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Old 07-20-2006, 10:17 AM   #26
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Kids these days have no idea the fun we used to have before everything was rounded, padded, and safety coated.

I never went to Action Park (halfway across the country), but it looks like a blast!

Holy freaking crap! I thought stuff like this only existed in the movies:
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This was one of the most popular rides at Motoworld (it featured prominently in the television ads), and one of the few at the park more dangerous for employees than patrons.

In a chainlink fence-enclosed area, small tanks could be driven around for the proper fee for five minutes at a time, with tennis ball cannons that enabled riders to shoot at a sensor prominently mounted on each tank. If hit, the tank stopped operating for 15 seconds, while other tankers often took advantage of the delay to pepper the stricken vehicle with more fire.

Visitors on the outside could also join in the fun through less costly cannons mounted on the inside of the fence. When workers had to enter the cage to attend to a stuck or crashed tank, which usually happened several times a day, they were often pelted with tennis balls from every direction despite prohibitions against such behavior that could result in expulsion from the park. It is not known if this resulted in any serious injuries, but it made the tank ride the least popular place to work in the park.
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Kids these days have no idea the fun we used to have before everything was rounded, padded, and safety coated.
You absolutely got that right. There was some really dangerous rides there, but man were they fun. The most dangerous aspect were the employees who rarely paid attention and would send people down when people weren't out of the way.

In my younger and more ignorant days, we would call it "'spic park" because if you went on a weekend in the summer, the clientele were about 80% hispanic from the city. Each "group" of people had like 20 people and the lines would be ridiculous.
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:23 AM   #28
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i remember everything at actionpark scared the crap out of me when i was younger, the cliff dive, the tarzan rope, alpine slide everything man.. but i did it all and never got hurt seriously.
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:25 AM   #29
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The cliff dive was nuts, because there really wasn't a line for it, they just had a cliff with a guy in a folding chair, sitting next to the opening in the fence.

The grotto was a cool place to swim, but dangerous as ****. The cliff divers would land on you, and there were little caves and things to get stuck in.

I remember the motorboats though, because you had to drive them back into this narrow channel when your time was up, and I kept missing, and looping around to try again.
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:27 AM   #30
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And how can you forget the 33 degree mountain spring water that they hosed you down with before you went on any of the water slides? It was pure torture. The lifeguards enjoyed that a little too much, methinks.

I didn't realize how much I missed Action Park until I read this.
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:29 AM   #31
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haha oh yeah the hoses were retarded, they could have had a shower or something.. but that would probably have broke their budget.

this has to be the most prime example of whats wrong with america today, I say if you want to take a risk and hurt yourself, you should be free to do so. who cares if the ride facilitates it!
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:34 AM   #32
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My favorite water ride wasn't even mentioned. The roller slide!

It was a tall, steep "water" slide, but instead of riding on water, they had a slide made of steel drums, and you slid down on a hard platform, kinda like a fast food restaurant tray. The slide ended with a pool, so you could pick up some speed and skip across the water.

Classic.
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:36 AM   #33
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oh hell yeah that roller slide was deadly if you had long hair! (mulletude x100)
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:40 AM   #34
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this is hilarious. i lived in fl so never even heard of action park but it sounds fun as hell!
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:45 AM   #35
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Action Park must have been designed by a Specially Assembled Council of Terrible Ideas. Part of its attraction was not knowing if you would leave the joint alive. Nearly every July, someone would drown in the wave pool or be killed in a freak go-kart accident. Action Park was less a water park and more a complete insult to the evolutionary concept of self-preservation. And yet, despite all the danger, we kids kept going back, tempting fate like Russian-roulette-players.
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:47 AM   #36
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anyone find any good photos of it? GIS is empty!
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Old 07-20-2006, 10:54 AM   #37
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WPIX, that was channel 11 right? I remeber they had a game that you could play on TV where you would call i and live on the air they would have a space invaders type video game (80's graphics) and the caller would have to say pix everytime they wanted the gun to fire. They would end up just saying pixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixpixp[ixpixpixpix as fast as they could.
Oh dear god, I remember that too. I think there may have been several games, all based on the same idea. I also seem to remember them haveing the World Trade Center in their logo, with the Twin Towers forming an "11". Bet they're glad they ditched that after they became part of the WB.
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Old 07-20-2006, 11:09 AM   #38
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Holy crap, i wish this place was still around. Damn pussified americans.
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Old 07-20-2006, 11:10 AM   #39
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I went to Action Park every summer for my sister's birthday. If you haven't left skin behind on the alpine slide, you're a puss!
My sister has two pretty nasty scars on her knee and elbow from that ride.
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Old 07-20-2006, 11:35 AM   #40
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I also remember it being called Action Mountain or something like that at one point... ANyways, I remember my first trip to AP which was a field trip when i was at summer camp. I was young enough that i cound't do certain rides (like the Karts), but was enjoying the rest of the park anyways. Since the park was laid out on the side of a mountain (more like hill), all the water rides and the luge was laid out to travel in the same basic direction--down the hill. I remember relaxing as on the "Congo Rapids" thing where you lazily tubed all the way down the mountain in an inner tube. I also remember one of the times we were all having Alpine Slide Races where we were sort of unofficially racing down the luge (not that there was a way to determine a winner ) and so we were just hitting the ride back-to-back all afternoon. I got the bright idea of not ever using the brake and letting it roll on the wheels all the way down. I thing there was three settings: Accelerate: roll on wheels, Coast: slide on rails, and Brake: some sort of friction stopping mech? Anyways, i made it all the way down the channel and only hit the brakes at the last minute! IT still wasn't enough as i slammed into the cart of the guy in front of my just as he took his last foot out of it and sent it flying into the line of carts ahead to be removed! Any earlier and i wound have nailed the guy really friken hard! I don't even think they asked me to stop riding the slide!
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Old 07-20-2006, 11:43 AM   #41
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i can't believe parents took their kids there. I was totally forbidden by my folks.
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Old 07-20-2006, 12:03 PM   #42
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i can't believe parents took their kids there. I was totally forbidden by my folks.
My parents never took me. I had to lie that I was going to a friends house for the day. Then my friends older sister would drive us up there.

It really was a good time, and you only got hurt if you did something stupid. I don't know how you can drown in the wave pool unless you're retarded or can't swim, in which case you shouldn't be swimming anyway.

I liked those really tall water slides, I think they advertised them as the tallest water slide on the east coast or something. You really got moving on those things and hit the pool below pretty hard, but it was a blast.

Tarzan swing was the absolute best, not because it was the most fun, but because watching people get destroyed because they didn't have the upper body strength to hold onto the bar was the highlight of my trip every time. People would hop off the platform and couldn't hold on at all as they swung down and they would bite it and hit the water at the most awkward angles or perform a total belly flop and then limp over to the ladder to get out of the pool. Crying kids were the best, they couldn't hold onto that bar at all, just went face first into the water that I think was piped down from the arctic circle.
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The wave pool was shady because half of the people swimming in it were from the inner city, and couldn't swim for ****. I had a few close calls, with my cousin and my sister hanging on to the side of the pool near the ladder, as everyone panicked and tried to climb the ladder when the waves started.
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Old 07-20-2006, 01:23 PM   #44
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The wave pool was shady because half of the people swimming in it were from the inner city, and couldn't swim for ****.
Jimmy the Greek much?

This thread has me in constant roffle mode. This place sounds like something off The Simpsons. I don't know how I missed it; the only north Jersey kids' places I ever saw were zoos, Space Farms and the Turtle Back Zoo.
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Nah, it really wasn't that dangerous, just dangerous considering what all the delicate little kids nowadays are used to.
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Alpine Slide was awesome, but so many riders went all out, no braking, and went flying off the track. As a 10-11yr. old, I remember riding up the ski lift to the top once, and looking down on some lady laying on her stomach in the grass, screaming. She had tumbled off the sled somehow, and roadrashed/skinned the backs of both her legs.

I still went down....and fast.

They have one of these in New Hampshire, at Attitash Mountain. I also found out that you should use the brakes a bit, as I almost went off the track one a burm.
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I rode another slide in Wales, and it had stainless steel tracks.

Didn't wipe out.
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Dude, they even had a god damned water slide with a loop in it.



They were asking for trouble.
Yeah, so if you didn't make the loop entirely, what exactly were your options? That's some Willy Wonka type **** right there.
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They built an access hatch at the top of the loop.
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Jimmy the Greek much?

This thread has me in constant roffle mode. This place sounds like something off The Simpsons. I don't know how I missed it; the only north Jersey kids' places I ever saw were zoos, Space Farms and the Turtle Back Zoo.
lol at Space Farms. Amazing place when you're 5. Go back when you're 12 and it is the most ghetto "zoo" ever.
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