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]]> By: Simon Veness http://blog.mousekingdom.com/2006/08/30/1-billion-pirate/#comment-3675 Simon Veness Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:14:00 +0000 http://blog.mousekingdom.com/2006/08/30/1-billion-pirate/#comment-3675 Pirates certainly DO seem to be universally popular right now. You can't seem to go anywhere without finding them in some shape or other. We are just back from a mega-trip across part of the USA, including Pennsylvania, Virgina, West Virgina, Ohio and Florida (plus a Caribbean cruise for good measure!), and found mention of them almost everywhere. The highlights? The Pirates! section of the magnificent Mariners' Museum at Newport News in Virginia; the pirates playtime aboard the Carnival Elation cruise ship (which kept 2 of our boys occupied for hours!) and Redbeard the Pirate, an 'authentic' pirate who also appears at the Tradewinds Resort in St Pete Beach, Florida, and lives his whole life in pirate style (albeit without the pillage and plunder, we presume!). We will post more reports of all this in due course once we have caught our breath (and baled out after Tropical Strom Ernesto, which is currently dumping huge amounts of rain on us in Florida!). But Andy is pretty much spot on - the Pirates film franchise has massive worldwide appeal, and there should be nothing stopping another 2 or even 3 more episodes before it (inevitably) runs out of steam. Pirates certainly DO seem to be universally popular right now. You can’t seem to go anywhere without finding them in some shape or other. We are just back from a mega-trip across part of the USA, including Pennsylvania, Virgina, West Virgina, Ohio and Florida (plus a Caribbean cruise for good measure!), and found mention of them almost everywhere. The highlights? The Pirates! section of the magnificent Mariners’ Museum at Newport News in Virginia; the pirates playtime aboard the Carnival Elation cruise ship (which kept 2 of our boys occupied for hours!) and Redbeard the Pirate, an ‘authentic’ pirate who also appears at the Tradewinds Resort in St Pete Beach, Florida, and lives his whole life in pirate style (albeit without the pillage and plunder, we presume!).

We will post more reports of all this in due course once we have caught our breath (and baled out after Tropical Strom Ernesto, which is currently dumping huge amounts of rain on us in Florida!). But Andy is pretty much spot on - the Pirates film franchise has massive worldwide appeal, and there should be nothing stopping another 2 or even 3 more episodes before it (inevitably) runs out of steam.

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