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Would anyone buy a talking doll?

Jan 10, 2009

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    1. no D: but only because for some reason talking dolls have always freaked me out as a child. i'm not sure why, i guess i just prefer for them to be silent. i guess i'd rather imagine hearing my doll's voice in my head instead of just some robot-y sounding voice.
       
      #121 resonantblue, Aug 16, 2009
    2. Is that a doll? Maybe it's more like a robot!!! I dont like to talk in this way..... Buy a talking doll is noisy, I just like looking at them and than took pictures = =||||
       
      #122 angelsfeather, Aug 17, 2009
    3. this cracked me up. Especially "Haha, I'm almost as tall as you"

      I don't know if I'd want a talking doll, but like a lot of others have said I think it would depend on the quality of the voice and how much/what it says.
       
      #123 Kiyoshi45, Aug 17, 2009
    4. I dunno, i love the idea, but depends on each person, i mean, it breaks the fantasy of all the environment that you create for your character, like voice for example.
       
      #124 Harumichan, Aug 17, 2009
    5. sounds interesting i'd like to see/hear that :3
       
      #125 ~*mika*~, Aug 17, 2009
    6. :lol:This is really funny!!!

      No, I don't want talking doll. When I was little, long ago, there were big talking, walker dolls. I never had one because my mom didn't like them. The audio mechanism fails easily and the dolls were heavy. The voice sounded mechanical and sentences are limited. :|

      hihi, I talk to my dolls all the time and they talk back. :) You would not want to know what one of my boys said when I tried to find him a girl friend. I've given up!
       
      #126 stargazer_i, Aug 18, 2009
    7. Wow thats a really cool idea, would you record the voice yourself or get someone else to do it? A talking BJD would be awesome, it would have to be a really high quality recording but i'd definitely be intrested in that. The thought reminds me of that film Small Soldiers.
       
      #127 Lawrencium, Aug 18, 2009
    8. I think the idea sounds fascinating....but personally, it'd depend on the doll itself for me. I wouldn't mind Lao Shan or Amalthea chirping phrases, because they're the polite and demure type. Setsuri....barely speaks anyway, and Olivers a mute, so getting any sort of voicebox thing for them would be kinda pointless. XD Matsuri's fashion tip advice would be fun for a while, but after a while I'd probably be like HOW DO I MAKE YOU STFU.
      And Dyland....hooooo boy. He's enough of a brat WITHOUT being able to actually yell at me IRL about why don't I buy him more nice things and why is he on a shelf and WHY IS HE IN RED LACE WHEN HE SPECIFICALLY DEMANDED BLACK, WHAT KIND OF CHEAP FLOOZY DO I TAKE HIM FOR.
       
      #128 Teabender, Aug 18, 2009
    9. That would be intresting, but i dout i would like that because of the aesthetics
       
      #129 Flayingtoaster, Apr 27, 2014
    10. Oh no. No no. I do not like talking things. I do not even like talking cell phones.
       
      #130 arimoriarty, Apr 27, 2014
    11. No, I wouldn't want a talking doll. It probably wouldn't match my character's voice anyway, but even if it did, I don't know if I would feel comfortable with my BJDs talking :sweat
       
      #131 AmberLeigh, Apr 27, 2014
    12. i agree, if it was like chobits that would be awesome! i think i would rather have a larger vocabulary and only be able to talk the owner
       
      #132 PhadeSkye, Apr 27, 2014
    13. I would love to have a talking doll. I think it would be so cool to converse with a doll.
       
      #133 blackdahlia, May 21, 2014
    14. I would get one, only if you could record what you want it to say. It would be funny if it had one of those touch here buttons and the doll says: don't touch me! or hands off!:lol:
       
      #134 Dollvari, May 21, 2014
    15. Idk it would fall too quickly into Furby territory for me. Furbys quickly got very disturbing... :(
       
      #135 StacheRabbit, May 21, 2014
    16. I actually really liked my furby baby as a kid :cool: I guess to each their own haha.

      A talking doll wouldn't interest me though. I think it'd freak me out to be honest. But that's just me.
       
      #136 idlehen, May 21, 2014
    17. If the talking doll has software like Apple's Siri, maybe it could provide some interesting interaction and do simple tasks. Worth a shot :)
       
      #137 jellyyfish, May 21, 2014
    18. I'm not sure, depend on what the doll will say and such. If it talking similar to a baby doll speech like 'I'm hungry' or 'I'm sleepy', probably not since it will be creepy for me at night.
      However, if it the similar to Danny Choo Smart Doll (off-topic doll, pretty sure since it's vinyl), who tell us the time right now or email coming, etc, with a cute anime-like voice, probably yes. It's so cute to have my doll saying like 'There a new email in your inbox~' :)
       
      #138 twinage, May 21, 2014
    19. I... don't think I would. I've seen way too many horror movies and still remember my cousin's Furby shorting out in the middle of the night. A creepy disembodied voice slurring out 'Plaaaaay with meeeee' ended up in me knocking over our shelf and hockey-shooting it out of our door with a broom handle.

      So no. No, I'll keep my dolls silent and judgmental of me.
       
      #139 Faerie_Speak, May 21, 2014
    20. Lol, while this is cool, I don't think I'd get it done. Tho I will admit, I'd love to have my Honeybee programmed to play a song if prompted ^^ now THAT I would be willing to pay for lol. I already feel like my dolls answer me in their own way (I had one dolls eyes fall out after asking myself out loud if I should try other eyes in it XD). I love the thought and had talking dolls as a kid, tho they were nothing fancy, but I liked them lol.

      Sent from my RM-917_nam_usa_214 using Tapatalk
       
      #140 KageNoHoshimi, May 21, 2014
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