Kirby the Adventure. The lost original pilot pitched to FOX (1993)

Origin
Any series and cartoon has a pilot episode, usually different from the final product, and Kirby the Adventure is no exception, as it is known the series originated in a few shorts in the animated variety show The Cartoon Show created by John Ray Alister in 1988. After licensing the fledgling Kirby franchise from Hal Laboratory and Nintendo, Sawyer wanted to deliver a product not aimed at a child or family audience, but rather a product aimed at teen audiences, the shorts began airing on "The Cartoon Show" on Nintendo TV from October 1992 to October 1993, when the idea for a full series was first initiated, Sawyer originally despite the shorts airing on Nintendo TV, he decided to deliver the show to FOX, with a 22 minute pilot created in September 1993, and after delivering the pilot to FOX the project was moved to Nintendo TV, said pilot was modified in a 78% and broadcast as the first episode of the series. As a curious fact, Nintendo and HAL Labs did not want to be involved in this project as it was aimed at teenagers, therefore they decided to keep their "own Kirby" that is, the Kirby for a family audience (Nintendo and HAL) and the Kirby directed for an adolescent and adult audience (Nintendo Studios) and for this reason HAL and Nintendo are not credited in the final series, nor in the pilot, since this case took place in October, when the shorts ended.

The Pilot
The pilot was created in September 1993 to be presented to FOX, it basically has the same plot as the first episode, that Kirby Irring is kidnapped at night by mysterious beings who inject a device into his head, he does not believe this is real, but his brothers (Blue Kirby Irring and Yellow Kirby Irring which are not their real names) who will try to convince him that everything happened and thus avoid a conquest of the planet or something like that. When Sawyer talked about the pilot, he said ''What do people associate the series with? Well, with Nintendo TV, if this had been broadcast on FOX, what do you think? Would you have had the same success? Or would it have happened without pain or glory? That will be a curious question for me and the fans.'' The pilot was never officially released, neither on the DVD releases nor on any Nintendo Studios collectible releases.

Availability
For a long time, there was nothing of the pilot, no images, only the testimonies of Sawyer, and of the FOX executives at that time, in 2013, screenshots of the pilot were published on reddit, they were in a limited-time promotion magazine from Nintendo TV. There was no video of the pilot until 2017, when a user on YouTube uploaded a compilation of clips and some scenes from the pilot, this contributed a lot to the search, since there was nothing and only testimonials and later, images. The user said that he found these clips on an old pirated VHS that he bought at a market. For now we only have that video (which by the way lasts 2 minutes) and images, for now nothing has resurfaced from the pilot, the only existing copies are kept by Patrick Sawyer and 20th Century Fox for a period of time to later deliver it to Warner Bros. Therefore, if Patrick or/and Warner want, they can publish the pilot, either on the internet, streaming or physically, but if this curious pilot were found, it would be one of the most important things that happened in relation to the series. and in general, to animation.