We rode Pirates last night as part of the soft opening. The lighting is definitely improved. Much better in many respects. Not bright, just better. The audio not so much. I really couldn't tell an improvement there. All of the scenes are the same, though several of the characters have new costumes (including the dog at the jail door). This was a soft opening, so it shouldn't be surprising there are still a few bugs. We were stopped a bit over 10 minutes on our ride. Even so, glad for the soft opening and glad to have Pirates open again.
So same boats that tend to get stuck??
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Same boats, CaptSmee, but they don't seem to bang into each other as hard - and they don't seem to bang around the tracks as much. Overall, that part of the ride is smoother. I don't know what caused the 10 minute delay. But at least there was no whiplash from the boats backing up.
I sort of rode it during the soft opening on 9/25. We got to the scene where the mermaid skeleton is and got stuck. Boats were all backed up. After about an hour they evacuated us. Definetly and interesting ride on Pirates!
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We rode last Friday. No banging boats, but I think mine was leaking. We were in the back row and my feet were wet through my sneakers! I didn't really notice anything different about the attraction.
Wilderness guy;2470088 wrote: We rode Pirates last night as part of the soft opening. The lighting is definitely improved. Much better in many respects. Not bright, just better. The audio not so much.
I think that's the second time we've heard the audio is not so good. Let's hope they fix it before the official opening. Did I also here that the landing is softer at the drop?
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When is the official opening scheduled?
Wilderness guy;2470088 wrote: . We were stopped a bit over 10 minutes on our ride.
Was the delay at the end, waiting to get off the boat?
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Looking forward to trying this on our next visit (Spring 2016). Hope all the bugs in the improvements are all ironed out by then.
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