A: The pirates were all composites of people that Blaine Gibson and other Imagineers knew or saw on the street. They were constantly making note of particular noses, or chins, or ears, or hair, which they felt they could use. In an interview with Scott Wolf on his Mouse Clubhouse website, Blaine said: “In one of the cases, I did one based on a guy at Disney. This particular guy wasn’t working where I was working, he happened to be a man working outside. And it wasn’t like I was knocking or trying to belittle a laborer because I was a laborer much of my early life. It was because he had the most wonderful face that I’d ever seen. George Snowden was a sculptor that was on my team—he was older; he was the same age as Walt was. A wonderful guy. He said, ‘Blaine, you’d better be careful with that one. It looks exactly like him.’ Well, it was more exaggerated, but when you look at it you think, ‘Yes, it looks like him,’ but in a good, exaggerated character. But I didn’t really change it because each one was costumed differently and he did turn out to be an interesting character.”