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All over Disneyland, signs of "Pirates" were everywhere. The skull-and-swords logo hung high on the soundstage facade of Disney's California Adventure. In every gift shop, pirate-related merchandise stocked the shelves; one of the most popular items was the traditional Mickey Mouse ears adorned with a red bandanna and a large (plastic) gold ring piercing one of the ears. And there was Capt. Jack himself (or a reasonable facsimile), walking unsteadily along New Orleans Square posing for photos with the tourists.
But the swaying swashbuckler makes his presence most felt in the redesigned Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
An animatronic Jack makes three appearances in the new version of the classic ride. He shows up twice in the Tortuga seaside scenes, hiding from cutthroats - once behind a female mannequin, the other coming out of a barrel. (The same barrel that once hid a wench and, after a political-correctness makeover in 1997, a fish-loving cat.) There also are appearances by Jack's two movie nemeses, Capt. Barbosa and Davy Jones. (The actors who played these roles in the movies - Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush and Bill Nighy - all provide the voices for the ride.

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coldethyl
I want that animatronic Jack. That would so rock.
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