Hello, this is Sea Hedgehog, and you're here again on my channel, A Jest in Sober Earnest,
and I'm going to do a really old tag.
I was trying to find a tag that was a little bit more doll and hobby inclusive, and I ran
across this tag that DX Girly Loves BJDs had done, like a year ago and decided that I still
wanted to answer it.
It looks like this tag is pretty old; it was first posted in 2016, so that's terrible.
But it was the 20 Questions for Doll Collectors Tag by xCandensis--her name will be below
in the title--and it's supposed to be questions that you can ask regardless of what dolls
you collect.
I was trying to put a doll in frame so I decided to put the American Girl--I keep wanting to
call it rerooting, but I'm making her a wig.
So you can see it's the lace wigs that I've been making before; I'm a little bit further
than maybe the last video.
This is an Our Generation Melina on an American Girl doll body in medium skin.
The American Girl doll body is in medium skin.
So question: "How long have you been collecting?", and this is sort of a weird question for me,
and this isn't really a perfect question, or a perfect tag for me to answer, but I don't
really think of my collection as a collection because they're not pristine and I routinely
hack into them and mod them and do crazy things with them, I think of them more of a medium
through which to do art.
Like obviously you're building on a work of art that an artist has already created, so
in that respect, it's different from starting from a block of clay and creating something
that's all your own, but I'm not employed as an artist, I do not represent myself as
an artist, so I do think of these in kind of a home or personal use respect as my works
of art.
So I don't like the word collection because I feel like collection brings to mind something
that is put on the shelf and admired, and that's not really what I'm doing with my dolls:
I'm playing with them, I'm doing weird shit to them.
But I have been collecting for a very long time.
My first collection was a rock collection.
You can't really play with rocks or mod rocks, so I suppose that's a collection.
I think I started it...
Ay dad got me into it; he went through master gardening classes in grade school and got
his master gardening certification
He'd laugh about that now because he thinks it's far too tame for Real Agruiculture^TM,
but that's kind of how he started out, and so this interest in plants and the earth was
started in me very early, and a game we would play would be going outside and identifying
plants, or going outside and identifying rocks and classifying them as metamorphic or igneous,
or, in my area of the country, they are mostly sedimentary, and I guess some are metamorphic,
but it's just various types of rock and what they were exposed to in order to make them
rock.
It's not really important.
And then the next question is, "What do you collect?"
So I actually have no idea where this rock collection went.
I would assume my mom has spirited it away as she has many of my art projects over the
years.
She takes things that she thinks that I'm going to give away or throw away or sell and
then hides them so that doesn't happen, so like puts them away for safekeeping, so I
never see them again.
And I'm not really upset about it, it's just sort of funny.
I think the only thing that I have from my rock collection is a pice of quartz with the
front cut off that I use as a paperweight.
Yeah.
So I used to collect rocks, don't really do that anymore, so let's not count that.
Breyer horses: I still have all my Breyers.
That was my first collection; my first "doll" collection, if you count figurines as dolls.
Momoko, action figures (so like HotToys, Ashley Wood/3AA stuff, I have some Phicen sculpts).
What else?
I think I have something from Enterbay which is another maker.
That may be it.
Oh, this doll up here is a 1000 Toys doll.
Also an action figure.
Various types of action figure.
Volks Dollfie--so not Dollfie Dream or Super Dollfie, but Dollfie, which is their 1/6th
scale vinyl/ABS figures.
I have some Pullips.
I have a Dynamite Girls, which is from a Fashion Royalty line, their cheaper, closer to playline
line.
What else do I have?
I have Figma, which is a 1/12th scale posable action figure doll from Japan.
I guess in with my action figures, I also have a GI Joe.
Unoa Sekiguchi--I'm looking up here, because I can't remember.
I've got some ABS BJDs, regular [resin] BJDs, I have a couple 18" around about scale dolls
(I'm counting the Karito Kid which is technically a 20" doll in with that).
There's probably more.
I don't know why I'm coughing all the sudden.
Maybe that's it, so nine things that I collect.
And in the Pullip category is like Dal and Isul; I have one of each of those.
"How many dolls do you have?"
See?
I don't know that I should count that because I don't want it to be a bragging thing, because
it shouldn't be a bragging thing, it should be more a fear of hoarding collection thing.
"Which of your collections are you most proud of?"
And again, it's not really a collection, so it's not really pride in catching them all,
or whatever, it's more like what medium or what line I like working with the best, which
would probably be BJDs.
I've invested the most in them, the sculpting is more what I like, in most of the BJDs,
there will be one or two things I don't like about a sculpt or body, but the majority of
it I like, and other dolls, they're kind of an exception to the rule instead of an example
of the average doll in the line, so like, for example, for action figures, the majority
of my action figures are action figures with moving eyes, and I also refuse to keep action
figures with hard hair, like tearing their hair off and giving them actual hair, because
classic hair bothers me.
So all of the dolls in my collection--I'm considering action figures dolls--have been
frankensteined to be something that I enjoy.
So in that respect, I'm proud of them all; although, some of them are sadder than others
or more embarrassing than others because they're in pieces or not in their final form.
I don't think anything's in it's final form, actually.
I'm kind of like a "things are continually in process" sort of person.
"What single doll cost you the most money?" and that's really hard because I buy them
in pieces, and that's probably why I buy them in pieces because you can trick yourself into
thinking that it's cheaper because you're like, "Oh, this body's only this amount,"
and then you wait a couple months, and then you're like, "This head is only this amount,"
but when you add them together for the full doll they're ridiculously expensive.
"Relatively and literally," maybe my Venitu, or the Bimong, that one was reasonably expensive;
although, this is where the "relatively" and "literally" comes in, my Venitu probably now
would be definitely most expensive just because they've held their price relatively consistently,
so they've increased in price relative to their original selling price because they're
no longer offered and they're a pretty in high demand sculpt, that and the Timeless
body that they come on.
"Which doll line is your favorite to collect and why?" and that's BJDs, and it's really
just because they're most inspiring to me, I have more ideas for what I want to do with
BJDs than I have with any other doll, and also they tend to start out in their blank
or unaltered state closest to something that I enjoy aesthetically, and also posability
and engineering wise.
"What made you want to collect dolls?" and again, not really a collection.
"What made me want to customize and own and play with dolls?"
I've always kind of liked building things and customizing things and doing weird sh*t
to things, and so that could lead you to do something in engineering or architecture or,
I don't know, coding, or baking, right?
Because all of those things require a different type of creativity and allow for a different
degree of customization, but it's just sort of like which medium works best with you.
And I, in particular, do not like very precise and mathematical things; I prefer when things
are more organic, in the creative aspect versus the other stuff that I do for a living.
So I think there was something that was appealing to doll customizing, or sewing, or baking,
that wasn't in engineering, which is more sciency and measuring.
And then there's another intervening component, which is the hobbies that I enjoy, which isn't
cooking, but cooking is a good illustration of something that is organic (I guess it's
slightly more chemistry based if you f*ck up the ingredients)--so maybe cooking is better
than baking--is that I think you're also biased by things that you enjoyed as a child and
the things that you are good at.
Everybody likes to be good at something, and it just so happens that If you spend as lot
of hours doing something, you're going to be good at it.
And so when you're younger and parents don't let you play with power tools.
Your options are not using the hot stove or hot oven and baking, they're not welding or
woodworking, or really anything that requires power tools, and I grew up in the 90s, and
so we really only had one computer that had a not particularly reliable internet connection
and neither of my parents were particularly skilled with using computers, so coding was
not in my future, and that would be another way of expressing your artistic ability, you
could do graphic design, or create your own website, or whatever, 3D modeling or whatever,
so it wasn't really something that was available to me.
So what was available was a sewing machine, and I was trusted with that, and dolls, because
while your parent's look at you strangely when you're smuggling chainsaws and cr*p into
your room, if you stick an Xacto knife up your sleeve or a pair of scissors, and you
use that to cut arms and sh*t off of Barbies and hybridize them together, nobody knows
that what you're doing is probably just as dangerous as woodworking, but it's easier
to hide, and so that's how I ended up doing doll customization and sewing, because those
were the resources that I was allowed access to because they were considered safe, because
no one knew what I was actually doing.
And so that's why I "collect" dolls, because this was the medium I was exposed to and was
allowed to be creative in.
"What's your most wanted doll right now?"
Gosh, I don't know, you go through kind of peaks in your "want, want, want, want, want;
buy, buy, buy, buy, buy," and then you embarrass yourself in the number of purchases that you
make and you're kind of in this low period, where you're like, "Don't make eye contact;
Don't share the depths of your shame," and I'm kind of there right now.
I'm kind of waiting for things to come in, I've got a Dollshe order, two Dollshe orders,
that I'm waiting on, and so I'm kind of just chilling and trying not to look at new releases
or think about bodies or dolls that I still want in the future right now.
And it also helps that, you've heard me talk about this in many videos: there are various
doll companies that say they're going to release something that I want, but it hasn't happened
yet, which helps me in not buying.
I also have plenty of dolls to work on, and a lot of craft supplies, so I find that if
I finish a lot of craft projects I'm in the "buy, buy, buy; want, want, want!" stage,
and then when I'm swamped with craft projects it helps kind of reign things in because I
realize I have lots of ways to exercise my creativity.
"What's the most dolls you've gotten at once?"
I got two bodies in at once--and this is kind of weird for the hobby because it's not even
representative of the number of orders that you make.
Like you might make orders once every four months, but then one has a waiting period
of a year and a half and the other has a waiting period of half a year and they end up coming
in the same week because of course that's how it works.
Probably those two bodies, the SupiaDoll and the Dollpamm.
And it's not really number, it's more I consider...bodies are always more expensive than heads, so even
getting two heads at once I feel isn't the same magnitide of a purchase.
I usually only receive things though like one at a time.
"What's your least favorite doll?"
I don't know what this question is, and I watched the whole video but it was like 48
minutes long, so I've clearly forgotten how you're supposed to answer that.
So I don't know if it's...I would assume it's least favorite doll that I own, and that tends
to be dolls that I haven't customized yet and have large plans for.
So I don't really know if I have that right now because I've modded a lot of the dolls.
I guess right now it's my floating 62cm Dollzone body because it doesn't have a head to go
with it.
I have a head in mind, but I haven't ordered it, and I don't know if it will be the right
size.
So right now, I think it's least favorite, not because I don't like the sculpting, but
because I haven't done anything with it yet, but the deal was too good to refuse.
And I want to--so it has a head on it, but it's not the head intended for it.
There goes the head cap--the head cap lost a magnet and I have to fix it.
So I also want to--if I tilt him back--this lip has to go.
See this lip?
Has to go; can't stay!
I hate it.
So once that's fixed, I'll like this body.
It's like a dumb thing to be upset about, but whatever, that's me!
Which of your dolls has the best story?
I guess maybe its my Soom Morga because I has a want to buy for a year and a half maybe
on the Marketplace and somebody just contacted me out of the blue and was like, "Do you want
my doll?" and I was like, "Yes!"
So maybe that.
Which of your previously most wanted dolls do you have now?
That would be my Or-Doll Anderl, and you know the whole spiel.
I missed out before I entered the hobby, found it on the Marketplace after searching a year,
stopping for 6 months, and going back on the Marketplace and found it--that would be the
DoA Marketplace, Den of Angels.
"What do you do with your dolls?"
I customize them; I mod the sh*t out of them.
I make them unrecognizable from their original--not unrecognizable--it's sort of a joke, right,
because there are some people who are super afraid to mod their dolls, and I 100% understand
that, but looking on what I do from that perspective, I do think that some people think that it's
a little bit strange, and I'm fine with that.
"Any other collections that I would like to start?"
Not that I can think of right now--that doesn't mean their won't be.
I think, ok, I guess one that I think I might start is Ball Jointed pets.
There are a handful of pets that I would like different people to have.
So Surya, now an R&R or Elfdoll or Rainman Blina, she has a cat named Trouble II, and
so I would like to get Trouble II.
I have Anu, who's my Dollshe Amanda Beauty, she has a dog named Kirby.
"Which of your dolls would you most like to be?"
Oh, gosh, I have no idea.
I think I'm closest to Suri, both in interests and personality.
I think I would like to be more like Secernere or this reindeer researcher that I've been
talking about, that will be on my chubby AngelsDoll massive body.
The head on that will be an AngelsDoll Lucia, but I haven't named that character.
I don't know, I feel like I can't--I have names in mind for a name, but I feel like
I can't--he want's to leave--I feel like I can't--Ok--name a doll until that I'm 100%
certain that name's going to work.
"Do people know that I collect dolls or toys?'
Kind of to differing degrees.
I have several friends, or I have lots of friends who know I collect dolls, but not
what dolls I collect.
There are also a handful of people in that group that think I collect a certain doll,
but it's actually a different doll, and they just like--like, for example, I have this
older sewing friend who's just convinced that I collect Blythes because she saw my Pullips
and they look like Blythes, so she thinks that I collect Blythes.
And I correct her, but we don't talk that frequently, and she's just so enthusiastic
that I collect Blythes and her sister collects Blythes and it's just one of those things
where after you correct a person so many times, and their mind will not be changed, and they're
so thrilled about it, just fine, whatever, "Sure, I collect Blythes; that's fine."
And then like, my whole family knows I collect BJDs, and they sort of understand what they
are.
My sister understands it the most because she's sat down and talked about it.
My parents are just like, "Large dolls, fine whatever."
And then I have a couple college friends that know they're dolls, know they're Asian dolls,
but don't specifically understand what makes a doll a BJD.
"Does your family support your collection?"
Yeah, they're fine with it.
"What was your first doll toy that you remember?
Do you still have them?"
I think the first doll that I received--I think I was two or so and I got a My Twin,
but I don't know if anyone is an avid My Twin collector, especially the older ones, but
they get really creepy really fast.
So, I don't remember exactly when it happened, but I went into the basement in late grade
school or early middle school--I got the My Twin when I was two and it's supposed to be
a toddler sized doll--and I went down into the basement and her eyes had bleached white.
So this doll was made to look exactly like me, and had a haircut pretty much like this,
just a little bit longer on the ears, so I guess closer to a bob, or a bowlcut, if you
want to be unflattering in your description, and her eyes were this silver yellow color,
and she has no pupils, so she's really creepy now.
So I don't really consider her part of my collection.
My mom is thrilled to have this doll back because she has such sentimental attachment
to it because it was my first doll that I was like, "Sure, great!
Love that you love this doll; I prefer never to see it ever again."
It's not that creepy, but it is slightly creepy in a dimly lit room.
"Which doll started each of my collections?"
I think my first Breyer horse--and this is terrible, because I don't remember the sculpt,
so it doesn't help anybody--it's like a yellow gelding, but I thought it was a she, so her
name is Lemon, and her boyfriend's name is Peach, who is also a gelding.
Oh well.
This is fine.
No one thought to tell me how you sex a horse.
My first Pullip was a Pullip Cornice.
My first BJD was a Hujoo "Hujoo Sleeping" sculpt--it's called "Hujoo Sleeping," so whatever.
My first Momoko was--I don't even remember--she has a tartan skirt and a corset and curly
hair and red lips and rooted eyelashes.
First action figure was a Biohazard [Resident Evil in the USA] head and the eyes glowed.
I don't know why I wanted it, but I did, so he has salt and pepper hair now; I repainted
him.
I don't know who the character is because I don't--yeah, I get a lot of characters because
I like how they look and I don't actually know anything about the game and they are
modded and painted and repainted and so they don't look like the character.
So he's like the evil character in Biohazard [Resident Evil] which I think is a video game.
With action figures, I used to do stop motion videos, and so I thought it'd be really cool
to have a doll where I could turn their eyes on and they'd glow in a dark room.
My first Dollfie--Volks Dollfie, which is also an action figure is the Volks Neo Teens
body--the female one--in, I don't know, normal skin.
I only have one Unoa Sekiguchi--no, I have two--I actually got the body, and I got the
body first, and then I got the odd-eyed cat release.
So I got Momoko, got Pullip, got first BJD, got first action figure.
First 18" doll that's in my collection now--so like my new 18" doll collection that's not
American Girl's that are from my childhood.
My first 18" doll was a Josephina; I will have her, I guess.
The ransom for my old 18" doll collection is grandchildren, and I cannot pay that ransom.
My collection now, my first one was a Karito Kids Lulu.
That was a roundabout way of talking about it, but yeah.
First resin BJD [Points to her] the PlanetDoll MSD Riz that's above me.
First Figma was from K-ON, which from my understanding is an--let me get it straight--is an Anime
that was specifically made for Figma and there is an accompanying video game with some of
the K-ON characters.
I did not get them because they were K-ON; I don't know anything about K-ON.
The reason I got them was because they were schoolgirls that were fully clothed; that
was the criteria.
You'll notice that perhaps a common thread in my collection is that I don't really do
character dolls: they're all their own original characters.
Not in like a hipster way, but I don't like being tied to a personality or to actions
that were not created by me, and I feel like when I have a character doll, that doll has
to be like that character, even though there are aspects of that character that I don't
like.
Not really don't like as in don't approve of, because I think that characters should
have flaws, and my personality and my beliefs don't necessarily have to align with a characters,
but I don't like being tied to another person who exists in this world--or existed in this
world at one's time--concepts what a character should be if that makes sense.
So I tend to buy things because I like the aesthetic--so I'm a fake fan, basically.
Yeah, and I have everything from all those collections except for the American Girls
because they're being held hostage from my mother.
And this is in a joking way: like if I asked her, she'd give them to me.
Favorite place to shop for dolls.
Um, it kind of depends on the doll.
So 18" dolls, Ebay, that's the best source I can find because usually; yeah, it turns
out for Our Generation, the cheapest place is Target, but for other 18" doll supplies,
I find Ebay is cheaper.
For BJDs, I like Taobao, but that restricts me to only Chinese doll companies, so I don't
do that all the time; it is considerably cheaper and you can get some interesting, I guess
what you would call BJD "artists" or indie BJD people.
I think I talked about in another video how artist v. company, the line is blurred, so
I don't think it's as helpful of a distinction as it seems to be.
But like one-offs, like some person, somewhere, sculpted a BJD head in China, listed it on
the site, you can buy it from them, and it's something that you wouldn't have access to
if there wasn't a Chinese version of Ebay.
Pullips, I like Pullipstyle, because again, it's cheapest to buy from there.
I've heard that now it might be cheapest to buy from the Groove--which is the newest version
of Pullips--site because they will sell internationally now.
When I left the hobby, they were owned by--not Cheonsang Cheonha, what's
the other?--JunPlanning when I left actively buying Pullips, and they were not selling
internationally, so Pullipstyle was my recommendation then.
Momoko, it kind of varies.
I generally like sculpts that aren't released anymore, so it tends to be Ebay.
It's by no means the cheapest place to buy Momoko, as they are a fairly expensive doll
for the quality.
Action Figures, again, I don't buy full action figures.
My first full action figure was this HotToys K2-SO up there.
All of the others I bought as separate heads and put them on cheaper bodies, so Ebay and
Volks USA for the bodies.
Figma.
When I was buying them, I bought them on Ebay.
I don't necessarily think that's the cheapest place.
It's probably best to buy them on the Figma site when they were released, but I like to
see what the releases look like, so I can't preorder them.
Breyer horses, there's a toy store in my area and that's where I bought them.
It's a great mom and pop store; there's actually a joke in our family that you go into that
toy store, go up to the front desk, and you're like "What's the hottest thing for [give demographic]"
like "four year olds," and they'll be like, "it's this," and I swear to you, every time,
they are 100% correct.
Yeah, I think I talked about where I got everything.
Ok, great.
Yeah.
Bye!
Sorry, My cat's throwing a fit.
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