The only site I know of with pictures of Marco Polo Park

http://meettheworldinprogressland.blogspot.com/2010/11/near-walt-disney-worldits-marco-polo.html

Yeah the Loop was nuts.. but remember they closed that one down because they had "some sense". 

They got paid for it at least!

I used to go to things like the Central Florida Fair here in Orlando but stopped after one day in the mid-90's. I was out of the Marines but still very slim and fit, however I was 6'3 and musckuler. I took a ride in this con-trap-tion which had me and a friend squeezed in to a small compartment with barely enough room for my friend and none for me. The train was on the inside of a ring and it would rock back and forth gaining speed until it was at the top of the inside of the ring, where it would pause for a few seconds then circle back around.

The pain in my neck and head was intense. The full weight of my 220lbs bearing down on me because there was no seatbelt. My friend looked at me concerned for my safety. "You ok?" "No I replied. I want out and now!" However there was nothing we could do.

When the ride was over I barely got out of the box. It was a death trap waiting to take a life.

A few minutes later there was another ride even worse. It was a five small boxes called "Rolling the dice" or something like that; and it was brutal as I watched others get tossed around.

My friend said, "lets try it" to which I said, "fuck off".

As I watched my friend get tossed around in, literally a washing machine, he screamed. He had smacked his head on to the metal cheese grater which doubled as a device to prevent your shredded body parts from flying out an hitting others.

When the ride ended he got out covered in blood. His head had been cut badly and his white shirt was now pinkish.

The carnie looked at him, and I kid you not, said "wanna go again?"

We left and never went back again.

Is that the really big fucking mall, the largest one in the world?

It's the largest in NA & possibly tied for tenth largest in the world, though it'll drop down the list every year or two. It was the largest until 2004. It's so big there's even a police station in the mall

My parents have some good friends who were in the sub one time when it broke down. Took 3 or 4 hours to get it going, and they were going to be swimming out if it hadn't been fixed soon after it was. They'd already broken out some drysuits and air cannisters.

You can basically consider each super mall to be multiple malls. If I remember right, west ed has 4 food courts. More than a few stores have more than one shop. It'd literally take days to walk around the whole thing. Last I heard it actually has its own population of about 100 people. Though you could spend a week there and never see one of them. The parking lot is insane.

The theme parks in west ed are actually pretty big considering. They used the space very efficiently. There were two or three roller coasters, one being the triple loop. A couple of these giant sea-ship things, one of which did a full loop like a ferris wheel only a lot faster, and the other that was a toned down version that never went upside down. A drop of doom that took you up to the roof and gave you a view of the city before dropping you 3 or 4 stories. A laser tag arena was also there, but I think it's been shut down. There were a few more rides and a whole tonne of carny-like games. I want to name a few but I'm concerned I'll start mixing in klondike days stuff if I do. FYI, klondike days was the city's annual outdoor summer fair. Like Toronto's CNE and Calgary's stampede.
Then there's the water park. I'd guess it had about 15 or so different slides and a wave pool with bungie jumping at the deep end.
But there was also stuff strewn through the mall, like the subs that aren't there anymore, a dolphin show that might not be there anymore, a skating rink that was just dropped in the middle of the hallways, and tonnes of artistic things that people could stare at for hours. Machines that had balls going through convoluted paths making jumps and shit, and a water jumping thing. I'm not going to try describing them better, words can't really do it justice. Suffice to say you could go there without any money and still be entertained for a few hours.

    It is an old joke among people who grew up in the late 70s, 80s, and early 90s in my home state that goes : "You know your from New Jersey if you have had at least one injury in Acton Park as a child".  

    You can google that one on the web and find all the horrors.

 I don't  which city it is in, but the one on top of the "sky needle" that leans over the side like fingers and spins arround. NO FUCKING WAY! I see that picture on FB alot.

When I was that age I scoffed at my parents music and politics and likes, but you know you are old when a teen today says "ABBA, what is ABBA".

There are some rides I can handle. But nothing that is free spinning and not on rails when it is really really high. I can handle a metal coaster but not a farris wheel. I hate things that swing at hights that make you feel you are on a string about to break.