My Twinn is a legitimate website selling dolls which look like the child you're buying them for.
First you pick an outfit, skin tone, and hair and eye colour. You send in a photograph of your child, and the artists craft the doll to resemble the photograph, including painting on such things as freckles or birthmarks. You can also buy matching outfits for the doll and child, and matching accessories.
The dolls
do seem very well made - they really do look like the children they're made for. One of the testimonials from previous customers states that
"Over the years many people have mistaken the doll as a real child!"
I think that is my trouble with them - they look very creepy to me.
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So creepy.
Next up in urban legends:
"Stupid brother rips of arm of doll
and girl loses her real arm. (mentally or physically)"
Or has that already been done in a movie.
That depends on your definition of "legitimate," I guess.
"Over the years many people have mistaken the doll as a real child!"
I think I'm coming down with a terminal case of heebie-jeebies.
My daughter gave away all her old American Girl dolls, but her mom and I have kept the "Just Like Me" doll. I guess tht makes me creepily sentimental.
M
"You better be nice to me!"
SO ultra creepy!
Amen, Greg!
This site I thought was a hoax, but with further investigation turned out to be real.
If there's theoretical advertisement deals, I'd sure like to know about them...
Nice for the kids, but to me they look like eerily creepy baby dolls..
I prefer my BJDs..
I always thought the concept was a little weird, as I figured I had much cooler stuff to do rather than dress up like my doll... like I could totally play pretend velociraptor with my neighbors, or go build a dam/destroy some wildlife.
Of course, I grew up in a neighborhood of boys, so taht probably influenced my early decisionmaking.
I first heard this mentioned in a review of the movie, The Polar Express. The life-like characters in that flick were quite off-putting to some audience members.
You'd need to buy a simulated twin of the rabbit so your simulated sibling could have a simulated pet. Then the rabbit doll would give the child doll a simulated bite, and you'd switch the original doll arm for one (an extra-price option) that was red and puffy and had bite marks. And you'd buy a little bottle of simulated foam for the doll's mouth.
(bet no one's made that joke before:))