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Natural Selection Park. Every city should have one.
The Father – Uncle Gene
The Son – Billy McFarland
The Holy Spirit – Bobby Kotick
This is perfection
Damn, I was waiting for Woolie to namedrop Defunctland.
AHAHA, PAT SOLVED THIS. THANK YOU, PAT.
To those interested, there's also a podcast called 'Behind the Bastards" which did a full episode on Action Park. It's not as long or detailed as a full special but it gets into the dirt on a lot of this. A fun detail that Woolie didn't mention: one of the draws of Action Park's rides was, to Uncle Gene, the fact that some, like the Tarzan Swing, would cause young women and girls to lose their tops on the way down.
It's a fucking miracle this man's body count didn't soar into the double digits.
things like this is why people make fun of jersey
why is woolie watching docs?
thought he only plays fighting games
Theme parks are indeed fuckin scary, you don't even have to be in the 80s for that. Growing up in the 2000s, I got a concussion in a similar looping waterslide that was poorly maintained and staffed, and I can recall multiple times I nearly died in a wave pool. Some from the waves, some from an adult standing on me unknowingly, and one from older teens literally attempting to drown me as they dominated the floating raft in the middle of the pool. It's kinda fuckin insane the shit the dangerous shit theme parks have always and still can get away with.
Uncle Gene was super upset they coudn't finish the Live ammo tag arena before it got shut down.
I remember this from no such thing as a fish
Mono-Red energy
As someone who works as a ride operator on a roller coaster, I will always defend amusement parks and roller coasters as very safe as they go through vigorous daily testing and daily maintenance. Carnivals? Those can fuck right off.
Uncle Gene playin Rollercoaster tycoon IRL
The most comical part about the CFS (Again, it abbreviates to "Can't Fucking Swim" because the lifeguards were young drunkards) Mark of Shaming is that Action Park's main draws were low-income youths and families of varying European ancestries (mainly German and Polish as Action Park would promote Oktoberfests and Polish Festivals, which would exacerbate the alcohol problems within the staff and visitor circles) who live in an area of New Jersey that was several kilometres away from the coastline and any safe lakes, or in Geographic terms: Northern Appalachia. Meaning that they never had the chance to learn, let alone afford any lessons in the basic acts of swimming and NOT panicking when submerged in cold water.
These days the park would be called Libertarian Wonderland.
So Gene achieved the dream of having an actual Roller Coaster Tycoon. XD
As someone who lived a town or two over from action park, this is delightful
Did Johnny Knoxville actually work there? Or did he just learn alot about it for the film?
Action Park reopened in 2015.
I actually paused this video half way through to go watch Class Action Park, I was not disappointed. I have to say that as a child of the 80's, Colorado river rapids looks hella fun.
OK but that oath is some 40k shit
I have vivid flashbacks of a scene from King of the Hill.
Lucky and Dale are fucking around and Lucky hurts his back. So Dale goes to call his insurance and the second phone rings next to him.
Always made me laugh but holy shit it's real.
This is that theme park from Pinocchio where all the kids turn into donkeys.
Went to Action Park when I was wee baby with my older brother. He broke his leg. Great time.
I knew a bit about Action Park from the Defunctland episode, but this got me to actually go watch the documentary. Good stuff. Lots more going on than I expected.
This sounds like an AnCap nightmare.
Good fucking god
Risk inabitions fucked due to led poisoning generation? Some would call them brave others would call them stupid. I say let's compromise and say they were stupidly brave.
I almost drowned in the wave pool!!
Just started the video. Can't wait til Pat hears about the fuck shack.
To quote the trailer "No one should be the SECOND person, to die in a wave pool"
I would like to note, The cartoon Megas XLR might in fact have been too kind to Jersey.
I enjoy that this story has left Pat smiling the whole time from how purposely insane Action Park was.
Uncle Gene's son did a Reddit AMA a couple years ago, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a more stunning case of rose-tinted glasses than that comment section.
Not even an 80's movie, this whole story unironically sounds like the plot to an early-mid 00's anti-establishment slacker comedy film where a pair of college drop outs are given free reign to manage a theme park and somehow portrayed to be the "good guys" up against a stuffy entrenched legitimate rival park and regulators. It could star Justin Long and Jonah Hill, maybe the actor who played McLovin in Superbad as some sort of clearly underaged worker that they're paying under the table. Guest appearances by Johnny Knoxville or Tom Green.
An article came out recently about a ride Gene decided to not go with after testing revealed it to be too dangerous. And I want you to think about that for a second.