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However there was another pitch being considered when TOEI was looking to different companies to handle the rights in North America. This pitch was made by a company called "Toon Makers" -- a branch of Renaissance Atlantic, the same people who handled the adaptations of ''[[Super Sentai]]'' into ''[[Power Rangers]]'' for [[Saban Entertainment]]. Due to this, it's often [[Misblamed|mistakenly called]] "Saban Moon" and... well, it's even ''less'' faithful than what became of ''Sailor Moon's'' much maligned dub.
Toon Makers' version would have had the civilian lives of the very Western Sailor Soldiers filmed in live action, featuring a [[Five-Token Band|ethnically and disability diverse cast]] wherein Sailor Jupiter is [[Race Lift|black]], and Sailor Mercury is in a wheelchair
What little that is known about this production comes from a two-minute music video ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtkVMZA7Qwc easily found online]). According to [https://web.archive.org/web/20131028132346/http://cartoonhistorian.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/cartoon-historian-lesson-6-saban-moon.html an interview] with the man who produced, created, and directed it Rocky Solotoff, it was actually cut down from a 17-minute [[Pilot]] episode/concept video that has yet to see the light of day.▼
▲Toon Makers' version would have had the civilian lives of the very Western Sailor Soldiers filmed in live action, featuring a [[Five-Token Band|ethnically and disability diverse cast]] wherein Sailor Jupiter is [[Race Lift|black]], and Sailor Mercury is a wheelchair user. When they transformed, however, the girls would have [[Toon Transformation|become animated heroines]], in a style unintentionally reminiscent of [[Filmation]]'s ''[[She-Ra: Princess of Power]]''. Having gained the ability to breathe in space, they would have fought Queen Beryl's space battleship, a literal [[Space Sailing|ship in space]], using solar "windsurfers". Also there is no visible Artemis, only Luna and she is a [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|white cat]], who [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|wears eyeshadow]] when animated.
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▲Due to the fact that the only footage in circulation was actually filmed at a panel at an [[Fan Convention|Anime Convention]] only a low quality [[Jittercam|shaky camera]] version exists where the screen is somewhat off kilter with the camcorder and you can hear the reactions of the rest of the audience. A version with the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODz7ankdTHw perspective corrected] exists, as does a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Hge38AkFg slightly longer version] which contains some of the preamble from the panel host Allen Hasting. Hasting, the author of the computer graphics software package Lightwave 3D, claimed to have designed the vehicles, which leads to even more confusion as according Rocky Solotoff Lightwave wasn't used at all and a completely different person designed the vehicles.
Not to be confused with ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'', the live action adaptation made in Japan.
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