The 53-year-old’s appearance came as the ride celebrates its 50th anniversary and ahead of the May 26 release date for the next “Pirates” installment. The new chapter sees the return of fan favorites Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley as Depp’s ill-fortuned Sparrow pursues the legendary Trident of Poseidon in a race against bad guy Capt. Salazar, played by Javier Bardem.

Depp’s outing also comes a day after his public battle with his former management company hit the radar again. 

The actor and the Management Group have been embroiled in a dispute over his finances that resulted in the star filing a $25-million lawsuit in January alleging fraud, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty and more against his longtime business managers. He claims they lost tens of millions of dollars over more than a decade.

The Management Group countersued in February, claiming that Depp refused to reign in his “voracious spending.”

“Why didn’t they drop me as a client if I was so out of control?” Depp told the Wall Street Journal this week in his first public comments on the matter since he filed the lawsuit.

On Tuesday, Management Group spokesman David Shane lobbed his rebuttal, claiming that the film star “is a habitual liar who denies responsibility for his own outrageous conduct” and “has himself to blame for his financial woes.”

Let’s see how good Capt. Sparrow’s sword is at deflecting bad publicity …