That’s the actual show?
Wow.
I was expecting live actors. If they were going animatronic, I’d expect at least modern expertise.
That looks like a 1960’s carnival. Cheesy low-tech puppetry lost deep in the uncanny valley.
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Most of the ride is still the same as it’s always been. There were maybe three scenes where Jack was kind of shoehorned into the existing action and one fog curtain where they project an image of Davy Jones and/or Blackbeard.
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Just wait until you learn about the secret meaning of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.
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From how you describe it I think the may have reworked it into the Buzz Lightyear ride, don’t know if that’s still there; last time I was at disney was 2001 or so.
Not really, no. They were not attempting to achieve “political” goals via terror.
They wanted wealth and gained it via theft, frequently adding a bit of kidnapping, slavery, murder, assault, and property damage.
Much more like a gang (without the drug running) or organized crime then terrorists.
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Well, it was indeed built in the 60s, originally. One of the original Disneyland attractions, so the animatronics aren’t exactly lifelike, but they’re designed to be cartoony. Also keep in mind that the photos you see are crappy flash photography; the ride is more about the atmosphere — flash photos make it look way cheesier than it is.
Not really. They added a fog curtain with projections at the very beginning, and they stuck the Jack Sparrow AA amongst what’s already there (peeking behind someone, hiding in a barrel). He gets his own scene at the end, sitting among treasure, but otherwise it’s the same ride it’s been for a long time.
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Was it ever! I was there for the millennium celebration and lucky enough to ride this before it was changed into Stitch’s great escape. Being locked down in a seat, in the dark, with a Xenomorph RIGHT BEHIND YOU was about the pinnacle of a terrifying ride for me. It was both beyond awesome and I have no question in my mind why they removed it. Nightmares for decades for the rave young souls who thought themselves ready to go in, I bet. 
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After Pirates and Haunted Mansion (did I miss any?) I used to joke they were going to make a movie (or movies!) based on the People Mover. I guess they sort of did with Tomorrowland.
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I confess that I read “bugging” as “buggering.” Think what could be done with Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride…
That painting is in a ride in Disneyworld?! Hahaha hot shit yo.
The moment for me where I thought “this is bonkers, and I have no idea why it’s in Tomorrowland” was when you see flashlights up in the dark rafters far above you and panicking voices saying “where is it??” right before a man screams, and warm water drips on your face, and for that split second I was convinced blood was pouring onto me. Brilliant show, and if it was over near the Tower of Terror, I’m sure it’d still be running.
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Hey! I did not use a flash for the photo I used in the post.
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Make that possibly two Haunted Mansion movies (counting the remake starring Ryan Gosling currently stuck in development hell) and don’t forget this abomination:
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Rick and Morty are on top of it with “Anatomy Park”…
“Okay, well, I can’t cure death. This is bad, Morty. You’re trapped in a dead man. Listen, if the situation keeps darkening, do yourself a favor and pop by Pirates of the Pancreas. Obviously, I’m biased, but I think it’s great, Morty. It’s a bunch of pah-ah-irates running around a pahh-pahhh-pancreas. W-We don’t whitewash it either, Morty. I mean, the pirates are really rapey. The top priority is to get, y’know, you guys outta there but I’m just saying, if that becomes impossible… please, you gotta treat yourself.”
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Here’s my anecdote, though it was told to me several years later and I don’t clearly remember it. When i was 2 or 3 and we lived near LA, we took some visiting relatives to Disneyland. When we rode the Haunted Mansion, the Ride stopped - and our ghost buggy (or whatever) was stuck right by the corpse popping up out of the coffin. Over and over. I didn’t handle it well. The thing is, I can vaguely remember taking the stairs out of a ride, but I must’ve blocked out the pop-up corpse. (Or, the story was embellish told to me.)
Speaking of pirates, a few years after this, someone had visited Long John Silver’s and gave me a paper pirate’s hat. I can actually remember thinking, “wait, the pirates were bad guys” and making up some scenario where they were not. Didn’t want to be the bad guy.
Well, Disneyland at any rate. It’s right behind the skeleton taking a neverending swig of grog.
The title of the painting is “A Portrait of Things to Come,” lending credence to the theory that the first part of the ride actually represents the final fate of the damned pirates and the second part of the ride is a flashback of events leading up to it. So the “same redhead at the auction” theory kinda makes sense.
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Plus a few more supposedly on the way:
Huh, interesting considering that they already used the “Small World” ride in Tomorrowland.
I wonder if Star Tours is in the lineup for its own spinoff movie yet.
I saw the title and thought of this scene: “Your women, I want to buy your women/”
