#it shut down in 96 and iirc it opened up in 78 so the boys absolutely had the chance to go visit it

[tenitchyfingers]

Ok so i wrote this on Twitter but I need Stuilly nation to tell me whether this hc would work: back when they were kids in the late 80s, Billy and Stu went on a cross-country trip to Vernon, NJ, and visited Action Park during the summer. Back then they were friendly because they kinda just got along, but then Billy jumps into the wave pool without realizing that shit is hella dangerous and he just gets sucked underwater and Stu is the one who saves him because Stu can swim and Billy is really bad at it, and that’s when Billy starts looking at Stu differently. Later on, after Stu does the dumbest shit at the park like riding the Alpine Slide without using the brakes or going down cannonball loop head first he goes to the tank battle game ride and even before he gets to mount a tank everyone starts pelting him with tennis balls so hard that he really has a hard time with it, until Billy gets a tank and starts pelting all the other kids back and Stu can get on the thing and uses balls with gasoline that he sets on fire to shoot back at all the other kids who quickly flee and the only ones left are Billy and Stu cackling like maniacs