Would you buy broken or damaged dolls, from the company?

I think this would be AWESOME! I love love love rescuing sad and abandoned things, and I would totally buy a sad, bubbly, seamy, chipped, splodgy - faced BJD for... I dunno... $150? $200? some sanding, a new tan job, new hands or a little epoxy and a purdy faceup... you've got a gorgeous, unique and now happy BJD!

 

It sounds like a great idea, especially if you can mod dolls yourself, for practice or even to attempt to fix.

 

I would go for this whole-hog. What a great opportunity to make extreme-mod art dolls!!! I would have so much fun hacking out resin, replacing it, filling it, doing truly grotesque gore mods... all things I could never justify doing to a pristine, new $700 investment. *L*

I see what Vaith-chan is talking about though, regarding in-company theft. There are way too many reasons for companies NOT to release failed merchandise, IMHO. But, you never know, one of those little mom n pop BJD companies without a lot of employees, plus a desire to make looooooots of munnies, might pick up this idea.

 

I would absolutely go for this if I had a chance - there are all kinds of materials and techniques I would love to test and a 'factory second' doll (or parts, or even fragments of parts) would be ideal.

 

I'd be interested. And I've always wanted to see what a marbled tan doll looks (that could be cool for like a fantasy character, the way I am imagining it at least... ) since I keep reading about how tans mess up, but I've never seen a picture of it.

 

i would but i would have to see it first. bubbles under the skin freak me
however if had uneven color skin, i would fill in the white parts with deep gray and make a doll special to only me >w<

 

Absolutely!It truely would save us money,the companies would save money,it would give us more oppurtunities to practice face-ups and the like,
you can have a doll that's truely unique in the process of all of this too,the list goes on.
I'm all for "Dollie rescue" and maybe if a broken doll has been modded,it can be given to charity.

Yeah,I get it.So there are chances of it happening,but there are also chances of it not happenng.

Well,I guess they could at least only throw away the broken part,not the whole doll.See where we go from there perhaps?

 

Um, there would be a good chance that the uneven casting would go all the way through the resin, not just the surface. Just saying...

 

That would be actually pretty awesome if companies did this. If just for people to practice mods on. Plus I've seen a handful of people around that have turned badly damaged dolls into looking like new.

 

A company selling broken pieces of resin (exaggeration)? lol I wonder if they'd be willing to do that... it might look... unprofessional if they wrote that on their homepage: "we are now selling our damaged dolls". Like it's an option you can click when ordering.

Oh, I wouldn't buy it anyway because I'm not that great at modding.

 

I think its a great idea,i do hope someone well take this idea to heart and realize it.Especially if the price for them wasent too expencive,since lack of money are the main reason that i dont own any dolls yet.

 

for myelf: i wouldnt buy them... they end up worse than when they got to me ...>.>

for all: i think its a great idea for people to practice on heads for faceups perhaps or just haveing a practice body so if you mess up you're not 700 bucks or something you know....

 

It would be great to do color tests on the same resin as the actual dolls. Or chemical tests like with removers. Or U-coat testings. Or I could practice working on one companies resin before ruining the dolls right away. Or I take pieces and make something completly different and new out of it like an arm into an ear...
There are so many ways I think of using it!!

Laoky

 

Oh wow, i would turn backflips at that opportunity! really, would you love a 'special needs' doll any less? i was thinking about trying to buy a doll where someone had broke part of the face off, and id rivet it back on to kind of make it like ummmm.......kind of like Jet's face from Cowboy Bebop, you know? All badassed and put back together, haha!

 

I'd will be very Interested if price would be low. I'll could try to customize...
Hope that some companies think seriously to it.

 

Since I love modding I would also be really excited if these kinds of peices were available, I'd preffere to know exactly whats wrong but if the price was right then I'd even consider a pot luck type buy

hehe maybe they could grade it like they grade pear and gemstone beads

Grade:
A) perfect doll for regular sale
B) minor air bubbles, not on face
C)slights colour imperfection
D) large amounts of airbubbles
E) large area of colour imperfection
F) missing fingers, large gouges etc

etc

ETA:

Vaith makes good points however there would be ways of combating such a practice, for example for the caster offer a 'bonus' for every perfect cast, imperfect casts are then eating away at their potenial wage... this would make it a lot less tempting to 'whoopsie' with the latest batch of resin

also if the employees get a discount (subject to fair use etc etc) on the pefect dolls (say at wholesale price) and the imperfect casts are offered at a similar price (same price for employees and customers) its still tempting for us to buy the miss-casts (dependant on the nature of the imperfection) but its much less tempting for the employee to make an intentional mistake because they won't really gain anything

sorry for all the brakets :

 

YES!

I have some characters I want to turn into dolls, but I'd have to do horrible things to the dolls if I bought them. (intentionally breaking off fingers, scratching them with coarse sandpaper, all the dolly "no-no"s) So I'd really rather buy dolls that are already "ruined" than have to damage the dolls myself.

 

I would totally buy damaged dolls from a company if I had more experience with fixing them. I'm sure that there are many talented artists out there that could give these dolls a new life, instead of being discarded.

 

OMG
A!
A! A! A!

(sorry) I was just thinking earlier about asking whether or not companies actually sell their "less-than-stellar" dolls. Y'know, the ones that are a bit messed up. 'Cause I'd TOTALLY buy them. I think having flaws would give my dolls character, especially if they were tan-flaws.

And if they were quite cheaper than the perfect dolls, that'd be even better!

And hey, most doll-sellers have extra parts available, so I'd have no problem buying whole feet or hands if my full-set doll was missing a few appendages. *shrug*

 

That's a good question. I'm thinking that I'm a combo between A & B.

I think it also depends on the cost of the doll up front. Case in point: this Spring I finally had arrive a very large resin cast of a Masterpeice Arts Cloud Strife from Square-Enix. It was easily as tall as any BJD. Anyway, after waiting almost a year for this thing to arrive, the big day came, and I was so disappointed when I opened the box to find the figure was in many, many pieces.

I thought about gluing it back together, but the way I figure, something like that was a "special edition" type collector's item, and if I was going to pay $400 for it, I wanted one that was in factory-perfect condition.

Having said that--I actually agree with the OP that it's a waste to just throw damaged/defective dolls away! Those are the ones that need EXTRA love. I'm pretty good with epoxy, and I'd have no problem obtaining one as a "rescue" and giving it a good home. Maybe its scars would become part of its story.

So I say, let us buy damaged dolls!! They need homes too, not unlike the dolls on the Island of Misfit Toys.