Action park NJ 1987
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- see • Action Park 1986 Part 1 for 1986 footage
This video will show you rare footage of Action park in operation in the Year 1987.
Despite of all the injuries and lawsuits ,
This water park was still the greatest!
see • Action Park 1986 Part 1 for 1986 footage
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I was a lifeguard here in the early '90s while in High School. While the deaths are greatly exaggerated on a relative basis (4/100,000ths of a percent if you assume 15MM visitors over the 18 yrs the park was open. This number is actually low relative to the number of skier/snowboarder deaths that occur every year which was part of the owners rationale) it was definitely a case of the inmates running the asylum as the lifeguards were almost entirely hormonally charged high school kids who were "distracted" at best or "dosed" at worst and the head guy was maybe all of 24. Things didn't get really bad until people from the City who couldn't swim started arriving by the bus load. They would hop right in the wave pool, nearly drown and then be marked as "CFSs" - Can't F'ing Swim. Did this stop them from jumping right back in? Of course not.
What you see at 9:51 was called Surf Hill. The right two lanes, which had a huge kicker at the bottom, would launch people about 6 feet in the air. They would be totally out of control and land hard which lead to a lot of dislocated shoulders and the like. We actually used to sit at the bottom just to watch the epic wipe outs. These lanes were often closed in the later years and eventually the jump was removed altogether. Keep in mind that people WANTED this. They simply loved the intoxicating sense of danger which more often than not supplemented how intoxicated they actually were. There was beer served EVERYWHERE which was arguably the most irresponsible aspect of the place. The whole premise was that "you control the action at Action Park." Though "the action is beyond your control at Action Park" (particularly if you've downed 10 20oz beers in the blazing sun) would probably have been more appropriate.
In the winter I was a chairlift operator...which was an equally ridiculous experience. Put a bunch of drunken morons wearing leather jackets, jeans and rental skis on a mountain (...let's be honest - a hill) covered with what was essentially ice - AT NIGHT - and you've got yourself an endless source of entertainment. To be clear, we genuinely did care for the safety of the visitors. The problem was - they didn't care for it themselves.
It looked so much more fun back then
I remember completely overshooting the pool of water and landing on my head on surf hill! And unfortunately the lowlifes from NYC always ruin things once they find out about it.
Ya right
I love the last line of your comment lol...but I was there as a kid and I went on that injury prone slide and thank god i came out of that thing unscathed
That was a great summary
this was before i was even born, but for some reason researching this place gives me a creepy but joyful nostalgic feeling
Same. I wish I could have went there! Looks so fun!!
I go to creek all the time it’s an awesome place but whenever I go I can’t believe all this stuff happened it’s hard to believe
Isn’t this the place we’re multiple people died😭
😂there’s a documentary on it
Was the best park I ever went to I'm 40 years old now and still care about it. No other amusement park even came close. I m lucky I still have the VHS tapes my dad recorded there.
You should digitize and upload them!! People are loving old footage from Action Park
Upload them
I hear ya and I’m your same age. It was a special time and a special place that can’t be understood unless you experienced it. Def upload those vids my friend
Did you go on the loop slide? That looked deadly..
@@Sereno51 It is. It caused bloody noses and injuries
I dislocated my shoulder off the cliff jump and had to swim one armed while the lifeguard watched me and told me to move!! Lol!!
I thought lifeguards were ment to give you a HAND
Got caught in a raft jam in a pool that filled in seconds, look out!
Ha, the cliffdive was a real nerve racking experience. Not because of the jump but because of people jumping before you could get outta the way at the bottom lol. Everytime I did the cliffdive I had this feeling of impending doom I’d have a body drop on top of me at any second once I hit the bottom and was swimming to shore
Nearly died at this place twice! Wonderful memories
Thank you RUclips algorithm for making this & another similar vid pop up in my feed. I’m British & now 41 years old. I visited the park back in 1987 on a day trip midway through a 3 week holiday on the East coast. The park blew my little mind & up until tonight I’ve never seen any videos, photos or anything relating to it. A real trip down memory lane.
The most infamous of the rides at Action Park was the Cannonball Loop-an enclosed waterslide with a complete vertical loop. According to one urban legend, when park owners sent a dummy doll on a test run of the ride, it came back with no head. Despite employees winding up with bloody noses and bruises, they opened the ride.
They had to add a hatch at the top of the loop to get people out if they got stuck.
It’s weird though cus I New that ride as the black hole not the cannonball loop. And I went to action park in Vernon well over 10 times in late 80s and early 90s. And out of all those times it was only open once. And I didn’t have the balls to ride it lol
@@mikeward5192 The black hole? haha good one ;)
They found teeth embedded in the inside when they were breaking it down.
LOLLLLLLL jesus u really beleive that?
Thanks to TheBaslotte for sharing this on RUclips. And also thanks to (I will assume) her parents for recording so much video footage at Action Park during the 'glory years', _and_ for keeping the videotape in a safe place to preserve the recording so well. This truly is rare footage that is still in exceptional quality for being 27 years old. Even the rarely-filmed AquaSkoot... I remember having to carry those sleds up the stairs as a kid
That's it the AQUA SKOOT!!! That thing was crazy!
My parents did film this, i'm 12 year old in this video.
its a her, its my mother
+TheBaslotte Me too
+TheBaslotte Me too
I miss the 80s :)
Went back this past weekend with my high school aged kids to what is now Mountain Creek, a lot of the rides are still there. The rapids side of the park is still the big attraction. Not all things were running but to relive this with my kids, jump off the cliff with them and tell them how much their 19 year old version of their father was stupid and irresponsible with his friends. Priceless.
OMG that looks insane & so unprofessional - and yet I SO wish it still existed today so I could go there!!!!!!
it does it closed down in 96 but it was revived in 2014 and later closed down in 2016 it's now called mountain creek water park.
It was unrefined, which is why it was so much fun.
and bring popcorn?
@Super Jeff People die there...
There's no way modern water parks would allow a water rafting ride like at 4:50 where everyone is just piling ontop of each other like that with a fast water current.
Thats what made action park so great
Lol, it was great and these pile ups would happen all the time. I saw a few fights break out mostly verbal with peeps ramming into other peeps that were stuck
I live near a water park where they let me and my friends grab on to each others tubes and go down the slide at the same time a few years ago and also I’m pretty sure I remember the life guards there being our camp counselors that took us to the water park that day and they didn’t work there either
holy shit, a white water raft ride that actually simulates the terror of white water rafting
That's what people pay admission for! :)
(not something sissy)
I think it's very hard to appreciate how rough the ride, even in the incarnations following this one, were without riding this. All I CAN say is "i'm going to lightly bump into another raft at 5mph" is ignorant to the point of derp. This ride was rough, and still can be - I didn't go on this version, but the version that we have today at the current park (minus the alternate forks that the pre-Mountain Creek version had), trust me - there is a reason we have to wear helmets on it nowadays... people were clanking heads, I bet teeth were knocked out (I came close a few times), and the ferocity was such where you could get the momentum needed to make the raft ride the walls of the attraction.
travelsonic that dude has no idea what he’s talking about. Pay him no mind!
@@travelsonic I remember once we hit the middle at the fork! The Colorado River was my favorite ride next to the tube ride that curled around to the underneath tunnel and then through the waterfall. Mountain Creek when I was last there got rid of that last turn into the tunnel I think. So much fun back then.
@@slimtim1782 Last time I was there, back a little over 4 years ago, when the Mulvihills were back in control and seriously trying to make it into "the Action Park it could have been" (fun, exciting, innovative, and a bit safer, unafraid to try new things, etc) I noticed that the path TO the fork is still sealed off, but the forks where the alternate paths rejoined were still there, and open, oddly.
I remember some crazy things that visit... before going on a ride, my older brother and his friends walked up to me, and told me about having just witnessed a girl being assisted into a medical cart, who looked like she had smashed her face in on one of the rides in the roaring springs part of the park. Instantaneously, I thought "Yep, this place is Action Park again, haha" - also liked how the lifeguards still don't give a shit if you try to make your mat hop off the track on Surf Hill - kept riding the ride, and trying out the different lanes to see if I could get more air. XD
I was scared of water for years because as a small child I almost drowned at the Wave Pool. The Lifeguards were useless and it was my older brother who was 8 at the time who saved me (I was 4).
Oh yeh I remember literally everytime I went to the wave pool someone would have to be pulled out. There was always a sense of fear to if you went all the way to the end, peeps used to say it would pull you under and you wouldn’t be able to surface
Letting a 4 year old in the wave pool seems like a not so great parenting decision 😅 It was a water park not daycare
@@rustyshackleford6914 My first time to Action park (THAT I CAN REMEMBER at least) was summer 1993, I was only 3 3/4, and my parents were smart enough to not me go into that pool. I'd get to, though, 3 years later, and holy shit was it intense!
Thanks so much..I'm 42 now and I would give anything for one day back there in 87
At 42, I just returned to Action Park in August. The last time I was there was 1980, when I was 8. I wish I could have been there sometime between 1985 and 1996, I believe these were the best years for variety of slides, and _freedom_ like there never will be again.
LakeNipissing I went every summer for about 4 years straight between the years of 83 and 87 I believe. I was lucky to have an older sister and brother in law who would take me and a friend every year down from CT. I remember the first year being not so great but every year they added rides that got sicker and sicker. There was a slide that had metal rollers and then slid into a pool of water. I saw someone come down that slide and hydro plain across the water and went right into the side of the pool. That dude got f&&ked up. My brother in law and I were riding the alpine slide - with me going down first. I had to stop because of people in front of me so he stopped about 20 feet behind me. Not but 30 seconds later someone came around the corner and plowed right into him They both got all kind of cuts and bruises. That was the last time we went :( By that time the loop slide was already shut down from injury. I think anyone who went there almost died at some point! The wave pool alone was enough to get you in trouble!
***** Dang, you were so lucky. Those were some of the best years for Action Park. They had the LOLA race cars, Surf Hill, Speed Boats, Alpine Slide, original DEEP version of the Tidal Wave Pool, and many of the slides and attractions which still exist today. The pattern of the waves generated in the wave pool are a recipe for exhaustion, and no surprise weaker swimmers were quickly overcome in the 8 FT deep end!
LakeNipissing Did the park just sit there unused for years? I was always wondering if it was just there doing nothing or if they had destroyed it. I'm assuming by what you said that the new park is the same park just a little safer?
***** I was just watching video from the new park. looks just like the old but with helmets! :) That's still pretty cool....
This was back in the day when people had fun with an element of danger and if anyone was injured we took personal responsibility instead of hiring a lawyer. Boy how times have changed
What are you talking about tons of people sued them
Yeah, that's why the park shut down.
when I want a rational, reasoned opinion I ask RUclips user "Downwithcivilrights"
revbleech lol
This is so true !!!! I wish it was still like that
Wholly crap !!! I was there in 87! Grew up in Jersey and recently was thinking of when I was doing the cliff diving but couldn't remember where it was... Thanks so much for posting what great memories!
you are very welcome
Man, people just really did not give a fuck in the 80's
+Stish Stash We certainly did not. I think that's part of what made the 80's so fantastic. We clearly did not care one damn bit. I mean... look at the fashions. :-)
Gen Xers don’t give a fuck. That’s our motto. 😂
There shouldn't have been any lawsuits. People should have been required to sign a waiver upon entry. We did crazy stuff just like the park rides when I was a kid. And even into late adulthood. But ours were homemade.
Darrell Guill waivers don't hold up in court
I agree with 100%! I rang my bell there pretty good and you what? I sucked it up.
Soooo the old park have waivers?
@@alexdeakin4871 Waivers do hold up in court if they are drafted properly.
People die at ski resorts every year. You accept the risk.
There are two types of comments:
80s kid: Man it was awesome to be there when it was running and I wish I could go back
Millennial: That’s so dangerous they should have been sued, so glad I never visited.
littleferrhis sad isn’t it!
Not really
To those imagining how great this place must have been...I promise it was Really 10 times that!
We won’t see it’s equal for centuries!
What a great place. My grandma worked there in the mid 80’s. We had so much fun. That wave pool was unbelievable. Thanks for sharing this video.
The love of my life worked there when he was 17....this makes me smile.
Adorable 💝 my sweetheart is a Latvian 🇱🇻 meanwhile
And where is he now?
Wow, what memories!! This was an awesome place until one year I hurt my neck. I'm 44 now and suffer every day from that one day in the park.
Shayna Kapple oww no!
Omg
@@MichaelRei99 Damn who hurt you today man lmao
J Gio Sanchez that was pretty nasty , I even surprised myself when I read it!😂
Octobervengeance nobody said it was safe idiot!!! You knew what you were getting yourself into when you went there. It was extreme. Don’t act like you were tricked or forced to go there after you get hurt !! You snowflakes are pathetic!!
A different world.... nobody has their eyes glued to a screen. There's real socializing going on 😄😔
So fucking true, so glad I grew up in the 80s and even the 90s before all this iPhone nonsense. Sad though kids these days will never experience something like action park or anything close to it for that matter lol
@@mikeward5192 I’m a victim of growing up in the 21st century, and I’m so envious of you guys that it can’t possibly be healthy. I don’t even know what the point is anymore if kids don’t even know how to socialize these days. Tough shit.
Well I’m envious of you as well cus I feel like an old fuck looking back at this lol. But it was a great time, growing up in the 80s and being a teen in the 90s. It was the cut off point where everything would change forever and never be the same again. And I’m glad I got to experience it. Action Park was just a small piece of it
"back in my day" ok boomer
@@notauggo Dont get mad cus your generation is deprived of um..... let me think....... anything good? Feel sorry for you gen z folk, proud to be a boomer. So like we used to say in the 90`s......blow me
I would do anything to be able to hop in a time machine and go there bro
Definitely a gen-x water park. Paving the way for even more extreme activities during the early 90s.
if it hadnt been for you meddling kids... i would totally still go to this place
yes the meddling kids that died dang it why did they have to die?
It’s back opened
@Super Jeff still shows it’s opened
“There’s nothing in the world like Action Park”
The Abusement Park.
Seeing videos like this brings back soooo many great moments of my youth and how good it was to be young. Now it seems fun like this will never happen again. Kudos for posting this video and bringing back those GLORY DAYS.
Why can't you have fun like this again? You're really only as old as you want to be.
I'm a Millennial and I would visit this park the way it was back then. Look at all those Gen X kids having a great time, not giving a fuck whether or not they get injured or die. For some strange reason, I admire that. I mean, shit happens at more strictly regulated parks too.
We didn't even think about the thousands of buttholes that were in the water either. We just spent the next week in bed with the flu.
Look how fit everyone was back in 87.Tell me they are not putting bad shit in our food.
You missed my point then stated my point.lol
Don Avan Your right food has nothing to do with it.lol All the same be it food or video games times have changed.
gixxerjace self esteem issues were a thing back then too, and were probably worse than today. The fat people don't go to swimming places lol.
gixxerjace And that was the decade for the Jane Fonda workouts.
cos they didn't have the internet, kids now stay glued to devices
God I miss this place, I wouldn’t be surprised if I was in this vid somewhere I was there so much. I never got hurt to badly, I did go off the track at the alpine slide once. My friend did the cliff dive and landed with his hands flat and they were red n swollen entire day. I remember flat chested girls would walk round with no tops on and the younger girls as well which was just weird cus they were with their parents. There was always an ambulance there everytime I went. Ahhh those were the days lol. Seriously miss this place though if I could go back in time to the late 80’s for just a day. This is where I’d most likely want to spend it
Amusement park legend! We'll never see another one like this place, it was awesome.
I like how people act like those who are opposed to a place like this are angry about a few scrapes and bruises lol. You can get bruises from sleeping at a weird angle. Hell, my boyfriend nearly broke his toe at the last water park we went to cause he hit the floor of the pool in a weird way after doing one of the slides. My issue with this place is that people DIED, and not because they were breaking the rules or doing something stupid, either. Then the owner was just like... oh well. that's really shitty. I'm all about fun and a bit of danger if that's what it takes for you to have a good time. But an owner like that who takes no responsibility for causing the unnecessary deaths of multiple people? Fuck that.
Yes thank you! Finally someone understands! Man I was going crazy looking at all good comments xd
Notice how there is very little gap between boats...this is how it should be. more fun, more potential for problems, more memorable. this park is a beautiful disaster.
I’ve been to a place life this is in the Bahamas where there weren’t many rules and it was so fun
I know, now you would practically have to wait until the person before you reaches the end, and gets out of the pool.
@@LadyFalcon17 it makes no sense anymore. It's overkill.
@@davidb.8948 So you rather see people have a better chance to get hurt? I can see then at least have it the first raft has to be almost done then send the other one in. Give it time so the new one can't catch up.
@@babecat2000 that sounds absolutely ridiculous. Overkill. And with that thought process, this is what would make lines even longer to go on the ride. Every ride is different. A tube ride is different than a body flume. I would only agree with you about 1 person at a time during a body flume ride.
Amazing footage to watch. Glad this was preserved since this was well before smart phones and digital recording.
THE REASON PEOPLE LOVED IT AMD STILL DO WAS SIMPLE, HARDLY ANY RULES, SUPER FUN RIDES, AND GREAT FAMILY MEMORIES.
were people less fat back then or what?
Liz Marie
that and high fructose corn syrup and bovine hormones
Fizzypeach
cuck is so 2013
God Heather, Bulimia is so '87
Hentai And that's 2012..
Fizzypeach
is that sexual harrassment? did you just question my meme preferences?
At 5:26 the little girl says "I broke my foot" 😱
Omg! I just noticed! That’s so sad.
This video brings back bittersweet memories of my childhood, I think I'll revisit this place when it reopens.
It reopened 2 years ago
The craziest part of the video to me isn’t the life threatening rides but that just 35 years ago every other person at a water park wasn’t an obese person in a t shirt!! Seriously was everyone fit in the 80’s??
Earlier today my "trick" shoulder was the result of my 25 years nursing and then for no good goddamn reason youtube puts this in my feed AND I remember the Tarzan Swing incident of 1986. My dignity and my bikini top weren't the only things lost that day. I'm feeling a little less heroic about the limited mobility in my left rotary cuff.
I hate the 2000s. I wanna go back in time to this life in 1987. The life that I never got experience
It's not the 2000s. That's long gone it's the 2020s.
There will never be another water park like this one. We loved going here as kids. The place was nuts. Totally insane. But thats what was awesome about it. Probably my parents should have known better but we were just kids so had no idea of the dangers. I'll never forget Action Park and I've told so many people about it over the years. The number of rides they had was amazing and they were cutting edge if not for sure dangerous. One of a kind place though.
Thanks mom! For uploading this rare footage!
Love you darling!!
Thanks for posting. I have been telling my kids about this place for years. Great video..
i had the best times of my life there loved it
lol that’s the waterpark that ended people’s lives
@@user-ke3kv8ep4z Still safer than many other recreational activities.
@@MrEkzoticno
Action Park is my latest internet deep dive obsession. I just bought Andy Mulvihills book about it. Truly epic memories in the making.
Lived in the area (Highland Lakes) from 79 to 84! Practically lived at this Park! Was such a fun (and only sometimes dangerous) place! A park like this would never be allowed in this day and age! So many memories! Thanks for posting! Do you have any videos of the Alpine slide? Side note, I did break my back when I was ten at the park, but in the winter, when it was a ski resort. Still fun though!
wow, how did you break your back? and what do you mean by living close to it was dangerous sometimes? xD sorry im intrigued
We used to go at least once a year in the 80's. You could actually make trains on water slides. The Surf hill was great in lanes 7 and 8 where you could really catch air. I always loved Alpine slide. The first aid people consisted of spray bottle of Mercurochrome. The death issue was overblown a bit, but there was little doubt you felt some bumps and bruises the next day after going.
Sure nice to see no one has a cell phone 😃
Looks like a lot of fun. I'm sorry I never made it there!
You’re lucky.
Thanks so much for sharing these videos! Brings back so many awesome memories of Action Park. Best fun ever
wooow so unsafe, it's crazy these little kids are now in their 30s and their parents are now in their 50s and 60s
my mom went there as a kid and she’s 50
Urban Dropper I was 15 in 87... I’m now 48 and my parents are 73 and 81..
Math is hard
1:50 - The Colorado River, probably in its first year of operation. Note that the rafts were long and skinny, thus leading to many traffic jams. A year or two later, they switched to the round, green rubber rafts, which I rode the River exclusively on. The green rafts weighed at least 40 pounds, and once obtained, had to be dragged, carried, or rolled to the top of the hill.
Mountain Creek uses a modified ski lift to carry the rafts up the hill, thus eliminating the arduous task of getting the raft up the hill.
I’m 21 years old lol. I was born in 2000. I wish this was still here. I wanna fuck around at a place like this.
Thank you for posting.. Great memories from this park. Yeah there was an element of danger, but we knew the risks and it was extremely fun.
Those rafts that just got jammed so people actually got out to push them down, that’s just insane.
This water park looked like so much fun
I remember going here as a kid..the rapids were crazy, I remember the water being very cold!
The Skinny 80’s.
mood
People were always thin until recently. Look at pictures from the 70s, 60s and beyond. People look and act horrible today.
Now I see why there were so many accidents at Action Park. That does not look safe ! I mean it looks really fun but its not safe !
Queen LeLe I definitely agree
I agree too, but I'd still love to go there! If everyone uses common sense (which they seemed to have back then) most dangers can be mitigated
Lilac Lizard things for me have always been more fun when there is an element of danger. It's the lack of common sense that gets people hurt
Yeah I bet you also love it when everyone gets a trophy for participating. People today really suck!!
@@MichaelRei99 fool you just love getting hurt don't you?
Kids today could never even imagine the kind of shit we got away with in this place I can fucking write a book!!!
the good all days😈
I was 17 in 87😈🤘
My fondest memories as a child were always to go to Schliterbahn in New Braunsfels, Tx where I was born but this place, though smaller looks way gnarlier! Thanks for sharing.
Well, Schlitterbahn just had a (decapitation) fatality a few days ago, so it is evident there are risks and dangers in just about everything.
+LakeNipissing researching the fatality in Kansas at schlitterbahn is what led me here actually. I believe the kid, rather than holding on had his hands up in there as I think many of us do and the stupid lame ass Velcro straps came apart. I can't believe they depend on velcro seat belts for a ride that reaches 60-70 mph .
As someone who worked there, as a teen ager , they paid hourly double if not triple to any other place as a teen! I thought it was all normal back in 1986- We new we were at risk. It was half the fun. Adventure!
Wow awesome this is when water parks were fun... I remember going down with 6 or 8 people on the slide we would fly... Good ole days...
This place blows away Splish Splash. I've been to Splish Splash dozens of times. Been to Action Park ONCE. Action Park water slides are realistic and more exciting. Hands down.
I am a proud recipient of the Traction Park purple heart award via *cliff diving* in 1984. There's a good chance when this was filmed I was in boot camp at Parris Island, SC
this place looked awesome
This is amazing! Action park def lived up to its name!
And then there was the slide of 87
"WAS THAT THE SLIDE OF 87?!?!" Markiplier
1:28 - The "vroom" you hear in the background came from the nearby Aqua Skoot, where you rode on a plastic sled down a slide of metal rollers and then skipped along an ultra-shallow pool.
Thank you for sharing this amazing footage. :)
Amazing?
really doesn't look that much different. and it's still as fun
Nothing like the 80’s.
10:12 "Daar komt ie toch of niet?" This is a dutch person asking if the one he or she is waiting for is actually seing someone comming down the slide.
to all the survivors..... a toast. #classactionpark
#Cheers
@Slim Shady i agree!!! I loved the alpine slides!!
Lol...ah yes, the alpine slides. I remember feeling so conflicted when I rode down them. It was fun and I wanted to go faster, but even as a 7 year old, I was very aware that doing so and not using the brake would probably end up with me at the hospital or worse. Still can’t believe that people let their kids ride that thing alone. Part of me would want my kids to experience the rush that only something like that can provide, but I would also be deathly afraid that they would lose control and end up breaking their necks.
I would just come here... Stand by the side and bring lots of popcorn and a comfy chair
..id join you if i didnt live in New Zealand
@@chrisgoffe5048 or if it hadn't closed 87
I remember the Colorado River Ride and others, but not the one in 10:00 that must have been out of commission when I went during the mid 90's. Thanks for uploading this it reminds me of my childhood summers!
I loved this park also - I used to go even before it became mostly a water park.
Good Mythical Morning Brought me here
Same
This is some that was closed is 2016 and it is a bad place and my ask me do need to go i sid no they need to close
Dustin Myers same!
Lanaja Griffin what language do you speak? Certainly not English!
What episode?
people looking back on these crazy ass scary ass rides in fondness is what gets me lmao. toxic nostalgia at its finest
RIGHT.
ok yeah. not wanting to get injured at a waterpark is people being real fragile. honestly more parks should be negligent it’ll toughen up the youth. nothing like hospital bills to toughen you up
> *toxic nostalgia*
Or... they actually, genuinely enjoyed it?
Swim to the side swim to the side was the word all over the park,,dangerous place but we went every summer,,great times all around,,the first aid station looked like a mash unit especially because of the alpine slide which gave people some serious road rash,,
I wish they still had This place..... EXACTLY AS IT WAS IN THE ORIGINAL PARK!!!!!!
I worked at this park all through high school.
Jason Lawrence how much weed and lsd? Be honest
Visited Action Park in 87 with my church youth group. So much fun. There were older men just waiting for all the bikini slips from both the upper and lower part. Both were very common at action park.
This was the best ride in the park. That whole area wild water rapids ❤
The most dangerous theme park in the world in 1987, I'm surprised that the comments aren't filled with fanboys.
True
2020 fanboys here
Went there a few weeks ago. Great park! Walked out with a leg injury from cannonball falls, but still!
Jada C. it reopened 2 years ago
+TheJG Rubiks it's been open and was called mountain creek water park but they changed it to Action Park again 2 years ago
Interesting how the alternate paths for the Colorado River Ride are blocked off at some point, though they look relatively finished.
I was never there but I was at rahway state prison and I recall the phrase free the 5 action park. Some can get in trouble having a good time. Yours truly Evans w Robinson ret sgt
I'm an 80s kid but I didn't live in the US and only found out about that place a few years ago. I'd totally go there. Pain is temporary, don't be a wuss. And death could happen anywhere anyway. Live a little.
Sevylor ... Caravelle K55 model? rafts used in the original incarnation of the Colorado River Ride. I wonder, if the pile of popped rafts by the exit was anything to go by, how many of these they went through in that first season.
Remember when people responsible for their own actions and choices
An accident waiting to happen park , come join us for some injuries
Stay home if you are afraid
@@KayFabe87don't go to the Hospital if you get injuries
Wow what great memories! , me and my buddy went every other weekend we spent pretty much our summer there and jersey shore
Really wonder if in any of these videos. Spent so many great summer days there. Best park still I have ever been to in my life and been to my fair share these 50 years spent on this earth. Was so upset when they closed it down and I came back on leave with few of my military friends that came with me to hit that park and found out they closed it that summer.. was so upset.
I was in the army during the mid to late 80s and knew some airborne (parachute) guys who would eat this place alive given the chance.
..9:27 ..here in Wellington City in New Zealand they had a slide like this at Frank Kitts Park but a kid crushed his hand and the spinning things were removed ..we used to go down it drunk for a laugh around 1996