YMMV / Action Park

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• Epileptic Trees: The park ran Spanish-language ads aimed at the Latino community in New York and New Jersey, yet the safety signs were all in English and the park workers only spoke English. This language barrier heavily contributed to the many injuries that occurred to the park's patrons, which led some people to believe that Action Park was a Government Conspiracy to decimate the Latino community.
• Misaimed Fandom: After a few years, patrons weren't ignorantly visiting a park that they expected to be safe - they visited the park because of its reputation for being dangerous.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Six people died here, on top of the countless other injuries. The infamous Wave Pool in particular won itself the nickname "The Grave Pool" for the fact that most of the aforementioned fatalities were people who drowned while swimming in it due in part to a poorly-designed wave action that tended to draw swimmers into deeper water.
  • The looping waterslide known as the Cannonball Loop. It was shuttered shortly after its debut, and such waterslides are now rarely seen in modern-day theme parks.
• Obvious Beta: Action Park was a major pioneer of many water rides. This meant that these rides never previously existed, and that they were the ones who had to discover that designs such as a looping water slide, for example, are dangerous.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: It's impossible to talk about this park without mentioning its numerous safety hazards, which led to six deaths and hundreds of injuries. The Cannonball Loop water slide, which allegedly decapitated test dummies but was still opened to the general public for a month, is considered emblematic of the general approach of the park in its heyday.
• So Bad, It Was Better: The older iteration of the park has quite a few nostalgic fans who see it as emblematic of a freer, less "wimpy" world where people could learn things the hard way.

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