A Thousand and One Nights, Sheherazade, is Inspired by THIS ride, like most of Disneys rides. The Efteling is at the foundation of Disneyworld, and Disneyworld would have looked a whole lot different, if it would have existed at all, without the Efteling.

So the same thing that Disney does even if people don't know it.

If you would smell our attraction (Max en Moritz) you would smell a lot of dust, whoopee cussions and wood, you don't want that xD

@@RabbitsInBlack Disney uses screens, but imo they don't really give a full experience as much as animatronics do

Scent is a very underrated but important part of an experience. It adds so much character and makes it much more memorable. Peope tent to remember scents very specifically and link it to something (see what happens if I talk about the scent present in Pirates of the Caribbean, almost all know what I mean XD)

The temperature changes, too

It's hard to see but I always look behind me as we leave the room, THEN you can really see how tilted the room is!

Yeah lol, it would be nice if the animatronics would be remade with the techniques from now

Yeah, I don’t blame him though. He’s been doing this since 1986

Tbh the wizards are almost always like that XD

The animatronics are pretty old, so that happens sometimes

Max and I made him a mess! >;)

lol

TL oS u really should go there!! when you walk there it doesnt feel like our normal earth anymore, it feels like a magical world

At least he showed up, but he definitely phoned it in that day.

There is even a pleasant smell in the ride that also is buyable at the end of the ride

Yeah, the giant djinn is normally also a surprise. Closed curtains will open and then reveal it. It just malfunctions sometimes

Why do you have to admit? Is this ride regarded as ugly or something

@@amoenda100 wdym buyable?

I believe it was Ruud Bos who did the music for Fata Morgana. He was also responsible for the music in Droomvlucht (Dreamflight), Vogel Rok (Bird Rok) and my favorite, his tour de force, Villa Volta

Everything is perfectly tuned so that when you move around a corner the animatronics there start doing their program

Symbolica + Max and Moritz: 👁👄👁

Agree. Maybe Symbolica just beats it but still my favorite dark ride

Man, thats gotta be so well timed so that it doesn't douse the guests XD

sunshine B well go to the Netherlands! :)) the park is awesome, maybe even better than disney

Symbolica + Max and Moritz: 👁👄👁👍

if i'm not wrong, fata morgana is a mirage of a city in the clouds. i believe in this ride you are entering that magical 'city'

You are going into a jungle and a wizzard let you see the Forbidden city: fata morgana were you make a trip trought it

Brian David M. LOL

Visit the Efteling

Efteling doesn't use explicit storytelling in their darkrides: 'use your imagination'. It is another culture than Disney. In this case; you visit Fata Morgana, 'the forbidden city' as an uninvited guest, now apparently popping up in the middle of the jungle. In the end you wonder: was it real, did I escape, am I dead, or was it just a Fata Morgana? Was the wizard at my side? (Cause in the end he sends you to the light shooting 'snakespider'). It is al about creating an ambiance, taking inspiration from Anton Pieck's drawnings about 1001 Arabian Nights (and also the first Efteling designer).

David Feltheim its not Disneyland REEEE

@@Daan03 I know that but I can only compare it to the most top quality rides

David Feltheim -_-

That's still the case actually! They just tend to malfunction a lot haha

@@taartopdekers4926 How did he react

@@dutchshark1580 Sorry maar ik doe geen roleplay meer 😅 vandaar de profiel en naamverandering 😅😅

@@taartopdekers4926 Haha dacht ik al

None of the animatronics in this ride have motors, they are all moved by big wooden cogs underneath them

He was definitely malfunctioning on this one. Oftentimes this happens, in every great theme park, but goes unreported. I always make it a point to mention things like this to staff when I see them.

a wire snaped

@@QDude24 zijn de nokkenschijven niet al jaren geleden vervangen?

@@yigoh8437 nee, nooit

ok

The wizard did apparently

But they still have them right? Like the pirates of the Caribbean? O.o?

@@aracelichely2954 The older rides are okay. The newer ones just throw in a few cardboard backgrounds and plastic characters with minimal animation. Very little detail. Once in a while you get a truly magical experience, but they're extremely rare these days.

@@kelaarin which park are you talking about?

@aaron Castillo You have no idea what "marketing" is, do you?

Efteling > Disney. And that's on period

Oh nice-Where in Holland are you from? Last went there last Sept. Stayed in Zaandam and did day trips to Amsterdam, Rotterdam + The Hague-+ then went to Tilburg for few hours then got the Arriva bus to Kaatsheuvel obviously to go to Efteling Been going to Efteling since I was 4 years old in summer of 1985 great memories of my first trip there! I can't remember the very first ride I went on but I remember Going onThe Bob Ride now sadly gone as you know, + Carnival Festival, Classic Car Ride, Remember crying + getting scared on Spookslot when the graves + rails were moving, seeing + hearing the thunder and lightning, a hairy arm stretches from the roof, holding a big chandelier lol, And remember crying as wasn't allowed on: Python as wasn't tall enough lol Loving the: Fairytale Forest for the 1st time and obviously still do. Among other memories of 1st going there and been going nearly every year since Soo glad my first time wasn't when I was 18 months old or wouldn't of remembered anything! I'm also from the UK in England-Kent, Hvae you been to the UK and if so whereabouts :-)

@@mikekaraoke flying dutchman is still my favorite ride haha. And yes I have been to the UK numerous times my dad is actually British (from Manchester) so half my family is from there ☺️

@@brigittesnelson2354 flying dutchman isn't my fav but one of my favs def :-) I see so your half British :-) , I haven't been to Manchester in years like 4 years ago! So where else in the UK have you been and what other Theme Parks you been too?

@@mikekaraoke London, Brighton, Liverpool, probably more but I can't remember lol

Disneyland, Walibi, Duinrell, Drievliet etc.

Should've gone to Disneyland instead of Disneyland's butt.

It is. You should definitely visit when you can

Pirates of the Fantasy Morocco?

Andre DeVine Pirates of the ijsco-ali-is-terug!

Pirates? Where?

The eastern

@@H3nry488 Not literally; they're referring to the format of the ride.

You really have to go once!!!!! im go almost every month :)

@@dagjeeftelingvlogs5002 (At least 2X per month, here :-) )

@@Wig4 same😁

Well now you have, So go and make plans to visit the park

I saw you are into toy collection... :-) ... Well, Efteling offers some toys (and characters) you will never have met before as well ! :-)

The rides designer, Ton van de Ven said that the idea for the ride came when he rode Pirates of the Caribbean, so it is based on it. Stop spreading fake info

Spot on

I might be a bit late, but about the ‘I don’t speak Dutch’ part: most lines spoken in the ride are Arabic. Yeah, some things are said in Dutch, French, German and English, but not a whole lot.

Don DiFonso it isn’t

Look as googlemaps and you Will see it is en small building for what is inside

Here is the number : +- 4000 m2 ... (43055 ft2) (Compare Indiana Jones in WDW: +- 5250m2 (56500 ft2)

It’s not very big but talking about the exterior: it’s beautiful

Efteling doesn't use explicit storytelling in their darkrides: 'use your imagination'. It is another culture than Disney. In this case; you visit Fata Morgana, 'the forbidden city' as an uninvited guest, now apparently popping up in the middle of the jungle. In the end you wonder: was it real, did I escape, am I dead, or was it just a Fata Morgana? Was the wizard at my side? (Cause in the end he sends you to the light shooting 'snakespider'). It is al about creating an ambiance, taking inspiration from Anton Pieck's drawnings about 1001 Arabian Nights (and also the first Efteling designer).

@@bramjeurissen5946 HEY! My brother and we DO have a story, and the best in Efteling itself! >:C

You don’t need to know a story to enjoy a dark ride, right?

That scared me when I first went on it. So did the giant jinn

Lynn MacDonald its based 1001 nights,

It's just a imagination, that's why it's called " Fata Morgana"

Tina Hassell Its based on 1001 nights

There isn’t a full story. The wizard let you go through the forbidden city Fata Morgana

It is 100% to enjoy the athmosphere, indeed. And look around for details. You do not get to see everything unless you ride it at least 4-5 times :-)

Yes, there's the scent of incense in the big throne room.

Yo can even buy a scent from the attraction as perfume.

Also the scent of apples at the marketplace

And scent of menstrual blood if you sit besides a girl on the rag.

Yes this ride was there before pirates

@@tijmenkuijpers5988 This ride opened in 1986, Pirates opened in 1967

Really?

Oh i see i searched it up

@@tijmenkuijpers5988 Yes, Pirates in Disneyland was 1967, Magic Kingdom was 1973, Tokyo Disneyland was 1983, Disneyland Paris was 1992

Hunterbythesea that wont work, its a tow boat ride aka with a rope in the water that moves and the boats are attached to it. The ride is really awesome, it doesn’t need them(no way the would be able to add them), but you should come to the efteling, its a great park :))

Please no

God you need gunpowder in ur cigarette ^Moritz from Max and Moritz

In a Fata Morgana, it does.

Dumb Nerd the technique for this animatronics are used with wooden revolving platforms. this technique was used back in the 80's, just like when fata morgana was built.

It's from the Efteling. Same quality, or better, as Disney

Fun fact, this park was actually built before the original Disneyland!

efteling

No is not

No but similar.

That is the best Disney "Dark ride Opera", ever. (It's 100% Japanese, by the way)

Efteling doesn't use explicit storytelling in their darkrides: 'use your imagination'. It is another culture than Disney. In this case; you visit Fata Morgana, 'the forbidden city' as an uninvited guest, now apparently popping up in the middle of the jungle. In the end you wonder: was it real, did I escape, am I dead, or was it just a Fata Morgana? Was the wizard at my side? (Cause in the end he sends you to the light shooting 'snakespider'). It is al about creating an ambiance, taking inspiration from Anton Pieck's drawnings about 1001 Arabian Nights (and also the first Efteling designer).