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Serena

My collection has changed quite a bit since I last commented here, so I suppose I'll go again. 

I've now decided to keep it under 20, at least for the next few years. Right now I want to focus more on getting a big stockpile of clothes and shoes for all seasons, as well as a new body for my Saber Alter to frankendoll the frame out of (she's on the primative III frame, as are all WS DDIII releases I believe? 😦)... and some f3 arms for my DDIII girls with cracking elbows, I've heard it only takes a little bit of modding to get then into the DDIII frame. Right now I have 11 ladies, plus 3 coming in the next few months. They multiply so fast! 😅

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Roserolls

For me, it is heavily dependent on the amount of space available for them. Currently, I can't see myself getting more than a couple more dolls since my room is already pretty cramped with the rest of my doll collection. However if I got an apartment with an extra room to dedicate to hobbies, my doll limit would definitely increase.

But for dollfie dreams specifically, they're usually so pricey or hard to come by that I can't realistically see myself having more than like three total. Plus I like branching out to see what other companies have to offer as well.

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ShinobisDestiny

As for Dollfie Dream dolls I hope I will be done with them when Kaito will be released. I really hope Volks won´t produce anymore Vocaloid characters after him. 

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SylveonPaws

I don't know yet.  There's still a few grails I'd snag if I found them.  Space is a limiting factor, and who knows what releases the future holds.

I never wanted to sell any dolls either, but am starting to consider doing so.  I have a few stored away that annoy me since they don't pose or stand well.  Their cuteness isn't overriding my annoyance yet so we'll see.  For now they are out of sight out of mind.  But if I did get rid of them, that's more storage for rotating out...

It might never end if that's the case 😅

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PolitelyNefarious

I don't have a set number in mind, but 'smaller than the resins' is the goal, and since my tastes in aesthetics are so diverse, I don't think that's going to be a problem. It would get dull to me to only collect anime-style dolls knowing that there are many other varieties available. But I love the benefits that vinyl has, so... more dolls it shall be. Right now I have two full dolls and three floating heads. I'm hoping to get at least two more specific heads in certain colours, along with the bodies to match, but after that, it's whatever comes my way. With grails like Smart Doll Crimson / Blue Eiji and DD Anthy, I don't feel in much rush, because almost anything else is easier to obtain.

 

When I finally checked out Blythe about five years ago, there was a period where I bought exactly one Blythe doll per year. That lasted for three. Nothing that I was able to afford at the time struck my fancy for the next two, and I ended up giving one of my girls to a curious coworker. I still love the two girls I have, but whenever I get the itch to buy more, I scour the markets thoroughly and usually talk myself out of it, or put anything interesting on the watchlist. In the long run, I'm very satisfied with my collection... even if it is only two dolls. Vinyl is more dangerous because it comes closer to BJD, and there are always good deals on the secondhand market if you keep your eyes open. Sticking to what you're after rather than what's cheap is often for the best. Although sometimes, impulses can be the best surprise purchase. Finding the balance in between- that's the difficult part.


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CreationOdyssey

For my bigger dolls I think my limit will be six, I currently have 1 Azone Iris collect petit and another one on the way. 3 MDD dolls planned as a special project. Also I need a mini me doll! 

Azone dolls I’ve already tried to limit myself to just collecting the Alvastaria line but then once in a while a character doll or special doll pops in (I somehow have six Sugar Cups) but I think I will stop around 20 or so.

BJDs I only have two currently and really only have my eye seriously on 1 more.

Cocoriang I’m only purchasing two more of the pets then I’m done, so that will make six.

My Nendoroid dolls….. I have almost 200 didn’t want to get pass 100 trying not to pass 300. Which shouldn’t be hard because they rarely make characters that I truly love it seems and I’m not collecting from bigger series anymore either. 

I feel like my collection sounds very large but coming from the figure community it still seems small to me. I’ve already slowed down with my Nendoroid dolls, and I’m starting to have this sense of “enough” so to speak.

Plus I find myself frustrated that doll companies like volks and Azone don’t do or rarely do darker skinned dolls. Like Pullip and Blythe are my only options to create a mini me. I’m also finally getting to a point where I’m done collecting and want to start creating things for my dolls if that makes sense. 

 

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ragnamuffin
30 minutes ago, CreationOdyssey said:

Azone dolls I’ve already tried to limit myself to just collecting the Alvastaria line but then once in a while a character doll or special doll pops in (I somehow have six Sugar Cups) but I think I will stop around 20 or so.

Are you me? The struggle is real 😂

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CreationOdyssey
2 minutes ago, ragnamuffin said:

Are you me? The struggle is real 😂

LOL!

Me: I’m only going to get the first three Sugar Cups

Also me: Oh but I want the special Dollybird magazine one, but then I will only have one set of twins. Can’t have the other girls feeling left out so now everyone gets a twin 😅😅

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Gwandak

My problem is that I have a few different hobbies that can soak up my time. Sometimes I feel like I neglect the one doll I have and so getting more makes me feel guilty, and I haven't even gotten another yet. I also feel like the more I get the more I feel like some would end up on a shelf while others get all the attention. I'm already this way with some of my other collectibles... its hard for me to say at this current point in time.

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puxlavoix

I don’t have a number set in my mind already but i guess it will be hard to go over 20, even getting there seems unlikely mostly because there are less than a handful that could be joining the family in the future as far as I'm aware. Granted, we all try to stick to a number since the very beginning: "only 1", "only 3", "no more than 5", etc but realistically speaking there aren’t that many flying close to my radar as of now.

Come to think of it, of all the 20+ dolls that i've ever owned, I'd only stick with the ones that i have right now: right off the bat wouldn’t keep three Lilys and two Tamakis thats for sure and I think the only one id bring back is Saber Extra which means that there are six dolls that i wouldn’t buy again because they were kind of impulse purchases or just don’t fit my tastes anymore.

That leaves me with Sailor Moon, Ryomou, Sailor Jupiter, Sakura Matou and Saber Extra which would bring the count up to seventeen, eighteen if I join the Miku cult. And out of all those I only must absolutely have Serena and Ryomou. From there it’s s hard to forsee what could come in the future. Of course Volks could release some DD that will be an absolute yes like re-releasing a version of 2B that actually looks like the character or that i fall in love with somebody’s doll so bad (like it has happened before) that absolutely have to adopt and end up eating my words lol :lol:

Besides that there’s the space issue which even having a 'dedicated doll room' is getting real because of my current house being small.  Also i know its gonna sound naive to some degree but I don't see my girls as just a collection of dolls, they all have a special place in my heart and demand proper love, care and attention and if I started collecting without rhyme or reason they'd just become pieces of plastic on a shelf I’m afraid, so again i think i can only attend to no more than twenty.

And last lets be honest, its one thing to bring a bunch of dolls to your home, yet another very different is to keep up with the means to  be actually capable to take care of them like getting them clothes, wigs,  body parts and all that jazz... Just some weeks ago I made the girls decide and choose between bringing a new girl home or getting new clothes for everyone; needless to say the chose the latter and even then we fell short a couple hundred dollars on the set budget.

(sorry for the wall of text 😅)

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RetroKanojo

I know I've checked this thread out at some point, but I don't think I ever actually replied. 

It's been about a year since I've been actively interested in large vinyl dolls and, of course, going in I had a 'limit' or rather a 'vision' on how I wanted things to go that is vastly different from how things actually happened/are happening.

I remember saying that I would be settling on 5, maybe 6 dolls. The plan was to get one girl/one boy in each scale - 1/3 DDs and 1/4 TF - and then maybe a Dollbot and/or SmD and/or Azone. If I wanted any more than that, I thought I'd just get floating heads and share bodies.

Currently I have 1 1/4 TF and 2 DD/B, so technically, I'm on track. Except, I already have 2 more DDB coming my way. Oops. I'm considering a DDS and I would still like a 1/4 boy. All the cute clothes for MDD really tempt me to get a 'proper' MDD as well (because MDD clothes don't always fit very well on TF) and despite everything I'm still curious about SmD - that'd be 9 dolls! And that doesn't even account for Volks possibly releasing a character doll that I really love or the upcoming Imomodoll boys..

There's just.. so many dolls that I'd like to have. So many characters I'd love to shell. 

However, I'm also asking myself: Do I really need all of that? Is twice the amount of dolls gonna make me twice as happy? Probably not. To be honest, I'm really quite content even just with the three I have currently. I don't need that DDS and if I want another 1/4 I might go for an MDD with S bust and either use a head with a face-up that can be a boy or a girl depending on the styling or I do floating heads and display what I feel like at any given moment. But what if I would like to display two of those MDD heads at the same ti-.. ARGH! You know what I mean? It's just too tempting. @onion22@

As many others have stated before, there's little sense in trying to adhere to an arbitrary number. If something pops up that interests me, maybe I'll get it, maybe I won't. If I ever end up breaking into double digits, I'll likely consider whether or not to 'prune' my collection and I doubt I'll go far beyond that - at least where full dolls are concerned. We'll see what the future holds! 

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Jezrah
On 6/10/2018 at 5:23 PM, Jezrah said:

I currently have 17 full dolls and one head. I have between 4 and 10 I would still like to get, depending on my mood. I would say I don't and have never had a hard limit, but as I approach 20 I am being more picky. I ask myself, do you reeeeeaaaaalllly need this one, is it different enough from the ones you have?

Hmmm...  this was me nearly five years ago... My current count is I think 43? full dolls and a spare head or two that don't have faceups. To be fair, when I made that post I had almost entirely just girls and no Yo-sized dolls. A majority of my acquisitions since then have been boys and new sizes and companies. I would not have predicted then that there would now be more than just Volks that I would want to buy from. I didn't even acquire my first Smart Doll Eiji until later that year.

As I said before, I never really had a hard limit. Limiting factors are more of money and space. I still am not as likely to bring home a DD sized girl from Volks, because I'm fairly happy with the variety that I have already. She would have to be sufficiently different from my existing girls. Though a couple of times I have ended up with a new girl sort of by accident,  like the time I bought a doll for the boy body and ended up keeping the head as a girl instead. But I do still have plans to get more boys and Yo-sized dolls. The number of boys still has not caught up to the number of girls.

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Xiongmao

I'm not sure where I'm going on this whole dolls thing.

What's strange is that although there's a hallway full of them, whenever a new outfit arrives there never seems to be anybody spare to put it on.

The solution is probably to acquire new dolls.

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My Dollfie doll family December 2024 😊. Towa believes they are 34 in number.

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chantelle

I’m planning on 10-15 full dolls (best case scenario) but honestly 25 at the very most (worst case scenario lmfao).

Currently I have 4 full dolls in my collection and I’m pretty happy with it! However I have 2 upcoming dolls so it’ll be 5 or 6 by the end of the year.

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Stupid_Hoomun

I haven't actually thought about a limit. My first was a SmD that arrived in January 2021. I lasted until December 2022 before I got my next doll, a DD. Since then they've been arriving at a rate of 1 a month and I'm at 2 SmD's, 2 DD's and a DDS. I'm not gonna say no more dolls, in fact I think a total of 5 is just not enough lol, I can see me having more than 10 easily.

If I could justify the use of credit I'd probably be close to 10 already. I'm trying wait until I've moved and sold my property. Hopefully I can get a good price for it and have some spare cash left over to add a few more to my collection.

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Phaio

I think my limit would probably be somewhere around 12, mostly because anything beyond that and I think I'd struggle to keep track of all of them >_< I'm currently at four full dolls with my fifth almost being completed. I wouldn't say it's a hard limit though because I'd definitely bump it up a few if I found a doll I really liked. The way I tend to collect is too organic to follow most rules I set for myself, so I guess it's a bit hard to say anything for certain lol

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GlassWisteria

I collect resin dolls and already have like 10 resin dolls and have limited space/money so I'm done with getting any more Resin ones lol For vinyl dolls I just got interested in and even more picky on the face/faceups so I think I'll probably have 2 DD and one or two MDD in my collection. But will see how that goes since I also never thought to get more than 2 resin dolls lol

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Rajke

Money, definitely money. And more shelfs. But for those also money is needed. If money wasn’t an issue I probably reached the 60 or 70 mark. 

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Rajke

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DesertPhantom51
On 9/12/2021 at 6:24 PM, DesertPhantom51 said:

The area I display them in isn't getting any bigger either, so three is it for me.  

Two and a half months later I moved where I was taking pictures of them, and started thinking about a fourth one...  so at the chance of making myself sound like a fool in the future again; four is pretty fantastic and if I do start eyeing another doll, it's going to have to be in the form of a floating head, swapping out from time to time... We'll check back in another year or so.

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Calyps0Kitt3n

Honestly, I think my limit is maybe 7 or 8. Maybe even 10 if I am getting a little crazy. I would probably get overwhelmed if I had more than that. It's mainly the vocaloid dollfies that I wanna collect all of, besides one or two. So, they would take up most of my collection once I'm through. I do wanna have at least one super dollfie girl though, they are so so so gorgeous.

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BeyondTime

My limit is: The day Volks, Obitsu, Iplehouse, and CP/Fairyworks stop making cute dolls… then I’ve reached my limit. 

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The difference between Dollfie Dreams and Heroin? Heroin is illegal, Dollfie Dreams probably should be.

“Empty wallets, full hearts.” That’s probably an apt description for the effects of DD addiction

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RyuichiSakuma13
On 3/28/2023 at 4:54 AM, puxlavoix said:

*snip*

Besides that there’s the space issue which even having a 'dedicated doll room' is getting real because of my current house being small.  Also i know its gonna sound naive to some degree but I don't see my girls as just a collection of dolls, they all have a special place in my heart and demand proper love, care and attention and if I started collecting without rhyme or reason they'd just become pieces of plastic on a shelf I’m afraid, so again i think i can only attend to no more than twenty.

 

This sounds like me! 

I also live in a small house, but I already have 27BJDs along with Miku, and my partner has another six, with Len and Rin also ordered, I think we've run out of room.  No dedicated doll room, ours are scattered all over the house. Miku sits on a table under the 65" TV in the living room, and I'm guessing that that is where Len and Rin will end up. 😅

So I can say that, for myself, Miku will more than likely be the only vinyl doll that I get, especially since she was a grail/unicorn doll that I've always wanted.  Unless Volks re-releases either Sakura Miku or Luka!

I love My Crew members, and I could never think of selling them.  I've bonded with each and every one of them, even the animal ones I have.

 

Ryu

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takatsuki

My original limit for vinyl bjds was two, then somehow I’m up to six. I was like, one DDP and one MDD should be perfect, and then it was just one more MDD and then two more DDP…and now a DDS! Now that I’ve crossed the size threshold limit I set (no 60cm) I’m thinking I probably will end up with another SD. Who knows, I have a weakness for vinyl anime cuties!

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Tigger

I was going to stop a long time ago at just 4 of them -_-

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katnaper

I decided I'll limit myself to one doll a year. Mind you I started on this hobby around 2010-ish and I have already gone well beyond that limit of a yearly doll🤣🤣🤣. I should have specified it to one doll a year per maker/type - Pullip, Blythe, Nendoroid Doll, Azone - 1/3 and Neemos, Angel Philia, Dollfie dreams (DdDy, DDS, DD, DDP, DD Boy), Volks, IH, Vindoll... uh yeah...😜 I guess like @baldylox I stopped trying to limit them. They just keep trying to move into my home 🤣🤣🤣

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