Fishflesh Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 have you ever been to the best theme park in the world? i don't think so! the best theme park in the world is in the netherlands and its name is Efteling a mian theme from 1 of the many atractions http://www.xs4all.nl/~gniletfe/snd/VillaVoltaByGniletfe.mp3 (very bad qwality sound) if have been to many theme parks but diseny or six flags is just crap compared to this dutch theme park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pad Posted December 18, 2002 Share Posted December 18, 2002 Originally posted by NL_Ackbar have you ever been to the best theme park in the world? i don't think so! actually ive been there but i dont know why u post about a DUTCH theme park which most of the ppl in here havent heared about. btw, young david check ur pm box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishflesh Posted December 18, 2002 Author Share Posted December 18, 2002 thats why i post it becose thay never heard about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 and we probably never will... If you haven't seen Great America, you've seen very little Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishflesh Posted December 19, 2002 Author Share Posted December 19, 2002 amarika is cool but i am not talking about contunends especialy universal studios tour whit the terminator show and jurrasic park but the efteling is just a dream com true compared to universal studios efteling has been awarded whit aplash award for the best theme park in the world Review of the Efteling (I did not wrote this clefo) I arrived at Amsterdam airport around 8am and went straight to the train station. There we bought tickets to Tilburg in the south of the country, the closest station to our first park. We traveled everywhere we wanted to go in Europe by train and always rode in first class. The trains in Europe go everywhere and there were buses from the train station to EVERY park we visited. Every single train schedule for ALL of Europe can be found easily on the internet. A couple of the parks were actually within walking distance of the train station. Try doing that in America. We decided to skip the slower public transportation and take a cab to the first amusement park of the trip, Efteling (in The Netherlands). Efteling is a park very highly regarded by the well-traveled enthusiasts who had been there. Many people even consider it to be the most beautiful park in the world. After visiting the park for myself, I have to agree - As high as my expectations for the park were, it still exceeded them. Efteling has also won awards in the industry for being the greatest theme park in the world. It was gorgeously and lushly landscaped with tons of trees, fields of green and narrow winding paths, with lots of little nooks and crannies to explore. But the most impressive feature of the park was all the flowers. The tulips were absolutely stunning in the most brilliant shades of red, orange, blue, white, purple, etc. There were even some tulips with two colors like dazzling orange-yellow, red-yellow or red-white combinations. I took four rolls of film in the park and most of them were of the flowers (and I could have taken more). As great as the landscaping was, so were many of the rides. We arrived at Efteling on a beautiful sunny Friday afternoon about noontime and stayed until they closed at 6 pm. Admission was only +/- 17. The longest line we encountered was about 20 minutes. Let's start with the coasters: The first one we rode was called Bob. It was an Intamin bobsled coaster, but taller, longer and different than the standard model. Next we rode Pegasus, an Intamin junior woodie about 50 feet tall and built over a lake. The unusual thing about this coaster was that it had a unique type of wheel that was designed to be very quiet. The coaster was even more silent than a normal steel coaster and it is very unusual to see a woodie in action without all the noises associated with it. It was a good and peppy little ride. Next came a Vekoma double loop corkscrew coaster called Python. The ride was rough and very aggressive, even more than your normal Vekoma ride. The helix at the end (the unique touch on the ride) was full of strong lateral forces. The final coaster of the park was also the newest one. Built last year by the Dutch firm Vekoma, it was an indoor coaster called Vogel Rok. The storyline involved some kind of mythical bird and the entrance featured a gigantic bird that you walked underneath to enter the ride. The queue line was enormous and went through several rooms, but we only had to wait about 20 minutes to ride. The wait ended up being the longest of the whole trip. The ride vehicles had several on-board speakers with a unique soundtrack synchronized to the ride. The ride featured lots of curving drops and turns, all in the dark, over a unique ride layout. Overall, the ride was much better than I expected. Now, onto the other rides: ALL of the rides and attractions at Efteling are Disney quality or most times even better. Fata Morgana was a wonderful 10 minute dark ride very similar to Disney's famous Pirates of the Carribean, except that it had a Moorish theme (with Arabs instead of Pirates). To start off, the ride was housed in a huge building with gold, blue and yellow onion domes on top. The building/castle looks very impressive from across the lake on which it sits. The queue line inside is one of the best looking and coolest I have ever seen: an elevated wooden walkway above the station, with carved wooden motifs every few feet. The loading platform is a huge rotating turntable and the boats hold about 15 people, but we had a whole boat to ourselves that day as there was no line for this incredible attraction. The ride was very elaborate and had over 15 rooms, most of which were separated by a fancy curtain or themed door that opened to admit each boat and then closed behind you so your craft was alone in every scene. The park claims the ride contained 140 animatronic figures. The cast of characters includes camels, tigers, donkeys, magicians, belly dancers and lots of Arabs. The ride was so good that we decided to stay in our boat and ride again. We noticed many more details during our second and third rides. Every attraction at Efteling had its own original soundtrack, many of them with a grand orchestral scores. The park offers a compact disc of the music and I bought one. It is a wonderful souvenir of the park and upon my first listening at home, I was flooded with warm memories of the park. Fata Morgana was the second ride we rode in the park and the first one that made me realize that this park was truly something special. In fact, over and over again that day, I was blown away by this park, its landscaping and its themed rides. I should also note here that, quite frankly, I had become very jaded over the last few years after having visited over 175 amusement parks around the world and it was so refreshing to experience a park of this caliber and get my spirits lifted once again like they hadn't been lifted by a theme park in years. Efteling reminded me of my first trip to Epcot Center at Walt Disney World in Florida (in 1994), where I was blown away by all the theming and the scope and length of the rides. It had been over five years since I was so impressed by a theme park. Droomvlucht was another amazing 10 minute dark ride. It is a suspended dark ride: the vehicle is suspended below an overhead track (like Disney's Peter Pan). This type of system allowed the car to fly over gigantic scenes as the riders looked at the elaborate theming all around and below them. The ride's name translates as Dream Vehicle and it has some dreamy rooms and effects with fairies and trolls. The room that took us totally by surprise was an enormous jungle room in which the ride actually became like a coaster and spiraled down a triple helix, propelled completely by gravity. We got off the ride and couldn't believe it, so we immediately rode again. There was also another elaborate 10 minute dark ride called Carnival Festival. It was a little like Disney's Small World with the different figures from different countries spinning around (the park claimed there were 270 characters). It was quite good. Then we walked to a haunted castle called Spookslot that held a multimedia show set to music with many animatronic figures coming to life in an animated graveyard. It was also about 10 minutes long and started with a single figure playing fiddle and gradually more and more things started moving until at least 50 things were going on and you could not watch all of them. The very unusual observation tower called Pagoda was 50 meters tall (165 feet) and came with an incredible view of the park. What makes it unique is that the tower is attached to a pivoting arm that raised the tower. When it reaches the top, it spins very slowly all the way around so that every passenger could see in every direction. We also rode a relaxing scenic boat ride called Gondoletta that slowly floated around on a big lake. Around every corner, there another gorgeous bunch of brightly colored tulips. Another attraction that took us by surprise was a ride built by Vekoma called Villa Volta. It was an elaborately themed -magic spinning room. After two pre-shows, we entered a fancy room and sat down on a bench and a lap bar was lowered. I knew what was going to happen next, but Leslie had no idea. The lights dimmed in the room and the music started. This attraction had the best soundtrack of an ride in the park. The benches remained stationary and the room began to slowly rock back and forth. As the music peaked, the room began to spin and completely rotated around the riders in a head over heels fashion. Girls screamed and we laughed our heads off as the optical illusion was breathtaking. Although you were sitting still and the room was rotating, your brain was tricked into thinking that YOU were being flipped upside down. It was a TOTAL blast and one of the best non-coaster rides either of us had ever experienced. The park had many other rides that we did not have time to experience like a hedge maze, pirate ship, rapids ride, antique cars, carousel, train (that was not working), and a very cute tea cup ride themed like kettles with flames painted on the bottom that was called Monsieur Cannibale. There were also many dioramas, sculptures, carvings, fountains, themed exhibits and colorful buildings scattered throughout the park. It was truly an enchanting place and the BEST theme park I have ever visited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfnshannon Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 sounds a lot like a copy cat of the american themeparks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishflesh Posted December 19, 2002 Author Share Posted December 19, 2002 Originally posted by STTCT sounds a lot like a copy cat of the american themeparks this park started way before any theme parks and the last thing it wil do is copy and it stared arount 1950 as a fairy tail park ask any dutch forum member the guy in the review has been to 170 park and he finds the efteling the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 8 Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 uhmmmmmm ackbar.... what would it help giving the yankees the Efteling... its most likely that they will NEVER EVER go there in their ENTIRE life. and IF the go to the netherlands and IF they visit A theme park here.. they will go to Sic Flags... no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfergie Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 wow...this thread is worthless... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paragon_Leon Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 why ANYONE would compulsively want to stand in line for an hour just to get sick in just under one minute is beyond me... alas, my view on those theme parks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishflesh Posted December 19, 2002 Author Share Posted December 19, 2002 So now you all know if you ever go to holland do not go to six flags holland or anny other just go to THE EFTELING! END OF THIS THREAD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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