Efteling Discussion Thread

[thrillerman1]

I think this announcement by Efteling kinda flew by maybe a little unnoticed with the Kennywood and Holiday World announcements this week too, but a new GCI racing coaster with theming sounds really great to me. I personally can't wait to see how this one turns out!

[Nosferatu]

GCi + Efteling's standard of Theming + duelling = Awesome.

 

I don't think it's really fair judging this ride by lightning Racer. That ride is 9 years old, and see how far GCI coasters has evolved since then. Judging by their latest efforts, this is probably going to be incredible. Imagine something like a duelling El Toro

[JohanR]

This weekend the Dutch themepark The Efteling had something to celebrate. the 100.000.000 visiter since its opening in 1952 visited the park. this is 18 years after the 50.000.000 milion visiter visited the park in 1991. The estimation fot this year is somewhere around 4 million visiters.

 

Fun fact, in 1991 the pegassus openend, now 50.000.000 visiters later it closed

 

photo's of the happy family:

 

 

 

 

The park is still expanding. With their new sleeping resort opening this december, their new dueling GCI woody in june 2010 and the new theatre/restaurant The Raveleijn in 2011

 

JohanR

[exmouse]

Did the family get anything for being the 100,000,000 visitors? I remeber when the Millennium Dome had their 20,000,000 visitor they got a diamond ring.

[ericmichaellucas]

^ Please bare in mind that the Millennium Dome and all of it's expenses were funded by the UK taxpayers...including those that didn't go while it was open.

 

The card in the picture says VIP so I'd imagine they may have got VIP treatment for the entirety of their visit

[exmouse]

^ Please bare in mind that the Millennium Dome and all of it's expenses were funded by the UK taxpayers...including those that didn't go while it was open.

 

No it wasn't. It was it part funded by the tax payer, but also by sponsors, ground rent (eg. McDonalds), corporate events and entry tickets. From memory I think it remains the highest ever visitor attraction in Europe.

 

I'd want more than a day of VIP treatment, given the publicity I'm helping give the park, I'd want a life time season pass and a stay in the new hotel.

[JohanR]

They got a stay for the whole family in Bosrijk. But no, no life-time pass for these guys.

 

Then again, the largest group of fans isn't so sure that this really is the 100.000.000 visiter. Sure they had more than 100.000.000. But according so some calculations that person should have entered the gates a few months back. Also, its very typical that again a family wins, and not some fan of small couple....

 

But well, they got their 100.000.000 and thats the most important!

[hobbit]

it will be a race coaster..

[CorkscrewFoley]

I'm happy with the announcement. It's too bad it was going to be a dueling scenic railroad.

[Coaster Cow]

Awesome... I love the appeal of Lightning Racer, and I think that Gwazi has a lot of potential, so I'm definitely looking forward to more on this.

[Josh Linn]

it will be a race coaster..

 

So one will be black and the other white?

[Jeroen_twee]

Tracklayout:

 

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd2.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd3.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd4.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd5.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd6.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd7.jpg

 

Coasterconstruction:

 

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd8.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd9.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd10.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd11.jpg

 

Station:

 

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd12.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd13.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd14.jpg

http://documenten.eftelist.nl/data/joris/bouwtk/jedd15.jpg

 

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Coaster Construction

Track Layout

[coasterfreak101]

There's a dual station fly-by. Life is good.

[Jerrykoala2112]

I am wondering if this is not a duel coaster? Otherwise, a GCI with 2 stations is sweet. But it looks a lot like a duel...sorry if it was already posted.

[walibi owner]

It looks nice i like efteling

[ginzo]

Judging by the awesome ERT we had on Lightning Racers last year, this should make for one heck of an ERT session on the Europe trip next summer.

[robbalvey]

^ I would love to think that would be the case, but remember that Efteling wasn't the easiest park to get ERT at on the Europe 2008 trip.

 

--Robb

[ginzo]

^Yeah, and thanks again for being so persistent on that. Funny how things went smoothly and the park staff was really nice to us when we got there. The park rep even walked us over to Vogel Rok (not a short walk in that massive park) when I was just asking for directions.

 

Maybe we'll get lucky and the park will remember who we are this time around.

[SharkTums]

The other thing to keep in mind is that the ride may not be open yet, or this may be VERY early in it's operation.

 

Not trying to be negative, just realistic!

[ginzo]

^

 

Also, we should be safe on this one. There's no Intamin cable involved in this project.

[topthrill2]

[CoasterCard]

The straight track after that first drop looks like the longest straightaway on any GCI to date. I can't wait to see if there's a lot of pops of air through that segment.

 

The ride itself looks amazing and I can't wait to see what Efteling does with themeing!

[Em-Z]

If all goes well I might be able to go to Efteling next summer and this ride looks like it'll be great, so hopefully it'll work out!

[PortugePunk]

SUPER

DUPER

COOL!

[MiniMike]

I can't wait to see the duel station flyby. I can't wait!