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All episodes from ReBoot have been pulled from their master tapes and have been digitized
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- Title
- Perfecting the ReBoot Master Tapes
- Authors
- ReBoot ReWind
- Duration
- 4:19
- Published
- Mar 4 2026
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Restored episode playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLebOl1sFZbNlZPmxjlN-orD4VOnybu9Fp
Whenever I'm plotting something evil in my head, I'll tap my fingers together and say "Yesssss"...
... But then I find myself wondering:
Am I emulating Megabyte or am I doing my best Megatron from Beasties? Wait, they were both animated by Mainframe? Were they played by the same voice actor??
anyone ever go on the IMAX ride for this?
I did! I felt like I was crazy for the longest time because I remembered it being an IMAX ride but that name had been basically been removed from history with how little information on it is left. It’s a shame that IMAX didn’t end up doing more with the platform. I remembered the motion simulator being a lot more realistic and intense than many newer examples I have ridden, many of which have limited orthogonal movements.
I saw it at the Circus Circus in Las Vegas. It is no longer there. The last time I went to that park it was replaced with a SpongeBob motion simulator for which I am pretty sure they had a completely different ride system.
that ride was really fun. There was also the Funhouse Express 4D, which made most people come close to throwing up --- the best.
Stuff like that and good 3D is so rare. The best 3D I ever saw was at an IMAX and it was U2 3D --- Bono was right up in your face and them bam! lyrics are shooting out at you and you really feel surrounded.
Anyway, the Reboot ride was dope -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGBOoElXIIc
I don’t recall ReBoot the Ride being in stereoscopic 3D. v2 may have been but I am not 100% sure if I had seen that one.
The thing that sucks about 3D is that people have to really care about it every step of the way. It has to be started with stereoscopy in mind, shot with stereo cameras, go through extensive stereo mastering, and finally displayed on a setup which has been properly tuned. If the first step doesn’t happen, you get shitty conversions with billboard people and distracting blurry 3D. But the thing that really kills me is how often it is the final display that drops the ball. Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, California has an attraction called Knotts Bear-y Tales which might have the best handling of all of those things and is interactive on top of that - but in more recent years the projectors are misaligned and out of focus, which absolutely kills it.
Of course it’s also more of a dark ride than a motion simulator so it really doesn’t give you the same kind of excitement that ReBoot the Ride offered. The only thing even close to it left in the region is probably the Simpsons ride in Universal Studios Hollywood, which is not in stereoscopic 3D but does have the giant IMAX style dome screen and it tosses you about.
oh no! it wasn’t in 3d — i jumped to another under utilized technology, sorry. i really wish i could see Captain EO and this other movie from Expo86 again. from what i render the 3D was amazing.
I did that Universal ride when it was Back to the Future. I was young and dehydrated and thought it was the best. I still think that Miami Vice show is the greatest. it has everything.
back to stereoscopic— makes sense that it’s a as nightmare to do. i’d rather they do it right than just the depth like most 3D movies these days. for a while there (25 years ago?) it felt like 3D was going to take over. my sister had a 3D tv, too.
I used to run that IMAX ride and i’ve probably watched the Reboot thing a thousand times. it was funny to watch it again and sit in that space between thinking i forgot about it but then revisiting the lines along with it… I was Winter Soldiered!
I knew I saw it in Vegas! Never went on the ride, but I was in town for a cousin's wedding when I was a kid. Wasn't sure if I just made that up or not lol