I've been reading thru this thread and I love hearing about everyones' dolls and toy collections, and seeing the pictures!
I was in a Tuesday Morning store a couple years ago, and saw a few cute small BJDs in white collectors' boxes by Jun Planning. I didn't catch their names, but one was a little girl dressed kind of like Little Red Riding Hood, or a little girl from a fairy tale. The other one (and the one I liked best) was a sleeping little girl who came with an adorable little knitted cradle. I still kinda regret not having bought her...just looking at her tugged at my heartstrings the way seeing a real live baby does. I didn't know much about BJDs at the time, though, and was worried that I had no place to display her or expertise at properly maintaining her.
As far as toys go, I've always been more of a stuffed animals/plushies kind of person....I also have collections of Disney Tsum Tsums, Beanie Babies, Smurfs, die cast Cars, Hallmark Itty Bittys, and at one point, My Little Ponies. Just smallish toys that have a nice texture/feeling/friendly faces/good stimmy qualities or a "friend-like" demeanor about them.
I did have a few Barbies I liked as a kid, tho....I think my first one was a Barbie with a neon and glitter-splattered one-piece suit and purple roller skates. The others were Barbies of Anastasia and Demetri (sp?) from the
Anastasia movie. Nearly every photo of me as a kid shows me holding some kind of stuffed animal....except during those photo ops where I was made to be without one, such as in family or school photos, but even then I had some kind of object in my hands to stim with, as a sort of compromise.