You know what’s probably not such a good idea? Putting a hunk of steel atop a bunch of other steel and sending it ripping around a track to spin about and zip just inches from the steel that’s keeping the one little steel car barely in place. You know what an even worse idea is? Putting another steel cart on the opposite side of that and having them tango inches from each other like some kind of weird mating ritual you’d see on Planet Earth.
But instead of some birds showing off their beautiful bright plumage, we’ve got a set of regretful couples in matching Mickey Mouse t-shirts trying not to puke Butterbeer on each other with each pass by. Nature. Beautiful.
Shockingly, this design ended up causing some problems, probably partly because it was like letting a destructive nine-year-old treat real-life guests the way he does his action figures, and they eventually decided to just stick with the non-dueling version of high probability vomiting until the ride was shut down for good in 2017.
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Alpine Slides
It’s like Mario Kart, except this one can kill you:
Let’s be real; any list like this couldn’t leave off Action Park. Though it may be well-covered by now, there’s a reason for that. It’s like the Hitler of amusement parks. We still talk about it because we need to remember the messed-up crap that it did. Though most like to point to Action Park’s human Bull Ring, I think it’s the Alpine Slide that may be the most diabolical of the entire property. Basically, the Alpine Slide is what happens if you take arguably the most critical element of a waterslide away, the water, then before the slide part, you just plugged in, asphaltandconcreteandstuffthatwillliterallyripyoudowntoaskeletonifyousomuchassneezeslide.