The History Of Baron 1898 - The World's Best Themed Dive Coaster | Expedition Efteling 

Love the Efteling and love this coaster! It's so smooth! They actually changed the translation of 'witte wieven' from 'white women' to 'wailing women' on the ride, because the warning "Beware of white women" was a bit confusing to some tourists lol

I love that someone is covering the Efteling Rides. I love the concept of Efteling but its so hard to figure out a lot of the details just down to not knowing much of the language, sadly...

Loved the vid. I was actually one of the actors, kompels in the short movie about the background. Two tays of shooting was quite fun. First half in the inn was shot in the restaurant in Ravelijn. And the second part was at the attraction itself. It was really hot that day. But loved every minute of it. You can see me several times, for example when the mineworkers (kompels) are fleeing from the mine elevator. I am one of them.

This roller coaster is great, but the flying dutchman, hands down, is the best themed coaster of all roller coasters in the efteling.

I love the whole theme of "hoogmoed" in this ride. This word translates to "pride" but carries the negative meaning of that word (arrogance). Of you translate it literally the word says "high courage". One of the wailing women screams at you before you climb the lifthill "Hoogmoed komt voor den val" this saying means something like "arrogance will lead you to failure". But the literal translation of it is "arrogance (hoogmoed) comes before the drop (val)". A great way of adding Dutch sayings and folklore to a dive coaster. Efteling is full of this type of Easter eggs. Your best way to experience this park is taking a designated dutchy with you. We are very proud of this park and would all love to translate everything for you

The efteling makes you feel like you're in a more realistic fairytale and I love it 100%

Efteling's marketing is very clever. Everytime a new sensational ride is introduced like this there is even a TV show made about it to tell the story. It's in Dutch naturally and is aired on one of our children channels. They are often pretty good. It shows how much they love fairytales themselves and it's a clever way to make children wanna go to the Efteling. Parents are no problem usually. It's not that expensive and who doesn't wanna be a child again for a day.

"Because I can't pronounce any dutch words" As a Dutchman I can prove you wrong, I've heard waaaay worse

A lot of people seem to miss that the word (and character name) Hoogmoed literally means 'hubris' in Dutch. A term that is key for Gustav's character. The wailing women even say right before the lift takes you upwards: "hoogmoed komt voor den val". Which means, "hubris comes before the fall".

Really, what's so hard about saying Baron achttien achtenneneng- achttien achtennegetig- Okay, fair point.

Me and my friend both had a day off of school on a rainy fall monday. So bought tickets that weekend hoping that because of the rain it'd be quiet. Turns out we only had two ten minute showers and yet the park was desserted, we rode all rides atleast 10x oftentimes the attendants would ask if we wanted another go since noone was waiting. We spent the rain riding the indoor coaster, walking around and immediatly being able to get in another ride. Best theme park experience i've had. Spent maybe 5mins waiting the whole day and did prettymuch every ride multiple times. Attendents are super relaxed when it's quiet too.

Was lucky enough to travel all the way from the US to ride this a few months back. Truly lives up to everything you see and more. One of the best themed roller coaster experiences in the world. Even the projection elements are well integrated, with practical elements like bursting pipes and rattling miners equipment selling the presence of the spirits.

Regarding Expedition Efteling I'd love to see a video on Droomvlucht, a wonderfull darkride about fairies and trolls. It's pretty old but still really amazing. So amazing even that Efteling made a musical based around it. Could make for a really fun video!

I love your Expedition Efteling series! I can't wait for the next one!

I also admire them for literally making an entire short film around their roller coaster

Efteling is by far my favourite theme park in the world! So glad it's getting some well-deserved attention!😁

Please, please, continue to cover this park.... it gives me the warm and fuzzies to see how detailed the attractions are WITH an experience. It's not just a ride, it's an experience ❤

I would love to ride Baron 1898! The theming is so over-the-top and the story is amazing for a roller coaster. Edit: Thanks so much for 26 likes!

I absolutely love people covering the rides of the Efteling. It's such an amazing park and every ride and place has a story, but it's difficult to understand to foreign visitors. So its amazing when people make stuff like this so the people from other countries could be more immersed in the stories!

My homepark represent! Finally someone that explains the park in detail and shows the world what Efteling is!

Glad to hear you all like Baron so much!😌 I'm Dutch and just love to see that people come from all over the world just for de Efteling haha! And I do think Efteling is one of the most magical themed parks of the world, so come and experience it yourself! 🤩 (Btw: also visit my beautiful city Amersfoort😁)

The way they style their rides is such a beautiful balance between realism and fantasy, it's wonderful!

A post involving the Netherlands? Let the takover of this video by Dutch people begin xD Greetings from Eindhoven!

The Efteling is my homepark and i rode this coaster like a hundred times and every time I ride it I see a new detail that I’ve not seen before because there is so much detail on this ride. Definitely best themed ride in the park!

I love the short film that Efteling released for Baron 1898 I watch it all the time! And it explains the story really well!

If you don't like rollercoasters and are scared to go on the ride, but still want to experience part of the story and see the amazing theming, you can ask for a special ticket before entering the ride (Kompel bovengronds). This ticket allows you to see the 2 pre-shows and even walk over the loading platform without going on the coaster. It's worth doing, the interior of the building is amazingly detailed!

Never have I had a theme park attraction immerse me so much in a story that it actually feels, looks, and makes you feel like you really are one of the miners. incredible ride 9/10 did wish the thrills were just a smidge better

Was riding it a week ago again. Really loving this rollercoaster. The dive is amazing and the ride is so smooth. The theme is amazingly done and sucks you in.

I was lucky enough to visit this park as part of a school trip recently, and I can day, it is everything it is said to be. Well worth it.

I was on it with my mum I loved it She absolutely did not want to go again.

Nice spookslot (haunded mainsion, danse macabre) music at the end

I've been going to the Efteling at least once a year since I was born and the park itself is absolutely gorgeous. I love how they have multiple "main themes" (Ruigrijk, Anderrijk etc.) and within each main theme, they still manage to give each ride their own theme as well, without completely ruining the vibe of the area you're in. When this ride opened, I was so excited to ride it even though I had to wait for over a year (due to my family being scared or injured at that time) but it was 110% worth waiting for. It amazed me how the story managed to really give you an understanding of what the ride was based on. 11/10 would recommend to check it out if you ever have the chance.

Baron 1898 probably has some of the best theming of any coaster that I’ve ridden

To finally see an extraordinary video which shows the marriage of imagination and engineering of amusement park ride creation is brilliant. Thank you for uploading this. I enjoyed watching it.

why am i watching this at 5 in the morning. i don't even like roller coasters.

I absolutely love Efteling. I went there last year when I visited more of my own family in Holland. I’m so glad that someone has talked about it!

I absolutely love De Efteling. It’s not just going on rides, but you have a whole story and while you wait you have different things to look at and there’s so much detail and things connecting!

I live in The Netherlands and I am honored to have such a wonderful themepark in my country, it's just a 45 minute drive from my home so I go every year.

I'm from the netherlands and i've been going every year to the efteling and i still love it ❤️

Efteling’s attractions may not be the most thrilling, but they do have amazing theming.

I visited efteling this summer, and it was amazing and i got so many great memories from it! Though what i remember most about the baron was standing in the queue for what felt like hours under the hot sun... Still i really enjoyed it, and wanted to ride it again, but decided to not stand in that queue a second time xD

Efteling reminds me of the smaller dutch theme park, Duinrell, they both have strong folklore influences good themeing etc. I spent loads of summer holidays there when i was younger :') Its great to see a youtuber talk about the slightly lesser heard of parks!

I'm pretty proud that I'm born in the Netherlands, we have an amazing, weird language compared to other languages. That being said.. I'm proud that we made it into your video, and I wanna thank you for that ❤️

This video made me want to visit Efteling. Got to fill that wish in 2022. Was amazing. Go if you can . And the flying Dutchman was also amazing. Rode it twice

Yesss I love that you cover Efteling as well!!! It is so underrated in the theme park community... its honestly the only park along with Universal that comes close to Disney in terms of theming tbh

Being an Englishman living in The Netherlands and regularly going to Efteling I love this video (and your channel). I dont know if you have done A Small World yet, but this would be interesting - especially the links, if any to the very similar themed ride in Efteling - Carnival.

You should definitely do De Vliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)! Arguably even better themed than Baron 1898

Thank you for covering rides from my favorite theme park!

I think it's about time I travel out of the states for Efteling. ETP's content keeps telling me to go

I actually just was in the Efteling for a week. Close to the baron there is this place where you can sit down and have some Mexican inspired food which also had an amazing view on this Rollercoaster. It was terrifying every time it ran.

Finally got to ride Baron 1898 this past week. Was an amazing ride. Efteling was a very unique park.

efteling is like number 1 dutch school trip XD

The music is the best part about The Efteling! And one of the best theme parks in the world!

I was really happy to see this video pop up on RU-vid! I think Efteling has to little appreciation from foreign enthusiasts, but maybe its also because its harder to understand the stories as a tourist! I am very happy to have ridden this and think its a Unique experience. De vliegende Hollander is also a really well themed coaster, that you could consider doing a video on. Keep it up!

Everything about Baron hyped me up when it was announced. I don’t believe that was as long ago as it was. Time flies. :(

This is my favorite roller coaster from Efteling. I even have a cup of that roller coaster and I come from the Netherlands

Baron is such an amazing ride. Smooth, well built and with a cool story. The only problem is that it is too short!

This is - in my opinion - the best rollercoaster of the Efteling. While the old rollercoasters like De Vliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) are still really good coasters, I guess many of my friends, too, will not argue about Baron 1898 being the best coaster in the park right now. It's smooth, the story is amazing and it also suits the park really well!

Efteling has always a special place in my heart

I rode this gorgeous beast a few times again when I went back to the Efteling for the Planet Coaster meet up a couple of weeks ago. It's got to be one of the most beautiful coasters in the world and this video was pure coaster porn. Massive thumbs up

I'm only a 30 minute drive away from this majestic coaster, I'm probably going again tomorrow :D

This ride is genius with the themeing. Thanks so much for sharing

I love that they put this much storytelling into a coaster.

I was so excited to see this video one day because my mom actually works at the Efteling, so thanks for making my day!

It's one of my favourite rides ever! Before Baron, I didn't really get the point of theming - most rides have really superficial theming that makes you think "what is even the point if you're going to do so little". But the whole queuing experience in Baron 1898 legit gave me chills, I was starting to wonder if maybe there really WAS a curse! The music and singing is so carefully timed and pitched, halfway between mysterious and eerie. It adds so much to the ride experience, the thrills really do start even before you go up the lift. And then after the drop it's just such a smooth, perfectly crafted ride. Just bliss. Looking forward to going again!

How have I never heard of this park? It looks amazing

Am I the only person who absolutely loves the expedition theme park intro music?

I love the Efteling so much de Baron 1898 is one of my favorite attractions in the Efteling. And if you are scared to get in a rollercoaster you can also only listen to the instructions before the ride, so then you know the story too. There is a also a book with the same name in the Efteling shop written by a famous children books writer, and it tells you the whole story. And btw some Dutch people believe there are Witte Wieven here. And they're supposed to hang around in "heides", and these are also in Brabant where the Efteling is so it is kinda realistic that de Witte Wieven are there 🙃

I find it amazing that B&M designed, manufactured and built the entire structure support structure of this coaster. It’s truly an engineering and architectural masterpiece!

I go once a year to the efteling and I love it that a small land like the Netherlands can accomplish such great things

It's funny to see someone go in depth about it. It's also nice to know how it's made since my dad worked on it too!

Love this coaster and this park. Do Vogelrok next!

Love the attention to detail with the big wheels on the tower. Seems they are tied in with the coaster lift system which is pretty cool.

fun fact.. the name of the baron comes from a dutch saying: Hoogmoed komt voor de val, which translates to overconfidence comes before you fall down. The baron's name actually translates to overconfidence.

To me Baron 1898 represents something more. It represents the Dutch Rollercoaster culture is finally ready (and able) to mature. I had thought the same nearly 20 years ago when Six Flags Holland opened Goliath (intamin giga coaster; still the tallest, fastest and in my opinion best coaster in the Netherlands). But it wasn't meant to last back then. But this time it seems; it does. Dutch Theme Parks finally learned that just because Vekoma is a Dutch company, not every new rollercoaster in the Netherlands needs to be a Vekoma. And it shows; another B&M (wingcoaster w00t!) opened in 2018 and the first RMC Hybrid opened lust a couple of weeks ago.

Looks so fun. I miss roller coasters. I have neck and heart issues so I can’t go on them anymore but i miss them very much.

I want to visit this park so much thanks to your videos. Please bring us more from Efteling.

I think it looks amazing. It shows not every ride needs to be the most thrilling to be awesome.

So glad you’ve done a video on this. I had no idea what the story was about till now! It looks amazing.

Thank you for this episode! I really love that you also make video's about The Efteling. I live nearby (30 minutes drive) and i have a lot of memories of this theme park. You earned a subscriber! Keep on the good work.

i live quite close to Efteling (30 minute car ride) and literally came back from a 3 day visit to the park today and i can assure all of you guys, it is the best rollercoaster there in terms of just thrills. hanging for 2 seconds over that big gaping hole when all the people from down below are looking at you and then suddenly falling through the hole and making a loop is just amazing. although my favorite rollercoaster in Efteling is still Python because of its history. and just for the sake of it my top 5 efteling rides: 5 - fata morgana, a moroccan styled boat ride through beautifull enviroments. 4 - Droomvlucht (Dreamflight), a hanging experience like fata morgana only now with dream like enviroments. Regarded by many as the best attraction in Efteling because of its sheer beauty. 3 - Joris en de Draak (Joris and the Dragon), a wooden coaster where 2 trains race against each other to see who is the fastest. 2 - Baron 1898, the video explains why this one is so awesome. 1 - Python, a coaster with 2 loops and 2 barrel rolls 20 seconds apart from each other, this one is my absolute favorite because it has been around since the '80s and seeing the coaster back then is just reaaaaal cool.

Did this one last year. The last time i was in the Efteling was at least 10 years ago. The que line took almost 2 hours but once inside the preshow was really good. Even before leaving the station with all the animations of the witte wieven and the rest were really good. Normally i don't really care for pre shows but this one is really good.

I love the Efteling! It's a very relaxing park and there's something for every age. I chickened out of going on the Baron (we call it 'de Baron' for short) on the last moment, but I'll definitely go on it next time :D

When Baron 1898 is a fantastic experience. When I was at Efteling in December. I when on Baton at the end of the day as the last ride and had 5 laps of the coaster with out having to get off the train. Had to move from the front to the second row though. Also it was in the night to add to the experience.

Most AMAZING experiance! Awesome ride, wonderful story, great presentation! Highly recommended to visit.

It’s always nice when someone well known talks about my home theme park.

The efteling is just the best themed park in the world, let's be real. So much detail, eye for realism, nature etc No other theme park is like the Efteling, it's my favourite park by far

That theme park looks EFTELING amazing!

guess im lucky i live in the netherlands, baron is a very fun rollercoaster + great theming. other rides at efteling are also great

Love this video! Greetings from Heerlen, The Netherlands!

This park is so amazing! Would love to go!

Yea i went in that ride yesterday 4 times That was actually so amazing.

I love this ride a a lot, but didn't know about the backstory at all! Most of it isn't told in the attraction at all, which is a shame! One fun little detail a foreigner wouldn't know. In the late 80s and early 90s, a children's television show aired called Bassie & Adriaen. The show was about a clown and acrobat who'd explore the Netherlands, Europe and even America all the while singing catchy songs, making corny jokes and being confronted by (sometimes nightmare fuel) villians. One of those villians is called "De Baron" (The Baron) who always tried to catch the duo for reasons I don't fully remember. Well, the actor who played that character actually voiced and lent his likeness to the Baron character seen on the ride and it's a small little detail I find way too funny. I love your videos, especially on the Efteling! Although I might be biased due to me being Dutch and the Efteling being my favourite park and all. The danse macabre song at the end made me crave a Spookslot episode of expedition Efteling!

Wow, the tower was built in Hungary, Budapest. Nice!

Had the honor riding this piece of art. A really one-of-a-kind experience!

It made me scream at the top of my lungs but it was SO short. Worth the 40 minute wait though.

This is such a cool attraction. It's awesome

Made a video in this park, it got the most views of my channel. Dankjewel efteling heel aardig van je

I grew up with this park

If you've never been to Efteling no video or comment does it justice (good as this video is). You really have to see for yourself how much attention to detail and work has gone into this park, it's incredible.