16 Pirates Of The Caribbean Easter Eggs You Probably Missed

Inevitably, the films are bursting with references to the original ride at Disneyland; were they not, they could hardly be called adaptations, now could they?

But the references go as far as recapturing entire sequences from the ride, and not always obviously. For instane, in On Stranger Tides, Black Beard's ship has the same bed-ridden skeleton as appears in the ride (with the only real skull remaining in the ride above it).

Additionally, Tia Dalma's swamp is a redo of the bayou scene in the ride and there's a "shot for shot" remake of the ride sequence that sees an unfortunate man dunked in the well at Port Royal in the first film.

Some of the ride's most famous lines are also preserved: in At World's End, when the crew fall over the edge of the world, the music is the same as plays in the ride, and the voice of the ride's skull that warns "dead men tell no tales!" plays over the ominously shot scene.

That same line - of course now the title of the fifth film - is also uttered by Cotton's parrot in the first film.

Another of the skull's lines is recaptured when the ships enter the maelstrom at the conclusion of the third film: Barbossa utters "it be too late to alter course now!" just as the ride does before the first drop.