r/BigEyeDolls

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In the spirit of many doll collectors lumping fashion dolls with a certain big head proportion and an eye-gimmick together like Pullip with Blythe, I'd like to bring some attention to Lila by Soom!

Lila was released back in around 2012 / 2013 by Soom. Soom is a well known Korean BJD brand, but they also had an attempt at releasing a "fashion doll" made of (what I believe) to be mostly ABS plastic, similar to Blythe's head.

Her eyes can move, separately.

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Her head-body proportion is rather unique.

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I find her face mold and makeup style to be more similar to customized Blythes than stock Blythes. She is a very interesting doll release that I think some here might like to know about!

She seems even less talked about than Tangkou, who's another gimmicky big-eyed friend of Blythe. Compare to Tangkou, I believe her MRPS was much higher. Some versions of her are still around from some independent doll retailer on the web as of right now.

She had a dedicated website that is now defunct: https://web.archive.org/web/20240421171726/https://lila.dollsoom.com/eng/index/intro.html

Lila's official IG account: https://instagram.com/lila_dolls/

Her Flickr group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/2314083@N22/

A review by Dolly Panic: https://dollypanic.blogspot.com/2016/05/review-of-lila-doll-by-soom.html

If you have her and would like to share a photo, or have more info you'd like to share about her, feel free to comment!