Unlike many Disney park attractions, Pirates was not based on a film, so, in 2003, Disney based a film on the ride. A view of the Pirates of the Carribean attraction at Disneyland. Both scenes were altered to shift the target of the menвЂ™s desires: food rather than women. The semi-humorous marauding proceeded unchanged until the mid-вЂ™90s, when park visitors began calling out the attractionвЂ™s marked displays of misogyny - a horde of rowdy pirates chasing a group of women through a ravaged town, a lustful buccaneer in search of a woman hidden, and clearly frightened, in a barrel nearby.

Tucked into the dimly lit underbelly of DisneylandвЂ™s New Orleans Square, the signature attraction takes guests on a voyage back in time to witness bloodthirsty pirates pillaging the Spanish Main. Pirates of the Caribbean opened March 18, 1967, just three months after Walt DisneyвЂ™s death and was the last Disneyland attraction in which the mastermind himself participated. Originally envisioned as a subterranean, walk-through wax museum (an idea that had been tossed back and forth between Walt Disney and the parkвЂ™s Imagineers since the late вЂ™50s), Pirates became a water-based вЂњdark rideвЂќ after the unprecedented success of of ItвЂ™s a Small WorldвЂ™s at the 1964 WorldвЂ™s Fair - the arena in which Walt Disney polished his audio-animatronic design. RELATED: Still crazy after all these years: Pirates of the Caribbean anchors a Disneyland on the brink of great change В» More than any other single attraction, вЂњPiratesвЂќ has evolved with the cultural - and pop cultural - zeitgeist, beginning even before its debut.

For the last 50 years - and counting - DisneylandвЂ™s Pirates of the Caribbean вЂњdark rideвЂќ has provided a unique pop-cultural guidebook on the how-toвЂ™s of staying relevant, most recently at the end of June when Disney Parks announced plans to rework one of the attractionвЂ™s most controversial scenes, the вЂњBride Auction.вЂќ While the modification has generated considerable attention from proponents and critics alike, it is certainly not the first of its kind.

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