Sorcerer's Workshop Presents Disneyland's Pirates Arcade Museum

Pirates Arcade Museum
~featuring~
Fortune Red

"This is what we call 'New Orleans Square'...and then in here, we have a special attraction...You believe in pirates, of course?" - Walt Disney (:08) - 178kb.wav - 161kb.mp3

Fortune Red can still be found at the Pieces Of Eight shop in Disneyland's New Orleans Square, ~~on your right~~ as you exit Pirates of the Caribbean.

Update: It seems that the Pieces of Eight shop has moved farther down Royal Street to number 35 (just past Club 33) - now found to the left and up the block as you exit Pirates.

Photo by David Lane courtesy of MiceAge.com.
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This concept art gives you some idea of what the Pirates Arcade Museum looked like inside.

When the travelling exhibit Behind the Magic - 50 Years of Disneyland appeared at the Oakland Museum, you could see these two examples of the dime operated "first person shooters" up close.

These were standard arcade shooting games of the 1960s, redressed and remodled by the Disney Imagineers to be one of a kind delights. Note the rope trim on the edges of the cabinets.

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In addition to Th'Devil T' Play and Pirate Shoot other games at the Pirates Arcade Museum included Freebooter Shooter, Captain Hook, and my personal favorite, Candle Snuff.

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The other side has sage seamanly advice from Fortune Red, as does this Anne Bonny fortune card.

Anne Bonny is a fortune-telling contraption akin to Fortune Red, found in Caribbean Plaza in Adventureland in The Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida. [Note the Anne Bonny card is "©Walt Disney Productions"; Fortune Red is "©The Walt Disney Company".

Although the font and illustration differ, the text of the fortune on this card is virtually the same as one of the Fortune Red cards. Most fortunes refer to one of the attractions in Disneyland (or in this case, The Magic Kingdom). One Fortune Red card issued in December of 2001 still aludes to "sparklin' like the Rainbow Caverns of Frontierland", which closed twenty-nine years ago in 1977. There are 24 cards in all.

Anne Bonny fortune card courtesy of Widen Your World.

What does Fortune Red
have to say to you?

Click on the card at the right if you'd
like to get your Fortune Red!

For further information about Disneyland's Pirates Arcade Museum and its Florida counterpart, The Caribbean Arcade (Caverna de los Piratas), visit Werner K. Weiss's Yesterland - Pirates Arcade Museum page and Mike Lee's Widen Your World - The Caribbean Arcade page.
There is a delightful blog entry on the ride update at arglebargle!: Pirates of the Carribean Ride Update.
And of course, the ultimate Pirates of the Caribbean website, Tell No Tales.com

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	Fortune Red is a coin-operated fortune vending machine that features a wooden cabinet with an ironbound glass box containing the upper half of a red-bearded bucanneer gesturing at an animated treasure map. When coins are inserted, Red nods and turns his head, waves his pointing finger over the map, and as the music plays *a jolly 30-second portion of Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me), a card is dispensed into a shiny metal catch tray.*
	Fortune Red can still be found at the Pieces Of Eight shop in Disneyland's New Orleans Square, ~~on your right~~ as you exit Pirates of the Caribbean.
Update: It seems that the Pieces of Eight shop has moved farther down Royal Street to number 35 (just past Club 33) - now found to the left and up the block as you exit Pirates. Photo by David Lane courtesy of MiceAge.com. Click for original larger picture.