Amaranth's Castaways

Recast vs legitimate doll comparisons, and random doll-related tutorials. I am anti-recast, pro-owner. I will never bully or harass anyone, but I'm choosing not to support recasts any longer. This blog contains comparisons and information for helping to identify recasts sold on the secondhand market.

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Showing posts with label recast. Show all posts

Showing posts with label recast. Show all posts

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Recasts in Strange Places

Apparently the term "recast" isn't limited to dolls and bootleg toys. A year or so ago I dived (hey, a pun!) into the world o...

Monday, May 9, 2016

The Dangerous Decline of the Secondhand Market- What that means for the future of the hobby.

There has been a decided decrease in the purchasing power of the average BJD hobbyist thanks to the decline of the secondhand market. We ...

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Pokémon Syndrome: Acquisition Disorder, Recasts, and the Doll Hobby

All Teh Dolls. All instances of you* in this piece refer to general “you”, not anyone specific. Also, there is nothing wrong wi...

Monday, March 23, 2015

Identifying a Recast: Aileen Doll

Legit Violet As many of my readers know, I mostly own recast Aileen Doll dragons. I recently purchased my first legit dragon, and though...

Monday, March 16, 2015

Identifying a recast: La Legende De Temps

About LLT: Is a one woman sculpting business, ran by a Chinese lady named Julia. Website: http://lltdoll.weebly.com/ The follow...

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

CYA- It's that important.

CYA- Cover. Your. Ass. I recently had a negative experience regarding recasts as legit. The poor gal thought, with good reason imo, that ...

Monday, March 2, 2015

Identifying a Recast: Migidoll

***Disclaimer: I do not own recasts of this company, but I would appreciate any useful tips from anyone who currently owns one. Pictures for...

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Should you get a recast as your first doll?

Probably the last post for a bit. My baby is due in a couple weeks so I might not have the time or energy to put into any useful posts f...

Monday, March 31, 2014

Note

With more drama on the horizon, let me just restate a few things: I do not recast or bootleg dolls or any other product. I do not sen...

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Video Tutorial: Restringing a Minifee

I have finally started working on video tutorials, so here's my latest, totally crappy restringing tutorial: a video guide to restrin...

Saturday, February 15, 2014

On Steampunk and Hamilton, my Steampowered Pseudodragon

So far my little Lord Hamilton (Gizmo, as Mr. Amaranth calls him) is coming along quite nicely. I wasn't sure I could pull this mod o...

Friday, February 14, 2014

Steampunk Dragon Mod Project- Hamilton, a WIP

I've been working on a steampunk dragon mod using the Aileen Doll Ashes recast I received from S/L last month.So far, I've drilled t...

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Recast DC Alberta Identifiers

Here is a comparison post between recast and legit DC Albertas. I hope this comparison is useful and helps ease some worries. Recast...

Monday, December 30, 2013

Aileen Doll Ashes Recast Identifiers [revised]

New information about recent Ashes dragons at the end of this post. (As of Jan 2014).

Monday, December 23, 2013

Restringing Aileen Doll Ashes

Here is a tutorial for restringing an Aileen Doll Ashes. This guy is a recast, just to let you know so you don't share this where it...

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Another bjd dyeing tutorial- this time with LOTS of pictures

[Note blogger was being stupid and I can't seem to get rid of some of the weird linking. T___T] Minion needed to be pink. I bought two...

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

On Scammers, and why it's not your crusade

Here's the thing- for as long as there have been replica dolls there have been a few assholes selling them as legitimate dolls. Recast...

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Restringing a Pipos Cheshire Cat with poses

My little helper here is Grimalkin. He needed to have his blushing touched up, and I thought a tutorial may be useful. Here goes! ...

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Doll Chateau Alberta/ Mnf Chloe Hybrid - old recast I no longer own

So I took some pics for a lovely gal on the Haven, and my Rose stole herself a body…a DC Alberta body. In the process, one of Alberta's ...

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Restring a @%%#!!! DC Alberta

You should know I literally cried during this, and once threw a leg across the room. I strongly recommend a glass of wine (for you pee...

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