Action Park Vernon, New Jersey 1988 TV Commercial

[Lynxtpm]

Don`t forget the snake infested pond!



[dkell]

This place must have been built by the insane. I was there, but it was a death trap. I flew off the alpine slide so hard I had no idea where I was.  If you lived in NY/NJ this commercial was on 24/7

[KartKing4ever]

I'm surprised no one died from the mini golf...

[hooblefloob]

why did it say little tots when it showed the alpine slide??? an employe died on it lol

[fastold]

theres something for everyone at action park yeah like internal bleeding,broken bones,flesh eating viruses,and over a 1000 ways to die at traction park

[Linkbrawlmaster]

The action never stops,until you slip and hit your head, and die!

[Paperyostrich]

Everyone in this commercial is now dead

[FrobblOo]

just the fact that this was such a risky park makes it an attractive as fuck park. wish there was something like this nowadays

[CFkimahri]

I like how you can see people (possibly) getting injured in the backround...

[Durwood71]

This was an amusement park for real men. Safety regulations? What am I, a sissy?

[AEMoreira81]

Class Action never stops...at Traction Park!

[Clay3613]

Possible death & injury always makes things more fun!

[figment1988]

semi-quiet voice: Action Park is not responsible for injuries, head trauma, dislocated joints, drownings, and even death.

[Homer79163]

It even looks dangerous in the commercial! Look at how many people are coming down at 0:23! Man I miss that place

[LordofDarkness42]

"Die at Action Park and get half off admission"

[ejctigers59]

What ride is at 0:11 ? When I went to Mountain Creek a few years ago, and you were able to go on the Goldolas as a "ride", I saw what looked to be an old ride (possible from when Action Park was in operation), and I was wondering if this was the ride. I remember looking over the Gondola to the left a little ways up the hill and there was a black-looking track what appeared to be some sort of log flume. It was up the hill from where space shot was located. Not sure if the track still exists today

[travelsonic]

@ejctigers59 Looks like the AquaScoot.

Funny they removed the AquaScoot, Kamikaze, Surf Hill, and a few others when rides just like it are safely operated in other parks around the country / workd... IMO that proves the people / employees, not the rides were to blame in a lot [obviously not all] the cases.

I still can't believe the changes Geronimo Falls went. They should re-install the 2nd speed slide. >_<

[chailey666]

I remember surviving this place in the late 70's - I was on the Alpine slide and it jumped the track, throwing me out onto the track and the cart crashing full force into a giant tree. I remember climbing out of the track as fast as I could because I knew that there was another car right behind be probably under no more control than mine. Ah, the good times. We all had a good time and most of our injuries were healed within a month or two.

[youknowyourrite1]

@chailey666 didn't people used to spit on anyone coming down that thing?? i'd gladly leave my place in line with a "fuck that" in my mind after seeing that..

[dkell]

@youknowyourrite1

Yep, when there were heading up via the lift to get to the alpine slide. I was on that slide a few times, lost a ton a skin in the process.

[PENtpbplaya12]

wowo creek has changed a hell of alot

[Dunthyon]

Injuries never stop! At traction park!

[taranchula97]

More like Class Action Park

[gsparkway324]

In this commercial, you can tell the place looks unsafe. All the tube riders right on top of each other isn't safe.

[Durandal1717]

@gsparkway324

ahaha I just now noticed it, looks like there's an endless supply of people riding down one after the other

[310stanger]

All the rumors and stuff people ever hear are true about this place. Easily one of the most dangerous amusement parks ever. Even as a lil kid I remember that feeling like, man I have a real good shot at getting hurt today. This doesnt feel right..... The stuff they let people do there would amaze u

[AdrenalineAddict610]

Traction Park!

[evrithnguneed]

Well the "good old days" maybe gone at what is now Mountain Creek, but there are constant reminders if its glorious, bruised past. Every time I have been there I have had a blast, and every time I have been there I have seen at least three park guests screaming in pain while paramedics get them bandaged up or hauled off on a stretcher.

[travelsonic]

Looks like Mountain Creek still has the Action Park spirit lingering.

Now if only they'd rebuild Kamikaze, and re-open Surf Hill... hey, I can dream, right?

[AndyAnimal]

I injured myself there numerous times!

[sahree]

Class action park!

[CaptainCrane]

I heard about this in Weird NJ (I'm from RI but I travel to NJ pretty often X_X) Didn't people like...consistently injure themselves there?

[skippydeenice]

@CaptainCrane yes we did

[BronxBomberNation]

CLASS ACTION PARK!

[Dmd0916]

Oh i remember working there when it was Action Park.. so many injuries

[MELLSBAD]

there was a golden era when you could get in free w/ Yankee ticket stubs. Go see a game. Ask everyone for there stubs & hit the colorado river ride all summer long. Lost a good patch of skin on that ride about the size of 1 1/2 hands big off my back. Couldn't stop me had to keep riding. I wonder how many people died or were seriosly injurred there?

[MuddleThrough4yrs]

Ah memories! Back in the day, Action Park used to hone New Jerseyans and a good number of New Yorkers into tough motherfuckers. Every summer we risked injury and death, and each fall we proudly showed off our scars. Ever since this place got sanitized into Mountain Creek, kids these days have been pussies, barely distinguishable from your average Californian or Washingtonian, and culminating into the douches we now see on "Jersey Shore." I weep for NJ...

[KNS1996DFS]

@MuddleThrough4yrs Don't forget a pretty good number of Connecticutters... uh, Connecticuttians... Connecticuts... pfft... uh, Nutmeggers.

[MuddleThrough4yrs]

@KNS1996DFS Hmmm....Connecticutticans? :o/ :o)

[lectrick]

Class Action Park

[lectrick]

This park was awesome. People talk about the injuries and deaths but if you weren't an idiot you could really have an exciting time here. I'm glad I got to go to it before it closed up, it is from a time when there wasn't so much damn hand-holding as there is now

[66shadowdeathwolf666]

omg my mum worked here! she actually got hurt and she didn't even go on any of the rides in (tr)action park. She was slammed in the arm when someone couldn't stop one of those golf carts.

[wudini2]

class action park. I went there as a kid, scary as hell

[Craigers22763]

traction park

[JaredKinter1981]

Action Park was a rite of passage for us kids from the tri-states. we walked through those blood stained gates to truly test our grit!

[Harol9379]

Death park

[IceveinsProductions]

This place was great. Dangerous, yes. It was like a scene from an Itchy and Scratchy amusement park.

[roflpizza]

@IceveinsProductions

just like communism action park only worked in theory(srsly the idea was awesome)

[miriam9978]

I remember my dad taking me there when I was aroung 8 or 9 years old. I wanted to take my children there but was disappointed to know that it closed down. Another park attraction my dad took me to that closed down was Fairy Tale Forest in N.J.

[JaredKinter1981]

@miriam9978 I remember Fairy Tale Forest! Cant believe they closed it down! The Land Of Make Believe is still around though!

[8x13Wolf]

"Ride the excitment..." What?

Well, I know it's not Action Park anymore, but I'd still love to go down there one day and reflect on what I missed by never going there as a kid. And maybe try a waterslide or two.

[Kimogilla]

lol  i go there every summer but its called mountain creek now

[funnyforyou69]

haha its mountain creek now

[chitoryu12]

The action never stops, until you hit your head and die!

[VidRanger973]

@chitoryu12 Man, right on the money. The last time I was there, the mini speed boats and race cars were being used in bumper car fashion. The boats wouldn't come back in either-really felt bad for the attendant being sprayed w/ wake. That underground, pitch black water slide was torture-felt like I was being birthed from a plastic demon.

[Greefus]

all the staff was WASTED 24/7

[figment1988]

@Greefus or in some cases, high on marijuana (this is very true as well).

[gopconservative78]

so many people died there I herd it was 1200 every summer

[rmcdev]

Uh, no. 6 people died during the park's history.

There were PLENTY of injuries though.

[BeefBoullionaire]

And 6 isn't exactly a small number, considering the place was open for less than 20 years. To put it in perspective, Disneyland has had 14 deaths in 50+ years, and a good deal of those were not ride-related (ie: getting stabbed in a fight by a fellow customer, stealing an employees-only emergency boat and dumping yourself into the water and drowning, etc.).

[elmerOzo]

@rmcdev Correction, there were THOUSANDS of injuries.

[P5ychoRaz]

@rmcdev 3 idiots died from drowning, 1 kid was killed after (if I can properly remember) sneaking in after hours on the Alpine Slide, an idiot got electrocuted, and some old guy had a heart attack after jumpin off the Tarzan Swing but that water was brutally cold

[LUKE01MAN]

learned about this place from Weird NJ

[garetharogers]

accident park 8 people have died

[Nhoward2807]

Oh yeah! I completely forgot about Class Action Park.

[zumdish]

Lived in Vernon for years, "Traction Park" was dangerous, but damn, lots of the attractions were FUN!

[twilightqueen79]

I went there and jumped off the cliff...they told me not to dive or flip but i was so nervous i dove head first not realizing that the water was like 60 feet down lol! It was awesome...i couldnt stop jumpin off that damn cliff!

[danyeo]

HAHA, it's only 20 feet. Only a PRO would dive 60 feet. I jumped off it many times, and yes, 20 feet is very high when you're standing up there. I remember they used to serve beer at the main building. We would get tanked up then go on the water slides. The booze took any fear away. hehe

[AxcelKaru]

this place gives me the creeps. its everywhere in weird NJ magazines. it probably wouldnt have been so bad if people hadnt died there

[Jakesta95]

a total of 6 people had died there 4 drowned, 1 had a serious head seizure, and 1 person had got electricuted.

[LegoMasterLA99]

I thought 10 people died. I think some more employee died on the alpine slide.

[johnbourbon]

it's been well documented that nearly 7 million people either died or were murdered @ action park.

[DanZero77]

Action Park.

June 12,1993. High School Class Trip.

Survived.

Lived to tell the tale.

(OK, not really, but I had a nice injury-free time there, except for the asphalt-paved hilly walkways that lined nearly the entire park UGH!)

[norwood425]

does anyone know who the hot guy is on the yellow float?

[riseabov]

Oh man this place was the best, and i have the scars to show for it...lol so dangerous. I heard the tarzan swing is still there. man that water was COLD!

[twilightqueen79]

you aint lyin'! And to top it all off i almost landed in the trees! i forgot to let go=)-

[4evrbffl]

I heard that there were alot of accidents on the water slides. My dad worked there once and my grandma told me that when he was a little kid he use to come home with bruises and scratches all over. Also, in my weird new jersey book they say that people were seriously injured and that some people died......yeaaaaa i wouldnt want to go there after hearing that . Its more like ACCIDENT Park lol

[LegoMasterLA99]

I'm actually reading the book whale watching this LOL! Way the heck is there a 5 year old on the dang alpine slide. Are u from NJ 2.

[4evrbffl]

Lol! Yea im from Jersey :D ever since ive read all the weird NJ books and magazinez (have all of them XD) ive found out some crazy shit! like the devins tree and the devils tower and some of the places in them are places ive actually been to not knowing about what happened lol! Fave one is heart beat road! SCARYYYYY

[JohnnyHydro]

Hey did anybody ever dare to try that loop pipeline water slide when it was opened?.. I dared not to go on it with me thinking what if my body didn't complete the loop....lol I'm pretty sure I wasn't alone on that one I knew a few others back then that didn't want to chance that with all the other high risks at the most simplest rides.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Didn't a dummy get decapitated on the test run?

I live in South Jersey, but we had NYC-area stations (I'm actually from central Jersey), and this place was infamous - I actually do know someone who got injured on the Alpine Slide!

[JohnnyHydro]

Yes is did at ACcccccccction Park lol

[LegoMasterLA99]

just to say, the ride is called the cannonball loop

[Ampex101]

Death Park!

[LB74]

It might've been dangerous, but it looks like everyone was having a good time. Hell, when we were growing up in Elementry School, we played on metal slides on a sunny day. No problem there. Now kids can't play on equipment that has any edges. We're raising a generation of wussies let me tell you.

[amigo25zmy]

I've heard it was called accident park. I wonder why ;)

[deerhunter11590]

i worked there in 1990 i was a life guard man did i see some bloody shit everyone asked me if i saw blood i tell them have you ever seen the inside of a leg ya its nasty a guy went down one of the rides and split his leg open i quite after 3 months of working there

[V37324N]

You must have great stories!

[Panditha666]

you were one of the under the influence huh lol

[shav12]

now thats mountain creek which is sweet

[Pyrofries]

Shit, didn't like 6 people die at that place?

[toby099]

Something for everyone? I believe they mean a way to get injured for everyone!

[captainimpalerrox]

Action Park, I believe you mean Traction Park. I will never forget The Alpine Slide.... *shudders*

[JohnnyHydro]

Your not alone dude I still bear those skid mark burns on my upper arm, elbow and knee to this very day at 30, I was 14 at the time.....OOooo the good time at Class Action Park...where the fatalities never end =)

[NJtornado]

my dad went here in 1989.lucky he did't get hurt

[HTRdly]

Whoa, FLASHBACK! =D I remember almost drowning in the Tidal Wave pool when I was 7, and two summers later, running into a cluster of mosquitoes (or flies? gnats?) as I was coming down the fast track on the Alpine Slide. I was so surprised, I lost control of the wooden sled, and flew into the grassy knoll on the side... I still have the scars from where my knees and legs got skinned and cut up on the edge of the slide. Ah...good times...

[JohnnyHydro]

On the bright side on the Tidal Wave Pool I did manage to get rich off the quarters that were on the floor of the pool and lemme tell ya either they didn't care or you had the dumbest ppl going to swim with change in their pockets..lucky for me I had my scuba goggles to get as much money from there as possible. No BS I think I may have had about 10-15$ in change including dollar bills which were rare but not impossible to find.

[MPOEO]

@HTRdly

HAHAHAH YEAH FOR REAL!

[MuddleThrough4yrs]

@HTRdly They say that the Alpine Slide was made out of fiberglass and concrete, but we knew better! It was made of skin patches ripped from the thousands of knees and elbows of its victims! ;o)

[blackrogue162]

@MuddleThrough4yrs ...I was nearly skinned alive in 85 on that damn slide. I still have the scar on my right forearm....LOL!!!

[NJtornado]

the accidents never stop at accident park!

[SigmazGFX]

I worked there for about 7 years in the 80's.. I was a mechanic but I did do a little time as a ride attendant, the tanks were one post I did man back in the day..

I remember the huge airline we had to use to fill the air tanks on the tanks, and the crumbling rubber tire dust pellets.

There was nothing like playing one for you one for me with the cash bag.

(Patrons used to pay for tennis balls to shoot at the tanks and the riders payed to drive as well.)

Oh the memories...

[iloveretro77]

I actually worked in that place in 85. It was fun back in the day there, albeit dangerous!!! I worked on the battle action tank ride and have been hit in the face a couple of times from a tennis ball coming out of those tanks. Accident Park was true to the word.

[VViewer92]

do you think that one of those family members at 0:17 got bit by a snake? or a water snake?

[whizkidforte]

As a small child who was born and raised in the Paterson area (mostly Clifton) in New Jersey (I'm now living near Tampa, FL, since 1999), I really cajoled my parents to take me there without success. With what I've learned on the Net, now I see why.

[Luddseven]

Good old Traction Park. All the rides were designed by people who knew nothing about physics. Try getting away with that these days.

[brxazilian]

Hey..I think I died in that park.

[kelliehock]

lmao i use to go to that :D

[Isitlovesaidshe]

The mini golf was probably the safest possible thing to do there.

[snowboardfrontfliper]

it was action park... nothing was safe there haha

[Theonetheycalloddman]

You never know... One of those pirate cannons on a small ship could have a BB going 20,000 feet per second through your skull :\

[jv62712]

THis place rocked! If you came home without bruises and scrapes... you did it wrong.

I remember going up the ski lift for the alpine slide. My buddy was already going down and I watched him wipe out on a turn slamming his head against the concrete and getting a huge road rash on his arm. The employee sitting on the bridge was wearing headphones and rocking out, looking down the hill and never even noticed. My friend was fine, except for the scrapes and bruises.

TARZAN SWING ROCKED!!!!!

[fartzilla36]

i will buy the place and turn it back into action park because everyone deserves to take the risk and have as much fun as i did at action park

[fartzilla36]

i loved this place to death. This was the only real amusement park in America. I went to this attraction park frequently until i was about 7 or 8 because my parents loved the place, it was the only place where you could take risks, lol. My father always tried to make me go on the more dangerous rides like the speed slides but i was obviously under the weight limit. Mountain Creek is crap compared to what action park was and i swear that if i get rich which is highly likely that

[gcglick004]

0:23 rolf....

[goldiedolldc]

I almost drowned at Action Park in the 80's, I was 8 and my sweet life almost came to an end in that crazy F*CKING wave pool... when I woke up in the hospital ER I was surrounded my a ton of people... the lifeguard was high on coke which was found out later that week by police but then again, everyone int he 80's was i guess...my fear of water never changed after that...

[Ulysses2k]

So does that mean that your fear of water keeps you from showering?

[goldiedolldc]

how fucking ghey are u?

[ReversePowerChord]

how'd the wave pool injure you?

[johnbourbon]

the waves were made by lawn mower blades on the floor of the pool.

[humantestdummy]

? lmao

[johnbourbon]

you can see how it gets a little too dicey at times...

[LegoMasterLA99]

HOLY SH** REALLY?!

[goldiedolldc]

the wave were really strong and high

[elmuneco12]

lmao! high on coke?? lifeguard dude..

[johnwarman54]

did you see that little girl on the alpine slide?

[gopconservative94]

yep death awaits!

[LegoMasterLA99]

WTF is up with a 5 year old on the alpine slide

[homer424]

Alpine Slide was the worst. I swear every time we went someone was getting all their skin tore off their arms or legs.

[66e66c66]

they changed the name to mountain creek

its safer now

no one has died recentley

i live like 5 seconds away

[gopconservative94]

killing people since 1978

[leetrub16]

I went on the slide that went upside down. If you go to Wikipedia you will see it. Type in action park. They hosed you down and made sure you were the right weight. I would never do it again. I had balls when I was younger

[LegoMasterLA99]

Its also in Weird NJ 2

[figment1988]

@leetrub16 funny thing was that some AP workers were even paid with 100 bills, but one employee said that $100 wasn't enough money to buy booze to erase those memories.

[brian4325]

action park actually tried to make a looping water slide and some people died on it

[oldrestless]

nobody died on that slide, but died in many other parts of the park.

[mannysdaman]

a park employee actually died on the alpine slide in 1980, he flipped off the car and smashed his head into a rock - killing him instantly

[LegoMasterLA99]

I learned that from Wierd NJ

[ReversePowerChord]

they DID suffer severe trauma and injuries on that slide.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I heard the test dummy that was sent down on the slide was decapitated.

[NjKiCkEr04]

It actually seems like a normal place until you read more into it

[JumpStop1]

oh man... this place was cool, but it came with pain. you lived in NJ it was like a right of passage.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Not mine - I never got to go there. I wanted to go there in the mid-90s, but no luck. Unfortunately, my dad knew too much about it (he went to jury duty regarding a death at Action Park back in 1983), and wouldn't take us.

I went to the OTHER dangerous park - Six Flags Great Adventure.

[JumpStop1]

Six Flags wasn't (and still isn't) dangerous!

hehe but you missed out on it, the park they have there now is pretty decent but there are always so many people there

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I can't tell you how many times I went there and the roller coasters stalled, and I heard so many horror stories about rides that were there in the past that closed down (including the haunted castle that caught fire) because of the deaths. And there was the potential to get hit in the face by a flying shoe from Batman: The Ride (one of my favorites)....

The park was also dangerous because of gang activity.

[JohnnyHydro]

Yea once Tyrone and friends began flocking to Great Adventures and started bullshit and making the park look like shit...I didn't bother going there as much as I use to

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I haven't been there in 7 years, which stinks because I really want to ride Bizarro (even though it's merely Medusa with a new coat of paint).

[LegoMasterLA99]

I was on the log flom and it broke down.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Oh wonderful! I actually like that Log Flume too!

[travelsonic]

I was at Mountain Creek yesterday... I'm still going to call it Action Park, besides that most of the Waterworld and Roaring Springs rides are very much alive and kicking today, for one, going on the Colorado River ride with 3 other large grown adults is a very very bad idea if you don't like nearly flying out of your raft on a regular basis and the almost absolutely certain possibility of hitting your head on the person in front of you.

[genewildershair81]

Fuck yeah Traction Park. I went there once with my dad. I cut my back on the body slide, went cliff jumping and almost had a 250 lbs man land on head, practically shattered my pelvis on the slide with the drop, AND the bag with all our stuff in it got stolen. We found the bag in a bathroom stall, luckily they only stole a watch.

[chitoryu12]

The accidents never stop, at TRACTION PARK!

[FuryRanger]

Umm... at :23, isn't that a little dangerous...

Strike that. VERY dangerous.

[haloprociz]

that's why it's called "Accident Park" and why they closed it down.

[ViceKnight007]

man this commercial gives me the creeps after i read about all the incidents...

[skidude6350]

Lol. This place is called Mountain Creek now.

They took most of the dangerous stuff out..but it's still pretty dangerous I guess.

Someone went into shock because they don't heat their water.

And...some little kid decided to lay a big one in the lazy river.

They also took out the big tower ride a few years ago =/

It's a nice Ski Area in the winter though. haha. My race team is usually there in the winter.

[niggasoncrack]

hahah

[Monkeybuttlove9]

don't forget Traction Park

...ex-Vernon resident

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

I'm from the Jersey shore (by way of Central Jersey) - we had NYC-area TV stations, and in school, everyone called it Traction Park.

Everybody knows someone who got injured there (including me - my ex-boyfriend got hurt on the Alpine Slide after crashing into a bale of hay).

[orphangames]

And also known as "Fracture Park" .

[reluctantpopstar]

Also known as "Accident Park."

[Neptune737]

this park had a looping waterslide in the 80s and 90s

[98snakeeater]

I loved that place!!

nuthin like the Aerodium and Alpine slide

[insertusername12342]

the girl at :21 probabaly got hit with anoher car after the camera stopped rolling

[PhilM662]

thanks for posting this. i wish i could have gone to the accident prone "traction" park.

[00roadkill]

what a weird commercial but its cool.