How do I buy just the dollfie dream boy body?

6 hours ago, Monty said:

Maybe if he does well enough they'll sell boy bodies separately even... but at the moment I just kinda doubt boys are popular enough for them to bother really. I still hope it happens. Even if its a limited-time GL sale thing...! But thinking it's a way to make boys more special and thus sexist is quite the odd take I have to admit.

I really hope so. So many people here seem to want them I think it's really sad that they are exclusive to Volks stores in Japan.

Baring that I'd really like to see Volks USA offer more of these items as event items sort of like their online FCS. Even if it meant you had to pre-order the goods, and then have to wait 2 months while it got shipped to the US. While I have no interest in boy dolls, Jewelry Box is something I'd love to see become available over here. It's really frustrating to see outfits with beautiful broaches that we can't order because they are Tenshi-no-Sato exclusive. 

Of course, Volks USA getting to do that wouldn't help EU people.  
 

6 hours ago, Monty said:

To be fair, so was Rin

True, but you didn't need to buy Rin to get a DDS body. I feel like her unpopularity was Rin as opposed to Len who was the only way for an overseas customer to get a boy. 

11 hours ago, Monty said:

To be fair, so was Rin - they were both oddly unpopular at first although Len was clearly the less popular of the two... and then flash forward to now - Kaito getting the Preorder Project by himself is really interesting, its the first time theres ever been a boy doll released on his own as opposed to alongside a girl. Part of me wonders if giving him a made to order release was specifically to get an exact number on his demand.
Maybe if he does well enough they'll sell boy bodies separately even... but at the moment I just kinda doubt boys are popular enough for them to bother really. I still hope it happens. Even if its a limited-time GL sale thing...! But thinking it's a way to make boys more special and thus sexist is quite the odd take I have to admit.

Well I just feel like I am being sent the message these guys are more precious than the girls. They're worth more because of their gender. They didn't really do anything differently to deserve this. It's kind of like when you look at the business field and there is always this idea that men make more money (although I know there is probably skewed data involved here too). So yea...idk just what I was kinda thinking.

On 9/13/2022 at 8:02 AM, Oculae said:

If you're looking for cost effectiveness, you COULD just skip the boy body entirely. DD has an SS bust size that you can buy with any of their regular bodies, and that reduces the boobage down to nearly nothing with most clothing. So long as you don't plan on taking photos of him shirtless or with tight clothes, that's a very easy way to make a convincing boy.

There's also a tutorial here somewhere for putting a Parabox boy torso on a Volks MDD, if the f3 frame is what you're going for and you really want a specifically boy torso.

If you want anything bigger than 50cm unfortunately, you're stuck either paying the boy tax with Volks or Smart Doll, finding a very rare Obitsu body (as they DID make 55cm and 65cm boys a while ago), or getting creative. Boys are unfortunately something the vityl companies have determined nobody's really interested in, so those of us with boy characters to shell are pretty much at their mercy. It sucks, but it's the way of the market right now.

Another thing that needs to be mentioned is scale. You have a head already styled, right? Which head? Because if it's an Obitsu or Parabox head, chances are that it's going to look small on ANY DD sized body aside from the MDD. Those heads are all 1/4 scale with a few exceptions, unless you bought an original Obitsu Gretel or one of Parabox's anime sculpts. And their neck holes are MUCH bigger than a DD head, so you'd have to find a way to get it securely on the neck peg. I've done the reverse hybrid of a DD head on Obitsu loads of times, but even I haven't attempted Obitsu on DD. It's not an easy one.

EDIT: Since you mentioned your Obitsu body having problems...The arm bulge is almost definitely because some portion of the frame in there isn't installed correctly, and the arm looseness is probably because the chest frame's armholes are cracked. You can get a replacement chest frame for cheap off of Parabox or HobbySearch, and you should probably disassemble that lumpy arm first to see if something else in there is broken and needs replacing too, as well as to reseat whatever is out of place.

While their bodies are very fragile in the shoulders, ankles, and hips at the moment, they did recently announce a v2 of their frame that should fix all that. It's not out yet, but it might be worth waiting for that if you don't want to work around the current frame's fragility. At the very least it gives you an option to bail out early if the Obitsu v2 is released while you're saving up for Dream Choice, if you go that route. 😆

I don't want to spend more than $200 and end up with a guy with big hips.  X3 I was thinking of replacing both the chest and torso with obitsu and then color matching using pastel. I wouldn't put a parabox on a DD. I was thinking of redoing my custom boy as an obitsu entirely. I already found a good head for it and I am ok at face ups so it should work. The reason I am not sure about it is my current obitsu has had issues since I got it. The arm was always falling out of the socket. Then both arms did. Then the foot broke and I had to super glue it. And I only really played with my doll a few times. Then he was sitting on the shelf. That makes it kinda worse lol...I wish they would give me more quality for that price, honestly.  I hate the huge jump in price just to have a doll that doesn't have these issues. Then it costs even more for an actual male body, which must come with a head...and it is all the way from Japan...and yea idk why it has to be so complicated lolx3. 

Thanks for the advice! That lump has been bothering me. Now I can see if I can get rid of it.