Documentary about Action Park in New Jersey.
Do you think most waterparks were similar in other parts of the USA? My home park was WaterWorks at King's Island. Didn't seem too different from what I've seen of Action Park.
Class Action Park (2020)
Documentary about Action Park in New Jersey.
Do you think most waterparks were similar in other parts of the USA? My home park was WaterWorks at King's Island. Didn't seem too different from what I've seen of Action Park.
You can watch the documentary for free here
https://fmoviesz.to/movie/class-action-park-pp7kx/1-1
This link gave me the COVID
>tfw i unironically use fmovies to watch movies
…bros, is there something you’re not telling me?
unless you live in Canada its not a good Idea to use a site like fmovies. I use it cause I live in Canada tho not gonna lie beats paying for shit when its free and HD on there.
he's a low iq phone poster.
They don't understand what adblockers are and download movie.exe's every time they've ever tried to pirate.
I run linux on my kino box so I don't really care
No, it's just zoomies who don't know how to use an adblocker.
I ain't clicking that shit
posting a website with more worms and viruses then a Tijuana crack prostitute
Learn to use adblock, wimp.
have you not been able to teach yourself how to use an adblocker yet? Lmao
The internet is littered with free content you just have to not be moronic.
If you're scared of clicking this link then I just assume you're another zoomer mutt.
I just remember this homosexual having a monologue at the end about how he probably has PTSD from going to a fricking amusement park as an adolescent
>Makes a joke about the kid that died by being electrocuted
What was this guys deal
he called him eel boy
Kids died there that's why he was trying to be respectful to trauma victims. You'd expect the same kind of treatment for people that died from a vaccine wouldn't you?
The older I get the more apparent it becomes that most comedians really are just massive pussies with charisma.
It's that personality or the one where they just have a tiny sheen of disingenuous self loathing on top of a pile of shit narcissism
so two things you'll never have
I don't know. Haven't been in any waterpark in usa.
I watched some documentary about action park, don't remember if it was that 2020 one.
In any case, I doubt people were super duper serious about safety in any adventure type of parks in the olden days.
The owner was specifically frick safety regs. The kids will be safe enough in their own.
The park had an artifical snow park for skiing.
>waterslides
>UMMM THEY WERE ACTUALLY SKIING
of course lol
Action Park was a ski resort in the winter.
it's been Mountain Creek for as long as I could remember, used to be called Vernon Valley before that
it's the closest ski mountain to NYC so if you're from the tristate area, chances are you've learned how to ski there or somewhere in the catskills like Wyndham or Hunter
Black person, watch the doc.
Whats the documentary about? A waterpark with slides in which people go to ski and munch on fast food? No thanks? Good to know though that not even while going to swim and have fun in a waterpark you guys are able to move your body a bit without the help of a machine. It's not like its Blizzard Beach in Disneyworld where the whole theme is being a Ski Resort so i really don't believe your
>UGHHH ITS ACTUALLY A SKI RESORT
bullshit.
>third world hands to poor to watch HBO typed this post.
Black person, I'm not your fricking teacher.
>p p p p p POOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!!
>actually pays them to watch their slop
hilarious go and pay to watch your "Ski Resort" Documentary which in reality is a waterpark with a gondola.
>actually pays them to watch their slop
Do people actually think about how much money they give to streaming services? HBO costs what, $5-10 a month? I can't imagine being so poor that I'm concerned about what I pay them.
>go and pay to watch your "Ski Resort" Documentary which in reality is a waterpark with a gondola.
You're so autistically hell bent on seeing it from your imaginary perspective that you even refuse to learn more about the park. It's not like your time is that valuable anyway, homosexual
It's some third world homosexual that thinks using all the lingo will make him fit in to troll. Best to ignore
>UGHHH ITS OKAY IF ITS JUST $10 FOR SLOP
>Y-YOU ARE ACTUALLY THE ONE LOSING HEHE LOL
The fact that you truly believe that not paying for shit like this is a "poor mans move" just gives it away that you are a wagecuck yourself.
>TH-TH-THIRD WORLDER HEHE
Says the american? 90% of your cities are dystopian shitholes and you have the guts to call Europeans third worlders? Thats cute. Now go and get around in a gondola in your waterpark and excuse it as a ski resort, fat frick.
>The fact that you truly believe that not paying for shit like this is a "poor mans move" just gives it away that you are a wagecuck yourself.
Don't worry Rakesh, I'm sure you can probably find it for free by googling the name of it + 123movies. I'm not sure how good your internet is though. How's the Ganges river these days?
>gondola
>gondola
>gondola
>maybe if I say gondola enough times, people will actually chime in and tell me how big brained I am
>Rakesh
It's quite funny to me how Americans have the guts to call others nonwhite names. I live in Bavaria. I quite literally live in paradise.
Also,
>still thinks he is winning by paying
Go and give them some more of your wagecuck salary fricking kek
>I live in Bavaria
But your parents lived in Turkey
How would i have eaten Schweinshaxn today if my parents are from Turkey?
Oh okay
the 2nd comment in the thread is a link to watch the fricking video.
you're both pants on head moronic phoneposters that can't read and you should both have a nice day.
Well it was more than just a water park
At a park in my province, some kid got his arm severed in a pool when the arm got stuck in a duct. I think it had a water pump without a cover in it.
I saw the Class Action Park doc during a film festival. The tonal shift is insane
Don't tell me that mutts can't even walk the walk to the next slide without having to use a fricking gondola? Hahahahahaaha i can't anymore thats insane.
I thought that meant there was a mile-long slide just out of sight and that's how they got back to the top. Fkn rad.
I grew up 45 mins from the place. its a ski park too. its literally on a mountain. its called mountain creek
>The park had an artifical snow park for skiing.
it wasn't artificial. its legit on a fricking mountain
That sounds really cool. Since i am in the south of bavaria i don't have it too far to Innsbruck in Austria so i have been to Area 47 which is a really really nice Outdoor Adventure park near in the mountains. You can do everything there.
eh the park you showed is probably cooler. action park is really just a regional waterpark
a lot of waterparks in america are built inside of ski-resorts. It makes sense when you think about it, you got 2 businesses that require mountains and can only be operational during opposite seasons. The gondolas are likely just being used as a scenic flat ride and not transportation
The part of this documentary where they talk about the Tarzan Swing with all the crowd yelling "DON'T BE A FRICKING PUSSY YOU FRICKING homosexual JUST FRICKING JUMP YOU PUSSY homosexual" is the most accurate description of being a kid in the 90s I have ever seen anywhere.
It was the 70s
The age of the guy telling the story indicates late 80s to early 90s.
It was the correct state of being for children during healthy times. Kids need to be bullied.
I've been on that tarzan swing, the water is pretty much freezing
My favorite part of this doc was the owner building the unproven loop slide and then paying kids $10 to test it. That guy seemed based.
Was that the one that ripped the dummies head off?
do zoomers know what a water park is?
why are you so fricking obsessed with these "zoomers"?
i'm just asking because i said water park to my cousin and he thought it was a moba game
>Action Park in New Jersey.
Sounds like a cool place.
Action Park was a cultural touchstone for many Generation X-ers who grew up in North and Central Jersey, as well as nearby locales in New York and Connecticut. A popular list of "You Know You're from New Jersey When ..." that circulates in email begins with, "You've been seriously injured at Action Park."[75]
Some even credit the park for making them learn some difficult lessons. In 2000, Matthew Callan recalled Action Park thusly:
Action Park made adults of a generation of Tri-State area kids who strolled through its blood-stained gates, by teaching us the truth about life: It is not safe, you will get hurt a lot, and you'll ride all the way home burnt beyond belief.[67]
Chris Gethard, a writer for Weird NJ and the associated book series, concurs:
Action Park was a true rite of passage for any New Jerseyan of my generation. When I get to talking about it with other Jerseyans, we share stories as if we are veterans who served in combat together. I suspect that many of us may have come closest to death on some of those rides up in Vernon Valley. I consider it a true shame that future generations will never know the terror of proving their grit at New Jersey's most dangerous amusement park.[39]
Traction Park. I would have been the idiot worker that took the money to try the loop slide.
You can ride another copy of the infamous Alpine Slide in another park called Kentucky Action Park near Cave City, KY. It has lots and lots of warnings posted up right before you get on.
I've been on those things at more than one mountain, I think they're fairly common
When I was like 6 or 7 my Dad took me on one of these things. He was racing my uncle and we went too fast and flipped off a bend and a hit my head on the concrete, got a huge scratch all over and blood all over my face. We finished the ride though because we weren't no pussies and I took a picture afterwords with my Uncle and cousins where I still had the fricking blood all over my face like a pro wrestler. It was based.
>and that’s how I ended up here all these years later
I've been to action park. its 45 mins from where I grew up. It wasn't during the heyday though. When I went it was called mountain creek and I only went there once. still its the only waterpark I have almost died at. almost fell off one of the waterslides that you have like 8 people to a tube because there were only 4 of us and it wasn't balanced and we almost went over the side. pretty sure we had crashes on the alpine slide and when you do the tarzan swing, which is one of the places peopled died, the water comes from off the mountain, not from where ever the rest of the park's water is from, like you literally swing into a creek and the creek is entirely fricking icewater from melting snow and is fricking freezing
>six people died out of probably millions that attended over the years
hmmm
This is one of my "cool thing that only existed for a little while I got to experience as a young person". Tomb Raider: The Ride.
Damn that ride looks amazing. Why did they abandon it?
Lost the license for Tomb Raider.
That model of ride, a 'Top Spin' made by Huss, was difficult to keep running. A number of them came and went pretty quickly. The lead time on spare parts is months, no park can afford to have attractions down for most of an operating season, so they often were simply removed a few years after being put in.
They were also kind of shit other than Tomb Raider. I rode the Quake at Kentucky Kingdom that was one of those and it was not really that fun. Nothing compared to Tomb Raider.
>They were also kind of shit other than Tomb Raider.
I didn't ever go on Tomb Raider but I did ride a Top Spin when Worlds of Fun had one. It's one of the more intense rides I've been on and not in a good way. Like you said it wasn't that fun, it was a one and done deal.
We have Top Spins on every fair here in Germany. We also have one in Phantasialand called Talocan which is similar to the Tomb Raider one but the Tomb Raider ones theming looks way more detailed and better.
Being in the same continent as the manufacturer helps. Huss, Intamin, and a number of other ride manufacturers do not keep their own supply of spare parts for owners to purchase, instead the ride's owner has to buy and warehouse their own. Few parks are willing to do that. Add in the transit time from there to here and it results in rides being down for weeks or months while the spare part is made and shipped.
How did they avoid people getting burned by the lava streams? Not to mention convection.
Something about this seems really fishy...
I rode the original configuration of Son of Beast within one month of it opening in 2000 when it still had the wooden loop. This was before the attempted smoothing out of the curves.
Fricked up my shoulder for a week after it was so rough.
The ride was good though. Roughest and wildest roller coaster I've ever ridden, but that was the whole point of it. It was absolutely intense.
This ride succeeded in the feeling that something ferocious has "got you" and taking you on a ride through hell that just will not let up.
That's why I like wood coasters. Feels like you're actually going to die.
Steel coaters that are objectively taller and faster feel slower.
yeah I rode this when it still had the loop too, it must've been in like 2004 since the loop was removed around 2006 or 07
Frick off, poser. If you were a real one you're home park would've been The Beach, b***h.
t. grew up in the cornfields between Cincinnati and Dayton
That was the park across the way from King's Island right? I never got to go there. It was always so tantalizing looking out the window as we pulled into the King's Island parking lot.
Yeah, I only picked a fight with OP because they're almost within sight of each other,, and The Beach is clearly the better water park. Water Works is attached to King's Island, which is a general amusement park with roller coasters etc, and was included in that ticket, so if you were going for both it might have been a better value, but The Beach was the better straight water park.
the beach died
had a few fun times there in college tho
t. uc grad
Frick off poser. If you were a real one your home park would have been The Ocean, b***h.
t. grew up in Newport Beach
I think they were at that time, and possibly even now, and I think that video some gay made on Youtube about Action Park is mostly some exaggerated reddit shit.
>Have a job sampling water from pools around nj during university
>At some point I get sent to a place called Mountain Creek
>Vaguely recall reading threads on Cinemaphile about action park
>Get to the place and go to reception
>Tell them why I'm there and ask if this place was action park
>The person at reception nervously laughs and I'm escorted around to take my samples
>During my time I noticed that there's like at least 10 employees watching me (trying to not be obvious) on top of my escort
>The escorts are actually pretty normal, especially at the larger places but having a bunch of people watching me freaks me out a bit
>As I'm leaving I call and tell my boss that I thought it was odd there was 10 others watching me
>He tells me not to worry about it
What didn't they want me to know
maybe there is a super fun site there or something
I can't tell if this is zoomer stupidity or an EXTREMELY clever joke
Why is this thread so fricking obsessed with zoomers.
I get it, millenials were made into a boogeyman by boomers, and constantly had moronic accusations thrown at you. But it just comes off as punching down, and weird seething when you do it to a generation of 20 year olds growing up in an objectively worse circumstance than you.
it's basically just the new "newbie"
I agree it's cringe and a lot of it is seethe by people who are middle-aged
millennials coping with getting older
>Why is this thread so fricking obsessed with zoomers
new to Cinemaphile? first thread?
the youngest generation is usually the first to get shit on, just like Gen Z will do to Gen Alpha if they don't already. Don't be mad just because the shoe fits
a super fund site is a highly polluted sight the EPA is cleaning up. NJ has a ton of them. there is one in the ramapo mountains, but idk if mountain creek is technically in the ramapo mountains or a different subsection of the Appalachian mountains
Yes, I know that zoomer, but he said 'super fun site' in regards to an amusement park. which would have been an EXTREMELY clever joke if deliberate, which apparently it wasn't
Imagine being such a fricking mongoloid homosexual that you enter a thread about a doc you haven’t and won’t ever watch just to sit there trembling, starting arguments about something you don’t have any clue about kek
Imagine seething this much about someone shitposting
>replies angrily to every post calling out his idiocy
>”you’re the one who is seething”
Oh the ironing pottery, what a protection
I knew this park from the little youtube videos about it but the actual documentary made it very apparent just how fricked up this was and how moronic you'd have to be to risk this place.
It was before you could just leave yelp reviews on places. a good deal of these incidents would be completely unknown to people unless they saw a local news story or a newspaper clippings. Just word of mouth mostly, and some of this shit sounds ridiculous that people would consider it urban legend.
And while the fatality/injury rate seems crazy, there were thousands of people coming in so even if they suspected they could be injured, people with those numbers have a mentality that it won't be them.
it was during the 70s and shit. no internet and everyone showing up was a teenager who was going there because they didn't card for beer. plus its not like you had the options back then for entertainment or even waterparks you have now
>King's Island. Didn't seem too different from what I've seen of Action Park.
I doubt that.
I went to King's Island during the glory years of the 80s and early 90s.
King's Island was every bit on the level with Disneyland back then and was a world-class park.
I've heard of a few people getting hurt there over the years but overall I would bet heavily on King's Island having a much safer waterpark (which I have visited many times, but never been to Action Park back in the day to compare).
What's the coolest water park in the U.S.?
imo it would have to be Typhoon Lagoon just due to the overall Disney effect of everything being higher quality and better maintained.
>t. scared of real water slides
Unironically yes and not without good reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verr%C3%BCckt
>Ignoring the thousands of others who didn't die from riding it
Frick off
I cannot sanction your buffoonery.
Having been to a bunch I would probably vote for any of the Six Flags operated water parks. They are all more or less the same rides, but they are at the right mix of quality and diverse, interesting rides. Something like
or any of the other Disney water parks are higher presentation/production value, and there are parks with more insane or interesting rides, but the Six Flags water parks tend to be right at the crossroads of "not a complete shithole" and "actually fun."
I miss Wet n Wild in Orlando
Amusement parks are for brown people and children.
>doesnt appreciate the engineering behind a roller coaster
homosexual
I love going to water parks. So many scantily clad women to ogle.
>Do you think most waterparks were similar in other parts of the USA?
There were safe (read: safe-ER) water parks in my area when I was growing up, but it was always on a spectrum. We definitely had two that immediately come to mind that were INSANELY dangerous in retrospect, that thankfully have since been shut down.
Just one quick example, there was one place near where I lived called Wildwood Water Park, and they had so so so many ridiculously dangerous attractions, but the one that sticks out in my mind were these two giant cement cylinders they had suspended above a pretty shallow pond. They were maybe 5 feet tall and 10-12 feet wide and they were held above the water in their center by an axel that allowed them to spin like the front wheel on Fred Flintstone's car. So what you would do was two people would walk on top of them and start running in the same direction and the cylinders would spin and the goal was to stay on longer than the other person with you without falling off. Again- and I can't stress this enough- THESE WERE MADE OUT OF CEMENT! And they were getting continuously wet as kids fell in the water and got back on or water splashed back up on them, so they were SLIPPERY. The hardest part was even walking onto one in the first place without slipping and cracking your head open on them. It was so incredibly dangerous looking back on it, i can't believe there aren't more horror stories about kids breaking their noses or getting concussions falling on those things. And this wasn't like 100 years ago or anything- this all happened in the mid 90s. Lmao I can't believe how long they were able to stay open.
Just don't be a b***h dude
This. Just don't be a pussy crybaby homosexual, homosexual.
all they had to do, was have a deeper pool, and add a thick and hardy rubber padding, why?
For many, many reasons, that park could only exist in that time period. Imagine the crowds now and the filth and fights.
if Action Park was still around the Black folk would kill more than the rides
morons get all fun made illegal. Nanny state bullshit.
Muh guns
muh freedom
muh Russia
Frick off
Americans have no self-preservation instincts.
mountain creek is also like 15 mins from the gun range
Yeah different country but we had an 'action park' like park with downhill taboggan likes things everyone came off at some point and hurt themselves. even a local park area had this really long metal slide that kids went down way too frickin fast on and poleaxed themselves and whoever was in the way at the bottom.. my primary school even had a 'firemans pole' that was like a pyramid shaped structure made of logs with a pole in the middle and at least once a week some kid fell off onto the dirt and hurt themselves.. it was just the style of the time.
>feed me teenage boys
There's that Johnny Knoxville movie based off of this called Action Point
place looks like so much fun
if you're not a total moron you should see clearly it's not a "safe" park and act accordingly and if not then better for the rest
Action Park was good for the gene pool
take me back
>Remember being a young lad and always wanting to watch Takeshi's Castle, but it had ended like 8 years before I even heard of it
>Only found out what it was because they used to show clips of it on Endurance UK
>They wouldn't even make Endurance UK now because based Hoki and Koki would upset someone
>Even though they were both clearly ethnic Japanese
I miss going to pools and waterparks. Past a certain point, you can't really do that anymore if you don't have a family or don't want to just swim laps.
>no singles policy
>the lifeguard will not attend you
I saw my first boobs at Action Park as a young lad. The force of the waterslides would rip off the top of any womans two piece bathing suit. The guidos at the park would congregate at the base of the slides and watch, screaming OUUGHHH and AYYYY like they do in The Sopranos (Action Park was in NJ).
RIP Action Park
damn, ive never done seen a boob myself and I'm 33 but maybe I will one day