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Well, you enter the ride in New Orleans sqaure, a small part of DisneyLand modeled after The Queen of the Delta.
You go through the queue to Lafitte's Landing (The ride has it purposly mispelled), where you board the long boats.
Then you start the journey down the peaceful Blue Bayou Lagoon, where you pass a elderly gentlemen playing "Ol' Susana" on the Banjo, while smoking a pipe.
Then you proced to a bricklined passage way, where a Talking skull warns you of looming dangers, and to hold on tight, then you ride down a waterfall, where you hear "Yo-ho-yo-ho A pirate's life for me!" for the first time, then the song is cut short by another waterfall, and a ghostly voice admonsihing "Dead men tell no tales!" Over and over again. You pass by scenes of pirates that are long deceased. My favorite is the Cap'n's Qaurters, because a harpsichord is playing "A Pirate's life for me!"
You then exit from the grotto in the midst of a battle between the pirate Galleon the Wicked Wench and the spanish fort.
You escape the battle unscathed, finding a way through the town canal, where you fid the town magistrate, Carlos, being dunked, because the pirates want him to reveal the location of the treasure. His mistress in the window encourages Carlos not to talk.
You pass this scene of Caribbean water torture to find some more pirates auctioning off the town beuties, the item on the auction block is the best deal at only 6 coins, but the crowd constantly insists "We want the Red'ead!"
Then you pass under a bridge to where some pirates are looking for love in the wrong places. They are chasing town maidens that were not captured for the auction. The Pooped Pirate in the foreground brandishes a frilly slip of a maiden he's been chasing, while the maiden in the backround pops her head out of the barrel, to see if the pooped pirate is gone.
We then join most of the crew in the best of them all: Burning down the city. 3 musicians, a dog, and donkey play the Pirate Anthem, as the inebriated brigands help sing in the back round.
There are some pirates other than the hat theif who want to escape, but are hindered by a innocent gaurd dog.
The Attack is not over! Some extremly drunk brigands have broken into the town's military arsenal, and are having a shooting match over who can it the clearly marked "Explosivos" whcih they think is rum.
Then you travel past this scene, to another, where there is a small stash of treasue, and a pirate is making an escape. He has taken his jolly rodger, put a butt-load of treasure in it, and is trying to pull it up the upramp.
Trivia: Did you know that The grotto originally featured real skeletons from the UCLA medical center? The Plastic of the time was to unrealistic. The bodies were later returned to their countries of origin for burial. The only remaining real skull in the disney land original is the skull of the Captain reading in bed. It was a gift given to Walt by a friend.
Also, jsut so you know, there is a (Shortened) PotC in Walt Disney World Florida, a Lengthend in Disneyland Paris, and a relitivly the same one is Tokyo Disneyland.
The video Mr. Cole is refering to is an excert from a 1967 episode of "Walt Disney's Wonderfull World of Colour". Any of the European or Australian ;^) user wh have it, you can veiw it on disk 2. Though you shuld know they have the grotto scenes out of order in that video, they are in the order I have them Listed.
that helped ;-) Also, the people will judge, once all entries are in, I'll set up a thread in which there are polls on how they went each will be rated on creativity, imanagitive building styles etc.
ALso, for Mr.Phes, the Chase Scene (Maiden in the barrel) was deemed 'Politicly incorrect' and was changed in the 1997 rehab to them chasing maidens with food. The reason it was 'Politicly incorrect' was because some femnists 8-( couldn't bear the thought of what would happen to the maidens after the pirates caught them, and because the Pooped Pirate was spewing dialauge like "I'd like to hoist my colors on the likes of that little wench" And "Keep a weather eye open for her, I be willin' to share I be!" Which is actully ok for a PIRATE ride, because most pirates died from venerial deisesies they picked up in "Nasty Houses".
