BUDDYDOLL

This blog it's dedicated to whoever is left to remember BuddyDoll (a BJD South Korean company) from waaay back 2007 or so, and the unique style they had! 🤩

Around the same time, there was a lot of other South Korean BJD companies who were lost in time too. Either because they weren't popular enough or because the market wasn't interested in the models of their sculpts (or the pricetag).

I've been gathering information on the (now defunct) BuddyDoll company (as well as the little there is about their sculpts being sold and passed on to "R.A.On Dream" starting 2011, another defunct company) for old fans to remember!

Please feel free to share your BuddyDoll if you got one by sending an ASK or Private message!!! 🥰

http://www.buddy-doll.co.kr/

http://www.buddy-doll.com/

Since we've reached 2022 already, and it's quite obvious that Buddy-Doll (and R.A.-on-Dream) have disappeared from the scene, I struggle with the fact that the rights to this sculptures will be lost forever, and so little of them was sold that most of them are lost in time or at these point might be on a drawer at GoodWill.

This is a part of the BJD fandom history that just marked me so much, at a personal level, so many things were going on in that years!

So, I want to ask this very rhetorical question: ¿will it be that bad to send some on this sculptures to recast sellers to keep them alive?

YES, I know. Recast are bad. I don't want to support recasts. Etc. But if there's ever a situation where recast can actually do some good, I think this might be it.

The rights for this sculpts it's lost.

They haven't been on production since around 2010 or 2011.

The amount of BD owners who might want to sell their dolls it's been around %0

This specific act will not affect the used market.

They can't be passed as legit because all legits are around 10 or more years old, so even in the best case, they have a certain amount of yellowing, so new dolls would be very easy to spot.

They won't sell enough to actually allow any recast sellers to buy another doll and hurt another artist or company since there's not that much demand for them.

And I want to emphasize that this is just an idea and I'll like to read all possible (reasonable, with real facts behind) points of view (as long as they're polite), and this post doesn't mean I'll do anything, I'm just stating a hypothetical question.

What do you think?

This vid it's another piece of the lost history of the Buddy Doll company.

Happy New Year to everyone! 🎉🎉🎉🥳

I'm sorry if I'm missing some sculpts, truth is, BuddyDoll owners are very hard to find!, and back in the day I didn't saved all the website pictures.

If you know or have something regarding this company that I don't, please don't hesitate to contact me!

P.S. And if you're willing to sell at least a head of either W-Buddy "Iris", or M-Buddy "Teo", or M-Buddy "Silph", or, any other sculpt from BuddyDoll, let me know!

I'm always interested! 😊

What do you guys think? 🤔

It's well known that many companies used actual pictures of people, the most popular the better the doll has chances to sell, so there's a possibility.

Video from 2007 ⬇️

*Custom color faceup by request:

*Certificate and postcards:

*(accessories)

Comparison:

(hands: BuddyDoll normal skin / DikaDoll normal yellow skin)

*(BuddyDoll M-Buddy body, simple type, white skin) ⬇️

BuddyDoll (normal skin, mobility type) / SOOM (white skin) ⬇️

⬇️ W-Buddy "Elisha" ⬇️

W-Buddy "Elisha Sweet" : (factory picture) ⬇️

M-Buddy "Claude" : (factory picture) ⬇️