I managed to get ahold of an old DLT backup tape which had the Softimage rendered frames for the final part of the second ReBoot IMAX ridefilm: Journey into Chaos. It took Bryan (xbrav) weeks of dumping the 20GB tape and converting the frames to get you this clip. Unfortunately we have no audio, but these frames are the highest quality you’ll find. Despite the lack of audio, the clip has subtitles. A huge thanks goes out to to Gavin Blair for digging up a script! The video has been upscaled to 4K, as a way to retain the quality as YouTube would reduce the original 2048×1367 video to 1080p. If you or someone you know worked at Mainframe Ent. and you/they may have backups/worktapes/CDs/DVDs/film reels/etc (of anything related to Mainframe Ent, be it ReBoot, Beast Wars, Shadow Raiders, etc) stored away somewhere, please contact me at: glitchbob.rebootrevival@gmail.com I’d love to be able to share the ridefilm in full, hopefully with audio.

/videos/Prototype_War-Room_360.mp4 Did you or someone you know heroically backup ReBoot’s asset data (or other MFE shows) during the 2012 Winder ordered purge? I know someone must have defied her orders and saved precious data from that ludicrous malicious mandate! Please contact me: glitchbob.rebootrevival@gmail.com Anonymity guaranteed!! Hope they weren’t lost to the digital abyss. In the case of physical storage mediums that one may not readily have the means to access the data (ie. DLT Tapes), postage will be paid on my behalf and I will return them once the data is retrieved. For those going “What happened in 2012? What did Winder do?!” here are the sordid details: In 2012 Rainmaker’s previous President, Catherine Winder, was running the company into the ground. They were on the verge of going under (see the XingXing buyout details below)! Eventually, she left on a business trip. While she was away, those that feared for the company’s future and still had some ties to former Mainframe Ent. employees contacted someone to help out. That person did so reluctantly, and the advice given by them helped. Sounds good, right? No.

Upon her return, Winder found out and went BALLISTIC. She ordered EVERYTHING from the Mainframe Entertainment era to be either dumped (physical items such as posters, prints, plaques, awards, and maquettes tossed in the dumpster) or purged from the system (digital files like textures, character and environment models…yes that means Bob and Mainframe, etc). I know what you’re thinking: “There’s no way this is true?!” Trust me, it is. I’ve confirmed this via multiple trusted sources.

It’s now a little over TWELVE YEARS since I created the “Revival of ReBoot” idea. Without the initial support of the members of the Java Hut, and all of you over the years, this effort to bring forth a proper continuation of our beloved show would’ve fizzled out long ago. Thank you all for your support. This has been a very alphanumeric journey over the years. I never imagined I’d make lifelong friends, meet the very people involved in creating ReBoot, and keep this going for so long. With Rainmaker’s “ReBoot: The Guardian Code” series having an exceptionally poor reception, I have renewed hope that an actual continuation with Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson at the helm has a better chance in the immediate future than it did years ago. Suffice to say, I’m not going anywhere and neither is the ReBoot Revival. I just hope we can get this done before another decade passes. 😉



There they are…. or at least there are some characters that Rainmaker is attempting to pass-off as the ones we all know and love. They’ll likely only appear in a single episode (maybe two) titled “Mainframe Mayhem”. So I guess it wasn’t too important to get their facial structures right. Everyone’s in their Season 1 attire, so that only helps prove this has zero connection to the cliffhanger of Season 4. Wrong facial structures aside… they don’t really fit in with the world they’re in, do they? The diner and overall environment have a far more realistic look, just like those “next-gen cyber-guardians”. Have a closer look comparing the trio to their original counterparts: Guardian Code – Bob Original Season 1 – Bob Guardian Code – Dot Original Season 1 – Dot Guardian Code – Enzo Original Season 1 – Enzo Remember that the first season was made in 1994, over 23 years ago and they had better faces back then. Never looked so shiny/rubbery/plastic before…. that’s for sure. Their Season 3 appearance made them look even better, and that was in 1997. These were made late 2017, what’s Rainmaker’s excuse? Loading poll…

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