I love how they had test dummies coming out MISSING THEIR HEADS and they still deemed the ride as safe

@timothymclean

2 жыл бұрын

On one hand, test dummy heads aren't attached as firmly as human heads. On the other hand, enough force to knock off a test dummy head isn't gonna be pleasant for a human neck. Also, it's a pretty bad omen, people never pay attention to omens these days.

@HarvestStudios_38

2 жыл бұрын

after that i imagine that they just slapped a sticker on it that just said SAFE on it.

@orange_turtle3412

2 жыл бұрын

You cant take risks like that. You have to be as cautious as humanly possible. Even is the test dummies come out damaged, you cant just assume that the same wont happen with people. You need to ensure that the dummies come out in pristine condition to ensure that human riders are kept as safe as possible.

@greenberrygk

2 жыл бұрын

That just defeats the point of a test dummy

@timothymclean

2 жыл бұрын

@@greenberrygk The point of crash test dummies is to take damage in place of human testers, until they come out okay.

When I went as a kid, the longest line in the park was first aid

@smlalexis2828

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao that’s sad-

@ruckymutton5153

4 жыл бұрын

@@harryrabbitts4765 stop

@scoop765

4 жыл бұрын

Was it fun atleast?

@giannazappier759

4 жыл бұрын

DAMN 😂😂😂

@debleb166

4 жыл бұрын

Damn that first aid ride musta been lit

I worked here as a teenager in the 80's and oh man, the stuff that went on there. I was one of three working the alpine slide and that track was covered in blood stains the whole way down. Countless times a day, the sleds would come off the track or customers would slip off and get some of the most horrid skids and scrapes. All of us were smoking up, drinking, screwing around in the bushes etc. It was a fun summer, but none of us understood the gravity of how messed up the entire thing was.

@cheryllightning7616

Жыл бұрын

You're one of the jerks that caused all those problems. Code word: Scumbag.

@elleeme9451

Жыл бұрын

😕

@Edge_Boye

Жыл бұрын

Sounds based

@drakep.5857

Жыл бұрын

"Blood stains" Mind if I ask... like, how many? Was this every day or just every noe and then? Did riders notice it? How big were they? That sounds downright medieval

@cjodyssey

Жыл бұрын

@@Edge_Boye based... yaa frfr no cap like rent free even with rizz.. man, its already goated with the drip. now ppl ded with no clapback

"There's nothing in the world like Action Park!" *GOOD.*

@charlesnewman6468

Жыл бұрын

lol i agree with you and i hope it does stay that way.

@KaijuForceNeo

Жыл бұрын

That jingle has aged like fine wine!

@crystalgemgirl731

Жыл бұрын

Thank Luna.

@gabe_s_videos

Жыл бұрын

@crystalgemgirl731 Luna?

@crystalgemgirl731

Жыл бұрын

@@gabe_s_videos Princess Luna from MLP. Also, I like saying it.

"The lake had a large population of snakes", well that sounds like good fun for the little ones.

@razkable

4 жыл бұрын

who knows pre 1980 how many deaths they kept under the records noses

@OverlandOne

4 жыл бұрын

It was great.

@cagedcreature439

4 жыл бұрын

"Snakes..why it had to be snakes."

@brandonlyon730

4 жыл бұрын

Are there really any snakes other then harmless Garter Snakes in New Jersey?

@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if they were a hard-core Jungle Book fan...

When an attraction called "The Kamikaze" can be described as "safer" in comparison to the rest, you've got a problem.

@Maswartz226

4 жыл бұрын

Sushi exactly

@TheIcpfan23

4 жыл бұрын

so it's not like every theme park in the world is safe but so dangerous so why just this theme park. To me every theme park out here are dangerous

@Kirbita22

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheIcpfan23 i hate to break it to you but most theme parks have actual oversight and safety measures. sure most theme parks have a couple of accidents in their history, mostly due to people blatantly disregarding the rules, but usually they take safety very seriously because an injury is a PR disaster. action park seemingly just made poor safety practices their entire brand :^)

@Matt_History

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheIcpfan23 there's a reason why a serious accident is noticed at six flags or Disney Land... It's rare. And there's an even bigger reason why action park's accidents were mostly ignored... They were common

@imcintyre01

4 жыл бұрын

Branding. It’s should have just been called the divine wind at that point.

You gotta love a place where the slingshot, one of today’s most notoriously unsafe attractions, is the safest ride at the park lol

@elevatoralarmcoasterandarc1214

Жыл бұрын

I have to remember this.

@shanessie6671

Жыл бұрын

Pretty ironic 😂

@frozenuruguayball6436

7 ай бұрын

Slingshots are completely safe😂

@emilyofjane

3 ай бұрын

@@frozenuruguayball6436There are certain types that absolutely aren’t. Elastic cable Slingshots are the most notorious. Coaster College has a video that describes the differences between safer and more dangerous models really well.

@emilyofjane

3 ай бұрын

@@frozenuruguayball6436There are some models that really aren’t - specifically older models that use elastic bands. Coaster College has a very good video that explains the difference between the newer safer models and the ones that use elastic bands.

The first casualty, the young man who was killed on the Alpine Slide in 1980, wasn't an employee of Action Park. This was a lie told to dodge officially reporting his death which makes it even more horrific. People should check out Class Action Park for the full story.

@rubygirl214

Жыл бұрын

This! He worked at the ski resort years before

@ctaco5112

Жыл бұрын

@@rubygirl214 True but he wasn't currently employed by the park at the time

@Chillipeffer

Жыл бұрын

wack

@your_local_questerian

Жыл бұрын

Who was he at the time it happened?

@RieRose

Жыл бұрын

@@your_local_questerian He was a 19 year old boy named Georgie who had no affiliations with Action Park. He had worked at the park’s sister ski resort as a lift operator the year before, and just for one season. The park also lied claiming that not only was he an employee, but they tried saying he was there after hours, which was also false. He was a paying Park guest like anyone else.

OSHA: surely they can't break EVERY rule. Action park:

@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit

4 жыл бұрын

Action Park: hold my beer

@robbys5236

4 жыл бұрын

Action Park: Yes, we can. He he he he he he haha haha hahaha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH BWAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA

@andysmith5806

4 жыл бұрын

Hold my beer... Which they sold to minors.

@michaelboydston313

4 жыл бұрын

Im about to ruin this company's career

@mr.haroldthetoaster6263

4 жыл бұрын

At least they didn’t break the hallway height regulation! Oh, wait, they probably did.

The cannonball loop actually had to have padding put in so people stopped hitting the top and getting so hurt. After that, people started coming out with cuts and gashes. They looked inside, and it turns out that teeth from previous riders had gotten lodged in the padding and was cutting people on their way down.

@karolineCPH

3 жыл бұрын

ARGH

@williameyelash8053

3 жыл бұрын

Oh GOD

@AshAtropos

3 жыл бұрын

CHRIST

@lizinacan151

3 жыл бұрын

What the absolute fuck

@anthonyramirez7272

3 жыл бұрын

EW! 🤢 That's foul on so many levels

Bruh that cannonball loop tho. Are they expecting me to curl into a ball like Sonic?

@0g0dn0

Жыл бұрын

The blueprint for that thing was allegedly a scribble on cocktail napkin made by the former Wall Street Executive with no former park experience who created the place, so I'd say nobody thought that far ahead. The headless test dummies were a formality.

@hope-mania

Жыл бұрын

@@0g0dn0 basically, they came up with ideas like this when they were drunk. In the words of the angry video game nerd: “What were they thinking!?”

@crystalgemgirl731

Жыл бұрын

Or go Morph Ball mode like Samus?

@stardoglofii

Жыл бұрын

and, there's no rings attached

@Regigigas_YT

Жыл бұрын

@@crystalgemgirl731 Go Magearna mode

The fact that they spent money on NEW AMBULANCES instead of safety measures??? I laughed out loud at how absolutely ridiculous that is.

@celtsgrace

Жыл бұрын

Let me tell you from personal experience it made it that much better when I went there many times!!!! LOL 😂

@tootnfart

Жыл бұрын

There’s an ambulance squad down the road from the rebranded park

@aspoon4801

Жыл бұрын

Amazon strategy

@stingerjohnny9951

11 ай бұрын

Yup, a classic (if extreme) case of treating the symptom and not the cause

@gabrielblacklock3921

11 ай бұрын

New ambulances are safety measures

"In response to the high volume of guests visiting the hospital, Action Park bought Vernon NJ new ambulances."

@codylapoint

3 жыл бұрын

Good business model!

@sashaircha6475

3 жыл бұрын

Did they get a commission for every person they sent to the hospital ?

@j.j.s.jr.5136

3 жыл бұрын

@@sashaircha6475 yes they actually did. Out of the 800 dollar ambulance ride they received 200 of it.

@alphacheeno7487

3 жыл бұрын

@@j.j.s.jr.5136 Money over park safety! What a time to be alive

@j.j.s.jr.5136

3 жыл бұрын

@@alphacheeno7487 you ain't kidding! Lol

ER Physician: "Your friend's neck is fractured. What exactly was he doing?" Patient's friend: "He was on the Snapple Snap-Up Whipper Snapper at Action Park."

@rocketamadeus3730

3 жыл бұрын

"It's AWESOME!"

@nicholasgawler-collins5754

3 жыл бұрын

Sn = tin

@noodleboop6093

3 жыл бұрын

Oh he was on the break your spine don’t forget to sign ride

@amandagriffin1751

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was called the Spine Snapper Snap Up Whiplash Survivor at Action Park. My mistake.

@dulceb1100

3 жыл бұрын

It's 2 am and I just spit my coffee. Thanks A lot!

I am convinced that this park is the reason that New Jersey has such strict theme park laws today.

@deft_spex_jr9628

2 жыл бұрын

What kind of laws and I'm assuming Six flags new Jersey is affected by them?

@thecoastermaniac3334

2 жыл бұрын

@@deft_spex_jr9628 Well the two that come to mind are one's that do affect Great Adventure, both involving kinda ka. The first basically said that all coasters over a certain height had to have over-the-shoukder restraints rather than the lap restraints that were intended for the ride (like on Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point). The other law prevented Kingda Ka from cycling while Zumanjaro was cycling. This causes capacity issues for both attractions.

@richardtherichard26

Жыл бұрын

Wow… idk man you sure? Seems like a stretch…

@Wolffur

Жыл бұрын

You're probably right.

@aryssamansfield9735

Жыл бұрын

Well yeah.

So, the son of Gene Mulvihill, Andy Mulvihill wrote a book on his experiences growing up around Action Park and it's a really interesting read. It's been a while since my last reread, but some notes: The Snapple ride was actually a brand deal, made when the company was just starting. The guy running the food supplies literally served spoiled chicken at one point to masses of customers, which wrecked havoc on the low amount of bathrooms at the time. Their lawyer was infamous for using manipulative tactics in court and stalling to the point of the legal fees simply becoming too much for the person who was injured. Action Park was a large employer of teens in the area, but had them do anything from digging ditches to wrangling drunk people on Lola carts despite many of them being as young as 14 or 15. Employees would commonly have parties at the end of the seasons, with those same teenagers getting heavily drunk and their sober friends making sure they didn't fall in the pool or something. It was wild. Generally the employees weren't treated very well. The guy who ran the Aerodium seized his workers/performer's passports for the season so they couldn't leave, young lifeguards being put through the wringer trying to prevent people from drowning in the powerful wave pool (which Gene refused to turn down the power of/limit entrance and exit spaces for despite the danger and threw away the manual). On a slightly funnier note, employees often took lunch breaks near the Tarzan Slide or similar rides that had reputations for women's tops coming off. They also wrote "CFS" (for "Can't Fucking Swim") on the wristband of anyone who had to be rescued yet went right back into the water. It's quite the interesting rabbithole, so I'd recommend checking your local library for a copy (or watch the documentary on HBO Max. Both have different perspectives and are interesting to put together. I'm more inclined to believe the documentary's side of certain things, personally.)

@CpnGame

Жыл бұрын

You know, I was just wondering about the food... simply because by halfway into the video the very idea of these people getting any portion of this right seemed odd.

@FilmCriticAidan

Жыл бұрын

What’s the book name

@sonderdream

Жыл бұрын

@@FilmCriticAidan "Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park"

@spencerw2994

Жыл бұрын

"They also wrote "CFS" (for "Can't Fucking Swim") on the wristband of anyone who had to be rescued yet went right back into the water." One of the only practices we should keep from this place tbh lol. Some people... I s2g...

@lunarsteller6411

Жыл бұрын

ok the cfs thing is really funny, at least those lifeguards had some humor about it

Can we all stop for just a second and really think about the fact that Action Park bought the city more ambulances. That sounds like the punch line to a joke.

@Chowderchef

5 жыл бұрын

I'm closeby Vernon and have multiple friends there and let me tell you, stuff like this is not even remotely surprising. Vernon is absolute garbage

@jamieaiken919

5 жыл бұрын

Princessuuke Yeah, it’s really not surprising at all lol. I’m not far from Vernon either and the whole area is trash lol.

@andyjay729

5 жыл бұрын

The drivers obviously know the route they'll be driving most often.

@havanapple5009

5 жыл бұрын

Seems like they probably should have just built a hospital on site.

@dacypher22

5 жыл бұрын

Or a new slide that chutes the person straight over to the hospital.

Hamilton: “Everything is legal in New Jersey.” My husband, who grew up going to Action Park: *nods vigorously*

@shinyagumon7015

3 жыл бұрын

*nods in 360 degrees do to severe neck fractures*

@lizmarvel6744

3 жыл бұрын

@@shinyagumon7015 LOL well done

@suzanneseven7797

3 жыл бұрын

Everything is legal in New Jersey-except that dangerous marijuana.

@Nineteen-yz3zq

3 жыл бұрын

Suzanne Seven man do I have some good new for you

@blakej4924

3 жыл бұрын

@@shinyagumon7015 has

The 19 year old first death at the park, they said he was an employee because they did not report his death. He had been an employee for a partial season at the great gorge ski resort, but was never an employee of action park. They also reported to the press that he was riding it at night, and that it was raining. Neither were true.

@crazyfire9470

Жыл бұрын

Source?

@meganw4055

Жыл бұрын

@@crazyfire9470 documentary - class action park

@veronicacarter2376

Жыл бұрын

Ohhhhh that part and the "there isn't a problem with the ride it didn't kill him it was the rocks 25 feet away" pissed me off

@juniperrodley9843

9 ай бұрын

@@veronicacarter2376nah bro it's fine. the ride didn't kill him. it just uh. launched him 25 feet into fucking rocks

@TheHutchIsOn

8 ай бұрын

@@juniperrodley9843its the rocks’ fault for being there

"Greg, keep it professional." Why do I have the feeling Greg is someone who would spike someones drink.

@someguy4915

Жыл бұрын

You gotta wonder, if this is how comfortable he is doing that stuff while knowing he is live, what might happen backstage...

@jonathansotelo4877

Жыл бұрын

I mean it *is* Fox...

@VostokApollo

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Greg made me physically recoil. Gross ass mf.

@The_Sharktocrab

Жыл бұрын

And there are people watching that and having the audacity to say crazy things like "she enjoyed it" and otherwise defend his behavior when it's one of the most unprofessional things I've ever seen.

@VostokApollo

Жыл бұрын

@@The_Sharktocrab not just that, but it's also agonizingly obvious she DIDN'T enjoy it. The whole situation was incredibly awkward and no one was happy with the situation, and the fact that people say "she enjoyed it" makes me worry about these gross fuckers that can't read a room.

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn't intended to be an instruction manual.

@SatanIsSextingMe

6 жыл бұрын

2 Guests have died on Water Slide 2.

@torilee6677

6 жыл бұрын

This should be top comment

@x-fun3149

6 жыл бұрын

I did it for the cat girls 1 Guests drowned in Pool 3

@FNGLHR

6 жыл бұрын

It's not? Oh, I probably shouldn't have those designs based on my game's park layout to the folks working on Toy Story Land then. Well, that's gonna be an interesting opening day.

@boxorak

6 жыл бұрын

You think Action park would have tried to remake Mr. Bones' Wild Ride if they had stayed open?

This place seems like something out of an old Simpsons episode

@tempolynnrealofficial

4 жыл бұрын

Jake Noble Ikrr

@triple_gem_shining

4 жыл бұрын

of course. simpsons is making fun of REALITY

@MrMatteNWk

4 жыл бұрын

I wanna go on the Yard Work Simulator!

@amroge8703

4 жыл бұрын

Itchy and Scratchy Death Park in real life

@AdmiralBonetoPick

4 жыл бұрын

Kamp Krusty

My parents apparently went here with their friends in college. My dad's friend nearly drowned in the wavepool but the lifeguards did nothing and some random dude saved him. My dad apparently had some gnarly injuries from the alpine slide. The 90s were truly a different time.

@SaraAB87

2 жыл бұрын

To make a long story short when I was 12 I almost drowned in a wave pool (not the action park one) and I had my parent right next to me the whole thing happened so fast she didn't even see me go under, I was also given swimming lessons for quite a few years when I was a kid so I was trained. If it can happen to me it can happen to anyone at any wave pool.

@caribman10

Жыл бұрын

On my first ride on the Alpine Slide the kid ahead of me slipped the track. Two guys came out of nowhere, got his slider, put him back on it and pushed him off like it was nothing....

@anicholeRL9861

Жыл бұрын

The 90s were truly a different time? 😂 The 90s weren’t THAT long ago. Let’s bring in the 70s and 80s. Makes more sense.

@NonsensicalSpudz

Жыл бұрын

@@SaraAB87 also isn't the idea of a wave pool actually really stupid

@tiffprendergast

10 ай бұрын

I nearly drowned at an canadian water park. No one helped me.

I highly recommend the Behind the Bastards episode on Action Park, it's very good and goes a lot more in depth. My favorite story is that it was so common for guests to get scrapes and bruises that the first aid station made a game to play with injured guests. You stood in a circle on the floor, and if you managed to stay inside the circle while they sprayed you down with an alcohol-based disinfectant, you won a prize. Having alcohol sprayed directly into your open wounds FUCKING HURTS, and in the entire run of the park (which had 10) were able to stay inside the circle while their wounds were treated. The prize? A fucking pen.

@SaraAB87

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh.... this is quite the worst horror of the whole thing. I can tell you this did not happen at every park. I had an injury at a water park, they sprayed me with something that disinfected and did not hurt and I was like 8, so I was sensitive. I did not cry, I got a band aid and I was just fine. Also I assume injuries were super common at most water parks, I lived near one with a wave pool and brush burns just happened on a daily basis to almost everyone its just the nature of the beast. The trick was not to slide up on the entrance as that was where the most rough ground was. Multiply that by the number of wave pools in the USA and you have a large number of injuries right there. I remember seeing a lady with a huge brush burn on her thigh and a huge piece of gauze on her leg covering it.

@standepain

Жыл бұрын

I don't remember the circle part but it's been almost 30 years since I went there. I only had to go to the med station once and a lifeguard escorted me there after I busted my lip after my friend and I bashed heads together. The collision made me bite down just below my lower lip and my teeth dug in a bit. They cleaned it out and just put a bandaid on it. It was pretty early in the day and we didn't want to waste our money so my buddy's mom left and went to the store and got some superglue and superglued it shut. Once it dried we were back on the rides. Had to keep reapplying it as the day went on since it would start to crack and I'd start bleeding again. lol Still have a really small scar to this day. But this was all my fault. My buddy and I would deflate the raft we were in a little bit so that when we hit the corners on the river ride we'd get higher on the wall and if we were lucky it would throw one of us out. Once out you just slide down the rest of the slide on your own until you hit the next pool and got back into the the raft. I was there at least 30 times over my high school and college years but I never saw anyone get hurt to the point they needed an ambulance. So the 200 injuries a day thing sound like a bit of a stretch. Scrapes were common but you'd get scraped up, and if it was a little bloody you'd just go to the bathroom clean it out and just go back on the slide. ...but I will say this is a quote from my friend's facebook post when he worked there in the early 90s- "My god, I used to work there. The whole movie will just be people being hauled off to the hospital" Maybe I was only there on good days. lol Place was a blast and best part of summer.

@evil1by1

6 ай бұрын

Big, big disagree. I tried Behind The Bastards at your recommendation and its awful. The hosts are insufferable twats who not even 5 minutes in admit to being lazy degenerates who sleep all day, hate amusement parks and think batman is fascist. Biggest nope in a long time, so kudos to you I guess.

@spingleboygle

6 ай бұрын

imagine you’re bleeding to death with open-wounds and the doctor puts you in a circle and sprays you with disinfectant, that pain must be insane

@davidsigalow7349

2 ай бұрын

"We consulted our in-house clinician, Dr. Mengele..."

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make" - Action Park Owner

@spiceguy94

3 жыл бұрын

Whered i hear this lol

@BlackqueenSW_

3 жыл бұрын

@@spiceguy94 I think Shrek, Lord Farquad said that ... as far as I know lol

@unforgivablebread6027

3 жыл бұрын

@@spiceguy94 also Monsters vs Aliens

@uwukotoa

3 жыл бұрын

media: someone will die action park: of FUN!!

@irishmanrants89

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlackqueenSW_ You mean Michael Eisner?

Everyone's gangsta till the water slide has a l o o p

@summerhunny

4 жыл бұрын

Coaster Fusion IT LITERALLY LOOPED WTF

@trolledfrog6789

4 жыл бұрын

Engonering

@leonorsolis2103

4 жыл бұрын

many water slides have several loops now, but a VERTICAL loop is insane. wtf were they thinkinggggg

@Fuzzira

4 жыл бұрын

Atleast no one was decapitated at any of the rides.

@zainab07

4 жыл бұрын

But what if you are stuck in the loop .. How do they know you are still in.. Thats scared

This whole thing seems like a parody of a theme park you’d see in the Simpsons. I kept laughing harder and harder as you elaborated on the endless dangers. The cliff jumping attraction with ONE LIFEGUARD, I just-

@ZevVolf

Жыл бұрын

Oh, you have no idea. And if you tarried for more than 30 seconds, that douch bag lifeguard would more or less push you in.

@jonathansotelo4877

Жыл бұрын

Feels like a whole Onion article.

@usuallyangry

Жыл бұрын

Even the nickname "Traction Park" sounds like a location in The Simpsons.

@ViveLRoi

11 ай бұрын

They an episode of The Simpsons riffing on Action Park, so it went full circle

@PercydeRoloFangirl

9 ай бұрын

Like Pipi's in South Park

I spent many summers in Action Park. As a teen it was the greatest place to go, as an adult, knowing what I know now, I would NEVER let my kids go.

@thevenom2731

Жыл бұрын

Would you let them go to to the modern version?

@texascoinhunter

Жыл бұрын

@@thevenom2731 my kids are adults now. I haven’t seen the new version but it can’t be anything like the old version. The rules today are so different.

@businesswalks8301

Жыл бұрын

yea you can do something but others can't. that's adults for you

@sylvrwolflol

Жыл бұрын

@@businesswalks8301 I think that point hit Mach 3 flying over your head.

@ravenID429

11 ай бұрын

@@businesswalks8301Are you 3?

"Die Like a Man!" is not really a great marketing slogan.

@kindofhuman8147

3 жыл бұрын

At least it’s not false advertising

@CallmeIa

3 жыл бұрын

@@kindofhuman8147 They weren’t wrong should have said “Get hurt like a man!” since many did.

@annparungao3380

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@WetAdek

3 жыл бұрын

dunno what you mean. Would definitely get my attention hahaha

@davidsigalow7349

3 жыл бұрын

@@WetAdek It reduces the sale of annual passes, however.

“Jackass: The Theme Park”

@claudiapaige6841

4 жыл бұрын

They made this into a film lol

@alexschneider1667

4 жыл бұрын

I mean 2/9ths of Jackass made it into a movie, so yeah close enough

@TimmyTickle

4 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised MTV didn't try to make that an actual thing at the height of the show's popularity

@Claramata

4 жыл бұрын

Here in Jersey Action Park got called "Traction Park" and "Class Action Park" most people i know who are a little bit older than me if you mention action park there like "hey look at this scar I got on the alpine slide

@van4195

4 жыл бұрын

i can't bring myself to ruin your 420 likes

Can we take a second to appreciate the absolute back breaking work these 80's attendants were doing carrying 80s camcorders around a damn water park?

@businesswalks8301

Жыл бұрын

*best water park of all time

@cursiveM

9 ай бұрын

with that in mind, i bet there were a couple accidents because they tried to film the cliff-diving shots, but dropped the camcorder on their foot at some point, then slipped, fell a couple places and into the pool, which would probably result in a couple dead guys and a camera man in traction again, i bet that happened at least two times, but they weren't reported in the news, because people kind of expected this to happen in a place like action park

I'm surprised at the lack of comments about the creepy newscaster at the end. It's a good thing the cameraman chose to act when he did.

@kattriella1331

8 ай бұрын

Apparently, according to another comment I saw, he's infamous for being a creep.

@anthonyjonas6236

Ай бұрын

Times have changed.

@bishielurfer

27 күн бұрын

He was such a creep! At least I think the on-site reporter wasn't hearing all of it (or at least wasn't sure what was going on) and the other caster tried to step in. But oh my god if he was that brazen while being filmed I can't imagine what he was like off camera.

@joeb8935

9 күн бұрын

At first I thought it was outtakes from a prerecorded segment, I was shocked to learn that happened live on air

"That was thirty years ago! Things have changed!" Yes, in the last 30 years human beings have become invulnerable to drowning, electrocution, and blunt force trauma.

@jessicanuoffer

3 жыл бұрын

No, just more safety rules

@kalikoserpent

3 жыл бұрын

@@jessicanuoffer it's a joke :)

@marlisjacobi1483

3 жыл бұрын

i’ve gone to mountain creek which is what action park is now called. you have to wear helmets to go down roaring rapids in an under inflated raft

@cheebuu3360

3 жыл бұрын

@@kalikoserpent its more of a sarcastic remark, smart guy :)

@audreyt_13

3 жыл бұрын

Yay 100th like

"The park sold alcohol in many of the convenience stands, often to minors." Ah yes, a water park filled with poorly designed, dangerous rides plus hundreds of drunk teenagers, what could possibly go wrong?

@aliensmokingablunt

3 жыл бұрын

A water park selling alcohol is already a bad idea, let alone to minors

@revolutionhotwheels7133

3 жыл бұрын

@@MadWatcher thats the point no rules just do what you want

@xlopez321

3 жыл бұрын

@@revolutionhotwheels7133 which is a bad idea

@revolutionhotwheels7133

3 жыл бұрын

@@xlopez321 ehhh

@nicolea2839

3 жыл бұрын

I ❤️ Danger

As a kid growing up in the 90s, I loved those kinds of wave pools, but my mom never liked me swimming in them. She would mention that people could die in them, but I never took her very seriously. 😢

@JSchaffer214

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, for most of us the older you get the more you start to realize that your parents were right about almost everything! Of course, by that time it's impossible to go back and change anything.

@TRAMP-oline

Жыл бұрын

@@JSchaffer214 not even remotely true for the majority of people alive today

@Strixyy.

Жыл бұрын

@@TRAMP-oline remotely true for the people alive today I'm 17 and most of the shit my parents we're telling me came back to bite me later

@SirDankington

Жыл бұрын

@@TRAMP-oline Oh no it absolutely still is.

@JC20XX

Жыл бұрын

@@SirDankington only if you have good parents.

I feel like this is the best showcase of why rides in theme parks these days are engineered and calculated so rigorously

@businesswalks8301

Жыл бұрын

and yet they all suck compared to action park

@carso1500

8 ай бұрын

​@@businesswalks8301i prefer that to fucking dying

This looks like the kind of park you used to start building in Rollercoaster Tycoon but got bored with after a while and then didn't care about anything that would be placed in it at all.

@jonathanhall103

5 жыл бұрын

So safety is 2nd priority then?

@dreamcanvas5321

5 жыл бұрын

I had that game! It was awesome. I usually took it semi seriously in that I tried not to actively kill the guests. My younger brother on the other hand would intentionally go for the hidden achievement "Most Dangerous Park in The Country." Some classic memories of his included: - Permanently trapping peeps underground - Intentionally designing coasters full of peeps to land on footpaths - Making said coasters go extremely slow to drop one car off the track at a time - Creating a "Jail" for peeps: Dropping them off into a closed footpath section, with free drinks but $40 bathrooms and full of security guards.

@UltimaKeyMaster

5 жыл бұрын

>Free drinks with $40 bathrooms What sick fuck would make that. XD

@catluva74

5 жыл бұрын

DreamCanvas I have stomach issues but I thought the $40 toilets was funny

@vaneharris8947

5 жыл бұрын

DreamCanvas I made a loop coaster go off the rails and land in a pool where all the riders drowned. Fun times.

As an Action Park survivor, I can tell you none of this was exaggerated. Went home pretty mangled a few times,there were just so many ways to get injured there,and there wasn't much in the way of first aid there,hence all the ambulances!

@darkangel7589

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Luna this is why I’m glad I was born in the early 2000s.

@darkangel7589

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Luna I’m not like other teens. I don’t vape and I’m not irresponsible.

@darkangel7589

4 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Samet bitch millennials were born between 1981-1994. I’m Gen Z!

@lkcullen1918

4 жыл бұрын

@@0utcast calm down, you're going off on someone just because of the year they were born lol come on just let it go my dude

@crodyyaaroni_6554

4 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Samet try to imagine how it comes across to everyone else when you bash a teenager on the Internet for their age. the world will be a much better place when people like you learn how to be mature and respectful towards others. hope your night gets better man

My dad survived Action Park! He's been multiple times and would recall how there were ambulances on standby at all times and he would witness so many injuries- he even got some himself but nothing serious. After he found out I'm interested in this he got me a tshirt with the logo on it, it's my favorite thing

I love that I was watching this on the TV in the living room and my dad walked in and was like "oh yeah I used to go there as a kid" and my mom just look at him and asked "how are you alive?"

That cannonball loop gave me anxiety just by looking at it. The fact that dummies came out headless should have been a sign.

@TheLambdaTeam

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, people who would jump in such a death-sentence slide would only be shorter without a head anywayz.

@mr.x2567

3 жыл бұрын

I’d say the people who lost their heads on those slides could also count as dummies

@gerald5561

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine getting stuck in there

@dismyjamm7390

2 жыл бұрын

WAIT PPL LOST THERE HEADS?!

@russellbrown6888

2 жыл бұрын

@@dismyjamm7390 No they didn't, some test dummies they used when making the slide came out headless. Odds are, though, that they were just store-bought mannequins they got on the cheap, which are obviously not designed for water slides.

This is literally the place that invented parents saying “if your friend jumps off the bridge, would you too?”

@smilesgirl17

4 жыл бұрын

greg the groove DRUM COVERS lmfao

@daysofwindowpaynes7742

4 жыл бұрын

I'd jump too

@katzea.a7880

4 жыл бұрын

If Hitomi-san was below the bridge I would even do a 360 on the way down

@CyberKirby

4 жыл бұрын

My brother did.

@gswxdylan

4 жыл бұрын

@@CyberKirby he lived right?

"It's like coming to broad way it's wonderful" I don't know what she's going for here but I want to give her a hug, she seems nice

@gabe_s_videos

2 ай бұрын

She's got that Yiddish lilt that you don't hear a lot of people talk with any more. Reminds me of my grandmother's friends.

Hearing how that many people died on the premises and they continued to operate is insane. One person died at the theme park where I live and it was closed for about seven years. How did they get away with any of this?

@edgeninja

9 ай бұрын

Mostly due to the corrupt local government looking the other way, since the park generated tons of cash for the local economy.

@cursiveM

9 ай бұрын

4 words: it was the times. as well as the reply on top of this one, that's the best reason for this too.

@davidsigalow7349

2 ай бұрын

Two words: New Jersey

I love how the slide named after Japanese suicide bombers is actually one of the safer slides.

@jimmyseaver3647

4 жыл бұрын

@Anne Yap "Kamikaze" means "Divine Wind" and refers to the typhoon that nailed a Mongol invasion force headed to Japan in the 12th Century. In World War II, it was adopted by the Allied Forces as a moniker for Japanese pilots who flew their planes into Allied warships in the hopes of heavily damaging or sinking them. The actual name for the suicide pilot unit was "Shinpuu", IIRC.

@walterkennedy9474

4 жыл бұрын

Anne Yap the logic behind it was “all our good pilots are dead/captured/wounded. Now we only have a bunch of relatively inexperienced pilots at our disposal. The Americans have hundreds of significantly better pilots who will annihilate most of our pilots. We should maximize the impact of each pilot who gets through. We could have them use bombs/torpedoes, but they could miss and aren’t guaranteed to sink/disable the ship it hits. But if we have the pilots fly their plane to impact the ship, they’re less likely to miss and with each hit more damage can be incurred on the American ships.” Did it work? They sunk one carrier, the USS St. Lo, damaged the carriers USS Franklin and USS Bunker Hill enough to knock them out of service, damaged a few more carriers, though they returned to service later. They also damaged these: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_damaged_by_kamikaze_attack (this is Wikipedia, so treat with all due skepticism). However, we had about a hundred carriers of varying sizes and thousands of submarines, destroyers, escort destroyers, cruisers, auxiliary vessels etc. so these loses were somewhat negligible and not one thing on that list was a nuclear bomber.

@ultimateinternetman4335

4 жыл бұрын

oof

@RaindropsBleeding

4 жыл бұрын

it's not the safest by my knowledge. you skip across a 30 foot pool at the end and if you weigh more than 200 pounds you're likely to strike the other end of the pool

@nonna_sof5889

3 жыл бұрын

@@walterkennedy9474 Odd thing is, according to some studies, the Japanese pilots had gotten so bad by that point that they actually lost less of them in kamikaze runs than in regular attacks.

"I have a picture of a mother going down the Alpine Slide with an infant in her arms" THAT'S TERRIFYING

@Angelica_Rodriguez39

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously, idk what they were doing in the 70s... but it wasn't thinking 😂

@whatadumbbutt

3 жыл бұрын

@@Angelica_Rodriguez39 it was all disco and roller skates, zero thoughts

@gabrielle3960

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like that photo should have been sent to CPS rather than used to advertise dangerous theme park rides

@Amoreyna

3 жыл бұрын

Did you catch the part about how his 71 grandmother was a devotee right under that quote? That she had ridden it three times her first time out? I have crazy long lived family members who run around doing crazy things but there's such a thing as too crazy and sending an elderly woman down an unsafe concrete slide on a flimsy cart equipped with a hand brake and a helmet with nothing else is too crazy. All I can think of is broken bones but maybe it's because I currently work with a senior population where a minor fall can break a hip, let alone hurdling with little stopping power down the side of a friggin' mountain.

@hisfavleo

2 жыл бұрын

where did it say that at

I find it so difficult to accept action park as a real place and not the plot to some dorky comedy film along the lines of National Lampoon's Vacation. The slide loop? The extra ambulances? The cars accelerating at 50 miles an hour? It's all so perfect.

@brandonmcgrew8746

Жыл бұрын

Their is a go cart place near my city that has 2 types of go carts slower ones that go like 10mph and anyone tall enough can drive them then their is ones that require a driver's license and go probably above 50.

@starchaser777

Жыл бұрын

if someone showed me this video and said it was an art project of some sort i would believe it. seriously. this is how fucked up this place is

@cursiveM

9 ай бұрын

somebody even said that action park had the basis of an amusement park parody you'd see on the simpsons. even the spoof name of "traction park" is grade a groening parody material.

My favorite part about the cannonball loop is that people started coming out with lacerations and it was found that they were being cut by teeth that were imbedded in the walls.

@Redemptive_Neerdowell

2 ай бұрын

What. The fuck?

they really said: ‘well, compared to how many guests we see a year, our death toll is quite low’ WHAT

@davidsigalow7349

3 жыл бұрын

Another great marketing slogan: "ACTION PARK - Our Death Toll is Low!"

@NovaSaber

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe low if they were comparing their DEATH rate to a normal water park's ACCIDENT rate.

@DanknDerpyGamer

2 жыл бұрын

​@@NovaSaber Implying that the death rate is astronomically high is actually wrong factually. Not to make light of the deaths that DID occur, of course.

@tiarakinnebrew1054

2 жыл бұрын

fr there shouldn't be a death toll period lol

@DanknDerpyGamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@tiarakinnebrew1054 Preventing what you can is a lot more fruitful than trying to prevent everything. IDK how that would be possible - say you at least went as far as you can go with regards to enforcing rules and the like - which these people abslutely should have - you still have idiots who don't know how to swim coming up, people horsing around, so people will get hurt or injured.

“There’s nothing in the world like action park!” GOOD.

@keeperofthehammer6795

3 жыл бұрын

Brazil exists. Australia doesn't, but if it did then that too.

@yelladude6117

3 жыл бұрын

The comment you copied is right above this one, lol.

@Sketchtrastrophe

3 жыл бұрын

@@yelladude6117 Isn't copied, they make two different comments on the matter. Just using the same quote from the park.

@anthonyramirez7272

3 жыл бұрын

AMEN.

@johnsmith7140

2 жыл бұрын

I could have sworn there was another line "where you're the center of the action"

My family is from New Jersey. My mom told us stories of going there. She didn’t do most of the rides, but she had a friend who went on the cannonball loop. He supposedly had a difficult time standing for a few minutes after it. He kept standing and then immediately falling.

@Tuxfanturnip

Жыл бұрын

sounds like a concussion...

The fact that no one was sent to jail for this atrocity is disgusting

@stevenschnepp576

9 ай бұрын

Nah, you're just soft.

@carso1500

8 ай бұрын

​@@stevenschnepp576like 10 people died because of gross negligence shit happend you are all pansies

@icey-lj8fo

7 ай бұрын

​​@@stevenschnepp576pretty sure it is disgusting

@samuelsanchez7874

7 ай бұрын

​@@stevenschnepp57614 yo edgelord

@wtf-why-do-we-have-handles-now

7 ай бұрын

@@stevenschnepp576 no, i think you’re just old

Everything I've heard about being a teenager in the 70s is absolute insanity. Like everyone was really out of their minds back then, huh?

@MaddieB

4 жыл бұрын

@Joey Foster Ok, boomer

@caitlinnothhard994

4 жыл бұрын

Seriously. Based on stories my dad has told me I'm surprised he and his siblings survived to adulthood. They used to jump off bridges into the canal and all sorts of other crazy stuff.

@scottcharney1091

4 жыл бұрын

You should read the excellent graphic memoir (it's non-fiction, so not a novel) "My Friend Dahmer," by Derf Backderf. It was recently made into a movie as well. Although it's about the author/artist's loose friendship with future serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in high school, it also shows the sinister side of the party-hearty 70s. Indeed, a lot of that era was not so much fun, and it extends to the decades before and after. Kevin Drum has written some fascinating articles about the decline in delinquency. It mirrors the Great Crime Decline in general. www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/05/teenagers-are-no-longer-scary-delinquents-30-years-ago/ www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/kids-today-are-way-less-scary-they-used-be/

@fadedlogic1

4 жыл бұрын

It was amazing. I feel sorry for the nerf covered world of today.

@skylarbrown9745

4 жыл бұрын

I’d honestly love to be a teenager in the 70’s :/

"There's Nothing in the World Like Action Park!" GOOD.

@kiyokoshimizu3437

4 жыл бұрын

George The Friend that’s exactly what I was thinking lmao

@imahedgehog6262

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@Boinkity1

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Nothing in the world wants to be like Action Park!

@georgethefriend29

4 жыл бұрын

Christ, this blew up.

@imbetterthanyouhahaha5202

4 жыл бұрын

😂

I just want to say, my father and his friends used to spend their childhoods here, and they actually have a crazy story about Geronimo Falls. One of them rode the slide backwards, and had his pants flown right off of him…..and this lead to probably the only time in the park’s history where people were actually kicked out.

The Cannonball-Loop slide sends me into hysterics every time because the amount of people that would have looked at it in any of its stages, which is more than two people at minimum, is astonishing. Someone drew up the idea, someone else looked at it, someone else made it, someone else installed it, and someone else looked at it again when it was done and thought, “This won’t lead to any serious issues”. Like HOLY SHIT looking at it for half a second made me laugh, _half a second_ . And no one had the guts to say or was heard when saying, “it just won’t work, because of physics and fucking REALITY” Like WOW *W O W* Yeah a fucking loop in a goddamn _water slide_ ??? what an idea!

@Mr-Trox

6 ай бұрын

Looping water slides do work though? Modern ones have a lot more thought put into them, but it wasn't exactly impossible. It's just that they require a bit more thought towards their mechanics than a normal one.

I'm from NYC. As I child, I used to see commercials for Action Park. I asked my parents if we could go there numerous times and they always said no. Now I know why

@qbertgaming9121

3 жыл бұрын

Thank ur parents 40 times

@STRENGTHTHRUJOY

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. My dad would just say that he would when I was a little bigger. And once I was a little older and bigger it was closed down. Probably for the best.

@dawnkline1406

2 жыл бұрын

Philly Girl just entered the chat. I got the same answer. Over my Dead Body. Tnx Mom!

@superninja493

2 жыл бұрын

That’s how you know they love you

@johnsmith7140

2 жыл бұрын

Same which is why it was one of my first destinations when i got a car

"There's nothing in the world like action park" **camera pans to room full of disabled and dead people**

@the11382

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, they weren’t wrong.

@Felamine

3 жыл бұрын

Like that scene in Gone With the Wind where the camera pans over to the injured soldiers.

@velocity1852

2 жыл бұрын

My leg! My leg

@kevinpeach6483

2 жыл бұрын

Must of been worth it

@heathercalun4919

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Great play, Mark! It's a real... _KILLER!_ (Laugh track and Seinfeld riff)

The fact that the human slingshot was actually the safest ride in the park is probably the funniest part of this whole thing.

@KingOfElectricNinjas

3 ай бұрын

The mention that it's a common ride probably is why; it looks like almost everything in Action Park was custom made, while the slingshot rides are probably off-the-shelf designs made by actual designers who know what they're doing.

Man I wish they’d have let you do the “official” documentary on Action Park. You do things a lot classier and with better use of primary sources. Ironically by being “PG” you make you’re investigation and presentation much more adult and professional. Longtime fan @Defunctland keep up the good work and stay true to your style.

@danielleanos1220

Жыл бұрын

yeah but he also got some information wrong, like the first death was not an employee. that was just a lie that gene made up so that he wouldn’t have to count it as a death.

@truthache8560

Жыл бұрын

@@danielleanos1220 he was also an amateur who did it almost a decade ago. Yet he still presented it better and more professional than the professionals. My point still stand, Defunctland created a better documentary.

@danielleanos1220

Жыл бұрын

@@truthache8560 4 years is almost a decade?? and i don’t think so. some false information was put out meaning he didn’t do enough research and for it to be a documentary it would have to be longer than 17 mins. there is a documentary on hbo I believe that takes about it perfectly in my opinion. mostly because you hear stories of this from people who actually went there, worked there, and lost their loved ones

@thatguyanderson

Жыл бұрын

@@danielleanos1220 No offense to Kevin, but i take the information in these old episodes with a grain of salt. I remember when this episode came out, I realized the majority of the info for this episode was straight off the Action Park Wikipedia page, date errors and all. Entertaining nonetheless.

In the 80's, we called it Accident Park. We used to go just to watch the accidents.

@future.cadaver

4 жыл бұрын

Fred Garvin We used to call it Traction Park 🤣

@nelzelpher2088

4 жыл бұрын

It looked so damn fun. It helps that people looked so chill back then.

@jeffdrum5541

4 жыл бұрын

@@nelzelpher2088 "chill" meaning not "safety-based pussies".

@generalalduin9548

4 жыл бұрын

Fred Garvin still not as good as Class Action Park

@burgbass

4 жыл бұрын

I like how this entire comment section is filled with far right leaning people simply bothered by the existence of people just trying to be reasonable lmao

The amount of times I go, “Wait, did you just say “large population of snakes?’” Is unparalleled

@crystalgemgirl731

3 жыл бұрын

Did... Did anyone ever get bit?

@jeffreytoman5202

3 жыл бұрын

It's actually pretty common for any water park that shares space w a ski resort. Good water supply + large open areas for snakes to back = snakes

@deaj8450

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreytoman5202 People seem to forget that the entire world was just wild. Just because we build a fence and a pool doesn't make the world no longer wild. Snakes are fucking everywhere.

@kaseybennett7415

3 жыл бұрын

People be saying that snakes are common in these places and that's cuz they kinda are, but I bet most parks at least try to reduce the snakes. Can't imagine Class Action Park did.

@user-pe2yx9kt4e

3 жыл бұрын

Omg yes this!!!

The exposed live wire is the one danger that strikes me as legitimately damning on a design level, maybe the loop-de-loop slide as well but while prone to causing injuries it isn't quite putting people stupidly close to death from one slip-up all the time. Most of the other problems were damaged or shoddy equipment that should have been safe, and a few attractions are risky but risks I feel people should be allowed to take. The Wave pool, dangerous to poor swimmers but not something that inherently shouldn't operate. Water cold enough to send people into shock, usually doesn't and that's a danger people risk when they just go swimming in nature as people often do, it's not really a man-made death trap. But you really shouldn't be able to get electrocuted by falling off a kayak.

@caribman10

Жыл бұрын

How about the bump boats, which spewed so much two-stroke smoke you could gag, and if you got knocked out of your "boat" (a glorified inner tube) you could get chewed to bits by the props of the other boat OR drown!

@0g0dn0

Жыл бұрын

You can't beat a live wire in a pool, but I think you underestimate just how goddamn stupid that loop de loop is, by design. The blueprint was a scribble on a cocktail napkin and, as they said, the test dummies they sent in came out without their heads.

Never heard of Action Park before so I was unprepared for what felt like an investigational video with the ominous music and the various injuries and death that the attractions caused. Felt like I was watching some kind of lore video for a horror game with how poorly handled the park was.

@caribman10

Жыл бұрын

It was not "poorly handled". It was exactly as it should have been, and if it re-opened I can guarantee you'd get a turn-away crowd. Except today you get some pansies with lawsuits, like they didn't realize (that ride) was dangerous.

@hotpocketsat2am

Жыл бұрын

@@caribman10 my man there was an exposed live wire underwater, if that's not poorly handled than i dunno what is

@spiro3142

Жыл бұрын

@@hotpocketsat2am They won’t understand that. Probably hit their head too many times.

Holy crap. I'm no roller coaster engineer, but I am an engineer (electrical) and the mere picture of a loop on a water slide sent chills down my spine. Also, as an electrical engineer, WHY WAS THERE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT UNDERWATER THAT WERE NOT PROTECTED BY GFCI????!!!!! Even if NJ had lax amusement park regulations, that's a clear violation of the NEC and that death alone should have given code officials enough to shut down the kayak ride.

@kylecampbell565

5 жыл бұрын

I know Jack shit about electric engineering but even I know water and electricity don’t belong near each other without protection if at all (thanks Pokemon)

@metademetra

5 жыл бұрын

My 6 year old sister could tell you why that’s stupid! How did a grown man not know?!

@Roonifer

5 жыл бұрын

I don't wanna come off like I'm trying to start a debate or anything, but I'm legitimately wondering: were those regulations even a thing back when Action Park was operational? o:

@eaglescout1984

5 жыл бұрын

@@Roonifer Good question. I officially "started" in the industry in 2000 with a summer job as an electrician helper. My dad may know done he's been working since the early '80's as an electrician. Even then, it will be based on what was enforced in Virginia and not New Jersey.

@Roonifer

5 жыл бұрын

@@eaglescout1984 I see!! Thanks!

Action park is literally that one spongebob episode when glove world was breaking down

@marble639

4 жыл бұрын

Johanna Jones thanks for commenting i didn’t even know I got this many likes

@tomhill3248

4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was the hibernation episode in theme park form "Lifes as extreeeme as you WANNA MAKE IIIIT!"

@oofsistersrblx9005

4 жыл бұрын

IM LITERALLY WATCHING IT NOW ASCVBNXDSACVANSAMCND

@kneelingfish437

4 жыл бұрын

This is such an underrated comment you deserve more likes

@rida9639

4 жыл бұрын

a throwback :,)

I can't believe people are longing for the days where parks were super unsafe lmao. Times change, most of us would rather not lose teeth or break bones while trying to have fun.

@staringcorgi6475

Жыл бұрын

They act like amusment parks aren’t fun when we have kings island cedar point magic mountain and hersheypark

@RubyBlueUwU

Жыл бұрын

It’s that survival bias, lol. Like, yeah, *you* think it was great and fine because you were lucky and never got hurt, but I think the friends and family of those who died have a bit more say in these matters

@yepwhatever1142

11 ай бұрын

What fun is it if you don't have a chance to get impaled or die? Why do people ride motorcycles?

@TheStrikeofGod

11 ай бұрын

@@yepwhatever1142 Bro I'm positive that's not why people ride bikes lmao

@edgeninja

9 ай бұрын

We also still lived in buildings with lead paint and asbestos. Americans were generally stupid about safety and regulations back then.

Growing up in northern NJ in the 90s, my family would go to Action Park regularly. It wasn't until watching this video that I remembered I, too, unbelievably almost drowned in that wave pool at the age of 7-8. I actually got emotional watching this because I had not remembered, and it was very traumatic at the time. This had to have been right before they closed around '96. I managed to pull myself out of an extremely strong current that was aggressively pulling me under, towards the deeper end of the pool on the left; But I remember thinking in the moment that I was drowning. This video triggered that memory for me. There will always be an overall eerie feel to Action Park; It was like that then & it is like that now when we look back at it nostalgically.

"Get wild! "Get wet!" "Possibly drown!

@c.i.n.b4710

3 жыл бұрын

"You can even race the karts on the motorways!"

@1leon000

3 жыл бұрын

"You can even fracture your bones!"

@rickv9180

3 жыл бұрын

*You can even get shocked!*

@pamoon_

3 жыл бұрын

p-p-p-possibly drown!

@thatoneidiot2223

3 жыл бұрын

*"Possibly experience an excruciating death!"*

Wow I hope anna the reporter got herself into a better job.

@Lhansmeyer33

4 жыл бұрын

Amazingly action park wasn't the creepiest part about this video...

@miurasvlamborghini

4 жыл бұрын

I personally thought it was hilarious and fitting, being at Action Park. If the same comments were made at some other random waterpark it would be much more creepy somehow. I hope that makes sense.

@BlumenCT

4 жыл бұрын

Uh yeah glad to see Fox stayed classy all these years

@DeadHandtheSurvivor

4 жыл бұрын

@@IPS-bk2wr Doesn't mean it's right to be fucking creepy.

@tacitplague7079

4 жыл бұрын

@@DeadHandtheSurvivor what part are you all talking about I must've missed it?

"There's nothing in the world like Action Park!" You got that right.

@businesswalks8301

Жыл бұрын

best park ever... too bad the safety clowns had to get rid of it

@black-uh1df

Жыл бұрын

​@@businesswalks8301 I'm glad that monstrosity is gone

@macgeorge8229

8 ай бұрын

@@businesswalks8301 Ah yes the clowns who got the park that had exposed eltrical cables under water so clowny

@businesswalks8301

8 ай бұрын

@@macgeorge8229 link or time stamp... thanks for lying through your fingers... nothings is as truthful as lies you tell

@macgeorge8229

8 ай бұрын

@@businesswalks8301 Here is the time stamp 11:22 where the guy who gets killed by live wireing happens.

I think the most absurd thing about the action park story is that instead of doing anything about injuries, they bought more ambulances for the city.

@shakamuni01

7 ай бұрын

its called life. People get hurt when they are having fun. If you don't get hurt here and then you are prolly having a boring life.!!

RollerCoaster Tycoon in real life.

@theboyntonbuddies

5 жыл бұрын

reine yesssss

@possumballs2020

5 жыл бұрын

Action park 1 is too intense

@chimerakuchar3972

5 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, I learned about this place from Joel's RCT streams.

@Jarack25

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah but RollerCoaster Tycoon is safer.

@GM_Head

5 жыл бұрын

Clearly you've never been on Mister Bones' Wild Ride.

My mom actually almost drowned in the old action park wavepool. She was luckily saved by a lifeguard, but *man* thinking that this theme park almost made me not exist, it’s chilling.

@jasonnothingatall53

2 жыл бұрын

My dad almost drowned in some pool during the winter time in California or maybe Minnesota. I almost would not have existed

@spingleboygle

2 жыл бұрын

you almost never existed, that’s a chilling fact to learn.

@ammicelly

2 жыл бұрын

Almost drowned as well along with my sister in a wavepool (not action park). Children shouldn't be allowed in there lmao

@spyshark_5002

2 жыл бұрын

I almost drowned in the giant wave pool at Mt. Olympus before I was even 10. Dragged from the deepest part aaaallllll the way to the shoreline, underwater. No one noticed, or if they did, didn't care.

@jeffwick7552

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine what the person you took the place of feels.

You guys left out the part where the original owner tried to create his own insurance company to manage Action Park specifically.

My dad survived action park and he said it so casually when I was talking about dangerous water parks. I honestly think it’s so cool

Avoided lawsuits Tons of guests Sold alcohol Went bankrupt?

@weasel7491

4 жыл бұрын

Dude prolly had some other shady shit he was doing behind the scenes

@sethstartix

4 жыл бұрын

@@weasel7491 Definitely selling Cocaine. If not, owning action park, im disappointed

@markingatlightspeed

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of it was paying people off before they filed, and LOTS of tax evasion. The Mulvilhills are REALLY deep into American Libertarian political ideology, so they've both a history of dodging taxes as well as believing that people were reponsible for their own safety at Action Park, not the operators. They're...interesting people.

@markingatlightspeed

4 жыл бұрын

@Tyler Durden I read an interview with Mulvilhill's son. He expressed very strong opinions regarding personal liability and a disdain for oversight and the such. I'm not saying he's a card carrying member of any party; I don't know the man, so I don't know. But he expresed a lot of American Libertarian views, so it's safe to say that's where his beliefs lie, and he said as much that it's what his father believed.

@streeterville773

4 жыл бұрын

​@Tyler Durden Libertarians suck in general

I can actually understand some of these mistakes given that Action Park was one of the first water parks in the US and there weren't as many safety concerns back then. What I can't even FATHOM is how ANYONE thought a water slide with a loop was a good idea!

@tkhotatia1163

5 жыл бұрын

It's been executed decently with more modern ones, but even those don't have a VERTICAL loop. That's just stupid.

@jesternario

5 жыл бұрын

A loop is fine, and many water slides have them. The vertical loop, however, is insane.

@JustAnotherPest

5 жыл бұрын

Rule of Cool is a powerful drug.

@kylecampbell565

5 жыл бұрын

JustAnotherPest So you’re a troper

@kfcnyancat

5 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing somewhere that the real issue wasn't the idea of a vertical loop, but the fact it was circular rather than ovular, and that you couldn't gain enough speed.

Imagine working as a lifeguard here, that'd be an absolute nightmare

@businesswalks8301

Жыл бұрын

everyone loved action park

@black-uh1df

Жыл бұрын

​@@businesswalks8301 they clearly didn't

@KRobinson-ko1ne

4 ай бұрын

Especially as a teenager

I would love to see a documentary on the kids who worked at the park. That would be amazing!!

According to the song, "There's nothing in the world like Action Park."... That's probably not such a bad thing...

@tomhill3248

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackb6663 I would actually kill if that was a thing. You will not be safer you will be in FAR more danger. The virus isn't even that dangerous you idiots! It kills old people who have never been sick! Rich billionaires die from it! And people with asthma....if you have asthma my condolences.

@unicornsareforeal3770

4 жыл бұрын

Maddie Joy

@raagnarz

4 жыл бұрын

And the fact that you think that is why our world has become so pussified, overregulated, and frankly pathetically bland.

@extremephoenixblader5002

3 жыл бұрын

Explain 10 million cases

having to add a hatch to the slide because of too many stuck riders somehow wasn't a red flag

@shannonsmith924

4 жыл бұрын

I remember I went on a hatch slide once at teneseee that the hatch opened from under you. I was terrified to go on it. It also had a loop in it. But the most terrifying part initially was the hatch dropping out under my feet. I’d watched too many bad stories about that hatch in water slides like if malfunctioning and hurting you. Thankfully it had no problem when I got enough courage to go down the slide. But freaked out at the loop cause I was too light to make it over the loop and for some reason though I was going to stuck in the ride for hours no way out. I yelled my head off trying to get the attention of a personel and eventually looked up calming down and scrambling out of a hole in the top of the slide they put there for those who were too light to go over the loop. A personel greeted me there and it was all good but blimey was I terrified.

@orbitalpudding3420

4 жыл бұрын

and that's coming from florida man so you know it's really bad

@ayanamii5334

4 жыл бұрын

Your pfp is giving me anxiety

@emmarene6563

4 жыл бұрын

cupofcreativitea this is my favorite comment ever

@anjoliebarrios8906

4 жыл бұрын

@@shannonsmith924 If it's such a known problem that a hatch had to be made for light kids, why didn't anybody think to attach a weight on/under the seat

I can't believe they had people jumping off literal cliffs into pools and that wasn't even the most dangerous thing. This park is wild

This seems like a cool concept for a theme park being marketed as the cool extreme theme park with rides that feel like they're from a movie. But you kind of need to ensure there isn't any real danger.

“That also had a large population of snakes.” That’s freaking mental to allow people to ride boats in there.

@kurtpunchesthings2411

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they had a few don't poke the snakes signs

@lovepeacebliss

2 жыл бұрын

because all snakes are deadly?? They arent

@coolcobrax

2 жыл бұрын

Did you see how fast they went too?? They looked pretty fun though

@CapitalLuke

2 жыл бұрын

@@lovepeacebliss I'd be more concerned about people killing snakes out of fear or by accident

@jepuitz1

2 жыл бұрын

Snakes were probably scared

“Some people got injured” *there were six deaths*

@razkable

4 жыл бұрын

he was waiting to say that ...also how do adults drown in a kiddy pool?...cant you just stand up?...smdh...and how long is the wave active a minute?...this is all alcohol's fault...when you mix idiots with beer you get death...

@420xanatos

4 жыл бұрын

@@razkable Said in the video...Good old memory retention. Twenty minutes waves on, ten minutes waves off. Deep end of the wave pool was eight feet deep, where the 3 people died.

@Al-fm3xx

4 жыл бұрын

@@razkable they were referring to the woman in the interview at the beginning who said "some people were injured" not kevin. but you clearly didn't really pay attention.

@markingatlightspeed

4 жыл бұрын

@@razkable My mother used to go to that park, and apparently something about the slope of the pool and the shape and size of it made the waves behave somewhat unpredictably compared to similar styles of wave pool. She and her friends (all in their 20s, mind) would form human chains to keep one another from getting overwhelmed, and always looked out for one another in the pool, since being overwhelmed by the very odd wave pattern was surprisingly easy. And these folks were all from the Phillipsburg area, so all very experienced river swimmers.

@MikeR65

4 жыл бұрын

markingatlightspeed bullshit!! If they thought it was that dangerous why would they even go in?

According to the documentary on this the kid who died on the alpine ride was not an employee but a guest. Gene lied to the media saying he was. He had worked for the ski resort one winter but no longer was one.

I know that this channel hasn’t posted in almost six months and this video is six years old but I hope the creator knows I come back and watch this every few months bc I just find it so fascinating and well produced

I went there many times in the mid 80s. Always had a good time and never got hurt. However my friend almost drowned in that wave pool. I spotted him struggling and I swam to him. He was exhausted so he held on to me and I pulled him into shallow water. Thankfully I was a strong swimmer and paying attention to my friend, the lifeguards had no idea he was struggling. Thinking back 35 years ago, it's amazing how as 17-18 year olds we didn't see or care how dangerous this place actually was.

@Pain-Glory

3 жыл бұрын

I wish i could have been alive back then and went to the park

@gracelemmon7808

3 жыл бұрын

@@almac664 I'm not a fatalist so I found/ still find young people dying to be less "it was your time" and more of a tragedy, but I understand that my approach to enjoying life just does not cut it for many people. Some of these people weren't even doing particularly dangerous things, it was the park's construction and management that made it dangerous, most notably to me the fans in the kayak pond and the Tarzan swing.

@user-lu4xp7iv8c

3 жыл бұрын

@@almac664 dude what? Did you seriously just write a paragraph about how you miss when people use to get hurt and die 💀? The fact that we have progressed past that is a great thing

@xejune

3 жыл бұрын

@@almac664 There's a difference between having fun knowing potential dangers and going to a park with activities you're not familiar with (and thus can't accurately gauge the danger level of), where you trust safety regulations to keep you safe. They say for a reason that safety regulations are written with blood. Also there's still plenty of opportunity for kids to have unrestrained (dangerous) adventures if they want, especially in the countryside. Just because people got smarter about shit doesn't mean that there isn't still ample room for kids to go off on their own and have fun, and do dumb and dangerous shit if they so please. God knows I've done plenty dumb and dangerous things when I was growing up and I grew up in the 2000's and 2010s. Things haven't changed _that_ much.

@CallMeMrX

3 жыл бұрын

@@almac664 Unfortunately some people need an incentive to wear a seatbelt. If they are killed then what happens to their children, who pays for the benefits they receive? The public does.

as a lifeguard myself, i can’t imagine having to watch let alone SAVE that many people a day. how horrifying that just have been, having to watch SO closely because it was basically assured that someone was gonna get hurt.

@alexmcbride7563

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I think I’ve only ever made one save in my entire life guarding career. I can’t imagine how stressful that job must have been.

@sonderdream

2 жыл бұрын

The guy's son (who was one of the main life guards for a while) wrote a book on his experiences and yeah it was horrifying. They had to save tons of people a day despite being teenagers with no proper training.

@roboko6618

2 жыл бұрын

Well they don't pay those lifegaurds to sit on their chair all day and do nothing! (jk)

@twistedyogert

Жыл бұрын

Guess it would keep you on your toes.

@shaefurlong1907

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the "dangerous" pools in my area had *maybe* one save a week, and even that's probably being too dramatic. Saves aren't supposed to be routine, 99% of the job is making sure nobody gets hurt.

Man. I remember the day this game out. Was my second week at my new job. First one that paid above $10 a hour.

6:48 and that is why most wave pools use salt water instead of fresh water

@someguy4915

Жыл бұрын

I had actually never even heard of salt water wave pools, makes sense to have more buoyancy due to the salt water. Then again, most wave pools I've ever been to have since closed/disabled the waves permanently...

@standepain

Ай бұрын

I remember going and being able to swim right up to the front wall where the wave came out and it was pretty deep. They used to sound an alarm for when the wave started and you see people make a mad dash to the side wall to hang on or get out using the ladder or go out the shallow end. Think my first time there I tried swimming when the waves started but got gassed really quick. Hung to the ladder for dear life until the life guard helped me out.

Get wwwwild Get wwwwet Get kkkkilled

@ck-1649

5 жыл бұрын

GET GAAAAYYY

@doodleroar

5 жыл бұрын

Get wwwwild Get wwwwet Get wwwwrecked Get wwwwounded

@outtakefiend6839

5 жыл бұрын

Kadaverific

@SniperJoeLieutenant

5 жыл бұрын

GET PUT IN A CASKET

@comettamer

5 жыл бұрын

Ouch

I survived Action Park! Place was fun as shit in the 80s! That Tarzan swing pond was extremely cold tho. You literally couldn't breathe for a couple seconds after you hit the water.

@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit

4 жыл бұрын

Thats scary

@nuckymancini7013

4 жыл бұрын

Shieeeet 50 degrees

@nuckymancini7013

4 жыл бұрын

U froze up & couldn't swim asap (*it was best served if you could swing as close to the ladder as possible **and GOD FORBID U SLIPPED or fell early!?!)...

@claudellejulien3019

4 жыл бұрын

Why the hell is it still that cold then? I mean it's not like water heating devices didnt exist...

@hanakokun8641

4 жыл бұрын

YOURE A LEGEND

I just love how there’s not a single ride here that isn’t life threatening

The thing that gets me the most on every single rewatch is the attitude of, "Oh yeah, I had a fantastic time! What? Compound fracture? Yeah, the shin's sticking out of the leg a bit there, but it's cool, and so maybe I can't feel my left arm and sure my vision isn't working so well any more but I CAN'T WAIT TO COME BACK TO THIS PLACE! Just a few months of physical therapy and I should be in time to go for the start of next year's season!"

They need to make a American horror story season out of this place

@RosarioRodriguez420

4 жыл бұрын

Facts

@sharkboi6164

4 жыл бұрын

Ask around the area, everybody here hated it when it got toned down.

@PandaBearTrails

4 жыл бұрын

That would be good lmao

@monstersociety3360

4 жыл бұрын

You know what, I would totally watch that season if it happened.

@spencerworld3167

4 жыл бұрын

Or channle zero

Final Destination:The Park

@verminjerky

6 жыл бұрын

Aidan Lewis Your comment made me scream laugh at my phone.

@Pipkiablo

6 жыл бұрын

If they add a tanning bed attraction, run very far the other way.

@terranova9963

6 жыл бұрын

Fallout Pewterschmidt Don't go to any bicentennial celebrations either.

@boxorak

6 жыл бұрын

Does that mean anyone who planned to go but couldn't or didn't died later in freak accidents because Death had to meet his quota?

@anyjen

6 жыл бұрын

Mine was your 666th like. You're welcome.

I just love this documentary series, the videos have a specific feel to them that makes it so much more re-watchable and amazing!

Blows my mind that this place not only existed, but was continually visited by large crowds year after year.

@shakamuni01

7 ай бұрын

There was no internet and TV sucked. You had to go play outside.