- The pirate ship in the movie is completely handmade and composed of 44,569 parts. It took 5,000 hours to build, weighed 770 pounds, was 14 feet long and 20 feet high.
- Approximately 30,000 lentils are set on the hull of Queen Victoria’s flagship QV1, which looks like rivets.
- The Adman Prop Working Group has produced more than 220,000 props. Glassblowing expert Kim George made a special set of bottles, lamps and glass lenses for the film; each one is tailor-made.
- There is a very special mechanical device in the beard of the pirate captain, which can make the beard lively. The principle is similar to the process of guitar tuning. This delicate device was finalized after five draft designs. There are 65 swirling parts in the beard.
- There are more than 6,800 mouth models of the puppets in the whole piece, of which 1,364 are prepared for the pirate captain. And there are 257 mouth shapes he is talking about. Each model is first designed by computer, equipped with teeth and tongue, and then printed out with a 3D rapid prototyping printer. The shape of these models was designed to be the shape of the mouth when the vowel sounds most frequently pronounced.
- The role designed by the production team did not deliberately suit the feeling of a voice actor, but did not hesitate to create a character full of personality.
- The film contains some easter eggs, including the "super invincible head dog" Wallace Wallace and the first clay animation character Morph created by Adelman, which can be found by a careful audience.
The Pirates! Band of Misfits behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
The Pirates! Band of Misfits quotes
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Pirate Captain: Oh, sweet Neptune's briny pants!
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Queen Victoria: Pity you can't eat pirates, really. But you'd probably taste of barnacles.