[TokuKnight89]

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Originally Posted by Kickback

No matter what a company says when they say "It's not a reboot, it's just a re-telling" it always means "Please don't be mad at us old fans, but we have no intentions of every revisiting the 'original' story ever again."

Tell me one time they "retold" something that didn't eventually turn in to a reboot.

Transformers? Reboot.
GI Joe? Reboot. (except the IDW comic that's probably nearing cancellation)
Ninja Turtles? Reboot.
Batman Begins? Reboot.

The only instance I can think of in recent memory that was a reboot but still kept the original in place was Star Trek, which actually brought original continuity Spock to the new retelling version.

I can think of one instance (outside of Star Trek) where the supposed "remake/reboot" does not follow the original, but is so different that it could be its own "additional" entity was The Evil Dead. I know this is more horror, but anyone who saw that entry a few years ago knows that it differed from the original to the point that it could exist on its own merit within the same universe (though that series is notoriously loose in terms of continuity).