A waterslide with a loop on it

pjoasisrule
pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
edited December 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
This may have been the coolest thing ever where it was dangerous or not. Might I add that it is at the coolest waterpark ever. I am laughing like crazy at this article right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park
Alpine Valley 2000
Summerfest 2006

"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/wathell/Picture003.jpg

    This has to be the raddest thing ever, I would give anything to ride this just once
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Anyone else think this would make an excellent movie? What a premise. 'Danger Park'.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Awesome. It looks like it spits you out into a sand trap though !? lol...
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    or a pool of brown muddy water....

    http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=11083&d=1077812385
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • touringfan
    touringfan Posts: 568
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    This may have been the coolest thing ever where it was dangerous or not. Might I add that it is at the coolest waterpark ever. I am laughing like crazy at this article right now.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park

    I worked at Action Park for 4 summers and could take up HOURS of your time with stories. These were some of the best years of my life. This place was so poorly run and we as employees did whatever we wanted. Most fun and the Best job I have ever had !!!
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  • given2fly78
    given2fly78 Posts: 404
    holy S&*T! That thing looks scary. And the wikipedia entry about the park (which I read the whole thing) sounds horrid!
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Would love to see footage of some of the rides..........the odd thing about the other rides at the park is that they have similar ones at the waterparks I have been to and I dont remember getting hurt that bad
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    people def. got hurt on that thing.

    i love the water park they have there now... mountain creek water park. fun shit!
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    touringfan wrote:
    I worked at Action Park for 4 summers and could take up HOURS of your time with stories. These were some of the best years of my life. This place was so poorly run and we as employees did whatever we wanted. Most fun and the Best job I have ever had !!!
    You worked there? It was such a cool place. It was fine...people are just so uptight about safety these days to have too much fun. lol
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  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    given2fly78 wrote:
    holy S&*T! That thing looks scary. And the wikipedia entry about the park (which I read the whole thing) sounds horrid!

    I read the whole thing too. That place sounds ridiculous, and that ride... holy shit.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    lol "the Grave pool"

    "Those who made it to the bottom found their progress arrested by water, which made a large splash, and then a small pool. The speed at which riders met the end resulted in many getting wedgies and enemas from the experience.[13] Employees kept fishnets for scooping out the occasional nugget of excrement or tampon."

    That place is freaking nuts! roflmao..hold on to your tampon..that ride gets a little rough!!....
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    The looping water slide

    The one ride that has come to symbolize Action Park and its extreme thrill-seeking was, paradoxically, almost never used.

    In the mid-1980s GAR built an enclosed water slide, not unusual for that time, and indeed the park already had several. But for this one they decided to build, at the end, a complete vertical loop of the kind more commonly associated with roller coasters.Employees have reported they were offered hundred-dollar bills to test it. "It didn't buy enough booze to drown out the memory", said Fergus.

    It was opened for one month in summer 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, and it was widely rumored, and reported in Weird NJ, that some of the test dummies sent down before it was opened had been dismembered. A rider also reportedly got stuck at the top of the loop due to insufficient water pressure, and a hatch had to be built there to allow for future extrications.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • Them-Bones
    Them-Bones Posts: 518
    On August 1st 1993, MTV's Headbanger's Ball taped an episode at the park. The host, Riki Rachtman, interviewed and went on the rides with the band Alice In Chains.



    lulz
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    The looping water slide

    The one ride that has come to symbolize Action Park and its extreme thrill-seeking was, paradoxically, almost never used.

    In the mid-1980s GAR built an enclosed water slide, not unusual for that time, and indeed the park already had several. But for this one they decided to build, at the end, a complete vertical loop of the kind more commonly associated with roller coasters.Employees have reported they were offered hundred-dollar bills to test it. "It didn't buy enough booze to drown out the memory", said Fergus.

    It was opened for one month in summer 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, and it was widely rumored, and reported in Weird NJ, that some of the test dummies sent down before it was opened had been dismembered. A rider also reportedly got stuck at the top of the loop due to insufficient water pressure, and a hatch had to be built there to allow for future extrications.
    Don't believe everything you read. ;)
    See, we amercians are tough as nails. That is the real reason the world dislikes us. lolololololol
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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Here is a video. lol
    I never went on that crazy loop, but I was on everything else I think.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SxhNai4Zhs
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • Lukin2Not4You
    Lukin2Not4You Posts: 94
    this place was great. we went there a bunch in high school then it closed down. i saw some guy break his arm on the alpine slide, he would have been ok and able to crash and roll but he was carrying a 12 month old baby.
  • scot88
    scot88 Posts: 217
    that's new jersey in a nutshell
  • Bwalker545
    Bwalker545 Posts: 162
    Some even credit the park for making them learn some difficult lessons. In 2000, one, 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.
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  • PJ_Lukin
    PJ_Lukin Posts: 2,055
    Magus wrote:
    Some even credit the park for making them learn some difficult lessons. In 2000, one, 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.

    I was in my early 20's at the time this place was booming. I went there once. I seem to remember going there for a concert or 2 as well.
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  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    I remember going there when I was about 15....I also remember the loop being closed due to accidents. ( I think someone got stuck?) The girlfriend of one the guys that we went with went down one of the super slides and I remember her top falling off at the end of the rides....some tig ol' bitties came flopping out. THey had an under ground enclosed slide that was fun but aI remember slamming my nose because you couldn't tell when and where the curves were.
    Tarzan swing was awesome. I remember seeign quite a few people bleeding but we didn't really thik any thing of it at the time
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