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CoasterMaynia 2025 Day 15- Great American Scream Machine (Summer Casual)

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DAY 15! GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15!

Another sketch-only entry bcs I literally drew it two hours ago. I had a couple outfit ideas for our local Arrow Mega-Looper (first swimwear bcs I could draw him using his megaphone like a lifeguard, then a formal suit) before deciding on a simple tank + shorts combo. I like to think it’s one of his workout outfits!

Full color edition coming eventually (™)

[techycatartist]

You know.

It’s kinda funny.

The whole reason why I made it that Coasterdroids (my roller coaster personifications) can stick around as ghosts/spirits after their coasters are demolished if a peice of track is preserved is because I couldn’t bring myself to “retire” my defunct personifications from my art + stories (outside of flashbacks, of course).

As such, I created a loophole so that they could continue to interact with their park and fellow Coasterdroids from beyond the grave (though admittedly I mainly focused on Rolling Thunder bcs of Toro and his storyline(s)).

GASM was only 21 when it permanently closed, and people were given a mere two weeks to get their last rides. At the very least, GASM had signs placed at the front of the park letting visitors know of its last day and a farewell party (with a cake)!

While RT was older (34), its closure was but a mere footnote in (ironically) Zuminjaro’s press announcement. This time, people were only given a week to get their last rides in— and going off of youtube videos and forum comments, only one side was running at the time of its closure. From what I’ve read, RT wasn’t maintained well in its later years and lived in the shadow of El Toro.

Though the park would work quickly to replace GASM with (also ironically) Green Lantern, the majority of RT’s footprint was never utilized— Zumi’s walkway just skimmed the left side of the footprint and El Diablo only used some of the “cattle pen” section left over from RT’s queue (and was gone in five years).

In my eyes, GASM and RT had been dealt a bad hand, gone too soon.

Little did I know that Kingda Ka, Green Lantern, and all the flat rides that closed this past season were given an even worse hand; no announcement at all, with SF corporate trying their damndest to make their closures/demoliton go quietly.

I don’t even think I’ll get the opportunity to keep my Ka and GL personifications around as spirits, as that would require having a portion of their tracks preserved— and with how both of their demolitions have been going, the only place all that track is going is to a scrapyard.

There’s no loophole to save them this time.

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So after I remastered the first “Welcome to Six Flags Great Adventure” drawing, it only made sense to remaster the second one. This drawing features the Coasterdroids associated with coasters that are defunct, relocated, or were rethemed. Wanted to get this out a bit sooner but life got in the way. Regardless, I’m happy with how this came out!

As suggested by the drawing’s header, this doesn’t encompass every single defunct/relocated/rethemed coaster to exist at Great Adventure. The park (currently) has more defunct/relocated coasters than operating coasters, and many of them were only around for a few seasons. When I initially set out to design personifications for Great Adventure’s lineup, I decided that I’d only personify a defunct/relocated coaster if it operated for at least five seasons. The only exception to this rule was Ultra Twister, because when else would I get the chance to personify this model (it was the only one of its kind in the states)?

Will I ever personify the rest of Great Adventure’s defunct/relocated coasters? Probably not, I already have enough personifications lol. But if any of you guys do, I’d love to see ‘em! Despite the park’s popularity, I feel that SFGAd is somewhat underrepresented witin the personifier community.

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We’re back to the Great Adventure AU designs! Great American Scream Machine opened in 1989 with a patriotic theme, but what if it had opened a year earlier; Let me introduce you to “Shockwave”!

For those unaware, Great Adventure was originally going to open an Arrow Dynamics “Mega Looper” coaster in 1988. However, it was ultimately given to Great America, who opened it as Shockwave. Fortunately, Great Adventure would get their Mega Looper the next season (and in hindsight, it was probably for the better considering the multitude of issues Shockwave had).

For this design, it was fun to change his patriotic elements into “electrifiying” ones, and some elements were inspired by a superhero costume that Bugs Bunny appeared in for media relating to Great Adventure’s Shockwave (an Intamin Stand-Up, which of course would have a different name in this AU). Being the first Mega Looper means that “Shockwave”’s life is filled with chronic pain— and he comes to resent his neighbors because they can live a normal life. the coaster and “Shockwave” himself to meet an early end, closing in 2002 & being replaced by Superman: Ultimate Flight.

But If you wanna hear more about my Great Adventure AUs, I have a whole document up on my Toyhouse page that talks about this design (and many others)!