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Trinket (@trincyboid.bsky.social)

Too dangerous for action park means this had a 100% kill rate

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‘The Man in the Ball in the Ball’ was a ride in its final development at Action Park. It was not opened to the public because the concept was so dangerous that it never passed the testing process.

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2:08 PM · Jul 28, 2022

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This was fine despite its original planning just being drawn on a napkin (if memory serves)

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Testing process for this? Pay a few 18 year old employees $100 to go down it.

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"Get in the ball Frank or my Son will have to do it again"

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This article is amazing goddamn

The Life-Threatening “Ride” That Action Park Actually Decided to Abandon

But not before my father—who ran the infamous amusement park for 20 years—tested it on his employees.

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TLDR, the ball breached containment immediately, nearly ran over the safety inspector, went across a highway and into a lake.

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Legitimately thought that was a antiship mine before reading the tweet. What was it even supposed to do aside from “maim kids highly efficiently”?

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It's got a ball inside that gyros upright at all times so it's to roll you down a track but the track broke at the first turn on it's only test

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ax krieger's catching up

i've long had an action park game jam pitch to do a rollercoaster tycoon sendup where you need to juice your danger-to-thrills ratio for maximum $$$ - but don't kill any kids, since your buddy in local govt will only bail you out 3 times before a game over

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Trinket (@trincyboid.bsky.social)

Oh that rules so much. Maybe you can hire local kids to test the rides too.

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