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. 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. Although the pilot appears  heavily influenced by _"Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" (1993)_ (qv)  (including the word "morph" in the lyrics), Saban was not involved  at all. 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. One curious remnant of Toon Makers involvement with  Sailor Moon was the Moon Cycle toy sold by Bandai in the U.S. The  toy came from an original Toon Makers design; the vehicle never  appeared in the original Japanese series.