Iplehouse Dylan

Dylan is a big guy, a limited EID, and he's a pretty boy. He definitely has that "fallen angel" vibe. You can get him in realskin, as shown above, or in WS with a special, rather expensive faceup:

The outfit is separate from the crown and staff; you can order each one separately when you order Dylan--for example you can skip the staff, and just order the crown, or order the crown and not the staff, or Dylan blank with the crown. Painting for the crown and staff is expensive, and the crown does need some assembly (that said, it's awesome). Iplehouse is offering some small incentives if you order him as a fullset with painting (total comes to 1389.00 plus another 85.00 or so for EMS. Here is the breakdown:
667.00 base doll
93.00 real skin (ws is no charge)
19.00 mobility thigh (you can get either Model or Superhero body)
121.00 for the special makeup
128.00 for the Hades Clothing Set (It looks like you can order two? Not sure, option is 256)
151.00 Crown painted (not assembled)
250.00 Spear painted

You can fiddle with this, the normal makeup is 56.00 (type B). Ordering the fullset gets you as a perk the nice glass eyes, value 28.00 --I assume they are the small iris shown in the doll, but you should ask, and you get 30 savable points--I usually save mine to cut the shipping costs.

 If you are willing to skip the incentives, you can buy similar eyes from KoK (you still pay shipping), get Dylan in Normal or WS with the Standard faceup, get the crown and spear unpainted. I'd still pay for the mobility thigh.
667.00 base price
  19.00 mobility thigh
   56.00 default type B faceup
128.00 Hades outfit
  50.00 crown, unpainted
138.00 staff, unpainted
total: 1058.00 and then another 85 ish for EMS

I grumble about Iplehouse's huge shippers, but when you order something like this, the extra space in the shipper allows Iplehouse to put things like the staff and crown (and outfit) into separate boxes from the actual doll. The presentation is quite nice, judging from other people's box openings on Den of Angels.

Dylan is too large for me, even aside from the price--and J goes today to spend the same amount, out of pocket, at the dentist. :p Unlike the dentist, Iplehouse will let you do layaway. I assume eventually Iplehouse will do a shrink ray on Dylan to make an FID version, and then I might get him as a companion to Miho. I really like that smaller size, it's much more manageable in space and cost.


Just blank, Dylan looks rather sweet :D