Bratz: Fashion Pixiez (2007) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bratz: Fashion Pixiez (2007)

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• On December 21, 2006, the National Labor Committee reported that workers making Bratz dolls in China labored 94½ hours a week for $0.515 an hour, and that labor cost just $0.17 per doll.
• In July 2012, MGA Entertainment sued Lady Gaga for $10 million, accusing the singer, according to the BBC, of "deliberate delays to the release of a doll based on her image."
• The parental group Dads and Daughters objected to the Bratz Secret Date collection, whose boxes paired a Bratz girl with a mystery Boyz doll, a rare Bryce appeared in only one of every 24, saying it encouraged girls to sneak out on blind dates with strangers.
• Artist Bernard "Butch" Belair sued Mattel and MGA in 2009, saying his Steve Madden shoe-ad designs were pilfered after Carter Bryant testified he was inspired by Madden ads in Seventeen; in 2011 MGA won, with the judgment saying Belair could not monopolize the concept of an absurdly large-headed, long-limbed, fashionable woman.
• U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson granted Mattel a permanent injunction against MGA in December 2008, but the Ninth Circuit stayed it in December 2009, halting the planned recall of all Bratz products and letting retailers keep selling them.
• In April 2011 a federal jury returned a verdict supporting MGA, and that August the court ordered Mattel to pay MGA $310 million for attorney fees, stealing trade secrets and false claims, rather than the $88.5 million issued in April.
• In 2007 the American Psychological Association raised concerns about the body image and lifestyle Bratz allegedly promoted, its Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls citing the dolls' "adult-like sexuality."