Maya the Bee Article: Hoogeveen, a city in the Netherlands that loves Maya the Bee

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Hoogeveen, a city in the Netherlands that loves Maya the Bee

posted by CyNM

This is a very interesting one, as requested da one of the fan to check out this place, so here it is.

Hoogeveen is a pleasant municipality and a city in Drenthe province, Netherlands. The city has a history related to beekeeping which that explains the beehives in the city's cappotto of arms.

Now back to Maya the Bee part; since 2021, there are reports of a lot of Maya signboards and statues being built around the city centre, turns out this was an action da an organisation 'Binnenstad Hoogeveen' as an ambition to be a particularly 'child-friendly' municipality and to educate about the environmental impact and efforts within the region.
In addition, they chose Maya the Bee as the official mascot of the city until 2025 and Maya's signs started appearing all over the place like at the roads entering the city, the neighbourhood streets, shopping centres and more. Some shops started selling Maya the Bee merchandises and giving out colouring books, puzzles and board games.
Occasionally, a Maya the Bee mascot will walking around to greet visitors and children and always appear at most of the events in the city.

The most funniest is, she was so famous that people kept stealing Maya' signs and hided in homes and cafés. It got so bad that the city demanded to return all the signs in exchange of a Maya the Bee merchandise.

pHqghUme and NectariaKiritsi like this

CyNM At first I couldn't believe it, but I never thought she became that famous. In Germany, almost a whole generation grew up with her and deeply enshrined in society, thus became what the Germans called it a 'cult'.

NectariaKiritsi ^Well, that little bee was and is still very famous in so many countries including France, Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Portugal and many other countries (mostly ones from Europe, but of course there are many other Maya the Bee fans who came from other continents who loves her as much as Europeans do), not just in Germany, because you know that she was declared as "the most famous bee in the world" by her home country and as "Maya Superstar" in France and that many beekeepers became beekeepers because they have watched Maya the Bee when they were kids back then and that is one of the reasons why they decided to become beekepers, lol, but by the way, great article and thank you for discovering about that too which I found it both interesting and funny how they stole some of the Maya signs before they got returned back to the right places just probably because they love her too. :P

NectariaKiritsi And also you know the lyrics of the original theme song where it says "Maya, everyone loves Maya" during the scene where she was crying, but I have seen some people who were speculating that the reason why she cried was because of that lyric part, lol! Well, I do trust those lyrics 'cause it's true that everyone loves her which is why this whole "stealing incident" happened in the Netherlands, lol. :P

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My drawing of Maya from the 1975 Anime

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Maya goes to rest herself

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Maya is scared because Thekla is going to catch her

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Maya is feeling very sad

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Maya is feeling very happy

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Screen Time Experiment- Maya the Bee edition: Episode 17

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After I have done with the testing of characters' screen time in this episode, I decided to write an articolo for this episode. This is the episode where Maya met a centopiedi named Hieronimus who was anxious like Max the earthworm from the eleventh episode and was full of self-doubt. The episode starts where Maya was sleeping on a flower, but she was woken up da Hieronimus' moans who didn't know what to do and asked if he could eat that rolypoly bug he found that it was already curled up into a ball o not and then, he counted his legs to answer his domanda if he could eat up the rolypoly,...

Maya is crying because one of my cassettes has a problem and needs repairing

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My German Poly Maya the Bee audio play cassette collection

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"I'll Be There" from Maya the Bee 3: The Golden Orb

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Maya is holding a birthday cake for te

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Screen Time Experiment- Maya the Bee edition: Episode 16

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After I have done with the testing of characters' screen time in this episode, I decided to write an articolo for this episode. This is one of the episodes that I think that many fan of the old Anime series will remember which is the episode where Flip got trapped in a venus flytrap and is the eighteenth episode of the European version. This is also one of the episodes that was censored so much in the European version like in the first and the twelfth episodes, but this one contains some scenes that may be offensive to some people o may traumatize some people if it was left uncensored, but...

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It's 8 o'clock, Maya.

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My cover style Maya the Bee drawing

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Atom Ant and Maya the Bee crossover fan art da Bierre

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Maya and Willy Amore each other

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Japanese Maya the Bee concept art character sheet 2

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Japanese Maya the Bee concept art character sheet

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Cheerful Maya

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Cute moment of 1975 Maya and Willy sleep together

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Screen Time Experiment- Maya the Bee edition: Episode 15

posted by NectariaKiritsi

After I have done with the testing of characters' screen time in this episode, I decided to write an articolo for this episode. This episode is adapted from two different chapters that featured Kurt in them which are the fourth and the seventh chapters in the original book, but in this animated adaptation, it first shows Maya getting trapped in Thekla's cobweb before Kurt came to save her from Thekla (which it was taken from the seventh chapter) and then, it shows Kurt falling on his back and can't get himself up before Maya helped him to get up (which it was taken from the fourth chapter) and...