What was the worst accident that ever befell your doll?

We have all had them, the scare of our dolls getting scratched, broken, chipped..

Has it happened to you? What's your worst memory of you doll getting injured?

Here's my contribution-

I came upstairs this morning and set Riku on the table to get some coffee like I do almost every day, today he fell off the table onto the floor. No big deal right? Wrong, he flattened one side of his nose! Not chipped but flattened!

My stomach is still upset! I took a 4 sided nail file to his nose and managed to make it look normal, but it's slightly shorter and off color from sanding it. I tried mixing acrylic paint to match the resin and rubbing it onto his nose but there is still some discoloration there, I feel horrible about it.

 

Mike chipped his nose when he hit cement, my tiny fell further at the exact same time and came out perfectly fine...

 

One time, my mom knocked him off the table and onto the tile floor. x_x
It was a complete miracle he was undamaged.

Although some time later, a piece at the base of his ribcage chipped off. XP.

 

I was holding Plaeh at a convention while in the dealer's room, clinging to her for dear life when attempting to get through a crowd.

Of course someone let a wire stray from under the carpet... and of course as soon as I touch it with my foot some rude guy basically pushes me out of his way.

I was soo worried that I was going to crush Plaeh that I tried to land on my back... except... I landed on my side and fractured my arm

Plaeh just got her clothes all fussed up and her hair fell

 

One day at school I had Emi' perched on a book shelf while my teacher and I were videotaping my friend Jess talk about aliens...or...somthing. But she was perched on a book shelf. XD;; So, I' not paying a lot of attention to Emilie and I think the case got knocked, or she was suicidal, whichever, but she LEAPS from the book shelf and lands with a crash. I'm like OH MY GODS. Check her all over, she appears fine...

...an hour later...

I'm in my teachers car to go to Michaels to get art supplies [because we do that a lot at my school xD;] I look down and yell "HOLY 6$%^ WHERE'S HER FINGER." , crash out of the car and run back to the room, only to find her finger hidden under a chair. She still has a scar from it. Ugh. Dx Now I make sure to check both hands very very carefully whenever she falls.

So far, that's the worst.

 

Probably everything my first doll went through... I was completely new to this, and thought faceups would be easier.... he has scratches on his face from me using pins to clean out his lips... (I don't know what made me use PINS) and he's strung so tightly that I didn't realize, while trying to remove the s-hook from his headcap I scratched up the back of his head like crazy. D:

 

here's a thread of a whole bunch of dolly accident stories

http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133824

 

I remember one incident that happened to someone else on this board (can't remember the name)...

While in the mail, the package containing the doll was run over by an aircraft of some sort D:
The damage to the doll was horrific!

 

Off topic regarding the above: what.

On topic: My dolls, thankfully, haven't had many accidents. The worst would probably be a... well, let's say joint accident. Long story short I was sanding with a VERY wrong tool, my doll got a deep scratch in his chest, and I got an inch-long cut in my hand that was deep enough to be stitch-worthy.

 

Well, I'm quite new to BJDs, and I've recently had a terrible accident.

I'm resin-sitting my friend's Elfdoll Wu, Maeglin, while she's away at work in the woods. While showing my mom the size comparison between him and a Bambicrony, he toppled over (he was standing) and smashed face first into the cherrywood coffeetable he was on.

I couldn't believe that it happened. Another friend of mine was over and he picked him up (I was pretty much in shock) and revealed that all of the fingers on his right hand (save for his thumb) and broken off. I was so upset. I felt terrible about it. My friend and I ordered a new pair of hands that night from Elfdoll to replace the ones we broke. Luckily, my friend that I'm sitting for wasn't too pissed. She was just glad she wasn't there to see it, and, sadly, she is too afraid to see her boy until he's whole again.

 

Well, first, I sanded my boy with too rough of a sand paper, so there were pretty big scratches. Then for my first faceup, I didn't use any sprays (MSC and such) and I used a generous amount of black around the eyes. When I tried to take it off, there were horrible bruise-looking circles under his eyes (that totally freaked me out), so I did even a dumber thing: I tried to scratch it off with a hobby knife. Now he has some scratches (most of which were taken off with sanding)... but he still is a handsome boy

 

@Rizu-San: The same thing happened to my Karon. He's only been here for 4 days, yesterday I carelessly hit the side of his face with the remote and it caught his nose. Now the top of his left nostril is flatter than the other. ; O; I'm really upset by it. I'm not sure if I'd take the risk of sanding his right nostril. :/

 

i was really lucky. when idony first showed up, i went to open his head to swap out the eyes not knowing that the headcap and s-hook were linked together. so i tugged for a while and all of the sudden i hear a loud snap and his headcap comes flying off. i thought i'd busted his head already. D: thankfully all i did was strip the area around the hook, but it's glued now~

he also has a chip in his foot where it hit a dresser. and scratches on the side of his left hand. and more scratches on the right hand where i tried to sand down some scratches. and messed up fingers from sanding too much.
...
he's been through a lot. <_<

 

I'm the owner of the Elfdoll Wu, and just hearing about this was traumatizing enough, but I just feel bad that my buddy here had to witness this. We both equally love the doll, so I can only imagine how horrible it was. She's right though, I'm too scared to see my boy until he's all fixed. I think I'd just break down and cry or something, and I don't want my friend to feel worse about what happened. Luckily though, the hands have been shipped, so he'll be all better soon! And I still love you bunches, Lhianna! Can't wait to order Akiel!

 

my dolls have taken more falls than a bungee jumper. :P never once was there a problem until one night when (cue "Jaws" theme music) my Bambicrony's fingers randomly broke off!!! DDD: I swear, I didn't even TOUCH her, and they popped off. my roomie found them on the floor and was like "wtfbbqfingers?". I flipped out for about an hour before realizing that BC includes extra hands with their basic dolls. x___O;

 

On my SD Ryo one of the end parts of his thigh part chipped off (This was way back in 2004). I'm not sure how it happened, if it chipped off when I was stringing or posing him. During that time I couldn't make him stand by himself. A really nice lady from one of the Yahoo doll groups (I think her name was Karin ) fixed it for me by pasting it with eproxy putty and sanding it down. It lasted a really long time until late 2006. It broke off again.

Luckily I took him with me to the second Volks NY party and got him fixed at the doll doctor. He didn't replace the leg but it's pasted on very well. I'm sure it will last long. If not I have some great glue called Gorrilla glue that's very strong. I'll keep that leg no matter what (Unless I go to Japan and they replace the leg with a new one or change them out completely)

 

Anything from buying, shipping, face-ups, outings, etc...that nearly caused you to lose, destroy or ruin a BJD. I'm very curious how people keep their dolls safe from the unthinkable.

 

I was restringing my brand new doll when all of a sudden something snapped and all the parts went flying. Lucky for me and her I was on a carpeted floor, cause otherwise there would have been some serious scratches and maybe some chips. Needless to say my efforts were in vain because she's still very floppy, but I'm scared to suede...

 

One time I fell down the stairs with Eros in my arms. I threw him as I was falling and now he has some white on his eyebrow.

 

Uh the other day I pulled Kaito apart to wash, re-sand and re-coat his body with a new clear coat I just bought (long story but the last one turned out to be a semi gloss even though it didn't say that on the can ><). I'm at my boyfriend's place and he has a big dog in his backyard so I couldn't use my usual method of putting all the pieces on wooden barbeque skewers in the grass to dry, so instead I used some string and threaded them up on the washing line in the garage. All was well and good until I went to take the pieces down. The string Kaito's upper torso was on slid from my hands and his torso fell onto the concrete garage floor (probably about 5ft) then bounced and I caught it before it hit the floor again, luckily (and I checked him very carefully) he didn't chip or scratch his resin...hell even his clear coat was still intact! 0.0