Spice Girls merchandise
Spice Girls
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Videos
One Hour Of Girl Power
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Girl Power! Live In Istanbul
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Live At Wembley Stadium
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Spice Girls In America - A Tour Story
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Other Merchandise
Spice Girl Chocolate
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Spice Impulse
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Spiceworld Pepsi
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Spice Chupa Chups
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Dolls
In 1997, Galoob Toys released the Spice Girls Dolls based on the popular girl-group, the Spice Girls.
The dolls became a huge hit during the Christmas seasons of 1997, 1998. 11 Different sets of dolls were released. A "Sound Stage" playset was released and extra costumes "Spiceworld Fashions" alongside the "Spice It Up 2" set were also released. The most sought after line of all the dolls is the original "Girl Power" set. The set features Geri in her iconic Union Flag dress. Dolls featuring the girls with outfits from their music videos were planned, but never released. When Geri Halliwell departed from the group in May of 1998, Galoob continued the line, but with only the four girls. Galoob was subsequently bought by Hasbro. Hasbro continued the line until 2000. The company stopped the line when the sales began to heavily decline. Toymax, later made Singing and Talking Dolls, but they were not popular and many fans thought they were ugly. The dolls are now collectables and can be found on Ebay. Some of the dolls now are very rare and collectable, especially the "Girl Power" & "On Tour" sets that have joints in their arms and legs, and the Spice It Up 2 set with the Spiceworld fashions. Many knock-offs of the dolls have been made, most notably the "Girls Power" dolls and the "Spicy Collections" dolls that don't bear the girl's name.
Five dolls:
- "Girl Power"
- "On Tour" (2 versions of Posh were made, original with long hair, 2nd with new short bob)
- "Superstar Collection" (5 dolls in 1 box)
- "Spice It Up!"
- "Concert Collection"
Four dolls:
- "On Stage" (Pre-production Geri was created, but never produced and sold)
- "Spice It Up 2"(Again pre-production Geri was created, but never produced and sold)
- "Viva Forever 1" (Including the Viva Forever fairy finger puppets) - Hasbro
- "Viva Forever 2" (Including the Viva Forever videotape) - Hasbro
- "Talking Dolls" - Toymax
- "Singing Dolls" - Toymax
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Other Merchandise and Promotions
Cadbury Chocolate: Several chocolate bars, assorted boxes, and holiday confectionaries featuring the girls individually or as a group were produced.
Chupa Chups: Several different tins filled with assorted lollipops featuring a different girl were among the many products released, but the most widely produced was the "Fantasy Ball" Chupa Chups with six different packages each featuring a collectible sticker. In addition, Pushpops, Crazy Dip, and toy microphones were also produced.
Walkers Crisps: In this promotion, over 51 different packaging designs created, with 10 for each member, plus a group package. In addition, the girls starred in two different television adverts for the products.
Pepsi Cola: The girls were featured on several cans and bottles of Pepsi throughout Europe. Promotional give-aways included collectible drinking glasses and a music single. The girls also starred in three different television adverts for Pepsi all featuring the song "Move Over (Generation Next)".
Polaroid: A regular Polaroid instant camera with a pink-and-purple shell and Spice Girl badging was produced along with a Spice Girls branded disposable Polaroid camera and flashlight. Each of the girls filmed a television advert promoting new types of Polaroid-brand film (i.e. black & white, writable, etc.), in addition to making a group advert.
Impulse Deodorant: The girls launched a fragrance known as "Impulse Spice", In addition deodorant and shower gel products were also produced. One television advert was made for the product.
Play Station: "SpiceWorld", a video game featuring computer-animated cartoons of the girls was developed in 1998.
Aprilia Scooters: 5 different scooters, each promoting a Spice Girl, were created and marketed as the "Spice Sonic Effect"
ASDA: British supermarket chain ASDA, created over 40 different Spice Items for Christmas 1997 developing goods such as party supplies, official merchandise, and even Spice Girl branded kids meals in the stores' restaurants.
Tesco Supermarkets: An ad campaign celebrating Christmas with the Spice Girls was created in 2007.
Channel Five (UK): The girls appeared in several promotional print ads, recorded a song (1,2,3,4,5!), and filmed a music video for the song which was the first clip/program ever broadcast on Britain's fifth terrestrial television network in 1997.
Domino Sugar: Spice Girls promoted the sugar, and the company was a sponsor of their North American tour, with clips being played before shows and during intermission on video screens.
Target Stores: American discount retailed was one of the largest suppliers of official Spice Girls merchandise in the United States, usually devoting an aisle to products such as bikes, school supplies, party supplies, and toys.
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Availability of Products
At the height of the 1990s Spice-mania, stores could not keep up with the demand for products. In addition, several unofficial products were created by numerous low-end manufacturers hoping to capitalize on the phenomenon.
Oddly, the United States received much of its merchandise later on than most countries, and did not receive several products. Some of the official products sold as late as 1998 did not feature the band's then-current Spiceworld logo and featured the band's original "Spice" logo. Most of the food products (apart from the Chupa Chups brands and a solely U.S.-produced bubble gum) were never sold in North America. This can be attributed to the girl's the short-timed release of two albums in the North American market and stronger development of its European fanbase.
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