Max & Moritz
Max & Moritz opened on 20/06/2020.
This is a double powered roller coaster suitable for children between 4 and 10 years (must be at least 90 cm tall) The theme is inspired by the German story of Max & Moritz Max & Moritz are two mischievous boys who live in an idyllic German town and like to play pranks on their fellow townsfolk.
They hate school and like to scribble on doors, walls and windows. Their mother Frau Schmetterling who makes Cuckoo clocks for a living, regularly locks the kids in her workshop to keep them out of trouble. The enterprising youths always find a way to escape the workshop however and merrily go about their business. You will join the boys in the workshop and escape along with them in their soap box racing cars. You can choose to join either Max or Moritzes team. |
Type: Steel – Powered – Dual-tracked
Manufacturer: Mack Rides Designer: Robert-Jaap Jansen Model: Powered coaster Lift/launch system: Onboard motors Height: 20 ft (6.00 m) Length: 980 ft (300.00 m) Speed: 22 mph (36.0 km/h) Inversions: 0 Duration: 2 m 30 seconds Capacity: 1800 riders per hour G-force: 1.8 Height restriction: 2 ft 11 in (90 cm) Trains: 2 trains with 1 locomotive and 9 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows (1 for the locomotive) for a total of 38 riders per train.
Get Max & Moritz souvenirs from the Efteling souvenir shop
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Accessibility
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This attraction is accessible by wheelchair by transfer.
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Max and Moritz can't be prevented.
Their neighbours are always being tormented. The entire village in despair. Complain to mama, who's always there. Boyish pranks they like to play. Until mother locks them away. Quickly they think up something to make. That will help them and you escape. Two soap boxes, green and blue. Will be off in a jiffy, together with you. Want to go on a crazy ride? Get into the soap box side by side! |
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Cock and hens, like fowls unfed,
Gobbled each piece of bread. Schnuodiwup a second bird! Schnupdiwup up comes the third! Ritze-Ratzel riddle-diddle! Sawed a gap across the middle. And with speed the wicked soup. Pours the powder in the bowl. Max & Moritz great pains taking. From a tree those bugs are shaking. Crunch, crunch like little mice. Through their cases in a trice. A whoopie cushion on his chair, Drove master Lampel to despair. |
StoryOnce upon a time, in a charming and peaceful German town, lived Frau Schmetterling, a famous clockmaker. In her workshop hung one of the most beautiful clocks ever made; a gift to her from her father. Sadly, the gold key which wound the clock had long been lost.
Frau Schmetterling lived with her two naughty sons, Max and Moritz, who were quite the opposite of charming and peaceful and who played mischievous pranks and tricks on the people of the town. They teased and tormented poor Frau Bolte's chickens, leaving them tangled in string. They sawed through Tailor Bock's wooden bridge causing it to collapse and plunge him into the river below. They were even brazen enough to steal a neighbour's roast chicken using a fishing rod through an open window! As punishment, their mother would lock them up in her workshop but somehow they always managed to find ways to escape. When she sent them to bed without any dinner, they broke into poor Krumel's bakery and helped themselves to the delicious baked goods within. One day the village announced they were going to have a soap box race. The crafty boys built themselves a fine cart each. Max used a spring he stole from one of his mother's commissioned clocks while Moritz used gunpowder he stole from the police, making sure to test it first by putting it in his teacher's favourite pipe. When the day of the race came, both brothers went hurtling down the track, faster than any who had gone before! But alas, before they reached the finish line, the carts collided and Max crashed headlong into a hay bale while Moritz landed in the lake! Max, covered in hay and straw, staggered over to the lake to find Moritz up to his chest in water, holding aloft a shining object. It was the lost key to the clock! Their mother was overjoyed and Max and Moritz, wanting to make their grandpa proud, made sure to wind the beautiful clock every day. |
Read the official Efteling version of the story in 'En Ze Leven Nog Lang en Gelukkig' available from the souvenir stores (Only in Dutch)
Summary to the left.
There are English translations available of the original story of Max & Moritz
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Max & Moritz 7 Tricks
First Trick: The Widow
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The boys attach several crusts of bread to string and hang them in the chicken coop of Frau Bolte, an old widow, causing all the chickens to get tangled up.
Frau Bolte manages to rescue them just in time. |
Cock and hens, like fowls unfed,
Gobbled each piece of bread.
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Second Trick: The Widow II
Schnuodiwup a second bird!
Schnupdiwup up comes the third!
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As the widow Frau Bolte cooks some of her chickens, the boys sneak onto her roof. When she leaves her kitchen briefly, the boys steal the chickens using a fishing pole down the chimney.
The widow hears her dog barking and hurries upstairs, finds the hearth empty and blames her dog Spitz. |
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Third Trick: The Tailor
Ritze-Ratzel riddle-diddle!
Sawed a gap across the middle.
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After the boys escape their mother's workshop, where they were locked as punishment for their tricks they went to the tailor's house and sawed his bridge in half.
They hid in the bushes and watched the poor tailor fall through the bridge and into the ice cold stream below after which the current swept him away. |
Fourth Trick: The Teacher
And with speed the wicked soup.
Pours the powder in the bowl.
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While their devout teacher, Lämpel, is busy at church, the boys invade his home and fill his favorite pipe with gunpowder. When he gets back to the school he lights the pipe, the blast destroys the classroom, gives him a shock and a soot covered face.
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Fifth Trick: The Uncle
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The boys shake trees to collect bags full of May bugs, which they promptly deposit in their Uncle Fritz's bed. Uncle had almost fallen asleep when he starts feeling the bugs tickling him all over.
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Max & Moritz great pains taking.
From a tree those bugs are shaking.
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Sixth Trick: The Baker
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The boys break into a closed bakery via the chimney to steal some sweets.
During an attempt to steal pretzels, they fall into a vat of cookie dough. The baker finds them and bakes them. But they survive, and escape by gnawing through their crusts. |
Crunch, crunch like little mice.
Through their cases in a trice.
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Final Trick:
A whoopie cushion on his chair,
Drove master Lampel to despair.
Queue gameOutside the new Max & Moritz rollercoaster the old sleepy Gijs bin has been given extra theming and its own interactive phone game
In the game you must try to catch as many beetles as you can in under a minute. Whoever catches the most beetles of your group gets to play a trick on Uncle Gijs. You will get to swipe the bag of beetles into Gijs's mouth. Uncle will be pleased at first to have received the bag but that will soon change once he notices the beetles. He will laugh at first and then start coughing. You can play against members of your own group or members of other groups. You may win real prizes. If you try to take a selfie while you play Max & Moritz may choose to photobomb the picture. |
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Behind The Scenes
History
Spring 2020: Max & Moritz opens
Design
Making Of
Image Source: Efteling.com
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Image Source: Efteling.com
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September 2019: Bob closed for good
1985: Swiss Bob is built
Image Source: Kroniek van een Sprookje
