Carnival Festival (or "Carnaval Festival" in Dutch ) is a dark ride in amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands . It was designed by Joop Geesink and opened its doors in 1984.
8-520: The ride system was built by Mack Rides , the ride has a track length of 240m. The ride cost €4.1m (NGL 9 million). The ride concept is original, but clearly influenced by Disney ’s " It's a Small World " attraction at the Disney Parks , and signified a breach with the fairy-tale style of the Efteling. The ride takes 2 adults or 3 children, in 1 of the 118 cars, through a humorous simplification of
16-404: A young entrepreneur, started building carriages and stagecoaches. The Mack Company began building organ wagons and caravans for travelling showmen in 1880, commencing the company's involvement in the amusement industry. Its first wooden roller coaster was built in 1921, the first car ride in 1936, and the first wooden bobsled ride in 1951. By 1952 Mack Rides started increasing its exports of rides to
24-457: Is a German company that designs and constructs amusement rides, based in Waldkirch , Baden-Württemberg . It is one of the world's oldest amusement industry suppliers, and builds many types of rides, including flat rides, dark rides, log flumes, tow boat rides and roller coasters. The family that owns Mack Rides also owns Europa-Park . Mack Rides traces its roots back to 1780 when Paul Mack,
32-641: The U.S. market. Europa-Park is run by the Mack family. Franz Mack (1921–2010) in 1958 took over the family firm, Mack GmbH & Co (now Mack Rides ), together with his brothers. With his son Roland (b. 1949), he visited the United States in 1972 and was inspired to open a theme park in Germany, as an exhibition site for his company's products. At first, the park was to be located in Breisach . It
40-554: The music. For Carnival Festival, Efteling commissioned its first original soundtrack, which was composed by Toon Hermans and arranged and produced by Ruud Bos. Each of the ride's scenes features its own variation on the theme music. Since 2019, if a disabled person boards the attraction, fanfare music will play. Fansite Company information 51°39′08″N 5°03′08″E / 51.65222°N 5.05222°E / 51.65222; 5.05222 Mack Rides Mack Rides GmbH & Co KG , also known simply as Mack Rides ,
48-452: The world populated by animatronics in just over 6 minutes, accompanied by a catchy music written by Ruud Bos, and singer and stand-up comedian Toon Hermans . The ride’s host is ‘Jokie de Prrretneus’, a carnival doll and the park's mascot from 1984 until 1989 when the new mascot ‘Pardoes’ was introduced. In 2005 the ride was redecorated with the famous Dutch doll "Loekie de Leeuw", which also was created by Joop Geesink. Joop Geesink's objective
56-684: Was named "Europa-Park" after Breisach's nearby Europaweiher , a small artificial lake that commemorates a historical pilot poll in Breisach held in 1950, in which 95.6% of voters were in favour of European unification . The Breisach site was deemed unsuitable because of flooding hazard, and the project was moved 30 km north, where the Macks bought the park of the historical Balthasar castle in Rust. Europa-Park opened in 1975 with an area of 16 hectares. It had 250,000 visitors in its first year, 700,000 in
64-557: Was to make it a hilarious ride, which is done by taking cultural aspects that have been generalized, and portraying them with funny dolls. In 2019 the ride closed for an extensive refurbishment. The lighting was upgraded to LED, the dolls were repainted and the Japan, China and Africa scenes were changed. Also in addition the gondolas would now stop periodically so that the fanfare portion would play. The ride passes through 9 different regions, each represented by typical scenes and variations on
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