dead poets in efteling
a/n: first hc post yippieeee!! i know this is soo niche and there are about three people who understand this but its been in my head for weeks and it needs out. if you're unfamiliar, efteling is this really cool theme park in the netherlands with a kind of dark fantasy theme. i was there yesterday and if you saw someone eating shit at the baron 1898 that was UHHHH NOT ME GUYS
first of all, cameron is extremely stressed out about wasting time/money so he wants to be there the second the gates open. If they’re staying in a hotel or bosrijk, he’s insanely anal about getting the extra half hour but they never end up getting it bc half the guys are still asleep
they go with mr keating (who had to pester the board for months about why it’d be beneficial for their education) and thank god because every single one of the guys is directionally challenged. if it werent for him they’d criss cross through the park all day
keating makes them sit at the fabula restaurant for like 20 minutes so he can drink coffee and plan out their walking route. cameron nearly has an aneurysm
everyone but cameron is running around that restaurant like children
charlie is hogging the slide, meeks and pitts are at the climbing section, knox is locked in on feeling the textures and the game where you merge your face with a penguin. spends five minutes trying to type in his email
neil and todd are mainly walking around trying to see everything, until todd gets jumpscared by the jumping snake. from then on he’s staying 10 feet away from any kind of structure in this building
cameron is sitting at a table with keating trying to explode him with his mind. keating is unfazed
when they finally go on a ride they go on fata morgana first
pitts is so insanely in tune with the present and his inner child that he fully locks in during every dark ride. EVERYTHING GETS HIM during the fata morgana. the negative energy makes him so on edge that he screams at everything
everyone else is fine for the entirety of the ride except for the dentist scene where they all go ‘eugghhh’ in unison
they go on the baron 1898 next and knox is like eughhh i dont know guys cuz hes fucking terrified of heights but he won't actually come out and say it. they manage to convince him to get on cuz he's extremely sensitive to peer pressure
meeks and pitts are constantly playing no one knows (efteling heads up) in the line (in every line tbh) but they can’t control their volume. they’re always screaming when they get an answer right and it stresses cameron out
charlie wants to play with them but he's horrible at it cuz he keeps asking subjective questions
when they get on the coaster, knox is already having heart palpitations from the sight of the witte wieven. he then sees 1. how insanely high it is and 2. how theres a whole crowd of people on the ground staring up at them. right when the cart tips a little over the edge and hangs there, charlie (in the most sincere voice) says 'omg i think my seatbelt is undone!' n knox fully faints for a second
they don't let him go on rollercoasters anymore after that. he mainly rides the train and waves at every passerby
they go on sirocco (teacups ride). keating has mostly been keeping a neutral face and sharing history/poetry tidbits so he can argue that they have, in fact, learned somethng here. but on sirocco this guy goes HAM
hes 1. really strong and 2. obsessed with this ride so he's spinning it like crazy. he's in there with meeks and pitts who are having a grand old time
neil and todd are in a boat together and todd has this really blank expression. neil is extremely worried he's getting motion sick so he's constantly like 'are you good? should i stop spinning it???' and todds like 'yeah im good :)'. neil does not believe him and refuses to keep spinning it
the people who ARE getting motion sick are cameron and charlie, who somehow ended up in a boat together. neither of them are willing to admit it so they're both turning green and staring at each other to see if one of them will cave
they both end up puking
they go on droomvlucht and decide to test out the virtual line. when they get the notification that they can get on cameron freaks the fuck out cuz hes scared they'll miss their slot even tho its fifteen minutes. hyperventilating all like 'WE HAVE TO GO NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW'
while they wait for their time slot they go to the volk van laaf
neil and todd and meeks and pitts both go on the monorail. theyre on the monorail when their slot opens so they look down and just see a tiny little cameron waving his arms and screaming 'WE NEED TO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO'
todd runs over the second they're off the ride cuz he's stressed, but the rest REFUSE to be rushed
knox has found the loof and eerhuys and nearly jumps out of his skin when vader laaf starts moaning and moving his feet
charlie would think this is very funny and start calling him freaky laaf if he werent stuck at the stairs that make noise, spamming the steps
when they're actually on droomvlucht, neil is constantly talking about a midsummer nights dream. pointing and pogging like 'OMG ITS OBERON'
neil in general chronically talks through rides. todd's content to listen
meeks gets jumpscared by the troll at the end and still has a horrified expression at the photo op
fairytale forest!!!
charlie is obsessed with everything that's interactive, specifically the troll king and the parrot. makes it say all sort of horrific things
obviously he's pogging at the mermaid boobs
also will not stop thirsting over the wolf. he is FRONT ROW at an evening with wolf even though he doesn't understand a word
the interactive bit pitts likes is the gnome that opens the door and just like. mutters at everyone. he thinks it's the funniest shit EVER.
todd is LOCKED IN at the fairytale tree. looks up at keating with these huge eyes as if to say 'thats u'
meeks has figured out how the app works and how to make kniesoor say ur name. knox is convinced it's witchcraft and then BEGS steven to show him how it works
i actually don't believe kniesoor knows the name knox but who knows!
they go on the halve maen (swinging ship) and cameron, still traumatized from the sirocco endeavor that he insists on sitting in the middle
everyone else refuses and since keating doesn't want anyone to be alone, he sits next to cameron
what cameron didnt really consider is that since the movement in the middle is a lot more subtle, it's likely to make you even more sick
keating's looking at him the entire time and going 'are you okay?' meanwhile camerons there like ._.
in the tips, a screaming contest breaks out between the two halves. charlie and knox start it and everyone joins in. ppl gets tired and kinda stops putting any effort into it at some point. as a joke, at the very end when it slows down, charlie says ‘imagine someone just fully yawps right now’ and todd just. does it
knox is mortified. charlie gives todd five dollars for the effort
in the vliegende hollander all of them are kind of tired and the line is stressing them out. they don't fully understand what the ride even is so when the dark ride portion starts everyone is kind of tense. to diffuse tension, during the fog portion, meeks yells 'OMG CHARLIE PUT UR VAPE AWAY'
they eat at polles keuken and neil gets the magic water
charlie is inspired and gets it too. nearly knocks over a waiter with how excited he is
of course they go on symbolica after
oj punctuel is camerons spirit animal. everyone wakling through the opening steps and he's like yuo guys... poor oj...
charlie DEMANDS to sit in the front row so he can press the buttons
todd gets terrified at the whale/fabelvis part. he just doesnt like things that are underwater
when they see polle they're like omg that's our guy!!
at the end knox spends all his money in the gift shop
meeks buys those cards with seeds in them but refuses to ever plant them
pitts buys a raveleijn sword
charlie buys a stuffed animal of the wolf
cameron buys a magnet
todd buys the book of fairytales and buys keating a pen
neil buys a droomvlucht puzzle
i have a thousand more ideas but i feel like this post is already WAY long so if anyone is interested in a part two lmk x
