What originally got you into BJDs?

Ha, I was actually bunking off during a lesson, and I went on deviantart. I scrolled through and came across a picture of a BJD, and I was hooked from there on XD

 

Finding ball jointed dolls on You Tube videos, Google searching. Then, although I really liked them the price put me off. I just got on with other things until I got some old MH and other dolls which needed smartening up. At Christmas I got some picture postcards of bjd and other dolls and then I remembered how much I'd loved the BJDs! !!! I was so delighted I was able to register with DoA. Since then I continue to learn about BJDs and have ordered my first doll!

 

It was probably around when I really started to collect/customize my little pony toys back when I was maybe about 10 years old that I would occasionally see some neat super articulated dolls. They weren't for me, I preferred animals to people.
Fastforward 6 years later, I started collecting MH dolls. I started seeing bjd's more often on the internet, and started to get really fond of them. Especially unique anthro dolls, this was when I started to fall in love with them. Once again, however, I thought of them as too expensive for me, so I kept to my cheap mass produced dolls.
My fascination never ended. Another 5 years would pass, but then I had a realization. Since I started college, I have been living in Denver, as in I live near DDE. My mom being the good sport she is took me there. Seeing bjd's in real life, getting to touch them, I was hooked. I made an order that same day. In short, I always admired them as art pieces, but it took being able to touch them for me to get into the hobby.

 

I was looking for custom content for the sims 2 and someone had made a Soom jacket for your sims to wear and posted a photo of a doll wearing it. Did a quick search for soom and the rest is history.

 

I know when I was younger my sister and I found pictures on DA or something and really liked them. Then I saw them again on a puzzle app where if you solve the puzzle you got the picture as a wallpaper. Of course the pictures were of bjds. I really wanted one but of course my parents said no and I was still a kid. Years later and around last summer I stumbled upon pictures of them again. And fell in love with them again, now I am excited to be buying them for myself!

 

The need for boy dolls that weren't Ken or GI Joe. Variety in boys! I went from searching to OOAK Ken and Bratz to finding Volks 1/6 to finding BJDs, and knew from the moment I saw one that I HAD to have one, no matter what. At first, I thought I'd only want boys, since there's a lot of variety in female mass produced dolls, but I've ended up with a few girls too.

 

I have been an avid doll collector for decades. I use to get Haute Doll and started seeing them there. I then saw pics of some Iplehouses and was doomed. I got a Luts and then started getting Iplehouses. Love all of them.

I think for many of us it is a migration from other dolls as we learn to appreciate the bjds more and more.

 

For a while I was really into Lolita fashion and collected Lolita fashion magazines! I found bjds through those magazines and I thought the dolls were really adorable all decked out in matching dresses
I wasn't too much into the bjds until last year when I could finally afford them!

 

A friend of mine had a beautiful pulp doll and I saw her almost everyday in her shop
I loved her and I decided to buy her
I have some other pulp dolls, that I still love much, but one day, I found a Facebook page about bjds... That's how it started

 

A friend I knew through fandom got really into dolls, so they were on my radar for a while before I let myself start looking at them myself. It was my wife finding a doll that was perfect for one of her characters that finally upended us over the rabbit hole. XD

 

When I was in college, a girl in my Japanese class brought in a Luts doll one day. I fell in love instantly and bought my own doll within a few weeks.

 

Hmmm, it was over 10 years ago so I'm fuzzy on details, but I'm pretty sure it was either a manga, anime, or the Gothic & Lolita Bible that lead me to Volks and Dollzone.

 

I found a really awesome photographer on DA and she was a collector. I really loved her dolls. My best friend got a doll and brought her to our first cosplay convention, and I just absolutely needed one. I had one within the year.

 

My mom found pictures of them on Pinterest and we were amazed... Then we found more photos and learned a bit about them and played around with MH dolls for a time while we decided which company BJDs we liked best until I finally ordered one very recently.

 

i was first introduced to the lolita style (which i did wear for 6 years) and in those years i started to get to know about bjd's.. i loved them for years, but bought me first one 6 months ago aftyer a friend of mine had one ^^ couldn't stay behind after that

 

My friend bought a little off-topic doll and was telling me about BJDs. I balked at the price but a few months later she was going to a dollmeet and invited me to join her. I saw a whole bunch of gorgeous, beautiful dolls. After that, I had to have one! I shopped around a lot but always came back to the Luts Kid Delf Ani. He wound up being my first doll; my hubby got him for me as a wedding present.

 

Interestingly enough, it was TLC's My Strange Addiction that got me into searching more about BJDS xD

The particular episode I was watching was based off of a handful of individual's passion for LOOKING like a doll, and one of the girls mentioned she loved hearing people tell her she looked like an asian ball jointed doll.

From then on, I started doing some research on BJDS and gradually started getting into the hobby and community! ^ ^

 

When I was a teenager I had a subscription to Doll Reader, and each issue I got had at least one story about ball-jointed dolls. I liked them and wanted one, but at the time I didn't have the money so I just admired from afar. The push to actually get a doll came in 2011. I was browsing Anna House for lolita clothes that didn't cost an arm and a leg, and at the time Anna House offered dresses for SD-sized dolls. Once again money was the deterrent, but I became serious about owning a ball-jointed doll. Five years later I own my first doll...and ironically, said doll is neither an SD or a lolita! LOL

 

I had known BJD's existed but never knew there was such a large community. A friend got a BJD, and I got a head a few months later. (still don't have a body)

 

A friend from high school showed me and we've just loved them since