48 Fun Facts About Bratz

Which former Mattel employee created the Bratz dolls?

Carter Bryant said he first sketched the dolls during a break from Mattel in 1998, but he sold the idea to MGA two weeks before leaving the company for good, which set off a decade of lawsuits.

Which original Bratz doll was named after the daughter of MGA's chief executive?

Yasmin takes her name from Jasmin Larian, who was 11 when her father asked what she made of the first sketch; she called it cute, and he bought the idea.

Driving past what gave Bratz's creator the idea?

A high school: he testified that teenagers leaving class in 1998 gave him the look, a date that mattered in court because he was between jobs at Mattel at the time.

Which redhead, nicknamed Funky Fashion Monkey, became the first girl added to the original four Bratz in 2002?

Meygan was written out within a year, said to have moved away in 2003, but the brand brought her back in 2004 and went on to remake her for several spin-off lines.

Three years after launch, Bratz knocked Barbie off the top of the fashion-doll charts in which country?

Britain's sales trackers put Bratz ahead in 2004, months after Mattel had Barbie break up with Ken; she had held the top spot since tracking began a decade earlier.

What does the M in MGA, the company behind Bratz, stand for?

Micro Games of America began by importing handheld electronic games from Japan and had never made a fashion doll before Bratz.

Isaac Larian, the businessman who brought Bratz to market, emigrated to the US from which country?

Iran is where Larian was born; he said he refused to label the dolls by race, and found girls in Brazil and in Israel each assuming the same doll came from their part of the world.

What nickname do her friends give Sasha, one of the four original Bratz?

Bunny Boo, her official bio explains, is for her love of 'the hip-hop thang', and the Babyz version of the doll came with a pet rabbit to match.

The Bratz animated series premiered on which US programming block?

4Kids TV, Fox's Saturday-morning block, carried the first season; when the show came back in 2008, every main voice had been recast with a Canadian actor.

The Bratz TV series is set in which fictional city?

Stilesville is in California, and its pun is spelled out elsewhere in the franchise: the Rock Angelz video game calls the town Stylesville.

In the Bratz TV series, what business do the four girls run?

A teen magazine, itself called Bratz, which the four start after Jade is sacked from an internship by a rival editor.

Burdine Maxwell, the villain of the Bratz TV series, is the boss of what?

Your Thing is where Burdine styles herself the 'Reigning Queen of Fashion' and sends her twin interns to steal the Bratz's ideas.

What nickname do the Bratz give Burdine's identical twin interns?

The Tweevils earn it by stealing a press pass, crashing a slumber party and trailing the girls on a camping trip to snap embarrassing photos, mostly on their boss's orders.

What is Burdine Maxwell's catchphrase in Bratz?

"Mother of Pink!" is the cry of the pink-suited boss whose sacking of Jade backfired: it pushed the four friends into setting up as her rivals.

Which Sister, Sister star voiced Sasha in season 1 of the Bratz TV series?

Tia Mowry voiced Sasha in season 1 and in films including Rock Angelz, but the role went to another actor when the show returned in 2008.

Which Big Bang Theory star voiced the twin Kirstee in Bratz?

Kaley Cuoco voiced Kirstee in Rock Angelz and the first season; when Bratz returned in 2008 with every main voice recast, she was a few months into The Big Bang Theory.

Byron Powell, the TV host in the Bratz TV series, leads a double life as what?

A spy: after a season of hosting contests, Byron confesses to the girls that he is an undercover agent and starts recruiting them for his missions.

The viral Bratz Challenge had social-media users doing what?

Copying the dolls' make-up, with oversized eyes and heavily outlined pouts, took off among beauty influencers and gave free publicity to a brand that had gone quiet.

The 2007 live-action Bratz film earned five nominations at which awards?

The Razzies shortlisted it for worst picture and gave its four leads a shared worst-actress nomination; both prizes went to Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me.

Which future Pretty Little Liars star played Jade in the 2007 live-action Bratz film?

Janel Parrish played Jade, a science geek who rebels against her parents' expectations by secretly wearing the latest fashions; Pretty Little Liars followed three years later.

Rotten Tomatoes' consensus calls the 2007 Bratz film 'too shallow even for' whom?

'Its intended audience' was the sting, yet that audience disagreed: opening-weekend cinemagoers gave the film a B+ CinemaScore even as critics panned it.

Which Oscar-winning actor plays the principal in the 2007 live-action Bratz film?

Jon Voight plays Principal Dimly, whose daughter Meredith, the queen bee, herds the four friends into separate cliques until a talent show brings them back together.

Which American Idol judge left the 2007 Bratz film before it was finished?

Paula Abdul's reality show Hey Paula showed her reading an e-mail that said the film no longer needed her; the studio blamed scheduling, and her own representative blamed the show's editing.

Which song from the 2007 Bratz soundtrack did Britney Spears later cover on Circus?

"Out from Under" was first sung for the film by Joanna Pacitti, who as a child won the lead in a Broadway revival of Annie through a Macy's contest, only to be dropped weeks before it opened.

Which publisher released Bratz: Rock Angelz and most Bratz video games of the 2000s?

THQ used the dolls to win over young girl gamers, and kept the series going with Bratz 4 Real, a tie-in to the 2007 film.

What did MGA's boss first think of the sketch that became Bratz?

Ugly, even weird, was his verdict; he went ahead only because his 11-year-old daughter, asked for her opinion, said the drawing was cute.

In Bratz: Rock Angelz, Jade is fired after rival interns trick her into bringing Burdine Maxwell what?

A cheeseburger: Burdine is outraged at being served carbs and sacks Jade on the spot, the injustice that pushes the four friends to strike out on their own.

What did each Bratz Babyz doll wear on a chain around its neck?

A baby bottle on a chain was standard issue for the 2004 line, which shrank the four friends into toddlers who were still fully made up.

The 2012 Bratz spin-off dolls called Bratzillaz were what kind of characters?

Witches, and friendly ones: MGA launched the line with the pun 'best witches', giving each doll a special power and a pet.

How are the Bratzillaz dolls of 2012 related to the original Bratz girls?

Cousins: MGA billed them as the Bratz's 'glam cousins' and named each one after a relative, so Cloe got Cloetta Spelletta and Sasha got Sashabella Paws.

The 2007 Bratz film gave an early screen role to the son of which Hollywood star?

Tom Hanks's son Chet plays Dexter, the science-club member who befriends Jade just as she discovers a talent for fashion design.

After complaints from a fathers' group, MGA renamed its Bratz Secret Date dolls as what?

Blind Date replaced the original name after the group Dads and Daughters said it encouraged girls to sneak out with strangers; each box still hid a mystery boy.

What nickname do the Bratz give Cameron, the Boyz character who is Cloe's love interest?

The Blaze, his bio explains, is 'because I'm hot'; Cameron and Cloe were hinted at as a couple from the very first Bratz film.

A 2006 labour-rights report said Chinese factory workers were paid how much for each Bratz doll they assembled?

$0.17 a doll, the National Labor Committee said, for staff working 94½-hour weeks, while the same doll cost $3.01 to produce and sold for about $16 in US shops.

Which body raised concerns about the sexualised image of Bratz dolls in a 2007 report?

The American Psychological Association's task force said the dolls' miniskirts and fishnets were tied to adult sexuality; MGA's boss told the BBC the report was 'a bunch of garbage'.

In 2005 MGA sued Mattel, claiming which Barbie line had copied the look of Bratz dolls' eyes?

My Scene had started out doe-eyed, MGA's complaint said, then turned sultrier and heavy-lidded to mimic Bratz; the suit accused Mattel of 'serial copycatting'.

A 2011 jury cleared MGA in the Bratz ownership fight and found that Mattel had stolen what?

Trade secrets: the retrial reversed a 2008 verdict in Mattel's favour, but an appeals court later threw out the trade-secrets award itself on procedural grounds.

The makers of Bratz sued which pop star in 2012 over delays to a doll based on her image?

Lady Gaga wanted the doll held back to tie in with her next album, MGA claimed, after it had been promised to shops for Christmas; her side called the $10 million claim meritless.

How did the Bratz dolls' bodies change in the brand's 2013 relaunch?

Two inches taller was the headline change, sold by MGA as the dolls 'reaching new heights'; the revamp did not last, and the brand was relaunched again in 2015.

Which new main character joined the Bratz lineup in the 2015 relaunch?

Raya, nicknamed Sun Rayz, joined the original four for the relaunch; confusingly, an unrelated Raya had already appeared with a 2007 hair-salon playset.

Which fashion illustrator designed the 2018 Bratz Collector dolls?

They were sold exclusively through Amazon and closely resembled the 2001 originals.

Which celebrity was turned into a line of Mini Bratz dolls in August 2023?

Kylie Jenner said she had wanted her own Bratz doll since childhood; when the dolls appeared, some online commenters complained their skin was darker than hers.

Characters from which 2004 film became limited-edition Bratz dolls in October 2024?

Mean Girls marked its 20th anniversary with Cady and the three Plastics as Bratz dolls, each packed with two outfits from the film.

Who was announced in 2025 as a producer of a new live-action Bratz film?

Kim Kardashian came aboard as a producer after a studio bidding battle, and was also being lined up to play the film's villain.

Which Bratz reality show of 2008 had teams of nine- to 14-year-olds compete in fashion challenges?

Bratz Design Academy ran for six weeks on Nickelodeon, with a prize straight out of Project Runway: the winner got to create real clothes for the dolls.

What was the first Bratz film, released straight to video in 2004?

Bratz: Starrin' & Stylin' was traditionally animated, a look dropped a year later when Rock Angelz moved the girls into computer animation.

MGA premiered its 2010 web series Bratz Rock on the homepage of which website?

YouTube's homepage hosted the first episode on 10 October 2010, a 10-10-10 date chosen for the brand's tenth anniversary, when ten new dolls also went on sale.

Which studio won a bidding battle in 2025 to make a new live-action Bratz film?

Amazon MGM beat rival studios to the rights, a turnaround for a brand whose first live-action film, in 2007, was savaged by critics.