Asian Ball-Jointed Doll VS Western Ball-Jointed Doll

Dolls have become the most popular toys for children, especially for girls. Asian Ball-Jointed Doll, which is known as ABJD, is one of popular dolls in Asia. Nowadays, ABJD also becomes popular in western country. It makes the request of the Western Ball-Jointed Dolls decrease slowly. The history, the appearance, the cost, and also the various kinds of these two dolls become the consideration from all the collectors and children.

ABJD, by knowing the name we know that this doll is made by an Asian. But actually, the founder is a German named Hans Bellmer. The development of ABJD was brought by the Japanese artists to Japan and its surroundings. This doll was created for aritstic doll photography. The making of ABJD was improved as the growth of ABJD. The artists start to make a better doll with combination plastic chemistry and another liquid which can make the plastic stronger. The inspirations of making the ABJD are from Anime and fashion worlds in Asia, especially in cosplaying which is held in Japan.

Barbie was made by American businesswoman Ruth Handler. The first Barbie doll was named Bild Lili. It was different from ABJD, which is used for photography, and used for playing. The first Barbie doll was wearing swim suit and use for promoting one product from America. The inspiration of making Barbie is from Handler’s daughter playing doll paper.

ABJD is an Asian doll, which is especially made in China, Korea, and Japan. The appearance of this doll is very unique. It always has big beautiful eyes, very well-dressed, and fashionable. It has many details for each costume. The face of this doll has a very clear detail of make-up. Each part of this doll’s body can be re-arranged. We can change the eyes, the hair, the hands, the legs, and even their ears. We can change the hands from shoulder to elbow, elbow to wrist, and the arms, whether you want to have close arms or open arms. Some of the products of ABJD are Dream Of Doll, Doll In Mind, LUTS, and they are included in Cerberus Project (Asia company). However, for Western-BJD, you can only change the clothes. The shoes and accessories are not removable for each part of the body. The movement is only in the shoulders, head, waist, and groins, like Barbie. Barbie is one of the products from American International Toy Fair. The others are Bratz, and other movie action figures. The strength of this doll is sometimes completed with the sound.

picture of DOD Product: picture of LUTS product:

Because of the perfect details and also the capability to be re-arranged, ABJD cost more expensive than Western-BJD. It is about $250-$2000 for each doll with the complete accessories and clothes. There are some parts of the body that you can buy separately such as the eyes, arms, legs, feet and also the hair. Each of them cost $25-$100. ABJD also has its own accessories such as houses, beds, or sometime in special edition it has its wings. This doll hasn’t been produced in Indonesia. This doll is only sold in Japan, Korea, America, and New York. For people from other countries, they can order it by on-line shopping. On the other hand for West-BJD, the body can’t be re-arranged, so it only has clothes that cost $5-$50. It has houses and the furniture cost $12-$100. The doll itself costs around $5-$100 and it is not as expensive as ABJD. Western-BJD also has their fame around the world. All of human beings in the earth know the brand name of Barbie and Bratz.

Besides that, the diversity of the ABJD and Western-BJD becomes a consideration. ABJD, they have a lot of categories for each doll. The first one is kids alike, which is showing all the figure of kids. The second one is teen alike, which is showing the figure of teenagers. Then the third one is adult alike, mostly ABJD uses the average age about 20-23 years old. The last one is other creature (elf, humanlike), in this part each brand of doll has their own special character. For example, elf, fairy, and each branch has its own name. However, Western-BJD has 3 categories only. They are children, adults, and others. The diversity of ABJD is more complete than Western-BJD. But Western-BJD has a lot of creativity to attract children to buy.

Both ABJD and Western-BJD has their own strength for attracting the costumers’ desire to buy them. From the most expensive cost you can get the best stuff from a doll, but if you just want some entertainment for the doll you may choose the lower prices. And you can choose a lot of varieties of the doll.

For more information about the price, and other specific information click on:
http://www.dreamofdoll.com/ , http://www.dimdoll.com/, http://www.eluts.com/, http://www.barbie.com/, http://www.bratz.com. Happy shopping^^

Pauline W (081214042)