#Chinese bjd

[of-his-dragoon-ways]

[dolly-birdi]

The chinese festival blind box bjd arrived! This was one of the few times I ordered the actual blind box because I legit liked all of the options and couldn't choose so I let fate decide.

[kabutoden]

drew the kukaka bug bjd girls... im so crazy about them its hilarious. they're a line of bug-themed little ball joined dolls and i have akim the scarab, tangtang the petal mantis and mimi the bee right now... since i got a job i ordered the last three i didnt have yet (tingting rongrong and lanlan). they were a huuuuge inspiration 4 bugstuck as soon as i saw them back in jan. i was like damnnn you can make bug anthros like that!?!?!?!??!!? this is... PERFECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

these are way more detailed then my normal stuff. take a closer look :3

[peepersponies]

Oh guys she's SO pretty 😭😭😭 She's amazing. I love her so much. I thought I understood the appeal of BJDs before I held her but actually I had NO idea. I just adore her, I want to dress her up and carry her around with me everywhere.

One thing I wasn't expecting is that she's HEAVY!! She feels so solid and nice to hold!! And also she stands up really nicely on her own, which is always something that amazes me about BJDs.

I'm so excited to do her faceup :') I don't know how I'm going to decide on what it should look like....

[jaehoon-kim]

My doll in traditional cheongsam. Incheon, South Korea, December 29, 2023.

[hatsunemimikyu]

Got another of the Penny's Box dragons and she's SERVING! I looove her color scheme and the pipe accessory, through I prefer the blue boy's shirt

(Alternative caption: me and the bad bitch I pulled by being a swag ass half-dragon)

[alanaartdream]

Hello I’m Alana the artist and creator for Alanaartdream that’s on YouTube (this here) TikTok tumblr instagram and whatever the heck twitter is now

Thanks to @kikagoods ​⁠ just as it’s officially the Chinese new year 🧧 this February and the year of the dragon 🐉

My order of Penny’s Box adou ball joined blind box dolls dragon dolls have arrive

Just in time for a little doll review

These dolls are listed on kika goods websites under Adou Loong Fantasia series

If you’re interested in getting dragon ball jointed dolls for your own doll collection

Also i must say i think these dragon dolls are my favourites out of penny box bjd dolls so far

((A little video review I’ve made on TikTok that’s too long so to share to to tumblr I had to share it to my YouTube 1st so It can be shared here ))

[fulgurbugs]

Aaaaa your doll postings convinced me to go for the insect girl blind box and she arrives this week! They're so stinkin cute ♡

eeee i’m glad! i love love love the insect girls sm, i actually got another one (hoping for the orchid mantis one next time) i hope you like yours!

[petite-cosette]

波波子呀

[inactivedoll]

Some recent doll stuff.

Heads, doll tattoos.....

I love resin anime sculpts and I have been looking at these for months and they were all in stock, so why not. They are meant for 1/3 bodies too, which is a rarity since most are made for 1/4 bodies. The tan one is from a different creator than the other ones, and I think there's a character that would fit this sculpt very well. I plan on hybriding with the tan Evantasy boy body, although I need to save up a bit before that. The other two are in pink, so it's easy to hybrid and I'm not really looking for a body for the two. They just look neat. And I love an elf sculpt. It's my greatest weakness when it comes to dolls. I cannot tell you how many times I had to stop myself from getting an elf eared doll just because it had elf ears.

And I also found some BJD tattoos. Going to have fun with these. (´┓`*)

Also finally got myself a Fatemoons Willow. I've been looking at this sculpt ever since it was listed, and it is still my favorite cat head sculpt. However, the 1/4 bodies used for it always seemed a bit off and I like larger heads, so it's nice to see that a larger 1/6 looks like something I would like. A 1/5 body is likely the perfect size. I plan on hybriding it with a 1/5 Dollzone body. And while the color matches seem very close, tbh, it doesn't matter that much as I will likely be dying this kot to a dark blue. Animal heads that have a more animesque look are another one of my weaknesses....please take away my computer.

And then there seems to be an abundance of harpy dolls as of late. Male harpies of all things too! DV really knows how to hit my weak points. Must....resist....

Dolls: peach自制 布莱卡，neko猫鬼自制 Callia and Liquor, Fatemoons Willow

[roeza]

It’s a Good day at 5 spice

A while ago me and my uncles went to a restaurant called 5 spice

And I brought Clein with me

One of my uncles is a joker so when the waitress was taking our drink order he jokingly told her to get Clein a Diet Coke

and she did

first we apologize we didn’t mean for her to actually bring Clein a Diet Coke

but as you can see this lead me to taking pictures

And throughout the whole lunch the 5 spice staff we're such good sports about the whole thing even taking pictures of their own.

and

Handing us a little bowl to put some food in,

And cracking Clein open a beer for pictures

They made it such a fun time

once again I want to thank the 5 spice staff for being such good sports, the fun time and there amazing service ❤️

here is the link to there website to check them out.

[lady-stormwind]

Dream Fairy

Ressa Dream Fairy Tale doll

[olderthannetfic]

Reading the anon abt the doll hobby not having anti drama, and I just had to make sure it didn't mention the BJD hobby, because that one is filled with drama and anti drama. I'm probably more prone to look for drama, but some of it isn't hard to find.

Idk why but I almost wanna share some of my highlights, so I'll do that. Buckle up, this is a long one, and it's only scratching some of the dumb shit bullshit that's happened over the years.

People constantly let themselves be scammed. There are some well known people, and when you look up their seller names you can literally find people who keep up with their renaming because they're such notorious scammers. People still "take a chance" and then a few weeks later: Guys you won't believe this, I got scammed.

There was an entire thing surrounding a company (companies?) selling dolls in the tone oriental. People were using that name because that's what it's literally named, and other people got upset and started an entire discourse about it. Yeah, only that it was an Asian company that had named that tone, they had been made aware of some Western collectors being upset about it, and really didn't care. There are several instances of Asian sellers and companies from Asia using the terms oriental.

The discourse about one Chinese doll company who made a statement on their Eng twitter about supporting the CCP in attacking Hong Kong. People were rightfully upset at the company, which had previously been criticized in the Western hobby sphere for Nazi-themed dolls. Yeah, so people started defending the company, claiming that the only did it to not get hurt by the CCP. Except no other company did something that stupid. It took several Chinese hobbyists from China coming over and making it pretty clear that that company has a real bad reputation in the Chinese hobby to begin with, and to stop defending them especially for the HK thing because that was their choice.

The hobby is actually incredibly open for cultural exchanges, and appreciation. But every once in a while there are people who start bitching about cultural appropriation, and then everyone has to tell them to shut up because people love their dolls and just think it looks neat and want to share.

On the topic of cultural appropriation. Some times the people who bitch about it mess up and attack people of that culture. One such person made a red doll, put it in a qipao for Lunar New year some years ago, saying she's a dragon. Yeah, turns out the artist is Chinese, and the people angry about "White people take a red doll, put it in a qipao calling it a dragon are fucking racist cultural appropriators." Also, once that came out, even before that, a bunch of people once again came in and made fun of these people, especially those that culturally celebrate Lunar new year.

On the same wave though, lol, that artist who made the doll is infamous for her completely batshit doll pre-order, and then her trying to hide that she took the money of a bunch of people and ran. It's even a doll that a lot of doll ooak artist youtubers worked with. The entire story is fucking wild, beyond her trying to blame the company (one person?) who'd produce them, and then pretending it was some flaw with the system they used to let people order.

"If you use runes, I'm gonna view you as a white Supremacist until you prove otherwise." Scandinavians and even Scandinavian poc people told them to shut up (there were actually good arguments about how offensive that statement was, but it was a good dress down), and then clearly not Scandinavian nor Scandi poc decided to double down. Last I saw there was still a stalemate between the Scandi's, and people who're sensible, and the people who just wanna be racist about Nordic runes and call them all white supremacist and attacking Scandi poc.

Sex dolls aren't BJDs...

People are also bitching about "child coded" dolls being put in naughty stuff. The problem is that these dolls often are bobbleheaded anime looking mofos. Even in the cases where you have a child doll: It's still not child porn. It's a hunk of plastic, calm down.

Some doll companies, like VOLKS have raffles/lotteries to have a change to buy the doll. You heard that right, just to be able to buy it. There has been tons of discourse about how unfair it is that US people get to enter twice. Or how people who don't even want the dolls just the raffles.

Scalpers. Nuff said.

People who can't budget, and constantly make that everyone else's problem when they buy a new doll they can't afford and then start panicking.

Customs. By God the customs bitching.

Paypal friends&family. For the love of Christ, stop buying things from random people with F&F especially when you don't know them, or if they're a confirmed fucking scammer.

There's literally a guy who's doll at first glance have some of the best diversity and rep, but the guy is an absolute asshole, and part of the hobby don't really know how to handle it. Small list: Told a disabled person who got frustrated when they were completely unable to assemble it that his dolls aren't made for them. Constantly bans people from buying from him for the dumbest reasons, like 1) Guy asking how shipping would be handled during 2020. 2) Person who got a faulty product, and asked what to do with it.* 3) Assuming a buyer was another already banned person, when it was made clear they weren't he still kept the ban. 4) Basically anyone who critiques his dolls. *He claims "wabi sabi", even though some of the product issues are way beyond any wabi sabi aesthetic. He also calls his "haters" the "entitled" and once made a comic about "eradicating the entitled" and had a doll in a striking uniform salute with a flat hand. Yeah so a Jewish person mentioned how the wording and pic combined gave bad Nazi'esque image and that he should avoid it. He banned the Jewish person. (The Jewish person was very respectful about it, and explained why phrasing things like "eradicating the entitled" and some other stuff was not a good combination.)

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I remember back in the 00s seeing endless wank over people's porny photoshoots with their multiple BJDs that were styled as a visual kei group.

Also everyone's favorite perpetual wank topic: "OMG, how do you have 5? That's my rent for months!"

To this day, I see the acronym "BJD" and think "Time for popcorn!" even though I rarely see the wank anymore.

[sukeart]

✦ My custom Splatoon BJD tutorial / guide is done !! ✦

The first section focuses on how to gather all the different components (face, hairstyle, body), blank or fully painted, wether you can speak chinese or not.

The second section is dedicated to giving you tips on painting blank parts yourself.

The third section is all about dressing your woomy up!

And the last section is all about my personal experience. I also break down my spendings ... 💸

I tried to gather as much information as possible, without wandering too far off subject. If you happen to have any extra questions, feel free to send them to my inbox :) You can also use my inbox if you feel like sharing extra tips or reccomendations!

✦ You can read it here! ✦

[axilog14]

Just thinking out loud, but blind box BJDs kind of have an awkward spot in the doll community as a whole.

They stand apart from conventional blind box toys - they have a fashion doll element (basic articulation and fabric clothing) unlike Kidrobot, Sonny Angel, Tokidoki or Pop Mart figures.

The most popular styles are smaller than classic 1/6 scale fashion dolls (Barbie, Monster High, Rainbow High etc.), and don't have rooted hair.

The larger BJD fandom is somewhere between ambivalence and frustration towards them. At best they're considered a nice gateway to the hobby, at worst their mass-produced style is incompatible with how personalized "traditional" BJD culture is.

In practice they're probably closest to a Nendoroid Doll or Obitsu 11, since they're roughly the same scale and can share clothes. Yet they're still considered separate fanbases since most Nendoroids are based on anime and other Japan-based properties. Blind box BJDs meanwhile draw mostly from Chinese fashions and aesthetics.

The only other doll line I think they're similar to are those articulated Molly figures, which are usually much more expensive and targeted at high-end designer toy collectors.

I'm weirdly spoiled since my location makes blind box BJDs more accessible than popular Western dolls. I prefer smaller dolls in general, and a Penny's Box or Simontoys BJD is cheaper for me to get than the 6" Magic Mixies Pixlings or Rainbow Brite dolls (which cost WAY more here due to either store markup or shipping costs).

Overall blind box BJDs owe more to fashion dolls and art toys than the "hardcore" BJD aesthetic, which isn't a bad thing but does create dissonance in fan expectations. I wish there was a more clearly defined fandom for them, but then you run the risk of overlap with the larger BJD or obitsuroid fanbases. Maybe a general "1/12 scale doll" umbrella could work, buy it's not exactly social media-friendly.

[maleficentmrsofallevil]

And now I'm pissed again

Oueneifs has decided to offer a "pre-order" for recast Imara and Kamara Impldoll BJDs.

And here's the kicker - the "pre-order" price for a full doll is about half the current cost, but the normal price is going to be $240 plus shipping. The head "pre-order" price is $70. The "normal" price is around $80. Also, the pictures Oueneifs posted aren't even the correct sculpts. Dumbasses don't even know what they're selling.

Impldoll Kamara and Imara are $330 with FREE shipping from ACBJD. For (less than) $90 more, you can have the gorgeous, consistently high-quality, legit version. Oh, and also - if you wait until the holidays, you can buy Impldoll heads direct from the company for $80 with free shipping. They frequently offer 20 percent off their dolls, too.

Recasts are so much cheaper? Bullshit. The heads are going to be priced identically, and Oueneifs charges a LOT for shipping. My singular legit Oueneifs doll cost $40 to ship to me. And yes, I now seriously regret buying her.

Recasters offer better customer service? Bullshit. ACBJD answers emails every day of the week, including holidays. I don't think they should, but they do.

I love this doll line so so so much. If Impldoll discontinues it because of that jackass, I'm going to be livid.

Now I'm panicking, wondering if I shouldn't put Kamara on layaway before she disappears.

The one silver lining in all this is that Impldoll is also a Chinese company. They have the best chance of getting Luo to take that shit down. OF COURSE I immediately jumped into Impldoll's DMs with links.

When I emailed Dream Valley, recast DV dolls disappeared from Luo's company pages lickety-split. To anyone struggling to buy a recast Dream Valley doll - YOU'RE WELCOME. I'm that bitch who runs to the company to let them know.

I also told Oueneifs that they're probably going to be sued.

I hope the listing gets pulled.