Avatars and Marketplace not working?

So I've just started up Minecraft for the second time when I came across this, and I notice that two of my avatars are missing, I try to reload them; no joy. Then I just decided to remake my avatar, and everything on the avatar creator and marketplace is gone; I only have Steve and Alex's sprites.I tried to see what's going on in the marketplace, and no one is calling this in, so I am. So what is going on with the marketplace? It cant be my connection, so its something else.