If you get a chance and have HBO watch ClassAction Park; it’s incredible

Action Park featured three separate attraction areas: the Alpine Center, Motorworld, and Waterworld. The last was one of the first modern American water parks.[2] Many of its attractions were unique, attracting thrill-seekers from across the New York metropolitan area. Action Park's popularity went hand-in-hand with a reputation for poorly designed rides, undertrained and underaged staff,[3] intoxicated guests and staff, and a consequently poor safety record. At least six people are known to have died as a result of mishaps on rides at the park. Healthcare workers and local residents had nicknamed the place "Traction Park",[3] "Accident Park", "Class Action Park"[4] and "Friction Park".[5]

Only real men go down poorly engineered waterslides that knock out their teeth.

I watched it. Good doc. But that place was full of stupid, and much less retarded thrill seeking water parks have been around longer than that place.

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Only real men go down poorly engineered waterslides that knock out their teeth.

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Men? I lost a tooth as a 7 year old on the slide at Thunderbird Beach.

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Thunderbird Beach

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There it is…

I was a camp counselor in the early 90s in upstate NY and the camp took the kids to a field trip there. I took one look at the place was was like, “frick that”. I sat above the luge on an observation bridge, drank beers, and watched kids wipe out over and over again.

I’m in my mid 20’s and I did plenty of unsupervised, dangerous activities growing up. Just hop on the 4-wheeler with my baws and reek havoc in my small town. Kids nowadays don’t know how to have fun, it’s pretty sad to see them glued to phones.

Joey Diaz on growing up going to Action Park

"Every time you went in there, someone Das coming out in a neck brace."

"When I was a kid, I don't go out to play, I went out to die!"

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I’m in my mid 20’s and I did plenty of unsupervised, dangerous activities growing up. Just hop on the 4-wheeler with my baws and reek havoc in my small town. Kids nowadays don’t know how to have fun, it’s pretty sad to see them glued to phones.

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For better or worse, kids couldn’t do a lot of the shite we did growing up even if they wanted to unless you’re in a very rural area. In many places, a kid riding a 4-wheeler ends up with some Karen calling the cops.

That’s back when they sold eight packs of ponies… Not these chickenshit six packs that are over a dollar a piece for each beer!

The Knoxville movie was a letdown.

They toned it down for some reason.



Needed more Jackass scenes like the Park IRL.

There are parks all across America that have the same notorious history in the 80's. We had one in my hometown..."I survived (insert park) t-shirts...everything was metal or concrete, nails sticking out of jungle gyms...none of this safe plastic stuff with rubber mats on the ground that kids play on today while wearing helmets.

We had a water park nearby that when it opened, they "forgot" to seal the concrete slides (cost-saving measure) - so when riders first went down they got basically concrete scaring and road rash going down the slides.