Avast ye scabbers dogs

Here's a photo of the new Darth Vader, Captain Barbossa, as added to the Disney ride:



But here is my (il)logical question.. I've been on this ride three times and never really noticed fully that it WAS Barbossa/Geoffrey Rush. I wonder if this photo is actually from Disneyland and not World but I guess I have to go back again to see for certain.

But lemme say this - if that IS Barbossa and they went through all this buggery trouble to add in three expensive animatronics of Captain Jack Sparrow and one of Captain Barbossa, change the audio track to ask the Mayor where Jack Sparrow is and all the other minor alterations...why did they not change the ship that Barbossa's on to be painted black and have black sails? I can see not painting the ship black - it'd be hard to see I reckon. But surely Black Sails could have been accomodated? It looks more like a ship of His Majesty's Navy or of the East India Trading Company than The Black Pearl is every bit as much a character in this trilogy as any of the human characters. Perhaps there were black sails and I was just so enamoured by the Capt Jack Sparrow animatronic around the corner from it that I failed to notice...But I doubt it.

There are musings on Blogcritics that POTC: DMC might keelhaul Titanic on box office receipts. I don't reckon that's possible with this one, but the third one might well do. They left a bigger cliff hanger on this one than the end of Empire Strikes Back. Though ESB was an amazing movie in its own right.

Completely off topic, I also wish to record for posterity that my friend Shan did in fact state that a picture of Mark Grace would scare babies. This means I win the great Paper Argument of 1991 at the Chicago Hilton & Towers. Thank you for your attention to this matter.