it was done by Toei Animation (DRAGON BALL Z, ONE PIECE, DIGIMON)

Toei Animation was one of several Anime Studios that worked on Western animation shows as Outsource animation like The Transformers 1984-1987 = The Transformers movie (1986) Spider-Man 1981 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero 1983-1986 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies 1984-1987 MOST OF THE 80S TOY CARTOONS

The animation was better than much of the modern/current animation.

The arcade version was great!

@@patrickreindel692Modern animation has better graphics obviously because of the more advanced tech, but the modern animations look cheap, childish and ugly. Meanwhile the late 80's-2000's superhero cartoon looked realistic and awsome. Perfect example is the difference in TMNT 2003 and TMNT 2012, or Teen Titans 2003 and Teen Titans GO, or Justice League and JL Action.

Pryde of the X-Men is the exact reason why I started reading comics!

Same here saw it by accident.. and was overjoyed that there was finally a dope X-men show… I was posted when there was no follow up.. they kept that stupid robocop and Dino rider cartoon

I'm so glad that I wasn't the only one who saw that haha. Thought I was going nuts!

You know what is really funny about that? Special effects props and miniatures for both the X-Men movie and Jason X was done by the same company at the same time, JJAMB Fx. That was my first real union job 😂

I'm confused as to why he was there.

Would've been great if we got this animation quality with the 90's show. But at the same time, Jubilee is so much better compared to Kitty. Kitty didn't really shine until Evolution.

*Colossus' roar intensifies*

Nightcrawler was my favorite to play in that game, so I was excited for him to appear in the 90s show. But yeah, 2 episodes wasn't enough.

Same. But Gambit was was pretty cool.

Gambit was garbage compared to the comic version. He had the worst writing and stories of any mutant in the group. Jubilee was better than Gambit in the show even.

@@rallyfeind oh snaps

@deandickson6136 I wish they did him better is all.

2 of my fave characters

So true. God I wish this show would have taken off. Even if they decided just to do animated movies with this style and cast of the X-men.

I prefer 1992 X-Men TAS theme (which btw was created by the same guy, Ronald Wasserman, who created the Power Rangers theme)

I just watched this episode on an old VHS on a loop for years. I prefer it over any of the other animate series. They did come out with a proper (but kinda weird) anime X-Men series.

IMO, both the character design and animation in Pryde was significantly better than the animation in the actual X-Men series. Kitty is also my favorite character, so I really loved that the story centered around her.

On the other hand, would the animation have been as good when it came time to actually make a whole series and they had to work on a grueling schedule? Feels like you can't just compare an experimental pilot with a regular episode, the circumstances are quite different.

I never knew it was only a one episode pilot for many years. So I was eagerly watching for the next episode for a long time

I think I got my bootleg VHS from a lil' local comic-con. 😅

I was only familiar with the X-Men through the Fox Kids animated series before I first heard about and saw Pryde of the X-Men. So naturally, being a young kid at the time, I was admittedly, confused over what I was seeing and hearing. I wasn't overly familiar with the comics so I didn't know who Kitty Pryde or Dazzler were, maybe because I didn't see them on the Fox Kids X-Men series. I always thought that Kitty was ostensibly playing the role that Jubilee would play on the subsequent animated version, i.e. the young and naïve female rookie, who also functioned as an avatar for the audience.

Bad take. It's objectively better in every way than this crap was.

​​​@@thenightstar8312Not in animation. This was done by Toei who was superior to Korean animation studio AKON, who did the 1992 X-Men TAS Toei did the Transformer series, but so did AKON. I'd have to go back and see the differences but I'd imagine it was was less quality than Toei. One good way to see how much better Toei was than AKON was to see the Japanese intros to the 1992 X-Men TAS which were exclusively aired in Japan only. Those intros clearly showed the animation superiority and made many people then wish the entire series had been animated by Toei. Toei would also often outsource to Sunrise Animation, another Japanese animation studio, but Sunrise got bought by Bandai toy company in the early 99s so perhaps that is why Margaret Loesch and Fox Family didn't use Toei for 1992's X-Men (or perhaps Bandai asked for too much money and AKON was cheaper who knows).

Chris Claremont!

Exactly.@@matthewmagda4971

@@matthewmagda4971Yet he ruined the X-Men with X-Men Forever 1 and 2. I’m glad he left after X-Men #4.

It's definitely got a very Bill Murray/Lorenzo Music as Peter Venkman/Garfield energy.

@@Dargonhumanwas going to say the same thing.

Me too.

No it isn’t.

I dug the idea of Wolverine being an Aussie. This was back when we didn't know Wolverine's origin. We just knew he lived in Canada for a while.

Its still on KZfaq 😊

@@eyeinsee Nice. I still have the VHS. Just no VCR 🤪

This! Yeah, the Outback years were so good, it's right around when I started collecting. You could tell they made Wolverine at "home" there hanging with Gateway and stuff. I remember feeling like they were alluding to the idea that he was from here before moving on to Canada...

But if you listened to this video, Dan said Wolverine already had an Australian accent in his appearance in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, titled "Fire-Star Is Born" , aired September 25, 1982, where Iceman and Firestar attend an X-Men reunion featuring Cyclops, Angel, and its latest members Storm and Wolverine (who oddly speaks with an Australian accent). Firestar recalls her origins, dealing with a bully named Bonnie, and being recruited into the X-Men where they fought Magneto and a Sentinel. After that, the Juggernaut crashes the party in an effort to destroy his stepbrother Professor X.

I still know all the words to the song! ha ha

I like to say "now now blob" in Pyro's voice to my fat cat

I mean they did the same thing with X-men The Animated series, they used Kitty Pryde to introduce us to the world

@@strifenineteen (Sorry that this response got a bit long.) They used Jubilee in that one. I don't feel she fits the role too well though. Her powers are way more action oriented and her comic introduction showed her to be more competent at the hero side of things than Kitty was (in the beginning). Kitty was just a regular nerdy teen with a loving family and self image issues. She joins because she heard the X-Men were superheroes and thought Colossus was cute. Jubilee was an idealized 90s runaway who dodged cops, lived in a mall after closing hours, and somehow avoided being killed by civilians despite anti-mutant sentiment getting out of hand. They both had the "kid of the team" role but did it in very different ways. They had to drop a lot of what makes Jubilee a cool character in the comics to make her fit Kitty's role. Successfully living under the X-Mens noses and stealing from them without anyone noticing, saving herself from a dog/cyborg/zombie by melting it with her powers, saving Wolverine from crucifixion and living with his feral state until he could regenerate. She was insanely cool but the 90s cartoon version was often seen as the unnecessary kid character. I think they took the wrong elements from Kitty and slapped them onto Jubilee. Personally I liked the 90s take on Jubilee as a kid (and as an adult I think she was over-hated despite being a bit annoying), but with how intense the hate for her was and seeing how much cooler she was in the comics makes me think using her was a bit of a misstep. All that being said, I do think Surge would do well in the role despite being a lot more like Jubilee than Kitty due to the different age we're in now and her not being the only child on the team. Since people don't need an introduction to what a mutant is or who these characters are, she wouldn't need to bridge that gap as much and could instead facilitate us seeing different sides to them.

Highly recommend both X-Men Evolution and Wolverine and the X-Men for these reasons; in Evolution they had an older Logan, Storm and Beast with younger members as the core team. Really hoping that the MCU go that same route. It’d be great to see a modern take but I really don’t trust Disney to do it justice.

@@Polar_Bear_Ron X-Men Evolution was what got me to pay attention to generational teams. I loved that Wolverine was a teacher, but hated that Storm was one. It kneecapped her and Jean's characters for most of the show. I'd love it if they did another one like that, but with a different layout to the roster that can better take advantage of the comic stories and relationships.

​@@Polar_Bear_RonDisney is going to absolutely butcher the X-Men and we all know it. It's not about if it's about when

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe because my first true exposure to the Wolverine character was of Cal Dodd's interpretation, so I couldn't help but wonder why the Wolverine of Pryde of the X-Men was talking like an angry version of Crocodile Dundee? Of course, I find it hilarious in hindsight, that an actual Australian in Hugh Jackman would go on to play Wolverine in live-action.

@@TMC1982Part2 Australian craze was around that time in the late 80's. Likely why Wolverine became an Aussie. Marvel should have had a mutant enemy named Dingo.

Because the game was in development before the show came out so their more recent points of reference back then was the 1989 pilot of which Toei Animation worked on and so perhaps Konami had some ties to working with them.

I had the same VHS! I watched this all the time as a kid.

Hahaha. Same. Mine actually broke I watched so many times. 😢 Though, that PSA really was so random. Hahah. I truly do still love this small feature and wish we got more of it. This is and always be the best X-Men to me.

Foreshadowing.

@@LUVBOTZ Thank you for your service. o>

And yet, Jackman managed to come off as Canadian so much better than Patrick Pinney did.

@@cormano64 🤣🤣👍

fun fact: when this is mentioned in the video at around 13:41 there's a frame of Jason Voorhees for some strange reason. idk why it stood out or why I felt the need to point that out, but here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The animation in Pryde of the X-Men is phenomenal. That was probably the biggest advantage that it had over the later Fox Kids series.

The full pilot is on youtube for your viewing pleasure.

I don't know about other countries, but when TMNT dropped in Australia, It was pretty much the first game that asked for a Dollar a game (or maybe it was 60 cents originally, but after a while they just figured a dollar coin was actually more logical and psychologically seemed like you were spending "less" due to not pumping 20 cent pieces) It then laid the groundwork for Street Fighter 2, plus like you said the Konami Trilogy that set a new standard for beat-em-ups (Punisher, Alien vs Predator ect ect) and then yeah.. It really was a glorious time, an arcade renaissance was taking place. Graduating from 1942/Ghost n Goblins/Rastan ect ect... I wish someone did a REAL documentary on arcade games, not just the usual tropes, but I'm talking a real in depth look. Get into the nitty gritty of it all. Counterfeit cabinets, all that stuff

And the arcade game was rad AF.

Right? always thought '97 looked hideous, especially by comparison to this

True. My main issue with the 90s cartoon was the animation was kinda stilted and inconsistant in places.

@@maximusprime3459 By season 3, around the start of the Phoenix Saga. the animation did get better. Then, unfortunately Season 5 happened...

That exactly happened to me. I set the VCR to record early Sunday mornings as I wanted to sleep in. Then one day I hit play to find I had not captured Sunday morning cartoons, but televangelists and informercials. A sad day indeed.

You mean it was action packed