And poppets can fit in one's pocket, so it's easy to whip them out for a snapshot on the beach. (Mine traveled everywhere with me during my UK trip, though I didn't take them out of my handbag very often.) It's a lot harder, and a little more obsessive, to cart six or seven bighuge dolls to the beach and arrange their hair and clothes and all.

Of course, it WAS flickr, specifically for photos, so maybe that doll group just attracted a certain type of bjd lover. The obsessive kind who wishes she were a magazine photographer of real people. (And has a boyfriend named Jimmy who's off at sea trying to earn his fortune...)