Q: On the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, there were two pirates at the end of the ride who were trying to carry a giant sack of gold, but couldn’t move it. Then after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest came out, the ride was changed and instead of the two pirates trying to move the sack of treasure, it was replaced with a scene of Captain Jack Sparrow in a treasure room singing “Yo Ho (A Pirates Life for Me).” Whatever happened to those two pirates?
Avi, Irvine, California
A: The mechanical parts of Audio-Animatronics® characters, after they are taken out of attractions, are usually reused by Imagineers for other figures. That is probably what happened to the two pirates.
Dave Smith