#dreamvalley

[meanae]

Hi there! I've never heard of the BJD community before, so forgive if I don't have all the facts right.

I've been fantasizing about having a little posable dragon figure since I was little and fell in love with the "darkhorn" (I think?) model I stumbled across many years back. But I think the creator/designer must have changed names or stopped creating unfortunately, cuz trying to find anything only turns up dead-ends or stuff from back in like, 2017. It doesn't seem like dragons are very popular creations either, for how little google can turn up. But I saw it looked like you might've gotten a new Cuarto dragon in 2022. I was hoping I could ask where/how you got it, if that's okay? Thank you for sparing me a little time :)

Hey there! Yes, cuarto unfortunately vanished within the last year. Her instagram handle is @_cuarto, by the way :) She had a website called cuartodolls up until mid 2022, but either she deleted it, or it got removed in the whole 'no business with russians' purge thing.

I got my Antares (the very big, last dragon she made) at the end of 2021 directly from her. I got a green Darkhorn secondhand from a local collector in 2022, who was selling her collection to take in refugees.

So - no, its not possible at this time to get dolls from cuarto :/ They might pop up secondhand, but they're rare.

If you're looking for dragon dolls in general, keep your eye on Dreamvalley! They sell through Legenddoll and Alicecollection. They recently announced a new one thats coming soon!

And a bit of self promotion - I've made my own little dragon, Eryn, whos preorder will start soon too :) My sculpting account is @quadrigadolls

I hope that helped!

[foxballad]

I FOUND ARIEL I AM SO HAPPYYYYYYYYY

[aizhanmazen]

Hello guys👋🏻

My name is Aizhan or “dreamvalley” and i’m a 2D artist, in my free time i also like using traditional art, in love with flow, lively sketches🍃

I’m mostly drawing fantasy characters, fanarts for game, movies🌼

If you are interested in my art, you can join my instagram too @aizhanmazen ☺️

always welcome🫶🏻

[marzipanrose]

More Vacation Pics! This time of Reynard, my snarky and yet charming Foxtaur. Hes a a-hole witha heart of gold. Hes a DreamValley Chaos with custom dying and paint by me ^^

[quilleth]

Hmm doll dyeing adventure #3 did not go nearly so well as 1 and 2 :/

Attempted to dye Vanora's head, and while the dye took ok on the ears when i was testing colors and time, it got a little blotchy on the headcap (spots of glue maybe?) and took very unevenly on the head itself. Like..one eyewell took the dye darker than the other, which i might think would be dye pooling there, except i had the head on a string and was moving it in the dye bath, so it wouldn't have had time enough to pool enough for that. The back of the neck barely took, same with the forehead, plus there's a weird mark at the top of the forehead where i'm assuming something with the glue holding the magnet in (which fell out at one point) interacted with the resin, because the headcap did the same thing. It took evenly inside the head, which is odd. (The first one is after dyeing and rinsing, which is why it's wet, and the others are a few hours later)

I scrubbed her down before i started dyeing, so there shouldn't have been any oils or mold release left on it. But i guess I'll have to try to wipe it, clean her REALLY well and try again. And maybe up the concentration for the dye bath some too next time, so I can use shorter dunk times. Since it didn't turn out well, I might go ahead and buy some kentucky sky (this was a combination of tropical teal and sapphire blue) since that looks like on its own it's a warmer toned blue a little closer to the marker color I use when drawing her, though i think it's also quite light. But of course i can't find good swatches of it to be sure. I don't need this to be darker per se, i just need it to be even.

it's funny because I've seen people say Loongsoul resin dyes badly, but I had hardly any issues with it the couple times i dyed dollbei jun (and those i did have were on me and i know what i did). But this dreamvalley resin...damn

[skullkxd]

since we’re all up anyway does anyone wanna see the cute photos of my Disney dreamvalley

[lostrnkets]

Eight questions for nine people

Tagged by @twistxdtales

1. Last Song I Listened to : smother by daughter

2. Favorite Color : purple

3. Last TV Show or Movie I Watched : grey's anatomy was the last show i watched and look away was the movie i literally just finished

4. Currently Watching : something about tiffany's

5. Sweet, Savory, or Spicy? : spicy all day

6. Relationship Status : single

7. Current Obsession : playing disney dreamvalley

8. Last Thing I Googled : gif hunts for my muses

tagging ; @blindspct, @brckensociety, @sp1ritbcx, @luriddaze, @hypnoticfever, @ofcrxwns, @vvhimsicals, @adorcble, & @midnightrainrp

[jaudolls]

Xiao Xingchen joins the team (even though like my Xue Yang, he has basically almost nothing to do with the canon character but hey, modern aus are like that) (I mean he is still blind, and he's still fighting for justice but as a disability activist, so close enough for me). He's a resinsoul Mai head on a dreamvalley 50cm body.

I wanted to do a photoshoot with him and Sophia like they were models because they're both ridiculously long-limbed, but I was really tired last weekend and most photos ended up being pretty disappointing. Those three are the only ones I didn't hate

[thefloatingstone]

When I was 11 or 12 I started getting into collecting the original 80s My Little Pony (which introduced me to Sailor Moon through the internet). The major source of information on the toys, which ones came from which set and which ones came from which countries was a site called Dreamvalley.net (this was YEARS before Wikipedia). Dreamvalley was part of a webring that connected to various other personal websites where people posted about their collections as well as art, RP groups and other things. Naturally some of these sites hosted their own fanfiction (my favourite site I still think about fondly was an entire website written like a choose your own adventure but without an actual plot. You wander around the MLP castle grounds and various buildings just talking to characters and you could walk where you like. It was actually really well done)

I even got one MLP fanfic website to host my very first fanfic (which wasn't very good because I was 11 or 12 lol) which felt like a MAJOR thing for me at the time.

A year or so later, Pokemon started becoming very big and I got sucked into the Team Rocket fanfics people wrote. Following personal websites eventually led me to various Fanfiction dedicated sites in a more general sense, and then eventually to FF.net

Poll Tuesday

I feel like I’m exposing myself a little bit with this bc my introduction to fic is soo random I think, but whatever your answer please tell me the story! I wanna know haha

[meanae]

Hi I’m new to the bjd community but I already admire your work! I’m looking for a trustworthy website to purchase off of. Do you have any suggestions? I’m looking for a dragon like bjd, also I’ve seen a lot on Aliexpress but is that a decent place ot order off of or do you recommend any specific sellers? I’ve also seen you have some beautiful dragons, I’m sorry if this come off rude if they’re not for sale but do you have you are selling? If so what are the prices? Thank you!

Hey there and welcome to the hobby! <3

There are a ton of links coming, so the questions first. For one, Aliexpress and Ebay are horrible sources to get BJDs, because 99,9% of dolls there are bootlegs, also known as recasts. They're basically illegally made copies of original dolls. While in the past recasters tried to pass their dolls as 'the real deal' from the company (just extremely cheap), nowadays, they're giving the dolls new names and are selling them under their own 'company name'. Don't be fooled. They're still copies. There are a few very good BJD facebook groups, like BJD Addict or BJD Lovers, where you could ask for help to identify a recast listing.

A more in depth text why recasters are a problem can be found here.

If you're looking for dragons specifically, Dreamvalley is releasing dragons once in a while and for events (like 2 to 3 times a year). You can get them via any of the dealers I've linked below.

Most of the dragons I own are made by Cuartodolls who is (was?) a russian doll artist that went completely silent in 2022. Her page got shut down. Even before the whole Ukraine War, she was hard to get ahold off... I'm currently only consider selling my Cuartodolls Ketar, but he originally was 1500$, so he's not really suited to be starter doll :,D

Trustworthy places to buy BJDs are:

And basically any company you can find here:

[foxballad]

Okay help out a dlv newbie friend. What can i do with the moonstones? What are these dream bundles? Is the dlc worth it?

[art-deko]

Unboxing: Dream Valley Cavna Desert Force by Deko. Wow, my box was crushed! #dreamvalley #bjd #yosd #balljointeddoll Doll Blog: http://dedeko.me Doll Feature Finder Project: dollfinder.org Den of Angels username: Anshishoku Credits: Logo Artwork - Deko (That's me!) "Sappheiros - Embrace" is under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0) Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/sappheiros-embrace Video Editor Program: Davinci Resolve Camera: LG ThinQ 35s Phone Microphone: Fifine T668 Audio Editor Program: Audacity via YouTube https://youtu.be/DlwuauLztic

[bjdtaurs]

Chaos by DreamValley

[zenkoisworld]

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[truebjdsecrets]

Anyone else SUPER uncomfortable with Dream Valley ripping off Dollzone?

-Anon

[yldenfrei]

#Modding day! I love the #Spiritdoll Fantasy body, but it bothers me a bit that Mag looks shorter when sitting next to Frei. So I modelled and 3D-printed an additional joint to boost up the torso length. Worked pretty well I think, and it has the added bonus of fixing her arm-to-torso proportions!