Trivia / Pryde of the X-Men

• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The VHS release has long since gone out of print, but it can easily be found on YouTube. It's not on Disney+, even.
• No Export for You: The only known dub of this pilot is the Italian dub.
• Screwed by the Network: Couldn't find a home — even in syndication — marking yet another occasion where Marvel failed to sell a show featuring their own characters. It didn't help that New World began to have financial issues around this time, briefly forcing Marvel Productions to stop work on everything but Muppet Babies (1984).
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: Was in production by early 1987; didn't get released until 1988 on video and then aired as part of the short-lived Marvel Action Universe syndicated block (taking the place of a 13th episode of Robo Cop The Animated Series — indeed, the budget for that 13th episode instead went towards the creation of this pilot).
• What Could Have Been: According to Will Meugniot here, Pryde of the X-Men was testing the waters for full 65-Episode Cartoon and the pilot was going to be a Sentinel story (which apparently would've been similar to the "Night of the Sentinels" two-parter for X-Men: The Animated Series). A new executive at the toy company that funded the show came in and, wanting a more toyetic "good guy vs bad guys" premise, pushed to introduce all of the Brotherhood characters in the first episode, leading to the final script.
  • The whole reason Wolverine is Australian here was because of Australian things (like Mad Max and "Crocodile" Dundee) being extremely popular when the pilot was produced; Marvel apparently had plans for the comics version to actually be an expatriated Australian, and not Canadian. These plans never happened, but the idea left this pilot with the Aussie Wolvie as an aftereffect.
• Writer on Board: Professor X makes specific note that Storm's power to control the weather isn't fully understood. That was a common refrain of X-Men creator Stan Lee, who didn't seem to have the same confusion about how other X-Men could shoot death beams from their eyes or transform sound into lasers.

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