The battle between Barbie and Bratz dolls is getting personal.

Isaac Larian, the colorful head of MGA Entertainment, the company behind Bratz dolls, tried to buy Barbie maker Mattel three times and failed. So now he’s looking to pick off his rival’s employees.

“Attention #Mattel employees Mattel Inc. We are HIRING,” the MGA CEO wrote on his Linkedin profile last week. The maker of the popular L.O.L. Surprise! dolls implored Mattel employees to “please apply” and “to bring a friend. We will pay you cash for each.”

It’s not a joke — though Larian, 65, adds to the post a photo of himself wearing a black, curly, wig decorated with bows and dolls.

It is the latest skirmish between rival toy makers, who have been embroiled in litigation over the past dozen years — stemming from a dispute over a Mattel toy designer who joined MGA and helped to launch the Bratz brand.

The feud has led to three failed attempts by the billionaire toy mogul to acquire Mattel, most recently in June. Each time he has been rebuffed by Mattel’s board. He also tried to acquire Toys R Us out of bankruptcy.

According to Larian, MGA has already succeeded in hiring Mattel’s head of US marketing, Hailey Sullivan, who will be chief marketing officer at Los Angeles-based MGA in the coming weeks.

Larian says Mattel brass told Sullivan on her way out not to recruit other Mattel employees, which only infuriated the MGA boss and prompted the LinkedIn post.

“She was warned by Mattel HR not to solicit other Mattel employees which is totally inappropriate,” Larian told The Post in an e-mail.

Sullivan, who has not started her new job, could not immediately be reached for comment. Mattel declined to comment.

Larian also reached out to Mattel’s chief executive, Ynon Kreiz, and legal counsel, Robert Normile, according to an e-mail he shared with The Post.

“We are very glad to have her [Hailey Sullivan]. She’s great,” he wrote last week. “I am just putting you and your boss (Ynon) on notice that if you play any of your nonsense games and intimidation of employees (as you did before) we are coming after you.”

The company has at least 29 positions open in marketing, Web design, social media and other areas, according to its website. While MGA is privately held, there’s little disputing its meteoric growth fueled by a bevy of mega hits, including L.O.L. Surprise!, which was the hottest toy in both 2017 and 2018.

MGA is on track to grow by 40 percent, Larian said.

“We have so much NEW products and brands that we need more marketing to drive the already strong sales,” Larian boasted to The Post.

Some potential job applicants asked on Larian’s LinkedIn whether MGA was only looking for Mattel employees.

At least one toy executive applauded the spat.

“This is your best smack talking yet. That wig…,” Sean Murphy, owner of fellow toy maker My Company, wrote.