#techyocrollingthunder

[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.