't want to wait anymore. (Don't remember what triggered said determination). So I bought my first doll, a DollLove from Ebay (quite cheap compared to other brands), but still a goddess in my eyes. And since then, my life has been about BJD only. Still waiting for the beauty to arrive
But I'm quite certain that my interest in drawing and manga/anime led me to the BJD community. And I am convinced that I'm FAR from the only one.

 

i have had many character swimming around in my head for the past few years from my writing hobby and have been looking for a way to bring them to life so to speak. i felt that simply drawing them (which i am not the best at so was never really satisfied with the end result) was not enough. i recently found out about bjds through a friend and was intrigued by the idea. i went over her house and met her dolls and that was it. i knew that was what i was what i had been looking for for my characters and so my dollie obsession began.

 

Crazykimochi, I saw her BJDs on an off topic doll forum... Dear, if you see this, your doll family is stunning.