Originally Posted By basketballfan Is the pirate sitting on the bridge with his leg hanging over still there? It seems like I read a while back he was gone. thanks!
Originally Posted By Diztwins And most importantly I would like to add to basketballfan's Question... Does he have a dirty foot again?
Originally Posted By mickey42397 Yes, the dirty foot pirate is back. They did take him out, but only to refurb him. He is back, thank goodness, because my daughter would have had to boycott POTC forever if her dirty foot pirate was gone !
Originally Posted By basketballfan Yea, he's back! Thanks for the info. He is my girls' favorite. They like his hairy legs.
Originally Posted By Skellington88 so have they removed everything from the mid-90s redo? Including all of the World of Motion figures/scenes and the polictically correct stupidity?
Originally Posted By Kayoss <<so have they removed everything from the mid-90s redo? Including all of the World of Motion figures/scenes and the polictically correct stupidity?>>> All signs point to yes!
Originally Posted By Westsider Skellington88, the short answer is... Yes. The long answer is... Yes, but it's not exactly the way it was before they changed it in '97. The pirate balancing on the barrels in the Arsenal Scene isn't back, mainly because the wall to Sparrow's new Lift Hill Scene takes up space where he used to sit. There's one turntable in the Chase Scene that isn't being used, and they flip-flopped the turntable that has the chickens chasing each other in that scene. The Conquistador guys they added to the Fort in '00 are still there, but their new dialogue makes a lot more sense and it's much easier to hear. Those were WOM figures that weren't added in '97, but came along in '00. We're doing a few hours of Cast Member Previews on Thursday and Friday morning, before it gets zipped up tight for Saturday. A lot of Attractions CM's have already been on it, but there are thousands of CM's from other departments that haven't ridden it yet. I'm sure there will be plenty of online reports once we do a few hours of CM Previews on Thursday morning and Thursday night.
Originally Posted By jmuboy WESTSIDER - Is the pirate balancing on the barrels placed elsewhere in the ride?
Originally Posted By Rivkah86 When I was at the park yesterday, I stopped in the new Pieces Of Eight shop, and found these really cool postcards that at first glance, looked vintage. However, after giving a thurough look, I could tell they were deffinately new. They had several- the ones I remember were of the treasure scene and the Wicked Wench. All I can say is that they look great! I can't wait to ride!
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger >> The pirate balancing on the barrels in the Arsenal Scene isn't back, mainly because the wall to Sparrow's new Lift Hill Scene takes up space where he used to sit. << That's one check in the minus column for the refurb, then. Everything else sounds great.
Originally Posted By Diztwins He hasn't been there for years, I am not at all suprised that he wasn't returned.
Originally Posted By Luzdivina If this has already been asked....forgive me. I keep hearing about the 'world of motion' figures being removed. Ok, I've been on POTC hundreds of times and I have no idea which figures these are......anybody, please?? thanks
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA The World of Motion was an attraction at EPCOT -- it was the ride-through history-of-travel on that GM sponsored before 'Test Track.' It featured hundreds of AA figures in clever vignettes and fun scenes. When World of Motion closed, many of the AA figures made their wat to the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' in Disneyland. Here's some scenes I remember: - between the auction scene and chasing the girls scenes. A wide-faced pirate is sitting on a bench with a basket of fruit -- a cartoony horse is reacting to the fruit. - At the end, as your boat heads up the final lift hill, there were two guy grunting and groaning to get some treasure up the hill. Those were the two scenes that had, in my opinion misplaced characters that used to appear in 'World of Motion.' Misplaced, in that the 'World of Motion' characters were either too caricatured [the guy with the fruit and his horse] or too realistic [the guys pulling the treasure]. To me, 'Pirates' has a very subtle design to the characters -- that isn't quite real, and isn't quite the over-the-top caricature. Hope this helps.
Originally Posted By monorailblue Other World of Motion figures took up residence in Splash Mountain (particularly in the riverboat finale scene).
Originally Posted By Skellington88 yea uh...those are America Sings charecters in Splash Mountain. Did world of motion charecters go anywhere else? I know the sea serpent ended up at DCA...and I heard they replaced the dog with the keys in both the disneyland and florida version of potc with newer dog AA's from World of motion. I wonder why they didnt put the new WOL scenes/aa's into floridas since it was so much closer rather then shiping them out west?
Originally Posted By Skellington88 You know whats wierd about the guy on the barrells? He was in a deleted scene in the pirates of Caribean dvd...
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger >>He hasn't been there for years, I am not at all suprised that he wasn't returned.<< Really? Man, I thought he was pretty much the signature character for that scene!
