HBO Max's Class Action Park has to be the funniest Documentary i've ever seen

[Tommy Fits]

Replying to myself...

You know, I always used to see those Westchester County Fair commercials, but until I rewatched them I never ever realized that they took place at Yonkers Raceway.
For those who don't know, that place is practically in the Bronx.

The commercials always gave me the impression that it took place on some farmland upstate.

This, I remember the commercials and thought the same thing as a kid lol. Couldn't understand why someone would want to go to a country fair in the boonies not realize it was basically the Bronx lol

 

[The axe murderer]

Wikipedia says at least 6 people died there.



The specifics on some of the rides are insane.

At this point of insanity I reckon there were more bodies and they were kept as emergency rations because can't nobody tell me those ain't death traps.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

“Undertrained 14 year old drunk lifeguard with ptsd” from seeing all the injuries and accidents; friction burns from the Alpine Slide, where divorced guilt ridden NJ parents send their kids to make up for their lack of time; getting high off go kart fumes,- pure dysfunction

 

[KalKal]

I don't think this is one of the "classic" rides. I don't think they had anything like that when I last went (probably around 89). This looks like something new for the "revived" park.

 

[Romey Rome]

anybody found a good link for this?

Spoiler

torrent or stream

 

[jwinfield]

this is something serious but it seemed so light hearted while watching lol

Until they got to the mom

 

[HipHopStan]

If Itchy and Scratchy had a water park .

We had those tanks at a family fun park near Sacramento in the 80s. shyt was already piff. When they talked about kids creating fireballs I fell out of my chair

I watched the defunctland before the Wikipedia about Action Park and the doc was long overdue.


10/10 Those workers are taking a lot of secrets to their graves

It's good to see a fellow Defunctland fan on here. I love that channel. Theme Park History is a MUST checkout too.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

I vaguely remember the commercials as a little kid growing up in the tri state but I never went. Ain't going to lie, that park looks fun as hell.

That said the one part that resonated with me was the part when the guy was talking about kids of the 80's when they looked to have fun try to find a way to die was part of it and how parents had no idea where you were but the expected you home by night. That mentality lasted into the 90's. When I was a kid it was basically I'm going to so and so's house and I wouldn't be home until it was almost night. And some of the shyt we did as kids I look back at like holy shyt, how didn't I almost die, I would do shyt I wouldn't do today and I sure as hell wouldn't let my kids do. Like seriously who the fukk was watching us in back in the day. Even if we weren't doing something dangerous for fun we were doing some stupid shyt because no one was watching us. I was 8 years old and would cross Rockaway Blvd by myself to go to the deli and buy chips and a quarter drink and play NBA Jam. I thought turning lanes were for pedestrians, I should've been fukking ran over lol. It's a different time I miss it but I sure as hell wouldn't let my kids do it lol.

Facts. I remember building ramps and going down hills and shyt like I was Evil Kneival. One time I borrowed a 10 speed and went down a hill. I didn't know how to brake so I crashed full speed into the curb and flew onto someone's front porch.

Wiped my scrapes off and went home like

 

[FreedMind]

Talking about the park really seemed to take the cast back to their teenage years. Chris Gethard in particular came off like the oldest 12 year old in this.

True sign of prime, unforgettable fukkery having taken place.

The story of the kid hitting his head and dying is super fukked though. After nearly an hour of making light of all the fukkery, that story completely shatters the illusion.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

God damn that shyt brought back memories. Any kid from the during that era went there and shared the battle scars. I almost got crippled on the alpine slide when I was a kid. I kept braking and got stuck halfway down. Somebody was speeding behind me and crashed right into me. Don’t know how I didn’t shatter my vertebrae. Also got rug burns from the body slide. I loved that park man. shyt was no rules and getting hurt was part of the fun.

 

[Smokin Rider]

I'm sure the story must have been about the Alpine Slide, which was not a water slide. The track looks like concrete, but I learned first hand after falling onto the track myself that it is not actually concrete.

Don't know if this was filmed at Action Park, but here's an Alpine Slide somewhere:

Yeah i did one of these as like an 11 year old and figured nothing would happen if I kept the speed up the whole time

Needless to say I hit a corner and went airborne a good 15 feet or so. Luckily I just landed in grass, got back up and finished the ride as slow as possible

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

these cracas was fukking crazy

 

[YAYU]

i remember going w my family, way too small to ride the slides, but i always remember ambulances and gurneys at the entrance.

when i got older i went with my friends family and didnt tell my mom, just like in the doc, and she beat my ass when i came home. still had madd fun that day.

fukk the alpine slide n the rope swing.

 

[LezJepzin]

I remember seeing the commercials as a kid and always thinking it was the raddest amusement park of all time.

My mother had a friend who worked in a hospital near there (Alpine NJ, I think) and I remember her telling me about all these horror stories of people getting injured, probably cause I kept begging my parents to go

One story in particular that stands out all these years later is a dude who had to have a skin graft to replace ALL the skin on his back after riding one of their poorly maintained waterslides

That ride really had to be fukked up for him to need that done .

There's a Waterpark here in Sacramento called Raging Waters. When it named Waterworld, I went down a waterslide called The Cliffhanger . It was six stories , going nearly straight down.


One day I went down this 83 times , including 37 times in a row . My back was on fire for the next three days but I didn't lose any skin