History WebVideo / TheGreyTarmacRoad

%%* HasTwoMommies: Lin.

->''Trudy Whyatt always wanted to escape the big city, so when a year abroad in a sleepy English town is proposed she couldn’t be happier. Until of course the sleepy english town turns out to be the headquarters of a massive corporation with weird place names and weirder politics. And that’s before the explosions and threatening notes start…''

''The Grey Tarmac Road'' is a [=YouTube=] 2016 webseries adaptation by Creator/BaguelProductions, based on Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz and associated works by Creator/LFrankBaum. The series is set in modern day England, and all of the main characters are human teenagers. Dorothy is renamed Trudy, and her dog Toto becomes her imaginary friend.

The full series playlist, including events not captured by in-world cameras posted on Baguel's youtube channel, is [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdT9iFgsPtJBCn0XOcCja0Jliyp07eFAq here.]]

The show has a large amount of transmedia, including twitter and tumblr accounts, a list of which can be found [[http://thegreytarmacroad.tumblr.com/characteraccounts here.]]

* AdaptationalNameChange: Practically everyone. Our Dorothy is called Trudy, for thus far unclear reasons.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Everyone whose sexuality has been confirmed so far. Lin is bisexual, Cyrus is asexual and aromatic, and Leone is at the very least into more than one gender.
* {{Adorkable}}: Trudy, especially when talking about her 'farmland fantasy' and cows. Omar.
* AgeLift: Dorothy was eight in the first book, Trudy is seventeen
* AscendedExtra: Lin, to the point of lampshading Glinda and the north witch’s original TheMentor role in the book and 39 movie.

** Toto is upgraded from TeamPet to ImaginaryEnemy, and the voice of Trudy’s anxieties and fears.
* CelebrityParadox: Trudy is a fan of Zooey Deschanel, who [[{{Series/TinMan}} played another Dorothy equivalent.]]
** She also follows and often retweets [[{{Film/TheWiz}} Diana Ross]] on twitter
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The wings in Oz, which Lin, Boq and Emma (if not many others) often reflect in their clothing choices
* CompositeCharacter: Like the 1939 film, the characters of Glinda of the South and the Good Witch of the North are condensed into one character.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Corey
* GenreSavvy: Lin. ''And how''.
* HasTwoMommies: Lin.
* ImaginaryEnemy: Toto

* LampshadeHanging: One of Lin's favourite pastimes.
* MeaningfulName: Many. Cyrus '''Crow''', Nimmie and Omar '''Tree''', and Leone, to name a few.
** (G)Lin(da)
* MythologyGag: The shoes Lin gives Trudy
* QueerRomance
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Nimmie and Omar
* SettingUpdate

* ThereAreNoAdults
* ZanyScheme: Lin is a fan of these. Corey too, although he likes to view them as 'investigations'

* BiTheWay: Lin

''The Grey Tarmac Road'' is a [=YouTube=] 2015 webseries adaptation by Creator/BaguelProductions, based on Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz and associated works by Creator/LFrankBaum. The series is set in modern day England, and all of the main characters are human teenagers. Dorothy is renamed Trudy, and her dog Toto becomes her imaginary friend.

* ColourCodedForYourConvinience: The wings in Oz, which Lin, Boq and Emma (if not many others) often reflect in their clothing choices

** Toto is upgraded from AnimalMascot to ImaginaryEnemy, and the voice of Trudy’s anxieties and fears.

* [[Adorkable]]: Trudy, especially when talking about her 'farmland fantasy' and cows. Omar.

** Toto is upgraded from animal mascot to ImaginaryEnemy, and the voice of Trudy’s anxieties and fears.

* AdaptationalSexuality: Everyone whose sexuality has been confirmed so far. Lin is bisexual, Cyrus is asexual and aromatic, and Leone is at the very least into more than one gender.

* Adorkable: Trudy, especially when talking about her 'farmland fantasy' and cows. Omar.

* ActorAllusion: Michael Elcock, who plays Corey, previously played the Scarecrow in the Oz-based Creator/ZooNation dance show ''Groove On Down the Road''

* FakeAmerican: Ingrid Nixie Greep, who plays Trudy, is actually English.

* Shoutout:

* ActorAllusion: Michael Elcock, who plays Corey, previously played the Scarecrow in the Oz-based Creator/ZooNation dance show ''Groove On Down the Road''

** [[{{Book/GameOfThrones}} Queen in the North]]
** Lin's last name, which WordOfGod has it is a portmanteau, is [[{{Theatre/Wicked}} Thropupland]]