It wasn't until both @doctorwednesday and Johnny Knoxville were trying to convince me that a whole-ass field of doohickeys charged admission that I went looking it up, and hhholy shit.

you get to write a sentence like this about a place and expect me to believe that people went there? they sent their children there?? it was fun??????????? people died and this didn't close the park, like, in the FIRST instance????????????

wowie zowie

we here in America have a long tradition of charging admission to artfully-arranged junkyards

Also, you gotta remember that in Gen-X latchkey kid America, this was supervised play. If we weren't here, we'd only be running around in condemned buildings and junk-filled vacant lots throwing rocks at each others' heads. This was improvement!

Action Park reminds me so much of this one permanent amusement fair in South America I went to with my family. Where there were like home-built karts with proper cycling engines that would launch you over the bags of rocks that enclosed the track if you looked at them the wrong way.

There is something deliriously entertaining about a place where you can get seriously hurt.

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 [...] 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.

It wasn't until both @doctorwednesday and Johnny Knoxville were trying to convince me that a whole-ass field of doohickeys charged admission that I went looking it up, and hhholy shit.

you get to write a sentence like this about a place and expect me to believe that people went there? they sent their children there?? it was fun??????????? people died and this didn't close the park, like, in the FIRST instance????????????

wowie zowie

we here in America have a long tradition of charging admission to artfully-arranged junkyards

Also, you gotta remember that in Gen-X latchkey kid America, this was supervised play. If we weren't here, we'd only be running around in condemned buildings and junk-filled vacant lots throwing rocks at each others' heads. This was improvement!

Action Park reminds me so much of this one permanent amusement fair in South America I went to with my family. Where there were like home-built karts with proper cycling engines that would launch you over the bags of rocks that enclosed the track if you looked at them the wrong way.

There is something deliriously entertaining about a place where you can get seriously hurt.

It wasn't until both @doctorwednesday and Johnny Knoxville were trying to convince me that a whole-ass field of doohickeys charged admission that I went looking it up, and hhholy shit.

you get to write a sentence like this about a place and expect me to believe that people went there? they sent their children there?? it was fun??????????? people died and this didn't close the park, like, in the FIRST instance????????????

wowie zowie

Went there mid-90s? I definitely remember it was still called Action Park then. I was certainly too small and frail for a lot of those things but they fuckn sent me down em anyway. Definitely recall flubbing a few of the downhill slides and earning some scrapes, pretty sure I had a tough time getting out of one of the landing pools at the tube slides right near the front gates. The one I think was the one they said was 'full of snakes'? That was a really fucking steep drop.
The wave pool was rough even at that late phase in the park's life after they toned down the intensity of the waves.

Distinctly recall not having had a good time, between other kids in the (Boy Scouts?) group I went with having a better time, and cumulative shitty feelings from all the scrapes and minor injuries I had accrued.

Bad time, fuck it, may it rest in piss.

It wasn't until both @doctorwednesday and Johnny Knoxville were trying to convince me that a whole-ass field of doohickeys charged admission that I went looking it up, and hhholy shit.

you get to write a sentence like this about a place and expect me to believe that people went there? they sent their children there?? it was fun??????????? people died and this didn't close the park, like, in the FIRST instance????????????

wowie zowie