With 2024 in the rearview mirror, many people took things easy after a long and chaotic year. Although the doll industry was quiet this week, technically their New Year’s hasn’t even started yet. As per tradition, Chinese New Year (CNY) is coming up (Jan 29 this year), which means most brands have begun cutting off new orders. As usual, every Chinese factory will close for ~2-4 weeks for CNY, meaning it’s all hands-on-deck finishing up any remaining orders. Stay informed since every new order around now (except in-stock dolls) will be heavily delayed and pushed back by ~1-2 months.
Anyway, there wasn’t much news this week, but the show must go on. This week, sex doll brands didn’t release much and mostly shared new photosets. While everyone and their mom “videofies” their dolls with AI (the latest doll trend), let’s see what else brands were up to this week.
WM Doll
WM Doll shared new photos of their SS Series 165cm body with Head #SS167. I thought this head was quite glamorous before, but they took it up a notch with cute freckles and rosy blush.
SE Doll
SE Doll released a new silicone head called Cindy on their T167cm body. Last week, I didn’t realize that this body was new (on the cocoa-skin Liam), so I included more photos this time. The face looks interesting with some smoky eyeshadow, while the body has a thin waist and toned abs.
Elsa Babe
Speaking of new releases, Elsa Babe never disappoints with their latest Beatrice Alexander head. They seem to alternate between anime and this style, which has a cute dollish look.
Zelex
Zelex shared new photos of their SLE 163cm body with Head ZXE216. A combination seen many times, but I like the posing and outdoor theme here.
Fanreal
Stacking up on photos for weeks, Fanreal returned to unload 7 photosets in one swoop. Starting with a trippy photoset of 155cm Maria twins (one with ROS and one without), these photos give a good idea of how the 2 heads look side-by-side.
On the same body, they featured their cute Mo head on the 155cm body for the first time.
Next, the 162cm Xue returns with ROS mouth, which looks much more natural than their other ROS heads in my opinion.
Last, they dumped a boatload of torso photos featuring Carlee (ROS), Kelly, Vivi, and Ling. Apparently, there’s a debate whether torsos are considered dolls. As long as they have a head, I’d personally consider them dolls.
Lusandy
The new brand, Lusandy, returned with new photos of their 165cm Belle. Sexy girl-next-door vibes here.
CST Doll
CST Doll continued rolling out new heads. This time, with Rue Xiangxiang. She looks pretty cute, but despite being on the 162cm body, she seems somewhat small. Maybe it’s a camera effect or I’m just imagining it.
Ridmii
Ridmii released a new silicone head called Marissa (with ROS) that I think looks pretty good. I can’t say much about the TPE body though.
JX Doll
A long time ago, JX Doll made an Aerith lookalike doll (called Alice), but I always hesitated to show her (she was mainly on sketchy websites). But thanks to Rosemarydoll (for being the first reputable vendor to add her), I can finally make the “Aerith from Walmart” joke. Or I guess nowadays, it would be “Aerith from Temu.” JX also has a Tifa lookalike, and as you know, I like showing video-game dolls.
However, I’ve never seen these photo of her on a silicone 160cm body. She definitely looks a bit more premium here.
Realbotix
Last but not least, Realbotix is currently at the huge CES 2025 tech expo in Las Vegas. Like with EXDOLL Robotics, they more-or-less have nothing to do with sex dolls anymore, but it’s still interesting to see their progress from RealDoll’s “Harmony” to this. I noticed that they changed Aria’s voice to a more natural, American voice this time. Since it’s only the first of 4 days of CES, maybe there will be more videos later.
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Conclusion
That wraps up 2025’s first week of sex doll news. After a long year, brands took things easy, or are perhaps busy finishing up any orders before CNY. Still, SE Doll, Elsa Babe, and CST Doll had something new in the midst of all the new photosets. Realbotix at CES 2025 (the world’s largest tech expo) is pretty cool to see. Although they moved away from “sex” and toward information, AI, and business applications, they’re still the most advanced robots when it comes to human interaction and companionship.
Check out my MMX Doll post if you haven’t already here, which was a bonus segment to this. Otherwise, there wasn’t much news this week. Will there be one final push before CNY or are brands just wrapping things up for now? Stay tuned for more sex doll news!
Thoughts on 2025’s first week of doll news? Comment below!
Man, not much has changed with realbotix in the last ten years. I guess nature’s complexity is too much for humans to replicate.
There was definitely progress in the last few years, but their Aria robot looks about the same as last year. Creating a human-like robot is definitely hard as many brands like EXDOLL Robotics found out and have more-or-less given up. Ironically, Tesla’s Optimus is probably the most advanced right now and it’s still far from appearing human-like.
That Lusandy 165 cm body is really beautiful and I really like the Belle head, as well. You’re definitely right about the girl next door vibes! Do you really think that the hip measurement on that body is 100 cm? That’s what the vendors have it listed as, but it looks much smaller than that to me.
Unfortunately, it’s hard to know for sure without owning one. Usually, the specs on vendors’ websites are whatever the brand gives them – and sometimes brands give incorrect info (such as height and weight), so no one (except an owner of the doll) would know for sure.. If the photographer, CubikoMandos, is still on social media somewhere, you could try asking him, but he seems to have disappeared from social media. In other words, I can’t give a yes or no answer (because I don’t like to assume and potentially give wrong info) but I don’t think any vendors (unless they have one in-stock) know for sure either. Ultimately, it’s either taking Lusandy’s word or waiting until someone else orders one first.
Yeah unfortunately the Lusandy website lists 2 different measurements for the hip size on that model, one being 100 cm and the other being 83 cm, which is quite a big difference.
I think those dolls will eventually still be sex(y) dolls if we’re talking about realdoll…
And Riidmi yeah, they actually sent me a doll with like electronics in there as well. I am still waiting on it to arrive so I can unbox it.
Cool stuff again on your blog Stevey 😀
Hopefully yes. Otherwise, the “companionship” will just be a standing or sitting animatronic with AI chatbot.
Looking forward on your thoughts on Ridmii. Should be the same quality as SY Doll, which I’ve rarely seen reviews on. Have fun.
I would still also love to test out the MetaBox but I can’t buy a doll for it – to test lol… Anyway… Waiting on RealLady. Yesterday got a Zelex inspiration series to see if I Can fit the Realdoll AI HEAD sleeve into that body. Sadly the color is off so realdoll is laughing at me but I don’t care. At least this doll can stand lol… Can’t wait to see what’s next for you Steven / on the blog.
I’ve watched a few videos of the Metabox and it looked pretty bad to me.. I was waiting for a better video before showing it, but it never arrived. 😆 Sadly, WM’s innovations and electronics have noticably declined over the years..
One reason I don’t recommend mixing-and-matching brands is because the skin colors usually won’t match (among other things like head-to-neck ratio and gaps). If you don’t mind, then it’s fine. A RealDoll AI head sounds fun. Anyway, I don’t have any plans for the blog this year, but we’ll see haha.
So cool for realbotix. Good luck
They still have a long way to go, but their progress is interesting to watch.
Maybe we will finally get a normal ROS Maria with their third attempt.
I think maybe they’ve accepted and embraced this ROS head. Very rare to see a brand fix their ROS mouths for a few reasons, one of which is they’re not made in-house. The design is usually from suppliers that make it in one style/limited sizes like with articulated fingers.
Maria had another version of its head in size, and I think they changed ros once for Maria, but maybe it just seemed to me by mistake.
Feels like zelex and fanreal used the same supplier of ros, both look weird.
Yeah, I assume that most brands get ROS from the same supplier, then they slightly redesign their heads to fit it. It looks better on some brands than others. For example, Jiusheng’s ROS versions tend to have really long/wide mouths to fit the ROS.