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UltimateDefeat t1_j8zhtmt wrote

Sounds like a ski resort/action packed theme park my parents went to when they were young in New Jersey. It was a super dangerous place.

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lafc_darling t1_j90e6fj wrote

Action Park! Super awesome documentary on HBO about it called ‘Class Action Park’

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Whammytap t1_j9bo1y5 wrote

I was gonna comment this exact same thing. The cart ride that went sharply downhill in a concrete trench, with brakes that usually didn't work. Kids who couldn't really swim almost drowning in the wave pool. Testing out new rides on employees who were strapped for cash. Teenage "lifeguards" and ride operators with no actual training. Rides with no engineering or regard for physics, just the amusement park's owner's ideas sketched on a napkin. (Loop-the-loop water slide, anyone?)

Really just Action Park on steroids, with a supernatural element. Not that the story isn't good--it's excellent! IMO the similarity makes it more uncanny, because something similar really did happen IRL. It could happen.

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