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 The longtime static skeleton sitting on a mound of gold has been replaced by an audio-animatronic that uses facial projection technology to transform this still scene into a dynamic storytelling of a greedy pirate picking up cursed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...









