91JLovesDisney, your response is helpful.
I guess I was partly asking from the earlier thread discussion. Will Coco now remind visitors of the pandemic?
Or for that matter, if WDW will continue to sell shirts with skulls in the PotC gift shop? Maybe they won't remind people of the pandemic, because they've always been there. I don't have an answer for that, just the question.
I have mixed feelings about the Mexico ride; I liked the original version of the ride. The original version reminded me of the even older, "If You had Wings," and I had just about learned the lyrics of the original Mexico ride song when they went and changed it. The Three Caballeros characters are fun though. The parks don't have enough Donald. While I'm not eager to have the ride changed again, I'm fine seeing the characters, and a Coco revision might improve the ride. It think the opening of the ride does a great job of making us feel like we have really been transported to a different place. I like the dark night sky, the dark water, and the volcano in the distance...but after that the ride theming skips around a bit. It is part travel commercial, part small world, part characters singing.
Back on topic, the current Coco lobby display wouldn't make me personally think of the pandemic, I don't think. or at least not in a negative way.
I have a feeling all kinds of Halloween events will be quite a bit different this fall.