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Action park battle tank9/9/2023 One of the park's worst offenders was its alpine slide, a fiberglass sled that would carry riders down the mountain on a concrete track which were speed-controled via a throttle stick. It's been said that its designers would just throw together rides without fully testing them to make sure they were safe to use. But as it grew, it added more new rides with poor designs completely devoid of safety standards. It initially featured an alpine slide, a water park, and a race car track and in many ways, was innovative and ahead of its time. It opened in 1978 as part of the Mountain Creek ski resort and a way for the property to bring in money during the off-season months, and to also compete with Six Flags. The concept behind the park's creation was well-intended: Action Park was designed and marketed as appealing to thrill-seekers where they got to control how fast they went on a ride, so naturally it was a preadolescent and teenage boy's dream. Barnum by a former employee in a 2013 documentary about Action Park. It all started with a man named Gene Mulvihill, a New Jersey developer who was compared to P.T. The place eventually became responsible for six deaths including an electrocution. One said his mother worked at a nearby hospital, where she helped tend to a never-ending stream of kids coming into the ER with injuries from the amusement park. Just how dangerous was this place? It was so treacherous that while researching it I came across commenters on various sites that sustained broken noses, broken bones, skin burns, concussions, near drownings, and more. In fact, many former patrons claim it was a right of passage to survive a visit to "Class Action Park"-a fitting nickname given its notorious reputation. If you were a kid growing up in New Jersey in the '70s, '80s, or '90s, there's a good chance you visited Action Park in Vernon, just over the New York line.
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