Walt Disney World's Pirates Of The Caribbean ride is getting another update, which is being done more to accommodate modern taste than technology.
The "dark ride" which opened at the Magic Kingdom in 1973 and takes visitors on an indoor seaside tour of scenes depicting the exploits of pirates, is ditching a portion of the attraction where a bound and tearful woman is on the auction block for buccaneers to buy as a wife.
A banner reading "Auction, take a wench for a bride" will be changed to "Auction, surrender yer loot," and the woman on the auction block will herself become a pirate. Disney says the changes will be made at the Paris theme park in July and at the Orlando and California parks next year.
The change is the most recent of several updates to the ride. While some were done to incorporate the likenesses of characters from the movie franchise, others have tamed the ride to match current sensibilities, including one altered to have pirates chasing a woman's food instead of the woman herself.
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