POTC Johnny Refurb

[innerSpaceman]

No one has ever for one minute thought 'Glenn Close' when seeing Disneyland's Cruella deVil. She's the cartoon Cruella, through and through.

I'd also wager that not many think 'Julie Andrews' when seeing Mary Poppins. It's hard to relate that to Johnny Depp because I wasn't visiting Disneyland on any regular basis in 1964. Perhaps people did associate her strongly with Andrews at the time. If so, I think it's as much of a bad show distraction as the 'Johnny' character is today.

Good point that Disney Daniel raised. With all the other ride atrocities that have captured and tortured my attention, I never questioned the value of me thinking 'Johnny Depp' at every single AA appearance, and even the painting on the wall.

In the movie(s), with a performance being played, I can - at times - think 'Captain Jack Sparrow' ... but the robots have never, for an instant, made me think of anything but 'Johnny Depp.' I've never even heard of anyone calling them the 'Jack Sparrow' AAs. Even from the people who love the changes, I have heard universal reference to the new 'Johnny Depp' characters in the ride.


Interestingly, the robot who only barely resembles Geoffrey Rush is being referred to as "Barbossa" by everyone I've heard. We'll have to wait till next year to find out how the new robots are regarded, but so far they are certainly being called the Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom AA figures.


Bad, bad, bad, bad show. In fact, no show at all.