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The Mike Toole Show - Hey There, Sailor!

Chrno2 wrote:

Oh really? Wow, didn't know that Sailor Moon was big in Canada. I guess the pop references would mean much more to Canada than here. Since Reboot was their show. As always all other countries always get good releases and the US doesn't get jack. No thanks to our limited interests.

It's one of the few shows that actually did better in Canada. But hey, not like Canada ever got things like Tenchi, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Big O, etc. I only knew of them back then because people wouldn't stop talking about them on forums! So I wouldn't say US gets "jack" :p

...oh, and here's another little reference from Reboot. The robot was an old mascot of the Canadian YTV station that Reboot aired on. Of course, this is the original version. The American version had it edited it out. Not that anyone would get it, of course

SQUASH!

NJ_ wrote:

The one thing that interests me is how the movies would be released because with the Italian releases, Dynit was able to get both 16:9 (same as R2J DVD) & 4:3 (same as R1 DVD) versions & release them in 2-disc sets for each film.

Eww, cropping.

To clarify one thing Mike Toole said about Sailor Moon's syndication in the US, while I'm not sure what Turner had to do with getting it on USA Network, the show itself for a number of years was handled by a company called "Program Exchange". Much of this company's catelog animation-wise mostly included 60's icons like Rocky & Bullwinkle, Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo, and a few familiar titles like the 80's Dennis The Menace cartoon (though bringing it back to anime, they also had DiC's other import, "Knights of the Zodiac"). Not sure how long they had Sailor Moon for, but here's an archive.org page detailing that show from 2000. Kinda dig the two silly factoids included such as there being 9,000 Sailor Moon fan pages then...
http://web.archive.org/web/20000903052039/http://www.programexchange.com/public/animated/sailormoon.html

StudioToledo wrote:

To clarify one thing Mike Toole said about Sailor Moon's syndication in the US, while I'm not sure what Turner had to do with getting it on USA Network, the show itself for a number of years was handled by a company called "Program Exchange". Much of this company's catelog animation-wise mostly included 60's icons like Rocky & Bullwinkle, Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo, and a few familiar titles like the 80's Dennis The Menace cartoon (though bringing it back to anime, they also had DiC's other import, "Knights of the Zodiac"). Not sure how long they had Sailor Moon for, but here's an archive.org page detailing that show from 2000. Kinda dig the two silly factoids included such as there being 9,000 Sailor Moon fan pages then... http://web.archive.org/web/20000903052039/http://www.programexchange.com/public/animated/sailormoon.html

I'm not sure about USA myself but Program Exchange was credited during it's broadcast on Cartoon Network and as for it's run before that on syndication, it was actually handled by another company whose name i don't remember at the moment but i do remember them because their logo was a picture of some kind of bird (which i believe was an eagle but it has been so long so i'm not too sure).