Your last / final doll

I don't know if I'll ever reach the end, so to speak. I think as life changes, so do my tastes in BJDs. Whatever the "final" doll may be today may end up enabling me to get another. Maybe that "final" doll has a smile and I suddenly find myself wanting a friend with a frown. I don't know. I don't think I could ever end up with a "final" doll until it's also my "final" moment. Then it just comes to fate.

But!

If I had to pick something now, hypothetically speaking, because I'd be done with the acquiring stage, I'd probably go with my grail doll. What's the point of having a grail and never achieving it? My grails will always be a bit above the rest, but I still love all of them. Grail dolls tend to get more spoiled, I've noticed.

 

As for right now, I have two grail dolls. The first being a Volks SDgr Belle fullset. The second being a Volks Kujo head on a SDgr girl body. They are both very different sculpts, but I think if I had to pick just one, I'd go for Belle. There's just something about her face that I think I would have to have if she was to be my last.

I don't see ever 'completing' a collection without getting at least one of your grail dolls. Afterall, they are the ones you desire most and will always be, as you wrote, feeling like you missed out on something if you didn't at least try to get it.

 

I actually own most of my grail doll (Luts SSDF Commander of the Blue Knights Abadon) I'm only missing the eyes and wig (not minding those so much) and the romantic head and sword hand (which i want XD). so i guess my final doll is undecided? I have too many dolls i want to stop now XD tho i suppose once i get my kdf and doll love baby chi, if i could only buy one last doll, it'd have to be a soom. one with cute hooves and an adorable face

 

I might already be good...If I was going to have a grail doll (that actually existed) it probably would have been Volks Michele, and I did get him this year. I guess if we're speaking hypothetically I might go for a Reisner or a Delf Woosoo. I've always loved those molds...but not enough to buy them!

 

Hehe, this is actually how I feel right now. ^_^"
I've come to a point where I feel like my collection is getting too big for me! I also don't sell my dolls (just how I am) and I like the collection I have so...that means I need to stop collecting. I've also had the odd feeling of late that I'm just tired of the continual doll acquisition cycle. I feel a bit exhausted by it and I want to just enjoy what I have. As you said, I want to sew more, and just create for my current collection. I want to work on my photography too. Hehe.

So, to answer your question: Yes, I did get one last doll as the "crown of my collection". The urge to stop collecting has been rattling around in my head for a bit now...but I just could not stop obsessing, and I do mean OBSESSING over Volks' SD16, especially the four sisters. So just recently, I was able to purchase an SD16 Kira! She is completely different from the rest of my collection, which is mostly Iplehouse, or otherwise rather realistic. She is cute and sweet, and I love her dearly. She fills that last void in my collection that I couldn't quite get filled before. She was very much my grail doll.
I don't think she is better than my other dolls though. I just think that she is a different aspect than what my collection covered before. For instance, I don't have a character for her, while all my other dolls have characters and back stories that intertwine. She is totally separate. And you know what? I am having the best time sewing cute, frilly clothing for her! I just enjoy looking at her. It's a bit odd how satisfying it is to just see her being cute! ^_^

Edit: Oh dear, Lily didn't end up being my last doll… ^.^"
Old doll wishes and loves, ones I thought just weren't available, suddenly appeared and were too much temptation in the end.

 

I've been saying that since my third. I've now just ordered my 9th and am planning a 10th :/ I can't stop if they keep making cute dolls. I think the only way to stop is to stop looking at companies and using this forum!

 

I've learned never to say never, but I have pretty much everything I want now that my EIDs have been ordered. I may or may not get a tanned MNF Shiwoo while they're available... I don't have a MNF version of the sculpt currently... But I have no definite plans for future dolls.

As for "crown jewels"... Kestrel and Cardinal would seem to fit. I've been wanting EID versions of those two for years (They're my favorite MMO character and her NPC partner- The pair in my avatar picture.), and I've been seriously planning and waiting to order them since last September. The original game characters are very special to me, and the idea of having them in a more physical form really makes me grin. Especially now that the MMO they came from has been shut down, effectively taking the originals away from me. If I don't end up with any other dolls, they'll be an excellent place to end.

 

I've been thinking the same thing lately. I don't own any SD sized dolls,and I kind of want to finish off my collection with one. The problem is that I also want another tiny doll,and I don't think I could really enjoy a large doll or bond with one. Storage is a big problem and items for larger dolls are more expensive. I have plenty of time to decide while I save up some money,but the next doll I buy will be my last one so I better make sure I get what I really want.

So,I have two grail dolls to choose from and I still haven't made up my mind.

 

In the realm of total fantasy my last BJD's would probably be an Iple pair, Luo or Arvid and a Carina or maybe Jessica. But living in reality I think it will be RS Dai when I get her. I really can't afford to go too big or expensive with my BJD collection anyway. I still want two Dollmore heads and my Dai, and Alba is getting a BF, but that's it I think. I'll be up to 5 dolls soon and while I haven't exactly broken the bank getting them all that's a lot of $$$ for me. I started out wanting one pair of MSD dolls and now I have those two, albeit they have practice heads on them for now, an elf, a vampire, and I'm getting a green SD girl and a WS boy. Plus maybe a RS boy, two Dollmore heads, and quite definitely a Dai. That's enough, lol. I don't need an Iple pair, but if I was going to ever really, really splurge I'd go there.

 

It's hard to imagine, not because I can't imagine stopping, but because it would all depend on what I already had at that point! But right now I would go for one of my grail dolls, either the very reasonable, easily available Bluefairy Olive with default eyes and wigs OR it would be the $950 Doll Chateau Youth Christina. Pretty much polar opposites, but I will NEVER have finished collecting until I have that Olive (I could just buy her now, but something keeps me waiting...) and I would certainly Love a DC Christina but who knows!

 

I had a grail doll, and I thought that after he came home, I would stop my collection there. He was a Supergem boy, and cost more than any of my other dolls (though not a huge amount more). I also got him a smashing outfit, which was really a sort 'grail outfit', if such things can be said to exist.

But after all the packages arrived, the thought of never having another new doll just kind of made me sad. I had my grail doll, and the perfect clothes for him, but it was anti-climatic, somehow.

I think if I do have a real 'last doll', it will more of a natural evolution of focus. My interest is already shifting more towards sewing and crafting, and there have been no new arrivals in over a year. So if there was to be a last doll, I imagine it would be a seriously considered purchase, but weighted more by my own personal love for a sculpt, than by price or prestige.

 

I feel I have come close to the end of my BJD acquisition stage (as other people in this thread have similarly mentioned). For quite a few years, I've wanted a Volks Dollfie Dream, and finally got two last year, with plans for at least one more. So they were my ultimate goal for a long time. They could have easily been my last dolls, and I would have been happy with that.

Rather than buy new dolls, I have lately been buying second heads for my existing dolls so they can have different expressions. Seven of my resin BJDs now have alternate, sleeping or dreaming heads with matching faceups. I think that alternate heads don't count toward new dolls... do they? LOL!

However... I am now trying to embody a girl character that has eluded me since 2006. I FINALLY found a head I like for her that I think is a sure thing, and I am negotiating for a body for her too. If I were to have a last doll, this elusive character that I have attempted to embody eight times already and failed would be a good one to end with!! I'd be happy with that, too.

Linda S.
galatia9

 

Whaaaat, final doll?! What is this! Whenever I think I'm content with my collection, something new appears, even years later and that line from Daft Punk "our work is never over!" starts playing in my head. I don't think my doll collection is ever over and finalized as I'm constantly open to new sculpts. If anyone had told me years ago that I'd purchase more Lati Yellows, I'd probably laugh and shake my head but with all of the new molds released after I halted collecting in 2008, I want one of each now and have fallen in love all over again.

I think the word "final" can be used to motivate an individual to spend more time working on taking pictures, sewing for present dolls, etc after that "final" doll is purchased, but may end up being nothing more than a word utilized to get the mind to focus efforts on things other than browsing the market for potential doll adoptions which in itself can be quite time-consuming or addictive. I don't think anything is ever truly "final" unless you 100% quit the hobby (which, by reading your post, it seems as though you aren't) as there's always new content being released and you're bound to stumble upon it and perhaps want to adopt one of those new molds yourself, even if you stray away from the alluring marketplace, eBay, doll sites, etc, you're bound to see something new that you may want through perusing the images of others even after your "final" doll.

Regardless, you should treat yourself to your jewel grail anyway and focus efforts on what you wish to accomplish with your dolls such as sewing, but always keep an open mind to anything new as you may find something that wasn't available when you thought you had finished your collection. You may also find that obtaining your grail doll motivates you to do sew and take lots of pictures anyway, even without considering him/her your final doll.

For my final doll, I think I'd want my Lati Yellow winter tan 2007 Lea again just because she's really the doll that made me fall in love with the tiny size and I so regret selling her. I think obtaining her again would really be the highlight of my collection if I had to choose a final.

 

I'm not sure there will ever be a last doll for me at this point. I just love them all.

 

I brought home my last / final doll last year. Volks Sei-Tenshi. My life is complete.

 

i'm pretty sure my be-all-end-all doll would be when i finally complete my graildoll, with all the blushing, custom wig/eyes/etc. that's when i think i'll stop ^^

 

I'm working on buying my fourth, and planning my fifth, but I won't bring her home for quite some time (maybe three years or so?). I haven't decided if she will be my last doll, but she may be. Nothing too exciting, just a brown KDF Pine. I want a "grail doll," but my old grails are all SDs and I have decided MSDs are more my size. So I guess their appeal has worn off! However I spent so long longing for them that my heart still tightens when I see pictures of them. Maybe someday, maybe never!

I don't ever want to say "THIS is the last!!" because then I go to a meet, or browse a website, or see a new release and I start getting excited again. Maybe after a two year break, maybe it will be longer next time. But my process is extremely gradual right now. I think this pacing for myself helps me keep it under control.