a Roller Coaster.
- A squiggly line
- Three cars make a train
- OMG for the thrill
It’s unclear whether the physics of this particular roller coaster would pan out, but it seems like a pretty fun ride to me. Laurea drew this in just ten seconds, and I’m sure you’re all skilled enough at Fastest Possible Evaluations by now to recognize that most of that time wasn’t spent on the squiggly line.
Everybody knows that the single best moment of a roller coaster is the tipping point at the top of the hill. I love that the little guy up at the front of this train has his little stick arms raised up higher than the people behind him. He is definitely the person screaming “OMG”, and is pretty much my favorite stick person on the site so far. He is the very picture of Caged Thrill—the essence of Coastering. Drawing him, and his two little companions, with all their little sticks and circles, is what took all the time in this sketch, but without them, it’s just a line.
It seems like the opposite of a real roller coaster, where all the time is spent building tracks and loops and curves, and the cars just get plopped on. Maybe I’m wrong, though, and this Fastest Possible Roller Coaster is just a microcosm for the universe of Actual Roller Coasters, where the track is only twisted steel, and the cars are the sophisticated system of brakes, wheels, clamps and belts that define the difference between Falling Off The Steel and Having A Blast With Your Friends.
I’m a Roller-Coaster-With-Well-Drawn-Cars kind of guy, maybe. To me, the cars make the coaster—certainly the Fastest Possible Roller Coaster—and the extra seconds are well worth it to me. At least Laurea didn’t draw an hour-long wait and scores of puking kids (though, at this point, those may define the coaster as much as the track).
It’s Monday here at Fastest Possible Drawings of Everything. Come for the huge pile of steel, stay for the seatbelts.
