The Disney Magic

Original Post: Apr 4, 2010 10:54 PM

The Disney Cruise line currently has a fleet of two ships, the Disney Wonder, and the Disney Magic, but not for long. A new ship is taking Disney by storm on January 26, 2011. So what is the name of this fantastic new addition to the fleet? The Disney Dream! What can one possibly do on this new ship? Right now, maybe a bit of welding, but next January, you can take a relaxing cruise to the Bahamas. However, you’re not here for me to convince you to open your pocketbook and shell out (get it? Shell??? Beach Pun) a wad of cash in return for tickets, but to go inside of Disney and see what it really takes to build this behemoth of a ship. So in order to do so, we need to travel all the way to Germany where the ship is currently being built. This ship is so massive that it actually has to be built in different pieces and put together like a puzzle. When completed this ship will have 14 decks, 1,250 staterooms and hold up to 4,000 guests. Over 66 million pounds of steal will have to be cut to make the ships and 37,000 pipes must be produced as well as 5,000 miles of cabling installed. Just to put that into perspective, San Francisco is 2,905 miles from New York and you would need at least 2,640 school buses to equal the weight of the steal.

Tom Staggs chairman of parks and resorts visits Germany to see the building of the Disney Dream

The Aquaduck water ride on the Disney Dream. You can see where you shoot out over the water by the smokestack in the back of the image.

So what will this boat contain?

Let’s start off with the big water ride…the Aquaduck. The Aquaduck is a water tube, water roller coaster that with aid of high speed water jets, pushes you up hill and down through clear tubing all over the top deck of the Disney Dream. Does that Sound fun? That’s just getting started. One of the very first elements of this ride is jetting out 13 feet over the side of the ship to look 150 feet below at the ocean water. The ride is a whopping 765 feet long (more than two and a half times

the length of a football field) and the water jets that push you through the ride can push guests up at a rate of twenty feet per second. You can see a picture of this attraction above.

What else is contained in this ship?

Disney Cruise Lines signature restaurant “Animators Palate” will start off with the image seen to the left and transform throughout the meal to the image on the right. As you can see, the big theme for this restaurant will be from the movie finding Nemo. As you dine, you may get a visit from crush the turtle and have a brief conversation with him at your table about your experiences aboard the boat. You may also be lucky enough to find a few other characters such as Nemo, Marlin, squirt, Bruce, and the ever beloved Dory.


This is just the beginning of what’s to come of this marvelous ship. Stay tuned and we will keep you updated