Pirates of the Caribbean has been in refurbishment for months now, and many have wondered what was going on in those dark halls. Well, it’s official reopening date is set for Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015, but the past two days have had some soft openings and Doctor Disney got to see all that has been done.
On Friday morning, I lucked out and got to enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean during a soft opening of the attraction. The queue line is exactly the same, and it was opening and closing randomly due to still working out some bugs.
As you can see by the video below, the entire attraction has had the lighting fixed inside. Everything is much brighter and really looks great.
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There are not any big changes at all. Everything has been lightened up to be seen easier, the costumes have been fixed up and redone, and the audio animatronics are all working perfectly now. A couple new background pirates have been put in here and there while the audio is also juiced up and everything easily heard.
The mermaids in the opening cave are indeed gone. The lights no longer flash in the waters on either side of the boat. The mermaid skeleton is still on the beach and the singing is still there, but isn’t throughout the entire cave.
The boats have changed…can’t tell if entirely or modifications made, but they appear lighter and now have handlebars for each row…but they’re on the seat in front of you so not intrusive. Also, they aren’t taking on nearly as much water as they used to.
Nothing has been taken out and nothing drastically new has been added. The drunk pirate with the dirty feet near the end of Pirates of the Caribbean does now have fire/flames coming out of his whiskey jug.
Jack Sparrow is still in there and oh…the mist is working again in the first tunnel. Now, Davy Jones and Blackbeard alternate appearing and giving you a warning message.
It’s good to see Pirates of the Caribbean open again, and really nice that not a lot of changes were made at all.
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