If you have a 4- to 8-year-old girl, take note. They’ve “Bratz”-ified those little Trolls dolls. From the New York Times:

In a nondescript office building near the Ventura Freeway here, and in far-flung studios in Luxembourg and China, as many as a thousand animators, editors, sound engineers and the like are hard at work on what they intend to be the next obsession of 4-to-8-year-old girls.

Their handiwork involves an unlikely makeover: They are reinventing Trolls, the big-haired dolls once compared by the comedian Jimmy Fallon to Don King on Viagra, as Trollz, saucy little creatures who borrow a dollop of Phoebe from “Friends” and a dash of Summer from “The O.C.,” as well as pinches of Eeyore from “Winnie the Pooh” and Carrie Bradshaw from “Sex and the City.”

Trollz come prepackaged with an ethic, summed up as “B.F.F.L.”: Best Friends for Life. And they certainly have a look. “Instead of doing the post-Janet Jackson, Britney Spears thing, we went for Avril Lavigne, Hillary Duff, Jessica Simpson,” said Estevan Ramos, a stylist who worked with Ms. Spears and Christina Aguilera before he was hired to help create Trollz for DIC Entertainment…

Aggh! What’s next? Precious Momentz in micro-minis? American Girlz in Daisy Dukes?

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