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Shivering Timbers Review, Michigan's Adventure CCI Wooden Roller Coaster | CCI's Best Coaster
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2021
- Shivering Timbers is the star attraction at Michigan's Adventure. This Custom Coasters International creation is arguably the company's best roller coaster. This CCI feels more like a wooden hyper coaster with its towering camelbacks and endless series of bunny hills. And after my most recent rides on it, I think it is CCI's best roller coaster. Find out why in this review!
Video Credits
Boulder Dash POV, 2001 (psyclonesteve)- • Boulder Dash, Lake Com...
Shivering Timbers Off-Ride (Airtime Thrills)- • Shivering Timbers at M...
Shivering Timbers Off-Ride (ElToroRyan)- • Shivering Timbers Off-...
Shivering Timbers POV, 1998 (Sean Flaharty)- • Shivering Timbers POV ...
Shivering Timbers POV, 2019 (Coaster Thrills)- • Shivering Timbers On-R...
Background Music
Upbeat Indie Corporate by Infraction [No Copyright Music] / Exhale- • Upbeat Indie Corporate...
It's such a masterpiece.
Agreed!
Look at my icon, it's THIS coaster! Rode it 19 times over two days
Coaster Idiot omg
Great video, brotha. Grew up in metro Detroit and my Dad took us here every summer from about 1992 on... He loved this ride, and going up north to the Silver Lake Sand Dunes was his favorite place to go. He got sick (Alzheimers) and passed on 5 years ago, but seeing anything Michigan's Adventure related makes me smile.
Glad this brought a smile to your face.
This coaster has been getting a lot more attention as of late. Definitely excited for it one day!
It's deserved.
I went to Michigan’s Adventure for the first time, and rode Shivering Timbers 7 times this past summer on a warm rainy day. This is definitely an elite woodie, and it’s not even close. Every hill delivered glorious airtime, and has some of the strongest sustained laterals on any wood coaster I’ve ridden, and the ride ops that day were amazing, letting us stay on the train if no one was waiting for the row we were on. If I ever find myself in Michigan again, you can bet that I’ll pay Michigan’s Adventure another visit.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Until recently, I forgot how well of a company CCI was. A lot of their coasters were good and sometimes they would knock it out of the park like with Shivering Timbers.
The biggest issue with CCIs is that they could get rough without good maintenance.
This ride is so high on my bucket list! And as a huge fan of airtime there’s no doubt this ride is going to be high up on my list if I ever get to ride it
It's amazing at airtime.
I love this coaster. It's a good one.
I’ve been riding shivering Timbers for 22 years it’s my favorite wooden coaster.
It's one of the best.
I’m a huge ghostrider fan so this is definitely high on my bucket list
It's fantastic.
This coaster is incredible and by far the best CCI for me, and actually in my top 10, albeit near the bottom, makes MiA worth visiting
Boulder Dash is the only CCI that's close for me.
Agreed: # 1 CCI. The Boss was my first CCI, so I was assuming that they were a terrible manufacturer. Then I rode GhostRider, then Boulder Dash, and I realized that CCI could be great. Then came Shivering Timbers, and it instantly became my favorite CCI, and still is. It may seem like a simple layout, but like you covered in this review, the execution is excellent, and there actually is variety with the different types/shapes of the airtime hills. You did this coaster justice with your review!
Boss is the perfect example of what can happen to a CCI without constant maintenance. Great layout, but the ride tears itself apart.
Such an underrated masterpiece
Sure is.
Canobie Coaster would say:
Now from 1998 through 2016, the next element was trick track. This was an element commonly found on old wooden roller coasters where a piece of straight track would rapidly bank riders back and forth. While the element sounded cool on paper, it was a nightmare as it aged. I never experienced this element on Shivering Timbers, but I did experience it on Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce. This element was brutal when those abrupt laterals were paired with jackhammering, and from the accounts I saw of Shivering Timbers in 2015 and 2016, it sounds like it rode identically. So I'm glad Cedar Fair converted this section into...
A speed hill
I actually just started my job at Mi Adv and I'm working maintenance on Shivering Timbers as a track inspector/carpenter. It's truly astonishing with how much their just is of that coaster. It is easily the most impressive coaster I've ever seen. While it's not the tallest or fastest, but you can see how loved and cared for it is, it is truly something special.
The park takes good care of this ride.
I was on the track crew back in 2013! I can assure you, keeping this monster smooth is no easy task! I'm glad to see people are still enjoying it!
Thanks for helping keep people safe. 👍Most don't realize just how physically demanding and time consuming maintenance on rides like Shivering Timbers is.
@@isaacb7844 Wooden roller coasters may require more maintenance, but the ride experience is worth it! Wooden roller coasters feel more alive than steel roller coasters.
Canobie Coaster would say:
Now from 1998 through 2016, the next element was trick track. This was an element commonly found on old wooden roller coasters where a piece of straight track would rapidly bank riders back and forth. While the element sounded cool on paper, it was a nightmare as it aged. I never experienced this element on Shivering Timbers, but I did experience it on Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce. This element was brutal when those abrupt laterals were paired with...
Any roughness.
Glad I went here before the accident. I specifically rode this coaster last so it would be my 200th credit & it didn’t disappoint
Nice milestone!
Canobie Coaster would say:
Now from 1998 through 2016, the next element was trick track. This was an element commonly found on old wooden roller coasters where a piece of straight track would rapidly bank riders back and forth. While the element sounded cool on paper, it was a nightmare as it aged. I never experienced this element on Shivering Timbers, but I did experience it on...
A) Raven at Holiday World.
B) Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce.
C) Boss at Six Flags St. Louis.
D) Great White at Morey's Piers.
B
Good detailed review!
Thanks!
Canobie Coaster would say:
The front gets great floater airtime on both ascents while the back gets decent floater airtime on the first ascent and then good sustained floater airtime on the descent.
Now from 1998 through 2016, the next element was trick track. This was an element commonly found on old wooden roller coasters where a piece of straight track would rapidly bank riders back and forth. While the element sounded cool on paper, it was...
Flawed
This coaster is top tier in my book. It's my 2nd favorite wood coaster, and sits in my top 5 easily. The airtime is ridiculous, and the speed is maintained so we'll. The helix is butter smooth and forceful. I even found that if you lean forward on those 2 pot holes, it greatly reduces the impact felt. This is the best CCI I've ridden, and this is at the closest Cedar Fair park for me. It alone makes the trip to MA worth it.
This is the only reason I look forward to going back to this park.
It's amazing that a coaster that long only has one lift hill and a drop of only 107'! It's length is also beaten by T-Express by just a mere ONE FOOT, yet T- Express has a drop of 151', not the 107' drop Shivering Timbers has. That's why Shivering Timbers has the longest prime ride time duration (at least 92 seconds) of any currently operating wooden coaster with one lift hill other than The Voyage. Its layout is also based mainly on pure straight airtime. Its only major complaints are the jackhammering on the uphill sections, but it looks to be a bucket list coaster for me.
I'll be honest: I've never ridden a Gravity Group coaster, and the only CCI/CGI coaster I've ridden is Ghostrider in 2019. But this looks to be the BEST CCI ever made. Thanks for this awesome review, and please remember: the drop of Shivering Timbers is only 107'. Considering the length, airtime, and duration of Shivering Timbers: that stat (considering the others) is AMAZING to me and ought to be amazing to every coaster enthusiast. Thanks for posting!
I agree, the prime ride time is the biggest wow factor.
I think it's so efficient due to its back of turns. Wooden coasters lose most of their momentum from under banked and sharp angle turns, so this out and back camelback layout is able to keep that speed much better than a twister of the same height
@@chrisogrady28 That's a good thing. It's incredible. It's over 100' longer than a mile but only has a 107' drop!
Ride this during sunset and you get an incredible view of it on the turnaround.
I can imagine.
I think this ride looks wild
It is.
I love shivering timbers so much. Just a face paced air time buffet
Me too.
Orion shirt! Was wondering when the MA coaster vids would drop. Nice work!
Thanks! Nice to meet you!
I hate that the trick track is gone. It was so fun. For me it kind of falls in line with how out of nowhere some years ago people starting talking about coasters that have a rattle. A rough coaster is a rough coaster, but I roll my eyes when I hear something like, "it's so good, BUT it does have a bit of a rattle." 😏 ok. Just me? 🤷🏿♂️ lol
While I never experienced the trick track on Shivering Timbers, the same element on Boulder Dash stood out like a sore thumb against the rest of the ride as it aged.
My favorite ride at my home park! And I'm actually really glad the trick-track element was replaced with a small bunny hill by GCI since that was the only part of Shivering Timbers that I HATED. Was a bit too much for my head :(
The bunny hill definitely seems like an improvement.
this is my home park! I still prefer kennywood though
I much prefer Kennywood.
I just made my first visit to MA! I think I overhyped Shivering Timbers just a bit. Still an amazing woodie and top 10%. Extremely rough tho. Some of the roughest moments I’ve ever experienced. SO MANY floater airtime moments tho!!
I didn't find it rough 2 years ago.
yay! 10/10 i agree that this is a perfect roller coaster.
It is.
I heard so many great things lately. Defiantly a top 10 woodie I want to ride. Its like a B&M Hyper but it has like triple the amount of airtime and its a CCI. I heard it has way better airtime than Voyage. Probably will always be Michigan's best and its what this poor park needed. I think Uncle Nate from El Toro Ryan goes to far with putting it in front of Twisted Timbers, Skyrush, and Superman. I could see it being better than Skyrush but not the other 2 but still, the infinite amount of airtime as well as the good positives and lateral helix at the end and the pacing is absolutely fantastic.
I also prefer it to those rides myself. The sheer length and quality ride time is hard to beat.
Defiantly
Rode this for the first time 3 weeks ago. It made my top 15 out of 271 and I prefer it to El Toro and all 15 GCI's I've been on.
I prefer it to El Toro and all the GCIs I have ridden as well.
This coaster looks like pure fun but the RMCs interest me more also Voyage looks like the best regular wooden coaster to me
Voyage is a better ride, but this has more airtime.
What are your thoughts on railblazer being their next ride? It could connect the annoying layout and it’s cheap bc its relocated. Plus it would would add more thrill to the park.
That would be an awesome addition for them.
I rode it in 2016 with the trick track, and can atest it was the roughest part of the ride. For me the ride was rough and the airtime was weak, which is why it's not in my top 50. From what you, ElToroRyan, and Park Pros are saying, I really need to re-ride it to see how it is today.
I know ElToroRyan said the ride can be tempermental. It ran very well for me in both 2017 and 2021.
How funny, Chris from Airtime Thrills reviewed this ride recently!
I saw!
See in RCDB:
Shivering Timbers at Michigan's Adventure
Twisted Cyclone at Six Flags Over Georgia
Thunderhawk at Michigan's Adventure
Talon at Dorney Park
SIlver Bullet at Knott's Berry Farm
To ride again, what would you think about those five coasters?
I'd ride any but Thunderhawk.
I rode this about a month ago while I was already in Michigan for a vacation and the park was pretty slammed so I got a fast pass. It was honestly worth it alone for the seven rides that I got. I actually slightly prefer the back because I felt the airtime was overall sharper but the front is great too
Fast Lane was super helpful for this ride in 2021 since it was on one train.
You get ejector airtime in the back row, as you are literately yanked down the first drop
The fact this coaster is only like 15 feet taller than the average GCI is hard to believe.
It looks way bigger!
I think that weird straight track section was originally intended to be a midcourse so that the ride could run 3 trains. It certainly is long enough to run 3 trains, and probably would if it were located at a busier park.
That's possible!
great ride but the park needs more of these because this is the only really good ride there
I definitely wish this park got more investments.
Ikr
I like the name of this coaster
Me too.
And the logo is top 3 for all rides
Would you like to go again to Michigan's Adventure?
Especially are you thinking for Wolverine Wildcat?
I'd like to go back. Wolverine Wildcat is fine.
I want go on this sooo bad
It's amazing
Crazy amazing omg tgif ttyl lol airtime
So much airtime.
This should be a park landmark.
It is for this park.
Imagine trying to ride again:
Shivering Timbers at Michigan's Adventure
Twisted Cyclone at Six Flags Over Georgia
Silver Bullet at Knott's Berry Farm
Flight Deck at Canada's Wonderland
Dragon Fyre at Canada's Wonderland
Corkscrew at Valleyfair
Prowler at Worlds of Fun
Adventure Express at Kings Island
Diamondback at Kings Island
What would you think?
I'd ride any but Flight Deck.
This coaster looks amazing. It's too bad CCI is defunct; I would have loved to see CCI build more coasters like this
At least Gravity Group sort of came out of it.
@@CanobieCoaster that's true
Can I get a Yaaaaaankeeeeeee Cannonnnnnnballlllllll?!?!?! CANOBIE; MY MAIN MAN.... Dying to ride the timbers someday
It delivers.
I never actually had a problem with the trick track. Actually found it pointless...it was underwhelming and the tilt was never that noticeable. Just felt like a straight section that was slightly more rough than the rest of the coaster.
I'll take the extra bunny hill.
The only issue I have with this coaster is that it's in a park owned by a company that doesn't care about that park. Fortunately, it was built by the previous owner because CF would have never built it. As far as CCI goes, before The Legend was re-worked in 2016, this was their best...Now, The Legend beats it. I think this is my 4th favorite woody behind The Voyage, El Toro and The Legend.
I far prefer this to Legend and El Toro. I also wish Michigan’s Adventure got more investment.
I'd ride any but Thunderhawk.
Canobie Coaster said that, so if I ask you why?
I don't like that SLC.
Canobie Coaster would say:
From 1998 to 2016, the next element was a trick track. This was an element found on old wooden roller coasters where a piece of straight track would rapidly bank riders back and forth. While the element sounded cool on paper, it was a nightmare on a wooden coaster as it aged. I never experienced this element on Shivering Timbers, but I did experience it on...
Boulder Dash.
So just one ejector airtime moment in the back towards the end of the ride?
Shivering Timbers is mostly floater airtime, but lots and lots of floater airtime.
I wish Cedar Fair never bought Michigan's Adventure. It would probably be comprable to Cedar Point or Six Flags Great America in terms of it's coaster lineup had it remained independant (ie sort of like Hersheypark). Additionally, Woulverine Wildcat has a good layout taking lots of inspiration from Phoenix. The problem is it doesn't have buzbars and it hasn't been maintained all that well because it isn't the star attraction but it has the potential to be an at least above average woodie.
I agree the park likely would have been better had Cedar Fair not bought it. There was an interview with the Michigan's Adventure GM a few years ago where she said this park is targeting the family demographic since the nearby Cedar Point is where all the adults want to go. If the park is going for the family market, they can get away with adding a lot less.
@@CanobieCoaster "Appealing to families" would mean occasionally adding a good family coaster like Merlin's Mehem at Dutch Wonderland or Phoenix at Deno's, or even an SBF hamster wheel/spinner that can appeal to all members of the family. When the Mochigan's Adventure GM says that it's just the toned down version of "we don't add anything because even an inkling of a possability of the park potentially competing with Cedar Point is bad".
You should go to Lagoon and review those coasters
I have been there. I love Cannibal.
Shivering Timbers is the only roller coaster to give me motion sickness do to because it has so much airtime.
Wow!
I was having low blood sugar when I posted that’s why it came out weird lol
Why does nobody ever talk about the name? Shivering timbers is an epic sounding name
It is!
What are the biggest parks in America you haven’t been to?
Wild Adventures and the Colorado parks
@@CanobieCoaster I never would've guessed that I've visited 2 parks that you haven't been to.
How does this compare to Ghostrider?
GhostRider is great, but I prefer this. The airtime crushes GhostRider.
pog
Its so weird to think invertigo is taller than this 0:58
Yes quite funny.
"Michigan's Adventure usually has an efficient crew working this ride"
...Shows train stacking on the final brakes 😂
Fair.
Cci forgot to turn off low friction for this one
Quite possible.
World's tallest 122' coaster
It looks massive.
Rough summer of 2023
That's a bummer if it got rough.
@@CanobieCoasterit is rougher and dropped in my rankings, but it’s still amazing. It’s more of a shuffle than jackhammering, but I also have a generally high roughness tolerance.
The coaster that killed Michigan adventures, cedar fair bought the park just because it's not cedar point.
At least this ride is epic.
Canobie Coaster would say:
From 1998 to 2016, the next element was a trick track. This was an element found on old wooden coasters where a piece of straight track would rapidly bank riders back and forth. While the element sounded cool on paper, it was...
A nightmare as it aged.
Just had my first experience on this ride today....
And all I can say is, this park is not worth a 5 hour drive.
Way to expensive...
Shivering Timbers was the roughest experience I've ever had on a roller coaster...nothing fun about the painful airtime.....titan track the whole thing.
Maybe I'll come back then
Sorry you found Timbers rough. I've never had that issue.
I kanda wish cedar fair never bought the park
Or that they start investing in it.
What do you think? Would you like to go to Michigan's Adventure again, and especially to ride Corkscrew?
I love Shivering Timbers. Corkscrew is ok.
7:11 I was asking if do you wish you could have experienced Shivering Timbers with the element? What do you think?
I prefer it with the bunny hill.
Canobie Coaster said:
Now from 1998 through 2016, the next element was trick track. This was an element commonly found on old wooden roller coasters where a piece of straight track would rapidly bank riders back and forth. While the element sounded cool on paper, it was a nightmare as it aged. I never experienced this element on Shivering Timbers, but I did experience it on Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce. This element was brutal when those abrupt laterals were paired with jackhammering, and from the accounts I saw of Shivering Timbers in 2015 and 2016, it sounds like it rode identically.
If I ask you, do you wish you could have experienced Shivering Timbers with the element? What do you think?
No, the airtime hill is nice and comfortable.