Stephanie “Sugar” Lyn Beard, the voice of Rini and Sailor Mini Moon from the original dub of Sailor Moon S and SuperS, will be appearing at Unplugged Expo at the Westin Harbour Castle Conference Centre in Toronto October 15th and 16th.

Canadian Sailor Moon fans will not only remember Sugar as the voice of Rini but also as one of the PJs from YTV’s The Zone, the after school zone programming block which played many shows, including Sailor Moon, here in Canada. Sugar will be appearing with her fellow PJ Carlos who hosted the Zone during the same time frame.

YTV, like the company which produced the first English dub of the original Sailor Moon anime, is based in Toronto where this convention takes place. It’s no coincidence that so many voice actor appearances occur in Toronto!

I won’t be able to attend Unplugged Expo this year but I have fond memories of my time at the convention 3 years ago during Unplugged Expo 2. Will you be attending this one?

Sugar Lyn Beard, the second voice of Chibiusa in the original English dub of the Sailor Moon anime, has a couple of movies coming out this summer. One is Sausage Party, a bizarre animated comedy staring Seth Rogen about living thinking food items which get eaten. Sugar plays the Baby Carrots in this film, which are featured prominently in the new trailer. Note that this is a restricted trailer which features adult content including violence, drug use and language.

Sausage Party will be released in theatres August 12th.

She’ll also be appearing in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. She plays Mike and Dave’s sister Jeanie who is the one that is getting married. You can also see her in the trailer for that movie which will be released on July 8th.

What is Sausage Party? It’s an R rated CG animated film starring the voices of Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson, amongst others. Also appearing in this film is Sugar Lyn Beard, known to Sailor Moon fans as the voice of Rini and Sailor Mini Moon in the original English dub of Sailor Moon S and SuperS. Sugar will be playing a Baby Carrot! It is not clear at this time if she will be a legitimate baby carrot or one of the more common baby cut carrots which are often found in grocery stores.

The film is about sausages in a supermarket which need to get back to their aisle before the Fourth of July! This is a movie intended for adult audiences by the people who brought you fantastic films such as Pineapple Express, This Is The End and the hilarious yet controversial The Interview. During an interview with Howard Stern Seth Rogen mentioned that the film would include a food on food sex scene!

We’ll be sure to share more about this film as we learn it.

Source: IMDB and Bubble Blabber

Here’s an interview with Stephanie “Sugar” Lyn Beard, the voice of Rini aka Sailor Mini Moon from Anime Revolution 2012 in Vancouver. Sugar talks about her early days on the radio, working on the zone and her work on Sailor Moon. She also plugs her new movie “For a Good Time, Call…” which is now playing in select theatres. You can watch the interview at the Anime Revolution site. It’s also embedded below for your convenience.

Anime Revolution is coming up August 17th to the 19th and as part of a Sailor Moon 20th anniversary event they got a great line up of voice actors from the Sailor Moon dub! There will be Terri Hawkes (Sailor Moon), Vince Corazza (Tuxedo Mask), Katie Griffin (Sailor Mars), Susan Roman (Sailor Jupiter), Stephanie Beard (Rini) and Ron Rubin (Artemis).

The site has the following to say about their Sailormoon 20th Anniversary Celebration:

Sailormoon 20th Anniversary Panel – Celebrate everything that is the wonderful world of Sailor Moon in this very special panel, featuring voice actors from the english dub, song numbers, including a special performance by Irulanne, visuals and all sorts of other fun stuff!

This is quite an amazing group of voice actors they’ve managed to score! While Sailor Moon roles changed a number of times, as the series went on for so long, these are largely the actors who are most memorable for the roles they did.

While Terri Hawkes was not the first dub voice of Sailor Moon she replaced Tracey Moore as the voice of Serena who did the job for a very short time. Terri continued to do the voice for the rest of the original 65 episode run, returning for the remainder of the Sailor Moon R episodes that were recorded before ultimately being replaced by Linda Ballentyne for Sailor Moon S and SuperS.

Vince Corazza’s first appearance in Sailor Moon wasn’t as the role he would be most known for, but rather as the alien Allan in the Doom Tree saga. He later went on to voice Tuxedo Mask as the third person to do his voice replacing Toby Proctor who spent most of the first set of episodes doing the voice after replacing Rino Romano who himself only did a handful of episodes.

Katie Griffin voiced Sailor Mars for more episodes than any other voice actor spent doing any other character, mainly due to the fact that she appeared earlier and was in more episodes than some others. Aside from being briefly replaced by Emilie Barlow for some of the later episodes of Sailor Moon R she stuck with the show as the voice of Raye until the end!

Stephanie “Sugar” Beard voiced Rini in all but the few Sailor Moon R episodes that included her character, so she was there whenever she transformed into Sailor Mini Moon. Sugar is well known to Canadian Sailor Moon fans as the host of The Zone on YTV for many years.

Susan Roman, the voice of Sailor Jupiter and Ron Rubin, the voice of Artemis, voiced their characters for the entirety of the show’s run.

This looks like a Sailor Moon event that should not be missed. Weekend passes are $75 so if you’re a Sailor Moon fan in the area this is definitely a con worth checking out!