Merchandising
Unlike most other models during that time period who posed for other products, the twins were the product. The London Sun credited the twins with starting the celebrity model calendar business. Shane and Sia posed together in several internationally-distributed Barbi Twins calendars from 1993 to 2007. After the success of their 1993 calendar the “Barbi Mania” continued with dozens of posters, a comic art calendar and two comic books. They were fantasy art fan favorites and appeared on covers such as Heavy Metal and Entertainment Weekly put them on their “Top 15 Hot Sheet” for their Barbi Twin Comic. Other merchandise such as promotional trading cards, postcards, gift cards, gift wrap, mugs, lighters and just about any product that could have their images (or more specifically bodies) stamped on it were for sale. The Daily Star UK ran a comic strip called “The Barbi Twins, featuring the twin models with psychic abilities. Gift shops world wide contained Barbi Twin products and every Spencer Gifts had dedicated a corner to Barbi Twin merchandise as E! True Hollywood Story reported.
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