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This website is dedicated to and all about Ball Joint Dolls: What they are, how they can be modified, how to make your own and where to buy them, as well as anything else that we can think of BJD- related! Click the links at the top to navigate the pages.
Dear Fellow BJD fans,
I wrote the original BJD WTF in 2006. It started off as notes that I took for myself as I grew more and more interested in buying a BJD. I wanted to know everything about them. Unfortunately, at the time, there were not a lot of English resources; and the ones that we did have, the information was spread out and hard to find. Tutorials and sometimes even doll sites had to be translated because there were just no English versions. When I realized this, I put the BJD_WTF on Livejournal for everyone to use freely. (It has since been translated in to several different languages by users who found it helpful.)
I continued to update little pieces over the years: a photo here, a tutorial there. I spent weeks collecting all of the information for the first version. Although it was never fully completed, it was still one of the largest English resource for several years. Over the last decade, I have answered thousands of questions about dolls on the BJD WTF and my private message on LJ. I tried to keep updating with new items as often as my real life allowed. The sheer number of positive emails and grateful comments that I have gotten is what keeps me updating...People are still using it! But after all this time, companies have closed, links have gone dead and styles have even changed a bit. Instead of trying to keep up with an outdated Livejournal, I decided to completely rewrite the BJD WTF. As great as LJ is for blogs, it just wasn't a great format for the amount of information. So here were are: BJD WTF V.2
This new version contains everything that the old version had in a much easier to navigate style. It also has much more, like new tutorials including navigating doll sites and a click by click tutorial on how to buy a doll, an easier to read Basic Care Guide and an expanded section on how to make your own BJDs. I've also completely redone the Shop page with new links and all of our old favorites. I hope you enjoy and that you learn something new about ball joint dolls.
One last note...I am happy to take corrections for anything you feel is incorrect but I have spent literally hundreds of hours compiling and laying out both versions of the BJD WTF, so lets keep it kind, okay?
Happy Dolling!
VinylFaerie
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