News Updates

GoGa Doll Lite's Panels Schedule

1-2pm - Ms. Cholong's Crazy Cool Dolly Game
2-3pm - Dr. Seiji's Faceup Demo
3-3:30pm - Restringing with Kelly

Every Hour - Free Door Prize Drawing
2pm (approx) - Setup and display of Photo Op Fers
3:30-3:45pm - Closing Door Prizes

GoGa Doll Lite - Sales Room

GoGaDoll Lite welcomes the following popular vendors to our April 17th event!

Vitta Vera

Lavender Kiss

Dollheart USA

Contemporary Artist Dolls

All of our vendors have promised to bring fresh new items for sale! Have nothing to swap? Well, peruse our salesroom!

DollHeart Fer Photo Op

Bring your girl or boy in their favorite Dollheart Fer outfit.
We will photograph the event and send to Fer creator Pasu Lau of Dollheart!
We will be raffling off free gifts supplied to us by Dollheart to all participants!

Pricing for Swap Meet

We have just posted the price for a swap meet space at GoGaDoll Lite!

The charge will be $10.00 for each space, to be used by up to 2 attendees - this is in addition to the general admission charge.

Swap meeters will be allowed onto the premises 45 minutes to 1 hour before the doors open for regular attendees. Swappers can use that time to setup their space and conduct business and trades before the general public is admitted. They will also be eligible for free tickets for the hourly raffles as will general admission participants.

More Information on the Swap Meet Spaces

Swappers! Do you have wigs, eyes, clothes that your resin kidz no longer wear?

Or dolliez searching for a new home? Bring them to GoGaDoll Lite and swap them for something or someone new!

20 swap spaces are available, each measuring 4' X 5' for your swapping pleasure!

It will be first come, first served on the swap meet spaces!
Entry for the swappers will begin about 11:00-11:15;
General admission entry will be at 12 noon.
Bring lots to sell and trade! Make your dream bjd deal at GoGaDoll Lite!

GoGaDoll Lite - 2010

From the staff that brought you GoGaDoll in 2009 and Dollectable in 2007 and 2008, comes a spring event that will take place in San Francisco!

GoGaDoll Lite - a swap meet and gathering for all BJD fans!

When: Saturday, April 17th, 2010, from 12-4pm
Where: The Harvey Milk Center for the Recreational Arts, 50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA
What: A swap meet, with hourly panels, door prizes, and bjd comradery!
General Admission: $5.00
Swap Meet Space: $10

Our location overlooks Duboce Park and is next to the Lower Haight which will also offer photo ops for your BJDs - there will be plenty of 'human' lawn at the park for your picnic and will be perfect for meeting up with bjd friends!

More details to come, including pricing on swap meet spaces, and parking information! Please keep checking this the site for updates!

If you have any questions, please forward them to ggdlite@gogadoll.com

Alex

Thank you for a great 2009 con!

I just wanted to pop in with a wrap-up message for GoGaDoll 2009. It really was a fabulous con and I'm so happy to have heard from so many attendees who had a great time!

I want to pass on some thanks to everyone who bought raffle tickets to support our two charities, Little Brothers, Friends of the Elderly and Farm Sanctuary. After balancing the books, while we took in a total of $2,344 in raffle ticket sales, we were able to round the number up to $2,400 or $1,200 to each of our charities. These are small organizations and this sort of amount really makes a difference to them. So, from Gina and Bob at Little Brothers and Zoë at Farm Sanctuary, many, many thanks!

Finally, I know that I've gotten a lot of questions about our plans for next year. For most of the staff, while this was the first year for GoGaDoll, this was the third BJD con that we have worked on. While putting on the cons has been super rewarding for all of us, it's also a lot of hard work in addition to our other responsibilities and by the end of this one, we were just exhausted. Plus, as you know, it was also something of a financial struggle for us, especially with filling our hotel quota. Had we known that two months after we signed the hotel contract the economy would tank, we might have rethought doing the con at all. Luckily, everything worked out just fine, thanks to our wonderful attendees and donors, but since the economy doesn't seem to be improving any time soon, the staff at GoGaDoll has decided that it probably would be wise to take a year off and see how things are going next year for a 2011 con. However, our friends in Austin are having a BJD convention next August and we encourage everyone to support them. And please be sure to watch the GoGaDoll website and DoA for news of a future con!

So, again, thank you everyone who attended or donated to GoGaDoll 2009! It was definitely a con by fans, for fans and it wouldn't have happened without you!

I really, really can't thank our attendees, vendors, Guests of Honor, contributors, volunteers and staff enough for all coming together to create a wonderful con! The con really is by fans, for fans and it wouldn't happen without a team effort on everyone's part. Thank you, everyone, and big hugs!

Kelly

Contest Winners

Costume

Photography

Video

Lost and Found!!

There were a few lost items from the conventino that were turned into the Registration desk:

Please email volunteers_asst@gogadoll.com with a description of the items to claim them.

Pre-registration is now closed!

Pre-registration for GoGaDoll is now closed. To gain access to the convention, you will now have to register at GoGaDoll. Please see our Registration page for more information.

Newest Guests of Honor: Lyn Raftis of esthetics by lyn, and Cheryl Austin, aka SDink

We are pleased to announce two more very special Guests of Honor: Lyn Raftis and Cheryl Austin! Lyn Raftis, of esthetics by lyn, or Thelyn, has been quietly providing faceups to the BJD community since 2005. Cheryl Austin, aka SDink, is a well known faceup artist whose work has been featured in FDQ and other publications. Lyn and Cheryl will be joining us for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, as well as presenting a demonstration of their amazing faceup techniques.

Peak's Woods' Hyunjeong Lee and Kyungmin Lee are our newest Guests of Honor

GoGaDoll is pleased to welcome Hyunjeong Lee, also known as Pan on DoA, and Kyungmin Lee, the owner and designer of Peak's Woods dolls, as our newest Guests of Honor to the convention. Not only has Peak's Woods been offering beautiful and unique dolls for five years, but they have also recently done two popular collaborations with Haute Doll, DollHeart and Val Zeitler, the Marie Antoinette and Halloween collections.

The Peak's Wood philosophy is best expressed in Pan's own words:

" The Peak's Woods company was built on a dream of love for BJD in 2004, and the concept for their dolls is that they are each fairies. Peak's Woods' SD size dolls are called 'fairies of color' (FOC), and there are also 'fairies of bugs' (FOB) that are MSD sized dolls: each doll has its own symbolic color or bug. Peak's Woods meets doll lover's expectations and requests with strict principles and pride: everyone is truly welcome to Peak's Woods."

GoGaDoll featured on BJDcollectasy

The convention is featured in an article on BJDcollectasy. Read the article here.

DollHeart's Golden Fer - exclusively at GoGaDoll!


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Presenting a GoGaDoll Exclusive: DollHeart's Golden Fer for SD10/13 Girls. Limited to 40 sets.

Everyone is familiar with the exceptional quality of DollHeart's BJD clothing. Now, we are excited to present a fashion designed exclusively for the Golden Gate Ball Jointed Doll Association Convention, and only for registered attendees.

Golden Fer by DollHeart commemorates GoGaDoll's inaugural convention taking place on June 19-21, 2009. The dress is made in a never before used golden color and comes with a coordinating coat and accessories. Please note the very first extra special designer touch – gold-tone buttons!

Available only to registered convention attendees, the set is priced at $98.55, which includes CA sales tax (paypal payments to add 2.8% unless outside of the U.S., then it is 4%). (These figures have been updated as of April 1, 2009. We will honor the earlier price for sets purchased before this update.) There are two ways to purchase the set:

  1. Paid in full and may be picked up during the convention
  2. Accepting a non-refundable deposit of $25, with the balance to be paid and pick-up made during the convention

Don't wait until the GoGaDoll convention to purchase this extra special fashion. Being limited to only 40 sets worldwide, it is likely to be sold out before the event. Please email Richard Yep or Yvonne Li with your order, and we will confirm your registration.

There are more pictures of the Golden Fer here.

And the theme is...

The theme for the Costume Contest, Friday night Cocktail Party and a special event on Sunday afternoon has been decided:

Weddings – San Francisco Style!

Did you know that Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married at San Francisco's beautiful City Hall in 1954? San Francisco is a city of beauty and romance, and since the convention is in June, what better time to celebrate life and love?

There's no reason to limit yourself to just the City by the Bay for ideas. Weddings can also include everything from the Bride of Frankenstein to a shotgun wedding to a Vegas bride. Let your imagination run wild for the costume contest or the cocktail party.

Vendor Registration

Vendor registration is now up and running! Please see our Vendor page for detailed floor plans and registration information. Many booths have already been claimed – more than are indicated on the map, as they are going so fast we are having trouble keeping up with updates. Please email Kiya at vendor_relations@gogadoll.com to confirm your chosen booth location before registering.

GoGaDoll 2009: Golden Gate BJD Expo – San Francisco – June 19-21

I am pleased to announce the new name and shiny new website of THE San Francisco BJD convention, GoGaDoll – The Golden Gate Ball-jointed Doll Expo. GoGaDoll is put on by most of the same volunteer BJD-collector staff who brought you Dollectable and will be at the same wonderful hotel, The Holiday Inn Golden Gateway. This year’s dates will be June 19-21, 2009 and...

Registration is now open!

We listened to all the feedback we got for this year’s convention and have made a few exciting changes:

We were able to negotiate the same great rate with the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway as we had last year, $149 a night, and also reserved a few more double rooms than before. We will post a link for reservation soon, but in the meantime, you can call (415) 441-4000 or (866) 272-7098 and reference GoGaDoll Convention 2009. The reservation cut-off date is May 28, 2009, so be sure to reserve early!

If you have any questions, please check our website for contact information for specific departments, or feel free to email me at director@gogadoll.com.

I can’t wait to see you all at GoGaDoll 2009!

Kelly

First Guest of Honor: Charles Stephan of Charles’ Creature Cabinet

Charles Stephan made a surprise visit to our convention in 2008, but even though he wasn’t specifically scheduled for any programs, he proved to be such a popular attendee that we asked him back next year to be one of our Guests of Honor. Charles is the designer of the adorable little pig anthro, Elfdoll’s Alice Cherry Blossom, and recently started his own BJD company, Charles’ Creature Cabinet, featuring the whimsical Woodlings. Charles will be involved in several not-to-be-missed programs at GoGaDoll, including an exclusive talk with the designer and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.