When you were waiting for your FIRST doll...

The first one was the hardest for me. I had never seen or held a BJD in real life, so I really only had a general idea of what to expect. I was so excited to get my first doll that I could hardly stand it! I ordered from AOD and at the time, some of their dolls were shipping after a week, and so I was hoping that would be the same case for me. I actually got my first doll a few days shy a month (which hasn't happened since) but at the time the waiting was AGONIZING. When I finally got him I vowed I would never buy from an overseas company again because the wait had stressed me out so much.

Obviously I was just being a drama queen at the time and have since learned how to wait it out. Now that I have so many dolls, waiting is just part of the hobby for me.

 

It was for me, actually. I wasn't impatient, just excited. It was an almost constant state of excitement for about three months lol I checked her status in the "being made" process every day and when she shipped I checked that multiple times a day >.< I also looked at other dolls that I wanted to get, and which one would be next. It was actually pretty funny and weird for me cause I'm extremely mellow. When I do excited most people can never tell. It's the point that one of my close friends laughs because I'm so monotone all the time...
Now that I have a doll though (well now it's a few) it's a bit easier for me. I'm still super excited, but I have something to occupy my mind with a bit more that's more related that reading a book or something, so I think it works more. I still go browse for stuff I wanna get for them, but not as much

 

I think the general answer is yes! It definitely was for me. Made harder being that I ordered during the Asian monsoon season so it took months longer to get to me. Then a huge shot to the heart when I got him and I couldn't bond. Sad!

 

omg >< i always feel so surprised when people say they couldn't bond though with their first doll. I dunno for me it feels like something you'd bond with either way just cos they're the first? Or maybe i'm sentimental. Either way, i really sympathize

 

I'm a very patient person. Currently waiting for doll #1 and Uhhh ya I'm cool to wait however long. She'll get here when she does and not a minute sooner

 

Oh it was much, much harder. I was very new to the BJD scene and didn't know what to expect at all in terms of waiting time, communication with the company, or anything! I didn't have DoA or any dolly community to quell my fears so I spent my time sitting on my hands and praying it wouldn't take several months for her to get here. (which it did) After her I joined DoA so I learned what to expect and had other people I could talk to regarding how the company operated and so on.

 

i was quite eager to have my doll but i tried to calm myself down by doing other things. and when i finally got him, i felt good about it.

 

I ordered my first doll in July and she is still not here. I couldn't wait so, I bought my second doll secondhand and he is here already. Waiting is painful for me. Very painful.

 

I ordered my first doll right in the middle of some months long medical testing so I had other things to pre-occupy my mind during the wait and in the hospital I had the thought of my Peter help me out. But now that I ordered his sisters, I am busy with some house remodeling and it makes the wait a lot harder. As right now I'm counting the weeks and looking up holidays for that country so that I can calculate when they might get here. :}

 

I think the wait for my first doll ( a Delf Lishe) was much harder than later dolls. I was new to the hobby and naive and uniformed about the waiting time. After I was in the hobby for a while, the long waits no longer phase me.

 

Back when I ordered my first doll, the wait times were much shorter... I got my girl with a faceup during an event, and she only took 18 days to ship, so I have to say that it is harder now to ride out the wait. Though I did spend a good deal of those 18 days wondering if I should have spent so much money on a bjd since I had never even seen one in person.

 

My first doll was actually in stock from DDE so she arrived super fast. I am not exactly the most patient person in the world and I imagine it would have been agony for me waiting months for my first doll! I figure now I can order dolls that will take a while to arrive and be ok because I will have my Willow to keep me company while I wait.

 

No, actually. I'm afraid I get equally excited about every single doll :p. Each wait is difficult XD. Though I guess it is always just a little worse when customs are involved ...

 

Actually yeah, I think it was a lot harder waiting for my first one than my 2nd one because I hadn't so much as seen a BJD before so I didn't know what to expect. I only had to wait a few days for it to ship (it was bought almost on a whim) but I had wanted one for ~10 years. What if I turned out not liking her? What if she was too big? (68cm!) I had no clue what resin actually felt like and didn't realize that about 2 days before she showed up and I had this horrible notion that it would be this horrible toothy surface that gives me the chills just thinking about it.

FOr m 2nd BJD, a minifee, I was anxious waiting for but not quite as much. Again in only took a couple days for her to get to me from shipping but i was having financial woes and the seller (from here) was busy with a move so that stretched things out. Mostly my problem was being unsure about the MSD size. I love the cuddliness of my 68cm girl but wanted something easier to photograph and with lots of clothing options.

 

Actually the wait for my first doll wasn't as hard as some of my later dolls. I think because I purchased my first doll from LUTS, and at that time they were having major delays and problems with getting orders out promptly. It wasn't the best situation to buy a first doll, but he was a limited edition doll and so I put myself in the mind-frame that it could take a long time so I had to be patient! Lo' and behold a week later I got a shipping notice and I couldn't believe it! Also, it was my first time dealing with EMS shipping so I thought it would take 7 business days at the very least for a large package to come from Korea... so again I told myself not to get too worked up until the weekend. He showed up 2 days later and I was astonished!

... so now it's ruined me because I think things will move faster than they actually should. ><;

 

My first doll was bought from a reseller, so I had to wait only a month for him to come from China, and that was a really full month for me. I had to prepare myself for a japanese theme market, I sew a cosplay and attended to university....so time passed really fast.
Now that I'm waiting for my second doll time seems endless... it's the first time I bought from the company and the first time I spent so much on a single doll; she is my first MSD doll too! My social life has become a social unlife and I've just passed a stressful span of time because of my job, so I'm really in need of some doll relief. But my doll will not be shipped before the mid of November, so I need to divert myself... well, I'll rebuild my lightbox and starting making something new for my Etsy shop, I think....

 

I never get over being excited or anxious over a doll I am waiting on. First doll, last doll I'm always haunting the mailman...

 

I waited almost about a year to get my first BJD. All I did was, dream and work hard till time came.

 

It seems a little odd now that I think about it... But no. I honestly think the wait for Harumatsu and Tien Jen (My first "one" was a pair of twins. ) was actually easier than some of my other waits have been. There was so much other stuff to find and figure out and collect in preparation for getting those first dolls that I didn't really have time to be impatient. I was too busy trying to hunt down the clothes and hair and eyes and toys and other things I thought it would be nice to have.

Of course, it also didn't hurt that when I bought the guys, the average wait time for a pair of 60cm CP dolls with face-ups from Luts was a little under a month... Nothing like the wait time Fairyland has these days, or the three months it took to get my third doll (a Dollshe Hound from Tensiya).