#fakie blythe

[neonkewpie]

Idk how many of you have a Blythe on the fakie pure neemo body but I did a neck mod using this make

I needed to screw the neck piece into the body but hey better than it was before! Printed in white bc that's what was already loaded but I have a matching brown filament for the future

[pachipachipanic]

i've just discovered i can do this to her eyeballs eeek wtf i love her so much

i only recently did her faceup and i still need to clean it up a bit, her names Mitzi

[queenofsquids]

Ahh found one of those fakie? clone? factory? Blythes at the thrift store for $7.99. I'm so happy. I have always wanted to find a real Blythe in the wild but this is the next best thing 'cause I've never seen the head/face in person and I was really wanting to.

Couldn't wait to get her in the car to have a proper look over.

She even has short green hair! Couldn't have picked better myself.

Wonder how she came to be here? Did someone get her for a kid who outgrew dolls? Or did someone get interested in the doll community and then lose interest?? A million scenarios.

Her body's a little grubby and wobbly but I'm shocked her face and hair are really great for being thrown around the thrift store process.

Well yay! I'm so happy I came out today!

[tsubasaclones]

In other fashion doll communities you dont see this type of thing like I mostly like to customize pullips but I have 2 stock pullips and they're very much just the same. If that makes sense

Even in communities where people sometimes customize fake dolls like monster high there isnt a separate fakie monster high community... at least that I know of

It seems to stem from the lack of affordable legit customization options and the fact the fakes also have jointed bodies (those bootleg pureneemo bodies) and more faceplate options. Man I'm just saying if they made custom kits it wouldnt stop the fake blythe economy but they could make bank

After some observation I have arrived at the conclusion that the community of legit blythe collectors and the community of fake & customized fake Blythes are not entirely unrelated but still pretty separate from each other

[firespirited]

I’m cracking up at how long it took for someone to vinyl-cast blythe considering how many variations (Icy, Jecci, color change eyes, straight up factory rejects...) there are out there that kind of depend on the gimmick of the eye mechanism and carving abilities of hard plastic. I can’t explain why squishy head Blythe with sleep eyes is so funny, maybe because it’s just so unblythe?

[facesbehindglass]

Blythe fakie

I got this girl secondhand in May. I didn't realize how flat-faced blythes were lol. She seems to have an obitsu-type body? Her hands can be swapped out.

Y'know, like... nya

[dollulus]

BB Girl X Barbie Clothes

She’s wearing a barbie dress, it fits nicely! I saw a youtube video of someone rating BBgirl and they rated her poorly. I feel like it was a little unfair. Why would someone compare BBgirl’s quality to a real resin BJD. Of course she falls short. She was about $35 if I remember right. She has a lot of flaws but still worth the money for being a unique and cute doll.

[dollsonmain]

More Frankenfakies.

Obitsu feet, elbows, and hands on these.

The heads look like a Takara Licca/Jenny friend, but maybe modded a little.

AFAIK these are DBS (company that “makes” Dream Fairy the Angell Studio Liu Rushi modded copies) and are listed under Dream Fairy, but they’re also being sold as ICY which is a common Blythe fakie brand.

The keyword spamming and frankendolling and modding of joints and modding for switchng materials (like resin-to-vinyl or abs) is making it harder and harder to keep up.

I wish they’d just make their own original products because I would totally buy them if they had.

Still pissed off about Dream Fairy, tbh.

[the-bjd-community-confess]

The recast debate is stupid. There are good points on each side, and shit eaters on each side. Like most things, the answer is not black or white. No, you don't "deserve" a doll; hobbies are not a right (the pursuit of happiness is bs), but also hell no, major companies cannot pretend like small creators set the price points for dolls. If anything, ugly, boring, unpose-able Fairyland dolls should be cheaper than any Instagram artists 3d printed one-off design because they were made by a money hungry board room and not genuinely given a life by some bored but talented artist. I hate everyone at this point, because no one acknowledges the grey.

Obviously don't buy recasts of things like Nihiluvm dolls or random Instagram artisits who do this for fun, because those are pushing the industry forward. They are experimenting. My fave big brands, though that rotate the same faces with barely any innovation on body sculpt? Go for it. Their pockets are fine. Car manufacturers--like vehicle go vroom--make money by selling their old designs to second rate companies and even competitors when it suits the business model (that's why all crossovers look the same); I bet you $10 that DC sells it's lesser molds to recasters just the same. Blythe can swing the balance between fakies and realies. So can we bjds.

Can everyone just please stop arguing now and accept that recasts have a time and place? I barely touched on a single argument here and already got in the weeds. THERE IS NO HARD AND FAST RULE ON RECASTS SO STAWP ACTING LIKE THERE IS--*collapses*

~Anonymous

[bjd-confessions]

Ok recasters stop dragging other hobbies into your bull shite excuses for art theft. As a Blyth collecter I'm here did say you cannot compare recasts and fakies. They ARE NOT the same thing. Icy, Blybe, CCE, Basaak don't even advertise as being a Blyth. He'll even TBLs have moved in their own direction. The biggest issue is/was factory dolls, Smuggled rejected parts turned into a full doll.

Blyth has since shut down and moved entire factories and because of this new factory dolls are fewer and fewer. None of these, aside from factory dolls which are given the least amount of respect, is a verbatim copy advertised as a legitimate Blyth. That is why people don't mind them. Recasts are verbatim copies advertised as legitimate. And you ass hats try to pass them off as legitimate. Fakie owners don't try to pass theirs of as legit either.. Stop...

~Anonymous

[neonkewpie]

Hey does anyone know of any Blythe size bodies that come in a deep brown to match the 20 years of love Blythe? Can be plastic or resin! I just don't want to use the default or the fakie azone one

[firespirited]

I can think of a few who customize for clout. not so much on dollblr where we like the skilled, the unskilled, newbies, oldtimers, high end, fakies, the trendy and extremely niche if not obsolete. But there are definitely folks who tailor what they do for the likes: whether it’s the brand, the face up style, current celebs, photography style etc. That said, on platforms that reward trendiness/sellability over personal investment in the doll, I’m not sure if it’s entirely a conscious decision. This is based on the various pivots towards Blythe, Monster High, Tinies et al by people who didn’t really like the dolls but found that’s where the crafters were gravitating to or got a lot more eyeballs and hobby funding on said dolls, instead of what they’d be doing if no-one else had any say in it, ya know?

Ok I'm an outsider to the custom doll community but you're always so hilariously modest on your posts because every time I see your work I'm like HOLY SHIT HE DID THAT WITH HIS OWN 2 HANDS HOW.

Honestly the idea of someone being arrogant over dolls is a hilarious concept to me, like imagine if you tried gaining clout for doll customising. 

[neonkewpie]

Oh no now I'm going down the factory/fakie blythe rabbit hole and

[neonkewpie]

...fakie blythe package still hasn't showed up

[neonkewpie]

Fiddled around with fakie blythe and gave her sleep eyes. Did wonders for my mood even though I lost one of the screws

[neonkewpie]

Waiting for the fakie blythe package today!