JCorduroy
Active Member
I have thus far refrained from weighing in on this subject, but this seems like the appropriate moment. Consider how well (read, "poorly") At World's End is doing at the box office, and then wonder how foolish and short-sighted it would be if Disney scrapped Adventureland in favor of the current pirate fad. And that's exactly what it is--a fad that is already fading, judging from the poor word of mouth for the third film (emanating even from my children), which explains its plummeting box office rankings.
While the Indiana Jones attraction at Disneyland has its place in Adventureland, I am glad that no one was foolish enough to convert the entire area into "Indyland," or Tomorrowland into "Star Wars World." Investing so much money and theming into a passing fancy would rob any WDW area of the timelessness necessarty to stand up to scrutiny over time and, I think, would be a tremendous mistake.
One pirate restaurant would be fine, I suppose. But please let it stop there and leave Adventureland alone. Oh, and while they're (not) at it, perhaps they could begin to get the pirate merchadise off of every sales cart and shop shelf throughout the entire resort.
Unless I'm missing something, I don't think this whole Pirates thing is a fad. I just checked out the box office take on box office mojo, and POTC:AWE looks to be doing quite well with it's 15 days of release, already over 640 million between foreign ($406M) and domestic ($238M) release. Considering that POTC