Six flags Pirates Boat Dark Ride | Pirates of Speelunker Cave

[@Nokkiwow]

What the heck did I just watch? It's like they combined 3 different ride concepts into one.

[@perfectberry9008]

Oh man as a kid I would have LOVED it. Esp the Snork part 😂

[@LilYankee2313]

You ain’t seen the last of Captain Moregold dawg

[@TacoTot]

You can tell the exact moment when the mushrooms kicked in on that ride.

[@derekllewellyn6663]

Do you know what me too Derek Llewellyn feel like I feel like I love it so much different than Disneyland

[@skellington15]

Did we end up on the wrong track halfway through the ride?

[@keithaumiller792]

This was an interesting video. The music on the ride remind of it's a small world after all. The pirates with gweedo from Star Wars was a nice touch.

[@jmerritt1963]

From the comments it appears a lot of people are not familiar with the original Speelunker’s Cave. They are the true inhabitants of the cave. The Pirates move in but then the Speelunkers deal with them and take their treasure. I do wish there was more animation for the Speelunkers and a little more action to the battle with the pirates.

[@KOAlleyCat]

Thanks, I was beyond confused. I thought the pirates transformed into the little creatures or something because of a curse that was never explained, haha.

[@LilYankee2313]

Looks like Disney telling the Imagineers “we just cut the Pirates of the Caribbean budget by 99%, and you guys can only use items from Party City”

[@ArtsCoasters]

🤣this ride is at my home park Six Flags Over Texas and it is literally one of the best themed in the park in my opinion

[@millcity9711]

It is sort of the Dollar General version of Pirates, though it's still likeable...charming even.

[@ArtsCoasters]

@@millcity9711 fr tho

[@pdiz]

In a world where Six Flags has roller coasters built over the parking lot and you can see your car, what do you really expect?

[@gregorybuell686]

Looks more like a group of 5 year olds designed this

[@tdub52]

So is this ride about Pirates or about Roger from American Dad?

[@NathanAbilla]

LMAOO

[@bowtiesandfishfinger]

"wow" sums it up nicely

[@tonydoinstuff]

Everytime someone complains why Disney cost so much I'm referring them to this video. See for yourself 😬

[@justanotheryoutubeaccount0]

Pirates of the Caribbean, by Hunter S. Thompson

[@tonedpeter]

horrifically on point

[@TheFabsLV]

If Pirates of the Caribbean ate Beauty and The Beast, then barfed in The Little Mermaid. Yikes!😳😂

[@josephmorris7447]

Quick history lesson. This ride was originally called "The Cave" and was filled with the spelunker creatures called "Spees" The ride was rethemed to Bugs Bunny/Looney Toons in the 90s in order to be more modern/IP driven. The ride flooded and was closed for years until SFOT recently reimagined the ride and themed it to Pirates plundering the "Spees" I appreciate how SFOT paid tribute to the original ride while updating the story/theme.

[@ageandtreachery]

And was the official makeout ride during the 80's.............

[@SandraCross-w6x]

I just remember it as the Yosemite Sam ride and it was a heck of a little better than this 😬

[@mixhits9306]

Reimagined... interesting choice of words

[@meh2510]

@@SandraCross-w6x Got worse with each remodel. Same thing happened with the haunted mine ride in Frontier city, got remodeled several times and each one just got cheaper and cheesier during each incarnation. Wonder what it looks like now, I haven't been back in the better part of two decades.

[@RANDALLLawson-dw8rr]

I loved this ride as a kid. The creatures you see at the end were all through the ride. I'm glad they kept some. I like the wonkiness.

[@pault5557]

YES!!! The Speelunkers from The Cave ride! 😎

[@kevinsmith3879]

They don't have very many pirates for being a pirate themed ride.

[@Kyle_The_Mighty]

The weird aliens download movies when they’re off hours and the park is closed so they’re still pirates

[@justanotheryoutubeaccount0]

They're on a smoke break

[@Nozdoden]

So you started off on the Dollar Store Pirates ride and then the kraken transports you to ET's home planet?

[@pobstrel]

😀

[@LilMzMandy]

Looks like one of those rides that's so silly you just want to ride it again.

[@practicalpisces]

They should animate more of those figures.

[@AJbrotherton]

When I went on this ride about a year ago, the audio wasn’t working, most of the “animatronics” weren’t moving, and many effects didn’t work correctly. It was crappy to say the least

[@Lexcoaster]

This feels like it still has quite a few bugs that need to be worked out.

[@theprimaryking2725]

I mean for Six Flags? This is a nice effort. At least they are trying dark rides. Other thrill parks could care less. It's a nice alternative for non rollercoaster riders.

[@Strange-the-skeleton]

Agreed!

[@THEOFFICIALHOUSEOFKARLOFF1985]

The Walmart version of POTC, lol😂😂😂😂😂

[@Sn0wc4t]

ooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay... That started as a low-budget pirate ride with a little charm, then took a hard right into WTF-Land... >O.o

[@OGamerGirl92]

It's giving Party City Pirates of the Carribean

[@sacramentoguy949]

It feels like the 'LSD' kicked in at the half point in this ride. Do they explain what those creatures are?

[@Dylan-nr2ff]

I love ❤that at SixFlags

[@andrewh4855]

You need to ride Monster Mansion at Six Flags over Georgia. A great Six Flags dark ride.

[@aaronermis4082]

It’s awesome they brought back the Spee’s. Loved that ride as a kid in the 70’s.

[@TheSyncop8r]

"It's A Small Pirates World After All", or...."Pirates Of The Caribbean by Temu".

[@ArtsCoasters]

fr frrr

[@andynava5144]

So this is a lot more effort in a dark ride than i would ever expect from Six Flags. Like wow they put in a lot of effort into the sets. Put like, I dont get it? What am I supposed to take away from this ride? Its really baffling and confusing. Its still really fascinating and entertaining though, just feels like if it was more refined it could have been something a tier below Knotts Berry Farm dark rides. But this still seems like a fun ride for all the effort and all the baffling confusion

[@lacedchemist1295]

Yeah, it looks expensive and like they spent a lot of time on it but like something is missing at the same time.

[@alexandravalentina4854]

This feels like a PG version of a William s Burroughs book… I love it

[@johnmadden5933]

Oh. . . That was certainly. . . Something. Really feels like they could have done some really cool stuff with the space if they kept to the pirate theme instead of all that whatever they did.

[@robertholtz]

“Cocaine is a helluva drug.”

[@DougYeager-i8b]

Former Disney Cast Member here. Kinda confused with the theming or story but otherwise it was a fun experience. It gets high points for actually be a working attraction

[@xjrodx]

“We have pirates of the Caribbean at home”

[@waltdisney681]

Six flags Pirates Boat Dark Ride? My mouth dropped open and stayed that way until the end of the ride. I couldn't look away. I have NO words! 👀😵‍💫

[@ayrtonhockaday]

What, in the name of all that's holy, did I just watch?? 😂😂.

[@ElleCee62978]

1:47, the octopus looks like Patrick Star.

[@Savagemister]

That bobsled ride at 7:08 is in the process of being dismantled to make room for "a record breaking dive coaster" coming in 2026.

[@nikkiash2884]

Welp...umm, I worked the ride years ago when it was the Yosemite ride.... the new ride is, um, kinda confusing. Like they left the pirate idea behind and went to space or something.

[@disneymama78]

That's here at my Six Flags? I haven't been there in a while and I am 10 minutes away. LOL

[@speedrazer2000]

I think I enjoyed the bonus footage at the end more than the ride. 🙃

[@GregoryFerguson-e5k]

3:55 The Speelunkers are adorable! 😍

[@dinocorare]

Whys everyone hating on this? This is really good for six flags standards.

[@mattwilliams1168]

I'm so confused, I don't think I've seen something that both seemed like they tried and didn't try so hard all in the same ride.

[@toddjackson164]

Loved this ride in the early 70s because it allowed us to escape the heat. They should have kept it as it was.

[@SandraCross-w6x]

Random fact: the bobsled ride is now in pieces. We were there a few nights ago.

[@MRebeca]

It is like having a fever dream of Pirates of the Caribbean. Or making your own version in your backyard. 😂

[@ampheia]

This feels like an acid trip. At least the old Looney Tunes version was cohesive and fun. This is just...weird.

[@jinzza3]

이게 무슨 내용인지 알 수 있나요?

[@jasonyau326]

This a dark boat ride at an original SF Park so what would one really expect? Hence, I am ok with it, at least it is better than any dark ride at Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg or Clifton Hill!

[@eric_d4073]

So . . . This is what happens when Teletubbies and Tim Burton have love children who grew up downwind from 3-mile island and wear clothes designed by Ru Paul on acid, GOT IT

[@Patch1xo]

This is incredible

[@StarshineGoomba]

I totally heard that Pirate captain saying something about Britney Spears in that beginning part, but couldn't make out the rest.

[@zimvader25]

Rode this for the first time last month and thought i was having a bad acid trip.

[@BHStudios01]

Well, THAT was nightmare fuel. I know not everything can be at Disney, Universal, and Efteling levels of good, but… yikes. 😅

[@blackzach913]

Better than what most people have in their backyard.

[@victoriascholl4607]

He he he, that is really colorful and silly.

[@Tinkerbells870]

Look so much fun❤❤

[@theduchessofspring2395]

That was...whatever it was, but with a very vague Christmas overlay.

[@daveharbour-animatornics-s6308]

Wow, that this needs a major makeover.

[@TheTennesseeTornado]

3:55 Jack Sparrow on an acid trip

[@justimagine2403]

Yes what the heck is going on here? Aliens, and pirates, and bears oh my!

[@knaveofchalices]

Sea of Thieves be like

[@lacedchemist1295]

Lol that's what I thought when I first saw the ride carts

[@RAZHOLYWATER]

🦈🦈FAMEOUS BABY RAINBOW SOLUTION🦈🦇

[@MichaelWarbux]

Pirates of the Caribbean the Temu version.

[@davidbaer8100]

Very weird ride! If I had gone on the ride, I would have been disappointed, because I was expecting a pirate dark ride, not the Snorks. 😂

[@TheWilliamsFamily6906]

Is this six flags over Georgia

[@giuseppemarchi3226]

Nice park

[@johnmccrary6712]

when the octopus looks like Pickle Rick!

[@BB-wc9jx]

I like it ☺️

[@TheRyanLamont]

Got so lost once the aliens hijacked the pirates of the Caribbean...

[@roknboker]

Patrick Star sure looked pissed

[@Aliandjessi]

We’re is this at?

[@DaisyLynn-xm1pl]

Well I will say that it's Well done and very creative.

[@KurtWagner-x2n]

I love the Georgia mud squid

[@christycruz2630]

The hubby and I ride it,but it needs to go

[@gmusick3859]

This CONFUSED me!

[@ceccheese699]

This ride is just all over the place and makes no sense, while it's nice that they payed tribute to the original speelunker cave and it has somewhat of a charm to it, it's super cheap. You can see where budget was immensely cut and it's just obvious they tried to reuse/redress as much of the gold river adventure sets as they could to save money.

[@Turds-f9w]

I guess the pirates met some merpeople or somthing?

[@myblujl7503]

This is the Pirates of the Caribbean "we have at home" or ordered from Wish.

[@talkaboutwacky]

What the hell did I just watch?

[@broformers6433]

This was better as a Loony Tunes ride.

[@TimothyThebodeau]

Haunted House Walk Through ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Theme Park Ride -4s⭐

[@SimpleLifeUwU]

The ride is suffering from identity crisis

[@YensidBuckingham]

Hi, kids! Do you like mushrooms? Have we got a ride for you!

[@Teachworth01]

At first I assumed this would be a ride aimed for young boys and teenagers, until that horrendous music started playing and those ugly alien things took over. Now I'm completely lost. The experience is all over the place, it's like they mangled 3 different concepts into one and said "Alright, we're over budget, lets just wrap it up"

[@Beeimus]

3:54 Alright. You lost me.

[@celebrityrog]

Kinda weird, kinda cheap, kinda cool

[@poptarrtzz3996]

Yo ho oh no, what is this I have watched?

[@hughyconner3091]

I started going to sfot in the early 70's, the cave was much better. I remember this ride as a place to cool off from the hot Texas sun. The ride had a theme, all the spelunkers played in a little band, did their work, and at one point they played catch with a huge boulder over our heads. At the end of the ride was a storm sceen, lightning flashed and a mist of rain fell. Nothing like this half a** try which in my opinion is just a jumbled mess. 😢😢

[@paulnkiki68]

When you watch SpongeBob SquarePants while dropping LSD.

[@cooler128]

Those things look like demons from the teletubbies

[@resonantstorm771]

They didn't even spell spelunker correctly! Was that deliberate?? IDK & IDC. All I know is if they change the name to "Pirates VS Sea Monkeys" we'd be good!

[@jmerritt1963]

The characters were always called “Speelunkers” or “Spees.” They are cave dwelling creatures and it was a play on the word “spelunker” or cave explorer.

[@JRHatJRH]

Six Flags is where poor people “get away” because they don’t expect any better.

[@zydration3538]

So their ticket prices are significantly lower than whatever park you're imagining is more "high end"?

[@opinionatedindividual8146]

What an odd and spiteful comment

[@CordialTrout]

It's such a bad ride, it's actually brilliant.

[@xdevgamer2443]

HAHAHA I love some of these comments

[@michaelmilano2684]

I love everybody criticizing every ride that doesn’t have a billion dollar budget lol. I dig this thing

[@IncogGrogu]

It doesn’t have to have a billion dollar budget. Dude, the story line just doesn’t make sense. There’s pirates and aliens and pirates disguised as aliens torturing other pirates…what the actual F!!?! 😂😂😂

[@Eisenheim1191]

When you order pirates of the caribbean from Temu....

[@TimothyThebodeau]

Disney"s Pirates from TEMU

[@drewchaboo719]

This look good but here some bad things in the ride I don’t like!