In this day and age, adult products such as physical dolls have gained recognition in many countries and emerged in different regions with better posture and local characteristics. Although the development of the physical doll has gone through many ups and downs to reach its current level, today’s story is that of the popular physical doll store, which is another story in particular.
Many countries have experienced brick-and-mortar doll stores, and like any other industry, the brick-and-mortar doll industry has seen growth over the years. Originally made from inflatable materials, the dolls have since been made from two materials, TPE and silica gel, to become real dolls, and now there are even attempts to empower them with artificial intelligence to mimic real people. Then. How did the idea for the physical doll store come into being? Where did the first physical doll store begin?
Barcelona, Spain, was the first city on the romantic continent to open a physical doll store. Although the imaginative idea was an underdog project at the time, today the platforms have spread like wildfire.
The creation of the store depends entirely on the national conditions of the local country, and it is good to see that many countries have now embraced the idea. The Numbers don’t lie, and as the number of countries that approve brick-and-mortar doll experience stores increases, the future of brick-and-mortar dolls is in store.
The physical doll shop LumiDolls, which opened in Barcelona in February 2017, has been in the vanguard and is being praised for attracting worldwide acceptance of the new phenomenon.
Let’s take a look at the countries that have brick-and-mortar doll stores
Xdolls in France, which opened in January 2018, is the first physical doll experience store in The country. Although the original license called for a generic video game town, the store actually provided entertainment for people who liked physical dolls.
The experience store has three very realistic physical dolls: Kim, Lily and Sophia, which must be pre-ordered online. The store’s manager says customers are between the ages of 25 and 50, and the outlook is optimistic.
Bordoll, which opened in mid-2017, is the first physical doll experience store in Bortmund, Germany. Bordoll has 11 different styles of physical dolls, all of which have distinctive head carvings that can meet the needs of a wide range of customers.
He said the German experience store had grown a lot and since then, visits to the store had increased. More interestingly, there were more repeat customers.
As implausible as it may sound, a 40-year-old man named Graham has set up the UK’s largest brick-and-mortar doll store. The experience shop, called Lovedoll UK, is attracting people from all over the country with double beds, toys and mannequins. According to the founders, more than 70 percent of people don’t mind the experience.
Steven Crawford, 25, who founded the Date A Doll Showroom in Lanarkshire, said: “He started it out of faith and he thought it was A revolutionary innovation for adults. Belgium’s Doll.be is Belgium’s only physical Doll showroom, while the Canadian Aura Dolls, which opened this year in an open-air shopping mall in the north end of Toronto, have been making big money so far.