#buddydoll

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?

Iplehouse (another south Korean BJD manufacturer) line Y.I.D. (now discontinued, reffed to as "Old YID" in contrast to the new models much more "Iplehouse style"), had several sculpts that no fan of Iplehouse could recognize today!

Including "Mars" (2008?), who has the name of one of the BuddyDoll sculpts, and, looks like another BD sculpt! ("Raphael" or "Teo" could be their brother without a doubt!).

So it's possible that some BuddyDoll sculptors were working for Iplehouse on their early days...(?) 🤔

This practice wasn't all too uncommon back then, since companies would rather hire artists to make a specific doll and pay them for that specific work (with no future obligations).

The artist was usually commissioned by the company, and had no involvement in future sales of such sculpt since it had been paid beforehand, giving them more freedom to work with several different companies.

So while in the present Iplehouse has a stable unique aesthetics to their sculpts, back in the day, this "Y.I.D." line looked a bit "out of place" (just look at the bodies, you can't say that's the Iplehouse we all know nowadays), so it's obvious that several different artists and groups were working on the different lines of Iplehouse dolls.

But all of this is just random speculation, what do you think? 🤔