Well, with the park trying to push more adult themes (killers,decapitations,werwolves aggressively rubbing their crotch...) Maybe they will decide to be scary again and bring back the clowns. Pirates would be cool if done right. Problem is, to make pirates scary it has to be R-rated(AKA highlight on the murdering and other lowly activities i dont want to say because it is a very big trigger word.Hint: it begins with R) and lets face it, Busch is way too family friendly to even consider that. If they remove all severed heads from the park because of two complaints to a newspaper...
What I'm trying to say is, pirates just need to go, or they need to be portrayed in a way that will scare people. Sometimes real life things is scarier than monsters that go RAWR...or in this case, ARRRG.