I've been holding onto this for a while but if we want a pirates ride with a large drop this is done and has art in the 1966 project. This was also designed for that project.
Pirates Of The Caribbean
After much demand the Walt Disney Company has announced that Jack Sparrow and his crew will be installed into Pirates Of the Caribbean Sea in 2006. Along with the new characters will be a massive refurbishment of all of Caribbean Cove including Pirates. The ride’s original designer DlpPhantom has returned to do his original creation justice.
Map
Orange is the queue/dark blue is ride path/light blue is ground floor or water/yellow is 2nd floor/red is the 3rd floor/purple is 4th story/green is exit and gift shop/ brown is shipwreck/ grey is skull rock
The ride is located at Caribbean Cove an area of Adventureland park. Guest will enter through a Spanish fortress that goes around the entire land. On the inside is a small town and a dock. A Spanish warship is currently docked for defense against pirates. The entrance for Pirates Of The Caribbean is located in a tower of the fortress.
Queue
The queue has guest weave under a tarp for a few minutes before entering the fort. The first room we enter contains a spiral staircase to lower and higher levels but we move on into the weapon locker the walls are covered in muskets and swords. We go up a small ramp into the canteen. The main feature is a giant barrel full of rum. A small hole is making some drop onto the floor. Also in the room is a drinking fountain hide next to a smaller barrel. The line leads into a hallway with slots for muskets to be shot from and a canon every few feet. A slow ramp resent is the transition from the colorful area to the dungeon underneath.
We pass many cells with nothing left but bones. Two skeletons die playing chess till reaching a stand still. Another has a bird and it's nest on it’s hat. Taking another turn we enter the torture chamber. On both sides on the line are skeletons in different torture devices. Afterwards guest are rerouted to one of 2 lines and proceed to the nearby loading area. The boats load like they did in the original Magic Kingdom with two boats being loaded on each side.
“Ahoy me matey’s please keep your hands and legs inside the boat so ye don't lose any of those precious limbs. Remain seated at all times we don't stop for those who fall over the side. Lastly be prepared to get wet!”
Are boat is rolled out of the boarding area and dropped down into the water. A quick turn reveals the first lift hill. At the top of the hill is the classic skull and crossbones.
“So yea be seeken adventure with salt old pirates”says the skull,”then you be warned danger lies ahead and it be too late to alter course.”
We exit the fort to a great view over Adventureland. We proceed on the forts walls into another area of the fortress. We pass under a metal gate and enter the prison. Pirates fill the sells and try to bribe a dog guarding them to give the key. We pass a smaller sell with a certain captain.
“Yo Ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me,” sing Jack Sparrow as he reaches for the dog. We pass a small window and in the bay below is the Black Pearl firing upon the fort.
Our boat drops as a canon ball takes out the floor below us. And we plunge right into the middle of a fierce battle between the fort and the Pearl. Captain Barbossa insults his crew and his opponents. Canon balls hit the water getting us all wet. In the distance we can see the Spanish ship coming to aid in the defense. Getting closer to the town we see a pirate boarding party struggling to paddle their way to land. Two nervous soldiers defend the main gate. But they are terrible shots so they keep missing the oncoming pirates.
Up ahead the town’s mayor is getting mercilessly dunked into the well by a group of pirates including the original pirate captain from Pirates Of The Caribbean Sea.
“Where is the map to the hidden treasure?”
“Don’t tell them Carlos, don't be chicken.”
Says a woman from above before she gets shot at by a pirate. On the other side of the canal an auction is going on for the women of the town. An auctioneer stands before the crowd of pirates.
“Do you sell her by the pound haha” says the crowd, “We want the redhead we want the redhead.”
“Spin around deary show em your other side.” Says the auctioneer.
The boat goes under a bridge and we can see the parrot from before holding two women both dressed like pirates. The houses of the town are getting ransacked by pirates.
A few other pirates sit on barrels drinking rum another has an entire barrel up to his mouth while he chugs it.
Two drunk pirates sit in a dingy drinks more and laughing at each other. A drunk fat and tired pirate sits on the ground looking at a map behind him Jack Sparrow pops his head out and looks at the map. The last thing to see in this room is a drunk pirate talking to a cat.
After going under another bridge we see the pirates burning the town and singing. Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me. The scene is filled with pirates just like the Disneyland version. Including the pig pirate, the hat pirate and the filthy foot pirate.
We return to the fort for one more scene and see pirates shooting cannons at each other before an explosion goes off and we drop out of the building into a ship wreck.
Overlooking the shipwreck is a giant skull rock. Inside the last surviving bit of the ship is an organ it's player the fearsome Davy Jones.
“If you take treasure from that rock Sparrow I'll use all the powers of the sea to punish you and your crew for eternity,” Says Davy Jones. The boats leave the shipwreck and head towards shore.
The boat turns towards a cave at the base of skull rock and enters the mountain thru it. Inside we proceed up a large lift hill with the words dead men tell no tales echoes through the cavern. Around halfway up the lift hill a hole in the rock gives us a view of a skeleton steering a wrecked ship in a storm.
The boat reaches the top and enters a cavern filled with water falls. A skeleton reaches for a place to hold on above him. Another sits in a in water fall. The boat heads straight under a waterfall into a different cavern.
Inside is a room full of gold and jewels on top of it all is a pirate skeleton. Barbossa’s crew starts to fill pockets. But behind them their captain is in a fierce duel with Jack Sparrow. Stepping into the moonlight they change form into skeletons but they continue to fight.
The boat turns away and exits the cavern and enters another in which Jack makes his escape with the treasure in a small dingy. The boat approaches a cloud of mist as Davy Jones face appears.
“Liar, you shall not escape this rock alive Sparrow.”
We are now inside the rocky skull as we await a plunge down a 75 foot drop into a bay by the previous ship wreck. This of course happens and everyone is soaked.
The ride continues under a bridge and back into the fort for one last scene. Jack sits atop his pile of gold.
“And thus forth this day shall be remembered as the day Davy Jones almost caught captain Jack Sparrow,”
“Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me.” Says a parrot on Jack’s Shoulder.
“Yes a pirates life for us,”
The boat is now brought up a small incline onto the belt. As we see the skull and crossbones one last time.
“I see yeh made it back now make no mistakes now matey's and wait till the boat reaches a complete stop to disembark.”
The ride exits out into a large gift shop called tesoro bahìa. Merchandise include shirts, towels and action figures for Jack and Barbossa. It also includes a small fruit stand outside the shop.