Ball jointed doll. huh? Well it’s the new rage in collectible vinyl fashion dolls. I am working with The Ashton Drake Galleries who cater to the collectible baby doll market on their DeliliahNoir.com site. It is a micro-site for their Award winning Doll of the Year 2009, Delilah Doll which has 14 ball socket joints for highly poseable articulation fashion poses. Ya, I know that was a mouth full about BJD. That’s not what youth think; ball-jointed dolls. These dolls aren’t your average Barbie fashion doll, but 16 inch lifelike collectible vinyl dolls that are ready for any runway or fashion make overs.
Oh ya, they call make-overs for the unpainted mannequin dolls face-ups, because you can test your make-up skills on them. You could call these repaints too or blank doll kits. Each Delilah dolls come with great outfits with doll shoes, changeable wigs, interchangeable eyes, and some come with fangs so you can live out your vampire Twilight or True Blood fantasies. These Ashton Drake Gallery Delilah Noir vinyl dolls are very customizable. You can customize them just how you would like to make them look. These blank doll kits are ready for you to build your very own custom fashion doll with your sense of style.
If you are into Goth and live for the dark side they have a few Gothic Lolita vinyl dolls, Dark and Defiant Delilah and Once Bitten Twice Shy, Delilah. Lady Onyx Delilah is also a goth collectible doll but she is a little more sophisticated in her Victorian lace dress and heels makes this doll a limited edition with only 500 made world wide. A few of these Delilah Noir 16 inch large fashion dolls come with free or an extra outfit and shoes, Once Bitten Twice Shy vampire fang doll, Its 10pm Punk Rock Doll and the Debut Doll which is a school girl and a gothloli doll. Not you’re everyday Barbie or Cabbage Patch dolls. These 16″ collectable dolls are not toys, they are adult collectibles. And if you like Pink, you can’t forget the pink ball jointed doll with a ferret for a pet, Pretty n Pink. She’s too wild for a cat and looks hot in her high heeled tennis shoes with striped socks. Many come with interchangeable eyes, wigs, shoes, and clothes. They all have excellent doll wardrobes with tailored outfits. These are great dress-up dolls kits. buy more than one and mix and match all the awesome outfits to creat your won Delilah.
The great thing about these like resin fashion dolls is that they are very affordable and a great value. You could say they are cheap but they are very high quality Ball jointed dolls. I would say they were inexpensive fashion dolls.
The dolls are called mini sized dolls or MSD because they are 16 inch dolls. They cal also be called large dolls or Super Dollfies but thats a term for a Volks doll. another term is a quarter sized doll or 1/4 size. If you are guy these are like model cars which a scalable sizes for dolls. just like our vintage model car or airplane plastic resin models. Many of these have highly jointed bodies and sockets for hyper movement and standing poses. A term one could use would be extreme articulation. They are very flexible.
Some of the terms in the doll world are pretty interesting; vinyl dolls vs resin. Is it collectable with an a or collectible BJD. And that came from Asian ball jointed dolls witch are hand made ABJDs and usually over $500 not $150 like the Delilah Noir from Ashton Drake. At $150 its almost like getting a Super BJD at wholesale. I was surprised to see about 10 different doll magazines cover fashion dolls and collectible dolls from Barbies to virtual world pc dolls. Some guy named Tonner is really into these modern contemporary fashion pieces of plastic art. I guess he is a big designer for a fashion house in New York. There is also a Japanese version of this large super doll, called Dollfies. I guess Volks out of Japan makes the Dollfie BJDs. Volks supposedly has the best ball socket joints for articulated movement into hyper articulation for endless poses for photographic shoots just like the real New York models. Some of the dolls are also called Sybarite. I have not found what they are yet, but I am sure it another customizable large fashion doll. Unfortunately you will not find many on discount or discounted because they are fine collectibles but sometimes your can find free shipping or add ons like dolls shoes as an added accessory. Be careful of low cost low quality dolls, make sure you find a reputable doll make like Ashton Drake Galleries.
If you are a high end doll collector these dolls make great traveling bjd dolls becuase you do not have to travel with your expensive resin hand made ball jointed doll. Delilah is very affordable and high quality that you can take her on trips without ricking your high end dolls. Delilah is also great for beginner collector of fashion dolls, because Delilah is affordable. Who wants to pay $500 plus for a doll and find out you are not into doll collecting. These would make great gifts for the first time doll collections. They are not vintage baby dolls yet, but soon will be. These are Ashton Drake lifelike fashion dolls, a very respect and established Doll company.
You can find all the Delilah at DelilahNoir.com online doll shop or at your local fine collectible doll store. If you read the doll forums you will find out that the Aston Drake dolls are quality products for any doll collection.
