{"id":7197,"date":"2020-03-18T20:44:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/?page_id=7197"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:01:30","slug":"confused-keychain-dolls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/confused-keychain-dolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused Keychain Dolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend a lot of time on Chinese shopping sites (I don&#8217;t know anybody like that), you&#8217;ll inevitably run across the &#8220;confused keychain doll&#8221;. There is no standard name, but they are often sold as either confused and\/or keychain dolls, and they appear to be inspired by a South Korean keychain doll named Ddung (I know, doesn&#8217;t carry into English very well). These typically have an elastic loop or metal chain anchored in the head (for adding to a keychain apparently), and clothes are typically glued on, not made to be removed. Similar dolls without the loop are sold as cake decorations, party favors, and the like.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been collecting them for awhile now (mostly the fakies), and here&#8217;s my outline of different varieties sold. I&#8217;m including some other random dolls that may not be exactly keychain dolls, but I think they fit in this niche.<\/p>\n<p>The following pictures are just a small sampling of the varieties out there! I will be adding more pictures from my collection in the future. (<a href=\"#shopping\">Or bypass the pictures and jump to Shopping Links!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h2>2.5&#8243; Minis:<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_20190501_154058\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117216413@N05\/32841129307\/in\/album-72157678118471057\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/32841129307_9b6fb74fa4.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20190501_154058\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>3&#8243; Little Girls:<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - short\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117216413@N05\/48410574866\/in\/album-72157678118471057\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48410574866_dbb644de6d.jpg\" alt=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - short\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>4.5&#8243; Kelly-size:<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - Kelly size\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117216413@N05\/48410722347\/in\/album-72157678118471057\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48410722347_7a7734c2cb.jpg\" alt=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - Kelly size\" width=\"500\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Light-up skirts:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - Light-up\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117216413@N05\/48410575691\/in\/album-72157678118471057\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48410575691_98c559dfa2.jpg\" alt=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - Light-up\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Feather body:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - feather body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117216413@N05\/48410719727\/in\/album-72157678118471057\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48410719727_92ac82cfc6.jpg\" alt=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - feather body\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Shuttlecock body:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - Shuttlecock bodies\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117216413@N05\/48410575111\/in\/album-72157678118471057\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48410575111_df35354787.jpg\" alt=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - Shuttlecock bodies\" width=\"500\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>7&#8243; Teens:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210903_115018-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24143\" src=\"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210903_115018-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210903_115018-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210903_115018-727x1024.jpg 727w, https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210903_115018-768x1082.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210903_115018-1090x1536.jpg 1090w, https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210903_115018-1453x2048.jpg 1453w, https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210903_115018-scaled.jpg 1817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Confused pre-teen doll\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117216413@N05\/48410580201\/in\/album-72157678118471057\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48410580201_ab0e117298.jpg\" alt=\"Confused pre-teen doll\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>7&#8243; Mermaids:<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_20190211_124503\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117216413@N05\/47083985722\/in\/album-72157678118471057\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/47083985722_c5726e7feb.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20190211_124503\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>11.5&#8243; Adults:<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - Teen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117216413@N05\/48410574156\/in\/album-72157678118471057\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48410574156_169dee2e38.jpg\" alt=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - Teen\" width=\"445\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><a title=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - adult\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/117216413@N05\/48410572021\/in\/album-72157678118471057\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48410572021_1e429be032.jpg\" alt=\"Confused Keychain Dolls - adult\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"shopping\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>SHOPPING LINKS!<\/h1>\n<p>My favorite place to shop for these is Aliexpress. It&#8217;s part of the Alibaba family of companies, but this marketplace is for individuals buying single units (not pallets of merchandise). I know we tend to culturally be a bit snobby about buying from China, but there&#8217;s really interesting (and decent quality) stuff out there. You really have to embrace &#8220;you get what you pay for&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0 temper your expectations. If you don&#8217;t pay much, you&#8217;re not going to get much. Some people, like me, are charmed by the imperfect and sometimes weird world of fakies; if you&#8217;re not in that mindset, this field is probably not for you. That all being said, I&#8217;ve had lots of good experiences on Aliexpress, and there are buyer protections in place in case something does go wrong. There is also good ol&#8217; eBay, but they don&#8217;t have as wide a variety.<\/p>\n<p>These are some searches that have yielded good results for these dolls, but you can fiddle around on search terms and filters.<\/p>\n<p>ALIEXPRESS LINKS:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buyeasy.by\/redirect\/cpa\/o\/pq0au42hyi9nk0ke1z9q9rmpalacpxrv\/?material=wm-p-chrome&amp;to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aliexpress.com%2Faf%2FDdung-Doll.html%3Fd%3Dy%26amp%3Borigin%3Dn%26amp%3BSearchText%3DDdung%2BDoll%26amp%3BcatId%3D0%26amp%3Binitiative_id%3DSB_20200318173620\">Ddung Doll<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buyeasy.by\/redirect\/cpa\/o\/pq0au42hyi9nk0ke1z9q9rmpalacpxrv\/?material=wm-p-chrome&amp;to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aliexpress.com%2Faf%2FConfused-Keychain-Doll.html%3Fd%3Dy%26amp%3Borigin%3Dn%26amp%3BSearchText%3DConfused%2BKeychain%2BDoll%26amp%3BcatId%3D0%26amp%3Binitiative_id%3DSB_20200318173658\">Confused Keychain Doll<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buyeasy.by\/redirect\/cpa\/o\/pq0au42hyi9nk0ke1z9q9rmpalacpxrv\/?material=wm-p-chrome&amp;to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aliexpress.com%2Faf%2FConfused-Cake-Doll.html%3Fd%3Dy%26amp%3Borigin%3Dn%26amp%3BSearchText%3DConfused%2BCake%2BDoll%26amp%3BcatId%3D0%26amp%3Binitiative_id%3DSB_20200318173722\">Confused Cake Doll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EBAY LINKS:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp2334524.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.Xddung%2Bdoll.TRS0%26_nkw%3Dddung%2Bdoll%26_sacat%3D0%26LH_TitleDesc%3D0%26_osacat%3D0%26_odkw%3Dconfused%2Bcake%2Bdoll&amp;campid=5337847502&amp;toolid=20008\">Ddung Doll<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp2380057.m570.l1313.TR10.TRC0.A0.H0.Xconfused%2Bkeychain%2Bdoll.TRS0%26_nkw%3Dconfused%2Bkeychain%2Bdoll%26_sacat%3D0&amp;campid=5337847502&amp;toolid=20008\">Confused Keychain Doll<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm570.l1313%26_nkw%3Dconfused%2Bcake%2Bdoll%26_sacat%3D0%26LH_TitleDesc%3D0%26_osacat%3D0%26_odkw%3Dconfused%2Bkeychain%2Bdoll&amp;campid=5337847502&amp;toolid=20008\">Confused Cake Doll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend a lot of time on Chinese shopping sites (I don&#8217;t know anybody like that), you&#8217;ll inevitably run across the &#8220;confused&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24143,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7197","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24144,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7197\/revisions\/24144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fakiespaceman.com\/toyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}