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✨There's Nothing in The World like ACTION PARK✨

[This piece was made on paper with a zebra hard tip brush pen. Comment or tag questions about the pen if you'd like the link to the pen.]

The cannonball loop was a looping water slide in Action Park (New Jersey park). New Jersey residents jokingly called the park Class Action Park and it's wave pool, the Grave Pool.

The Cannonball Loop was only open for a month. Test dummies came out the other side without their heads.

People who went down the slide came out the other side with lacerations. When the cause of the injuries was investigated, it was found that teeth had become lodged in the inside of the slide.

A former Navy physician found that riders were experiencing as much as nine Gs of acceleration as they went through the loop.

As you can see, it was an OSHA nightmare (although technically slides and rides don't fall under OSHA regulation, so a lot of parks are just going nuts, hoping no one's head is removed from their body. Technically there is an oversight committee, but they didn't do a whole lot about the GRAVE POOL).

The slide inspired me to draw this, a Dune sandworm-esc slide with mismatched teeth and a wiry body. I wanted to portray the dread you feel before getting on a ride like the Cannonball Loop. I wanted to give it an almost snake-like body and to have a threatening aura, to better convey the dangerous nature of the ride. By giving it a curved body, I hoped to create a 3-D effect. However, this is my first horror piece, so I think there's plenty of room for improvement.