History
The corkscrew was added by Roger Jourden to help turn his small deer park petting zoo into a full fledged amusement park. Many of his additions to Michigan's Adventure were to help compete with its neighbor park Cedar Point. This was the reason he decided on adding an Arrow corkscrew at the time. When the ride was built it was considered one of the most high tech and thrilling rides in existence and was considered by many including the manufacturers to be too big for what was at the time nothing more than a petting zoo. Roger Jourden has been quoted as saying that he would have liked to have had a loop in addition to the two corkscrews, but at the time it was too much for his budget.
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