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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: Quote:
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07-20-2006, 10:19 AM | #27 | |
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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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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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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. |
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. |
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! |
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. |
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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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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07-20-2006, 10:45 AM | #35 | |
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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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07-20-2006, 10:54 AM | #37 | |
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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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07-20-2006, 11:10 AM | #39 | |
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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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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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07-20-2006, 12:03 PM | #42 | |
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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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07-20-2006, 12:06 PM | #43 |
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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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07-20-2006, 01:23 PM | #44 | |
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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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07-20-2006, 01:34 PM | #45 |
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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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07-20-2006, 01:44 PM | #46 | |
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07-20-2006, 01:45 PM | #47 |
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I rode another slide in Wales, and it had stainless steel tracks.
Didn't wipe out. |
07-20-2006, 01:45 PM | #48 | |
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07-20-2006, 01:54 PM | #49 |
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They built an access hatch at the top of the loop.
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