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BALPPA moves trade expo to November
Drayton Manor to November. The free to attend exhibition, which
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takes place on Tuesday, 24th November will feature over 30 suppliers of products and services essential to the leisure, play, theme parks and attractions industry. Attendees will be able to
meet organisations providing food and beverage, ticketing systems, lost and
found software, insurance, mobile apps, as well as ride manufacturers, designers and builders of concepts for play areas and attractions. There will also be representatives from
companies offering marketing support, cleaning and maintenance services, as well as digital analytics and forensics. In addition to the networking
he British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions (BALPPA) is rescheduling its trade expo at
opportunities, the expo is staging a marketing seminar on Wednesday, November 25th and a Health and Safety seminar on Thursday, November 26th also at Drayton Manor. On the Tuesday evening
BALPPA, which has over 300 members, will be hosting its annual awards ceremony with categories including visitor attraction of the year, employee of excellence,
family attraction of the year, inclusivity award and excellence in food and beverage. Founded in 1936, BALPPA is the non- profit-making Trade Association
representing the interests of owners, managers, suppliers and developers in the UK’s commercial leisure parks, piers, zoos, family entertainment centres (indoor play and soft play centres) and static visitor attractions sector.
Efteling’s new ride, Max & Moritz, nears completion
Ahead of its launch, Efteling – the fairytale theme park in the south of Holland – has this revealed further details of its new family roller coaster, Max & Moritz, with the arrival of its first train. When complete, the double roller coaster will comprise two trains – one
representing Max and the other Moritz, named after two naughty schoolboys from the German rhyming story Max und Moritz. When the neighbours come to complain about Max and Moritz, their mother,
Frau Schmetterling, locks them up in her workshop. The two rascals make a clever plan to escape from it. Visitors to the family roller coaster escape with Max and Moritz on a crazy
adventure. When they return to the workshop, they are surprised by yet another trick by Max and Moritz. Moritz makes the pipe of their teacher explode, so that the train goes around one more time. Meanwhile, Max jumps so hard on a large whoopee cushion that this train also makes a second lap. The trains will run in opposite directions,
and both tracks will offer an exciting adventure for all riders but is particularly aimed at children aged four to ten.
Trains and test runs The Max locomotive, weighing more than 1,300 kg, is now in place on the track – meaning one of the two rascals has found his place in Efteling. Efteling’s Theme Park director, Coen Bertens said: “This is another major milestone for the project and is certainly exciting. It takes about three days to assemble the entire train, bringing the most important elements – track and train – together. The next step is testing the ride and we are all really looking forward to it.” The second train, representing Moritz, will follow late March. When the trains are
complete, the test runs will start. Each train of the Max & Moritz roller coaster consists of one locomotive and nine
sets of carriages. In total, 38 visitors will ride one train. Before the family roller coaster opens, test runs are conducted – a special moment for the project team and the designers as this is the first time they will see their work come together. Bertens said: “Over almost 500 test runs, we look at how the train performs on the
track, how fast it is and how the light and sound effects react. Guest safety on the ride is also extensively In addition to the ride, a new restaurant, ‘Frau Boltes Küche’, will open close to
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Max & Moritz. The area surrounding the ride, including the new restaurant, will be influenced by the Max & Moritz poem. In particular, the new restaurant resembles one of the boys’ tricks where Max and Moritz try to steal Frau Bolte’s cooked chicken. For this reason, ‘Frau Boltes Küche’ will serve a range of chicken dishes, fries and snacks.
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