Kevy Baby
06-20-2006, 07:24 AM
Disney's Pirates Ride: Just Like in the Movies
The renovated Pirates of the Caribbean attraction will look more like the films it inspired. But some fans feel it's taking marketing too far.
Purist fans of Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride are wishing they could force company officials to walk the plank for doing the unthinkable.
The classic attraction, which turns 40 next year, is getting an overhaul timed to coincide with the movie premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," the second in a trilogy of films starring Johnny Depp. When the popular ride reopens June 26, it will look a lot more like the movie series that it inspired, complete with swashbuckler Jack Sparrow and his nemesis Capt. Barbossa.
The whole story. (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fi-pirates19jun19,1,4337218.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)
And oddly enough, the ad that the story is wrapped around (at least when I view it):
http://gfx.klipmart.com/klipmart/campaigns/wyn001/a/wyn001a_still.jpg
The renovated Pirates of the Caribbean attraction will look more like the films it inspired. But some fans feel it's taking marketing too far.
Purist fans of Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride are wishing they could force company officials to walk the plank for doing the unthinkable.
The classic attraction, which turns 40 next year, is getting an overhaul timed to coincide with the movie premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," the second in a trilogy of films starring Johnny Depp. When the popular ride reopens June 26, it will look a lot more like the movie series that it inspired, complete with swashbuckler Jack Sparrow and his nemesis Capt. Barbossa.
The whole story. (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fi-pirates19jun19,1,4337218.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)
And oddly enough, the ad that the story is wrapped around (at least when I view it):
http://gfx.klipmart.com/klipmart/campaigns/wyn001/a/wyn001a_still.jpg