207. Dunking Carlos: The Disappearing Details of Pirates of the Caribbean’s Well Scene - Pirates of the Caribbean Part 12

We have to go backwards to go forwards because I found a couple of really interesting things that I wanted to show you in particular Kirk as I was researching the first one is coming attractions from I think 1958 in Disneyland and I have a map of Disneyland at the time and you can see some things listed on the left and then the map on the right but it says the Columbia it's got you know the haunted house the world's largest collection of ghosts so it's not even the haunted mansion yet Holidayland is on there And then it has New Orleans Square, but then it says Thieves Market and Wax Museum Pirates of the Caribbean.

So

I thought that was interesting.

And then it had a description with it.

So it said, coming attractions, New Orleans Square, a new area in Frontierland will be developed with the additions of a haunted house, a wax museum and a thieves market.

So they were, I guess, putting it in Frontierland at the time, even though they had New Orleans Square on there.

That's literally the entire description of like the Haunted Mansion.

I mean, I think that wraps it up.

So then the Wax Museum, of course, which became Pirates of the Caribbean, it says, will portray the story of famous pirates of the Caribbean region through the medium of wax figures.

Dramatic staging effects will tell the story of such fabled events as the Siege of New Orleans by the pirate Lafitte, which jives with Claude Coates' artwork from the same time of 1958 when it was the Battle of New Orleans, which we showed on a previous episode, so I won't get into that, but Just kind of an interesting find as I was doing all these things.

Yeah, yeah.

The Haunted House.

I've heard people call the Haunted Mansion multiple times.

It's very good.

I feel like it's more appropriate in Disneyland Paris with Phantom Manor.

Looks more like a haunted house than what we have in the U.S.,

Yeah.

Yeah.

Both of them really don't actually look that haunted.

They look like just a reasonable house.

Yeah.

Reasonable house.

I like that.

Hey, kids, you want to go to the reasonable house?

It looks pretty all right, you know.