Spoken like a CM who wants the guests to have the best experience ever each time they enter the park. Here's to ML.:cheers: Would that every CM was like him.

One of my Disneyfan coworkers saw Pirate on Friday with her kids and they loved it, thought the screen was really cool and can't wait to see the movie.

I would guess this is the reaction you'll get from most non-Disney geeks like us.

No doubt. It remains an enjoyable ride. Only time will tell if it remains a timeless ride.

no, sorry... guessing by clothing and hairstyle, circa 1965'ish?

I was actually dating it a little earier. There's a full skirt in brown at the lower left...
But before I saw her, I was at '65 as well.

If it makes you feel any better, I still think the folks who do art design and set decoration are aces. The tavern, Captain's quarters, and treasure room are all top notch. These are great improvements, and the kind of "tweaking" that Ghoulish Delight referred to above. So were the big canon splashes added last summer.

I submit it is, in fact, the height of folly to radically change an attraction that has remained ultra-popular for nearly 40 years. And if you must change to keep things fresh - - always add; never subtract.

Part of the wonderful old music in the treasure scene was absent for nearly 30 years, according to press releases from the 97(?) rehab.

One of the Davy Jones projections does say "If you be brave or foolhardy enough to face a pirate's curse, proceed"

Ah, a Disney press release ... the height of integrity and factualness.


Sorry, in this case (as with the deleted Haunted Mansion dialogue), I will trust my own extensive personal experience of the ride since 1970. In all that time - till last week - I've never heard a smidgeon of music added back in. So, unless it was removed during the first 3 years....*




* not an impossibility: the Ghost Host dialogue that was just recently again removed from the Corridor of Doors was originally deleted in the early 70's, just a few years after the attraction's premier.

I'd wait and see as far as how much of this rehab stays in it's current state before forming too solid an opinion.

That's all I'll say about that ;)

OK, my review.

I avoided all spoilers, I had no idea what was to come.

We went to the park yesterday to camp for the pretty fire in the sky goes BOOM and found ourselves in a near empty park.I had no intentions of going on anything (July 4th in DL? Are you crazy?!) and figured that everyone in the park was in line for Pirates. But it had a posted wait of 45 minutes at the info booth, and it was maybe 15 minutes when we got in line.

Love the Johnny on the wall. Yum. Loved the ride. I swear you heard words to the music after the drops, but it may have been our boat singing. Lightning was awesome, the new shiny was amazing. I loved the chess scene. Nothing like drunk pirates playing chess. The waterfall was AMAZING until you got right close to it. I kind-of miss the foggy caves but the fog always gave me breathing issues so it's not a huge loss for me. I also swear the original voices were in the caves. It took me a minute to realize it was Barbossa on the pirate ship, and I don't think it ruined it. Loved the score but I love the score in general. It made me feel like the townspeople were defending their island against attack. Johnny was amazing. I loved all of them, including the one at the end where he got the treasure.

I am very happy with the changes. I was bored with the old Pirates and while I think it was silly to re-do a ride that a movie was based on to fit the sequel of the movie I don't think the changes were bad. Kinda random maybe, but not bad. They seem easy enough to remove if they choose to. And who knows, maybe they'll re-do it for the 3rd movie.