ENDLESS SUMMER is an action adventure comedy about five children who journey to a far-away city, in a world where all the adults have disappeared and gravity has just begun to glitch out. Along the way they meet varied tribes of other kids, dive head first into high adventure, and learn to become better friends as they work to bring their parents back to reality…
…and save the world
from being torn apart!
What eight year old hasn’t dreamt of running away to the wilds and going on an adventure without ANY grownups around?
Endless Summer is a serialized show (Carmen Sandiego, Gravity Falls) with stories told from the kids’ perspective. A show packed with crazy adventure in the real world, but a world without any adults.
That means there are no congested highways, just abandoned cars on the road. There are no packed office buildings, just empty parking lots.
No rules.
No bedtimes.
But no good-night hugs.
The Big Pop was the sound heard around the world. POP! Just like that, everyone was gone except the kids between 6 and 16 were left. While the kids have begun to take care of themselves, they have no idea that the grown-ups are in an alternate dimension and desperately trying to get their children back!
In fact, the mother of the hero of our story was the lead scientist overseeing Experiment MM-39 that unexpectedly caused The Big Pop while attempting to help clean pollution through multiverse manipulation. The Keeler-Collins Gravitational Coordinator (which stabilizes gravitational waves in order to minimize adverse effects) shorted out and allowed the anomalies to form.
Wait... gravity anomalies? The world of Endless Summer is one of adventure, mystery, fun, and danger. The Big Pop not only made the grownups disappear, it also created random “Gravity Tubes”, “Gravity Wells”, and “Portals” around the world. Yes, even portals. These anomalies continuously become more powerful and plentiful, in the aftershock of The Big Pop, but our heroes will use learn to use them to their advantage… if they want to find out how to bring their parents back.
The KCGC is aided by the Gravitational Irritation-Zone Modification Object (G.I.Z.M.O) which accesses higher dimensions, through portal technology, to provide greater stability. When disconnected from the KCGC, the G.I.Z.M.O can open portals around the world, but only in this reality. Restarting the KCGC will stabilize the gravity anomalies.
Summer Springs and her road companions are a hodgepodge of kids, no two are truly alike. They’ve all agreed to come on this adventure because nobody else is doing it. (If not us, then who?) The gang is democratic, and Summer insists that every voice counts, but there’s often a difference of opinion and even arguments over the plan.
Whether it’s Ajay insisting they go left when Summer insists right, V2’s gearhead clashing with Chip’s technobrain, or Ronaldo driving the gang nuts with another choreographed dance, the gang will always come together in the end and keep the focus on Coast City; the only place their parents may be.
Despite having the energy, intellect, and positive attitude to lead her friends on an incredible journey Summer Springs is still just one person and can’t solve every problem on her own.. nor has to.
With the guidance of her mother’s lab journal and the comfort of her mother’s compass pendant hanging from her wrist, this journey will show Summer not everything needs to go according to plan, and sometimes you have to rely on your friends.
Chip, Summer’s cousin, is an outright computer whiz. She takes solace in her mastery of the tech world... unlike the real world. Everything about Chip is a little awkward, from her clothing style to her sense of humour. A true introvert, Chip takes pride in her ‘Get them before they get me’ mentality.
The only person around whom she can truly be herself is Summer. She looks up to her outgoing, charismatic, and older cousin with admiration and envy. If Chip would only embrace her “inner weird” and allow others in she’d find that all people are awkward and have faults, and instead of being ashamed of it, this is what makes us all individuals and most importantly, human.
Bigger, bolder, beautiful; the words that embody Ronaldo. A social butterfly to the extreme, he loves everything and everyone. Brought up by loving parents in an eccentric household he has an unbridled optimistic view of the world where anything can be achieved if you just believe. He is the comedic relief of the bunch, but sometimes his blind positivity can be delusionally annoying.
He loves, loves, LOVES scarfs; having one to describe the mood and outfit he is in on any given day. He is infatuated with fashion, loves bright colours, and clothes that are loud and proud. Ronaldo lives for social media and the outdoors is not his thing; he’s a ‘Glamper’ not a Camper who needs to realize life is not all about the newest outfit or likes on social media.
An outdoorsman. A brave heart. A… sheltered, scared kid. Ajay’s parents are, shall we say “worry warts” who insist their son could get hurt, or get sick, or poke his eye out on goodness knows what. If they could wrap him in bubble wrap, they would and that’s exactly why AJ yearns for adventure.
It’s like his hero, adventurer Blake Steelrockstone, always says “Time to get real with the Steel!”. Ajay lives by these words (even if he doesn’t know what it means) and adorns himself in the latest and greatest outdoor gear. But what he needs to discover is that true bravery comes from showing your vulnerabilities, not from catchy slogans.
V2 is a kid with a need for speed; an adrenaline junkie who pushes machinery to its brink. He loves everything dirty and exhausting about car garages ever since learning and working alongside his father in the family’s repair shop.
His “cool” is always on idle, but he can go from 0 to a 100 two point five seconds. If he’s not reaching for his lucky wrench, he’s reaching for his comb.
This laid-back daddio wants to put the pedal to the metal but what he really needs is to find an inner balance. Growing up in garages can alienate a kid from Mother Nature and V2 needs to understand is there is beauty in slowing down and smelling the roses.
Soon after the parents went missing Triden took over the tiny town of Dew Drops through the muscle of his Longboard Crew. His ruthless grip on power has help him acquire everything he’s every wanted. The kids of Dew Drops fear him, and his longboard crew keeps them in line. As long as you’re a benefit to Triden, he’ll keep you around.
His thirst to rule is his main motivation but also his weakness as the more he becomes a tyrant ruler the more fragile his grip upon the town will become. Triden was raised by judgemental and disapproving parents, he could never make them happy no matter how hard he tried, and is now content that they’re gone. His greatest fear is that things might go back to the way things were.
Months after The Big Pop, and the disappearance of all the adults, the children of Dew Drops have become subjects of the ruthless bully Triden Tru. One of those kids, Summer Springs, has had enough. When she finds her mother’s scientific journal (which details the cause of, and solution to, The Big Pop) she convinces five friends (Chip, Ajay, Ronaldo, and V2) to journey to Coast City and restart her mother’s experiment to bring their parents back.
Endless Summer is a heartwarming story set in a fantastical world of science, danger, adventure, and friendship.
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