BJD dolls, toys for adults

Today, Barbie and Bratz dolls are known and available to all girls, even those who live far from big cities, and the heroines of our today's discussion of BJD dolls can be ranked among elite dolls by their origin.

The history of ball-jointed dolls (ball-jointed dolls), in other words, ball-jointed dolls, is rooted in the distant centuries-old past. Even in the houses of the Roman patricians, there was a tradition - after the feast, to bring into the hall a silver articulated doll, called the larva. In the Middle Ages, graceful articulated dolls were popular in Italy, France, and they were called santons and creeps. In the first half of the 20th century, a large number of ball-jointed dolls were produced by Hans Bellmer in Germany, mainly for interior decoration purposes.
In the 90s, the production of articulated collectible dolls the Japanese company VoLks took over. Their Dollfie dolls quickly gained immense popularity in China and Japan, as well as far beyond their borders.

Since then, modern BJD dolls have been produced by many Asian, in particular, Chinese, Japanese and Korean firms, and are ordered, purchased and in great demand in almost all countries of the world.

So, what are the features of these amazing, mysterious, unlike the others, collectible, designer dolls?

BJD dolls, toys for adults - technologies.
Firstly, they are exactly designer - the manufacturers of each such dolls try to make it the most unique and unrepeatable. You can purchase a ready-made doll, but basically, BJD dolls are made to order, and the buyer himself determines what kind of doll his should be. He can express wishes about the color of her hair, eyes, clothes, accessories, figure, and even facial expressions.

Most often, BJD dolls are extremely similar to living people - they have an anatomically correct body structure, a large number of articulated joints (arms, legs, waist, neck, often even finger joints), which allows you to give the doll any desired pose, as well as easily put onto a flat surface. Due to the country of origin, BJD dolls often have an Asian appearance - anime-style faces, with large open eyes and a sad expression, which makes them related to the characters of Japanese anime cartoons.
Another unique feature of BJD dolls is that they are, as it were, assembled from separate parts and, if desired, their image can be changed by the owner himself. Their hair is not stitched over the head, but is made in the form of a removable wig, the head is also disassembled (yes, yes!), Can be replaced with other eyes, ears, hair, and other parts of the body, not to mention clothes and accessories.

But that's not all. Each collectible BJD doll has not only its own name, but also its own history. And this story can be cloudless and innocent, or it can be scary and vicious .. As, for example, in the alternative to Japanese, Russian BJD dolls - "mukol".

BJD doll - Moogla

The Moogla collectible doll was developed by Russian designer Polina Voloshina as an alternative to Japanese "anime" BJD dolls. Her height is 40 cm, weight is 1 kg. According to the author's description, these dolls "are such teenage girls, with a lively look. They are 14 years old, they are mentally unstable, they have a strange appearance, their parents abandoned them, sending them to a closed private school. Their parents occupy such a position in society that they are abnormal daughters interfere with their image and career. They live in a closed school until the age of 18, and then disappear. Nobody knows where .. "Mukla Eva is a girl who has lost her memory and is afraid of water. Mukla Maria - has the unique ability to set fire to paper with her own eyes. In general, they are all real difficult teenagers, with features of transitional adolescence.Mukla dolls still cause fierce controversy among collectors. To some, they seem to be terrible freaks with "stupid unacceptable suicidal" stories. Someone - sad, sweet and unhappy creatures. At least those who have seen such doll in real life, they say that they are made of very high quality, heavy, pleasant to the touch, smooth and velvety material, they have a unique appearance, sad expressive eyes, and their slightly abnormal, mystical, sad, penetrating, into something unreal look is impossible forget.

Created for wealthy adult collectors, these dolls, in spite of everything, enjoy the attention and love of children themselves, and are also a simultaneous reminder to modern society of the image of unfortunate, unnecessary, abandoned, crippled by the cruel fate of adolescents.

BJD dolls - conclusions
Passion for collectible BJD dolls is a very expensive hobby. The cost of one such doll ranges from $ 300 to $ 700 on average. This is due to the fact that each model is developed by a professional sculptor, and the technologies for making dolls are very complex and are performed on expensive equipment. Some individual details are produced and painted by designers by hand.
Today, collectible dolls of the Belarusian Railways are represented by such companies as Dollmore, Luts, Rosen Lied, Iplehouse, FairyLand, etc.

And finally ..
An interesting fact is that no matter how someone likes at first glance collectible BJD dolls, their owners who have received a similar doll and looking at her in real life, they gladly post photos of their favorite on the Internet, and leave only enthusiastic, positive, full of admiration and joy reviews everywhere.