subject: Reborn Babies For Sale - Are They A Worthwhile Investment Or A Total Waste Of Time? [print this page] Over the last few years, reborn babies for sale have started to be very popular indeed, and for countless reasons. These dolls are essentially the art of creating a doll that looks utterly life like.
Make no mistake; making them is a true art form, which demands lots of work to finish.
There are many different ways to how a reborn doll is made. The first way is to remodel an existing toy doll into a realistic and lifelike reborn baby doll. The other approach is to buy ready made vinyl doll kits which act as a blank canvas.
The reasons that reborn baby dolls are so expensive is due to the fact that they are often unique one offs, they are often called Ooak and require numerous hours of development by professional artists. Various parents will commission artists to create a reborn baby doll to replicate the likeness of one of their own children. As you can imagine this has brought on some heated discussion during the years. Programs for TV have been made about the stigma created by them, as a number of parents will buy these dolls to fill the void prompted by the loss of a child.
Regardless that reborn babies have come under fire at times, the greater part of collectors and especially the artists, consider the art of making these dolls as being a warm and rewarding collectors hobby. Based on the artist and how personalized the individual doll is, the price for one of these can range from a few hundred dollars to a couple of thousand dollars. Even though these artists do sell from there own websites, the majority of sales are through eBay and more lately Amazon. Even though they are not cheap, they are wonderful items of art and you can expect any valid collector to always be looking for a new one for their collection.
