Originally Posted By brotherdave Found an old YouTube video with the talking skull in nightvision. Little blurry at first, but you it briefly as it focuses at the 1:58 mark. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrVRke7eUxs&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...=related</a>
Originally Posted By xrayvision Brotherdave, you found it! I was searching for video of the talking skull at MK's POTC and could only find the DL version. Thank you so much for posting this link! And, thank you Disneymom443 for sharing with us the name of the talking skull, the Jolly Roger. I knew that he must have a name. I miss that guy.
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk RoadTrip... Are you high? You need to revist the DL version. So superior to MK version.
Originally Posted By CoolDisneyFan well this is all very interesting. i haven't been to DL in 30+ years and found it interesting watching the video of the DL vs WDW ride and sure enough there were some memories way back there that the videos jogged. Thank goodness for youtube. If you want a look see I just posted them to my blog www.cooldisneytrips.com - maybe I should get pre-Jack Sparrow DL/WDW and post Jack Sparrow DL/WDW. Are 4 videos of POTC too much for one blog to handle?
Originally Posted By disney pete Even after seeing the video on you tube i still don't recall it,it's annoying me now that i don't remember it.
Originally Posted By brotherdave It was very dimly lit, directly across from the shipwreck scene which garneshed more attention by most. By the time people may have noticed the skull, they were already plunging down the drop. I never really liked where they placed it in the ride, but I wish they would bring it back somewhere in the caverns as it is an iconic Pirates of the Caribbean effect.
Originally Posted By TMICHAEL I'm not positive, but I think it's the attraction's infrared camera reacting to the night vision light. Here in DL, there's one at about the same place keeping the dispatcher in visual contact with the top of the drop.
Originally Posted By leobloom I didn't watch the video, but the flashing light is probably the lightning effect from the scene to the right of the flume that depicts a skeleton steering a ship in a storm.
Originally Posted By Brian55nh I've been videotaping WDW's Pirates since 1989 and only began to notice these flashing lights in my footage once they started that whole interactive pin thing - I think it was done for the 25th anniversary circa 1997- where said pins would react in some way when they neared this area.(Haunted Mansion had them starting then as well - which irritated me as I was using my new nightvision-equipped camera for the first time.)
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That's a really interesting observation. Do they still make the interactive pins? Does My Pal Mickey operate on the same system? It seems strange that they would keep either of those systems running after all these years, but maybe someone just forgot to turn it off... Then again, it's possible that Disney was installing its own night-vision cameras (or something equivalent) and just happened to do it around the same time. I know that many attractions had no surveillance system until relatively recently, so that could have been around the time that they were doing the updates. Have you ever recorded another night vision camera? I wonder if it does strange things like that. It's really weird how obvious it is with the camera, but it's not there at all in person.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper The barker bird moved to DTD for a time. Skull was probably sent to Archives.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper No, I'm fairly certain it's completely gone. I could be wrong though. Pirates is far from my specialty.
Originally Posted By Brian55nh <<That's a really interesting observation. Do they still make the interactive pins?>> As far as I can recall they stopped selling them by my return visit the next year(1998). <<Then again, it's possible that Disney was installing its own night-vision cameras (or something equivalent)...>> I suppose that's possible.
