#Engine Electrical Repairs

[sketchy-lizards]

My favorite evil pride parade 🫶

Electra, Krupp, Wrench, Purse, Volta, Joule!!! and umm ‘checks hand’ kumquat 🥰🥰🥰

[phopollo]

(Stex cartoon post)

Rusty after having a really bad day: Sometimes I wish I were more like Electra >:(

Rusty's dream that night:

[ar0ace-m3ss]

What's joules actual job? I know she's the dynamite truck but all the other components have jobs- kurpp is a body guard, wrench is a medic, volta is a personal assistant and purse is an accountant

Is joule just a groupie?

[dinahdoeeyes]

My ideal production of Starlight Express.

I suppose I'll just get right into it. First the list of characters, then the songs (excluding little bits/non-songs like Taunting Rusty and the races), then the rest.

Cast:

Rusty

Pearl

Greaseball

Dinah

Electra

CB

Ashley

Buffy

Poppa

Belle, the Sleeping Car (called Memphis Belle)

Dustin

Flat-Top

The Rockies

Volta, Joule, Wrench, Purse, and Krupp

The original National Engines

Duvay and the Sleepers

Control

Setlist (* = will be addressed below):

Entry Of National Trains

Rolling Stock

Call Me Rusty

A Lotta Locomotion ('83 Workship version, but with Buffy added)

He Whistled At Me (Minus the Rusty/Pearl conversation)

*Dinah/Greaseball duet

Freight (With the girls bullying the boys)

AC/DC

Pumping Iron ("Trying to build my body, trying to lose my mind" and "Stretching my bullworker, heaving on my weights" switch spots because I just feel that it'd sound better that way.)

Sleepers moment

*Dinah solo

Hitching and Switching (probably original)

Crazy

*That was Unfair (extended)

That's Me/There's Me (duet)

Poppa's Blues

Belle's Song (Combo of OG & Broadway — especially "sniffing the coke")

Starlight Express

The Rap: Hey You

*Make Up My Heart

Pearl Twirl

U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.

Girls' Rolling Stock

Wide Smile (Mostly the Broadway version, except he says the OG "...C.B." in the chorus instead of Broadway's "...the Red Caboose," until the ending after Electra & co leave.)

I Was Robbed

Right Place, Right Time

I Am The Starlight

Rusty and Dustin

*Dinah's Disco (extended)

No Comeback

One Rock & Roll Too Many

I Do and/or Only You (I really want "I Do," and it feels redundant to do both in a row, but I feel like "Only You" is important?)

*GreaseDinah reunion (extended)

Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Starlight Express Megamix (of course)

Notes:

We are leaning hard into the 80's here! None of that trying to modernize StEx they've been doing since the 90's. It doesn't work, and the hyper-80's...ness is one of the best things about StEx!

This is about 60% the 1984 original, so keep that in mind.

Dinah & Greaseball look most like the original Dinah and Greaseball. (Though Dinah's hair looks like this. I'll get to her costumes below.) Greaseball looks completely like Jeff Shankley's GB.

Most of the costumes look like the Broadway versions.

However, Pearl gets 3 costumes; her pants outfit from the '84 previews (but with white pants), followed by her sleek Broadway dress outfit (w/ Electra), and then the fluffy dress outfit (w/ GB).

Dinah has 2 costumes; the first one being more Broadway (but I dislike the leggings, so different ones), and then, when she pairs with Electra, she changes to and outfit that is similar to her OG outfit.

C.B.'s look is very similar to the original, except his pants are black, and he has his later hat.

I want some of the choreography from the '83 workshop. ( x x x x )

Dinah & Greaseball banter a bit because "Incapable of feeding yourself, Greaseball?" Ohhh *chef's kiss* 2017 London Workshop did something right!

*Dinah & Greaseball get a couple's duet. It's a fun, cute, rock/80's pop mix song that touches on their love for each other and how they don't care about others' bullshit. ("Our Lips Are Sealed" kind of vibes, I suppose.)

Ashley and Duvay are sisters.

Greaseball pulls the girls during "Freight," like he originally did.

*Dinah gets a solo after "Pumping Iron" after the Sleepers talk their bullshit. It'd be about 3½ minutes long. If you've read my Dinah rants, you can get an idea of what it's about.

Greaseball, Bobo, and Espresso are part of the choreography during "Crazy" toward the end, racing around with Dinah, Ashley, and Buffy. (I promise this is FIRE in my head. Have faith. 🥺)

*Grease & Dinah have a longer argument before their breakup.

Dinah and C.B. have a duet. It's the Broadway version of There's Me combined with That's Me. (Dinah singing her solo part first.)

*Pearl sings "Make Up My Heart" about Rusty, Electra, and Greaseball. (Explanation here.)

*"U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D." is slower, sadder, and has more lyrics, like it was in the '83 workshop.

Buffy & Ashley are finally canon. It's Complicated™️, but they get it together by the end.

*"Dinah's Disco" is a bit longer, as is *Dinah & Greaseball's reunion/makeup.

Pearl is absolutely like original Pearl in this: A selfish bitch (who learns and gets better by the end); she is not "naive." ("Further from my vision" over "Sadder but no wiser.")

We actually acknowledge that Pearl is an asshole. But, like Greaseball, she learns and is working on herself by the end! 🙌🏽

Pearl apologizes to Dinah at the end. FINALLY. (During a break in LATEOTT.)

Control loves the trains/coaches/freight, and they love him. He's just a bossy little kid, but they're also actin' up. (I'm open to Control being a girl.)

Electra and the Components do come back.

I... think that's it. I hope didn't forget anything.

CHOO CHOO! 💋

[captainmvf]

Lil Stex doodles from yesterday-

[elsieeel]

hearing a bunch of hcs about the electric polycule has honestly been the highlight of my day

[mus1ca1]

electrics

[junglefurytrash]

I had to return to Starlight Shitposts to recreate some of the posts found here because these are absolutely hilarious

[charleystrainyard]

By the first time – ALL male components!

🧨 Jay (Joule)

❄️ Zero

🩺 Wrenn (Wrench)

[8-possums-in-a-trench-coat]

oh Boy!! a late entry, a Superstar Challenger!! these must be his Polycule…

[finleyforevermore]

2023's StEx Appreciation Month!

Day 5: Electra the Electric Engine

Anthony T. Perry in the first picture, Andreas Wolfram in the second and fifth pictures, Matthew McKenna in the third picture, and Leon Maurice-Jones in the fourth picture.

Favorite Actor(s): Jeffrey Daniel (Original London cast, 1984-1985), Mykal Rand (multiple productions from 1989 to 2015), Jaime Rojas (Mexico, 1997-1998), Anthony Frazer (Bochum, 2001-02, swing), Richard Woodford (Bochum, 2016-2018), and Liam Tamme (2017 Off-West End Workshop).

Face Claim/Voice Claim: Leon Maurice-Jones with Andreas Wolfram's 2007-2011 wig (face), Mykal Rand (voice)

Favorite Song(s)/Scene(s): AC/DC and No Comeback

Favorite Costume(s): Broadway/pre-2018 Bochum costume!

Favorite Ship(s): Frozen Lightning (Electra x Volta), Electronents (Electra x Components), and while I'm not crazy over it, I have a soft spot for Electraboose.

Headcanon: Because of the heart monitor on his chest, Electra pretty much can't lie, because his heart rate will give away if he's being honest or not.

Unpopular Opinion: Electra is canonically genderfluid so the idea of just making him exclsuively female or feminine presenting takes that aspect away from him. Same with making him exclusively male or masculine presenting. Electra's supposed to be all over the gender spectrum, you know? /lh /nm

[1010neveragain]

an appreciation post for the london components (and electra i guess hes in a couple of the pictures) because i miss them so much

[phopollo]

Twirling my hair

Been a hot second, here's a little something from the stex cartoon idea again teehee, been working on these for almost a month

The goal was to explore what everyone's formal wear looks like (there's a little lore post abt it in the server), but I thought it would be really funny to pose them like prom photos

[sea-shelly]

Spent my day disassembling, cleaning, and reassembling my robot vacuum. An *ASTOUNDING* amount of dirt and fluff just chilling out in the electronics

[starlight-lesbians]

i was laughing about the siblings like i did consider putting lumber and porter as dionysus kids too but like if your whole brand is wood and coal SURELY that’s hephaestus

wrench is actually daughter of vulcan and she hates them both, she comes to camp halfblood from camp jupiter and gets put in their cabin and she goes insane

WAIT i just had a thought: ALL the components and electra are from camp jupiter!!! the whole like military serious vibe they have going on. they visit camp half blood for some tournament and just are utterly confused at the absolute chaos that’s happening

like imagine electra (stuck up, serious, pristine) being forced to room with blue lightning. literally jason and thalia grace

joule getting roomed in the ares cabin… her and greaseball immediately have a fight and then becoming best mates straight after. wrench comes to the ares cabin to tell joule they are ‘LEAVING RIGHT NOW this place is AWFUL’ , only to find joule and greaseball comparing their collection of grenades (by throwing them at the aphrodite kids)

killerwatt just vibing with slick

OH YESS

electra and the components give HEAVY camp jupiter energy, like those fuckers are a militia

and the. camp half blood is constantly in a state of chaos like literally all the other trains yeah

joule being a secret gremlin and fitting right in w the greeks is so perfect too

poor wrench just misses the order of camp jupiter :(

would electra be a praetor? or maybe like a cohort leader idk

[captainmvf]

electronents 👉👈🥺

He’s Genderfluid, Bisexual, AND has six partners??!!??