Michigan's Adventure-Live up to the CF Rep?
Why would you plan on visiting a park if you weren't sure as to if any rides were worth riding?
Anyway...the park has made a great deal of progress since last year. Apparently, plans for next year will continue this trend of bringing the park "up to date." Is it on the same calibur as parks like Valleyfair or Dorney? Not yet...but you can easily see how it is starting to take shape as a CF park and all of the potential it has.
As for rides worth riding, there's this one wooden coaster there that I thought was a decent little ride...I think it was called Shivering Timbers. And don't forget to check out Bebop Boulavard and the Little Drummer while there.
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-Proud co-founder of the Coasterbuzz street team
Going from no Lanscaping to a new growth lanscaped (still in progress) park tends to say it is geting a Cedar Fair face lift! It is a work in progess so it is not quite up to the lanscaping a Dorney but I can tell it will be some time in the very near future!!!
There is a real beauty in the ride department they call Shivering Timbers!!! Mad Mouse is good if it is run with minimal braking.
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“If you give a enthusiast a footer.......He’ll want a coaster!!!"
I live in Michigan but still haven’t been to MI yet. From where I live CP is actually closer so we always skip MI. Hopefully they’ll get that hyper so they have a ride department really worth going for. (I’m not saying Shivering Timbers Isn’t enough)
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"You're a Stone Fox" - Trip Fontaine
Besides ST and Wolverine Wildcat (think a smaller version of Mean Streak), and Zach's, there is also a small corkscrew and the aformentioned Mouse.
Make sure you bring a bathing suit because the waterpark looks great (I've not been in it yet, but it's part of the entrance fee).
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I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead
Zach's Zoomer is very scary because of the single position lap bars and the fact that I always ride it by myself (my husband and I can't both fit in the same car). I'm just not used to non-ratcheting restraints, so I get kind of a scare when I get thrown side to side!
Mad Mouse is the only wild mouse ride I've ever been on and I enjoy it. The first diving turn gives me the absolute willies! It wasn't until the fifth time I rode it that I quit closing my eyes on all the corners. The bunny hills at the end are fun too. A friend was riding it with us last year and his hat flew off on one of the hills. He said he wasn't expecting it to be intense enough to have to worry about his hat.
There is also a Chance Big Dipper, but I haven't ridden it. I'd like to sometime for the sake of completeness. It's so tiny that the first time I went to MA I didn't even see where it was (and MA isn't exactly a huge park that things get lost in...).
Shivering Timbers is an absolute blast, but I think everyone else has covered that!
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Spacecase8310: You obviously did not ride Shivering Timbers!!!
The waterpark is very cool. Tons of slides and wave pools. I think MA is a great park that will only get better!
It has a long way to go before it would even start to become a great park, but I don't think "horrible" comes to my mind.
Rinky - dink, maybe...
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Actually I'll second SpaceCase8310's sentiment. I rode all the coasters in the park on my visit June 4th and while I thought Timbers was good it wasn't, IMHO, the end-all be-all of coasterdom. My favorite coaster was also the Arrow-made mouse [a fact that totally shocked me...I am a wood fanatic and thought the mouse would end up way down on my list that day].
There were other issues that day...see my post in the other MIA thread "How has MIA improved for 02?"
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BunnyHugger said:
Mad Mouse is the only wild mouse ride I've ever been on and I enjoy it.
well, the mouse at MiA is nowhere near the "only" mouse I've ridden, but it ranks just below Exterminator at KW for fun and thrills. Can't imagine why other parks don't get something like THIS it's a great ride....wish we'd have had more time to ride it, but with the poor ops and short operating day on our visit, "Tim-my" took up about 4 hours of the 6-hour day....
Zoomer is cool as can be, but has really poor capacity...Wildcat is rougher than it should be, but once Timbers warms up, it really is that good....but the Mad Mouse was the surprise hit at that park....
'Moosh, we went on June 5, and I mostly agree with your statement, the park ops basically were "very poor". Timbers, by 4pm (closing), started to wake up, and got better as the day wore on.....4 rides, NOT Cedar Point-like IMO, but after hearing of the Dorney tales (single-train ERT) and my own KBF "experience", it does seem increasingly CF-like....is CP the only good park (in terms of ops) left in the chain....
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I'll agree with you once again, SpaceCase! Cornball, IMHO, is *way* better than Timbers. Don't get me wrong, Timbers is a fun ride but Cornball, although smaller and shorter, offers airtime and laterals that are *way* more extreme than what Timbers offers. I had high hopes for Timbers [and the park in general]. So many rank the coaster #1 [I would never fault someone for doing so]. Perhaps it was anticipation and Timbers was doomed to disappoint, but like you I found it to be the same thing over and over.
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Spacecase8310 said:
I did ride ST, and wasn't very impressed! It was just average IMO. It's a 1 trick pony, and very monotonous to me. It didn't have the surprises of Cornball, which blew ST out of the water!-----------------
Ride the New England Bush!
I'll have find out if this is true thursday, whne I make my first trip to Indiana Beach!
Hope it lives up to its rep.! (Unlike Raven, which I thought was good but not number #1, should rank in the middle somewhere)
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“If you give a enthusiast a footer.......He’ll want a coaster!!!"
ST was a real good ride, certainly nothing SPECTACULAR......but the way in which it got better as the day wore on, I can imagine it could be really good if it ran two trains and warmed up BEFORE park closing...
Cornball, on the other hand, WILL surprise you. No matter how much anticipation you bring to IB with you, one *look* will tell you its overrated....until you RIDE! Best ride of the trip!
gator -In my experience, ST definitly needs time to warm up. If you ride it at 11 am, it's just ok. At about 4pm it's good. From about 6pm-8pm, it's really outstanding. I really wish I could've made TimbersFest, as I'd like to see it after it's really warmed up.
Cornball was your "best ride of the trip," huh? Even better than the duo at Holiday World? It was so good the Sunday after SRM, that it's firmly seated at numero uno for me.
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that was my day at Cornball too....I don't really have a "number one" mentality for woodies, but having ridden the dynamic duo before, I at least KNEW what to expect from Hammersly and Co. CE, sure I was warned in advance, but then you LOOK at it and say, can't be all THAT....it is!
Timbers LOOKED like all that....kinda like Steel Force fooled me. It sure did get better, but by that 4pm ride, it was all like "sorry folks, park's closed"......
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