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A Pirates Online Extreme Makeover
October 24 2008

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Pirates of the Caribbean Online partnered with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to bring a little Pirates magic into the life of Job McCully, a 10-year-old boy in Arkansas who is a leukemia survivor that has endured a bone marrow and double lung transplant.

In an episode airing Sunday, October 26 at 8 PM (PT) on ABC, the Pirates Online Crew donated computers for the family and, with the help of Paul DiMeo and the rest of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition team, designed and decorated a special room to be revealed in the episode.

thats nice lol i wish i was him

Yea i used to watch Extreme Home Makeover but stopped because some were really sad but ill be sure to watch this one. I wonder what they will do :D and it is really nice of them to do this.

Yea i used to watch it too. ill try to watch this one

Yes, I will watch this too it looks like this one will be fun to watch :)

I'm like you Chris. I used to watch, but I ended up crying over every episode. But I'll try to remember to catch this one.

Hey thats cool. I will watch that one. I used to watch it, but like others have mentioned, way too much crying.

just tivo'ed it.

cool ill watch it

I watch Extreme Makeover usually every Monday or Tuesday (Im forced to)
Its pretty good, but sometimes I get kinda emotional

i will watch it if i remember to

Cool! I can't wait to watch it :D

Wow, congrats to him!

Wow cool! Me next!:)

*Max puts away his POTCO glitch bashing pen for a minute*

Now THIS is what Disney is about - the kids. For once I am glad at least a bit of my money that I spend here and at WDW every year still goes to the real vision of Walt Disney and thats to bring joy and happiness into the world - and to this child who in this case deserves something special :)

As much as I've seen Disney work more and more become like any other company in recent years, it is good to see things like this can still happen from the 'place where dreams come true' :D

Couldnt agree more, well said Max.



Anyone know when this is on?

Yea im with you on that max one thread i dont think any bad comments will be posted about disney or the game :) its nice to see there is some disney left in disney :)

EDIT: Zep Sunday, October 26 at 8 PM (PT) on ABC

*Cries* Max...That was beautiful,
I couldent agree with you more :)

Wow thats really cool from Disney :). So i dont come from the us - can erveryone record the show?

Its tonight actually its on right now just started!

If they really wanted to give him a "taste of pirate magic", they should have made the little landlubber walk the plank...

Can't walk? That's what keel-haulin's for!

arrr-ooo!

-ekb-

Wow tough EKB mainly for someone who has Hello Kitty as their hero.

Hello Kitty? Never heard of it, I had to look it up...

Hello Kitty is a friendly white kitty with the head larger than her body, small button eyes and nose, but no mouth

hmmm, sounds like a good idea, cats that automatically starve to death unless fed intravenously. I wonder where the hair-balls come out?

-ekb-

ROFL! EKB your hilarious!

Anyway his room was amazing! They got all this cool pirate stuff and mad his desk like the captains quarters and he has like 100 inch computer screen to play POTCO! (it looks like a LCD Projector) :D

He also has a Character now in game named after him

Captain Job

Yea watch out! Arrrrg!

Let the hunt begin to look for Captain Job!
I looked for him on DXD but I coulden't find him wierd

Not sure he may not be registered yet but from what i saw on TV that didnt look like POTCO it looked like a program made just for the show.

Yeah it hasnt aired yet in some parts of US lol

*aww now I gotta put my pen away again.... ;)*

Every year that I can afford to - I take the family, pack the car and drive the 2016 miles (thats about 3220kms for us Canadian folk ;) ) to Walt Disney World for December - just to remove us from the chaos of the world today and try to live a piece of happiness... (then drive that all the way home when it ends... its a long drive home...)

And everytime I walk down Main Street, looking at the big Castle, I become 16 all over again - ready to ride Space Mountain, ready to see Mickeys ToonTown, and ready to sail off to adventure on Pirates :D

I understand that Disney has to keep making money, the shareholders demand it - business commands it... but they more than any other company have to look at what they are delivering - a vision, a dream, a world where there is no pain, no suffering and everyday starts with joy.

I would hope that in such a world, this vision of what they represent is not lost. The challenge is double for them - be a business, bring dreams to life... the two usually don't mix in the world we live in today.

I'm critical of them at times, but not because I'm a cranky old guy (I don't believe), not because hex is that important or that KingsHead should have the fence... quiet the opposite actually :D I do it because I know there are many kids who play their worlds which they create, live their fantasys, and by-gosh I want them to get it right... I want kids to have fun and NOT struggle as much as I have both in the real world - and this one we live in which is POTCO :)

I do this so when my daughter gets older and moves on with her life she also strives to hold onto a piece of that dream, the world which we strive for can come true if we all including Disney work at it...

... and maybe she will return with her children to continue living the dream - I can only hope :)

... and I'm so jealous of that kids room at the moment LOL :D

It's cause he's not a pirate, mates...

...he's an NPC!

http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/g...CaptainJob.png

He can be found in the Royal Anchor in Port Royal. Guess it's nice to have an NPC named after you.

You guys must have mis-understood me

He has a Character in Game Named after him

so you wont find him on DxD

The Character is in the game as a NPC named Captain Job
in the episode he is pictured standing beside jack sparrow during a cutscene talking etc.

and yea its definetly a real cut scene from Pirates online because even the host of the show said it is

My guess is that its an upcomming update etc. (the cut scene that is)

Thats so TOTALLY WICKED! :D

That is.... SWEET! Im gonna pay him a visit today or tm :)

I'm sick that I forgot and missed the show. :sad:

:witch:
Maximus, you are such a poet- if my own love of the classic Disneyland could form words, they could not have sung better.
Excelsior!
:laugh:

The Good Capt job has a quest for ya too ;)

Captain Job hangs out in the PR tavern Royal Anchor next to Josie McCready. He's been "Captain Job" for a couple of months or more, but used to be "Rutherford Bligh".

Okay seriosly has he always been there... this is kinda weird.

Well you think they filmed it a long time ago lol

Watched the show last night and (of course) was very envious of the room. My daughter and I have a thing about watching the "Building a house show".

Her job is to drop her jaw and say "how cool" or "I wish I could have......."

My job is to continue to remind her just how good we have it. That we aren't (and hopefully never will be) in a position to be on the show.

Max - I was at WDW in May and cannot agree with you more. We go every two or three years and for me there is no better way to justify working long hours in a cubicle for an ungrateful bunch of......... ok, I digress.

The only thing better than being a kid again is watching your own (or those of a random stranger walking by) glaze over in amazement with each new wonder.

Our favorite saying when we hit a ride with a long line is that we'll "save that for the next trip" thereby all but guaranteeing another visit.

That show, Disney, the concept - really is amazing.

Can you imagine the emotional reserves the designers and people who build the houses must have to be able to do that week, after week, after week (yeah, they get time off - but, still!)

Stop me when I start to ramble.........

Lol good explination. But as you say i wish i had that room but im not and hopefully never will be in a postition to be on that show.