#megabyte reboot

[totallyhextra]

People? In MY computer?? It's more likely than you think!

The following is a fanvertisment and is not connected to the show. ****Yet.*** *Also yes, this is the fourth time I'm posting this because TUMBLR WONT LET ME EDIT SPELLING MISTAKES!

ANYWAY,

Once upon a time, back in 1987, Dire Straits put out this music video for “Money for Nothing”, which, as you know, was a song about wanting my MTV. 

The video was made by two guys (Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson) on a very moody computer. After the video went out, these two guys went to a pub:

Ian: “Hey, we should make a whole show like this!”

Gavin: “Dude, making three minutes almost killed us.”

And so it was decided!🎉

The two guys were joined by two other guys (Phil Mitchell and John Grace) and created the Hub, which then became Mainframe Entertainment. They got even more people, and then they all holed up in this hotel.

They were mad lads with a dream: a whole cgi animated show, and they made it happen a whole year before Toy Story!

Behold! ReBoot!

(Yes that fever dream was real)

Now before I get any of this:

Let me lay this down. If you can’t with the animation of the first season because it was CUTTING EDGE IN 1994, you can close your eyes and listen to it. ReBoot wasn’t just a CGI gimmick. The characters are fully developed, the voice actors are peerless, the plot is sharp, and there’s so many easter eggs that you’ll never find them all.

Never

(And yes the episode "Bad Bob" was the actual catalyst for Fury Road. Look it up)

ReBoot is about what life is like in a computer (in the 90s, because it was the 90s) called Mainframe (because of course it is). People are sprites, the guys that look like 1s and 0s are binomes (which represent 1s and 0s). Bad guys are viruses, and the good guy is a Guardian named Bob, who is a certified cinnamon roll.

In the first season the eps are light and self-contained, mainly because there was constant friction between the Mainframe studios and the Board of Standards and Practices.

They still got away with some pretty dark stuff, like Megabyte (virus) making Enzo (the kid) watch his dog get sliced open (dog got away, obviously) , Dot (sprite) have a hallucinatory breakdown, and the fridge horror of realizing the thousands of worm things (nulls) that plunged off a bridge to their death were actually people.

And Hex's (virus

best girl) scary face single-handedly traumatized an entire generation. 🙂

But busting through a window was a no go, because WhAt If tHe cHiLdReN dID iT tOo?

Anyway, halfway through the second season, ABC cut them loose, so they were like, fuck it, we’re going to start going hard. The story shifted from episodic to arcs and things start to get serious.

Third season the show moved to YTV in Canada, which gave no fucks about shielding the innocent children.

So it got DARK

How dark?

The UK refused to show the entire season, so the audience there had to wait until pirated copies made it across the pond to see how it ended.

Also by 1997, the animation was gorgeous. (Best example of third season animation I could think of that didn't have spoilers)

The show was green-lit for a fourth season on Cartoon Network, but halfway through production Warner Bros took over and the same fucking thing happened.

Because Mainframe was halfway done, they decided not to scrap all of it, but knowing they wouldn't be able to finish it correctly, Mainframe stripped anything that would hint at Season Four's true ending, then left what remained on a cliff-hanger of angst.

FOR 22 YEARS

(It's also why the last four eps of season four seem to make no sense)

And so it was.

Other crap happened, the soul left Mainframe, and its animated corpse spat out “The Guardian Code” in 2018. 

But never say die! The year is (almost) 2024, 30 years later. ReBoot shall rise from the dead, because here come the documentary!!

Do you dare see what you’ve been missing?

What the (UK) government doesn’t want you to know?? 

Then come on down to ReBoot!

We got:

Magnificent bastards with sexy voices!

(Tony Jay at his best)

Kickass women who could probably crush your head with their thighs and you’d enjoy it!

Innuendos in a kid's show!

💗 This adorable cinnamon roll!! 💗

Insane third season glow-ups!

YOUR NEW GOD

These guys!

(Gay roller-skating binome is my boi. I named him Jerry)

Nonstop cultural refs (You'll never find them all. Never.)

(There are literally videos dedicated to trying)

So many computer puns!

Body Horror!

Existential Crisis!

HAVE I MENTIONED YOUR NEW GOD?

This is it, folks! The real thing, the gem hidden in the moose-filled forests of Canadia!🌲🌲🌲

Take a trip inside a mid-90’s computer!

See the World Wide Web! (omg):

Witness the original purple Gamecubes that randomly fall from the sky when the owner of the computer (OUR GOOD LORD THE USER) wants to play a game. If it lands on people and they lose, they dissolve into mindless energy leeches, fated to tormented by their former bretheren for all of eternity.

Just like in real life! 🙃

So watch the eps! They on YouTube!

I think they're on Pluto, Hulu, Sling, and Tubi too! Also DVDs for people who have the patience to wait for them!

WATCH! BELIEVE! SUFFER THE SOUL-CRUSHING RAGE OF THE SEASON 4 CLIFF-HANGER!* (come on, its fun!)*

HYPE THE DOC!

The more people hype, the better the chances of actually getting it finished.

NOW SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE!

And now I will leave you with this screenshot from the ep "Painted Windows", where dicks can clearly be seen drawn upon the wall behind the fleeing anthropomorphized television.

(PS: If you heard the clown pic at the top of the page in your head, you're welcome)

IMPORTANT UPDATE

This message is now approved by Gavin Blair! He's an awesome guy. Show him some love on TWITTER (fuck you musk) at @TheRealMrSweary Also, if you want to share this with non-tumblr friends, here is my attempt at a webpage version:

theseventhstarprojects.com/REBOOT.html

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

Okay, can we just take a minute to appreciate the fact that a bunch of ReBoot fans not only upscaled and remastered the first episode, but that Mainframe Studios uploaded it onto their main YouTube channel to celebrate the series' 30th anniversary?

My mind is completely blown right now.

[ben-talks-art]

Remember that time two CGI shows killed its main lead in the season finale by trapping him in a pod and sending him to his death?

Yeah... Megabyte and Megatron were really not messing around.

It's so funny to think that if either show had been canceled the last memory kids who were into these shows would have would have been of the main characters screaming in agony as they're sent into their deaths by a trap setup by the main villain who just smirks and laughs while watching their work bearing fruits.

Like... Good God, man...

These two were just built different.

[sweetest-honeybee]

Hi hello @ectoslab gas been making me watch reboot so here’s many doodles :)

[phantaevel]

well...yeap

I'm going to watch ReBoot when I have time.

Megabyte is so hoooooot😫😫😫

[scientistservant]

[gooeykit]

aggies with @memorycycle @dustydunesdesert @toriel-vapes

[c0ckedgun]

Digital Silence

[its-queenofthesilence]

So I have been working on a fanfic recently (Cough, cough shameless plug: here) And felt I needed to an update the appearance of an old OC of mine that will eventually, (it's a long series in the works) show up.

Nanobyte.

Firstborn child of AndrAIa and Megabyte. The Apple of her mother's eye and the Ire of her Father's. Older sister to Nidra (Sister) and Nicodemus (Brother) She is the only child AndrAIa let Megabyte name after himself. He expected a son, and being a troll, she did not feel the need to let him know a head of time the baby was a girl.

Her relationship with her father is clearly strained, as she represents everything he is against. Most importantly though he feels it's a betrayal to her code and viral heritage that she decided to become a guardian despite his attempts to prevent her from becoming one (Good thing Bob is the current Prime Guardian and willing to help a girl out.)

Nanobyte has the personality that I feel is a combination of Rapunzel from Tangled, Nimona from Nimona and Korra from TLOK. She is kind, passionate, hot headed, excitable and a believer in justice and hope and that good will conqueror over evil. Hobbies include painting, pottery, singing and training to be the best Guardian she can be and hopefully convince the council she is trustable enough to have her own keytool. Her current residence is Mainframe, in the ruins of her Aunt's tower.

Nanobyte is considered viral by the net, not a virus, meaning she is incapable of infecting things. She does however, have access to a wide variety of powers from her parentage: Flying, control over fire (like almost bending in the Avatar sense but also she can turn herself into a flame and teleport between fires), almost complete immunity to fire damage (explosions don't count), and above normal strength. The sword, I know is weird but that's because that's so she can force her flame powers through it for added fun. Nothing like being cleaved by a flaming sword. She is not Luisa level strong but she can lift a house if needed. For all these reasons, Megabyte almost considers her Hexadecimal reincarnated.

He does love his daughter, but they both don't know how to communicate properly and both are stubborn and that has led to what once was just a crack between them turning into a giant chasm. AndrAIa has tried to get them to repair their relationship but Megabyte just doesn't realize the pain he's causing his daughter. Something will have to give eventually....

[totallyhextra]

Okay that is hot

reboot fans what is your wisdom

[nizaen]

robots :)

[theanimationalley]

[sciencefiction-and-comics]

Mainframe Studios have posted episode 1 of Reboot (1994) to their YouTube channel! Is there more to come??

[zeenovosdrawings]

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THE REBOOT REWIND FINALE TODAAAAAYYYY!!!! I watched Bad Bob to prepare. 👀

ReBootober sketches? Yes. 👌🏼 If you haven’t yet watched ReBoot Rewind (a documentary on the making of ReBoot!!!!) on Telus Optik TV or the Story Hive YouTube channel, WHAT ARE YOU DOING???? Also, you should be checking out HazelGeek’s marvellous ReBoot merch offerings.

[ultraericthered]

Megabyte Appreciation Post

Probably the best non-Disney role ever voiced by the late Tony Jay.