I loved Reboot! and was just thinking about how I'd like to get them all on DVD, especially since it appears I missed all of season 4 because I thought season 3 was the end cause it was so damn good.

Let's just say that a friend of mine 'lent' my the Season 1 collection over the weekend and I've been watching them with my 5 year old due to the countdown at Reboot.com, and I was actually just about to start a thread very much like this one as I was thinking about it today! The show holds up surprisingly well story-wise, even though the animation is much less impressive that it was back in the day. Let's just say that I enjoyed the series in 1994 when it originally aired, and I'm anxious to see what the powers that be intend to do with it!

However, it's too bad that Tony Jay (the voice of Megabyte) passed away a few years ago.

Same here. Maybe that's why there was no season 5.

Damn, I read something really, really recently regarding this, but I can't find it...

EDIT: Ahh, here we go. I'm pretty sure the countdown is in regards to this. They also have some information up on Wiki regarding the whole thing as well.

Alpha Numeric!

I just got chills watching it again. Childhood brought alive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSjyUIwfdFk&feature=related

That brings back memories. I remember thinking it was pretty cool but I never watched regularly.

Hilarious!

I was hoping that's what this thread was about. Awesome news.

I wish someone would release the first two seasons domestically.

I was rewatching it a couple of weeks ago, and Season 3 still looks pretty good today. The only CG shows I enjoyed nearly as much were Beast Wars, by the same company, and Roughnecks, which sadly never saw a conclusion. The theme tune still rattles around in my head from time to time.

I was able to buy seasons 3 and 4 on DVD while they were still available. I wish someone would release seasons 1 and 2. Right now I'm watching VHS transfers that I burned to a couple of DVDs. (Though the DVD box art that I made is pretty cool, even if I do say so myself.) One of the episodes has an audio sync issue that I wasn't able to fix (Race the Clock), but at least I'm able to share the wonderfulness of early CGI animation with my daughter.

I also wish they'd rerelease season 4 with the audio fixed. They pitched it down so the new guy doing Bob 2.0's voice would sound more like Bob 1.0 (apparently not realizing that the original voice actor makes an appearance as Bob 1.0) and everyone sounds like they're high.

And just to burnish my Nerd Cred, I have all three of the little folding Playsets-- the Megabyte one, the Hexadecimal one and the Hack/Slash one. Kind of like Polly Pocket for boys-- you open the case and inside there are a few half-inch tall figures from the show and some vehicles or turrets or some such for them to battle on. They're in a box somewhere, packed away safe.

I second Kurrelgyre's sentiments. I have Beast Wars and Roughnecks on DVD. (Roughnecks is so much better that the Starship Troopers movie, IMO. The series explains why the troops in the movie lacked any air support-- the pilots have an annoying tendency to bend the airplane every single time they leave the hangar!) (Won't touch Beast Machines, though. Too preachy for my tastes.) Did anyone else get a lump in the throat when Dinobot died?

A lot of the older CGI shows hold up really well. I suspect it's because CGI animation was so expensive early on that they spent extra effort to make sure the writing was good so the show would have some appeal once the novelty wore off. I'd like to get War Planets too, but I don't think it's available anymore and anyway I don't have it in the budget to buy another TV series right now.

It's not a CGI show, but I associate it with Reboot because they were on back-to-back where i lived, was Bump in the Night. Claymation show about the monster that lives under your bed and eats socks. Doesn't hold up as well as Reboot, but still manic fun.

The Roughnecks Episode with the robot was similar, though not as emotionally jarring since we hadn't had time to get used to him yet. "Roughnecks! Ho!"

Not to get off topic but one of my favorite Beast Wars episodes was the one were the Preds infected Optimus Primal (love that pun, by the way) with a virus that was supposed to make him afraid of everything. Instead, it turned him into an unstoppable killing machine. That scene where he pins Taranchulas to the wall was awesome.

I only watched a few episodes, but I did catch the one with Fax Modem and Data Nully, which was hilarious.

I believe they actually got Gillian Anderson to play Data Nully (Let me check... Yep.). Fax Modem was easier-- they just needed some random guy who could speak without any inflection whatsoever.

The Web is Out There!

I was never mega-into this show, and when Enzo grew up and started brooding like noone's business, I kind of fell out. But I'm still in. Also, it made me imagine that every time I play a video game i'm nearly annihilating a society inside of my PC, which means, after enough games of Doom and F.E.A.R., that i'm a absolutely horrible murderer.