Where are my East Coast 80's babies at, you know about this place, you probably even got injured here or know someone that has. This was the wildest summertime destination back in the day. But also the most dangerous, cool to see HBO covering it.
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HBOMAX - Class Action Park Trailer - Where are my 80’s babies at?
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Where are my East Coast 80's babies at, you know about this place, you probably even got injured here or know someone that has. This was the wildest summertime destination back in the day. But also the most dangerous, cool to see HBO covering it.
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If 80's legends are correct someone got stuck in the top of the loop.
I mean, it was kinda just loosely based on the concept.
It came out and like nobody saw it.
Is this the shitty water park in Jersey that Vinny and Jeff talked about on a Beastcast a while back?
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Shitty for its lack of safety sure? Otherwise it was offering shit other parks were not. Probably because of how unsafe it was.
What would you do if you didn't make the loop? You'd have to crawl back up? Lmao
Yeah like they talked about how terrifying everything was, I can't find the clip but I'm pretty sure it was this place
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Think i remember reading a urban legend of them prying it open
but yeah this shit looked super dangerous as an adult. But as a kid this was amazing. Was closed when I went.
If you got stuck on that shit you were probably fucking dead or unconcious.
Very interested! Funnily enough the Defunctland episode on this place was in the end recommendations. I'll definitely be watching that later.
Man I remember this place. The ads for Action Park were amazing and it was the place everyone wanted to go. I always loved the tanks they had that shot tennis balls.
my brother got messed up in a water slide there when the water got blocked.
my brother got messed up in a water slide there when the water got blocked.
I've watched several youtube videos about this place. A wild mix of interesting and tragic stories. I'm not going to lie, I would totally go as a teen if I lived in the area.
I'm really interested in this. I hope this documentary digs more into the park than the Knoxville film did.
Came out a few year ago after well and truly bombing at the box office.
I watched it on Netflix (UK) a few days ago and it's truly awful but it's running time is barely 75 minutes without the credits soooooooo.....
Came out a few year ago after well and truly bombing at the box office.
I watched it on Netflix (UK) a few days ago and it's truly awful but it's running time is barely 75 minutes without the credits soooooooo.....
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Oh they had those tanks in Ocean City Maryland, they were amazing.
A kid has been decapitated only three days ago and people still took the first change to visit the park, if you're really that obsessed with parks, just pick any other water park.
See from the building to the riding of it, shit doesn't make a lick of sense to me.
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The go karts, bobsled thing, flying squirrel suit and the Tarzan swing is what always sold me.
Dollop did a hilarious episode on this back in 2017.
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As someone from the west coast who has enjoyed reading about all the urban legends about this park on the internet for years (I remember there used to be a whole website dedicated to insanity of the park) ... This documentary is pretty good. Not gonna lie, there's a slight tonal whiplash when they talk about one of the victims families and then it just...awkwardly moves on from it. That said, I thought it balanced the "lol this park was so whacky and crazy" and "uh this park was legit fucked up and not okay, people shouldn't be dying..." stuff pretty well. Even though it has the awkward transition with the victim's family, it kinda swings back around to hitting some of the negative points again with a balance of happy nostalgia about the park.
I went on the aqua skoot, the slide with the rollers, a gazillion times.
The water pool by the cliff jump though, the shaded section, was really refreshing.
The point about the '80's being the last decade of unsupervised childhood, is true. No common mobile phone tech, no internet, no hundreds of tv channels, and sometimes no A/C. You went out and didn't come back until night. Or you worked and went out at night...somewhere, almost anywhere. Basically, what that guy was saying about what you did this weekend - crazy/stupid shit, or regular shit like visiting a relative, both would get a non-plussed "Cool." in response.
The water pool by the cliff jump though, the shaded section, was really refreshing.
The point about the '80's being the last decade of unsupervised childhood, is true. No common mobile phone tech, no internet, no hundreds of tv channels, and sometimes no A/C. You went out and didn't come back until night. Or you worked and went out at night...somewhere, almost anywhere. Basically, what that guy was saying about what you did this weekend - crazy/stupid shit, or regular shit like visiting a relative, both would get a non-plussed "Cool." in response.
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My family went every summer. I was born in 85, so I didn't experience the mayhem as I was doing bumper boats or whatever, but I remember the commercials so vividly. One of my older brothers had somebody fall on to him because one of the "rides" was cliff diving. Basically teens jumping 30-40 feet onto people in a pool of water below.
I'm interested in what the HBO series actually brings to the table that this defunctland didn't. It kind of looks like they're going really heavy into the built up mythology of the park but I questions whether having a bunch of interviews of people saying all the crazy things they heard growing up is really all that engaging.
Yeah I rode Verrückt before the kid had his accident, and it was scary as hell. Turns out that could have happened to anyone, and everyone who rode it was lucky, but because of how it was built, it was bound to happen to someone. Really messed up.
The HBO doc actually has multiple ex-staff members being interviewed, which I don't recall the Defuctland episode having access to (only watched it once when it originally came out).
It's also not a series but one 90-minute documentary.
Though it's true Defuctland is some quality fucking content putting most "official" documentaries to shame.
Documentaries aren't just about facts. They are about a point of view. Defunctland did a great job covering the history, but they were never there. So yes the interviews can be engaging.
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I only went years later, but before they started to fully sanitize it like it has been as of late (but still years after the loop slide, though my brothers grew up in that era for it). Even then, there was still a lot of fun to be had, from the cannonball slides, to the cliff jump. Nothing quite like it.
Saw the defunct land vid on this a few year back, was great seeing more of it. I can't believe this place was real.
I never heard of this place but I gotta watch this. I like the line:
You shouldn't have to be the second person to die in the wave pool. Close the fucking wave pool!
You shouldn't have to be the second person to die in the wave pool. Close the fucking wave pool!
