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i'm looking into dollzone msd sized dolls right now and was wondering if anyone has any of their dolls. anything you can tell me about the company is apreciated. what do they include with the order? how fast are they? customer service? and the like. and i'd also really love to see some user pics. thankies mucho heart

Dollzone is known for copyright infringement.

They copied a Delf Woori (I think)

And most recently they've blatantly ripped off the Volks SD16 bodies. (Geez guys, if you were gonna rip off bodies, couldn't you rip one off that's not ******** ugly?)

Anyways, their dolls are nice quality resin. The faceups are so so... Not really worth paying extra for.

I have a Xi, and I really like him. He poses very well and is cute as a button.
I'm not very impressed with his faceup, but it's passable.

I think they are great dolls- However if you buy one, be prepared for a lot of people to call you out on it, talk behind your back, tell you your doll is ugly and whatnot.

I really only care for their Xi's (Yeimei is cute, but she needs work. *_* Yuu is gorgeous until you see owner pics)

Unfortunately I've found that a lot of people with DZs have either done poor faceups or have had other people do poor faceups on them, and that there is a severe lack of photos that show off the true qualities of the DZ dolls.

My only complaint with the overall 2nd type boy body (which I assume is about the same as the girl body, save for with a p***s and um, no "I'LL POKE YOUR EYE OUT! >:3" nipples) is that the secondary peice of Sett's hand joint likes to pop out and twist around, which, inorder to get it to look more natural you've got to twist back in place.
Nothing terrible- Just a bit of a hassle.
It's most likely due to stringing anyway. (Like Dei, my Hound. Hound hands weren't designed very well, so they like to pop out of their joins. >_>)

Head-on view of Sett (Xi. I think they discontinued them?)


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As you can see on the scar... it wasn't very well done.
His lips are a bit sloppy and I think that his eyelashes could have been better.

But I still love him. :3

And as a side note, DZ makes dynamite shoes, and they're cheap, too!

Personally, I'm holding off judgement on whether the new boys are copies or not until I see both both them together, because the pictures don't look all that similar to me. It could be just the angles though, so I'm not putting down any firm judgement.

I don't own any of their dolls, and I haven't had to deal with the company, but I have gotten to play with one of the 1/3 boy bodies (a friend of mine got one for her HD Louis head), and I really loved it. They are fab posers. It's not uncommon for MI meet-ups to have some sort of pose competition going on, and he was on par with the SDC boys.

I don't know but, I mentioned this in another thread, I used to be really active in equestrian resin cast collecting and have some experience with casting resins.

The cost to cast a resin piece will vary based on how complex the mold is, and those that are done as one piece are more costly. Multiple piece resins cost very little to produce and often sell for a lot less too.

Anyway, to the point, some people in the hobby would sell their resin pieces for say... $500 a piece unpainted and unprepped. Just raw resin that needs sanding and all that as well as paint. Some would sell their own unique same scale, same quality piece, with a comperable cast number, for like $100 or $200.

Difference? Profit.

Big name artists could get more, even if their pieces were the same quality.

I think that's also that is happening here. They can save money copying a cast from another company and by hireing less thean awesome artists.

So honestly, I'm sure the resin quality and doll are fine. It's the extras I'd worry about like the face up.

I won't judge you! I think when companies copy each others molds that it's interesting..... It's a common thing. It happened with a ton of American toy brands. Chinese and Japanese companies would recast their products and sell them.

It doesn't stop me.
Hell, I'd have bought a Yuu if I liked his face enough after seeing owner photos.
I'm just not impressed by DZ's choice in bodies to copy. whee I loathe the SD16 body. Srsly, they could've chosen something a little nicer.

Selurnis: As I distinctly stated before, DZ dolls are of perfectly fine resin quality. Like Alchemical said, it's just about profit.


I can safely say that I really only care for the Xi headmold though. None of their other dolls catch my eye in person/owner photos.

i find that just horrible. especially coming from people who are constantly offended when people outside the bjd community don't understand their dolls. it's kinda like saying "you must respect my doll however i reserve the right to insult ohter people's" it just seems hipocritical to me

Someone posted side-by-side comparrison pictures of them on one of the discussion topics on DoA before. They're almost exactly alike.
Even if they aren't coppied, they're still fugly.

It's just an opinion, and I am not affraid to say it.
I think that the SD16/DZ70cm bodies are horrible looking.
End of story.