What are Super Dollfie?
Super Dollfie (or SD) are made by Volks in Japan, a company that has been making high quality models and resin figure kits for over 30 years. They started with resin figure kits, etc, and then eventually moved into 1/6 scale “dollfie” dolls as well. Super Dollfies themselves all started basically when Mr. Enku sculpted a one-off a kind doll (SD size and style) for his wife. The doll used old stringing and ball-joint techniques that were developed at least a hundred ago in Europe, but the doll had a very expressive look and a bit more developed balljoints. (For more information on old-style balljoint dolls see Jumeau Tete Bebe, Gebruder Kuhnlenz and Schoenau and Hoffmeister. ) An executive director saw the doll and wondered if they would be made in larger numbers. The first Super Dollfie was made in 1998 and were Sara/Kira/Nana/Megu, etc (all with the same headmold of course). They are dolls, yes, and more. They combine the beauty of the Japanese aesthetic sense, and the companionabilit
