Pirates of the Caribbean ride to get facelift

According to the newest Disneyland Podcast, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride will be getting a facelift this year, including a new digitally restored soundtrack, Jack Sparrow, Barbosa and Davey Jones figures from the movies added to the set and their musical themes added to the ride score.

Since moving to California, I’ve probably gone on the ride 50+ times (it’s slightly different than the Disneyworld one), so I’m a little nervous about this, but they’re saying Jack Sparrow, for instance, will just be inserted into the existing scenes instead of being made part of new ones which would displace some of the classics. (The pirates pulling the treasure up the final climb of the ride will be going away, though.) The revamp was apparently planned before the first movie was released, just to modernize the classic.

I had no idea that one of the ships on the ride was called the Wicked Wench. Neat.

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