Soom MD Lami [warning: image heavy, blank/nude doll]

So... here it is. Finally!!! I ordered Soom's MD Lami, the little demon/devil teenie gem, in April on a three-month layaway. The layaway plan was really reasonable, but I ended up paying him off in June. Seeing as this is my first doll from Soom, I didn't know that I'd still have to wait another month for my order to ship... it arrived today.

This was sort of a impluse buy, I have to admit >_< I know I wanted another tiny-sized doll and I happened to love Lami's surprised face... I planned to name him Remy and I could picture all the photostories I could do... but sadly, you'll see below why this was really disappointing for me and not worth the 4 month wait. I guess I learned my lesson... -_-
On to the photos:


I had to open the box in my parents' room, so please excuse the terrible lighting. Helping out today is Kaede & Myles.


More random blurry spam of Myles :>


First time seeing a Soom box, and will most likely be my last.


I am not a fan of fantasy styled dolls, but they do look gorgeous [when styled well]. The reason why I liked Lami was because he generally looked human, minus the pointy ears and horns. Plus he reminds me of Rin from Ao no Exorcist (indeed I was planning on a cosplay, of sorts..)


More clothes..aiee >_<


All the contents of the box~ (Hmm the zippered pouches are really convenient... I have really gotta get me one of those)


And here he is! Lami is actually on gender-neutral bodies [like Myles] but I really don't see this sculpt as a girl, so I planned it to be a boy. This is my first time also ordering a doll blank. I figured I could do the faceup myself since Soom's faceups seem kinda simple to me.

The main reason why I had doubts during the waiting was because in the owner's pics of those Lamis that arrived ... they looked really... peachy. The resin colour was supposed to be 'baby pink', but it just looks dark, fleshy pink in person and not light baby pink like in the promo pics. I was also worried that the resin would be translucent looking but it seems to be just the lighting.


This is the surprised head. Or the demon head, since it has fangs and pointy ears, which the human head doesn't have. If you look closely there is a little gunk of resin stuck near his tongue... unless it's supposed to be a tooth..? o_o


The gap between the headcap and head is pretty bad >_>


Chunks of resin near the neck hole... it seems like for some reason the S-hook isn't large enough or something because it almost went inside the neck >_< I think the neck hole should have been larger as well..


I open up the surprised head and...GWAH what the heck is this??! There's white stuff smeared all around the eye sockets, or is that all resin dust?! @@ I heard from others in the waiting rooms that the eye well/sockets of the heads are really thin... one person actually sent their head back to Soom because of this, but they said it was normal. Is this their way of reinforcing the eye sockets... or something? >_<


Cause they don't look thin, there is not much light going through... The two dents above the eyes are for the magnets for the horns... you have to glue in the magnets yourself. = =


They do glue in one magnet for you, the one in the butt for the tail. Or maybe they cast it into the resin because I can see a faint dark spot where the magnet is ...


Tiny gunks of resin between the fingers. T_T


Trident, 2 pairs of horns, tail and the magnets.


User manual, element card and back of the certificate.


The back of the elemental card. It looks interesting.


The good points about this guy is that Soom strung him up really well, he stands nicely and isn't kicky at all. Myles is scared.


The elbow joints of the teenie gems are also really interesting... and makes for really good posing.

I didn't get the sanding option but the seams weren't too bad. I've thought about selling just the human head since I don't really care for two heads, but now... I dunno. I thought [very briefly, lol] about giving Remy a chance and giving him a faceup and trying to make him work but seeing how he has so many tiny problems (why am I so nitpicky..?@@)... I don't want to deal with this. He feels like a kit doll and the resin colour... really bothers me. -_-

I don't get Soom's system. They churn out new dolls at amazing speed yet waiting for them is a different story. They may have superb customer service but instead I'd just prefer things to be done right the first time. I guess I got fooled by their brilliantly photoshopped pictures and more than reasonable payment plan... but I'm pretty keen on not letting this happen again.

Guess it's once of those things I gotta experience once. Soomed? Nope, didn't happen. >_< Sorry that this turned into a rant. I don't hate Soom... I think they produce gorgeous dolls, but I would prefer not to own any of them for the time being. u_u