Action Park 80's Live Action and Cannonball loop

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  • Опубликовано: 10 апр 2014
  • Includes first live You Tube footage of the Action Park Cannonball Loop actually operating with public riders. Recorded on early home video equipment in 1979 and 1980. Commercials are in the public domain now and are over 30 years old. This nine minute compilation will bring back memories of Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey.
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  • @Duskets
    @Duskets 10 лет назад +2655

    Natural Selection Park.

    • @stardustvideo
      @stardustvideo 6 лет назад +96

      Try Your Luck Park

    • @MBarberfan4life
      @MBarberfan4life 5 лет назад +79

      Accident Park

    • @Grayback1973
      @Grayback1973 5 лет назад +20

      BEST COMMENT on RUclips EVER!!!!! LOLOLOL

    • @blackfeatherearthchild1232
      @blackfeatherearthchild1232 5 лет назад +12

      Warriors park because only 5 or so died when it was open. Many other parks after only needed one deadly slide to pull that number off. Lol

    • @larrybethune3909
      @larrybethune3909 5 лет назад +18

      Traction Park. Back when fun was simply fun.

  • @jacqueblancmange
    @jacqueblancmange 4 года назад +934

    I remember begging my parents to take me to Action Park, but they never would do it. In hindsight, maybe they did love me.

    • @superhoops5091
      @superhoops5091 3 года назад +96

      That decision may well have saved your life!

    • @PhoenixIliana
      @PhoenixIliana 3 года назад +33

      I’m glad that they didn’t listen to you about going there

    • @atiboyful
      @atiboyful 3 года назад +6

      Nah! You just missed out on some great American adventure. But, it is open again but subdued...

    • @kingchile1568
      @kingchile1568 3 года назад +2

      Lol 😂 I went there . It was crazy . That slide with the loop was nuts.

    • @justleo5411
      @justleo5411 3 года назад +7

      @@kingchile1568 I lost my tooth on the 360 loop. I’m so happy it was a baby tooth 😂

  • @stheteller7470
    @stheteller7470 5 лет назад +1195

    “There’s nothing in the world like Action Park!”
    Well, they’re not wrong...

  • @no0T16
    @no0T16 8 лет назад +1394

    There's nothing in the world like Accident Park!

  • @theplasticmind1
    @theplasticmind1 8 лет назад +1370

    Even the parks i create on rollercoaster tycoon 3 are safer than this.

    • @HskHeroReborn
      @HskHeroReborn 3 года назад +5

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @matt13r1
      @matt13r1 3 года назад +10

      Safer than the Grave Pool?

    • @nightisright1873
      @nightisright1873 3 года назад +13

      I’ve designed roller coasters safer than the rides here

    • @brendaechols2228
      @brendaechols2228 3 года назад

      Lol

    • @vampdonna
      @vampdonna 3 года назад

      Lol this comment needs to be pin.

  • @Chrnan6710
    @Chrnan6710 9 лет назад +1342

    5:05 JESUS THAT LOOKS DANGEROUS

    • @TomuraKubomi
      @TomuraKubomi 9 лет назад +164

      Chrnan6710 6 people died there but it reopened 2014

    • @CrapeCraft
      @CrapeCraft 9 лет назад +92

      But fun!

    • @TomuraKubomi
      @TomuraKubomi 9 лет назад +34

      Still would'ny go there people that would are dumb as fuck

    • @teelaree9258
      @teelaree9258 9 лет назад +52

      Very dangerous! What if someone wasn't holding on.. OMG

    • @MovieCrackdownMB
      @MovieCrackdownMB 9 лет назад +66

      Chrnan6710 Action Park was given the nickname "Accident Park"

  • @trash2922
    @trash2922 9 лет назад +546

    "under water river" ok then.

    • @littleeevee8976
      @littleeevee8976 7 лет назад +12

      l o s e rTM Thats was my reaction too😂😂😂

    • @gleuszler
      @gleuszler 6 лет назад +25

      The "underwater river" was the pitch-black tunnel at the end of the Gauley rapids slide, which spit you out into a waterfall.

    • @kewandnotu
      @kewandnotu 4 года назад +20

      I think they meant to say Underground River....weird they stated it like that

    • @nightisright1873
      @nightisright1873 4 года назад +12

      Kyle W. Baker so it’s a sewer basically

    • @adamfowler350
      @adamfowler350 5 месяцев назад

      I noticed that too LOL like wtf is this guy even talking about.

  • @marekblaisx
    @marekblaisx 8 лет назад +287

    5:04 I AM SPEECHLESS.

    • @travelsonic
      @travelsonic 8 лет назад +22

      +Toboto **APPARENTLY** it was a demonstration with park employees, or so I heard.

    • @Sirdiggar
      @Sirdiggar 8 лет назад +41

      +Toboto LOL WTF THAT SHIT WAS CRAZY No wonder this park had a norotious safety record.

    • @MrStefan124
      @MrStefan124 8 лет назад +78

      +Toboto It's even crazier knowing that someone thought it would look good in a fucking promo.

    • @stevencastillo8914
      @stevencastillo8914 5 лет назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @spencerjohnson7103
      @spencerjohnson7103 5 лет назад +15

      Had the nerve to line the music up to the beat when they jump

  • @Jugg3rnut
    @Jugg3rnut 10 лет назад +628

    This place was like no other. I went there once in the early 90's and nearly drowned in the wave pool. A friend of mine was hurt riding the alpine slide as were many others. My father had to be taken out in an ambulance after landing wrong cliff diving, which was his fault, but still the reputation of this place was well earned. After saying all that, I did have fun there.

    • @nothx962
      @nothx962 3 года назад +28

      Sounds like you ran with quite the crowd!

    • @lp4544
      @lp4544 3 года назад +18

      Aaron Hildebrand most of the 80’s and 90’ generation that came from Jersey were tough for a reason. Today? Not so much. Bunch of whiny self entitled whiners and wimps

    • @tomara3
      @tomara3 3 года назад +2

      😂😂

    • @berrymccockkinner6753
      @berrymccockkinner6753 3 года назад +15

      This is such an unbias and honest opinion I am dying laughing right now lmao 😂

    • @snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470
      @snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470 3 года назад +2

      @@lp4544 New Jersey is the ass of America

  • @KabukeeJo
    @KabukeeJo 10 лет назад +1265

    Things I remember about Action Park:
    It was in the middle of nowhere & hard to find.
    Dam water was COLD!!
    Ambulances. Ambulances Everywhere!
    Fun Fun Fun!!
    Edit: More things I remember about Action Park!!:
    Getting on the Ski Lift to ride The Alpine Slide.
    The Tank Ride with the pneumatic tennis ball cannons!
    The inner-tube bumper boats with the outboard motors!
    I did not survive Action Park just to be taken out by no dam Covid-19 Virus!

    • @marmalade8915
      @marmalade8915 5 лет назад +40

      Kabuki Jo and death, pain and injuries!

    • @kayalehrer9984
      @kayalehrer9984 5 лет назад +9

      Kabuki Jo I live 2 minutes away from here

    • @janetplanet4595
      @janetplanet4595 5 лет назад +13

      Lol I feel like the water is still cold and they really didn't change much about the cliff area

    • @blackfeatherearthchild1232
      @blackfeatherearthchild1232 5 лет назад +3

      Fuck yea😂👊😍🍄🍅

    • @dp233332
      @dp233332 4 года назад +7

      @@marmalade8915 there werent that many deaths...Disneyworld kills more people

  • @luciddre4m
    @luciddre4m 8 лет назад +226

    That evil-voiced second announcer is perfect for this death trap lol.

    • @rickmainecali
      @rickmainecali 3 года назад

      I was thinking the same thing

    • @jmessenger919
      @jmessenger919 3 года назад +4

      "Where you and the rides become ONE!"

  • @lkjhb1
    @lkjhb1 9 лет назад +382

    My right ear enjoyed this!

    • @plumkatie
      @plumkatie 8 лет назад +25

      +lkjhb1 I thought my earbuds were broken

    • @mrincredible7701
      @mrincredible7701 8 лет назад +4

      Lol mine too 😂 😂 😂

    • @spaceboyman7545
      @spaceboyman7545 8 лет назад +2

      +lkjhb1 yah lol

    • @isabellawilliams5445
      @isabellawilliams5445 8 лет назад +14

      For me it was my left ear

    • @sophiaseager1986
      @sophiaseager1986 8 лет назад +6

      I was just looking through the comments to see if this happened to anyone else, I just thought my headphones were broken

  • @Homer79163
    @Homer79163 8 лет назад +361

    The best is the guy at 6:56"IIIIIIII looooooooooovvvvvvvve ittttt"

    • @ladyred5150
      @ladyred5150 8 лет назад +39

      That was freaking hilarious!!!

    • @StephiiLoVa90
      @StephiiLoVa90 7 лет назад +10

      Homer79163 LMAO! Just noticed that!!!

    • @butterfloppa
      @butterfloppa 5 лет назад +4

      Homer79163 😂 I LOVEEEEEE ITTTTTTT 😆 😂

    • @butterfloppa
      @butterfloppa 4 года назад +1

      i hate it there SUCKS DO NOT GO!!!!

    • @tkeo37
      @tkeo37 4 года назад

      Yez I didnt even see him at first 🤣🤣

  • @theultumzero8491
    @theultumzero8491 8 лет назад +176

    "Where you and the rides become one." Well if you count rocks as part of the ride.

    • @fluffy0369
      @fluffy0369 3 года назад

      LMAO SO TRUE AIDHAOHDKSGAJAJJAJSJSHHSHSHSHAHAHAHAHA

    • @royalblanket
      @royalblanket 3 года назад +7

      When we die our bodies become the ride, and the other kids ride the ride, so we are all part in the great big circle of action park.

    • @LakeNipissing
      @LakeNipissing 3 года назад +6

      "Where you and the rides become one."
      Blood and skin... I have left both there!! _Thunder Falls_ ripped me up the worst.
      The place was AWESOME. Looking back, I realize just how great life was for us Gen Xers !!

    • @elconquistador932
      @elconquistador932 3 года назад +1

      @@LakeNipissing Hell yeah Buddy!!!!

    • @theoscout9205
      @theoscout9205 3 года назад +1

      Fun fact! In the cannonball loop they put padding in to stop people from being thrown around, and then all the newer riders came out bleeding for some reason. When they took the slide apart to investigate, they found the missing teeth of missing riders stuck into the padding. So yeah you *do* become the ride.

  • @arisakasumi3548
    @arisakasumi3548 8 лет назад +109

    5:07 God damn. Wouldn't get away with shit like this now

    • @davidharden7575
      @davidharden7575 8 лет назад +26

      how they didn't flip is a miracle of some kind.

    • @Coleman_H
      @Coleman_H 3 года назад +6

      If there wasn't 3 of them in that raft it would have most likely flipped

    • @kpascuch
      @kpascuch Месяц назад

      People are SO SOFT now!

  • @wateringcan2
    @wateringcan2 3 года назад +35

    5:07 i love how even the commercial shows the vehicle sailing through the air and skidding into the wrong lane

  • @snakes3425
    @snakes3425 10 лет назад +419

    Action Park: the first amusement park that would make a great horror movie villain...where else would the park itself want the guests dead

    • @figment1988
      @figment1988 6 лет назад +19

      and there's actually going to be a movie known as Action Point starring Johnny Knoxville which parodies the park and it's infamous lack of safety.

    • @TheAngelmisa
      @TheAngelmisa 5 лет назад +2

      figment1988 Awesome. Action park is the worst theme park.

    • @kayalehrer9984
      @kayalehrer9984 5 лет назад +2

      snakes3425 I live 2 minutes away from this place in Vernon

    • @superhoops5091
      @superhoops5091 3 года назад +1

      If they’re dead, they can’t ask for a refund!

    • @atomaticom1821
      @atomaticom1821 3 месяца назад

      Final destination park

  • @westonshugarts4331
    @westonshugarts4331 10 лет назад +298

    if only they had go pros for the cannonball loop at the time...

    • @TetraTitanio
      @TetraTitanio 4 года назад +8

      what about water-proof VHS cameras?

    • @joedaylight
      @joedaylight 4 года назад +16

      @@TetraTitanio I imagine vhs cameras back then would be to bulky.

    • @elconquistador932
      @elconquistador932 3 года назад +1

      @@joedaylight They were, we had big stuff like Marty McFly had in Back to the Future. JVC, Sony etc. And those were small compared to the units we used in our High School Radio & TV class.

    • @atiboyful
      @atiboyful 3 года назад +1

      The Cannonball loop was actually pretty safe! I went thru it as a 18yr old teen born and bred in Jersey!

    • @DarkLord-we2uw
      @DarkLord-we2uw 3 года назад

      @@atiboyful how was the ride then?

  • @HiGregory
    @HiGregory 8 лет назад +418

    I crushed my sternum at action park in 1981. It made me the man I am today.

  • @NN-gy7xl
    @NN-gy7xl 6 лет назад +45

    Surviving this park was like a rite of passage!

  • @gomeljohn9
    @gomeljohn9 10 лет назад +241

    I loved this place! My brother and I went in 1978 and 1979, before some of the later attractions. My favorite memory of the park was my brother on the big water slide. It wasn’t just one slide, but had lanes next to each other so you could race each other down the hill, with a little ridge between the lanes that did NOT hold people in their designated areas. My brother was ahead of me by about 5 feet one time, and somehow halfway crossed into my lane, and then didn’t go in either direction. He stayed in the middle, riding the berm between the lanes, and his crotch was taking the brunt of the bumps. His bathing suit got pushed to one side and I could (Against my will) see EVERYTHING that was happening to him as he raced down the hill with what he says felt like a saw slicing between his legs. At the bottom, he pulled his pants up and spent the next 2 hours telling me how … how do I put this … how his twins were no longer conjoined. How one ended the race in each lane. LOL. True story.

    • @JayDeeIsMyName
      @JayDeeIsMyName 9 лет назад +69

      I think I have just read the best story to explain Action Park ever.

    • @sverian4011
      @sverian4011 6 лет назад +31

      Did anyone else feel pain between the legs after reading this

    • @billyreynolds4749
      @billyreynolds4749 6 лет назад +16

      gomeljohn - NICE!! Great story dude. I liked Action Park because most of the slides were badass!! If you got banged up...who cares!!?? You laughed about it, and did it again!! "Action" Park described it perfectly!

    • @daviddemaria3982
      @daviddemaria3982 5 лет назад +2

      Lol

    • @rickhunter6513
      @rickhunter6513 3 года назад

      😂

  • @LathanCroweTV
    @LathanCroweTV 10 лет назад +387

    No helmets? Check. No safety codes? Right. BBQ Chicken? Hell yeah! Sign me up!

    • @only257
      @only257 6 лет назад +5

      LathanCutti when I was 7 in 1991 I heard about this park from a group of older kids at the time👻

    • @johnfletcher2122
      @johnfletcher2122 5 лет назад +13

      Apparently they’d sell booze to anyone!! God, I wish I could time travel to 1980’s Action Park!

  • @paularcaria
    @paularcaria 8 лет назад +39

    it was a right of passage for us. If u were all banged up on Monday or Tuesday, your friends were like," hey how was action park?".

  • @dance4ever2011
    @dance4ever2011 8 лет назад +78

    Despite how dangerous it was, it looks extremely fun.

  • @jamesradski9082
    @jamesradski9082 10 лет назад +419

    The loop looks more like a sewer drainage pipe. lol

  • @aunttoni969
    @aunttoni969 8 лет назад +82

    the ride's sure were crazy and dangerous .. every time i ever went there was someone being taking out on a stretcher to a ambulance i went there a lot

  • @stoirmz
    @stoirmz 3 года назад +39

    Oh yes, tons of memories. Cannonball loop was one ride you didn't do more than once. You were banged up and dazed after you came out. You couldn't see a thing inside, and normally fell in complete darkness from the top of the loop. Can't believe it was ever open, or that more didn't get hurt!
    And OH, all the scraped up people from the cement chutes! LOL EVERYBODY got scraped up. Arms, legs, sides and even faces! Never did the alpine chute thing, because of all the people walking around with their hides shaved off! LOL

    • @theokkali467
      @theokkali467 Год назад

      You are a accident park survivor!

  • @done1675
    @done1675 6 лет назад +22

    The one time I went there, in 1984, someone drowned in the wave pool. You can't make this shit up. It was insane.

  • @ronineditor9920
    @ronineditor9920 10 лет назад +141

    4:37 - As the guy almost smashes his face open on the pier in the background, lol

    • @jasonyava9325
      @jasonyava9325 10 лет назад +7

      Whoa! Almost like watching a car accident without the accident occuring.

    • @80schannel49
      @80schannel49 10 лет назад +10

      ....and if you didn't let go and swung all the way back, you'd drop onto nothing but jagged rocks.

    • @loliamanalt8849
      @loliamanalt8849 10 лет назад +12

      Optical Illusion? See 6:40!

    • @BooSki29
      @BooSki29 3 года назад

      lol iamanalt Still looks kinda too close to shore

    • @Shelbsalexis
      @Shelbsalexis 3 года назад

      @@loliamanalt8849 that’s somebody who dropped at the correct timing. Completely different person. That first one was WAAAY too close to the cement

  • @gdmclean
    @gdmclean 10 лет назад +98

    wow at the ride at 5:05 That is some serious air time for the kiddies!!

    • @imkluu
      @imkluu 2 года назад

      They look li9ke the hit hard on landing, too.

  • @UrbanGuitarLegend
    @UrbanGuitarLegend 9 лет назад +47

    3:13 is priceless, brings back so many memories. Not necessarily of the theme park but of early hip hop culture.

  • @KoasterKing205
    @KoasterKing205 8 лет назад +95

    8:31 There's the infamous hosing down before embarking on that Death Trap!

    • @BrandyArts
      @BrandyArts 8 лет назад

      +KoasterKing 205 Even though no one ever died on the Cannonball Loop.

    • @KoasterKing205
      @KoasterKing205 8 лет назад

      ***** I know.

    • @qwertyuiop554433
      @qwertyuiop554433 8 лет назад +12

      Someone would have if they kept it on

    • @V1lg3r0
      @V1lg3r0 5 лет назад

      I don't want that slide wtf?!

    • @kryonight2869
      @kryonight2869 4 года назад +7

      @@BrandyArts Still dummies came out missing arms, legs and even heads and Action Park just kept throwing dummies in until one came out in passible condition and they used that to get it approved.

  • @couldntthinkofagoodnamesoi8357
    @couldntthinkofagoodnamesoi8357 10 лет назад +68

    Some of the best memories of my life are here.
    I honestly think living through exhilarating moments with legitimate concerns of impending death at a very young age was good for my development.

    • @mikemoos
      @mikemoos 10 лет назад +8

      Which is why Generation-X is currently fucking the world sideways, and teaching the Millenials to do so as well. Very good for your development.

    • @RoxyAlexander
      @RoxyAlexander 6 лет назад +4

      As if Millenials would be taught!

  • @dyer6249
    @dyer6249 10 лет назад +39

    As a former employee, I have a ton of great memories. They used to bribe us into testing the Cannonball after it had been shut down and patched with ActionBucks for the food court. The food wasn't great, but I'd always volunteer. I got more injuries on the Alpine Slide, where I worked, because we shaved down the friction pads on the special "employee" sleds to go faster. I remember burning through more than one tee-shirt. Ahhh...It was good to be a teenager back then...

    • @theokkali467
      @theokkali467 Год назад +4

      HOW DID YOU SURVIVE? ARE YOU IMMORTAL????

    • @sashafalcon5143
      @sashafalcon5143 4 месяца назад

      Always is good to be a teenager.

  • @jackhydrazine1376
    @jackhydrazine1376 9 лет назад +46

    Love that waterslide between 4:49 and 5:10. Those kids must have been getting up to six feet of air after hitting the bump!

    • @travelsonic
      @travelsonic 9 лет назад +2

      Jack Hydrazine Indeed. Going into the end of the 80s/beginning of the 90s, they changed it to what it is today, well, except now it doesn't have a quarterpipe at the end for those who happen to overshoot the splashdown pool... but you can still, sorta, catch air - managed to do it a few times last year.... hahahaha

  • @TheRickyPsycho
    @TheRickyPsycho 2 года назад +11

    I just love seeing 70s and 80s videos, its just something about them is just so charming to me

  • @Fizz826
    @Fizz826 10 лет назад +140

    People back then had BALLS

    • @closedpermanently9723
      @closedpermanently9723 4 года назад

      lol

    • @magician234
      @magician234 4 года назад +7

      I used to love going to action park as a kid. So yes, we had balls. Lol

    • @crazyjack66
      @crazyjack66 4 года назад +17

      And promptly lost them at action park

    • @maniac1628
      @maniac1628 3 года назад +4

      I still have balls

    • @angelalaplante1451
      @angelalaplante1451 3 года назад

      I used to jump off a 20-30 foot cliff that had a beach at the bottom. You had to start super far back in the woods in order to avoid the bank. One of my friends landed right on it. I seen quite a few people land right on it. Idk how we’re alive. We also used to jump off these gigantic sand dunes into small natural forming ponds at the bottom. I would’ve been good for action park lol

  • @LakeNipissing
    @LakeNipissing 10 лет назад +193

    6:57... ''I LOVE IT !!!!!'' (until wipeout 10 seconds later)
    No discrimination at Action Park. The Alpine Slide would rip any color of skin off.

  • @johnedsel
    @johnedsel 6 лет назад +72

    'Where you and the rides become one.' Yeah, you'll leave your skin and blood on the concrete.

    • @superhoops5091
      @superhoops5091 3 года назад +8

      And teeth. Not even joking. People who rode the Cannonball slide kept coming out with lacerations that nobody could explain... until they opened up the slide and found various *teeth* stuck in the crevices that’d been knocked out of pervious riders’ mouths 😖

  • @TheVoiceTalk
    @TheVoiceTalk 9 лет назад +237

    I wonder how many people died filming this video.....

    • @gigiluna3936
      @gigiluna3936 9 лет назад

      xD so ure

    • @gigiluna3936
      @gigiluna3936 9 лет назад

      True

    • @kiera2867
      @kiera2867 9 лет назад +7

      Thaddeus Stevens well, not sure about the people in the video. there were six deaths at the park. the first death was on the alpine slide and it was an employe. there were three drownings in the wave pool and one man lost his balance on a kayak and was electrocution due to a faulty wire in the water. i'm not sure what the last death was. i know that the alpine slide and wave pool were never closed, however they did close the kayak experience. the park was also never closed they just changed the name from action park to mountain creek.

    • @plumkatie
      @plumkatie 8 лет назад +3

      +kiera r some kid got stuck in the cannonball loop

    • @nadia.a4189
      @nadia.a4189 6 лет назад +3

      Kiera I think someone died on the cannonball loop there

  • @mrrobvs
    @mrrobvs 9 лет назад +24

    Absolutely amazing to see the Canonball Loop in action. Its use was almost mythological. Upon entry, it was always closed when I visited. SO AWESOME. THANK YOU!!!

  • @kglaser11
    @kglaser11 9 лет назад +86

    I am jealous of those 80's people. I would totally go there.

    • @LakeNipissing
      @LakeNipissing 9 лет назад +27

      kglaser11 I am one of those ''80s people''. We lived through concrete waterslides, bicycles without helmets, wood and metal wagons, and REAL metal-tipped lawn darts!

    • @CillianCollinsIsAProperGomie
      @CillianCollinsIsAProperGomie 9 лет назад +23

      6 people died in that park...

    • @kglaser11
      @kglaser11 9 лет назад +12

      Cillian collins That is not good. To be clear, I do not support the death of one single person., ever.

    • @OfficialSolarDesigns
      @OfficialSolarDesigns 9 лет назад +1

      If you died I wouldn't support you.. I would laugh. How do you feel?

    • @travelsonic
      @travelsonic 9 лет назад +24

      Cillian collins Over 18 years. If I recall, according to an interview with Andrew Mulvihill a year or two before the rebranding, it was an employee riding the Alpine Slide when it was closed/the person shouldn't have been riding most likely.
      When you look at it objectively 6 people over 18 years (5 if you exclude the park employee), with millions of people visiting the park in its heyday, is an absurdly small fraction of people. I;d say, conservatively, say a total of 9 million people visited between 1978 and 1996. That would be 0.00006666666% of the total patrons in that time frame if your death toll is 6, 0.00005555555% if you exclude the employee death. Really, relatively speaking, small amount - the injury rate on the other hand, now THAT was absolutely nuts.

  • @scorchedcandy
    @scorchedcandy 7 лет назад +32

    8:20 is insane! That water slide with the loop is 😱

    • @RLelling
      @RLelling Год назад +7

      I know this comment is from 5 years ago but I looked up this video because of that loop slide, and wanted to let you know just how right you are. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:
      "The slide was open for only a month in 1985 before it was closed at the order of the state's Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety, a highly unusual move at the time. One worker told a local newspaper that "there were too many bloody noses and back injuries" from riders. Some early riders came back with lacerations to their bodies; when the ride was closed to determine what had caused them, teeth that had fallen out were found lodged in the interior walls.  A former Navy physician found that riders were experiencing as much as nine Gs of acceleration as they went through the loop."

    • @mino770
      @mino770 Год назад +1

      @@RLellingDo you know if there was and emergency exit on the slide? What if someone got stuck in the slide?

    • @RLelling
      @RLelling Год назад +3

      @@mino770 I think I remember reading that yes, people did get stuck, and they basically just had to open it up by taking out a segment.

  • @deputay
    @deputay 8 лет назад +24

    Having heard so much about this park, it's great to finally see footage. Can't believe the insanity of these downhill water rides - the speed is crazy. "Anyone want to start? OK, everyone go at once! GO! No, more people!"

  • @LakeNipissing
    @LakeNipissing 10 лет назад +85

    Demonstrations of the two Alpine Slide sled speeds:
    0:06 - slow
    0:07 - ''death awaits''

    • @gleuszler
      @gleuszler 6 лет назад +2

      0:07 - Riding the Alpine Slide when it is raining.

    • @gleuszler
      @gleuszler 6 лет назад +1

      The car in the arcade game "Spy Hunter" also has two speeds: snail in peanut butter (low gear) and "death awaits" (high gear)!

    • @tomy.1846
      @tomy.1846 4 года назад +1

      @@gleuszler Nice!!!! :)

    • @nothx962
      @nothx962 3 года назад

      I love comments like this lmfao

  • @stevenkreuch
    @stevenkreuch 10 лет назад +22

    So cool to see the tennis ball tanks and all the other stuff there. You can clearly see how fun and dangerous this place was. God I miss it and am glad I got to experience it in it's full danger mode.

  • @Jordysegs89
    @Jordysegs89 5 месяцев назад +2

    Damn I wish I was alive in the 80s so I could experience this! Yeah it was dangerous but this is what America is all about! This woulda been the most fun waterpark ever!

  • @kingchile1568
    @kingchile1568 3 года назад +9

    I went there when I was 12 with my family . It was nuts . We’re lucky we survived lol

  • @shanelibuna1213
    @shanelibuna1213 5 лет назад +8

    'There’s nothing in the world like action park! We put the fun in Funeral!'

  • @bandesj
    @bandesj 10 лет назад +18

    I went there in the 80's and it was a lot of fun. When I went the cannonball loop was already closed. I heard that someone lifted their head just before the loop starts and that was it - major head trauma and lights out forever. I remember a lot of people getting hurt on the Alpine cart ride, which is shown in here. I remember seeing someone walking away from it with the biggest bleeding scrape I've ever seen. You could really get a bad road type burn if you fell off.

    • @dr.spectre9697
      @dr.spectre9697 6 лет назад +1

      yeah I got one but thankfully it wasn’t too bad

    • @RoxyAlexander
      @RoxyAlexander 6 лет назад

      No one died on the cannonball loop.

  • @shimon1166
    @shimon1166 2 года назад +4

    Went there twice in Summer of 1979 and 1980 with a youth group. Our bus driver broke his neck on the Alpine slide and we had to wait hours for a new bus driver to be able to drive us back to NY. My elbows were bleeding from water slide runs and I still have the scars today. Childhood of the 70’s and 80’s was the best.

  • @867diesel
    @867diesel 3 года назад +7

    watching this video brung me back to the 80s / 90s . back when things were more laid back and fun . being a kid in those times was the best times to grow up in . you could ride your bike across town and not get hit by a car . you could run up to some random persons house and drunk from their garden hose and not get shot or arrested . yeah those were the simple times that me and pepperidge farms remembers

  • @truthbetold6379
    @truthbetold6379 10 лет назад +29

    Now I know why my parents never took me here! LMAO

  • @djmutt2000
    @djmutt2000 4 года назад +47

    Total Drama: I am the deadliest thing imaginable
    Action Park: *hold my drunk teen employee*

  • @pickledkool-aid
    @pickledkool-aid 5 лет назад +25

    My uncle lost his entire shirtsleeve on the Alpine Slide here! And my grandma wasn't even mad- half the people in the park were in the same shape he was. It was the norm, which really tells you something about this place and its safety.

  • @kRazoh89
    @kRazoh89 6 лет назад +7

    That magic carpet ride knocked the wind out of me and cracked my ribs..SUMMER OF 85’ THE GREATEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE!!!SCREW GREAT ADVENTURE

  • @standepain
    @standepain 10 лет назад +43

    I loved this freakin place!!!!! I got hurt twice (bashed heads with another person on the river ride and somebody whacked their head of my jaw on the same ride later that summer). Best water park EVER!!!!

    • @renobt
      @renobt 10 лет назад +14

      you a hockey player by any chance?

    • @standepain
      @standepain 10 лет назад +3

      Cheech Marin Yup, well...used to be. lol

    • @billyreynolds4749
      @billyreynolds4749 6 лет назад +3

      YES!!! Action Park WAS awesome!! I loved the name...Action Park!!! For me...the "chance" of possibly getting hurt was small...but the thrill of many of those waterslides was worth the risk!!! Live life people!! If you "play it safe" your whole life...BORING!!

  • @hitindahead
    @hitindahead 10 лет назад +32

    This place looks god damn incredible!! I can't even imagine the cost for liability insurance if this was around today. Just another reason why the 80's were the best years.

    • @GiulianaLoVerde
      @GiulianaLoVerde 5 месяцев назад

      believe it or not, nobody was willing to give them insurance so the owner of the park opened an insurance company just to insure the place

  • @redpandaz5146
    @redpandaz5146 6 лет назад +21

    50% of the comments: I wish I could go there!
    50% : Holy shit, *what?*

  • @reedrothchild4013
    @reedrothchild4013 8 лет назад +8

    Class Action Park... what an incredible place! Fun rides. And staffed by employees who were underage, under-trained, and under-the-influence...

    • @travelsonic
      @travelsonic 8 лет назад

      +Reed Rothchild Fun and unique, so many rides that exist at park these days Action Park, essentially, had some sort of prototype for. hehe.

  • @thetruthtx64
    @thetruthtx64 10 лет назад +128

    Damn near killed myself on that alpine slide a few times but it was a blast!

    • @alexandredu41
      @alexandredu41 9 лет назад +32

      You survived Action Park ! ^^ :)

    • @nvelez9
      @nvelez9 5 лет назад

      Loved the alpine slides!!

    • @jonhendrickson9701
      @jonhendrickson9701 5 лет назад +2

      thetruthtx64 I hurt myself so bad on that thing. So much skin lost

    • @closedpermanently9723
      @closedpermanently9723 4 года назад

      @@jonhendrickson9701 OH DAMN,
      you lost skin. wow.

    • @James-2248
      @James-2248 4 года назад

      Someone did

  • @nirv
    @nirv 8 лет назад +38

    8:31 - oh man. I really want to believe that he went in head first on his back and came out feet first on his stomach.

    • @Shelbsalexis
      @Shelbsalexis 3 года назад +4

      Lmao I really was crious on how if and why that person came out feet first on their stomach too 😳

  • @spookedhorse
    @spookedhorse 2 года назад +3

    Went there dozens of times and no one was hurt, at all. Miss that place.

    • @danielledewitt1
      @danielledewitt1 Год назад

      People were hurt and killed and likely still are under the name mountain creek.

  • @unicornpearlz
    @unicornpearlz 3 года назад +8

    I'm actually getting chills. I remember going on these rides. And I have no idea how I survived.

  • @MrPrism
    @MrPrism 3 года назад +4

    My favorite water park. Went every summer in the 90s and definitely had weed blown in my face waiting in line for the rope swing when I was 10 or 11. Memories!

  • @voteforpedro7995
    @voteforpedro7995 Год назад +5

    This place looks awesome!! I'd much rather be a kid playing with my friends here risking injury than the mental injuries of technology and social media of today!!

    • @Kragatar
      @Kragatar Год назад +2

      Same!

    • @tntshuffle-9799
      @tntshuffle-9799 11 месяцев назад +1

      This place was awesome! Sure, serious injury or death was a possibility but..so is driving your car or riding your bike. I say, bring it back!

  • @dylswife8048
    @dylswife8048 4 года назад +4

    Going there in 1981 was one of my top 10 all time favorite days! It was AMAZING!!!

  • @DeadFedFiles
    @DeadFedFiles 3 года назад +33

    Anyone here from HBO's "Class Action Park"?

  • @shannonpaugh8865
    @shannonpaugh8865 10 лет назад +48

    Loved Action Park! (Safety be damned!) We visited every year. The Cannonball Loop was already closed before we made it there, but I won't forget the original Cannoball (sans Loop). It was a near vertical drop and crazy. My dad went down it as the first ride of our day, came out with his bathing suit wedged so far up I don't think the term "wedgie" was any longer an adequate description, and spent the rest of the day having to use the bathroom every 10 minutes.

  • @Mobliz
    @Mobliz 10 лет назад +61

    I would be willing to sign a waiver or whatever it takes, that place looks good!

    • @royalefilmsinc
      @royalefilmsinc 10 лет назад +3

      it's still open... Mountain Creek park in NJ

    • @Nicholas_Steel
      @Nicholas_Steel 4 года назад +3

      @@royalefilmsinc I imagine a lot of the rides have been tamed in recent years.

    • @BooSki29
      @BooSki29 3 года назад +2

      The park now doesn’t look as fun as it do here 😂

  • @benm1414
    @benm1414 3 года назад +11

    8:17 for those looking for cannonball loop footage 👍
    And be sure to check out the movie based on this park- Action Point. They have a bunch of fun throwbacks like when they mimic the commercials "I love it here!"

  • @LakeNipissing
    @LakeNipissing 8 лет назад +33

    RUclips's copyright policies are bizarre... after close to two years of this video existing, they suddenly mute the Pink Floyd music near the end....

    • @Slayerrrrrr
      @Slayerrrrrr 8 лет назад +8

      I thought i was the only one that noticed that 😂

    • @LakeNipissing
      @LakeNipissing 8 лет назад +6

      Josue Garcia Why I first noticed it a few weeks ago, was when I was planning to show this video to a co-worker on the phone. In this case, the message was RUclips has blocked this video in my country due to music copyright. But it still works on the computer with Windows, but with the Pink Floyd muted.
      RUclips has very strange policies... some people upload entire movies or music videos and get away with it. Others have their videos taken down for a few seconds of music being picked up by their camcorder microphone from a car radio.

  • @andorthethis
    @andorthethis 10 лет назад +9

    I only know it as MountainCreek because I was born in 1995 and I love the park. It's actually my favorite water park. Of course now it's taken it's old name back so it's Action Park once again. I understand the appeal that the old park had, but 6 people died there not to mention countless other injuries. Obviously I never saw it in it's "glory days", but I'm happy with what it is now. It's still crazier than most water parks and still retains that kind of no rules feel to an extent. The safety upgrades were needed and I don't think they killed the park.

  • @JayDeeIsMyName
    @JayDeeIsMyName 10 лет назад +16

    You just know that the footage at 5:43 had been cut short because the guy upfront on the Alpine Slide will be bumped big time by the guy behind him in 5, 4, 3, 2... Awww.

  • @FrostWolf52849
    @FrostWolf52849 8 лет назад +52

    Action park, more like class action park

    • @ggtracy02
      @ggtracy02 3 года назад +5

      That’s the name of the new documentary about the park that premiered yesterday!

    • @LadyFalcon17
      @LadyFalcon17 3 года назад +2

      Texas Princess I wouldn’t be surprised if his comment is where they got the name. I’m sure whoever was making the documentary watched all these videos.

    • @jessicanoneyah9938
      @jessicanoneyah9938 3 года назад +1

      HBO says thanks for the name!

    • @SuperMudbog
      @SuperMudbog 3 года назад

      You’re a genius 😂

  • @wideopenthrottl
    @wideopenthrottl 7 лет назад +8

    This was the best amusement park I've ever been to and maybe part of it was because it was raw and the danger potential was always there.

  • @Liuhuayue
    @Liuhuayue 9 лет назад +27

    You're not going to find Go Karts in every modern amusement park. Looks like it truly was fun, despite the safety hazards.

    • @AngelineProductions
      @AngelineProductions 9 лет назад +3

      Cedar Point has go karts, but theyre connected to the water park and not the main park.

    • @mikedude9822
      @mikedude9822 8 лет назад

      I dont know a place where can are allowed to go kart with shorts on!

    • @alimashhour4975
      @alimashhour4975 7 лет назад

      Mikedude98 fun spot florida

    • @boomshaker27
      @boomshaker27 3 года назад

      Action park had a bar next to the go carts. Seemed like a good idea at the time?

  • @krazyguy6002
    @krazyguy6002 10 лет назад +3

    Went there a few times in the 80's. The alpine slide was the bomb! Seem to remember they had a zip line and cliff diving, which was cool. I still live in NJ and heard it reopened, i'd check it out again.

  • @darkendchat7882
    @darkendchat7882 2 года назад +3

    just when im looking at the cannonball loop it gives me chills..

  • @xphile01
    @xphile01 4 года назад +3

    This video / park captures the essence of the 80's flipping every other decade off lol =)

  • @SigEpBlue
    @SigEpBlue 10 лет назад +51

    Cannonball Loop is at 8:20.
    This place looks like it was a lot of fun!

  • @RyuFalchionX
    @RyuFalchionX 10 лет назад +15

    Damn.
    This looks way radical.

  • @JK-cz6bu
    @JK-cz6bu 6 лет назад +1

    I went here in 1986 at age 14 and it was the best water park ever. Looking back on it now, we were crazy. Those cannon ball tubes were so cool to be shot out 10ft above ice cold water. The water slides were FAST. Tarzan rope swing was fun. A friend lost all the skin off his shoulder on the alpine slide. At age 14, you don't care about injuries.

  • @thejoint1554
    @thejoint1554 3 года назад +2

    This shit look dope honestly that long slide is dope

  • @Lasek99
    @Lasek99 10 лет назад +4

    this is the greatest video in internet history

  • @dr.spectre9697
    @dr.spectre9697 6 лет назад +7

    “This is just like coming to broadway is wonderful” LMFAO I forgot how much things were exaggerated in the 70s & 80s.

  • @biankahalepaka107
    @biankahalepaka107 3 года назад +2

    I can’t wait to go!

  • @Pun2404
    @Pun2404 4 года назад +2

    I love that the workers and crew were just drunk and stoned and geeked out while working lol that’s hilarious

  • @alexandredu41
    @alexandredu41 9 лет назад +88

    Oh my God... This park looked to be so fucking awesome... I regret not to have born in the early 80's, and not to have known before about this park. I watched several videos on RUclips about Action Park, and it made on me a lot of joy and emotion. There were many injuries in this park ; but in the 80's / 90's, society were not so restrictive and paranoiac about laws and security. Action Park seemed to be a park in which people (kids/teenagers/adults, etc) could REALLY HAVE FUN and be FREE !!! Moreover, in my opinion, the risk is part of life, and there is not real fun without risk. I really regret that I will never know the pleasure to go to Action Park... Sorry for my orthographical faults, I'm from France. And I LOVE this part of "old good America" !!! Action Park is definitively the BEST park EVER made !

    • @travelsonic
      @travelsonic 9 лет назад +11

      It really was fucking awesome. A lot safer now, but ever since the original owners got the park back, it's been operated with emphasis on people having a strong sense of personal responsibility, as in "we will follow regulations, do our best to keep you safe, rescue you if you are drowning, but if you fuck up, it's your fault - and even then, sometimes getting a little battered just happens, it's life!" - and it shows... place is nice and clean, people are given medical care when needed, but they don't let the possibility of someone getting bumped around stop them from operating awesome rids with unique designs, unlike the previous owners XD

    • @only257
      @only257 6 лет назад

      alexandredu41 agreed👻

    • @airaero5473
      @airaero5473 6 лет назад

      alexandredu41 Its still open today, but it’s no longer called Action Park

    • @Hahahahaaahaahaa
      @Hahahahaaahaahaa 6 лет назад +20

      Which is what it should have been to begin with. Getting some cuts and bruises, heck even a broken bone every now and then, might not be a big deal, but getting electrocuted, near drownings, or not properly staffing the park is. People talk it up like a place for a good time, but forget that all the owners had to do was invest a little bit of their profits into running a good business and they could have had all that same fun without any of the outlier injuries that sent hundreds of people to the hospital.

    • @Trainy2
      @Trainy2 6 лет назад +1

      I'm sure it was as much fun as many of the patrons ever had in their life. There is nothing like the adrenaline thrill of a dangerous ride.

  • @sluttyfrogmagician
    @sluttyfrogmagician 5 лет назад +12

    4:33 Jason Voorhees literally comes out of the water

  • @TheKurtsPlaceChannel
    @TheKurtsPlaceChannel 3 года назад +1

    Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

  • @obedbar966
    @obedbar966 4 года назад +2

    I want to go back in time and have some fun at action park

  • @rabbit9905
    @rabbit9905 3 года назад +3

    "These are the most amazing rides in the world. I love it here!" Honestly though people loved this park and had great times here. There really was nothing like it, in every sense of the phrase.

  • @Lioness_Es
    @Lioness_Es 8 лет назад +9

    Crazy as hell is what this place was! Amazing how someone's kid didn't break their damn neck!

    • @arisakasumi3548
      @arisakasumi3548 8 лет назад +9

      I've read up on it. They actually have 6 deaths in 18 years

  • @daphnegermain4915
    @daphnegermain4915 3 года назад +1

    OMG this video just remind me how old i am and how i miss the time when everything was not connect to internet

  • @jefferoni1984
    @jefferoni1984 Год назад +1

    Growing up in Jersey I saw these ads everyday during the spring and summer and I really wanted to go. We’d go to Great Adventure instead. Looking at it now I absolutely understand why my parents wouldn’t take us. Although the battle tanks and go carts do look cool af. The tagline “Where you and the rides become one” sounds really ominous though. What does that even mean? Am I…am I not leaving? 😂😂

  • @alexbarlage
    @alexbarlage 10 лет назад +18

    5:00 - Serious air!!

  • @kaedtoasts5047
    @kaedtoasts5047 7 лет назад +9

    this place may have been dangerous as hell, but I would still pay money to time travel to go to this place, it looks super rad tbh

    • @xlunadivinerx1585
      @xlunadivinerx1585 4 года назад

      Kaed Toasts it’s now mountain creek water park they have a lot of the old rides just HEAVILY MONITORED NOW LOL

  • @landerstyle100
    @landerstyle100 4 года назад +2

    Best place ever. Had some of the best times of my young life there.

  • @vincentpadovano7855
    @vincentpadovano7855 3 года назад

    Thank you for posting this...so many memories.