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Turtledude2k3
05-07-2005, 01:58 PM
Hello all.
Remember the tv show Reboot? Noticed in my sig and avatar picutre under my name, I am a fan of Reboot. Reboot started in 1991 and finished it's run in 1997. However there was some plot holes during an episode in the 3rd season with a super-virus name Daemon. There was 2 movies released on YTV nad other channels.. Daemon's rising and My Two Bobs.
I have all the episodes on tapes. I also have a episode guide on paper.
Who here loves the show as well?
Anarky
05-07-2005, 05:32 PM
I used to watch that show while I was in Canada, back in the day.It sure was a great show. I loved Megabyte, he had such a good voice.
ZariusTwo
05-07-2005, 06:38 PM
However there was some plot holes during an episode in the 3rd season with a super-virus name Daemon. There was 2 movies released on YTV nad other channels.. Daemon's rising and My Two Bobs
The plot holes regarding Daemon were resolved in "Daemon Rising", sadly, the series STILL ended on a cliffhanger with the conclusion of "My Two Bobs"
Brodie
05-07-2005, 11:22 PM
I thought the series ended with them doing a play or something, or sitting in an audience and there being little Enzo, and Matrix, and so on?
I loved that show! I still have all the original figures :D Kellogs cereal did a promotion on them with little Mighty Max type sets and I got all those too. No one I know around where I live seems to remember it tho :(
Turtledude2k3
05-08-2005, 11:35 AM
The plot holes regarding Daemon were resolved in "Daemon Rising", sadly, the series STILL ended on a cliffhanger with the conclusion of "My Two Bobs"
Yes I know but I wasn't clear in message. Well it's too bad My Two Bobs ended with a cliffhanger. I heard from my friend that Mainframe has teh script already for the final chapter or something.
He got this while at a convention where he met the voice for Andria.. He has this picture frame and it a screencap from one of the movies.
It says "Stay Sharp, Frosty"
Brodie
05-08-2005, 12:35 PM
Matrix is the only figure I have left, I used to have Bob (the original) and Enzo. But I found Matrix one day and snagged him, I'm constantly kicking myself for never picking up the silver suit Bob.
Matrix joins my mini toy shelf, dubbed The Shelf Of Misfit Toys:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/dollfix/100_1520.jpg
ZariusTwo
05-08-2005, 02:19 PM
I thought the series ended with them doing a play or something, or sitting in an audience and there being little Enzo, and Matrix, and so on?
That was Season Three's finale, which was the final episode for a while before Mainframe produced the T.V Movies and then split them into two four part episodes to create a fourth season on Cartoon Network
Peanut
05-08-2005, 03:40 PM
I loved Reboot. I still watch it on Friday nights!
DrSpengler
05-08-2005, 04:04 PM
It was a good show. The first season was dreadful and the second didn't gear up into anything worthwhile until the end. The third season was great, however. The episode where they battle the Webriders and Bob finally comes back; hardcore.
I also found it pretty cool that the series didn't end the moment after they defeated Megabyte. The conflict continued afterward for a while.
I missed the tv movies, unfortunately. How did My Two Bobs end?
Matrix is the only figure I have left, I used to have Bob (the original) and Enzo. But I found Matrix one day and snagged him, I'm constantly kicking myself for never picking up the silver suit Bob.
Matrix joins my mini toy shelf, dubbed The Shelf Of Misfit Toys:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/dollfix/100_1520.jpg
Ah. I see you have the "Eczema Turtles." Damn those variants.
I used to watch Reboot quite often back in the day. I loved Megabyte. Tim Curry is the choice for cartoon villainy. My memory falis me, however. What was the name of the woman with the white face? She scared me.
DrSpengler
05-08-2005, 04:47 PM
I used to watch Reboot quite often back in the day. I loved Megabyte. Tim Curry is the choice for cartoon villainy. My memory falis me, however. What was the name of the woman with the white face? She scared me.
You have Tim Curry confused with Tony Jay. :)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419645/
He was also Lord Dregg in the Red Sky series, if I'm not mistaken.
And the lady with the white face was Hexadecimal. She was a pretty cool villain, though her obsession with Bob was kinda creepy.
You have Tim Curry confused with Tony Jay. :)
That wasn't Tim Curry? Sounds just like him... Damn.
Turtledude2k3
05-08-2005, 08:22 PM
I loved Reboot. I still watch it on Friday nights!
Ahh I notced under your profile name where you live.. In canada so i presume you watch it on ytv. Yes a couple days ago (Friday), they showed the first episode of season 4. The best of the best..
Peanut
05-08-2005, 08:23 PM
Yep, YTV. Reboot and Beasties (Beast Wars to the Americans). I still don't get why they called it Beasties here. Anyone know the answer to that one?
DrSpengler
05-08-2005, 08:25 PM
Yep, YTV. Reboot and Beasties (Beast Wars to the Americans). I still don't get why they called it Beasties here. Anyone know the answer to that one?
It's against television regulations to have "war" in the title of children's shows in Canada. Or so I'm told.
Anarchistguy
05-09-2005, 05:03 AM
It's against television regulations to have "war" in the title of children's shows in Canada. Or so I'm told.
That only applies to english language television shows.
Mecha Cow
05-09-2005, 05:29 AM
'Beasties'? :lol:
I'm sure with a little effort they could have thought of something more fitting.
Anyway, I remember Reboot, I think it was pretty cool. Didn't they live inside a Playstation or something?
Peanut
05-09-2005, 08:54 AM
Well I guess it didn't stop them from airing the Beast Wars show on Fox here. It was only called Beasties on YTV.
Anarky
05-09-2005, 10:30 AM
Anyway, I remember Reboot, I think it was pretty cool. Didn't they live inside a Playstation or something?
I remember them living in Mainframe, a computer/internet sort of thing. They played games, hence the name ReBoot, and yet they were threatened by viruses. So my guess is, that they were certainly not living in a gaming console since those things are pretty much virus-proof up until now.
DrSpengler
05-09-2005, 10:52 AM
They lived inside someone's PC. If remember inthe last episode of the third season they crashed the entire hard drive in a final ditch effort to stop the virus (or whatever it was). Then it showed typing on a computer screen asking to reboot the computer and the "user" typed in yes.
Reboot certainly had some of the most original and creative concepts I've seen in a cartoon.
If only they had bought an anti-virus and firewall :roll:
;)
Turtledude2k3
05-09-2005, 04:25 PM
If only they had bought an anti-virus and firewall :roll:
;)
Um there was a firewall. It was in the beginning of the 3rd season.. Bob was shot out into the web by Megabyte, and Enzo was left to protect the system. Bob gave him the ability to become a guardian but not a full one. He was supposed to go to the supercomputer to train but he lost in a game against a very powerful user that was likea demon. The demon slashed his eye. However Enzo and his girlfriend plus his dog all double clikc their icons to AI to become game sprites and then the 3rd season 2nd part begins with the search for bob/mainframe section of the show.
The final episodes of reboot leads to teh final battle with Megabyte, Matrix (Adult enzo) went face to face with Megabyte but couldn't kill him because it would go against his code. However Megabyte activated a auto-shutdown. He got that from the head-only Phong by tortuing him. However Mouse was able to prevent Megabyte from leaving the system and a bunch of tenctles came out and took MB away. Now the system was shutting down and people (sprites) were getting killed and users from old games that the mainframers fought before. Heck during the final epsiodes there was cameos from otehr shows well in a way.. We had sailor moon like characters appear, indiana jones, kiss, etc.
For the system to be restored, bob thought he would let the user do the work and viola the system was saved and restored... EVeyrhting was changed back to the original way.
DrSpengler
05-09-2005, 04:41 PM
If only they had bought an anti-virus and firewall :roll:
;)
Everything Turtledude2k3 said, plus some more detail on the anti-virus and firewall seen in the show:
Bob WAS the anti-virus, in a way. He was trained in the supercomputer in the net or someplace outside of Mainframe and then transfered (downloaded) to Mainframe to be their Guardian, as they were constantly losing in games and innocent people were being turned into those slug-things. As Guardian, Bob had to keep Mainframe safe from all threats, be they games or Viruses like Megabyte.
The firewall was used near the end of the second season, I believe. Basically it was a big dome of red energy built around Megabyte's fortress to keep him locked in, that way he couldn't terrorize Mainframe anymore. But while Enzo was trapped in game space, Megabyte broke the firewall down and invaded Mainframe or something.
Memory's a little hazy, but I think that's how it went.
cowabunga14
05-09-2005, 06:14 PM
I remeber that show. I only saw a few episodes of it and thought it was a great show. There was also an episode based on Evil Dead 2. It had Ash and he had his chain saw hand and he was in that cabin. Anyone see that episode? I haven't but I'll post some screen caps of it later.
DrSpengler
05-09-2005, 06:38 PM
Yeah, that was a cool episode. As a horror movie fan I enjoyed all the refernces. Enzo turned into Michael Jackson from Thriller, Dot turned into Mortisha from the Adams Family at first and then tore her dress up until she more closely resembled Elvira.
The Evil Dead references were sweet (the cabin, the Book of the Dead, the cellar, "I'm dead before Dawn! I'm dead before dawn!"). And, of course, Ash appearing as the villain (even if he only said "Groovy" over and over again). He also faired pretty well as an enemy. He shot Frisket in the face at point-blank range with his boomstick.
Ash appeared again at the very end of the third season when all the old game villains were attacking Mainframe. Frisket mauled him to pieces.
Brodie
05-09-2005, 07:27 PM
I miss that show.....Were there DVDs?
ZariusTwo
05-09-2005, 07:46 PM
I miss that show.....Were there DVDs?
The entirty of Seasons Three and Four (four in it's two movie format) are avalible on DVD.
Midnight_Tanuki
05-10-2005, 07:55 AM
If I recall, the final episode ended with a new Enzo being created because Matrix forgot to change his formatting, Enzo says "So who's the big ugly green dude?"
Turtledude2k3
05-10-2005, 11:08 AM
Bob WAS the anti-virus, in a way. He was trained in the supercomputer in the net or someplace outside of Mainframe and then transfered (downloaded) to Mainframe to be their Guardian, as they were constantly losing in games and innocent people were being turned into those slug-things. As Guardian, Bob had to keep Mainframe safe from all threats, be they games or Viruses like Megabyte.
The firewall was used near the end of the second season, I believe. Basically it was a big dome of red energy built around Megabyte's fortress to keep him locked in, that way he couldn't terrorize Mainframe anymore. But while Enzo was trapped in game space, Megabyte broke the firewall down and invaded Mainframe or something.
Memory's a little hazy, but I think that's how it went.[/QUOTE]
Yes that's correct. Guardians are basically the anti-virus. I should have explained it but anyways, ok Bob wasn't a full guardian all the time, just a basic Guardian. He became a guaridna In Deamon's Rising, there was a flashback in the supercomputer where this girl (can't remember her name) and Bob were and also was Kilobyte a minor virus that became Megabyte. However, Kilobyte got so strong he evolved, then a portal opened and he was changing into Gigabyte, who was transported to Mainframe.. Upon arriving in Mainframe, Gigabyte was split into 2, Megabyte and Hexadecimal. Hexadecimal even told Dot in the movie that she was created by Dot's father Welman Matrix who was created a portal but failed when the experiment failed.
Before the virus went to mainframe, it killed the girl and knocked Bob's out of focus.. When he woke up, the virus was gone and he went to help his' friend but she died and her keytool "Glitch" took her power and knowledge and asorbed it and then it went to bob and gave him everything becoming BOB the guardian.. Then Bob went to mainframe to find Kilobyte/Megabyte/Gigabyte.. Upon arriving he met Dot who blamed him for destorying mainframe, twin city.
That's how the show really began.
Brodie
05-10-2005, 08:31 PM
I watched My Two Bobs.....What happens to Glitch Bob?
ZariusTwo
05-10-2005, 09:51 PM
I watched My Two Bobs.....What happens to Glitch Bob?
Glitch seperates from Bob, breifly restorting him to his "Inter-Face" mode (he'd later be restored to his original form), and functions properly again, it has a hand in exposing the fake Bob as Megabyte.
cowabunga14
05-11-2005, 08:55 AM
Is Reboot still on TV? Like all the reruns and whatnot? If so what channel is it on? I wanna watch it again if I can.
Peanut
05-11-2005, 09:25 AM
I don't think it still airs in the US, but it comes on here in Canada every Friday night on YTV. I usually watch it around 11 or so.
Turtledude2k3
05-11-2005, 11:25 AM
Is Reboot still on TV? Like all the reruns and whatnot? If so what channel is it on? I wanna watch it again if I can.
Yep like what the otehr guy says.. Reboot is currently on ytv at 11pm and right now this friday will be episode 2 of season 4.. Good episode you got to watch..
Turtledude2k3
03-11-2006, 01:34 AM
Hey.
Remember that old show called REBOOT?
Well I do. Check my public profile you should see a picutre of megabyte saying "I want you". This is one of my favorite tv shows. It was also the first cgi show and have over 30 episodes and 2 movies..
The movies are "Daemon's Rising" and "My Two Bobs" the end of the 2nd one leaves us with questions and according to sources there is a script already doen but I guess they are busy with making others show.
Mainframe entertainment is the company that created the show. You may have seen beast machines or something.. You know..
So uh anyone here on technodrome have seen this?
I have all episodes and both movies on tape. i want to find a way to convert my tapes onto a dvd to preserve the memories. If I had a program and something to put my vcr onto thecomputer, I could record all the episodes and spread the love of the show to people like you..
If I could do it..
ZariusTwo
03-11-2006, 06:22 AM
Mainframe entertainment is the company that created the show. You may have seen beast machines or something.. You know..
...I would'nt recommend Beast Machines to a dead fish.
Shadow Raiders and Beast Wars? Yes
Beast Machines? No.
And secondly, dont' act like you're educating anyone here on what Reboot is. Theres' more fans for it here than you think
Turtledude2k3
03-11-2006, 05:01 PM
...I would'nt recommend Beast Machines to a dead fish.
Shadow Raiders and Beast Wars? Yes
Beast Machines? No.
And secondly, dont' act like you're educating anyone here on what Reboot is. Theres' more fans for it here than you think
uh huh sure there are, Zarius. Where are they? Come my fans! Come join my topic!
damnhooligan
03-11-2006, 05:48 PM
Yeah, I remember the show. It was the first time I've ever seen a TV show done entirely with computer generated graphics. I was absolutely amazed as a kid.
And Turtledude... way to leech that sig from reboot.com.
Turtledude2k3
03-11-2006, 05:51 PM
Yeah, I remember the show. It was the first time I've ever seen a TV show done entirely with computer generated graphics. I was absolutely amazed as a kid.
And Turtledude... way to leech that sig from reboot.com.
damn! I took it off. I had to make a new signautre. My Riviera banne wasn't new anymore so I wanted to change it.
damnhooligan
03-11-2006, 06:06 PM
All you really needed to do was host it on your own webspace/free hosting. Didn't have to take it off entirely.
Isn't there already a Reboot thread somewhere?
Anyways, this show was great! I've got all the figures in a box out in my shed and some mini sets too:D They stopped showing it over here after about season 2, and I recently looked up what happened after that and we really missed out on the best episodes like when Enzo came back from the future, now that was damn cool (I love anything with time travel in it).
EDIT: Oh, and there is another thread (http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=12532&highlight=reboot), started by Turtledude2k3 aswell... from November.
Turtledude2k3
03-11-2006, 09:15 PM
I forgotten about my other topic.. Sorry guys. we all seem to forget our threads we create.. This forum is a busy place it would tkae hours to go back through all 600 of my posts..
IceFlash78
03-12-2006, 08:47 PM
I loved Reboot--I watched it when I was little on Saturday Mornings. Memory's slightly hazy, but I do remember being amazed by the CGI (It was the first CGI show i saw), and by the concept. Oooh life in a computer!
Sometimes I wish I lived in Canada. They get reruns of the best shows evar.
Turtledude2k3
03-12-2006, 08:50 PM
I loved Reboot--I watched it when I was little on Saturday Mornings. Memory's slightly hazy, but I do remember being amazed by the CGI (It was the first CGI show i saw), and by the concept. Oooh life in a computer!
Sometimes I wish I lived in Canada. They get reruns of the best shows evar.
yep we sure do:D hoever reboot isn't shown much on YTV. Thank gosh for my tapes. I have every episode and both movies. i said this in another post.
Still I need to find a way to put it onto my computer and let others see this great tv show.
Sometimes I wish I lived in Canada. They get reruns of the best shows evar.
Sometimes I wish I lived in the UK; they get DVD releases of the good stuff first (Red Dwarf, Bananaman, Danger Mouse, MOTU, Harry and the Hendersons, etc.).
damnhooligan
03-12-2006, 09:20 PM
yep we sure do:D hoever reboot isn't shown much on YTV. Thank gosh for my tapes. I have every episode and both movies. i said this in another post.
Still I need to find a way to put it onto my computer and let others see this great tv show.
The show was released on DVD some time ago. A couple of the disks are available on DVD through amazon.com ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=br_ss_hs/102-0875492-3605705?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Ddvd%26dispatch%3Dsearch%26results-process%3Dbin&field-keywords=reboot&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go) while some are just not in stock. I wouldn't bother with trying to rip the episodes from your tapes.
GK Punk
03-12-2006, 11:51 PM
Sometimes I wish I lived in the UK; they get DVD releases of the good stuff first (Red Dwarf, Bananaman, Danger Mouse, MOTU, Harry and the Hendersons, etc.).
Um dude... MOTU, Danger Mouse and I'm pretty sure Red Dwarf have all been released in the states...
Um dude... MOTU, Danger Mouse and I'm pretty sure Red Dwarf have all been released in the states...
Yes. I do know this (having bought RD I-VI). I'm just saying the UK get the good stuff first.
ZariusTwo
03-13-2006, 06:08 PM
Um dude... MOTU, Danger Mouse and I'm pretty sure Red Dwarf have all been released in the states...
Burt WE got them long before you did, the He-Man DVDs released on the UK regions were even rarer than the box sets, they were released seperatly, six episodes per disc, with two from each given commentairies provided by He-Man.Orgs' webmasters.
We've also gotten the complete seasons of Visionaries, Inhumonoids, TF: RID, and Bucky O'Haire, whilst the states have yet to even capatalise on them.
GK Punk
03-13-2006, 06:20 PM
Oh yeah, I knew you guys got 'em first, I just wanted to make sure KROW knows that he can get some of those shows he's mentioned. We're going to get the Full MOTU series as well as She-Ra, the UK hasn't yet. And apparently might not get atleast the rest of MoTU for awhile.
ZariusTwo
03-13-2006, 06:35 PM
Oh yeah, I knew you guys got 'em first, I just wanted to make sure KROW knows that he can get some of those shows he's mentioned. We're going to get the Full MOTU series as well as She-Ra, the UK hasn't yet. And apparently might not get atleast the rest of MoTU for awhile.
You're not just getting the original MOTU series as a box set, you're getting this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaW74o1mt-E&search=New%20Adventures%20of%20He-Man
...B*stards...:ohwell: :P
Thank god torrent sites ensure whatever you get, we get....:lol:
GK Punk
03-13-2006, 06:51 PM
That's right, I completley forgot that we are getting that. That's actually kind of awesome.
ZariusTwo
04-11-2015, 06:49 AM
Rather than create a new thread, I thought I'd bump this one up to share this news. Official plot summary for the new Reboot series "Guardian Code"
ReBoot: The Guardian Code (Rainmaker Entertainment) presented by Michael Hefferon, follows the adventures of four typical teens whose lives are upgraded in a big way, when they discover they are next-gen Guardians – super cool heroes that stream into cyberspace so they can defend humanity from deadly computer viruses and malware.
http://www.rebootrevival.com/?p=1369
Yes, because when I think of Reboot, I totally think of this:P
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Krutch
04-11-2015, 03:04 PM
I barely watched Reboot growing up and even I know thats way off base. And yeah, thats exactly the same summary as SHSCS!
ZariusTwo
11-03-2025, 09:40 AM
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IndigoErth
11-04-2025, 12:27 AM
You know...it's kind of amusing that its low budget look means AI can just pull off something that looks completely accurate. Lol
ZariusTwo
11-04-2025, 03:45 AM
You know...it's kind of amusing that its low budget look means AI can just pull off something that looks completely accurate. Lol
Ha, yeah, all the little errors make it look ridiculously authentic for the time it was made:)
I'm thinking of using the Deevid image generator to turn this into a comic also, saves me money on commissions
ZariusTwo
06-15-2026, 07:01 AM
Bumping because I've turned my attention back to developing a new Reboot episode in A.I
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I hadn't seen the previous replies, I'll check them out later Zarius.
It should also be worth noting that fans went and got the original tapes and have been scanning them and now releasing them for fans to watch, reboot has never ever looked better. it's quite impressive. there's a whole video from Linus tech tips on all the effort they had to go through.
ZariusTwo
06-15-2026, 12:32 PM
I hadn't seen the previous replies, I'll check them out later Zarius.
It should also be worth noting that fans went and got the original tapes and have been scanning them and now releasing them for fans to watch, reboot has never ever looked better. it's quite impressive. there's a whole video from Linus tech tips on all the effort they had to go through.
There were also a couple of retrospective documentaries a while back where Dan Didio and the developers got together to discuss it
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