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Class Action Park-America's next viral documentary phenomenon

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hasn’t this been done before?  pretty sure there’s already a documentary and a movie with johnny knoxville.  am I wrong, guys?

21 minutes ago, futureman said:

hasn’t this been done before?  pretty sure there’s already a documentary and a movie with johnny knoxville.  am I wrong, guys?

Yeah but those didn't make HBO any money you moron.

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"The park entertained over one million visitors per year during the 1980s, with as many as 12,000 coming on some of the busiest weekends.[3] Park officials said this made the injury and death rate statistically insignificant. Nevertheless, the director of the emergency room at a nearby hospital said they treated from five to ten victims of park accidents on some of the busiest days, and the park eventually bought the township of Vernon extra ambulances to keep up with the volume."

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There was a fantastic long article about this place that I read a few years. It was a great read. I’ll see if I can find it.

58 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Here’s the thing though...that place looks awesome

"Hold my beer" was first quoted here. 

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The guy's son just released a book about the park's history, too. 

For you Dallas area olds, you could find a couple of the water park features in this video at White Water in Garland.  For example, the inner tube ride @ :36 seconds.  There was also a "cliff diving" area.

Edited by Knoxtnhorn

19 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Those sleds(?) in the concrete tracks look awesome.

Alpine slides. There are some that are on metal rails and have brakes.  Those are cool af until you get halfway down and run up on a girl going 1/3 speed and slam into them.

9 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

For you Dallas area olds, you could find a couple of the water park features in this video at White Water in Garland.  For example, the inner tube ride @ :36 seconds.  There was also a "cliff diving" area.

Was that the former name for the old Wet 'n Wild off LBJ?

1 minute ago, Saint Austin said:

Was that the former name for the old Wet 'n Wild off LBJ?

Yep.  I had season tickets one year.  Sometime around 1990.  It was awesome, but I spent most of my time playing basketball.  If you use Google Earth and zoom in around the area that is currently a CarMax, one of the parking lots is actually called, "Former White Water parking lot" or something along those lines.

13 hours ago, Deej said:

The guy's son just released a book about the park's history, too. 

I've heard him on a number of podcast/radio interviews. Pretty interesting tale. 

4 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Yep.  I had season tickets one year.  Sometime around 1990.  It was awesome, but I spent most of my time playing basketball.  If you use Google Earth and zoom in around the area that is currently a CarMax, one of the parking lots is actually called, "Former White Water parking lot" or something along those lines.

White Water in Arlington >>> WW on LBJ

wet n wild sucked in comparison to both.

14 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

For you Dallas area olds, you could find a couple of the water park features in this video at White Water in Garland.  For example, the inner tube ride @ :36 seconds.  There was also a "cliff diving" area.

It was a miracle if you didn't leave White Water without some sort of scrape, cut, or bruise. Even the water slides were bad and would give you cuts on your back. But it was awesome. The pirate ship you could climb on that had the water cannons was great. 

4 minutes ago, Druggist said:

White Water in Arlington >>> WW on LBJ

wet n wild sucked in comparison to both.

White water was the shit

2 hours ago, mdmost said:

It was a miracle if you didn't leave White Water without some sort of scrape, cut, or bruise. Even the water slides were bad and would give you cuts on your back. But it was awesome. 

 

So is this only on HBO Max? I have standard HBO (through Roku) and can't find it anywhere.

Watched this tonight. Pretty meh honestly and based on this documentary I think I kinda hate anyone who went to Action Park. Fucking Jersey.

 

I preferred the Defunctland episode.

Edited by LonghornSean

An old buddy of mine Seth Porges made that film. I don’t have HBO max so I haven’t seen it yet. I’ve only got regular hbo. Gotta bootleg that shit it’s 100% on rotten tomatoes.

Living in Chicago I heard legends/horror stories of that place. A semi famous post-punk band from there called Shellac named one of their albums “At action park”.

5 hours ago, BradInATX said:

So is this only on HBO Max? I have standard HBO (through Roku) and can't find it anywhere.

Watching it on Couchtuner . Looks like a place I would have loved to get seriously hurt as a kid.

4 hours ago, RPM said:

Watching it on Couchtuner . Looks like a place I would have loved to get seriously hurt as a kid.

I was going to say the same thing.  After watching the trailer and Defunctland, I've decided that the place looks awesome.  

On 9/2/2020 at 6:52 AM, Knoxtnhorn said:

For you Dallas area olds, you could find a couple of the water park features in this video at White Water in Garland.  For example, the inner tube ride @ :36 seconds.  There was also a "cliff diving" area.

White Water also had a somewhat padded slide you went down head first on a mat that and had a jump where you caught real air. As a BMX kid, I rode that thing until I was bruised. And that diving area was great, too. I hated when that place closed and we were relegated to the much tamer and regulated Wet n Wild. 

Had friends on Long Island as a kid and they used to talk with awe about that place, which they were of course not allowed to go to.  Most of the stories they told sounded like total over the top bullshit at the time.  
 

Then in college I met some Jersey folks who went several times and they independently confirmed those stories were all true.  Then much later I saw the shit on Youtube and that reconfirmed it 
 

So jealous.  I would have definitely died there. 

2 hours ago, Whitewater Horn said:

White Water also had a somewhat padded slide you went down head first on a mat that and had a jump where you caught real air. As a BMX kid, I rode that thing until I was bruised. And that diving area was great, too. I hated when that place closed and we were relegated to the much tamer and regulated Wet n Wild. 

Sweet.  I've always wanted to do this...Username checks out.  

The unregulated inner tube slide was my fav.  That last 109 foot or so drop down concrete was the best.

Brothers and I got thrown out one year. I figured a way to stop on the "green slide" on the 2nd turn.  I'd stop, wait for them, then we'd wrestle/fight the rest of the way down.  Good times.

Crazy place, but they never decapitated a kid. 

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