13 Old Theme Park Attractions That Are Now BANNED!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- 13 Old Theme Park Attractions That Are Now BANNED!
Dive into the forbidden history of amusement parks in my latest video, "13 Old Theme Park Attractions That Are Now BANNED!" Explore the thrill-seeking rides from the 1950s to the 1980s that pushed the limits, now lost to safety concerns. Uncover the forgotten dangers of these banned rollercoasters and attractions. 🎢🚫
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Did you try any of these attractions while growing up? What was YOUR experience?
I did a history presentation on Action Park once, and afterwards they forced me to google it to prove that I didn't make this place up.
Traction Park. Things got so bad that the owners had to buy Vernon County an entire fleet of ambulances.
Class Action Park -- that was another nickname. @@heidifedor
There’s a really good documentary about the park here on UA-cam. I highly recommend it.
I miss that place! Good times. Land skiing, that caused road rash down my legs. I was high, didn't feel it! 🤣😂🤣😂
The alpine slide was the best! I did see a lot of scraped up people when I went there.
Texas Cyclone was closed because the entire park closed and was demolished, It operated all the way to the parks final day of operation, it had nothing to do with safety
I was going to say the same thing! He instead should've talked about coasters like Son Of Beast or the Crystal Beach Cyclone.
Yeah i found a few faults in this one. Especially with the coasters they just reached their end of their life not something that should be in this Banned section. Yes some of them needed to be upgraded if they wanna be openned nowadays but thats putting modern trains on them or retracking.
I think a better title for this video might have been, "Action Park! What Were They Thinking?"
Anyone noticed how much Action Park aka Class Action Park features in this list?
Yes! And I was there in 1980!
This title is misleading most of these attractions just closed but weren't banned, in NJ after the fire at the Haunted House, New Jersey banned these attractions for a couple of years while safety features were updated but, now they are back and have been for a long time. The super speed boats went away simple because pf operating cost but weren't banned. Bumper Boats weren't banned but modified to battery power and slower speed, they are still around in a lot of places. The wooden coasters shown shut down because of maintenance 'cost and rough rides but these coasters weren't banned. Lola cars are still around in some states but not banned they are just operated differently. Wave pools are still around and a main stay in a lot of water parks. Most of this video featured Action Park which as far as know is completely shut down after a number of attempts to re-open it. It was very often referred to as traction park or class action because of all the accidents and injuries at the park. The one thing I must point out is that more injuries caused at amusement parks are caused by people not obeying the rules of the ride or park, they do stupid things while on the ride/attractions that they are specifically told not to do. As a rider you are responsible for your actions and behavior while riding so keep that in mind when you go to these places and have fun and be safe.
My 8th grade class trip was at Great Adventure and we went into the haunted mansion. The weird thing is the rain date for the trip was the day the fatal fire broke out. My whole class felt like we dodged a bullet!
I went on a class trip 2 weeks after and I still remember the ferris wheel had a sign saying "we care about you." Sure you do, now, after those people lost their lives on your watch.
Action Park was like a really messed up right of passage. We all knew it was dangerous, but that's what made it fun.
Exactly. People are too 'safe' nowadays.
I will always remember America's first water park, Action Park. Yes, I went home with cuts bruises. I did have a great time!
Wait wait wait, Action Park had Super Speedboats and Snakes???!! This place was wild.
That's why my friends call it DEATH PARK. They only went once but I said no and didn't go.
Very!
It was. They used to sell “I Survived Action Park” t-shirts.
One of the things I read about the wave pool at Action park is that they used freshwater. Given that most people are used to saltwater in waves, and saltwater is more buoyant, that was a disaster waiting to happen.
OMG! Thank you so much for answering a question I’ve had literally for 31 years. I grew up in Delaware and at a local fun park there was the same tank game in the mid 80s but it was gone by the time I was seven years old in 1990. I used to ask people all around “do you remember a crazy tank game down at the waterslides in Rehoboth, Delaware?” And never got a positive response. I am so happy now, literally vindicated and at peace. These were the tanks. 100%. Cool. Thanks.
I LOVED action park as a teenager, place was nuts!
The Haunted Castle fire in 1984 was preceded by a similar accident in Australia - the 1979 Ghost Train fire in Luna Park in Sydney. That fire resulted in the deaths of seven children and one adult. Insufficient fire safety precautions were a contributing factor, although a series of investigations over the years have never yielded a complete explanation for the fire. The Ghost Train was never reopened, although Luna Park still operates.
“Accident Park” in NJ, was was not the creator, nor the only place that had alpine slides. I sure there were probably 50+ different mountains, that had alpine slides across the USA.
Camelback in PA was the absolute best!
My brothers and I were born and raised in New Jersey, still living here now.
We went to Action Park once. All 3 of us still bare at least one scar from our trip. I got lucky and only have a scar on my leg. One of my brothers broke a couple fingers and has a couple scars on his hand. And the other broke his nose and still has scars on him nose and forehead.
But we still talk about it with fondness.
That was just one more thing that made us GenXers tougher than the rest. I went to class action park several times but fortunately was never hurt, at least not too badly...
Action Park, my friends called it Death Park. I also remember the fire at Six Flags Haunted Castle.
How did I know that like half of the entries on this list would be from Traction Park just by looking at the title lmao
I was expecting it to be all Action park.
These have such a nostalgic value to them. Love the channel.
This video would've been better if it was just about the Action Park attractions and specifically ones that were ACTUALLY banned (not merely just closed down on the decision of the park itself).
You lied about the Texas Cyclone. It was a popular and safe ride that closed because the entire park closed. Six Flags determined the land the park sat on was worth more than the actual park so they closed it.
I came very close to drowning in that wave pool there. It was very powerful waves. If I didn’t grab on to someone’s float I would have been gone. That place was so crazy. I did the Alpine slide too. I escaped without injury lol. If any one was there , remember you had to walk yourself to death to get around?
NJ had a lot of issues with Amusement Parks huh? It's not just property taxes and car insurance! I was at Great Adventure on a class trip the day before the haunted castle tragedy. When I heard about the tragedy in the news, I was shocked. I can't believe that it happened more than 40 years ago...time flies!
Action Park sounds like a great place for young people to meet up, drink too much, and maybe die? I would have loved the place except for the snake thing.
I am not surprised that action park is on the list...
Hell, Action Park IS the list.
I have never been on the alpine slide at Action Park (although I have been to Action Park several times). But I have been on other alpine slides. They used to be popular (or maybe still are) in New England and Canada, and, well, anywhere that had hills or mountains that could be used for it. Alpine slides are A LOT safer than skiing or snowboarding. You control the speed yourself so if you are an idiot, I can see maybe how you can hurt yourself on one. That is just a Darwin Award. I went down alpine slides at a very young age with no problem; but then I listened to the advice of the instructors about controlling speed. In the video, you can see the levers on both sides of the seats -- those control speed. If you choose not to use them, well...you deserve what you get.
Done a couple in europe and they are fun. Those cars especialy the break system did look very dodgy to me though.
I love alpine slides. I think the carts they used were cheap. The ones at Camelback were better. I rode that slide many times.
I have a leg scar from the Alpine Slide...ah, GOOD TIMES!!!
My friend's sister got half her back's skin ripped off. I nearly died in the grave pool twice. 2 separate occasions. I was a very strong swimmer. Got my red cross and was certified. My friend was a lifeguard and her sister I believe was a lifeguard too. All strong swimmers. Didn't make a bit of difference.
Action Park was freakin awesome!!!
I miss Python!!! Busch Gardens Tampa is my home town theme park and yes they have some of the best coasters in the country, Python was dismantled to make room for Jungala which is a children's section. It still breaks my heart to see it gone. But Scorpion still survives, it is another ground breaking coaster for it's time with a verticle loop.
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Hey, that tank attraction looked very fun. They should try to recreate that attraction today, but with modern tech.
Just WHO were the safety inspectors in NJ in the 1970s....? jeeezus !
i meant 1980s .......
Probably someone's goomba, you know how it is in NJ.
Disappointing video. I was hoping for 13 old timey theme park attractions that couldn't be operated today, instead a majority of these were Action Park's version of attractions being dangerous. Also parks closing rides due to maintenance costs, or making room for newer attractions, isn't my ideal of an attraction being banned.
You should’ve mentioned Dorney Park’s now defunct roller coaster, Hercules, A.K.A., Hurt-your-knees.
I miss poisoned razorblade obstacle sewage ride at the Murderhorn amusement park...
I don't remember seeing any wooden boats like the one here designated #2, but I do remember seeing them at Bertrands Island
I remember the good old days going to “Accident Park” in the 1980s. Most of the rides were safe. if you were of average weight, and somewhat in shape. The problem is; you get people who are super overweight, or out of shape, or have heart conditions, shouldn’t be going here.
LMAO somehow I knew the majority of this list was gonna be Class Action Park
The section on the Texas Cyclone is utter drivel - half the footage used is of the park's other coasters, and the reason it closed was because Six Flags closed the entire park.
Also, very few of these rides were banned, they just closed - similar rides are still running elsewhere. You do realise there's a difference between something being closed, and it being banned, don't you?
Before I started watching I knew Action Park was gonna be in it. Didn’t know it was going to be damn near 2/3 of it! I forgot about the Haunted House burning down at Six Flags in Jackson. This video was all over it too!
Action park is now known as mountain creek water park
This video should have been called "Action Park and featuring other theme parks"
The wave pool at Calypso water Park in Ontario Canada looks like it has much more aggressive waves than the action park one
Action Park's wave pool departed from industry practice in one very important way (from what was and remains a common attraction). It was filled with fresh water, in which patrons are slightly less buoyant than they would be in salt water, as is routinely used elsewhere. This has a significant impact on the frequency at which patrons become unable to keep their head above water and therefore need to be assisted by lifeguards.
For Action Park lifeguards, rescue of patrons was necessary 6 or 7 times per wave pool session on average. The sessions were 90 minutes long if I recall correctly. This is very much in contrast to figures considered normal in the industry, in which lifeguards generally aren't called on to rescue that many people in a month.
Disneyland's most scary ride was the rocket ride, if the arm that held the rocket broke you were dead, because it was several stories off the ground. Knott's Berry Farm had two dangerous rides, the Parachute ride, where if you accidentally tried to get off, it would take off again, as my father saved my life after I nearly fell off. And the Log Ride. No seatbelt, if you stood up at the wrong time you would be a head shorter and a near vertical drop in pitch black conditions. I wonder how we survived.
Sky Jump at Knotts was not "dangerous" & it didn't "take off again" if you "accidentally tried to get off," whatever that means. Timber Mountain Log Ride at Knotts has no "near vertical drop in pitch black conditions." You survived because both were/are extremely safe family rides.
I lived in NY many years ago, when Action Park was in its peak. I never went because I was never into water park rides, but I know many who did. I just didn't realize how crazy the rides really were...a go cart riding down a steep hill on nothing short of a concrete slab? No way. As for Great Adventure, I went there the week before that fire happened and it was so terrifying and tragic. I never went into that because I don't want to wonder around scared in the dark...very sad for those who were trapped.
I loved the bumper boats at Fantasy Island on Grand Island, NY! They always smelled like gasoline there too lol
I think you skipped over the Crystal Beach Cyclone.. that rollercoaster had nurses waiting on the loading dock. Possibly the most dangerous coaster ever created!
I used to go to Action Park in the 80’s and 90’s. Action Park gets a bad rap now but at the time it as fine. As long as you were a strong swimmer, you were in halfway decent shape you were fine. You did not just sit there at Action Park, the motto was where you are part of the action.
I'm sure that was true when you went kayaking and you were electrocuted to death. I'm also sure that was true when you went on the looping waterslide and you came out with deep cuts. Those were from teeth imbedded into the looping track. I've never been to a water park that had to keep an ambulance on standby. I don't know of any water park that has a high fall into water anymore because sometimes strong swimmers don't land right. Honestly, the excuse that if you're not a strong swimmer, doesn't work for me.
Maybe you can create an academy of strong swimmers. Then you and your group can go to waterparks where they don't need liability insurance--you're group will assume all liabilities to be a risk of your group. Then you and your friends can show videos of your great masculine bravado. I'm so impressed. Look at what they can do.
After watching this video I'm in shock that AP lasted as long as it did. That place must of had a plethora of class action lawsuits.
@@user-ls9qc8eh5z It was nicknamed "Class Action Park" for a reason.... 😆
@@devonboulden2496 If that's your attitude, then never leave your house, you might get hit by a car.
@@willshad I've got an idea. Let's put you next to the pond at Geauga Lake when they had a short--the one that killed people. Let's put you in action park's kayak pool when there was a short. Have you ever gone on Action Parks' looping slide when there were human teeth in the wall that would rip you up. Maybe you wanted to go on Luna Park's Sidney dark ride the day it caught on fire. Or maybe you want to go on Son of Beast the day the track broke. Maybe you wanted to go on the dark ride at Six Flags Great America the day it cant on fire. Maybe you wanted to be on any coaster when the rollback breaks failed. Or even be on any coaster derailment where you flat-out fall or bounce off of supporting structures on the way down. Just because I'm aware of park accidents doesn't mean I don't love amusement parks and their most terrifying rides. I have the right to nope-out anytime I don't feel safe. Even that may not be enough because parks hide their lack of maintenance from the patrons.
Action Park was too reckless with safety. They had to have an ambulance on standby when they were in operation--that's an immediate warning sign.
But to drive my part home, had you been parentally and unnecessary macho bravado would be wiped clean the moment you had to go to war against Action Park's insurance company. You'd be outraged as to how they could do this to you and how little they want to give you for life long injuries.
I suspect you're the type of person who will go blindly to an Oakland house party and to feel safe, you'll pack a couple of guns--there's nothing better than packing guns to a party you were never invited to.
You want to call me a coward? At the very minimum, I have two gray cells to rub together before I get myself into trouble. You...well, you want to be a pawn, going first on the board and getting killed before the game ever got good.
When you call me a coward, I call you stupid. I'm happy to watch you go 1st especially on rides I may not consider safe. You get to be dead or in the hospital while I get to take the video with my camera phone.
You have no idea how stupid your comment was, but I do. Have fun going 1st. I'll gladly let you do that so my genes can be passed to the next generation and your children with a grave and disturbing example will have to visit you in hospice.
we had go karts at a track in Miami as a teen you could pack a screw driver and move the bolt away from the gas pedal stop so they went faster they fixed that by using a cap screw and double nutting it so it was not easy to fool with it while riding it .
You show clips of sea snakes (saltwater snakes) in the speedboat pond. But the speedboat pond was a freshwater pond. You claim "perilous encounters" with snakes were a problem; but the only New Jersey freshwater snakes are northern water snakes, garter snakes, and ribbon snakes. They all are non-venomous. And not at all perilous. You should really do more research before posting.
You beat me to it. ;-)
I wonder if the Alpine Slide I went to as a kid in Oregon or Washington is still there. You took a ski lift up to the top. And it was at a harsh angle going down because it was a ski run. When I was there I watched a guy launch out of the corner of a curved 10 ft in the air or more. Right in front of me as I was going down. He was all messed up. He had bandages everywhere. I often wonder if he sued. Or signed off hard enough that nothing happend
Six Flag's Haunted Castle, Thunderbolt, Texas Cyclone, The Python, and Disney's Flying Saucers were NEVER banned.
Texas Cyclone and The Python were clearly a case of coasters that had become quite old and you never mention any sort of local government preventing them from operating any further. Heck, there's nothing stopping Busch Garden from creating a modern The Python with newer safety features or even have it be a singular rail styled attraction if they wanted.
Thunderbolt was just a case of the park itself becoming concerned with how rough the ride was, but they were never legally required to close it down.
Six Flags could've rebuilt Haunted Castle with new trailers, sprinklers, and new exit ways. However, they never cared for it THAT much and decided the temporary attraction was not worth the hassle to rebuild.
As for Flying Saucers; their ride system was flawed but not that dangerous. If Flying Saucers were actually banned, Luigi's Flying Tires would've been far more difficult to create decades later considering they aren't too different from each other.
Yeah we got some of them in europe to might be that the particale boat model is not up to scratch but the ride idea is not banned.
Texas Cyclone was not "quite old." It was built in 1976 and was in fine shape when Astroworld closed. There are several wood coasters built in the 1920s through the 1960s still operating. Leap The Dips still runs & is in superb condition, built in 1901. A roller coaster can continue to operate as long as it is cared for mechanically. Python closed because it wasn't popular, not due to age. Thunderbolt was condemned more than once, forcing it to close, but its owners always fixed it enough for it to barely pass inspections and operate.
I walked through the Haunted Castle in Great Adventure in the Summer of 1982. It went completely dark at one point and I instinctively held My hand out to feel My way around. And I felt another Person's shoulder and heard a high pitched scream. Yup. There was a Girl walking in front of Me who apparently had no idea that it was another Person touching Her.
Bromley is home to North America's first triple-tracked Alpine Slide ! We have been every year since the opened.
This feels like a personal attack on NJ!
There's an alpine slide in use at Ober in Gatlinburg TN. and it's no joke. That thing will mess you up if you crash. Every part of your bare skin that comes in contact with the track gives folks serious road rash.
My friends and I went there many many times when they were open. The place was a blast. I do remember flying off of the alpine slide.
I did the same at DollyWood, had to walk the rest of the way down because my slide kept on going.
I remember smoking a cigarette while on the flying saucer ride in the 1970s.
Sounds like a park that the shady character from SNL played by Dan Ackroyd(the one trying to sell kids the bag of glass)would have tried to promote
0:24 note the luge leaving the track.
'I challenged The Python an survived' as it said on my t-shirt from Busch gardens c 1978 (?)
Action Park was awesome, I went there as a kid. There's nothing wrong with an amusement park with a little bit of actual danger involved, as long as people are aware of it. Just make people sign a waiver before they enter
The Action Park speedboats really were too dangerous, and I agree they should have been shut down. Even if you know what you are doing; there is not enough room, there are too many people, it is a dangerous situation without human error or stupidity. Add those to the mix and you've got a very bad outcome.
the best way to avoid a punch is, dont be around where they are given
Does anybody remember Santa's Attic from the Land of Make Believe in Hope, New Jersey?
Misleading title. None of the coasters mentioned were banned. They were shut down by or with the parks that owned them for business reasons.
Cannonball loop made you faint in the motion or get dizzy.
do your research...there are plenty of other roller coasters that closed because they were rough....but the texas cyclone was ultimately demolished with the rest of the park and operated all the way up to the parks closure. which was due to poor operation and poor cooperation between six flags and the city of houston.
This is insane!
Those Land speeders look cool
It may I got banned in action park in the early to mid 90s Noah’s ark in Wisconsin Dells had those tanks with the tennis balls that you could go on and ride
Growing up in NJ my dad would take me to Coney Island every summer and I loved/rode the Thunderbolt roller coaster every time! Yeah, it was rough....I remeber you shaked all the ride long, sometimes bit your tongue, lips, etc...hahaha but that was the way wooden roller coasters were.
Thunderbolt was in deplorable condition through the 1970s & early 80s. Rough was a severe understatement. In the world of roller coasters as a hobby, Thunderbolt has an endearing, though unfortunate reputation of the worst mechanical condition, little maintenance, and being condemned more than once. My first coaster trip in 82 included Thunderbolt but it was not operating when I arrived. It only ran once in 82 & never again.
New Jersey was asleep at the wheel with what they allowed at Action Park…. Sheesh…..😮
Being pretty damn nice to Action Park here, they would not have stopped one single thing, and didn’t until they were forced to by law, they never closed anything on their own, in regards to peoples safety, Gene didn’t work that way
Looks like most of them were from Action Park!
I'm sad Action Park was always to far away!
Well, then I had luck to ride 1997 the Python in Tampa. ...😊
Why not just title this "Action Park" instead of making people think it would be various parks?
That's why it's called action park lol
When "survival of the fittest" was at it's hight. Kids today are soft.
Remind me not to go to new Jersey
These rides were victims of cancel culture by the sinister woke menace in their crusade to turn theme parks into a safe space.
1st through 9th rides featured... Ok what have we learned here? Stay away from NJ theme parks.
moral, not morale
Traction Park😂
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But not to Action Park!
I am like number 221
Personal responsibility.
People just can't wrap their heads around that.
The rides were killing people .
@@babecat2000 People were willingly getting on rides that were dangerous. It's personal responsibility.
People move on wooded mountainsides in California, Oregon and Washington that have raging wildfires every year.
Then act like victims when their houses burn down.
People here in Florida buy homes overlooking beaches along the Atlantic ocean, where erosion and storms damage homes every year.
Then they complain when their homes get damaged and claim to be victims.
Risk assessment. Personal responsibility.
I do have pity on minors that are encouraged to ride rides like that by their own parents.
Carnivals. How many carnival rides fail each year resulting in injury and even death?
Heaps.
But people still buy their stupid tickets and get on them.
Personal responsibility.
We're Gen X. We were raised by parents who kept us outside until the street lights came on. If you got cuts or bruises, you got up and went back to riding your bike. If someone hit you first, you handled it. We were min. adults.
@@willswalkingwest7267 they were more dangerous than they should of been. Drunk kids and loose electricity wires
@@dog_vanlife I am gen x but as fun as this would be people died
Every water park everywhere in the world has a wave pool???
But OMG Action Park looks like one big death trap!