Tragic or Magic?
I briefly popped by today the DoA thread for the Dollstown 17 and 18 yr old dolls and found some rather unflattering comments there about the Mirodoll 70cm girl body in comparison to the Dollstown a bit similar lanky 18yr old girl body. I don’t deny that there are similarities to be detected there, but they’re also quite different, in fact a lot more different than say the Dreaming Doll Elva body from the Little Monica’s Harmony girl body. There are and there always will be similarities with different companies bodies, but that’s aside the point here. What I was struck by was the utter contempt the Dollstown fans had for the Mirodoll body and how rudely they chose to refer to it as, and I quote, “tragic”, "inelegant", "stiff" and not even worth considering as substitute for the DT18 body! Tragic is most certainly not the word I’d use to describe the Mirodoll 70cm body. Magic is more like it!! :)
The Mirodoll 70cm girl to me, is they best thing Miro ever released! It dresses amazingly, it stands solidly and does basic poses pretty effortlessly for me anyway. It has looked good in anything and everything I’ve dressed it in, so excuse me if I don’t see tragic there. For me it really has been sheer magic! ;) I’d love nothing better than to have it in tan as well! ;)
I don’t personally have the Dollstown 18yr old girl body. It does look lovely in the pictures now that I googled it. Pretty detail to it, nice sculpting, nothing outrageously exquisite, but definitely a nice, pretty body. But in the end, to my eyes, it’s most certainly not that much lovelier than the Mirodoll equivalent that I could detect. Clothed, they look very similarly nice. The Dollstown body does not seem to perform any miracles posing ways that I could detect from any of the photos I found. In fact, I read more complaints about it’s posing abilities than anything else. Here's a review of the DT body's posing, after sueding:
https://denofangels.com/threads/dollstown-estella-18yrs-girl-body-poseability.636326/#post10954624 .
For the price they ask for the Dollstown body (575USD starting price), I’d need it to be some kind of a super extraordinary poser at the very least. Personally I’d feel like a fool spending almost 600USD on a body, when I could get a very similar one from Miro for 250USD, and usually even with a discount, like right now, it sells at 150USD during their xmas event. Who knows, not having personal experience of the Dollstown body, maybe it is worth it’s price tag, but somehow I have to doubt it. From what I could gather from my research, I would not be able to justify to myself spending that huge a sum on a mere body. For around 200USD I can even excuse a couple of engineering flaws, but not for 600USD! But each to their own of course! Each to their own!
I would just like to hear what exactly it is about this body standing here unaided by any sueding, that looks so very tragic and inelegant to the Dollstown fans. I just don't see tragic or inelegant no matter how I squint my eyes. My bad I suppose...
What I do find tragic is my 900USD Soom Dream Ripper Heliot, who regardless of being sueded from top to toe can't even sit put for 5 second without flopping on his back. He can't hold on to his magnetic hands, but drops them every 2 minutes, same with the head cap. He does not do any basic posing without physical violence, you can just forget about standing... That's tragic.
On another front: My IMPLDOLL order has SHIPPED!!! I got the notice today with a tracking! Will be interesting to see will that be tragic or magic this time. Last time there were some problems, ears broken, scratches on a face, 5 month wait… Well, now I only waited for a 2,5 months, so that’s at least cool! I sure hope all goes well in transit and my Bernice et co. come to me intact this time.
