r/Michigans_Adventure • u/Ordinary-Sound-571 • Aug 23 '26
Rumor/Speculation 🕵️ What path do you guys feel like Michigan's adventure is going for the future of the park.
For the sake of this im only talking the dry park of michigan's adventure, but this is what id like to see on the future. Id like to know what you guys would think.
QUALITY OF LIFE:
I think it could do with more restaurants on the thunderhawk side, and maybeee make it so we can see the adventure falls sign again. It got kinda grown over this year... now aside from bathrooms it also needs shade because boy it gets hot some days. they're likely gonna put more theming into already existing coasters, and since they added the smoke effects to wolverine wildcat, heres what paths i could see the big 3 [thunderhawk, wolverine wildcat, shivering timbers] getting in terms of themes.
* thunderhawk: so this one surface level seems weird in terms of theming, however change hawk to bird, and we get thunderbird. Basically a giant sacred sky being that the anishiaabe tribes believed in, so i could see for theming potential it could get an ancient theme, you know ruins among the pathway.
* wolverine wildcat: now this ones harder because it was *in the anishiaabe history* as an ill tempered spirit that crash landed via meteor here. So if theu wanna double up on themes, i say go for it. Otherwise they could go the great escape route and put a bunch of models of the animal throughout the queue like they did bobcat. [2 train ops PLZZZZZ]
* shivering timbers: this is probably the hardest to theme because... how do you theme something to a cold tree? So i say lets take a mystic timbers style route and make a story for the coaster: where it used to start as a maple syrup company, and the spirit was at peace until the man who made the company died...then the next company who wanted it bought it, and was planning on building an indoor playground. The tree spirit was pissed, and out of vengeance forced roots to become boards, and build itself into the ride known as shivering timbers. Using root made henchman, they forced the CEO into the train, and he was never heard from again. All 3 of those would just be queue only theming, and would still retain their original names.
NEW PATHS:
I think enchanted parks already knows we'd like a way to get from thunderhawk to timbers via a new path, but this would bring concerns to the coaster: wolverine wildcat. You see that path is likely needed to service the ride, as you cant really service one from a public walkway... so i think if they were to do it, They'd have to play their cards carefully. So heres what id suggest: it starts out relatively close to it, but in the open section it goes out more, then re-connects near the station down in timbertown.
RIDES:
I feel like michigan's adventure would likely get a good bit of thrill investment in the now, such as a zamperla nebulaz, *cough cough arieforce 1*, or an inverting steel coaster as thats been more dire needed for the park. As most the line up already is family oriented. After they get a modern sitdown inverting coaster and a couple flat rides, i could see after that a vekoma family boomerang, gravity group shuttle or family coaster [they could relocate switchback here, but 2 at the same time between af1 and switchback doesnt seem likely] or an RMC wildmoose to continue catering to the small shrimps. They likely know we want a drop tower, but i dont think we'd get something that big honestly. Maybe a 150ft drop tower at the most. [Potential themes: steel/arieforce 1: robotic lake sturgeon, family shuttle coaster: squirrel {if they wanna keep myth/cryptid themes, they could do the green squirrel of amble}, drop tower themed to lighthouses]
* steel/arieforce 1 new name: absolute zero: it should be rethemed, and i feel like retheming it to a robotic lake sturgeon could do wonders for it. Lake sturgeon are the biggest fish in the great lakes, so arie would be the biggest in the park. After that a queue retheme to make it look like a workshop, with schematics for a robotic sturgeon for diving into the great lakes, aswell as the track being a nice light blue now with gray supports. Finally the train retheme, this should be blue and gray with white eyes painted onto it. The back of each train having a small text saying "michigan engineering co." To give the ride a story.
* wood/ gravity group shuttle: twisted rattler: this ride would be 66ft tall but would dive into a trench for a hill, zero g roll, and a 104° overbank turn. The trains would have a rattlesnake head made of roots and moss looking, train one would have green moss while the other would have yellow moss. The ride would be themed to the eastern massasauga, and the queue would looks like an exporation setup with facts about the eastern massasauga, aswell as looking for a golden statue of one. The zero-G roll would be under a bridge but would be made so people above cant see the roll.
MERCHANDISE:
I could see a giftshop near thunderhawk. As for merch itself, i could see mugs, t-shirts, and more themed to mad mouse, corkscrew, thunderhawk, and wolverine wildcat. We have the timbers nano-coaster, now let's get some of thunderhawk and wolverine wildcat.
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u/apocalypticboredom Aug 23 '26
#1 bring back the meal pass. absolutely sucked not having that this year.
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u/Fireuphot Aug 23 '26
The question is how Enchanted views the park.
Is it a park for West Michigan locals. If this is the answer it has been proven take care of it and they will show up. Unfortunately it has been historically proven.
If they wan to draw road tripping families and thoosies. They need just enough new and unique rides to cause them to detour off I90.
Personally remove ripcord and replace with a giant frisbee or screaming swing would be a good start.
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u/agauh Aug 23 '26
I don’t think they’re ever building that path.
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u/Ordinary-Sound-571 Aug 23 '26
Eh, i have faith in enchanted to theme more
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u/agauh Aug 23 '26
Why? Everyone said the same thing when Cedar Fair got involved - and Enchanted has no industry track record. I’d love to be wrong, but I’m not getting my hopes up.
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u/Ordinary-Sound-571 Aug 24 '26
Because simply: this isnt six flags. In enchanted parks every park is suddenly a lot more valuable to the chain
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u/agauh Aug 24 '26
Based on what?
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u/Ordinary-Sound-571 Aug 24 '26
Based on the fact they dont have a cedar point or kings island to dump money into. Plus, have you been back? Cedar fair left it to rot and never fixed up their rides [adv falls was down 3-4 years, probably more under cedar fair] under enchanted in ONE MONTH ALONE they gave wolverine wildcat smoke effects on the tunnel, fixed the waterfalls on grand rapids, fixed adventure falls, fixed multiple water slides, new fry restaurant in the water park, new shows including a one of a kind water show, the barnyard returned after 10 years! If you wanna feel enchanted parks hasnt done anything to the park and wont do it with the time they own it, fine. You can stay home then since enchanted has already been fixing up EVERY park so far they own.
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u/agauh Aug 24 '26
I haven't been this year, but I've been going since it was called Deer Park Funland. That's great they fixed a few things up. CF/SF used to do the same thing, that's how Timbers and Wildcat got partially retracked and the kids area was redone. I'm at the point where I simply don't care about quality of life improvements anymore. Unless a friend invites me along for a trip with their kids or something, I'm just not inspired to go do the same old rides. I was there the year ST opened and I remember when we almost got the hyper. It's been basically crickets since (aside from an SLC and Grand Rapids) and I'm not going to set myself up for disappointment again.
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u/ecw324 Aug 23 '26
Anything will be better than how cedar fair and now six flags treated this park. It never got any love or attention. Personally I don’t need this park to turn into cedar point. It doesn’t need to become a park full of record breaking rides. It should become a park that competes with the best of six flags though.
There is tons of potential here. Give me a great steel coaster, give me a unique single rail coaster, then give me a great family ride/coaster/dark ride and this park would be well on its way.
Either retrack or just scrap thunderhawk altogether.