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A Treasure Seeker Forever Changed

On Friday, Pirates of the Caribbean reopened after a notable refurbishment, and one of the ride's classic scenes now has a new face. Literally.  The longtime static skeleton sitting on a mound of gold has been replaced by an audio-animatronic that uses facial projection technology to transform this still scene into a dynamic storytelling of a greedy pirate picking up cursed treasure and being struck by the gold's curse--turning him into an undead skeleton.  It's a beat from the Pirates of the Caribbean  movies, though it doesn't quite make sense from a storytelling perspective on this ride, because it's firmly established a little later on at the scene where a pirate skeleton transitions into a live pirate before the pirate ship battle with the fort that the entirety of the the cavern scenes are an epilogue that show the aftermath of that pirate's life.  I haven't witnessed the new scene in person or photographed it yet, but it's an odd tweak to the othe...

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