Pirates of the Caribbean

Pirates of the Caribbean

Set sail from an 1860′s Louisiana Bayou as a rag-tag band of marauding pirates has overtaken a Caribbean village, ransacking and setting ablaze everything in sight — including yer boat if yer not careful, matey!

• Plunge into the darkness as you’re warned: “Dead men tell no tales!”
• Be dazzled by hordes of looted treasure
• Get caught in the middle of a cannonball battle as buccaneers bombard an island fort
• Revel in the comic fun of swashbuckling shenanigans
• Escape the crumbling fire left behind by plundering and pillaging pirates!

History

• Pirates of the Caribbean first opened at Disneyland in 1967 and continues to delight guests today. According to Disney archivist Dave Smith, many guests still consider it their favorite theme park attraction.
• The Disneyland attraction originally was conceived by Walt Disney as a walk-through exhibit until the 1964 World’s Fair presentations created by WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering) paved the way for a more sophisticated kind of three-dimensional storytelling known as Audio-Animatronics®.
• Veteran Disney animator and Imagineer Marc Davis created hundreds of humorous pirate drawings during the attraction’s development in the early 1960s, sketches that Disney sculptor Blaine Gibson helped bring to life as Audio-Animatronics figures.
• The jaunty theme song by lyricist X. Atencio and composer George Bruns, “Yo Ho, Yo Ho; a Pirate’s Life for Me,” sets the attraction’s light tone with its tongue-in-cheek depiction of high-seas lawlessness:

   

  Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
  We pillage, plunder, we rifle and loot
  Drink up me ‘earties yo ho
  We kidnap and ravage and don’t give a hoot
  Drink up me ‘earties yo ho
  

Height:
Any Height

Ages:
Pre-schoolers, Kids, Pre-teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages