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Michigan’s Adventure - Thunderhawk

Michigan’s Adventure

(208 reviews)

Good for the price you pay, you can't beat getting two parks for the price. Just know when you get…read morein there and your kids want food ,drinks, souvenirs, playing games, etc. you'll end up spending a lot. They do have souvenir cups you can purchase for the day which allows you to refill your cup all day in 15 min intervals or you can get the season cups. Overall the rides are fun, when they're not closed. If you're one of those who don't like to wait for rides, get the fast pass. It wouldn't be worth it tho for littler kids that can't ride the coasters.

I have a few friends that are theme park enthusiast and every time we talk about theme parks this…read morepark always gets mentioned. People always rank this park at the bottom of their list when it's comes to US theme parks. My husband and I went to Grand Rapids for Labor Day weekend and this was high on our list of things to do. Our first impression was the park was on the smaller side. The layout is basically a circle so you can easily get from point A to point B. They do have a good amount of thrill rides but the waits were long. The loading process felt like it was longer than normal. There is not a lot of options for food and what we could find was your basic theme park food. It's fine but not anything extraordinary. It's a theme park so it can be expensive but I felt like what we paid for wasn't worth what we got out of the park. We are glad that we came and gave Michigan's Adventure a try but I see why it's on the bottom of many enthusiasts lists

Thunderhawk - Reflections (with fellow coaster Wolverine Wildcat)

Thunderhawk

(3 reviews)

Thunderhawk Tuah! You know what - don't even spit on this thing!…read more Not as thrilling or as smooth as Raptor at Cedar Point or any number of B and M inverts but this Vekoma SLC (suspended looping coaster) wasn't the painful ordeal it's reputation led me to believe it would be. Thunderhawk looks great, especially reflected against the pond (Lake Michigan's Adventure? What is the name of this body of water?) and coasters are pretty slim pickings at this park so I'd rank it second best after the mighty Shivering Timbers. Fortunately for me I used my old trick of not putting my head on the headrest on the restraints I learned riding Corkscrew at Cedar Point years ago. I've since employed it on Rougarou, Kumba down at Busch Gardens Tampa and now Thunderhawk. If you have a steady enough neck it'll save you a lot of unnecessary headbanging on coasters with a reputation for it. With this defensive strategy I found Thunderhawk herky jerky but generally not painful. It only seemed especially rough to me in the barrel rolls - the double in line twists that take you upside down twice in a row. Thunderhawk was actually decently fun. The jerkiness took away from the sensation of speed. At less than 50 mph it doesn't feel like you're flying through the course anyway but the jerkiness takes away something of that wonderful whooshing sensation you can get from a coaster. I only rode Thunderhawk once but I wouldn't minded another ride or two.

Talk about a thrill coaster. It was very fast and spun us in lots of different directions all at…read moreonce or very abruptly. It was honestly a little jerky for a roller coaster of its size and thrill. But considering the amusement park it was at, it's not that surprising. It was definitely one of the most intense roller coasters I've ever been on. I've been on roller coasters like it but I think the jerkiness probably made it more intense. But it would like spin us left but jerk us in the right direction and the do an upside down turn all within a couple seconds and I'm not sure if it was because of all the twists and turns or the jerkiness but it was hard to pace my neck for what was coming next. My dads neck was hurt afterwards. He didn't like it and he likes roller coasters. He looked horrified in the picture it took of us.

Mad Mouse - this Arrow Dynamics 'Wild Mouse' has the typical hairpin turns and short, sudden drops

Mad Mouse

(2 reviews)

CHEESIN' I knew…read moreenough about roller coasters not to expect much from this 'Wild Mouse' installation. There's nothing original to experience here, and with standard (i.e. non-spinning) cars, there isn't much in the way of a thrill factor. It's fine for kids and families, I suppose, but bigger kids will likely find this coaster lame with a capital 'L'. Virtually every one of these models from Arrow Dynamics has the same hairpin turns and short (but sudden) dips, with little (or no) banking. It's kinda rough & tumble on the body and has been in operation since 1999. It broke down briefly during my visit, so I came back later when it was in operation. This coaster had TERRIBLE ride ops and likely the lowest guest output in the entire park. Numerous 4-seat cars kept getting backed up on the station brakes, and with no platform to disembark everyone had to just chill and wait 5-10 minutes. Keep in mind we were locked in the cars the entire time so all we could do was twiddle our thumbs. My grousing continues with the restraint system......individual lapbars AND seatbelts? For a wild mouse?? That seems like overkill. Likely the result of added safety measures, but as tame as the ride is I don't see how both are totally necessary. This was one of the longest waits during my visit to Michigan's Adventure -- about 20-30 minutes. I blame the super low rider capacity. Making matters worse, as dusk settled on the park and all the neon lights went on.....Mad Mouse stayed dark. Either the sign wasn't plugged in or MichAdv was trying to save on the electricity bill. Booooooo. * TL;DR * Insufferably slow dispatch times, reliability issues, and an uncomfortable yet still yawn-inducing ride makes for a big fat thumbs down. 'Recommend' isn't the word I'd use. Get your coaster credit and move on, but shed no tears if you can't make it on this particular ride as you can find these "wild mice" at dozens of places all around the country.

Mad Mouse? More like sad mouse. Glad I got this low capacity, low thrill ride out of the way right…read moreat rope drop. Even then it was a bit of a wait. You can pretty much cut and paste what Eric S said in his review.

Shivering Timbers - Yarrrr!!!

Shivering Timbers

(3 reviews)

I remember when the Detroit Tigers went from being title contenders to cellar dwellers and most…read moreeveryone left over from the good times was gone. Verlander punched his ticket out of purgatory to win a title with the cheatin' Astros. But poor old Miguel Cabrera was stuck being a future Hall of Famer languishing with the damn Bad News Bears. That's kind of how it seems having a roller coaster like Shivering Timbers at a park like Michigan's Adventure. This ride is a masterpiece! Hill after hill after hill with each crest delivering delicious, diabolical airtime. There's a bad pothole at the bottom of the second hill but beyond that it's not that rough for a wooden coaster of its size. It's big and long, cutting an imposing figure over the parking lot. The logo might even be more handsome than the coaster itself. No other ride in the park had guests so hyped. One little girl returning to the station was absolutely shook by its intensity. Like her whole body was vibrating and it seemed like she was trying to decide if she really liked what she had just experienced or if it was just too much. Then there was the dude in the Holiday World hat, Six Flags Great America shirt and Kings Island fanny pack shamelessly reveling in coaster freak nerdiness, no doubt marathoning this airtime machine. When Corkscrew returned to the station and the ride mc gave the classic "Welcome back, riders! How was your ride on Corkscrew?" my trainload barely managed a peep. The same call and response routine on Shivering Timbers brought some serious decibels and enthusiasm. I knew ST delivered plenty of airtime but I was taken a bit by surprise by how intense the helix is at the end. Absolutely wild! I rode Shivering Timbers twice on my recent trip to MA, once near the back and once in the front row and it delivered thrilling, intense rides both times. I kept my hands up the whole time in the front row and I don't know if I'd do that again. My noggin did get a bit rattled from that; hands up in the front row was rougher than hands down near the rear of the train. After some time in the water park I returned to Shivering Timbers hoping to ride at least two or three more times. Unfortunately this park's signature attraction (for coaster lovers at least) was experiencing some downtime so I hopped on some lame midway ride and hightailed it out of the park as I had a long way north to drive to join some friends for camping before sunset. (Can't miss those Lake Michigan sunsets!) As I drove my way out of the Michigan's Adventure parking lot I saw the mighty Shivering Timbers thundering its way through its course packed with riders again. D'oh! Can't win em all, I guess. I'm at least glad I got to ride ST twice. If Michigan's Adventure didn't have this ride I probably wouldn't have even bothered with this park, and that's coming from a lifelong Michigander with a soft spot for his home state.

I've loved roller coasters since I was tall enough to ride them. That's like almost 40 years of…read moreloving and riding any and all roller coasters I could find from Disney land to Disney world...from mall parking lot carnivals to state/ county fairs, 6 flags and everything in between. This is the ONLY coaster I have hated. We rode every ride in the park then rode shivering timbers before riding the others a second time. Well, it ended up being our last ride. All of us including our 13 year old had to leave and went straight home after this one. It isnt scary. It doesn't do anything more than most wooden coasters by way of thrill..what it does do, though, is slam your body all over the place, whip your head and neck around while providing no neck support. It comes off the tracks and comes back down with a spine cracking thud over and over and over. Had I been able to, I would have gotten off halfway through. This is poorly engineered and I am shocked the park hasn't been sued by someone more litigious than I for back and neck injuries over this ride.

Corkscrew - amusementparks - Updated May 2026

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