Class Action Park | Official Trailer | HBO Max

Class Action Park is the first-ever feature-length documentary to explore the legend, legacy, and truth behind a place that long ago entered the realm of myth. To some, New Jersey's infamous Action Park was the most spectacularly fun amusement park on Earth: A place where unruly 1980s teenagers were given free rein to go gonzo on strange contraptions that seemed to violate the laws of common sense (and perhaps physics). To others, it was an ill-conceived death trap. One thing is sure: It's the type of place that will never exist again. Shirking the trappings of nostalgia, the film uses investigative journalism, newly unearthed and never-before-seen documents and recordings, original animations, and interviews with the people who lived it to reveal the true story for the first time. The documentary features an original score by The Holladay Brothers. #ClassActionPark


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Class Action Park | Official Trailer | HBO Max

[Youkaikaze]

I'm from Jersey and spent many summers at Action Park. That place was amazing, but I saw some messed up stuff go down. Never personally ran into a problem there; I survived the wave pool, all the slides, the alpine coaster, all of it - without ever incurring personal injury. That place was a dream come true for kids. But, man... there was one time where a ride was closed mid-line because someone died

[WillisWilliamsNYC]

I've been there 4 times. At Action Park in the 90s, I got robbed (twice), almost drowned, and got a mild concussion. I wrote the first Yelp review about them. Those memories are something else.

[TheGooglySmoog]

I definitely remember almost drowning and a jaded or drunk teenage lifeguard looking at me with contempt/apathy.

[irish]

You know a place like this would have stayed open during Corona Virus.

[stingrey]

i grew up in brooklyn. we went to action park. it was as if a child designed an amusement park while drinking mountain dew.

[andrewdelouise]

I remember commercials for this place as a kid and really wanted to go there. Went there once, 30 years ago when I was 18. Had cuts and bruises for three days after. That wave pool was fun, and the gocarts were cool. Everything else was flat out hazardous. Definitely watching this!

[gelfling]

There were snakes in the pools. Like, a LOT OF SNAKES IN THE POOLS. It's a miracle of the universe anyone survived that place. Ah, memories.

[GilDice]

This documentary was honestly amazing.
It was like listening to the crazy stories your parents had about doing something stupid lol

[moonlightrobbery]

Action Park looked like it was made by a guy who was trying to get out of his deal with Satan by promising him 100 souls of 100 revelers.

[hanstun]

"No one should ever be the second person to die in a wave pool" is one hell of a quote! Unsure if it makes me laugh or cry though.

[MrSkeetSkeeter]

I lived in NJ when this park was in hits heyday. It was pretty fun for the most part, my cousins would drive down with their parents from upstate NY and we’d spend the Fourth of July there. The slides were INSANE and CLEARLY unsafe. I remember one was several stores high and seemed like it had a 90 degree slope with water for lubrication. No fucking way. For some strange reason, my dad tried very hard for me to go on it. Maybe he didn’t like me very much.

[abdulrasulalah]

I’m from Jersey and we used to have a Saying “ no one leaves action park without a permanent scar or being in a body bag “

[thura]

so many good times there!!! except that time me and my girlfriend almost drown in the wave pool and that time i got a concussion in a water tube and got sick from some bad food and dislocated my elbow and the time i saw a guy with no skin on his arm after falling off that toboggan thing or that time a 280 pound guy missed me by an inch jumping off the high cliff dive. Yay for survival.

[janellvandunk]

I used to go there all the time. Many of my friends worked there. We would pick up wristbands in the parking lot. Then go to customer service where my friend worked. She would write it up as broken and give us a valid one. We'd also get free food and beer from friends. Good times

[JC_]

As a '80s kid growing up in North Jersey, Action Park was a part of my summer life. This immediately goes on the watchlist for this Labor Day weekend watching.

[peeceekiller]

As a GenXer growing up down the shore in NJ, I would always get season passes to Great Adventure every summer (don't ever call it Six Flags, we Jersey kids always referred to it as Great Adventure!). I would get dropped off for the day with my friends and run amok until the park closed. In the 80's parents would do that sort of thing just to get you out of the house. No adult supervision. No cares. Just total freedom to be wild and try not to get in too much trouble. It was awesome. We thought GA was the best place ever! Then when I turned 17 and started driving, we decided to drive up NW Jersey and went to Action Park. The commercials made the place seem so cool. We had no idea how true that was. This park was a whole other world. It was insane! It truly felt like there were no rules. This place was run by kids; LITERARY!!! It seemed liked the oldest person working there was 16. Imagine a place so fun, so dangerous, and it was mainly managed by teenagers. It felt like we could get away with anything, and we did. The waterfalls were built into the mountains and it was pure chaos and that meant it was really fun. There were no roller coasters or rides with seatbelts and shoulder harnesses. No my friend, at Action Park you didn't ride the rides. You were the ride! Cliff diving (while avoiding near collisions with other kids), the water slides (the best one was what we called "the Wedgie Master" which basically was a near vertical drop), then there was the slide with the hard plastic sled you would fly down on metal rollers and skim the bottom until you crashed. Of course there was the dreaded wave pool. It was more dangerous than the
ocean. It was heaven! Then there was the dry rides, I believe it was called Motorworld. There you could drive race cars, tanks that shot tennis balls at each other, and of course the rash inducing alpine slide. The brakes would barely work on that thing and I collected my own rash burns and scars that healed (thankfully) into fuzzy memories of teenage bliss. I bungee jumped, I flew in the wind tunnel ride (I can't remember what its called), and of course as we grew older we mixed all this with beer. Yes, booze was sold there and socially accepted as refreshment. I never went on the looping slide (in retrospect, THANK GOD!). I witnessed people being driven off in ambulances almost every time I visited the Mt Vernon wonderland of terror. Back then it didn't distract me from coming back every summer. We would drive home back to the beach throughly exhausted and occasionally mending our minor wounds. Our parents had no idea how dangerous this place actually was; for us it was total freedom to be young and fearless. My last visit was in 1996. I joined the Air Force and moved far away from the Garden State. Now as a parent and grandparent, I would NEVER allow my kids to go to Action Park, knowing what I know. I heard it reopened a few years ago under a different name and made it safer (Not the Action Park of my youth, that place was unreal). Action Park is now a not-so- fuzzy memory of fun, chaos, and danger. A mythical place that I describe to Millennials and GenZ in stories they believe I embellish. The stories of near fatal accidents and battle scars, of my youth are looked upon with untrusting eyes that believe I'm B.S.'ing them, but it was all TRUE! The Legend of Action Park is real kids. I am throughly looking forward to this documentary to prove to my kids that the stories are real. You can't make this stuff up. The ACTION never stops, at Action Park!

[filthbomb]

The girl in the thumbnail is a friend of mine, hadn't seen her in years name is Alison, I personally worked there for years, I have more stories about that place from an employee point of view than any movie could EVER tell you. I will also say any outlandish story you ever heard was TRUE ! ....it was a glorious time to be a teenager ! .... I'll never forget those antics we got away with as long as I live ! 😂😂😂😂😂❤

[CurseTheCosmos]

As a kid, if you grew up in the NY tri-state area in the 90's, you always heard the stories of how untamed the original park was from someone who went. They felt like tall tales and those tales faded into memory. It was a hell of a surprise to discover they were very real, especially after the Defunctland video. They may call it Mountain Creek Waterpark these days, but they can't erase its legacy as Action Park. I'm looking forward to this.

[midnite]

My parents used to take me to A.P. many times in the summer during the 80's. I have very fond memories although, i brought my friend once who fell off the Alpine Slide and took a quarter of his surface skin off. That concrete track was like sandpaper. We then got in the wave pool to help sterilize his wounds and he almost drowned. LOL! Good times! I miss AP.

[CBlargh]

I was there.
It was both amazing and terrifying; truly wild.
Even as kids, we knew something was off about it.