Some elements pop up, while reading the studies. Action, Actors, Time and Space, context and background. By Action the meaning is set on the set of rules, resources, conditions and relevant input for actors. Considering Actors everyone involved and around the story, Imagineers, producers, technicians, designers and storytellers (including the people who visits the location for entertainment). Time and Space determines the position of the actor, in time and space, the study refers to this in overviewing the conditions and developments around the storytelling, and how socioeconomics for instance, have a direct impact on it.

Material conditioning, or how is the interaction between people and the physical surroundings is other matter of study. They can take advantage of this studies in the story of Sprookjesbos, since this fairy tale is taking place in the woods, and everything evolves around the experience of the environment.

One main subject on this case study was the oral tradition of passing on from generation to generation for centuries those tales, but after they reached storytellers such as Grimm Brothers, some details were left behind and some others added, in order to make them more appealing to the actual culture and better embraced by actual generations. Therefore, the influence of these “narrators” had such an impact on those stories, that now they are more being replicated as the way they had told them, rather than the original version of them. 

Nevertheless the Grimms exposed the fact that “the people” were the main source for their tales, and that they have taken a good effort in maintaining the cultural heritage. Somehow their rhetoric was so well driven that nowadays, fairy tales in the western are super linked to the Grimm’s name and style.

The power of collective storytelling was highlighted and even one of the attractions is based on how people make their own stories about it. Even people working in the park took this to heart that they became co-narrators of the story.

The Efteling is considered a leading storyteller in the area of fairy tales. The cultural heritage of this kind of tales became stronger and interlaced with the one of the Efteling itself. The Efteling organization began calling itself a “guardian of Fairy Tales”, a statement that reinforced the park’s story.