Quote Originally Posted by bat39 View Post
Oh absolutely!

On a related note, its interesting that Pryde of the X-men went with a more 70's/80's inspired Claremont-era lineup (Cyclops, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm and Dazzler, with Kitty joining the team), while the TAS, which actually adapted the Claremont-era to a great degree, went with a cast drawn from the then-contemporary 90's comics. We know for a fact that Kitty was replaced by Jubilee in the TAS line-up to get away from the failure of this pilot, but perhaps a general desire to move away from this line-up was a factor?
Pryde of the X-Men came out in 1989 when the X-Men were just coming out of Inferno and entering the Disassembled period. The Outback X-Men team wouldn't really work for the traditional storyline of fighting Magneto on Asteroid M. Going with the All-New All-Different team made sense since the X-Men were most heavily associated with The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past, the two most popular storylines, and this being the definitive team.

By the time TAS was being made, the X-Men had already reached peak success with X-Men #1 and the Jim Lee designs so it made sense to go with the current lineup then which was about being a back to basics after the Outback/Disassembled era. And it could incorporate the relevant fan favs of the time like Gambit and Jubilee who either didn't exist or barely existed when Pryde of the X-Men was being made.