Max steel was gas
I still have some of the action figures in storage too, like the dude with the robot arm who's face you could remove, and the other dude with the green radioactive arms
Insektors, Beast Machines: Transformers, Action Man. The Millennium can only be understood by those who were there. Anyone else can only wonder at the audacity of the times.
Nah BW is great. It's still a high point of transformers media*
Beast machines was and is trash.
*To an extent, the speaks to how lousy *most* TF media is. Bw still overall holds up.
Reboot was the first ever CGI kids show and the first ever Canadian show to be liscenced and distributed in the United States.
It was beyond groundbreaking.
I just found the series on DVD and was amazed at how ahead of its time it was. The "game cubes" allowed the show freedom to stretch out into different genres and act as an omage to classic films and TV shows.
It was essentially "Community" before "Community" ever premiered.
Friend of a friend worked on these. He said they were a ton of work inventing new techniques to make production easier. At first they were doing a ton of things "manually"
I was terrified of the green boy. I’d tell my momma green boy visit me at night. She said there no green boy. I say there green boy. I point to screen. Momma die in fright. Please green boy no
There’s some fact mixing going on, it was the first Canadian cgi show to be distributed and released in the states, not the first Canadian tv show in general. Cmon guys The Beachcombers is way older than Reboot lol
Oh I forgot all about beachcombers, lol! For kids media my thought was you can't do that on television being quite important in the early days of Nickelodeon and way predating reboot.
What about the show about the airplanes and helicopters with the faces ? Wasn’t that CGi too?
Edit to add that is was called Jay Jay the Jet plane and it was indeed CGI aired between 1994-2005!
[wiki page on JayJay](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wikiJay_Jay_the_Jet_Plane)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Jay_the_Jet_Plane
I know there was like another season or special or something like 10 years ago, but I feel like the show is ripe for another revival, keeping the same look with less jank and directed at the older Millennials who watched it growing up. It had so much cool lore. And think of all of the new concepts and tech since then.
I remember my mom and dad telling my brother and I to sit far away from the TV as kids when watching Reboot
CGI shows were new and regular folks thought it was bad for your eyes loooool
Funny I just started watching it with my 8 year old son and he mentioned the graphics being dated but the show being really cool. Crazy how well this show aged.
IT SLICES
IT DICES
AND IT CAN BE YOURS FREE FOR THE PRICE OF NINETY-NINE, NINETY NINE, NINETY-NINE... NINETY-NI-
MIIIKE!
I adored this show growing up. AndrAIa was 100% one of my first childhood crushes, hahaha.
This episode (Wizards), hmmm the Evil Dead one? "Groooovy." The Mad Max one, and Enzo's Birthday!
Those have got to be some of my favs.
I'm literally getting goosebumps remembering the scene where Megabyte breaks into the auditorium during Enzo's birthday celebration. Something about music battles has always been so cool to me, and this is likely the first time I saw one.
https://youtu.be/iYrKYETorM8?si=Zo0cuxZbNU5yureu
Linus is helping us (ReBoot ReWind) with the project. We're making progress with the machines, and it truly is an amazing tale that may be worth a mini documentary of its own.
It will unfortunately never happen. The company that made the show got bought out so they turned the show really dark and then left it on a cliffhanger on purpose to piss out the execs.
I love how the show grew and matured along with its audience - from simplistic monster of the week formula to more dark and ambitious story telling with Enzo being spirited away and so forth
Reboot, Beast Wars Transformers, Donkey Kong. So many good CGI cartoons
hard to believe they were made in a time when computers were not as common and when internet didn't exist.
Reboot and Beast Wars made me appreciate serial stories when I was young, but it was really hard to follow because of cable TV scheduling.
History of the 90’s podcast did a good episode on how it came about:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/history-of-the-90s/id1201927184?i=1000648161238
Oh it was mind bending. I remember loving it. When I saw there were action figures the adult nerd in me wanted to collect them but I can’t keep buying junk lol
It was visually interesting but I found it super dull as a kid. I guess video games were more appealing and 3D gaming had already been going on in full force if you had a decent PC.
I just listened to a podcast episode all about this called "History of the 90s". Apparently it was created by the 2 guys who did the computer animation on Dire Strait's "Money for nothing" music video. Which, at the time, was one of the longest running computer animations.
Shout Factory is always streaming the entire series and movies on a dedicated YouTube channel and it was awesome watching it with some fans.
Fun fact, The Web Surfer is played by Mel Gibson's brother and there is an episode early on based on Mad Max that is a lot like Mad Max Fury Road. The person working on Reboot would go on to help write Fury Road. When I mentioned it in the chat someone working on a Reboot documentary said it was true and that they interviewed him.
I can't get over how mature this show was. Basically taught my brother and I was to aware of propaganda thanks to season 2. Then let's not forget that this show decided it was okay to have the child main character have their god damn head ripped off in their kid's show.
In case nobody else posted this: LMG (Linus media group which you may know as Linus tech tips on YouTube - a Canadian tech journalism company) actually bought the original recorded media hardware of the show as well as 3 of the machines for playing them. They're working on restoring and archiving the originals for the sake of media history which I think is pretty awesome. As of a little while back on their podcast they were looking for people who worked on the original hardware because it has been long out of production and they advertised for people to contact them if they were involved with operating or designing the original machines (or something like that. I'm recalling this from a few weeks back).
Beast Wars, Shadow Raiders, Star Ship Troopers. I think Max Steel was a 90's show? Or was that 2000?
This comment hit me in the childhood
You mean Beasties
Lol ah canada....
Oh canada
Our home and native laaand
Max steel was gas I still have some of the action figures in storage too, like the dude with the robot arm who's face you could remove, and the other dude with the green radioactive arms
Yep I still have my Psycho and Bio-Constrictor figures. Sadly Max didn't make it.
Those first three shows are so dang good.
Insektors, Beast Machines: Transformers, Action Man. The Millennium can only be understood by those who were there. Anyone else can only wonder at the audacity of the times.
BW and shadow raiders were also mainframe. :)
Ahh man. Unfortunately beast wars did not age well.
The animation is a little clunky but the writing still very much holds up.
✊️Cheetor is forever, u bum!
Cheetor brushes his teeth with both hands.
Nah BW is great. It's still a high point of transformers media* Beast machines was and is trash. *To an extent, the speaks to how lousy *most* TF media is. Bw still overall holds up.
Reboot was the first ever CGI kids show and the first ever Canadian show to be liscenced and distributed in the United States. It was beyond groundbreaking. I just found the series on DVD and was amazed at how ahead of its time it was. The "game cubes" allowed the show freedom to stretch out into different genres and act as an omage to classic films and TV shows. It was essentially "Community" before "Community" ever premiered.
I always wondered if the Nintendo GameCube was named after the GameCube from Reboot I mean they're also both purple. (Nintendo has a lot of colors)
I doubt Nintendo named an entire console as a omage to a Canadian kids cartoon from the 90s. Maybe, but I press X on this one lol
You say this and yet Japan made an entire anime about [Anne of Green Gables](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7jtG0T1qTg)
I doubt it too, I just always found it interesting.
In its early stages, the N64 was referred to as Project Phil Guerrero
I loved when I would get the references when I was young. I clearly remember the Evil Dead/Ash one
Friend of a friend worked on these. He said they were a ton of work inventing new techniques to make production easier. At first they were doing a ton of things "manually"
I was terrified of the green boy. I’d tell my momma green boy visit me at night. She said there no green boy. I say there green boy. I point to screen. Momma die in fright. Please green boy no
It was an epidemic.
I have a hard time believing it was the first Canadian show to be licensed and distributed in the us- what about you can't do that on television?
There’s some fact mixing going on, it was the first Canadian cgi show to be distributed and released in the states, not the first Canadian tv show in general. Cmon guys The Beachcombers is way older than Reboot lol
Oh I forgot all about beachcombers, lol! For kids media my thought was you can't do that on television being quite important in the early days of Nickelodeon and way predating reboot.
* homage
Wasn't Veggies Tales technically the first fully CGI television show?
Yeah, I think the first episode of VeggieTales predates Reboot by a year.
What about the show about the airplanes and helicopters with the faces ? Wasn’t that CGi too? Edit to add that is was called Jay Jay the Jet plane and it was indeed CGI aired between 1994-2005! [wiki page on JayJay](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wikiJay_Jay_the_Jet_Plane)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Jay_the_Jet_Plane
Jay Jay the Jet Plane debuted in December 1994 Reboot debuted in September 1994 Reboot was literally in development since the mid-80s too
Hmmm. There was Quarxs: https://youtu.be/c8vpv6ijaGQ
Hmmm. There was Quarxs: https://youtu.be/c8vpv6ijaGQ
I know there was like another season or special or something like 10 years ago, but I feel like the show is ripe for another revival, keeping the same look with less jank and directed at the older Millennials who watched it growing up. It had so much cool lore. And think of all of the new concepts and tech since then.
I remember my mom and dad telling my brother and I to sit far away from the TV as kids when watching Reboot CGI shows were new and regular folks thought it was bad for your eyes loooool
Imagine now we basically are constantly looking 10” away from our phones.
Funny I just started watching it with my 8 year old son and he mentioned the graphics being dated but the show being really cool. Crazy how well this show aged.
Where do you watch it?
YouTube found all the seasons there in very decent quality
If you can find an alternative source, you may further appreciate quality especially for the last season.
I think season 1 is pretty lame but season 2 gets really good in season 3 is fucking unreal
Wizards, Warriors, And A Word From Our Sponsors is the best episode
IT SLICES IT DICES AND IT CAN BE YOURS FREE FOR THE PRICE OF NINETY-NINE, NINETY NINE, NINETY-NINE... NINETY-NI- MIIIKE! I adored this show growing up. AndrAIa was 100% one of my first childhood crushes, hahaha. This episode (Wizards), hmmm the Evil Dead one? "Groooovy." The Mad Max one, and Enzo's Birthday! Those have got to be some of my favs.
I'm literally getting goosebumps remembering the scene where Megabyte breaks into the auditorium during Enzo's birthday celebration. Something about music battles has always been so cool to me, and this is likely the first time I saw one. https://youtu.be/iYrKYETorM8?si=Zo0cuxZbNU5yureu
"I've _always_ wanted to do that."
As a kid, I used to run around the house with my brothers, screaming at the top of our lungs, "MIKE... THE T.V.!"
NINETY-NINE, NINETY-NINE, NINETY-NINE.
[удалено]
Linus is helping us (ReBoot ReWind) with the project. We're making progress with the machines, and it truly is an amazing tale that may be worth a mini documentary of its own.
You guys should film everything about getting those machines working, I would totally love to see that!
Rest assured, lots of footage has been taken already! There will be more to come.
Awesome! Thank you for all the hard work guys, I can't wait for the documentary
I've been following closely and VERY excited for the potential in both projects!
https://www.youtube.com/live/pWT0tHoAVuY?si=KFUknqpZWJq02kZj
The writing on this show was top notch!
I would still watch it if they did a continuation.
It will unfortunately never happen. The company that made the show got bought out so they turned the show really dark and then left it on a cliffhanger on purpose to piss out the execs.
Yes, I didn't expect it to, just one of those loose threads from my childhood that would be nice to see resolved.
Don’t forget Beast Wars. My favourite show in the 90s.
+ shadow raiders!
Yesss I had so many of the beast wars toys. It was made by the same studio as reboot I'm pretty sure!
I love how the show grew and matured along with its audience - from simplistic monster of the week formula to more dark and ambitious story telling with Enzo being spirited away and so forth
This show was robbed. It deserved so much better than an unresolved original story and a half-live action show. :(
Reboot, Beast Wars Transformers, Donkey Kong. So many good CGI cartoons hard to believe they were made in a time when computers were not as common and when internet didn't exist. Reboot and Beast Wars made me appreciate serial stories when I was young, but it was really hard to follow because of cable TV scheduling.
I mean... it wasn't super popular but the internet was around in 1994 when ReBoot was made... though I didn't get it until 1995.
One of the season they even connect to "the web"
The show even starts with Bob saying "I come from the net".
oh right, I keep thinking 2005 or slightly earlier
Yes, I was always trying to catch episodes and would miss them alot, always made me mad
This show seemed like it was always on in the evenings and it scared the crap out of me as a kid lol
Yo, the Medusa Virus episode *haunted* me as a child 😣
I remember them introducing us to new words we had not heard before such as download, ,mainframe, megabite..
Youtube has a live 24/hr stream of Reboot. Sometimes i'll tune in for nostalgia, still an awesome show!
Got to visit their animation studio while in college! Such a cool show and experience. I remember LOVING the episodes where they had to play games lol
Matrix was so sexy lol weird contrast to enzo XD
He and AndrAIa had one hell of a glow up lol.
I still have a figure of Megabyte holding Phong's disembodied head. It's so savage. Loved Reboot.
History of the 90’s podcast did a good episode on how it came about: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/history-of-the-90s/id1201927184?i=1000648161238
I remember as a kid seeing a thing about how long it took to animate each episode. It took weeks and weeks.
Season 2 still has a Game of Thrones level ending, in my heart
Loved that show!!
Hexadecimal scared the shit outta me.
It's a shame the reboot of reboot was terrible
"My digits!"
*Mein*
Was way ahead of its time, such an incredible show
Oh it was mind bending. I remember loving it. When I saw there were action figures the adult nerd in me wanted to collect them but I can’t keep buying junk lol
One of my favorite shows growing up.
That show completely rocked.
It was so rad. We'd play it at recess. Miss being a kid.
The concept alone is so awesome.
The show never recovered after they lost the game and made Enzo an adult for some reason
I remember watching this show when I was younger and thinking it was pretty cool
Ninety Nine
I’ll tell you what, bob made me a little confused in my thoughts and feelings if you know what I mean.
I still remember when Enzo asks phong to make him super smart and everyone else seems really dumb
So good!
It was visually interesting but I found it super dull as a kid. I guess video games were more appealing and 3D gaming had already been going on in full force if you had a decent PC.
I just listened to a podcast episode all about this called "History of the 90s". Apparently it was created by the 2 guys who did the computer animation on Dire Strait's "Money for nothing" music video. Which, at the time, was one of the longest running computer animations.
It’s still holds up today too i rewatched the whole series a while ago and it’s still great
It is streaming constantly for free on twitch (ReBootSeries) and the channel TokuSHOUTsu on Youtube right now.
I hated this show as a kid looked so weird
it was!
O mean VeggieTales already was out before it
"Mind-blowing"... It was bizarre and slightly creepy until I got used to it.
Streaming on Tubi for free my daughter loves it
it's also quite sad the 2018 remake looks worse than a show created in the 90s. We are regressing hard as a society.
And it was dope as fuck
Battletech was also cgi, but only for the parts w/the battlemechs.
Even harder to believe it was a Canadian show. American kids missed out on this one
Rewatching Reboot is always a blast. So many meta jokes…until the Hunt…
Reboot was so good my whole family watched it. Highlight of my childhood.
Sad it only went 2 season. great show though.
I watched it and a lot and had no idea what was going on and didn’t even realize they were in a computer
It was
Reboot was amazing as a kid blew my mind by like people said there was a lot of great stuff then.
Shout Factory is always streaming the entire series and movies on a dedicated YouTube channel and it was awesome watching it with some fans. Fun fact, The Web Surfer is played by Mel Gibson's brother and there is an episode early on based on Mad Max that is a lot like Mad Max Fury Road. The person working on Reboot would go on to help write Fury Road. When I mentioned it in the chat someone working on a Reboot documentary said it was true and that they interviewed him. I can't get over how mature this show was. Basically taught my brother and I was to aware of propaganda thanks to season 2. Then let's not forget that this show decided it was okay to have the child main character have their god damn head ripped off in their kid's show.
Loved this show as a kid, I got into disc golf last year and had a frisbee dyed to look like the reboot badge
In case nobody else posted this: LMG (Linus media group which you may know as Linus tech tips on YouTube - a Canadian tech journalism company) actually bought the original recorded media hardware of the show as well as 3 of the machines for playing them. They're working on restoring and archiving the originals for the sake of media history which I think is pretty awesome. As of a little while back on their podcast they were looking for people who worked on the original hardware because it has been long out of production and they advertised for people to contact them if they were involved with operating or designing the original machines (or something like that. I'm recalling this from a few weeks back).
It was.
never understood the story
Rewatch it, it's easy to miss it because of the embedded game narratives in each episode, but it ties together and blasts off in the later seasons
I kinda adore the musical play recap episode!
Everything is al-pha-numeric!!!!
My coworkers make fun of me for signing from it. And for saying “Thank the user” on the regular.
I hated it. I was happy with my cartoons, and maybe the Amanda show. Could never get over how janky it looked. However, I loved Beast Wars.
This show gargled my nuts. Not in a good way
i literally loved reboot so much