Action Park 80's Live Action and Cannonball loop
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- Includes first live You Tube footage of the Action Park Cannonball Loop actually operating with public riders. Recorded on early home video equipment in 1979 and 1980. Commercials are in the public domain now and are over 30 years old. This nine minute compilation will bring back memories of Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey.
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Natural Selection Park.
Try Your Luck Park
Accident Park
BEST COMMENT on TH-cam EVER!!!!! LOLOLOL
Warriors park because only 5 or so died when it was open. Many other parks after only needed one deadly slide to pull that number off. Lol
Traction Park. Back when fun was simply fun.
“There’s nothing in the world like Action Park!”
Well, they’re not wrong...
OMG, this comment had me ROLLING!!!
Don't you mean Class Action Park ???
Yes it's such a deathtrap like no other in the world
@Andrew Gomez but now he’s dead :/
Umm I think the park is trying to kill you
I remember begging my parents to take me to Action Park, but they never would do it. In hindsight, maybe they did love me.
That decision may well have saved your life!
I’m glad that they didn’t listen to you about going there
Nah! You just missed out on some great American adventure. But, it is open again but subdued...
Lol 😂 I went there . It was crazy . That slide with the loop was nuts.
@@kingchile1568 I lost my tooth on the 360 loop. I’m so happy it was a baby tooth 😂
Even the parks i create on rollercoaster tycoon 3 are safer than this.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Safer than the Grave Pool?
I’ve designed roller coasters safer than the rides here
Lol
Lol this comment needs to be pin.
This place was like no other. I went there once in the early 90's and nearly drowned in the wave pool. A friend of mine was hurt riding the alpine slide as were many others. My father had to be taken out in an ambulance after landing wrong cliff diving, which was his fault, but still the reputation of this place was well earned. After saying all that, I did have fun there.
Sounds like you ran with quite the crowd!
Aaron Hildebrand most of the 80’s and 90’ generation that came from Jersey were tough for a reason. Today? Not so much. Bunch of whiny self entitled whiners and wimps
😂😂
This is such an unbias and honest opinion I am dying laughing right now lmao 😂
@@lp4544 New Jersey is the ass of America
"under water river" ok then.
l o s e rTM Thats was my reaction too😂😂😂
The "underwater river" was the pitch-black tunnel at the end of the Gauley rapids slide, which spit you out into a waterfall.
I think they meant to say Underground River....weird they stated it like that
Kyle W. Baker so it’s a sewer basically
I noticed that too LOL like wtf is this guy even talking about.
There's nothing in the world like Accident Park!
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There's nothing even worse than Action Park!
+pokemonfan11 nice
Class Action Park!
Traction Park.
5:04 I AM SPEECHLESS.
+Toboto **APPARENTLY** it was a demonstration with park employees, or so I heard.
+Toboto LOL WTF THAT SHIT WAS CRAZY No wonder this park had a norotious safety record.
+Toboto It's even crazier knowing that someone thought it would look good in a fucking promo.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Had the nerve to line the music up to the beat when they jump
5:05 JESUS THAT LOOKS DANGEROUS
Chrnan6710 6 people died there but it reopened 2014
But fun!
Still would'ny go there people that would are dumb as fuck
Very dangerous! What if someone wasn't holding on.. OMG
Chrnan6710 Action Park was given the nickname "Accident Park"
Things I remember about Action Park:
It was in the middle of nowhere & hard to find.
Dam water was COLD!!
Ambulances. Ambulances Everywhere!
Fun Fun Fun!!
Edit: More things I remember about Action Park!!:
Getting on the Ski Lift to ride The Alpine Slide.
The Tank Ride with the pneumatic tennis ball cannons!
The inner-tube bumper boats with the outboard motors!
I did not survive Action Park just to be taken out by no dam Covid-19 Virus!
Kabuki Jo and death, pain and injuries!
Kabuki Jo I live 2 minutes away from here
Lol I feel like the water is still cold and they really didn't change much about the cliff area
Fuck yea😂👊😍🍄🍅
@@marmalade8915 there werent that many deaths...Disneyworld kills more people
"Where you and the rides become one." Well if you count rocks as part of the ride.
LMAO SO TRUE AIDHAOHDKSGAJAJJAJSJSHHSHSHSHAHAHAHAHA
When we die our bodies become the ride, and the other kids ride the ride, so we are all part in the great big circle of action park.
"Where you and the rides become one."
Blood and skin... I have left both there!! _Thunder Falls_ ripped me up the worst.
The place was AWESOME. Looking back, I realize just how great life was for us Gen Xers !!
@@LakeNipissing Hell yeah Buddy!!!!
Fun fact! In the cannonball loop they put padding in to stop people from being thrown around, and then all the newer riders came out bleeding for some reason. When they took the slide apart to investigate, they found the missing teeth of missing riders stuck into the padding. So yeah you *do* become the ride.
That evil-voiced second announcer is perfect for this death trap lol.
I was thinking the same thing
"Where you and the rides become ONE!"
Action Park: the first amusement park that would make a great horror movie villain...where else would the park itself want the guests dead
and there's actually going to be a movie known as Action Point starring Johnny Knoxville which parodies the park and it's infamous lack of safety.
figment1988 Awesome. Action park is the worst theme park.
snakes3425 I live 2 minutes away from this place in Vernon
If they’re dead, they can’t ask for a refund!
Final destination park
The loop looks more like a sewer drainage pipe. lol
Yes!
It was.
We all float down there.
It was.
That’s how you save on park construction costs 👍
The best is the guy at 6:56"IIIIIIII looooooooooovvvvvvvve ittttt"
That was freaking hilarious!!!
Homer79163 LMAO! Just noticed that!!!
Homer79163 😂 I LOVEEEEEE ITTTTTTT 😆 😂
i hate it there SUCKS DO NOT GO!!!!
Yez I didnt even see him at first 🤣🤣
5:07 i love how even the commercial shows the vehicle sailing through the air and skidding into the wrong lane
I loved this place! My brother and I went in 1978 and 1979, before some of the later attractions. My favorite memory of the park was my brother on the big water slide. It wasn’t just one slide, but had lanes next to each other so you could race each other down the hill, with a little ridge between the lanes that did NOT hold people in their designated areas. My brother was ahead of me by about 5 feet one time, and somehow halfway crossed into my lane, and then didn’t go in either direction. He stayed in the middle, riding the berm between the lanes, and his crotch was taking the brunt of the bumps. His bathing suit got pushed to one side and I could (Against my will) see EVERYTHING that was happening to him as he raced down the hill with what he says felt like a saw slicing between his legs. At the bottom, he pulled his pants up and spent the next 2 hours telling me how … how do I put this … how his twins were no longer conjoined. How one ended the race in each lane. LOL. True story.
I think I have just read the best story to explain Action Park ever.
Did anyone else feel pain between the legs after reading this
gomeljohn - NICE!! Great story dude. I liked Action Park because most of the slides were badass!! If you got banged up...who cares!!?? You laughed about it, and did it again!! "Action" Park described it perfectly!
Lol
😂
if only they had go pros for the cannonball loop at the time...
what about water-proof VHS cameras?
@@TetraTitanio I imagine vhs cameras back then would be to bulky.
@@joedaylight They were, we had big stuff like Marty McFly had in Back to the Future. JVC, Sony etc. And those were small compared to the units we used in our High School Radio & TV class.
The Cannonball loop was actually pretty safe! I went thru it as a 18yr old teen born and bred in Jersey!
@@atiboyful how was the ride then?
My right ear enjoyed this!
+lkjhb1 I thought my earbuds were broken
Lol mine too 😂 😂 😂
+lkjhb1 yah lol
For me it was my left ear
I was just looking through the comments to see if this happened to anyone else, I just thought my headphones were broken
I crushed my sternum at action park in 1981. It made me the man I am today.
Holy shit! how??
We need a back story!!
cmon tell us how!
you made it up
7 months later we're still waiting for Gregory's story.
No helmets? Check. No safety codes? Right. BBQ Chicken? Hell yeah! Sign me up!
LathanCutti when I was 7 in 1991 I heard about this park from a group of older kids at the time👻
Apparently they’d sell booze to anyone!! God, I wish I could time travel to 1980’s Action Park!
5:07 God damn. Wouldn't get away with shit like this now
how they didn't flip is a miracle of some kind.
If there wasn't 3 of them in that raft it would have most likely flipped
People are SO SOFT now!
it was a right of passage for us. If u were all banged up on Monday or Tuesday, your friends were like," hey how was action park?".
Surviving this park was like a rite of passage!
the ride's sure were crazy and dangerous .. every time i ever went there was someone being taking out on a stretcher to a ambulance i went there a lot
6:57... ''I LOVE IT !!!!!'' (until wipeout 10 seconds later)
No discrimination at Action Park. The Alpine Slide would rip any color of skin off.
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Omg ded 💀😂
Hahahahahaha
lmao true
😝
Despite how dangerous it was, it looks extremely fun.
Oh yes, tons of memories. Cannonball loop was one ride you didn't do more than once. You were banged up and dazed after you came out. You couldn't see a thing inside, and normally fell in complete darkness from the top of the loop. Can't believe it was ever open, or that more didn't get hurt!
And OH, all the scraped up people from the cement chutes! LOL EVERYBODY got scraped up. Arms, legs, sides and even faces! Never did the alpine chute thing, because of all the people walking around with their hides shaved off! LOL
You are a accident park survivor!
I just love seeing 70s and 80s videos, its just something about them is just so charming to me
Some of the best memories of my life are here.
I honestly think living through exhilarating moments with legitimate concerns of impending death at a very young age was good for my development.
Which is why Generation-X is currently fucking the world sideways, and teaching the Millenials to do so as well. Very good for your development.
As if Millenials would be taught!
'Where you and the rides become one.' Yeah, you'll leave your skin and blood on the concrete.
And teeth. Not even joking. People who rode the Cannonball slide kept coming out with lacerations that nobody could explain... until they opened up the slide and found various *teeth* stuck in the crevices that’d been knocked out of pervious riders’ mouths 😖
3:13 is priceless, brings back so many memories. Not necessarily of the theme park but of early hip hop culture.
People back then had BALLS
lol
I used to love going to action park as a kid. So yes, we had balls. Lol
And promptly lost them at action park
I still have balls
I used to jump off a 20-30 foot cliff that had a beach at the bottom. You had to start super far back in the woods in order to avoid the bank. One of my friends landed right on it. I seen quite a few people land right on it. Idk how we’re alive. We also used to jump off these gigantic sand dunes into small natural forming ponds at the bottom. I would’ve been good for action park lol
I wonder how many people died filming this video.....
xD so ure
True
Thaddeus Stevens well, not sure about the people in the video. there were six deaths at the park. the first death was on the alpine slide and it was an employe. there were three drownings in the wave pool and one man lost his balance on a kayak and was electrocution due to a faulty wire in the water. i'm not sure what the last death was. i know that the alpine slide and wave pool were never closed, however they did close the kayak experience. the park was also never closed they just changed the name from action park to mountain creek.
+kiera r some kid got stuck in the cannonball loop
Kiera I think someone died on the cannonball loop there
8:31 There's the infamous hosing down before embarking on that Death Trap!
+KoasterKing 205 Even though no one ever died on the Cannonball Loop.
***** I know.
Someone would have if they kept it on
I don't want that slide wtf?!
@@BrandyArts Still dummies came out missing arms, legs and even heads and Action Park just kept throwing dummies in until one came out in passible condition and they used that to get it approved.
The one time I went there, in 1984, someone drowned in the wave pool. You can't make this shit up. It was insane.
3 people drowned in the wave pool
Demonstrations of the two Alpine Slide sled speeds:
0:06 - slow
0:07 - ''death awaits''
0:07 - Riding the Alpine Slide when it is raining.
The car in the arcade game "Spy Hunter" also has two speeds: snail in peanut butter (low gear) and "death awaits" (high gear)!
@@gleuszler Nice!!!! :)
I love comments like this lmfao
wow at the ride at 5:05 That is some serious air time for the kiddies!!
They look li9ke the hit hard on landing, too.
Absolutely amazing to see the Canonball Loop in action. Its use was almost mythological. Upon entry, it was always closed when I visited. SO AWESOME. THANK YOU!!!
Love that waterslide between 4:49 and 5:10. Those kids must have been getting up to six feet of air after hitting the bump!
Jack Hydrazine Indeed. Going into the end of the 80s/beginning of the 90s, they changed it to what it is today, well, except now it doesn't have a quarterpipe at the end for those who happen to overshoot the splashdown pool... but you can still, sorta, catch air - managed to do it a few times last year.... hahahaha
As a former employee, I have a ton of great memories. They used to bribe us into testing the Cannonball after it had been shut down and patched with ActionBucks for the food court. The food wasn't great, but I'd always volunteer. I got more injuries on the Alpine Slide, where I worked, because we shaved down the friction pads on the special "employee" sleds to go faster. I remember burning through more than one tee-shirt. Ahhh...It was good to be a teenager back then...
HOW DID YOU SURVIVE? ARE YOU IMMORTAL????
Always is good to be a teenager.
4:37 - As the guy almost smashes his face open on the pier in the background, lol
Whoa! Almost like watching a car accident without the accident occuring.
....and if you didn't let go and swung all the way back, you'd drop onto nothing but jagged rocks.
Optical Illusion? See 6:40!
lol iamanalt Still looks kinda too close to shore
@@loliamanalt8849 that’s somebody who dropped at the correct timing. Completely different person. That first one was WAAAY too close to the cement
Having heard so much about this park, it's great to finally see footage. Can't believe the insanity of these downhill water rides - the speed is crazy. "Anyone want to start? OK, everyone go at once! GO! No, more people!"
Anyone here from HBO's "Class Action Park"?
Not the movie...but from Vernon...Yes.
So cool to see the tennis ball tanks and all the other stuff there. You can clearly see how fun and dangerous this place was. God I miss it and am glad I got to experience it in it's full danger mode.
Total Drama: I am the deadliest thing imaginable
Action Park: *hold my drunk teen employee*
🤣🤣
underrated comment
watching this video brung me back to the 80s / 90s . back when things were more laid back and fun . being a kid in those times was the best times to grow up in . you could ride your bike across town and not get hit by a car . you could run up to some random persons house and drunk from their garden hose and not get shot or arrested . yeah those were the simple times that me and pepperidge farms remembers
Went there twice in Summer of 1979 and 1980 with a youth group. Our bus driver broke his neck on the Alpine slide and we had to wait hours for a new bus driver to be able to drive us back to NY. My elbows were bleeding from water slide runs and I still have the scars today. Childhood of the 70’s and 80’s was the best.
My uncle lost his entire shirtsleeve on the Alpine Slide here! And my grandma wasn't even mad- half the people in the park were in the same shape he was. It was the norm, which really tells you something about this place and its safety.
'There’s nothing in the world like action park! We put the fun in Funeral!'
8:20 is insane! That water slide with the loop is 😱
I know this comment is from 5 years ago but I looked up this video because of that loop slide, and wanted to let you know just how right you are. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:
"The slide was open for only a month in 1985 before it was closed at the order of the state's Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety, a highly unusual move at the time. One worker told a local newspaper that "there were too many bloody noses and back injuries" from riders. Some early riders came back with lacerations to their bodies; when the ride was closed to determine what had caused them, teeth that had fallen out were found lodged in the interior walls. A former Navy physician found that riders were experiencing as much as nine Gs of acceleration as they went through the loop."
@@RLellingDo you know if there was and emergency exit on the slide? What if someone got stuck in the slide?
@@mino770 I think I remember reading that yes, people did get stuck, and they basically just had to open it up by taking out a segment.
I am jealous of those 80's people. I would totally go there.
kglaser11 I am one of those ''80s people''. We lived through concrete waterslides, bicycles without helmets, wood and metal wagons, and REAL metal-tipped lawn darts!
6 people died in that park...
Cillian collins That is not good. To be clear, I do not support the death of one single person., ever.
If you died I wouldn't support you.. I would laugh. How do you feel?
Cillian collins Over 18 years. If I recall, according to an interview with Andrew Mulvihill a year or two before the rebranding, it was an employee riding the Alpine Slide when it was closed/the person shouldn't have been riding most likely.
When you look at it objectively 6 people over 18 years (5 if you exclude the park employee), with millions of people visiting the park in its heyday, is an absurdly small fraction of people. I;d say, conservatively, say a total of 9 million people visited between 1978 and 1996. That would be 0.00006666666% of the total patrons in that time frame if your death toll is 6, 0.00005555555% if you exclude the employee death. Really, relatively speaking, small amount - the injury rate on the other hand, now THAT was absolutely nuts.
I went there in the 80's and it was a lot of fun. When I went the cannonball loop was already closed. I heard that someone lifted their head just before the loop starts and that was it - major head trauma and lights out forever. I remember a lot of people getting hurt on the Alpine cart ride, which is shown in here. I remember seeing someone walking away from it with the biggest bleeding scrape I've ever seen. You could really get a bad road type burn if you fell off.
yeah I got one but thankfully it wasn’t too bad
No one died on the cannonball loop.
I went there when I was 12 with my family . It was nuts . We’re lucky we survived lol
Damn I wish I was alive in the 80s so I could experience this! Yeah it was dangerous but this is what America is all about! This woulda been the most fun waterpark ever!
50% of the comments: I wish I could go there!
50% : Holy shit, *what?*
I loved this freakin place!!!!! I got hurt twice (bashed heads with another person on the river ride and somebody whacked their head of my jaw on the same ride later that summer). Best water park EVER!!!!
you a hockey player by any chance?
Cheech Marin Yup, well...used to be. lol
YES!!! Action Park WAS awesome!! I loved the name...Action Park!!! For me...the "chance" of possibly getting hurt was small...but the thrill of many of those waterslides was worth the risk!!! Live life people!! If you "play it safe" your whole life...BORING!!
That magic carpet ride knocked the wind out of me and cracked my ribs..SUMMER OF 85’ THE GREATEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE!!!SCREW GREAT ADVENTURE
I'm actually getting chills. I remember going on these rides. And I have no idea how I survived.
8:31 - oh man. I really want to believe that he went in head first on his back and came out feet first on his stomach.
Lmao I really was crious on how if and why that person came out feet first on their stomach too 😳
Now I know why my parents never took me here! LMAO
Went there dozens of times and no one was hurt, at all. Miss that place.
People were hurt and killed and likely still are under the name mountain creek.
Class Action Park... what an incredible place! Fun rides. And staffed by employees who were underage, under-trained, and under-the-influence...
+Reed Rothchild Fun and unique, so many rides that exist at park these days Action Park, essentially, had some sort of prototype for. hehe.
Action park, more like class action park
That’s the name of the new documentary about the park that premiered yesterday!
Texas Princess I wouldn’t be surprised if his comment is where they got the name. I’m sure whoever was making the documentary watched all these videos.
HBO says thanks for the name!
You’re a genius 😂
Going there in 1981 was one of my top 10 all time favorite days! It was AMAZING!!!
Damn near killed myself on that alpine slide a few times but it was a blast!
You survived Action Park ! ^^ :)
Loved the alpine slides!!
thetruthtx64 I hurt myself so bad on that thing. So much skin lost
@@jonhendrickson9701 OH DAMN,
you lost skin. wow.
Someone did
This place looks awesome!! I'd much rather be a kid playing with my friends here risking injury than the mental injuries of technology and social media of today!!
Same!
This place was awesome! Sure, serious injury or death was a possibility but..so is driving your car or riding your bike. I say, bring it back!
TH-cam's copyright policies are bizarre... after close to two years of this video existing, they suddenly mute the Pink Floyd music near the end....
I thought i was the only one that noticed that 😂
Josue Garcia Why I first noticed it a few weeks ago, was when I was planning to show this video to a co-worker on the phone. In this case, the message was TH-cam has blocked this video in my country due to music copyright. But it still works on the computer with Windows, but with the Pink Floyd muted.
TH-cam has very strange policies... some people upload entire movies or music videos and get away with it. Others have their videos taken down for a few seconds of music being picked up by their camcorder microphone from a car radio.
You're not going to find Go Karts in every modern amusement park. Looks like it truly was fun, despite the safety hazards.
Cedar Point has go karts, but theyre connected to the water park and not the main park.
I dont know a place where can are allowed to go kart with shorts on!
Mikedude98 fun spot florida
Action park had a bar next to the go carts. Seemed like a good idea at the time?
I would be willing to sign a waiver or whatever it takes, that place looks good!
it's still open... Mountain Creek park in NJ
@@royalefilmsinc I imagine a lot of the rides have been tamed in recent years.
The park now doesn’t look as fun as it do here 😂
8:17 for those looking for cannonball loop footage 👍
And be sure to check out the movie based on this park- Action Point. They have a bunch of fun throwbacks like when they mimic the commercials "I love it here!"
My favorite water park. Went every summer in the 90s and definitely had weed blown in my face waiting in line for the rope swing when I was 10 or 11. Memories!
You just know that the footage at 5:43 had been cut short because the guy upfront on the Alpine Slide will be bumped big time by the guy behind him in 5, 4, 3, 2... Awww.
I only know it as MountainCreek because I was born in 1995 and I love the park. It's actually my favorite water park. Of course now it's taken it's old name back so it's Action Park once again. I understand the appeal that the old park had, but 6 people died there not to mention countless other injuries. Obviously I never saw it in it's "glory days", but I'm happy with what it is now. It's still crazier than most water parks and still retains that kind of no rules feel to an extent. The safety upgrades were needed and I don't think they killed the park.
This was the best amusement park I've ever been to and maybe part of it was because it was raw and the danger potential was always there.
just when im looking at the cannonball loop it gives me chills..
This place looks god damn incredible!! I can't even imagine the cost for liability insurance if this was around today. Just another reason why the 80's were the best years.
believe it or not, nobody was willing to give them insurance so the owner of the park opened an insurance company just to insure the place
Damn.
This looks way radical.
Thank you for posting this...so many memories.
I can’t wait to go!
Cannonball Loop is at 8:20.
This place looks like it was a lot of fun!
it was super dangerous
it was nicknamed ''accident park''
It was
It was fun but also nearly half the people who went suffered injuries.
Kryo The Night makes it even more fun
@@billclintonstolemygirlfrie5516 tf
this is the greatest video in internet history
Best place ever. Had some of the best times of my young life there.
I want to go back in time and have some fun at action park
wtf is an underwater river
I've been in the underwater river at Action Park, you get twice as wet.
xD i know right an underwater river that makes no sense
I was wondering the same thing...
That *is* funny... I guess they meant underground river. XD
5:00 for anyone thinking it wasn't crazy.
5:04 joyful music is being played as three people get launched into the air and almost end up in the hospital. I'm truly fascinated by this video
I went here in 1986 at age 14 and it was the best water park ever. Looking back on it now, we were crazy. Those cannon ball tubes were so cool to be shot out 10ft above ice cold water. The water slides were FAST. Tarzan rope swing was fun. A friend lost all the skin off his shoulder on the alpine slide. At age 14, you don't care about injuries.
Loved Action Park! (Safety be damned!) We visited every year. The Cannonball Loop was already closed before we made it there, but I won't forget the original Cannoball (sans Loop). It was a near vertical drop and crazy. My dad went down it as the first ride of our day, came out with his bathing suit wedged so far up I don't think the term "wedgie" was any longer an adequate description, and spent the rest of the day having to use the bathroom every 10 minutes.
Lol that thing gave you a bad enema.
oh...
LoL!
“This is just like coming to broadway is wonderful” LMFAO I forgot how much things were exaggerated in the 70s & 80s.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
This shit look dope honestly that long slide is dope
Went there a few times in the 80's. The alpine slide was the bomb! Seem to remember they had a zip line and cliff diving, which was cool. I still live in NJ and heard it reopened, i'd check it out again.
Oh my God... This park looked to be so fucking awesome... I regret not to have born in the early 80's, and not to have known before about this park. I watched several videos on TH-cam about Action Park, and it made on me a lot of joy and emotion. There were many injuries in this park ; but in the 80's / 90's, society were not so restrictive and paranoiac about laws and security. Action Park seemed to be a park in which people (kids/teenagers/adults, etc) could REALLY HAVE FUN and be FREE !!! Moreover, in my opinion, the risk is part of life, and there is not real fun without risk. I really regret that I will never know the pleasure to go to Action Park... Sorry for my orthographical faults, I'm from France. And I LOVE this part of "old good America" !!! Action Park is definitively the BEST park EVER made !
It really was fucking awesome. A lot safer now, but ever since the original owners got the park back, it's been operated with emphasis on people having a strong sense of personal responsibility, as in "we will follow regulations, do our best to keep you safe, rescue you if you are drowning, but if you fuck up, it's your fault - and even then, sometimes getting a little battered just happens, it's life!" - and it shows... place is nice and clean, people are given medical care when needed, but they don't let the possibility of someone getting bumped around stop them from operating awesome rids with unique designs, unlike the previous owners XD
alexandredu41 agreed👻
alexandredu41 Its still open today, but it’s no longer called Action Park
Which is what it should have been to begin with. Getting some cuts and bruises, heck even a broken bone every now and then, might not be a big deal, but getting electrocuted, near drownings, or not properly staffing the park is. People talk it up like a place for a good time, but forget that all the owners had to do was invest a little bit of their profits into running a good business and they could have had all that same fun without any of the outlier injuries that sent hundreds of people to the hospital.
I'm sure it was as much fun as many of the patrons ever had in their life. There is nothing like the adrenaline thrill of a dangerous ride.
4:33 Jason Voorhees literally comes out of the water
"These are the most amazing rides in the world. I love it here!" Honestly though people loved this park and had great times here. There really was nothing like it, in every sense of the phrase.
This place looked amazing I could care less about all the accidents they had here I would go and would ride the Cannonball loop for sure even thought it was a liability and people came out with bloody noses ect. I didn't realize there was so much to do there.
COULDN'T care less
I rode the loop twice, it was a really bumpy ride, but a thrill. There were a lot of attactions at AP where, as the guides suggested, "This isn't Disney, you can get hurt, so follow our directions closely." While bad scrapes and bruises were common, and I know they had several bad accidents, a lot of the lore is somewhat embellished and silly.
***** sarcasm, irony maybe?
*****
I agree
***** Because they think it sounds cool.
I'm sure the ride at 5:00 was cause of some of the injuries lol. the water rides at 2:45 were congested and I could see how a kid could drown in that.
Mobliz That was insane air! I think that was called Alpine slide? The bobsled ride looked fun.
Denniss7420
no that was one of the special waterslides. The alpine slide was when you were in the little car with the stick for brakes (assuming they were still working) as drove along a concrete bobsled run (no padding outside of the track other than jagged rocks).
Denniss7420
Surf Hill is the slide seen between 5:00 and 5:09 and it is still there today. Oh yes, Surf Hill was the cause of many injuries...
Now they only have two or three tubes go down at once rather than like ten.
The alpine ride had a bump in the seventh slide which caused the rider to fly into the air, resulting in injuries
Correction: I meant the multi lane slide
OMG this video just remind me how old i am and how i miss the time when everything was not connect to internet
Lowkey this looks pretty dope