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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 3269875, member: 2141"] Was and still am not a big fan of roller-coasters due to a strong dislike of open-air heights (I still have no idea how I managed to hike up Skelling Micheal last summer) and my stomach can only take so much spinning abuse. That said, Action (Traction, Class Action, etc.) was a blast. I had that 'crazy' uncle that every family has who took the 5 of us (I had 4 male cousins in my family and were we just 3 years apart) at least twice a summer to it from the Valley in the '80's. I never got a shot at the loop water slide (lucky me); but, tried everything else. The attendants were all college kids that were too drunk or stoned or too busy chasing girls to pay attention to us or the rules. It was a Wild-Wild-West atmosphere where everything goes. At the end of the day, we would pile into the old station wagon leaking blood from bloody noses from collisions with other riders, friction burns from concrete and plastic, cuts from who knows what was sticking out from where, bruises from everything else, and eyes full of appreciating the opposite gender whose bikini-tops often made it down the various rides by themselves. None of us shared what actually happened on those trips with our Moms as we would not be allowed to go back. It was awesome. One did not go to Action Park, one survived it. It was a coming-of-age ritual. [/QUOTE]