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The story is as it follows:
After the S DVD release flopped back in 2011, a Brazliian fanclub that exists since the late 90s and had ties with Toei backed the release of new content.
They actually paid (!!!) for a dub of the R movie. They scripted the dub and selected the voice cast. Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Tuxedo Mask, Luna and Artemis were voiced by the same actors who voiced them in the Classic dub. Mercury and Venus's VAs from the R-Stars dub were brought back, as well as Chibiusa's only voice actress to date.
However, even though Toei didn't have any expenses with the dub itself, they gave up on releasing the movie on home video in the last minute, afraid of low sales. They didn't even get the rights to the dub in the end.
The 90s movies are coming to Netflix Latin America the next month, and Brazilian Portuguese dubs are included. The S and SuperS movies probably got a dub using the cast from Eternal (which completely ignored the Classic dub cast, and therefore most of the actors involved in this unreleased dub), but we are yet to discover whether Toei tried to rescue this R movie dub with the fans or comissioned a new one.
After the S DVD release flopped back in 2011, a Brazliian fanclub that exists since the late 90s and had ties with Toei backed the release of new content.
They actually paid (!!!) for a dub of the R movie. They scripted the dub and selected the voice cast. Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Tuxedo Mask, Luna and Artemis were voiced by the same actors who voiced them in the Classic dub. Mercury and Venus's VAs from the R-Stars dub were brought back, as well as Chibiusa's only voice actress to date.
However, even though Toei didn't have any expenses with the dub itself, they gave up on releasing the movie on home video in the last minute, afraid of low sales. They didn't even get the rights to the dub in the end.
The 90s movies are coming to Netflix Latin America the next month, and Brazilian Portuguese dubs are included. The S and SuperS movies probably got a dub using the cast from Eternal (which completely ignored the Classic dub cast, and therefore most of the actors involved in this unreleased dub), but we are yet to discover whether Toei tried to rescue this R movie dub with the fans or comissioned a new one.
Even if the DiC masters were technically lost, it might not really be a huge deal. The dub was highly likely produced completely in 480i, so I'm willing to bet the footage on the DVDs isn't that far off in quality from the official masters. Assuming some company is ever able to rerelease it they could probably rip it off the DVDs and touch it up a bit. Even then, you know never know, the masters might pop up one day. Many believed the DiC soundtrack was lost forever, and just last year most of the soundtrack finally got leaked online.
Of course this is all hypothetical, it's unlikely the old dub will ever get a rerelease anyway.
Of course this is all hypothetical, it's unlikely the old dub will ever get a rerelease anyway.
Well, there's this cut scene from episode 159, with only some genga and a cel of an in-between frame left behind.
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Starlight
Is that CD unavailable in the (primary or secondary) market now? If not, it's not lost media. 
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journeyin2mystery
can we consider the hero club videos lost media until they get uploaded?
(if the textless version of the first Sailor Stars opening was in one of them, surely textless versions of the other versions of the various openings are in them, too.)
(if the textless version of the first Sailor Stars opening was in one of them, surely textless versions of the other versions of the various openings are in them, too.)
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Neo Queen Serenity
I know. It's hard to find the textless versions of that opening alongside the first Sailor Moon Classic opening (with the 3 Senshi silhouetted from the veils all the way), Sailor Moon S's first opening with just the 5 Senshi, and Heart Moving's first ending version (there are 2 versions of the Heart Moving end credits sequence). Let alone the TV size versions of Kaze mo Sora mo Kitto (plus the full slow first version of the song) in both forms from a CD album quality.
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SMA SERIES THE MOVIE : Megami33 and Toei Animation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Sailor Moon Abridged dub of the R movie has finally been found!
The Sailor Moon Abridged dub of the R movie has finally been found!
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