Pirates Officially Open

[dh999]

I hope they will have soft re-openings as we are going from June 15-24 and our 4 year old daughter who refused to ride it last year has been saying that she has to ride it this year. With the temper she has, my legs will be bruised from kicks if we don't get to ride it.:fork:

 

[ballewclan]

Yuppp, that looks ALOT more like the dog from the movie. I'm kinda sad now, the origional dog looked exactly like my first dog who died a few years ago. Now i wont be able to see her again...

 

[Main Street USA]

As said a few times above, I hate the idea of changing a classic attraction, HOWEVER, I really think this change will be for the best. This never would've happened if Pirates the movie wasn't such a huge success.

Take, for example, the Haunted Mansion movie....awful. Can you imagine Eddie Murphy in the classic HM? lol.....um.......NO!

 

[scottnj1966]

There's something different from Phase 1:

Old Dog

New Dog

The dog and a few little things were changed a couple months ago before the small closing. I have pictures of it from Jan.

The big changed will be when it closes for a couple months. I think just wiring and other things you dont see were done on the small closing.

 

[disneytati]

Awww, I liked the old dog... Well, the new one really looks like the one in the movie, though.

My cousin asked me a question, and I wasn't able to answer: "Is there gonna be an AA for Orlando Bloom's character? As I don't remember the name of the character, I couldn't answer her...

 

[Fantasmic!329]

Never seen the PotC movies, but I much prefer the old dog.

 

[HoW]

My cousin asked me a question, and I wasn't able to answer: "Is there gonna be an AA for Orlando Bloom's character? As I don't remember the name of the character, I couldn't answer her...

No, the current information says that there will be a AA of Barbosa and another of Capt. Jack, but those are the only planned AA additions to the ride.

 

[Skellington88]

No, the current information says that there will be a AA of Barbosa and another of Capt. Jack, but those are the only planned AA additions to the ride.

Just one AA of each? Im shocked.

 

[vfxpro]

I'd find it hard to believe there would only be one AA of each. If they are racing to the treasure, I'd assume you would see a few of each throughout the attraction.

 

[disneydata]

There will be more than one of each.

 

[disneytati]

I just can't wait to see that!!!

 

[Tigger Time]

When will it re-open?

 

[mousermerf]

Anything official say July 7th, but it's expect to reopen by July 1st. Having it closed July 4th seems like something they'd try to avoid at all costs.

 

[pinkrose]

I've also heard that Johnny Depp will be there for the grand re-opeing. Any word on if this is true?

 

[jedimaster1227]

It will be interesting to see that Disney pulls off their grand opening date. The boats are sitting covered on the STOLPort strip and the inside is open at the back. I have photos from when I was there on Friday.