The toy came from an original Toon Makers design the vehicle never appeared in the original Japanese series. One curious remnant of Toon Makers' involvement with Sailor Moon was the Moon Cycle toy sold by Bandai in the U.S. In the end, Bandai decided to go with DiC as the licensee, simply because it was much cheaper for them to import, dub, and edit the series than for Toon Makers to produce all their filmed segments. Although the pilot appears heavily influenced by Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993) (including the word 'morph' in the lyrics), Saban was not involved at all. The first 6 episodes consist of a self-contained arc in which the Sailor Guardians encounter Queen Nehelenia again. The series is divided into two story arcs. Like the rest of the Sailor Moon series, it follows the adventures of Usagi Tsukino and her fellow Sailor Guardians. The trailer, which was taped off the screen at the time and the footage since circulated on the Internet, has come to be known as 'Saban Moon' by some fans, because of the mistaken belief that the Saban Company was involved in the making of the pilot. The fifth and final season of the Sailor Moon anime series, titled Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, was directed by Takuya Igarashi and produced by Toei Animation. In this version, Luna was a white cat, the scouts were of mixed races (one girl was even wheelchair-bound), and the team flew through space on 'space sailboards.' A two-minute trailer for this version of Sailor Moon was shown at Anime Expo in 1995, and was met with scorn and derision from the fans present. When Bandai was shopping around for American licensees for Sailor Moon, one prospective licensee, Toon Makers, created a pilot that combined live-action footage with CG and completely new cel animation.

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