sure love the PIB HIPS.MMMMMMMMMMMbeardygoat wrote:i can use Cassi ,Jane,to do one arm curls if i want. 32 lbs. perfect for a workout. easily! that is how I handle the weight.
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How do you manage the weight of your doll?
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And although i am not a doll manufacturer to me even if the skin is still durable that will not matter if the lighter weight interior is to lightweight and won't hold up and breaks down inside the doll causing inner problems and or even spreading to the outer core of the doll . And quit simply doll owners can't allow that to happen . I am not saying this to scare doll companies from trying to make lighter weight dolls , their is a market for lighter weight dolls and eventually some company is going to do it , it's just a matter of trying , failing and keep trying , research and developement .
I do scripting on a a.i. project and sometimes i have run into so many seperate problems on jsut one project , it sometimes is overwelming and mentally exausting , so much that i have to quit for a while and just get away from my computer . The thing is not to just totally give up and i hope all doll manufacturers will continue to keep trying to make dolls lighter weight and "find" that balance of durability !
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Yeah, i've gotten the same. but weights, even free weights are designed to be lifted, so their mass is better centered. Dolls, simuloids are not.Vanessa wrote:120 lbs here, approximately. I never made it to the scales with dolly... The weight sounds like you can handle it, because technically, as for what the number means as such (gravity), you can lift it. Just this is a doll, complex form, grabbing things, fragile. So you can't handle it properly. I saw body builders here posting "so what, I can bench press 250 lbs without breaking a sweat", and once dolly was home, they said they can't move her properly.
What I mainly did to "handle" the weight, that is to accept that I cannot handle it. This meant, as sad as it is, that I reduced moving dolly to an absolute minimun : bed -> wall bracket -> bed, a bit more than a meter of distance. This kept dolly safe, and my health as well.
My responce is; "Okay, go find a person of the same weight and ask them to remain completely limp when you try and lift/position them."
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But making a doll lighter HELPS make a doll more durable by default! In a living body, each bone is supported by a network of specially evolved muscles and tendons, and, even then, things like obesity can cause problems. A doll has no special supports for it's skeleton other than the sillicone. Now having a 30-40 pound skeleton constanly trying to tear through the sillicone skin is going to tear away and cause a lot more durability issues than a 10-20 pound skeleton will.to make a doll leighter you have to make sure in doing so that the doll durability isn't compromised , and that is the problem of all doll makers.
More importantly, it's so much easier to handle a 30-50 pound doll than it a 60-100 pound one. With how durable dolls are these days, one of the biggest (if not the biggest) cause of damage is a wrong move or bump that the owner unwittingly gives a doll. With a heavier doll, it's easier to move the doll the wrong way, and it's easier for just one little mistake to cause damage. I think one of the reasons Ruby 13 is so durable is not only because of the strength of the sillicone and the skeleton itself, but because the overall low weight makes it less likely the owner will make a mistake when handling the doll.
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But on the other hand: if the lighter skeleton is flimsy and breaks easily under stress, you will soon have a doll with broken limbs. So somewhere is an optimum and I guess dollmakers are all trying to find that optimum.aire_tam_storm wrote: But making a doll lighter HELPS make a doll more durable by default! In a living body, each bone is supported by a network of specially evolved muscles and tendons, and, even then, things like obesity can cause problems. A doll has no special supports for it's skeleton other than the sillicone. Now having a 30-40 pound skeleton constanly trying to tear through the sillicone skin is going to tear away and cause a lot more durability issues than a 10-20 pound skeleton will.
More importantly, it's so much easier to handle a 30-50 pound doll than it a 60-100 pound one. With how durable dolls are these days, one of the biggest (if not the biggest) cause of damage is a wrong move or bump that the owner unwittingly gives a doll. With a heavier doll, it's easier to move the doll the wrong way, and it's easier for just one little mistake to cause damage. I think one of the reasons Ruby 13 is so durable is not only because of the strength of the sillicone and the skeleton itself, but because the overall low weight makes it less likely the owner will make a mistake when handling the doll.
Anyway, I think that most of the weight of the doll is the silicon. Just the head of my 4Woods is already 1.2 kg. And I don't think there's a lot of metal in it.
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