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I just added a reference that explains the name of the sector Ghetty Prime, which comes from the Frank Herbert book Dune, but I also think that whole section could use some better writting. 83.61.58.93 13:20, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I removed this: "As of 2004, only the two movies of the fourth season have been released on DVD in North America." I know it's wrong because my roommate has the third season on DVD, we live in America, and he got it before 2004. I would replace the line with something more accurate, but I don't know the current state of ReBoot on DVD. - Lifefeed 04:04, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
The DVD's and VHS movies are still available in new and used form at Amazon Books. (http://www.amazon.com)<br />
Search on the keyword "Reboot" in the DVD and VHS sections of the site.
They can be purchased over the Internet and shipped anywhere that Amazon supports shipping to.
Jordie Duce aka Gigamatrix.net
68.144.84.181
17:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I updated the DVD information with what I know of the current state of things. I also updated the AndrAIa entry. For some reason Wikipedia lost my session and the changes were logged as being from my IP instead of my ID.
"ReBoot is considered by many as one of the greatest computer animated cartoons ever." I remember it fondly, but this sounds weasely - who says it? Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_terms. Number 0 14:57, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Oh I fixed it I fixed it! As you can see if you look, Cartoon Network ran a poll, so I just used that to state the same point. Unfortunately I can't actually prove the source, because the poll ended a few years ago and is no longer anywhere to be found on Cartoon Network's site. Robbing Peter to pay Paul... Adam Marx Squared 22:22, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The thing I wonder is how important is the Cartoon Network poll I would just take that whole part out if it was up to me, the poll only seems to justify that as if to shout "This is the best show of all time and that is a fact" I would highly highly recomend taking it out. Deathawk 03:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Again, this is a fairly outlandish comment. Additionally, this is definitely a non-scientific poll, so I am adding that information. Bwabes
A recent edit - which I'll Wikify when I'm not being lazy by 69.158.76.153 states that Mouse is believed to have been a Game Sprite. Now that's the first I've heard of it. Can somebody tell me about this? Adam Marx Squared 03:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
The picture of Al I had uploaded is gone and someone edited my addition Yami 22:07, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Can somebody add on information about these movies I keep hearing about...? I've only heard rumours about them, and I can't seem to get any concrete information.
Can somebody whos in the know don the deerstalker and get to the bottom of this?
The movies are the fourth season. That season is either two movies, or those movies divided into 8 episodes. It's been aired both ways. SpaceCaptain 03:51, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I've seen the fourth season both ways. When I include references for my edits I use the 8-part numbering and titling system. MikeVx 02:40, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I would ask that people stop inputing their speculative origins for Bob's name. The creators of the show have said on numerous ocasions that the name Bob has no computer term origin and that they simply liked the name Bob. I suggest that untill you can provide a link to an article with solid proof concerning the origins of Bob's name there will be no origin included in this article. TimeCruiserMike 20:46, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I think it is likely that Bob is simply used as a humorous counterpoint to all of the other names that fit, e.g. Phong, Dot, Matrix, and... Bob.
Maybe it wasn't a conscious reference then; back in the Commodore 64 days there were two main ways of moving a character around in a computer game: sprites and bobs (which differed in their rendering methods). Bob is short for Blitter Object ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitter_object). The fact that all the other 'human' characters (i.e. not the binomes) are called 'sprites' indicates (to me) that Bob here is deliberately a parallel concept. PaulWay ( talk) 13:10, 2 January 2010 (UTC) (it certainly wasn't a veiled Blackadder reference, as it says on the page currently).
Anyone else think that mouse could possibly be a reference to the main character of Snow Crash?
Counsidering the source of just about every other name and term in the series, while it might be a side reference, but the primary reference is undoubtedly the clicker. Forgottenlord 21:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I changed "Copeland" to "Copland". If the name is based on that of the operating system, there shouldn't be an 'e'.
Does this show still come on American telivision and if so on what challel at what time?
Darn, I loved that show. -- 66.218.28.217 05:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
The entire series is shown on Teletoon Retro in the early mornings and I believe early evenings though I don't know this for sure.
KERMIT CRACK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.174.134.2 ( talk) 06:35, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
This sentance is a bit ambiguous: "the Gateway command is identical in shape and effects to the one from the movie and series Stargate." It sounds like it's saying Stargate had a Gateway Command! -- Quasar 00:36, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
TimeCruiserMike: I'm not sure what you are referring to when your talking about Mr. Pearson, but all this information can be found in the Episode "Game Over", Enzo enter a Mortal Combat type game with Andrea and Frisket. After losing to the user. Enzo changed his icon to Game Sprite mode to evade avoid being nullified, Andrea does the same, then she also changes Frisket's.
Also, before Enzo is an adult, he is usualy referred to as Enzo.
"21:47, 4 April 2006 BlackthornIV m (→Enzo Matrix - "Matrix" is Enzo's last name, and he is usually only referred as this when he is an Adult)"
"11:17, 6 April 2006 TimeCruiserMike (Changed name back to Matrix, is referring to the adult enzo, also matrix changed his icon to gamesprite mode when showing mr pearson how he survived in the games, then accidentlly left it that way)"
-- Blackthorn
The game Enzo 1.2 lost is Mortal Kombat III for PC, as this is the only PC MK that has the Archangel Gabriel. I think Mainframe had the distro rights for MK III for PC. If not, they probably would have had the pants sued off them. -- dm01 ( talk) 18:10, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
The Mr. Pearson thing was explaining why the system reboot created a second Enzo and the end of the third season. -arctic gnome 19:05, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Artic.gnome, But I can't seem to find this in End Prog or either of the movies (watching them now), Do you remember what episode? -- Blackthorn
It's right after Bob decides to let the user win the game, and the main characters are going around the city making sure that everyone is in the principle office with their PID recorded before the reboot. I'm guessing second-last episode of season 3, maybe third-last. -arctic gnome 00:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Matrix "You have to come to the principle office"
Person "I've told your friends and I'll tell ye! I'm not going!"
Matrix "Why?"
Person "You may have givin' up on mainframe but I HAVEN'T! Now GO! Leave me alone!"
Stuff falls onto Person
Matrix "Mr. Person, we care about mainframe too! Its just that, its not safe right now."
Person "And besides, who are ye to be botherin' about!"
Matrix "Its me, Enzo!"
Person "What are ya daft??"
Matrix "No. I survived the games by living in game-sprite mode. I fought long and hard to get back to mainframe."
Person "I'm glad to see ya made it, but i STILL WONT GO!"
Matrix "oh, i think ya will, Andrea?"
Andrea comes out of the shadows and stuns Person
Ok, I'm assuming that's it, but he doesn't say its an accident. -- Blackthorn 17:24, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I think the "accident" was him not changing it back. If he hadn't stayed in sprite mode, the system would have recognised that there was alredy an Enzo and wouldn't have made a new one. -arctic gnome 18:51, 12 April 2006 (UTC) arcitic im fixing your thing you mispelt
I seem to remember Hexadecimal being allied with Bob after the show finally returned to Mainframe after Ezno was taken away by a game..-- Vercalos 00:28, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I seem to remember Hexadecimal actually being named Hexadecima. Is everyone entirely certain that the name had that L on the end? 4.225.129.198 11:26, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
I find it a bit difficult to proof the existence of the German version, except for shops (tons of them). I do own it (watching it right now), but the release was very cheap in all ways (I got them cheaper than the current Amazon.de price [http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000790MGG/302-5601789-2536069?v=glance&n=284266]). No advertisment, no extras on the discs (except for a few ugly trailers for their other children DVDs) and the last time I searched the company hadn't a real webpage. Though there is a contact email address to be found on the web. Apparently they only took the second season since only the first and second have been synchronized in German (not half bad, I might say, but the synchro had been ordered by a state owned channel, which at the time were responsible for rather good synchros), but TV Loonland (the liscence-holder for our region) had lost the liscencing rights. Hmm, it seems it was co-published by "Medienvertrieb in Buchholz" as similarily small company, which doesn't have a real website either. Both companies did Shadow Raiders in 8 DVDs too, with the original voice track this time (and a more than crappy German synchro). The liscensing company TV-Loonland is even more confusing. First this [1] then this [2] and finally this [3]. I have no idea who the Italian company is or this Joan Records. TV-Loonland's own Reboot infopage [4] is getting worst by the year, last year they still had the info up on which regions they can liscense what to, and note the lack of rights to season four. This is all very confusing, but I can state with certainty that three officially liscenced DVDs containing season 2 (10 episodes total) exist in Germany. The production of these DVDs was just not announced or reviewed anywhere, or any other other information, same seems to go for the other products of these companies. One day the DVDs just appeared on the shelves (and I actually found Shadow Raiders that way, on a shelf in a shop). I had brief e-mail contact (about three years ago) with the persons responsible for releasing Shadow Raiders and begged them for ReBoot (seems like I was heard). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.184.91.211 ( talk • contribs)
I added a note in the trivia section to how for a month ABC aired a Power Ranger-ish show in Reboot's slot, how the network hinted at a crossover, and the Reboot bumper shows that were broadcast during that timespan. I know I saw it with my own eyes, I have a great memory for useless trivia like this, but I can't seem to find the tapes that had those. Is anyone in favor of keeping this blurb/able to verify it? Gladrius 17:38, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, as I noted, it never happened. Personally, I think some guy at ABC just got the wrong idea from the memo. Gladrius 00:13, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to at least include the part about SHSSS taking its slot and the Reboot mini-story that was shown during that time, since that at least concerns Reboot and is real. Gladrius 01:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
I feel that something on this page should probably refer to his death. Doesn't this seriously impact on our chances of more ReBoot given where the series ended? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.229.247.20 ( talk • contribs)
I hadn't really paid any attention to this before, but was ReBoot influenced by anime? I mean there were certainly anime cameos, but they were more in the nature of pop culture references than Anime.. Anyone else have any thoughts of this?-- Vercalos 08:38, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
this article reffers to the badges that all the characters wear as "icons." I could've sworn they were called PIDs (Process IDs) can anyone confirm/debunk this? Ziiv 01:28, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
from article "Editing of anime in American distribution"
"However, censorship is also demonstrated in imports from other countries and even original US productions; Spider-Man: The Animated Series and the Canadian series ReBoot both faced heavy censorship."
What edits did reboot get when it came to America? Angelofdeath275 21:27, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
The monoboob made an exit. It can be seen by simply watching the show... No citation needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iowaseven ( talk • contribs) 01:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
The recent change of category to "1990s American television series" is a bit icky in my mind. Surely the show was distributed by ABC in its first two seasons, but it was created in Canada! Can it be called American? Arasaka 05:59, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
The tag seems to be refering to the humor and trivia section. I personally think that the references were an important part of the series, but it is currently taking up a large portion of the page. In correspondace with WP:TRIV, I think that most of it should be moved to List of ReBoot episodes and List of Games and Users from ReBoot, with only a summary of their use and long running items in the section. I'll probably start working on it in the next few days if no one objects. -- Aqua 08:19, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I had just edited back in the links the other night when they were removed, my reasoning being "What's a show without it's fans? Especially a site with the goal of bringing the show back?".
I understand if there were too many of them, and some were offline, but if you want to get down to it the Unofficial ReBoot Home Page is also a fansite.
I did a quick search of popular cartoon ' Code Lyoko', it's main fansites are still there. However I suppose could just be a matter of time before they too are removed.
Cloud S 22:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
The secton about the "unaired special episode" is highly unencyclopedic and unclear. Notably, I can assume that the episode is presented directly to the viewer, but as it seems to begin in the ReBoot world, this is unclear and should be stated. Unfortunatly, I know nothing about this episode and am too inexperienced with Wikipedia to properly tag this problem, so I am just posting here as a note if someone wishes to rectify this problem.
To who it may concern: The source of the unaired special episode is a VHS tape given to a fan by the UK TV broadcast company Meridian, it was never aired on TV, the tape was subsequently digitised and put out as extras on bootleg DVDs and as an individual video file uploaded to the net. Haku.co.uk 11:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
The article mentions at [ReBoot#Pop_culture_references] that in "Talent Night" the binary joke translates as "Take my wife, please." However, my transcription of what is said is "101 00 11 011 101 1101 11 00 11 0111 10 01 110 101 10 000 1100 1011 1 0011 101" (I inserted spaces where the comic pauses to improve readability and assist in verification of my transcription). There are 58 bits in this string, and so I have no idea how it was translated into "Take my wife, please," especially considering that 58 factors into 29 and 2, meaning that it cannot fit into any existing coding standard. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.248.157.246 ( talk) 06:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
Phong uses the passkey "yadda, yadda, yadda" on more than one occasion to access the Principle Office, Core, and Archives. -- dm01 ( talk) 03:49, 23 October 2008 (UTC) [Re-signed comment with name]
I edited the character section mention of Hexadecimal to read "twin sister" instead of older sister. I don't exactly like that wording, but aside from just removing the word it was the best option I could think of. I'm not exactly sure why Hexadecimal was considered to be Megabyte's older sister in the first place, but season four clearly shows that Hexadecimal and Megabyte were created at the same time from Gigabyte's splitting in the explosion that destroyed the Twin City. -- Marzolan 07:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Could someone please check whether this article is in copyvio of [7]? I'm not sure which came first, but the page doesn't mention Wikipedia as a source and seems in style with the rest of the website. -- 91.0.108.188 10:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
I used to watch ReBoot while it was doing the rounds on CITV, and I'm fairly sure that I saw Feathers McGraw in at least one cameo role. Can anyone confirm this?
1.) Just before Phong comes out of the box 2.) Stands in the road as the camera zooms out to show some ABCs flying by or something 3.) Walking down the street just before the web creature escapes 4.) Falls out of a crate as the Salty Mare is in the data storm (or otherwise attacked in one of the web episodes) Mavrickindigo ( talk) 05:22, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Having recently re-watched several episodes out of order, and the entire 3rd season, it occurred to me that a childhood question of mine has yet to be answered. What is the significance (if any) of the color and 180° orientation of the ReBoot "Icon" badge that is worn by Sprites, Guardians, et al?
I know the Guardian's Icon is yellow/black with the yellow background and black half-diamond on top. However, common Sprites wear a black/white icon and its proper orientation is unclear to me-- having seen it worn with either white-on-black at top, or black-on-white at top. At first I had noticed it oriented as black-on-white at top, but then noticed that it's most commonly worn white-on-black at top. Other characters also wear different color Icons, but these only appear to be cosmetic in nature. Still, I'd like to know if there were any standards in practice which perhaps identified a character's good/evil orientation. Thanks.
~ Agvulpine 07:27, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Maybe this can clear things up for our readers:
Yellow/Black: Guardians Blue/White: Guardian Medic OR Hack Black/White (Diamond: black up): System Sprite Black/White (Diamond: black down): System Binome Black/White (Circle): Game Sprite Red/White: Hexadecimal-infected Binome/Sprite OR Slash Green/Black: Megabyte-infected Binome/Sprite No Icon: Not registered with any system's Principal Office
When Hexadecimal was registered with the Principal Office and given a Black/White (Diamond) icon, her format did not change.
Trivia sections are just there for people who can't work out how to write real articles. /me stops being provocative. Can we please merge this into the main article? It's spoiling an otherwise excellent article! - Ta bu shi da yu 10:56, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
There are two revival sections. I'm partial for removing the second (lower on the page) one. Mgius 18:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to merge these two sections since they basically cover the same information? I'll sit down with it if no one gets to it before I have some free time, but I figured I'd ask. Hewinsj 13:23, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
"ReBoot was a CGI animated series." Why is Reboot described in the past tense? It is a television series. Making it "was" means that it no longer exists. Perhaps it should be rephrased as: "Reboot is a CGI animated television series which originally broadcasted from 1994 to 2001 ... blah blah blah". xero-7 02:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I know from my own recordings off of Cartoon Network that they aired season 3, and then looped to seasons 1 & 2. After that they canceled airing the loop of season 3 after the episode Firewall. My best guess as to why they would do that is because of poor ratings. Though if anyone has a better idea, please edit it. Mr.Smiley4 08:48, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia disallows links to other wikis, with very, very rare exceptions arrived at through discussion and consensus. Please see the guidelines at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Examples, which state, among things, "Wikis, including Wikipedia and other wikis sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation are not regarded as reliable sources." -- Tenebrae ( talk) 23:47, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
According to the Timeline of CGI in film and television, Insektors was the first First full-length, completely computer-animated TV series. Never having heard of that show personally, this necessitates some investigation. -- ASA-IRULE ( talk) 05:09, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
What does 'full-length' mean? Do we have a proper definition? I assumed it meant that whole episodes were done in CGI, not just part of the episodes. The 'full-length' of an episode of insektors was meant to be 12 minutes, and for all of those minutes it was animated with CGI. -- 78.148.158.141 ( talk) 20:15, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I stumbled upon a www.reboot.com today, which appears to be a countdown timer for some event related to the ReBoot series (It has a similar logo to the series). Should this be included on the wiki? MrPaqman ( talk) 19:55, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
In the VHS and DVD release release section the article mentions releases in ReBoot's "original PAL video format". I'm no animation expert and I don't know in which format ReBoot was originally produced, but it seems like it would make more sense that Mainframe originally used NTSC seeing as they are based in North America and were producing the show for North American networks (primarily). Zytsef ( talk) 05:35, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
It was never PAL in canada like it says as canada uses NTSC, it was PAL for the VHS in England and Australia.
In the Pop culture references section the Guitar battle between boB and Megabyte in the episode "Talent Night" lists boB's comand to Glich "BFG" as a to the BFG9000 ultimate weapon of the Doom game series, While the letters may stand for that I find it much more likely that this was a reference to the Gibson Les Paul BFG guitar, or atleast a misdirection to add suspence —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.198.85.40 ( talk) 23:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
There should definatly be a spoiler warning 67.193.194.152 ( talk) 17:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
The section outlining the pitch for "Arrival" should include a link to My Two Bobs for the reference to the "hunt".
You are probably expecting one my erudite speeches, the new viral dawn, welcome to Megaframe, yadda, yadda, yadda.
In this, I am afraid I am going to have to disappoint.
You see, this is about revenge. Viruses are predatory by nature, and it is time for me to realise my final function.
Prepare yourselves for the hunt.
Remember what happened when Daemon realised her final function?.
dm01 ( talk) 17:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
The robot from episode 7 of season two seems to resember Mazinger Z fairly strongly. Just enough, in my opinion, to avoid a copyright issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.231.189.116 ( talk) 04:12, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Quote: "Mainframe (named after the show's creator, Mainframe Entertainment)".
We already know that Mainframe Entertainment were responsible for ReBoot, but not the "Mainframe" name, I don't really think that "Mainframe" was named after Mainframe Entertainment, but a
Mainframe Computer.
Someone could investigate my claim, just to be sure I'm right or wrong.
Please help to improve the veracity of this article.
201.247.28.25 (
talk)
02:56, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know the name of the actress that did the voice of Mainframe's System Voice that gave the "Warning, Incoming Game" alert. Please let me know, or add it to the ReBoot Wiki at www.ReBootWikia.com. -- Preator1 ( talk) 19:14, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Seems to me that all of the episode-specific references here could be moved to the List of Reboot Episodes page (which already duplicates quite a few of them). This might address the "excess detail" complaint template. Jeh ( talk) 20:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I am not sure I could find source, but several of the binomes appear in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion where a binome is a French-speaker assigned to a non-French speaker to help him learn French. V. Joe ( talk) 23:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I disagree with cycle meaning a year, if anything minute was used to refer to periods of time around the area of a year. There is one episode where Bob is complaining about how many times his car has broken down this cycle. Fireemblem555 ( talk) 05:35, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Also, a cycle is one HZ, or 1 second divided by the clock rate of the system. The definition of a cycle as a year does not make sense, and is not really backed up. Fireemblem555 ( talk) 05:40, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
The meaning of minutes can be ascertained by looking at the dialogue in The Crimson Binome where a character states that they haven't had so much fun in minutes. (Paraphrasing) Fireemblem555 ( talk) 05:40, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
From the first act of "Talent Night", Megabyte to Bob: "But we'll see who's playing what by the end of the cycle!" suggests it's a day. (nice foreshadowing there, given how that ep plays out... ) Jeh ( talk) 21:02, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Is there any other sourcing needed for my recent addition of the raft as an example of censorship? I can give times to check on the episode for anyone who has a NetFlix account. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 24 Tishrei 5772 20:07, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Would it not be prudent to merge the List_of_ReBoot_characters and List_of_ReBoot_episodes into the main Reboot article. It seems kind of stupid to not have them all in one place. Then the "Plot" section can be paired down to just a paragraph describing the show as a whole, and removing the plots of the individual seasons since there would be episode synopses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Garfnodie ( talk • contribs) 06:44, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
So, the series will be revived with a new titled, Reboot: The Guardian Code, and it's not mentioned on the page at all. Here's a source for it. Here's another source (although it links back to HuffPost's original article. Npamusic ( talk) 00:55, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
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Archive 1 |
I just added a reference that explains the name of the sector Ghetty Prime, which comes from the Frank Herbert book Dune, but I also think that whole section could use some better writting. 83.61.58.93 13:20, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I removed this: "As of 2004, only the two movies of the fourth season have been released on DVD in North America." I know it's wrong because my roommate has the third season on DVD, we live in America, and he got it before 2004. I would replace the line with something more accurate, but I don't know the current state of ReBoot on DVD. - Lifefeed 04:04, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
The DVD's and VHS movies are still available in new and used form at Amazon Books. (http://www.amazon.com)<br />
Search on the keyword "Reboot" in the DVD and VHS sections of the site.
They can be purchased over the Internet and shipped anywhere that Amazon supports shipping to.
Jordie Duce aka Gigamatrix.net
68.144.84.181
17:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I updated the DVD information with what I know of the current state of things. I also updated the AndrAIa entry. For some reason Wikipedia lost my session and the changes were logged as being from my IP instead of my ID.
"ReBoot is considered by many as one of the greatest computer animated cartoons ever." I remember it fondly, but this sounds weasely - who says it? Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_terms. Number 0 14:57, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Oh I fixed it I fixed it! As you can see if you look, Cartoon Network ran a poll, so I just used that to state the same point. Unfortunately I can't actually prove the source, because the poll ended a few years ago and is no longer anywhere to be found on Cartoon Network's site. Robbing Peter to pay Paul... Adam Marx Squared 22:22, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The thing I wonder is how important is the Cartoon Network poll I would just take that whole part out if it was up to me, the poll only seems to justify that as if to shout "This is the best show of all time and that is a fact" I would highly highly recomend taking it out. Deathawk 03:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Again, this is a fairly outlandish comment. Additionally, this is definitely a non-scientific poll, so I am adding that information. Bwabes
A recent edit - which I'll Wikify when I'm not being lazy by 69.158.76.153 states that Mouse is believed to have been a Game Sprite. Now that's the first I've heard of it. Can somebody tell me about this? Adam Marx Squared 03:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
The picture of Al I had uploaded is gone and someone edited my addition Yami 22:07, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Can somebody add on information about these movies I keep hearing about...? I've only heard rumours about them, and I can't seem to get any concrete information.
Can somebody whos in the know don the deerstalker and get to the bottom of this?
The movies are the fourth season. That season is either two movies, or those movies divided into 8 episodes. It's been aired both ways. SpaceCaptain 03:51, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
I've seen the fourth season both ways. When I include references for my edits I use the 8-part numbering and titling system. MikeVx 02:40, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I would ask that people stop inputing their speculative origins for Bob's name. The creators of the show have said on numerous ocasions that the name Bob has no computer term origin and that they simply liked the name Bob. I suggest that untill you can provide a link to an article with solid proof concerning the origins of Bob's name there will be no origin included in this article. TimeCruiserMike 20:46, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I think it is likely that Bob is simply used as a humorous counterpoint to all of the other names that fit, e.g. Phong, Dot, Matrix, and... Bob.
Maybe it wasn't a conscious reference then; back in the Commodore 64 days there were two main ways of moving a character around in a computer game: sprites and bobs (which differed in their rendering methods). Bob is short for Blitter Object ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitter_object). The fact that all the other 'human' characters (i.e. not the binomes) are called 'sprites' indicates (to me) that Bob here is deliberately a parallel concept. PaulWay ( talk) 13:10, 2 January 2010 (UTC) (it certainly wasn't a veiled Blackadder reference, as it says on the page currently).
Anyone else think that mouse could possibly be a reference to the main character of Snow Crash?
Counsidering the source of just about every other name and term in the series, while it might be a side reference, but the primary reference is undoubtedly the clicker. Forgottenlord 21:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I changed "Copeland" to "Copland". If the name is based on that of the operating system, there shouldn't be an 'e'.
Does this show still come on American telivision and if so on what challel at what time?
Darn, I loved that show. -- 66.218.28.217 05:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
The entire series is shown on Teletoon Retro in the early mornings and I believe early evenings though I don't know this for sure.
KERMIT CRACK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.174.134.2 ( talk) 06:35, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
This sentance is a bit ambiguous: "the Gateway command is identical in shape and effects to the one from the movie and series Stargate." It sounds like it's saying Stargate had a Gateway Command! -- Quasar 00:36, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
TimeCruiserMike: I'm not sure what you are referring to when your talking about Mr. Pearson, but all this information can be found in the Episode "Game Over", Enzo enter a Mortal Combat type game with Andrea and Frisket. After losing to the user. Enzo changed his icon to Game Sprite mode to evade avoid being nullified, Andrea does the same, then she also changes Frisket's.
Also, before Enzo is an adult, he is usualy referred to as Enzo.
"21:47, 4 April 2006 BlackthornIV m (→Enzo Matrix - "Matrix" is Enzo's last name, and he is usually only referred as this when he is an Adult)"
"11:17, 6 April 2006 TimeCruiserMike (Changed name back to Matrix, is referring to the adult enzo, also matrix changed his icon to gamesprite mode when showing mr pearson how he survived in the games, then accidentlly left it that way)"
-- Blackthorn
The game Enzo 1.2 lost is Mortal Kombat III for PC, as this is the only PC MK that has the Archangel Gabriel. I think Mainframe had the distro rights for MK III for PC. If not, they probably would have had the pants sued off them. -- dm01 ( talk) 18:10, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
The Mr. Pearson thing was explaining why the system reboot created a second Enzo and the end of the third season. -arctic gnome 19:05, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Artic.gnome, But I can't seem to find this in End Prog or either of the movies (watching them now), Do you remember what episode? -- Blackthorn
It's right after Bob decides to let the user win the game, and the main characters are going around the city making sure that everyone is in the principle office with their PID recorded before the reboot. I'm guessing second-last episode of season 3, maybe third-last. -arctic gnome 00:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Matrix "You have to come to the principle office"
Person "I've told your friends and I'll tell ye! I'm not going!"
Matrix "Why?"
Person "You may have givin' up on mainframe but I HAVEN'T! Now GO! Leave me alone!"
Stuff falls onto Person
Matrix "Mr. Person, we care about mainframe too! Its just that, its not safe right now."
Person "And besides, who are ye to be botherin' about!"
Matrix "Its me, Enzo!"
Person "What are ya daft??"
Matrix "No. I survived the games by living in game-sprite mode. I fought long and hard to get back to mainframe."
Person "I'm glad to see ya made it, but i STILL WONT GO!"
Matrix "oh, i think ya will, Andrea?"
Andrea comes out of the shadows and stuns Person
Ok, I'm assuming that's it, but he doesn't say its an accident. -- Blackthorn 17:24, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
I think the "accident" was him not changing it back. If he hadn't stayed in sprite mode, the system would have recognised that there was alredy an Enzo and wouldn't have made a new one. -arctic gnome 18:51, 12 April 2006 (UTC) arcitic im fixing your thing you mispelt
I seem to remember Hexadecimal being allied with Bob after the show finally returned to Mainframe after Ezno was taken away by a game..-- Vercalos 00:28, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I seem to remember Hexadecimal actually being named Hexadecima. Is everyone entirely certain that the name had that L on the end? 4.225.129.198 11:26, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
I find it a bit difficult to proof the existence of the German version, except for shops (tons of them). I do own it (watching it right now), but the release was very cheap in all ways (I got them cheaper than the current Amazon.de price [http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000790MGG/302-5601789-2536069?v=glance&n=284266]). No advertisment, no extras on the discs (except for a few ugly trailers for their other children DVDs) and the last time I searched the company hadn't a real webpage. Though there is a contact email address to be found on the web. Apparently they only took the second season since only the first and second have been synchronized in German (not half bad, I might say, but the synchro had been ordered by a state owned channel, which at the time were responsible for rather good synchros), but TV Loonland (the liscence-holder for our region) had lost the liscencing rights. Hmm, it seems it was co-published by "Medienvertrieb in Buchholz" as similarily small company, which doesn't have a real website either. Both companies did Shadow Raiders in 8 DVDs too, with the original voice track this time (and a more than crappy German synchro). The liscensing company TV-Loonland is even more confusing. First this [1] then this [2] and finally this [3]. I have no idea who the Italian company is or this Joan Records. TV-Loonland's own Reboot infopage [4] is getting worst by the year, last year they still had the info up on which regions they can liscense what to, and note the lack of rights to season four. This is all very confusing, but I can state with certainty that three officially liscenced DVDs containing season 2 (10 episodes total) exist in Germany. The production of these DVDs was just not announced or reviewed anywhere, or any other other information, same seems to go for the other products of these companies. One day the DVDs just appeared on the shelves (and I actually found Shadow Raiders that way, on a shelf in a shop). I had brief e-mail contact (about three years ago) with the persons responsible for releasing Shadow Raiders and begged them for ReBoot (seems like I was heard). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.184.91.211 ( talk • contribs)
I added a note in the trivia section to how for a month ABC aired a Power Ranger-ish show in Reboot's slot, how the network hinted at a crossover, and the Reboot bumper shows that were broadcast during that timespan. I know I saw it with my own eyes, I have a great memory for useless trivia like this, but I can't seem to find the tapes that had those. Is anyone in favor of keeping this blurb/able to verify it? Gladrius 17:38, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, as I noted, it never happened. Personally, I think some guy at ABC just got the wrong idea from the memo. Gladrius 00:13, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to at least include the part about SHSSS taking its slot and the Reboot mini-story that was shown during that time, since that at least concerns Reboot and is real. Gladrius 01:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
I feel that something on this page should probably refer to his death. Doesn't this seriously impact on our chances of more ReBoot given where the series ended? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.229.247.20 ( talk • contribs)
I hadn't really paid any attention to this before, but was ReBoot influenced by anime? I mean there were certainly anime cameos, but they were more in the nature of pop culture references than Anime.. Anyone else have any thoughts of this?-- Vercalos 08:38, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
this article reffers to the badges that all the characters wear as "icons." I could've sworn they were called PIDs (Process IDs) can anyone confirm/debunk this? Ziiv 01:28, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
from article "Editing of anime in American distribution"
"However, censorship is also demonstrated in imports from other countries and even original US productions; Spider-Man: The Animated Series and the Canadian series ReBoot both faced heavy censorship."
What edits did reboot get when it came to America? Angelofdeath275 21:27, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
The monoboob made an exit. It can be seen by simply watching the show... No citation needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iowaseven ( talk • contribs) 01:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
The recent change of category to "1990s American television series" is a bit icky in my mind. Surely the show was distributed by ABC in its first two seasons, but it was created in Canada! Can it be called American? Arasaka 05:59, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
The tag seems to be refering to the humor and trivia section. I personally think that the references were an important part of the series, but it is currently taking up a large portion of the page. In correspondace with WP:TRIV, I think that most of it should be moved to List of ReBoot episodes and List of Games and Users from ReBoot, with only a summary of their use and long running items in the section. I'll probably start working on it in the next few days if no one objects. -- Aqua 08:19, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I had just edited back in the links the other night when they were removed, my reasoning being "What's a show without it's fans? Especially a site with the goal of bringing the show back?".
I understand if there were too many of them, and some were offline, but if you want to get down to it the Unofficial ReBoot Home Page is also a fansite.
I did a quick search of popular cartoon ' Code Lyoko', it's main fansites are still there. However I suppose could just be a matter of time before they too are removed.
Cloud S 22:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
The secton about the "unaired special episode" is highly unencyclopedic and unclear. Notably, I can assume that the episode is presented directly to the viewer, but as it seems to begin in the ReBoot world, this is unclear and should be stated. Unfortunatly, I know nothing about this episode and am too inexperienced with Wikipedia to properly tag this problem, so I am just posting here as a note if someone wishes to rectify this problem.
To who it may concern: The source of the unaired special episode is a VHS tape given to a fan by the UK TV broadcast company Meridian, it was never aired on TV, the tape was subsequently digitised and put out as extras on bootleg DVDs and as an individual video file uploaded to the net. Haku.co.uk 11:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
The article mentions at [ReBoot#Pop_culture_references] that in "Talent Night" the binary joke translates as "Take my wife, please." However, my transcription of what is said is "101 00 11 011 101 1101 11 00 11 0111 10 01 110 101 10 000 1100 1011 1 0011 101" (I inserted spaces where the comic pauses to improve readability and assist in verification of my transcription). There are 58 bits in this string, and so I have no idea how it was translated into "Take my wife, please," especially considering that 58 factors into 29 and 2, meaning that it cannot fit into any existing coding standard. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.248.157.246 ( talk) 06:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
Phong uses the passkey "yadda, yadda, yadda" on more than one occasion to access the Principle Office, Core, and Archives. -- dm01 ( talk) 03:49, 23 October 2008 (UTC) [Re-signed comment with name]
I edited the character section mention of Hexadecimal to read "twin sister" instead of older sister. I don't exactly like that wording, but aside from just removing the word it was the best option I could think of. I'm not exactly sure why Hexadecimal was considered to be Megabyte's older sister in the first place, but season four clearly shows that Hexadecimal and Megabyte were created at the same time from Gigabyte's splitting in the explosion that destroyed the Twin City. -- Marzolan 07:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Could someone please check whether this article is in copyvio of [7]? I'm not sure which came first, but the page doesn't mention Wikipedia as a source and seems in style with the rest of the website. -- 91.0.108.188 10:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
I used to watch ReBoot while it was doing the rounds on CITV, and I'm fairly sure that I saw Feathers McGraw in at least one cameo role. Can anyone confirm this?
1.) Just before Phong comes out of the box 2.) Stands in the road as the camera zooms out to show some ABCs flying by or something 3.) Walking down the street just before the web creature escapes 4.) Falls out of a crate as the Salty Mare is in the data storm (or otherwise attacked in one of the web episodes) Mavrickindigo ( talk) 05:22, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Having recently re-watched several episodes out of order, and the entire 3rd season, it occurred to me that a childhood question of mine has yet to be answered. What is the significance (if any) of the color and 180° orientation of the ReBoot "Icon" badge that is worn by Sprites, Guardians, et al?
I know the Guardian's Icon is yellow/black with the yellow background and black half-diamond on top. However, common Sprites wear a black/white icon and its proper orientation is unclear to me-- having seen it worn with either white-on-black at top, or black-on-white at top. At first I had noticed it oriented as black-on-white at top, but then noticed that it's most commonly worn white-on-black at top. Other characters also wear different color Icons, but these only appear to be cosmetic in nature. Still, I'd like to know if there were any standards in practice which perhaps identified a character's good/evil orientation. Thanks.
~ Agvulpine 07:27, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Maybe this can clear things up for our readers:
Yellow/Black: Guardians Blue/White: Guardian Medic OR Hack Black/White (Diamond: black up): System Sprite Black/White (Diamond: black down): System Binome Black/White (Circle): Game Sprite Red/White: Hexadecimal-infected Binome/Sprite OR Slash Green/Black: Megabyte-infected Binome/Sprite No Icon: Not registered with any system's Principal Office
When Hexadecimal was registered with the Principal Office and given a Black/White (Diamond) icon, her format did not change.
Trivia sections are just there for people who can't work out how to write real articles. /me stops being provocative. Can we please merge this into the main article? It's spoiling an otherwise excellent article! - Ta bu shi da yu 10:56, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
There are two revival sections. I'm partial for removing the second (lower on the page) one. Mgius 18:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to merge these two sections since they basically cover the same information? I'll sit down with it if no one gets to it before I have some free time, but I figured I'd ask. Hewinsj 13:23, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
"ReBoot was a CGI animated series." Why is Reboot described in the past tense? It is a television series. Making it "was" means that it no longer exists. Perhaps it should be rephrased as: "Reboot is a CGI animated television series which originally broadcasted from 1994 to 2001 ... blah blah blah". xero-7 02:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Ok, I know from my own recordings off of Cartoon Network that they aired season 3, and then looped to seasons 1 & 2. After that they canceled airing the loop of season 3 after the episode Firewall. My best guess as to why they would do that is because of poor ratings. Though if anyone has a better idea, please edit it. Mr.Smiley4 08:48, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia disallows links to other wikis, with very, very rare exceptions arrived at through discussion and consensus. Please see the guidelines at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Examples, which state, among things, "Wikis, including Wikipedia and other wikis sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation are not regarded as reliable sources." -- Tenebrae ( talk) 23:47, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
According to the Timeline of CGI in film and television, Insektors was the first First full-length, completely computer-animated TV series. Never having heard of that show personally, this necessitates some investigation. -- ASA-IRULE ( talk) 05:09, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
What does 'full-length' mean? Do we have a proper definition? I assumed it meant that whole episodes were done in CGI, not just part of the episodes. The 'full-length' of an episode of insektors was meant to be 12 minutes, and for all of those minutes it was animated with CGI. -- 78.148.158.141 ( talk) 20:15, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I stumbled upon a www.reboot.com today, which appears to be a countdown timer for some event related to the ReBoot series (It has a similar logo to the series). Should this be included on the wiki? MrPaqman ( talk) 19:55, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
In the VHS and DVD release release section the article mentions releases in ReBoot's "original PAL video format". I'm no animation expert and I don't know in which format ReBoot was originally produced, but it seems like it would make more sense that Mainframe originally used NTSC seeing as they are based in North America and were producing the show for North American networks (primarily). Zytsef ( talk) 05:35, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
It was never PAL in canada like it says as canada uses NTSC, it was PAL for the VHS in England and Australia.
In the Pop culture references section the Guitar battle between boB and Megabyte in the episode "Talent Night" lists boB's comand to Glich "BFG" as a to the BFG9000 ultimate weapon of the Doom game series, While the letters may stand for that I find it much more likely that this was a reference to the Gibson Les Paul BFG guitar, or atleast a misdirection to add suspence —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.198.85.40 ( talk) 23:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
There should definatly be a spoiler warning 67.193.194.152 ( talk) 17:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
The section outlining the pitch for "Arrival" should include a link to My Two Bobs for the reference to the "hunt".
You are probably expecting one my erudite speeches, the new viral dawn, welcome to Megaframe, yadda, yadda, yadda.
In this, I am afraid I am going to have to disappoint.
You see, this is about revenge. Viruses are predatory by nature, and it is time for me to realise my final function.
Prepare yourselves for the hunt.
Remember what happened when Daemon realised her final function?.
dm01 ( talk) 17:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
The robot from episode 7 of season two seems to resember Mazinger Z fairly strongly. Just enough, in my opinion, to avoid a copyright issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.231.189.116 ( talk) 04:12, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Quote: "Mainframe (named after the show's creator, Mainframe Entertainment)".
We already know that Mainframe Entertainment were responsible for ReBoot, but not the "Mainframe" name, I don't really think that "Mainframe" was named after Mainframe Entertainment, but a
Mainframe Computer.
Someone could investigate my claim, just to be sure I'm right or wrong.
Please help to improve the veracity of this article.
201.247.28.25 (
talk)
02:56, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone know the name of the actress that did the voice of Mainframe's System Voice that gave the "Warning, Incoming Game" alert. Please let me know, or add it to the ReBoot Wiki at www.ReBootWikia.com. -- Preator1 ( talk) 19:14, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Seems to me that all of the episode-specific references here could be moved to the List of Reboot Episodes page (which already duplicates quite a few of them). This might address the "excess detail" complaint template. Jeh ( talk) 20:59, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I am not sure I could find source, but several of the binomes appear in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion where a binome is a French-speaker assigned to a non-French speaker to help him learn French. V. Joe ( talk) 23:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
I disagree with cycle meaning a year, if anything minute was used to refer to periods of time around the area of a year. There is one episode where Bob is complaining about how many times his car has broken down this cycle. Fireemblem555 ( talk) 05:35, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Also, a cycle is one HZ, or 1 second divided by the clock rate of the system. The definition of a cycle as a year does not make sense, and is not really backed up. Fireemblem555 ( talk) 05:40, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
The meaning of minutes can be ascertained by looking at the dialogue in The Crimson Binome where a character states that they haven't had so much fun in minutes. (Paraphrasing) Fireemblem555 ( talk) 05:40, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
From the first act of "Talent Night", Megabyte to Bob: "But we'll see who's playing what by the end of the cycle!" suggests it's a day. (nice foreshadowing there, given how that ep plays out... ) Jeh ( talk) 21:02, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Is there any other sourcing needed for my recent addition of the raft as an example of censorship? I can give times to check on the episode for anyone who has a NetFlix account. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 24 Tishrei 5772 20:07, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Would it not be prudent to merge the List_of_ReBoot_characters and List_of_ReBoot_episodes into the main Reboot article. It seems kind of stupid to not have them all in one place. Then the "Plot" section can be paired down to just a paragraph describing the show as a whole, and removing the plots of the individual seasons since there would be episode synopses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Garfnodie ( talk • contribs) 06:44, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
So, the series will be revived with a new titled, Reboot: The Guardian Code, and it's not mentioned on the page at all. Here's a source for it. Here's another source (although it links back to HuffPost's original article. Npamusic ( talk) 00:55, 24 March 2015 (UTC)