Hi Lyrra, and all the other's who asked the same question :) I find the question fascinating, and intend to provide my own so called 'reasons', but this is meant to be an open conversation about, and not a justification for one view or the other. I made Shazam because the style appealled to me, and not for any specific market considerations - Bratz or otherwise. In fact I didn't know what a Bratz was until somene else brought it up. So I wasn't trying to catch-a-wave, just using my existing talents to amuse myself. I'll have to say, the interest shown from other people was absolutely the impetus to create a full-blown product. If it hadn't been for the interest of certain specific individuals here at Rend, it would have remained on my HD along with the 100+ other ideas that I founds amusing but no one else did :) So why is it appealing? I'm not a psychologist so I'm guessing, but my own pet theory is this: When people look at each other they focus on the face. I don't mean boy/girl interaction, but day-to-day occurances at work, on the subway/bus, with your parents/ etc. There is a REALLY big chunk of your brain assigned with the 'look' of other people, and the largest part of that is with their facial features. Similarly, there is an overly huge part of you brain allocated to hand and finger manipulation simply because you need good eye-hand coordination to even exist. Perhaps not (and hopefully not) in this day and age, but the average person uses their hands and the individual digits so much that there has to be a significant amount of your brain allocated to handling it, no matter how subconscious that may be. Thirdly, the other most common human task is to move about, and baring accidents and deseases, the most often used method is walking. ... The most important aspect of walking is your feet, so I think you proabably have specially built neuronal nets to deal with that. So with those three facts, I think the most important parts to a person genetically are facial recognition, hand-eye coordination, and transportarion of your body/brain round and abouts where ever it wishes to go. So my basic theory is that people are interested in those things because they are the most important to them in day-to-day life. I think you're brain actually reseverves 'extra' brain cells to keep trak of some of those things. So... The big head isn't strange because it partially mirrors our own genertic/neuronal makeup of concentrating a LOT of our internal processing power on specifically that task. Similar for the hands... Although you don't spend much time thinking about what your hands are doing, they definately have control of a much larger group of nuerons than their size would warrant The feet the same - If you stub your toe and stumble, your brain and hands won't help much except to cushion the fall. If you happen to be being chased by 'something' dangerous at the moment, having the ability to 'fall nice' probably isn't as useful as being able to run fast. So that's my story... I think people are amused, fascinated, appaled, and reviled simply because that image played into their own genetic pre-delection and pre-focus on facial, hand and feet images. The two most common 'fetishes' are hand and foot, and if you have a fetish for looking at peoples faces, then you're just normal :) Enough of me, I'd like to hear where this goes...