Efteling has picked the spookiest possible date to open its new haunted house attraction.
The Danse Macabre attraction will open at Efteling on October 31 - Halloween - the award-winning Dutch theme park announced today. Danse Macabre will be a first of its kind Intamin Dynamic Motion Stage ride. Using the name of Camille Saint-Saëns' 1874 orchestral work, Danse Macabre replaces the old Spookslot haunted house.
The €35 million (US$38 million) investment includes the surrouding Huyverwoud themed area, which includes the In den Swarte Kat and 't Koetshuys food locations. The backstory is that this is the home to the Charlatan family and their special barrel organ, Esmeralda.
Visitors will hear that organ playing "Danse Macabre" as the ride the nested turntables of the new ride system inside the mysterious abbey building in the heart of the haunted forest.
"The bizarre thing - and at the same time the beautiful thing - is that, as a designer, you are at the very beginning of inventing and sketching what we are showing here now," Designer Jeroen Verheij said. "That means that I am actually in my own drawing now. I hope our guests will be overwhelmed by what they see when they soon enter this chapel. It is a hugely impressive space. This will be an unforgettable attraction."
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