By this point, everyone is aware of the addition of bloodthirsty mermaids to Florida's famously downsized Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. In case you aren't aware, Florida's Haunted Grotto sequence only features three scenes found in its Disneyland superior: Blackbeard, Dead Man's Cove, the small beach littered with skeletons, and then Hurricane Lagoon, the iconic galleon being bashed by a storm and steered by a skeleton. That's it. A talking Jolly Roger and the infamous ghost monologues used to be present before and after the only drop, but have since vanished.
With the billion dollar box office receipts for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, mermaids, unique to the fourth film have made a home in Dead Man's Cove, creating an entirely new storyline for the grotto. Rather than suggesting a treasure hunt gone awry, it now seems to imply that these pirates and their mermaid prisoner (perhaps they were searching for the Fountain of Youth?) were killed in some kind of ambush, judging by the cutlasses and weaponry jabbed into their bones, a sight remaining from the original attraction. Despite this, a living mermaid lurks beneath the surface and continues to sing, also implying that these travelers may have been killed by mermaids. Who knows what the new storyline is...nonetheless the new effect is pretty cool and was very well done. This brings us to this thread's topic...
How would you feel if mermaids were added to Disneyland's Dead Man's Cove? Keep in mind that not only is Dead Man's Cove a bit bigger here, but is also the original, and one of the only scenes untouched in the 2006 refurbishment, aside from the addition of an eerie instrumental of "Yo Ho." Would you like to hear "Jolly Sailor Bold" and pay witness to a lurking mermaid and the rotten corpse of a poor mermaid? Or would you rather see the beach untouched and original. Discuss...NOW!
With the billion dollar box office receipts for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, mermaids, unique to the fourth film have made a home in Dead Man's Cove, creating an entirely new storyline for the grotto. Rather than suggesting a treasure hunt gone awry, it now seems to imply that these pirates and their mermaid prisoner (perhaps they were searching for the Fountain of Youth?) were killed in some kind of ambush, judging by the cutlasses and weaponry jabbed into their bones, a sight remaining from the original attraction. Despite this, a living mermaid lurks beneath the surface and continues to sing, also implying that these travelers may have been killed by mermaids. Who knows what the new storyline is...nonetheless the new effect is pretty cool and was very well done. This brings us to this thread's topic...
How would you feel if mermaids were added to Disneyland's Dead Man's Cove? Keep in mind that not only is Dead Man's Cove a bit bigger here, but is also the original, and one of the only scenes untouched in the 2006 refurbishment, aside from the addition of an eerie instrumental of "Yo Ho." Would you like to hear "Jolly Sailor Bold" and pay witness to a lurking mermaid and the rotten corpse of a poor mermaid? Or would you rather see the beach untouched and original. Discuss...NOW!
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