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  The longtime static skeleton sitting on a mound of gold has been replaced by an audio-animatronic that uses facial projection technology to transform this still scene into a dynamic storytelling of a greedy pirate picking up cursed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

Disneyland will never be complete, but this change scratches my head.