I was kind of interested in theme parks for a while and watched a lot of stuff about how they were built, their history, etc. The craziest one to deep dive into would be Action Park, where people dying was like a regular thing. They had concrete slides, a looping water slide in which people always got stuck or broke their teeth, and only had 16 year olds running the rides. Yeah, glad it's closed (though there are rumors it's coming back, oh boy...)
That reminds me of the guy who runs the “Technology Connections” youtube channel. He was really into the “people movers” and elevators and similar tech used by Disney for a while, and made several videos on the topic which you might enjoy. Now that I think of it, I definitely can’t fault you for nerding out on a topic like that, considering I watched all of those!
Exactly right, damn good eye.
https://funnelme.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/funnel-automated-caveman/
edit: This particular one was at the World's Fair.
Wow! I got it right, and just from memory! But I'd seen so many documentaries about the animatronics that it immediately looked like that to me.
That's some kind of really narrowly specific form of nerd-dom right there. Best kind.
I was kind of interested in theme parks for a while and watched a lot of stuff about how they were built, their history, etc. The craziest one to deep dive into would be Action Park, where people dying was like a regular thing. They had concrete slides, a looping water slide in which people always got stuck or broke their teeth, and only had 16 year olds running the rides. Yeah, glad it's closed (though there are rumors it's coming back, oh boy...)
That reminds me of the guy who runs the “Technology Connections” youtube channel. He was really into the “people movers” and elevators and similar tech used by Disney for a while, and made several videos on the topic which you might enjoy. Now that I think of it, I definitely can’t fault you for nerding out on a topic like that, considering I watched all of those!