What originally got you into BJDs?

I used to watch doll related videos on Youtube (not BJDs) and a recommended video was about BJDs so I clicked it and that's where it all began. I think that was in 2012.

I also spotted a BJD at a convention that year but didn't ask the owner about it, but after watching several BJD videos I understood what it was.

 

I was 12 and I was randomly searching the internet for anime photos I believe and found a photo of a DoD Petsha and totally fell in love for 2 years straight.. never did end up buying her though!

 

I was at a bear show and someone had some pukipuki dolls, so when I got home I looked them up!

 

Anne Pecaro "You Tube" videos. I was blown away with her passion for her wonderful BJDs and other dolls. Thank you, Anne!

 

I saw a picture on deviant art that got me interested and from there I started loking up different brands and planning for my first doll

 

I somehow stumbled across a few doll-related Instagram accounts and basically submerged myself there. I went and researched them for a few months and got more and more into them, which led me to try to find one that I would be interested in purchasing, which is how I got my first 'lil boy. No regrets whatsoever.

 

About five years ago, I was getting into Polymer clay, and mostly all the crafters that I liked, and was watching on youtube had some kind of doll, whether it be a Pullip or a BJD. Pullip was what first interested me, and then I found Andreja's videos and became obsessed.

 

I was at a UFDC convention & my roommate was the USA dealer for a line of BJD's "Angel of Dreams". We did a trade later for one he owned. I eventually sold him off when I got my David K from Dollshe & the rest is history.

 

I was on Deviant art looking thorough the photography section when I came across this picture of a really beautiful doll, I clicked on it and read the description to see that it was called a bjd. I then googled bjd to find out more information about them and came across denver doll and looked through all of their dolls, not long after I ordered my first doll.

 

Same as Amzzy, was browsing DeviantArt and one of my favorite artists posted some photos of her Volks doll, I was amazed and began researching right away. It seems quite a couple of people here discovered it this way.

 

I collected Pullips for about a year or two before I found out about BJDs, and I actually hated them at first. I thought they were too expensive and looked weird until I saw DZ Annie and BBB Apollo. I completely fell in love with them and it was downhill from there

 

watched Andreja's custom monster high dolls first, then found a video of her bjds and fell in love ^^

 

I felt in love with a msd custom of hyde from L'arc~en~ciel, I don't know which was the bjd company of this custom

 

I was looking over the panel schedule for Nekocon a three years ago and I came across a panel entitled ABJD Tea Party. I'm always down for tea parties so I looked up what ABJD meant. I had the initial sticker shock of the dolls, but they were so pretty I kept going back over and over. I ended up researching them and delving further into what the hobby was like and the rest is history.

 

I was at a convention where they were displayed. It was instant love back in 2006 and afterwards I started saving up money for my first doll. I thought they were simply breathtakingly beautiful and although it was a lot of money for me back then, I still was happy to spend all my savings on it

 

The person who got me to look at bjds was a woman I met at a Tonner Doll convention. She made casts, shoes and clothing for porcelain bjds. We were talking one night and she said I should check out bjds and I came across this photo of an Iplehouse Stella wearing a black and cream dress. I fell so hard in love, I bought both the doll and the dress. That was just this year and I now have 3 dolls and a hippogriff with three more dolls coming. (oh boy!)

 

My friend had her interest peaked by a little off topic doll and started looking into some companies. She showed me some but I was pretty thrown off it by the price of them. I just did NOT get the appeal of a 200+ dollar doll. Then, one weekend, I went up to Riverside to visit with her and she said she was going to a BJD meetup and I was more than welcome to come. This was the first time I'd seen the dolls in person and... I finally saw the appeal. They were all so cool and cute and amazing!! After that, I did a lot of browsing of my own, but didn't think I'd ever wind up with one. But just before our wedding, my hubby's dad gave us quite a large check as our gift. Mike's first question: Do you still want that doll?

Five years later and I now have 3 MSDs, 2 SDs and a little off-topic Hujoo Freyer.

 

It all started with Pullips (my gateway drug) then I saw a iplehouse benny and it was downhill from there. I also ended up getting a dollife dream and now a smart doll. I need dolls anonymous

 

I have been involved with dolls for a long time as I think I said somewhere else [or I hope not here and twice, I will use the excuse of early senility caused by stress] but around 2004/6 a friends friend had some sD bjd fairy dolls that blew me away. They were too big for myself but in the late 80s had already been hooked on the porcelain multi jointed fairies with glass eyes and liked the really jointed and movable idea of these dolls allot better. When I found 1/4 sized it complete lust and desire

 

I had always admired them since I discovered them online in my early teens, but didn't buy one cause I thought I was okay just seeing them online. Then a friend of mine got one and I saw it in person and got to hold it and, well, suddenly just looking wasn't an option anymore :P I ordered my first bjd about a month later