Bambi Blaze Belly members: Was it worth the money?

Hmm, I'm starting to think that that poop turtle guy, among others, had a point. While he wasn't always the most intelligent character, I'm starting to think that Bambi may have turned Stormr's site into a big scam.

Uptight? Jeez... No wonder I did not sign up on that site, and why does it have a $20 subscription fee? Sounds like either they are using special equipments or something to make the videos or keep the bandwidth up. Otherwise, I may think of it as a scam.

In the grand scheme of things, its not worth it realy. They up date once or twice a month. Most sites update once or twice a week, if not more. I should know as Ive helped run a couple of adult site in the past. And as Glob pointed out they went and split the site in half, forcing everyone to pay pretty much twice as much for half the content. I never could figure out the reason behind that. Now as to the quality, it is actually very high in my opinion...but even at its current level they should be turning out more then 1 or 2 videos a month for the money they are asking. And yes the several fan boys (cough AirWolf cough) are rabid! So watch it on the ExpansionMansion forums.

That's business.

They use the addictions with temptations to get their fans. If you look at the addictions of drugs and violence involving it, you'll probably see the resemblance.

I'm usually a guy who criticize for a habit, but that site should chill, they are making themselves look illegal.

no it was not worth the money... i paid for both sites subscriptions. It sucked.

Yes there's a lot more to the story.

I was waiting to hear back from LutherVKane before I addressed the 'hear say' in this thread. For the record, I've been a member here for over two years under an alias and Luther is aware of the reason why.

Regarding Inflate123: He didn't receive a refund because he had received content in exchange for his money. Inflate's ban: he was banned because he LINKED - let me say it again - LINKED his blog to the EM and our pay sites. In his blog he was trying to tear us down while promoting another similar business where HE had been given credit in their productions (one link after another led to the trail). We knew for a good two weeks about his blog before he was banned - a fan had PM'd me the direct link to Inflate's blog. At the time we did not realize he had the blog linked to our sites, when this came to our attention is when the ban took place, and this was a staff decision comprised of 10 people or so. What if his blog had read "BEA vs. Bambi" and was linked to the BEA. I wonder how Taylor (the BEA owner) would have reacted? I don't think he would have appreciated it either.

After some correspondence between Inflate & Dr Curvy we decided to lift his IP ban on the server. This occurred July 19th, and if Inflate decides to return that's his choice.

Personally, I'm glad there's someone new trying their hand at our fetish. I think it's good for the community and more content needs to be made available. However, we're not going to stand idly by while someone is using our platform to tear us down while trying to build up the new people. Critic or not, it doesn't work that way in the mainstream nor on the web. Call it 'uptight' all you want. It's nothing more than protecting what we've worked hard to build.

And degausser, for you to say "most of our member's have been steering clear" since Inflate's ban is a comment that strikes me as very odd. How would you possibly know that? This is a completely false statement. We've never had any bans occur that have affected our memberships.

Way back when before we opened the belly site we had put probably only two belly vids on bambiblaze.com. When we did this we got a LOT of resistance from our paying members at the boob site - they didn't want to pay for the belly. This is when we decided to open the belly site and it was a good decision. At the EM there's a large thread requesting me to open a butt site. That's the way people in our fetish are - some like it all, and some like just some of it and separated at that. There are different genre's within our inflation & expansion fetish.

Yes, we have gone up on the price. Hell, everything's gone up due to gasoline and stuff being transported. This is the world we live in right now, but maybe it'll get better. And aside from stuff costing more to be shipped, hosting has gone up, merchants take more of the $$, etc, etc, etc...

This is the MOST ridiculous thing I've seen said about me and those involved. Out of respect for Luther I'm not going to post my reply here but you can read it on my blog: http://bambiblaze.livejournal.com/

Frankly, if my blog hurts your feelings or makes you angry I really don't care. When you insult the community don't be surprised to get it back in return.

This has gone way off topic. Enought with the bambi hating already! Just cause she did something in the past that was wrong most of you have to nitpick at it. So can we please drop the hating and put this topic back on tract so to speak and for bellylover's question is it worth it for the 20$..yes it was. You might have to wait for 2 months or a month but just think of it as anticipation(I have a feeling I spelt that wrong...).

Well, Bambi, no hard feelings, I hope, I just told her the story as it was related here. Personally, I'm not a big fan of pay-for-video related sites, yours or anyone elses, because that's not what I'm into, so I may have come out as harsh against it.

Bellylovingprincess: If you want opinions, then here is mine. I don't subscribe, and I won't ever, not for any reason against Bambi, as she seems like a nice-enough person (she even posts free samples here sometimes, and not just teaser-stuff, pretty lengthy) but it's just not what I like. If it's stuff your into, then I would say do whatever you feel is in your best interest. One dude here suggested signing up for a month on a trial basis. That seems like a good idea to me. Sign up, watch some stuff, see if you like it, if you don't, then cancel.

Also, Bambi posted a couple free samples here . . . somewhere. If you haven't already seen them I suggest looking them up. That might help your deciding factor.

Hi degausser, I don't have any hard feelings either - toward you or anyone here for that matter. I say what I have to say and then I'm over it.

I understand there's been speculation so I don't fault anyone with assuming certain things.

I know I'm not everyone's cup of tea, and I know my content isn't perfect with plenty of room for improvement...those sort of comments don't bother me so much. And, when things are said that just aren't factual I typically let them roll off my back, but in the case of this particular thread there was just too much *smack talk* floating around. :wink:

Oh, and the occasional comment 'god, I hate Bambi's southern voice' that floats around from time to time...guess what? I hate it too! LOL! However, that is something that's completely our of my control. The only thing that gives me any solace in that is the occasional very sweet guy who PM's or emails me saying "OH god, Bambi your sexy southern drawl is such a turn on!" Heh...guess there's no accounting for taste. :D

Hi honey! LOL! I dunno...sometimes my cleavage hypnotizes me tho. 8O :D

I was at the beach a few weeks ago with my sis who thinks my boobs are waayyyy too big & she's kind of a prude too - totally different than me. Ha! Well, there were about 8 girls oh 25 or so feet away from us & they were totally lit & so was me and my sis. We drank about a gallon of Jameson Irish Whiskey between the two of us that week. Anyways, 3 of those girls came over to me with a camera making over my BIG boobs. They totally loved them and one girl leaned down to give me a pretend lick for a pic. My sis was sooooo stunned and if she hadn't of been there I would have pulled my bikini top down and really given them something to drool over. They said they were gonna email the pics to their hubbies. LOL! Those pics are probably plastered somewhere all over the net too. That's a really fun memory & sexy too - there was some massive cleavage going on in that shelf bikini top. :lol: :wink:

Who at any of my sites think of new people as 'weird'?

I have a zero tolerance policy in place against that sort of thing when it comes to explicit insults and degrading of someone who might like a particular genre in our fetish that might be considered not so popular. As an example, 'men who like to inflate' in the past got a hard road over that one...but not anymore.

I'd really like to know specific instances of this sort of thing happening.

Thx.

Doing regular updates on an inflation site is a little harder than a normal porn site. The props make it more complicated than just stripping your clothes off and looking pretty for a camera. You might be onto something with that no-dialogue idea, though.

Mastasia only rarely and only recently has put any dialogue in their videos. They also don't have any inflation, unfortunately, which must make it a little easier for them to film. They have only done expansion on TWO occasions, and it was off camera both times. Their props aren't 100% realistic, but they're as close as you can get and are good enough to suspend disbelief, plus the gals are pretty. I've been a member since the days when they were just a bunch of poser animations--I think the owner is a true expansion fan and the whole "Mastasia" world is like a whole fictional alternate universe that everything on the site is based around, even the bizarre giant boob fashions they wear. Lactation in every video, for those who are into that.

Farang Ding Dong creeps me out a little. I assume all the girls are over 18, but so many of them look like teenagers it's a little unsettling--especially in the cock-sucking videos. I haven't subscribed since the days when they literally appeared to be using air-balloons for boobs, but it appears the props are better now (flesh toned water balloons with nipples, I think?). There's no inflation. It's kind of like a third-world country version of Mastasia, though FDD has been around a longer.

M Taylor charges by the video instead of offering a subscription, so she can put out videos whenever the hell she wants to with no complaints from anybody. If you're really an inflation addict and want the complete library of inflation works of M Taylor, however, paying per video is going to be pretty expensive. I'm a little disappointed that some of the recent videos have been posted without a trailer or even a working preview gallery of images--that was one of the things I liked about that site. The props are kind of cheap looking especially the butt effects. In Delilah's last video they used a single balloon; looked like she had one giant butt cheek. The B-movie type growth camera tricks help make up for the cheap props a little, in the videos where she chooses to do them. The acting is hit and miss, but she brings in some surprising names, I'm guessing due to her ties to the porn community. I was like OMFG Daphne Rosen in a B.E. video!

Growth Dreams... I try to be fair and positive but I'm sorry I just don't like this site. I don't know what bad blood M Taylor has with them, but I have to agree that their B.E. videos are crap. The props are cheap, the effects are cheap, the acting is bad, and every video is literally an exact copy of all the videos before it except with a different actress. They are basically everything that people falsely accuse Bambi's site of being.

Which brings me back from my tangent and on to the topic of this thread. The two biggest things (besides her tits) that I would point to as worth the price of admission versus other sites would have to be that she has the most realistic body inflation props that actually expand in real time, and she delivers on her commitment to keep making her props better. Also, Bambi is a true inflation fetishist--with the exception of the unseen mysterious owner of Mastasia and the Farang Ding Dong guy, I can't say that for any other live action inflation site. For those folks tossing around malicious words like "scam" and "illegal," all I can say is what you see is what you get. There are multiple preview pics displayed for every video on the site and although about two or three years ago they attempted to adhere to a weekly update schedule, there is really no official update schedule posted as a condition of membership. I don't see how that is either a scam or illegal, especially when anybody with functioning eyeballs can scroll down the update history and see how often the site gets updated before they subscribe. What you also get is the full library of all videos to date plus picture galleries from back when they used to do those. If M Taylor had a similar library of inflation videos, you'd have to pay a ton of money to buy them all. When the updates aren't happening fast enough for your tastes, there is nothing to stop you from canceling and coming back later as some folks suggested. Their credit card processor is a little flaky and requires you to enter some code from when you first subscribed, but if you lose your code just send her admin an email or post in the site issues forum and they'll take care of it. Also, updating regularly alone isn't enough to make a site good. I've had memberships at many sites that updated regularly, but only one in every three or four updates was ever really worth the price of admission for my personal tastes (cough... BE Story Club...cough). Bambi's always trying to improve her stuff and is always looking for suggestions from visitors. Her props are top notch--as close to real balloon boobs as you can get--and keep getting better (even lactating now...no idea how the hell you make a balloon inflate with air AND lactate like a fire hose but somehow they did it), her effects are improving, and I think her team is learning as they go along. Most of her old videos were basically 10 minute first-person monologues that looked like they were filmed in one take. I've never done any acting but to me that sounds pretty hard to do, and I do think her acting has suffered as a result. I think the introduction of multiple takes and more video editing will actually help improve the acting and dialogue--and as Mixmaster suggested maybe some Mastasia-style silent movies would be a good experiment. Personally, I'd like to see the outtakes and blooper reels make a comeback as filler between updates, or just some normal stuff like dancing to music while her boobs inflate or something. She also gets a lot of flack for the way she moderates her free site, but any site that actively moderates it's forums is going to have to bring down the mod hammer on a lot of people, especially a forum that bans anything even remotely child-related do to crazy restraints by their ISP or something. Also, one site she hosts that gets some comments but probably not nearly as much applause as it truly deserves is Expansion Comics. A couple weeks ago I think they had their first late update, EVER (only by like a day or two), and almost every single comic is worth the price of admission, and some of them (like Tekweapon's stuff) is worth more than price of admission IMHO.

That's probably about as fair an assessment as I can give for all of the live action inflation paysites I've ever joined. Solely my own opinions, of course. YMMV.

Sorry for the lack of paragraphs. I was in a hurry (supposed to be studying right now).

Wren

No worries. That's me. :)

Wren

I'm here, too! =D

-Crickets chirping-

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~A

I think that's pretty steep for some bad quality videos.

We'll be posting some new "test trailers" soon from some of our current content (which will include inflation/expansion) that will have special effects included from the new GS software. These will be at Youtube, Dailymotion, and on the free pages of my sites.

Our "3" new props coming out are ones that have never before been seen (like the inflating with lactating), and I'm really excited about these too.

Wren, thanks for your fair assessment. I've seen content created by everyone that you've mentioned and I think what you've said is on the mark. Inflation/expansion is one of my fetishes too and I like to purchase content from other creators for 'my kink' and to help support more future content being created for our community. I especially like Mastasia for the huge boobs, the lactation, and their girls are HOT.

Hi Gl0bSl0b, a handful of others have asked me if I plan to offer my movies for purchase as a single download. I may do this down the road with some brand new exclusive content we're in the process of producing, but I'm on the fence about it because I want my members to feel they're getting a fair price for the content especially considering we have close to 150 movies in the member's section with both sites combined. :wink:

I second the FDD comments. Farang is Thai for "foreigner". I'll leave it to the rest of you to figure out what the title means.

When I went to there a few years ago, they handed me a pamphlet advising against child porn right off the plane. Whether that tactic is effective, who knows, but it didn't give me a good impression.

My guess is that he's some old dude living it up in Thailand milking the exchange rate (even now) by exploiting the huge prostitution trade over there. I'd rather watch gay porn than support that, frankly. You can even see it in their faces! (cringe)

Hi (again) Wren...another thought,

You're right *we are learning as we go*, and we've learned a lot so far. I've thought about this particular point you've made about our effects & our props. One of the biggest & most important things that we've come to realize over the last few years is this:

The better we get with the variety and realism with our props the more my fans have come to expect and anticipate better & bigger things, and that's 'OK' because we understand it and we want our fantasies to appear to be as real as they possibly can be too. Also, because our content is all about special effects we feel that not only are we competing against ourselves (due to the fact that we keep raising the bar) but we're also (to a degree) having to compete with special effects in the mainstream market - which are by far better than anything we'd ever have the budget to produce. However, people get accustomed to a certain standard and can tend to expect that in other venues as well. I see a lot of kick ass special effects in big screen movies and think 'why can't we do that'...lol! But I know it's just a pipe dream to a big degree.

People may tend to look at our stuff and critique it, but keep in mind "it's not easy & it's not cheap". Over the last several years we've put a LOT of the $$'s the sites have brought in back into making better quality props & productions and we'll continue to do so because that *bar* will still be there to surpass. I've always been an overachiever & sometimes it can drive me nuts because I want it ALL right now - but that's just who I am. :wink:

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Dude? Who the fuck are you? And WTF are you posting on here for? I'm not going to bother talking shit about you...I'll just say GO THE FUCK AWAY!

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