2025 Doll Plans

I thought of another doll goal for 2025... can my tribe go an entire year without a staining mishap 😆?

Maybe finish my hybrid custom I'm working on, potentially getting Sakura Miku in the rerelease if the doll god wills it and do 2 original character customs.

I just tallied all of the DD costumes that require different wigs for the doll, and found that I can add five more dolls to my future.😅

I've promised Towa a grail for her 5th birthday in October. That's assuming we can locate her again (the last one that appeared went to somebody else while we were making up our minds lol). Also it depends on whether Volks have any amazing new releases in 2025.

i will do everything i can to get sakura miku 2.0 this year! also, i will try for miku NT as well 😄 

 

If All Goes Well... Beginning of FEB. i'll be Welcoming my Very First genuine Dollfie Dream-Adjacent Third-Scaled Hunnie...

in the form of a mid-2010's AZONE Happiness Clover Girl.

That is all i can say for now... but i'll keep you all posted over the next ten days or so...

of which by then i'll definitely know whether she is a done deal or not.

Edited January 21 by Tasuke

One goal is to finally purchase my first dollfie ^^ soon many choices 

I've owned my Very First Third-scaled ♥Hunnie♥ for about a Week now.

She employs AZONE's version of the OBITSU 50 Body, and i've heard that the Shoulder-joint peg retainers tend to Crack and Split with Use.

i've also heard that, - at least at one time - some third party produced Aluminum Reinforcement Rings 

to Strengthen those known Failure points with.

 

My New Hunnie, Kureha, has not shown any signs of issue at all... but, since she means the World to me,

i'd like to Acquire a set of those Metal Rings for her, for the sake of Peace of Mind if nothing else.

Any Help on Achieving this Endeavor would be Deeply Appreciated, Thank You...

 

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Edited February 14 by Tasuke

41 minutes ago, Tasuke said:

 means the World to me,

i'd like to Acquire a set of those Metal Rings for her, for the sake of Peace of Mind if nothing else.

Any Help on Achieving this Endeavor would be Deeply Appreciated, Thank You...

 

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There are actually 3 places that will break easily.

The shoulder, leg connector and ankle connectors for the leg to the feet.

So far the worse for me are the ankle connecting points which affects 3 pieces of plastic increasing the probability of failure plus squeezing boots into them increases the risk.

I have been able to reproduce that O ring in the feet with a softer plastic and metal ring which so far have not broken for all my 7 OB50/AZO2

The other 2 however I have no solution other than buying spare parts.

2 hours ago, Tasuke said:

i've also heard that, - at least at one time - some third party produced Aluminum Reinforcement Rings 

to Strengthen those known Failure points with.

AFAIK, the metal rings are for the shoulder and hip parts of the DDIII. They won’t fit the Obitsu body.

@gj581g created an improved shoulder part that you’d have to 3D print below:

Otherwise, I’ve heard of people using zip ties to reinforce the shoulder part, but I’m not sure what you could do for the leg and ankle parts. Maybe a thin layer of super glue on the outer part of it?

The ankle part may have been improved with the new GGR body and may be compatible with the old one, but the new GGR body and its parts are not readily available yet.

I Recall finding out a long time ago about those shoulder rings. Obviously; i had long forgotten that they were VOLKS DD Body-specific.

Yeah; there's a good chance i'll want to upgrade her to the GGR soon as it comes to General Market.

For the time being... since this particular Kureha was a 2022 Edition, surely her stock OBITSU here will give me some years worth of reliability;

Surely plenty long enough to at least Bridge the gap to a GGR General Release.

That Said; i did go ahead and apply the Cable-Tie Reinforcements. i've heard Horror Stories

on how hard OBITSU 50 Girls were to disassemble... but, Good Girl that Kureha here is,

she ended up being utterly Straightforward and Painless to work on...

Edited February 14 by Tasuke

My 2025 goals are just to keep researching dolls and make enough headway on paying off my medical debts so I can have more financial freedom next year to actually start my collection!

I don't have any specific doll plans for this year other than to get another Icon when they are released later in summer.  I'd LOVE to get a few other Icons to complete my collection of all the different skin tones and eye types ( "Romantic Glance" and regular ) for the Serra, Iris and Clover girls.  I already have both versions of Tawny/Terra so I just need the 3 others to finish that off.

As always tho, my plans mean naught when random girls pop up that I find cute or super good deals so who knows what 2025 will bring?  😉 

 

Billy

I think my main goal for the year is try to get back into sewing. I want to make more clothes for a lot of my dolls. I have so much fabric i've hoarded over the years with plans to make into doll clothes. Time to actually do it!

I’ve been on a major Dollfie Dream/vinyl kick so… I been doing that… I want to be sure my girlies have clothing options so I’m trying to be good and get them clothes over buying new dollies. I have a lot of dolls overdue for faceups so I’m hoping to get them all done up with nobody out of commission for once.

 

Also I want to try to find a body for one of my floating heads and I *kinda* want to sell off the other floaters but I hate selling tbh so alas that may not be for this year.

Making Fern's staff is next on the todo list.

Also next week I'm taking MDD Misaki chan to our first ever real life doll meet 😁. I'll take one of the 1:3 scale some time but I though it was better to start with an MDD as we don't want to upstage the other dolls 😆.

Paying off the FFXIV twins and ordering Arle!

6 hours ago, Catfishy2u said:

Paying off the FFXIV twins and ordering Arle!

Omg this. I kinda hate that I can't pay off the balance whenever I want. I did the down payment on Alphie and it's SO HARD not to use my money for other things but I keep doing it 🤦‍♀️ mainly because.. I keep forgetting I need to make sure I have the money! It's a good thing most of it is another account I don't easily have access to lol. But yes.. tack that onto my doll plans too. Stop buying other dolls, save that for Alphie! *wags finger at self*

The doll meet was gigantic fun so I'm looking at attending more events. There aren't a lot of doll events (and even fewer BJD events) so I'll try and find more anime events.

It's definitely inspired me to do more of what I enjoy and less of what I don't. I might even restart their YouTube channel.

On 11/27/2024 at 2:57 PM, Thespian said:

I haven't fully settled on which new girls I want to bring home next year. However, I'm on track to graduate with my master's degree and I'd like to get an extra special girl or two to celebrate such a momentous occasion.

Time for an update! As a gift for our wedding anniversary, my spouse gave me the green light to go ahead and purchase Sasara's head from another user here on the forum. I am so over the moon to be able to add this beautiful girl to my collection, as this finally brings me full-circle in the hobby (Sasara was the first doll I ever fell in love with and introduced me to the world of DDs and BJDs).

I'm still trying to keep my low/no-buy goals due to Current Affairs happening here in the States, so I'm not entirely sure when a body of her own is going to be a feasible purchase, but that is now added to the formal goals list as a top priority purchase!

I recently bought another Chihaya Kisaragi DDS and planning on getting OG Miku also trying to save up to order Sakura Miku 2.0. I also recently sent two of my girls to Charlotte's faceup last month, she has a Chihaya head she's gonna paint and modify and a ranko painted to look like Snow Miku ❄️

I also got a ddh-10 head that's gonna get a faceup done by a Japanese DD artist Koyallection, Sophiebabybear helped with that and she also got jointed MDD hands for me, I've never had jointed hands for any of my girls before so they should be fun to pose and whatnot.

Edited April 7 by bubblysoda
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I'll preorder Sakura Miku 2.0 in May and after that I'm hoping for a Luka Reboot/2.0 announcement during Magical Mirai in August - if there's none I might get some clothes, but not going overboard this year with the doll budget.

 

On 11/30/2024 at 10:55 AM, PlasticJester said:

Oh geez, lots of plans. I'm gonna call this an end-of-2024-through-2025 plan because I have no sense of timing, haha

- Buy more bodies to house my heads! I need to get the parts to fully assemble my Angelphilia, an Imomodoll Mimi body, and probably an Imomodoll Ruby body too so I have options for my floating heads.

- Work on even more faceups! I'd love to sell some next year if I can work up the nerve.

- Record more faceups (and maybe unboxings?) for my youtube channel! I wanna grow it in the next year!

- Get/make more clothing, eyes, and props for my dolls. I want everyone to have eyes and a wig at the very least, and preferably at least one "default" outfit.

- I wanna improve my photography and maybe take a doll to a convention nearby to have an interesting place to take photos!

In terms of purchases and new dolls, I have a few plans:

- I wanna get a semiwhite Mochiashi 2.0. I know what head I want for it but the name escapes me atm- a DDH27 or 28?

- Once they properly release, I wanna get a Imomodoll 68, Chimikko, and an Obitsu GGR!

- FINALLY start work on my custom vocaloid dolls, starting with the DDP Kagamine twins. I have their official clothes, I just need bodies, heads, and some faceup and tailoring work.

Four months in, let's see how I've done.

Uhh......I fully assembled my custom Obitsu 50/48cm girl and bought a DD semiwhite body for another head? But other than that, I've been too busy with work to make much progress on my other goals. 😔

I need to start posting about my WIP projects in the hopes it will convince me to actually finish them, it can be overwhelming to have so many projects in the air at once! I have summers off work, so I'm going to dedicate part of that time to getting work done on my dolls!