WEBVTT - TechStuff Classic: How the Disney Magic Works 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:12.320 Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.720 and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.200 I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.000 are you? It is Friday. It is time for a 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:26.560 classic episode of tech Stuff. This episode originally published on 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:31.280 June twenty second, twenty sixteen. It is titled how the 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.800 Disney Magic Works The Disney Magic being a cruise Ship. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.960 I hope you enjoy. Now, before I jump into this show, 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.320 I just want to let you all know Disney had 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.000 nothing to do with me choosing this episode, apart from 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.159 the fact that I'm going on a cruise anyway, this 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.040 is not a sponsored show. I'm not getting any perks 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.560 for recording it. In fact, Disney's not even aware I'm 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.680 doing this. They wouldn't know me from anybody else out there. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.480 And I say this because I am a Disney fanboy. 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.680 I'm gonna geek out over Disney stuff as well as 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.120 the cruise ship technology stuff. And it's important you know. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:16.560 I have a completely biased opinion, but it comes to 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.360 me honestly. Now that being said, the company, if they 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.640 decide they want to sit me on a cruise they 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.240 can do that. I'm not gonna turn it down. I 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.160 love them. I'm really hoping that I can actually get 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.440 a bridge tour this cruise, but they don't tend to 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.280 do those, so if it happens, it will only be 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.160 because somebody took pity on me. All right, So let's 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:44.080 talk about the history of Disney in the cruise industry. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.680 Before the Disney Company actually commissioned its own cruise ships, 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:53.240 it partnered with an existing company called Premiere Cruise Line. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.600 Back in nineteen eighty five. Premiere became known as the 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.840 official cruise line of Walt Disney World, and Disney characters 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.680 would appear on Premiere ships. It was one of the 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.320 things that set Premiere apart. Premiere was also known as 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.119 the big Red Boat because some of their ships were 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.560 big and red, big ish. They're not as big as 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.639 the ones that you would see today in the industry, 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.880 and the nickname of its flagship, Starship Oceanic, was the 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.519 Big Red Boat, and it actually became the official name 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.919 of two of their other ships. They actually renamed them 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.520 because both of those ships were older. With the exception 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.519 of one of their ships, the Starship Atlantic, which was 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.840 built in nineteen eighty two. The company's fleet consisted of 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.240 ships built between nineteen fifty five and nineteen seventy, so 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.960 they were a little on the creeky side. The partnership 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:46.320 with Disney ended in nineteen ninety three. Premiere would eventually 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.280 go out of business in two thousand and Out of 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.480 all the ships in their fleet, only one still exists, 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.040 and that is the Atlantic. All the others have either 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.840 been sold for scrap or they sank. So Disney had 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.800 kind of dipped its toe in the cruise partnership world. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.200 And once that partnership with Premiere ended, you know, it 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.600 was an agreement to last a certain amount of time, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.880 essentially a little less than ten years. The Disney Company 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.760 started to hold talks with other cruise lines, including Carnival 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.200 and Royal Caribbean, but neither of those companies could agree 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.840 to Disney's terms, essentially how much money they would have 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.760 to pay Disney to allow Disney characters to appear on 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.200 those cruise ships. By nineteen ninety four, the rumors were 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.399 that Disney the company was looking at creating its own 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.480 line of cruise ships. Now the actual Disney Cruise Line 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:39.720 Department was founded in nineteen ninety five, and Disney commissioned 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:45.280 two ships from an Italian shipyard called Fincantieri. The two 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.960 ships would become the Disney Magic and the Disney Wonder, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.600 and according to a website called Hidden Mickeys, the Magic 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.119 costs three hundred and fifty million dollars to build. I've 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.200 also seen that figure go up as high as four 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.600 hundred million dollars to build, So between three hundred and 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:05.600 fifty and four hundred million dollars. So a big, big 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.280 investment on the part of Disney in an area that 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:14.720 they had not really explored. But they saw an opportunity because, 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.800 as Disney representatives will tell you, the issue with the 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.520 cruise industry was it was mainly geared toward adults and 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.760 a lot of senior citizens as well, but not so 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.279 much to families with children. And so they saw it 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.159 as an opportunity to do to the cruise industry what 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.320 they had done with theme parks and hotels and other 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.240 things like that. So they decided to take this plunge. Now, 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.359 Michael Eisner was in charge of Disney at the time, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.880 and he wanted the ships to have a classic ocean 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.400 liner feel, so something akin to what you would have 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:52.280 seen back in the old days of ocean liners, we're 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:56.760 talking like the early nineteen hundreds, and to take those 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.839 lines to kind of update it with modern acts, but 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.560 to still have that classic style. So that's exactly what 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.159 the engineers did. They started to design this so it 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.679 kind of had this sleek look of a classic ocean liner, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.719 complete with two smokestacks, even though those were not both 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.640 necessary more on that in a second. And they decided 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.440 that the interior decoration was going to be in the 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.839 Art Deco style for the Disney Magic the Wonder actually 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:29.080 has an Art Nouveau style. Now, the ship was constructed 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.400 in two halves. You had the bow and the stern, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.760 the front and the back. The front half of the 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.160 ship was built at the Encona shipyard and the back 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.520 half was built at the Margera shipyard. And those two 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.280 shipyards are more than one hundred miles apart from each other. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.000 So once they finished building out the four half, the 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:54.440 forward or front half, they had to tow it back 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.760 to the other shipyard, and they did this by placing 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:02.080 it on a giant kind of floating barge essentially, and 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.400 towed that more than one hundred miles to the other shipyard, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.719 and then they had to fit the two together. Now, 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:13.200 remember that this ship is like a small city. It 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:18.120 has all of these independent systems that make up the ship. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.440 That includes a water system, so lots of water pipes, 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:27.080 and electric grid including electric generators, climate control, and more. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.520 I mean everything that you would expect to have in 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.159 a nice hotel has to be on the ship, which 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:39.800 means all those systems have to be self contained. And 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.160 that means that all of this stuff laid out had 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.599 to fit together perfectly. You could not have any misalignment 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.240 or else. The conduits where you would allow electrical wires 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.800 to go through, or the air duct systems or the 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.960 water pipes they wouldn't match up. So they had to 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.839 make it precise and hope that they could fit it 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.440 together exactly the way needed to. And this is not 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:07.720 a small challenge. It's actually pretty tough. So once they 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.160 got to the point where they were ready to put 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.000 the two halves together, each half had to be put 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.800 on a giant rail system and this allowed them to 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.320 very slowly bring the two halves until they met in 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.520 the center, and then they started to weld the ship together, 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.000 and that's where you get the full ship the Disney Magic. Now, 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:31.720 this construction project encountered multiple delays throughout the process due 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:37.200 to other construction projects being a little slow at the shipyards, 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.200 and it meant that Disney had to keep pushing back 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:46.160 the date of its initial sailing, and it ended up 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.120 being almost five months late as a result of this. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.600 The Magic finally set sail across the Atlantic to its 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.640 home port in Florida over at Port Canaveral and was 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.160 ready for its first cruise several months later than was 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:05.560 originally planned, and I believe it was July of nineteen 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.280 ninety eight, so a little bit later than what they 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.800 had hoped. At any rate, it does take a long 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.280 time to build one of these ships. There's a lot 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.920 that goes into it. In the design process, you have 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:22.000 the imagineers, that's the Disney term for the engineers who 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:27.680 bring Disney's flare into whatever projects they're making. So Disney 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:32.080 imagineers are responsible for pretty much anything physical that you 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.319 encounter within Disney. So you think about the Disney parks, 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.040 the imagineers are the ones who were designed, who had 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:43.080 designed all the theming, all the rides, everything that you encounter. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.520 An imagineer has had a hand in designing. Same thing 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.760 is true for the cruise ships, but it meant that 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.640 they had to design things and then shipbuilders actually had 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.920 to make it happen. So it was an interesting relationship 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.640 because this was not something that they had done before. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.680 So imagineers typically use three D rendering software to build 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.160 virtual representation of a space that they wanted to create 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.520 within the ship. So you had a virtual model, and 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.920 then you had to plan out how could you achieve 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.360 this physically, and in some cases it might mean that 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.600 you had to go back and redesign. That's why you 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.960 have to use that three D approach so that at 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.960 least it's less complicated than building something out and then 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:27.120 realizing it's not going to work. Now. Part of that 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.080 included building out spaces specifically for kids. I mean, this 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.800 is Disney we're talking about, and in fact, kids have 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.840 a couple of different areas on a couple of different 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.800 decks of the various Disney cruise ships that are dedicated 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.040 just for them. Adults, apart from the supervising adults are 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.120 not allowed in that space. So the worst part is 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.240 these are some of the coolest areas of the ship, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.760 and typically you only get to see it maybe when 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.440 you first board. Sometimes the Disney allows adults to tour 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.800 the spaces before the ship gets underway, because you might 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.839 be looking at it in order to decide whether your 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.240 kid will go to the Oceaneers Club, for example, and 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.240 maybe you don't have a kid, but maybe you do 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.280 want to be an Avenger, so you go anyway. I'm 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.320 not saying I've done that. I'm just saying I'm not 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.720 above doing that at any rate. A lot of really 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.320 interesting spaces, and when the imagineers were designing these spaces, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.800 they had to take concertain considerations in mind that you 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.200 wouldn't necessarily think of for other spaces. So they actually 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.800 built out some rooms that had lower ceilings, which makes 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.360 the kids feel taller because they're in a space that 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.559 is scaled more to their size. They also created different 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.560 stories for different areas, like there's a toy story area, 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:50.760 there's a Pixie area, there's the Avengers area, which is 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.920 the one I really want to go through, and then 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.440 they're like the Oceaneer's Lab, which is more of a 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:03.080 sciency ocean voyage themed area. And all of this had 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.320 to be done on computers first before building out the 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:12.720 actual physical stuff that would fill up these spaces, and 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.360 then there had to be the installation phase. So all 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.520 of this is very technical. It takes a lot of 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.080 work on the front end before you ever get to 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.160 a point where a guest actually walks onto the ship. Now, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.880 the ship's tonnage is eighty four thousand tons. That means 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.240 the ship has the volume of eighty four thousand tons. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.959 That's typically what tonnage means, and it's a pretty big ship, 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.680 though not as big as the Disney Dream or the 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.240 Disney Fantasy, which are two of the younger ships in 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.400 the Disney cruise line, and of course there are other 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.280 cruise lines that have ships much much larger. So the 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:49.040 Magic is nine hundred eighty four feet long and one 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.400 hundred and six feet wide at the beam. That means 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.480 just the widest part of the ship, and it's one 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.960 hundred and seventy one and a half feet tall. The 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.040 draft of the Show is twenty five point three feet Now. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.080 The draft refers to the distance from the water line 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.160 to the bottom of the hull, also known as the keel. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.920 So you measure that distance and that's how you get 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.840 the draft twenty five point three feet. Now, when it launched, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.200 the Magic was one of the largest cruise ships in service. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.560 In fact, I think it was the third largest ship 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.679 in service at the time. Now since then it's been 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.680 eclipsed big time. There's a Lure of the Seas, which 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.439 I believe is the largest cruise ship currently in service 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.960 that's run by the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. That one 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.800 is one hundred and eighty one feet long and two 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.920 hundred eight feet wide with a tonnage of two hundred 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:45.640 twenty five two hundred and eighty two tons, So enormous, huge, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.760 much bigger than the Disney Magic. But when Disney Magic 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.800 was first built, it was considered to be a pretty 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:55.640 big ship. Now, the Disney Magic has five sixteen cylinder 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:00.560 Solzer diesel engines, each of which can has output of 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:06.360 fifteen four hundred forty eight horse power serious horse power. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.400 There the total horsepower for the ship is seventy seven 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.400 two hundred and forty three Now that means the Magic's 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:16.160 engines have the power equivalent to one hundred Formula one 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:21.840 race cars running full speed. There are also two nineteen 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.760 megawatt general electric propulsion motors that's what actually turns the 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.960 provides the power to turn the propellers in the propulsion system, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.280 and the ship has a fuel capacity of twenty thousand 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.840 gallons of diesel fuel, so it's running on diesel to 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.360 run these engines, which also provide the electricity for the 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.680 entire shit. And the ship's hull has a special coating 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.280 on it that's designed to actually make it move through 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.520 the water with less resistance, which reduces the amount of 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.720 work the engines have to do in order to move 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.720 the ship. So this was an effort to reduce the 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:02.720 fuel consumption of the disease cruise line ships and also 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.800 means that the engines themselves don't have to do as 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:10.880 much work, so they don't need to be replaced or 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:15.920 repaired nearly as frequently, although of course every cruise ship 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:20.040 out there undergoes a period of maintenance. It's called dry dock. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.920 It's when you bring a ship in, you elevate it 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.480 above the waterline and you're able to really work on 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.000 it and make sure that it's ship shape. Now, there 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:34.840 are three bow thrusters and two stern thrusters, each eighteen 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.200 hundred kilowatts, and the arrangement allows the ship to turn 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.560 into plate turn in place without moving forward. So, in 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.440 other words, you can rotate the ship three hundred and 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.920 sixty degrees and not be moving forward at the time, 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.280 which is pretty cool. And I've actually seen it done 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.320 because that's how well I've seen it done with one 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.040 hundred eighty degrees, because that was how the cruise ship 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.440 would pull into one of the ports of cal the 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.280 Disney's private island. They would actually turn the ship completely 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.880 around so that you would back into the space. I 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.480 don't think they actually have a rear view camera to 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.200 do that, but maybe they do. Actually, they have lots 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.480 of cameras all over the place in order to be 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.560 able to navigate the ship. Now, like I said, the 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.320 ship has two smoke stacks, but one is used for 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.280 exhaust and the other is decorative and actually houses some 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.640 other stuff in it. So only one of the two 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:33.120 smoke stacks actually is for exhausting smoke from the engines. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.240 But they decided that they wanted to have the two 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.440 smoke stacks on the cruise ship to give it that 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.120 classic look. The cruising speed that the ship can attain 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.600 is twenty one and a half knots. It has a 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.480 maximum speed of around twenty four knots, although I've read 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.640 that it can go as fast as twenty six knots, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.480 which might be after the Magic has had a couple 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:57.360 of renovations. It's been upgraded both in twenty thirteen and 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.960 twenty fifteen. More on that in a little bit. One 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.640 of the interesting things about the Disney Magic is that 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.200 they have their lifeboats painted a yellow color to match 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:12.240 the color of Mickey Mouse's shoes. This was actually a 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.800 big deal. The US Coast Guard has a standard for lifeboats. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.880 They're supposed to be a bright orange, which is considered 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.640 to be one of the most visible colors on the 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.160 surface of the ocean. So if you are in a lifeboat, 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.200 you want to be really visible so that you can 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.040 be rescued. And Disney had to prove to the Coast 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.800 Guard that the yellow they wanted to use was in 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.400 fact just as visible as the orange, or else the 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.000 Coast Guard would have said, I'm sorry. I know you 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.720 want to have this beautiful color because you want it 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.960 to fit the theme of your boat, but people's safety 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.040 is more important than theming. But Disney was able to 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.200 prove that the yellow was in fact just as visible, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.040 and so they were able they were allowed to paint 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.560 their lifeboats yellow, and in fact the cruise ship in 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.800 general is designed to have the color palette of Mickey Mouse, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.840 so it's essentially white, black, red, and yellow. It has 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.399 eleven passenger decks and three I think crew only decks, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.360 but eleven decks that passengers can go on. The Decks, 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.520 of course, are floors, kind of like floors of a building. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.400 And it has the capacity to hold twenty four hundred guests, 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:24.680 although according to some sources I've read the actual limit 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.119 is closer to twenty seven hundred, and it has a 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.000 crew of about nine hundred and fifty people, so you 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.720 have just shy of one thousand people working on this 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.040 ship to make everything go, and then another twenty four 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.879 hundred who are guests, as a lot of people to 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.080 be on one boat. There are eight hundred and seventy 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.400 five staterooms, two hundred and sixty two of which are 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.240 inside staterooms, which means you don't get a view of 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.359 the ocean, which is kind of sad. But you have 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.000 six hundred and thirteen that are outside state rooms, and 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.280 out of those, three hundred and eighty four have a veranda, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.919 which is really nice. And there are three major thiet restaurants, 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.480 Lumier's animator's palette, and what used to be parrot key 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:09.680 and is now Keriokas. Plus you have an adult's only 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.399 restaurant called Palo and a buffet restaurant called Cabanas. And 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:17.680 every restaurant has its own galley attached to it, and 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.160 a galley is a kitchen, so every single restaurant has 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.960 its own kitchen. And on the big ships that's seven 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.439 galleys total. Now this was actually a new approach in 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.360 cruise ships. A lot of cruise ships have a single 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.560 galley that provides all the food for any of the 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.040 places where you can get food. And in fact, a 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.320 lot of the cruise ships only have one restaurant that 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.760 you go to. Disney was different and had all these 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:46.639 different themed restaurants. So by having a galley attached to 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.040 each restaurant, it meant that the white staff doesn't have 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.760 to travel a ridiculous distance or use escalators or elevators 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.679 to get food to where the guests are. So this 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:01.360 was another innovation in the cruise industry. Addition, guests rotate 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.199 through the restaurants, I mean not literally, you actually go 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.919 to a different restaurant each evening, you get an assignment 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.800 when you get to your stateroom that tells you which 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.120 restaurants you go to on which evenings, and you travel 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.320 one to the next. And if you also get your 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.480 weight staff to travel with you. So the people who 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.040 are doing your drinks and food service go restaurant to 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.399 restaurant as you do, which means they get to know 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.639 what you like, what you don't like, any allergies you 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.399 might have. This is another big innovation in the cruise industry, 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.240 something that you don't see in other cruise lines. So 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.119 some of the innovations that Disney came up with aren't 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:43.440 necessarily technological, but they were big changes to the way 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.400 things had been traditionally done within the industry. Before we 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.400 talk more about the Disney Magic, we need to set 0:19:50.520 --> 0:20:02.960 Saale to listen to these messages. Now. Out of the 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:08.440 major restaurants, Animator's Palette is probably the most technically sophisticated 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.200 in the original incarnation aboard the Disney Magic. The way 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.639 this worked was you walked into Animator's Palette and the 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.879 restaurant starts out with just everything in black and white, 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:24.280 the tablecloths, the walls, the columns which were designed to 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.680 look like paint brushes. Everything's in black and white. Even 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.000 the white staff's outfits were all in black and white. 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:35.480 And as you sat down to dinner and dinner commenced, 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.520 you would start to hear music from various Disney movies, 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.320 and if you looked around the restaurant, you would see 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.680 that there were portraits from Disney movies, all in black 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:49.480 and white all around you, some of which were static portraits. 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:53.320 They were just they were drawn essentially onto the walls, 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.159 but they had had a frame set around them. Others 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:02.240 were actually displayed on LED television's score essentially, and if 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.119 you listen to the music and you recognize where it 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.840 was from, you could actually look for the corresponding images 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.840 on the walls and slowly color would seep in. Now, 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.000 with the LED screens, that's pretty simple. You just you know, 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.920 you have a little animation program that allows us a 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.359 black and white sketch to be infused with color. But 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:25.320 for the static portraits, what they used were fiber optic 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.159 cables that were behind the walls. So you have a 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:32.840 computer system that is timed with the soundtrack for the dinner, 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.920 and as certain songs play, the computer sends the command 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.960 to light up certain fiber optic lines, and those portraits 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:45.280 would slowly go from black and white to color. Animator's 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.000 palette has changed quite a bit since the renovation that 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:50.840 happened in twenty thirteen, where a lot of these static 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:54.320 displays were removed and new LED screens were put in place. 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:56.440 So I'll talk a little bit more about that when 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.320 I get to the renovation side of things. But this 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:04.040 was one of those those experiences that people really felt 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:08.240 had the Disney touch. You walked in, you sat down, 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:11.479 the restaurant transforms around you, even so much that the 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:16.560 weight staff would change into colorful outfits. They would go 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:20.640 backstage essentially and change it to their colorful outfits, come 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.280 back out, and this would be the big dessert celebration 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:28.360 part of the dinner. And it was incredible. It's certainly 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:31.520 like you might if you're a grouch, you might roll 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:33.800 your eyes at such a thing. But to see all 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:40.680 the families and kids get really excited when this transformation happens, 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.480 It's like going to Disney World for the first time 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:47.280 and having that experience of discovery. Now I've done this, 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.199 it'll be ten times by the time you hear this. 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:54.800 So for me. I still enjoy it, but there's not 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:57.600 a whole discovery left for me at this point. That 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:00.560 being said, I still think it's one of those experiences 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:04.400 that really sets the Disney cruise line apart, because it's 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:10.080 pure Disney. There are two theaters aboard the Disney Magic. 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:13.120 One of them is specifically for live performances, although they'll 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.200 also show movies in that one, and the other one 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:21.440 is specifically for movies, although they'll also hold live conference 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:24.439 type things in there, like sometimes they'll have special guests 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:26.879 aboard the cruise ship that might give a talk in 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:31.119 the second theater. So the big live action theater is 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:35.080 the Walt Disney Theater and the cinematic theater is the 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:40.040 Buena Vista Theater. So the live action one can set 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:42.960 around nine hundred people and the Buena Vista one are 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:47.000 about two hundred and eighty or so, and they're both 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:50.800 really impressive. In fact, the Walt Disney Theater has a 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:55.200 lot of different interesting technologies behind it. It's got a 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:59.080 stage that's about forty feet wide. It's pretty impressive considering 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.040 it's on a boat, and it has an advanced fly 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:07.639 system which doesn't involve zippers necessarily. Anyway, a fly system 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:11.240 in theatrical terms is a term for a rigging system, 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:13.920 and the rigging system is a bunch of ropes and 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:18.040 pulleys and they're meant to do things like move curtains 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:20.879 or lights or scenery and sometimes even people. So if 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:23.800 you've ever seen a show where a person is in 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:27.720 a flight harness and they're flying around, that's because they're 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:30.440 part of the fly system. And of course in Disney 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:33.280 that happens a lot. You've got characters like Peter Pan 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:38.480 who fly around over the stage, so they are part 0:24:38.560 --> 0:24:43.000 of this or dependent upon this pretty impressive flight system 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:47.640 or fly system. The stage also has several lifts, so 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:52.879 they have lifts that can elevate or recess below the stage. 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:56.359 There's a storage area below the stage where scenery can 0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:00.560 be or actually characters can wait so that they can 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:04.760 dramatically appear on stage the being lifted out from underneath. 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:09.760 And it's really pretty incredible to think about that you're 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:13.280 on a moving platform, you're on a ship, and the 0:25:13.320 --> 0:25:17.240 ship is at sea, and you have these theatrical elements 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:19.640 that have to be placed on elevators to go up 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:21.840 or down. So you might think, well, how do they 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:25.560 make sure stuff doesn't slide around if the ship is 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:28.320 rolling a little bit. And there are two things that 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:31.760 they do. One is that the stage itself has tracks 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:35.959 built into it, and the scenery can be placed on 0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:40.120 these tracks. They look like almost like if you remember 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:42.560 old slot cars, It looks kind of like the slots 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:46.600 for slot car racing, and you set the scenery into these, 0:25:46.680 --> 0:25:49.520 and you can even have it all computerized and automated 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:52.800 so that the scenes can come on and off through 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:58.600 a computer control. But the tracks actually limit where the 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:02.000 scenery can move so that way it doesn't just roll 0:26:02.040 --> 0:26:04.679 all over the stage if the seas get a little choppy. 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:07.200 The other thing they can do is they can also 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:10.119 alter the shows, so they can take out stuff that 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:13.960 isn't necessary for the show if the sea is acting 0:26:14.040 --> 0:26:17.680 up a bit. So what they'll do is they'll simplify 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:20.600 a sequence so that there's not as many elements on 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:23.720 the stage, or they might remove some of the dance 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:26.960 moves that the performers need to do so that they 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:31.080 aren't endangering themselves while they're trying to perform. And so 0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:34.800 it's a combination of changing the performance itself and depending 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:39.240 upon this technology. If you talk to people in theater. 0:26:39.560 --> 0:26:42.760 They often will refer to the cruise ship stages being 0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:46.160 as advanced as something you would see on a state 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:50.320 of the art stage on Broadway or London's West End. 0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:53.919 That's the amount of detail that Disney put into this stuff, 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:59.440 including things like LEDs that are inside the ceiling where 0:26:59.480 --> 0:27:02.840 you'll get a starlight effect inside the theater. It creates 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:06.879 this more immersive experience for the audience. They also have 0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:11.399 pyrotechnic capabilities, so you'll actually get some fireworks in some 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:15.639 of the shows. And these are all things that you 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:18.800 wouldn't necessarily think to find on a cruise ship or 0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:23.119 even just a regular theatrical stage. I've got a chance 0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:25.240 to do a behind the scenes tour of the stage 0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:27.520 as well. Disney used to do a lot more behind 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:31.600 the scenes stuff, several like more than a decade ago now, 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:35.480 and I took those opportunities to take those tours. It 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:38.720 is really interesting to see how they made as much 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:41.119 use of the space as possible. This theater doesn't have 0:27:41.280 --> 0:27:43.800 very much wing space, so everything has to go either 0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:47.280 up or back or down from the stage because there's 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:49.520 not really a whole lot of room stage left or 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:55.840 stage right, and It also showed how technical these shows were. 0:27:55.960 --> 0:27:59.000 They had to be timed just right for multiple reasons. 0:27:59.040 --> 0:28:00.359 They had to be time just right so that the 0:28:00.400 --> 0:28:03.960 scenery and the lighting and the effects are all coming 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:05.560 on at the right time. So you have all these 0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:10.720 very sophisticated computer systems that keep all of that synchronized properly, 0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:13.359 and you also have the time it right because of 0:28:13.560 --> 0:28:16.440 the schedule that people have in the evening, you would 0:28:16.520 --> 0:28:19.840 either be coming from dinner and seeing a show, or 0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:22.239 you'd see the show and then go to dinner, and 0:28:22.280 --> 0:28:25.160 you don't want anything to run too long and interfere 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:27.639 with the rest of the schedule. So it was really 0:28:27.640 --> 0:28:31.360 cool to see how they had set up these computer 0:28:31.440 --> 0:28:35.520 systems that were all specifically designed for each show. And 0:28:35.600 --> 0:28:38.440 keep in mind, if it's a long cruise, they do 0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:41.360 multiple shows. They do two shows a night for the 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:44.719 two different seatings that they have for dinner. There's an 0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:48.160 early seating that kids tend to go to and then 0:28:48.200 --> 0:28:50.520 they go see the show afterward, and then there's the 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:53.160 late seating that adults tend to go to. They see 0:28:53.160 --> 0:28:55.920 the show earlier in the night, they see it before dinner, 0:28:56.640 --> 0:28:59.880 and that means that you have to have a sophisticated 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:03.640 technical system that can handle all of the needs of 0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:06.800 each show, do it twice a night and then be 0:29:06.840 --> 0:29:10.040 switched over for the following night, and it is really 0:29:10.040 --> 0:29:12.080 neat to see this stuff backstage. If you ever get 0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:14.720 a chance to check that out, you should. There are 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:19.600 also several documentaries more or less commercials for the Disney 0:29:19.600 --> 0:29:21.680 Cruise line that do show you some of the behind 0:29:21.720 --> 0:29:25.800 the scenes stuff, and it's cool. Sadly, most of them 0:29:25.800 --> 0:29:28.960 are pretty limited in what they show you, so if 0:29:29.000 --> 0:29:30.760 you ever get a chance to actually do a behind 0:29:30.800 --> 0:29:33.400 the scenes tour, I highly recommend it because it is 0:29:33.480 --> 0:29:36.800 really cool to see how they put this stuff together. 0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:39.840 And keeping in mind, this is all on a ship 0:29:39.880 --> 0:29:44.320 that's moving around. I as a performer, I've done some 0:29:44.360 --> 0:29:47.720 stage work. I've done musicals where I have to dance 0:29:47.800 --> 0:29:50.880 and sing. I'm not great at it, and to think 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:53.440 about having to do that on a stage that's actually 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:56.440 moving is terrifying. So let's talk about some of the 0:29:56.560 --> 0:30:00.480 other technical stuff about this ship, not just the which 0:30:00.520 --> 0:30:03.440 obviously I'm a huge fan of, but the actual things 0:30:03.440 --> 0:30:07.280 that make the ship itself work. The most technically complicated 0:30:07.280 --> 0:30:11.240 area of the ship is undoubtedly the bridge. The bridge 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:15.280 of the ship is where the ship's senior staff, who 0:30:15.320 --> 0:30:19.240 are in charge of the systems that keep the ship 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:25.440 running and navigate, navigation, as well as actual steering the ship. 0:30:25.520 --> 0:30:28.360 All of that is located on the bridge, and then 0:30:28.400 --> 0:30:31.040 you have other departments that are obviously very important where 0:30:31.880 --> 0:30:34.800 those officers would be located elsewhere they would not be 0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:37.720 on the bridge. That's where your ship's captain is going 0:30:37.760 --> 0:30:40.880 to be most of the time. And if you were 0:30:40.920 --> 0:30:42.640 to take a look at it, look a lot like 0:30:43.320 --> 0:30:46.560 the Star Trek Enterprise set. I mean, you have these 0:30:46.680 --> 0:30:51.040 different consoles with computer screens and lots of complicated looking controls, 0:30:51.560 --> 0:30:55.320 and they're all very important for the control and safe 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:59.960 operation of the ship. There are stations for communications, navigation, 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:03.800 and other critical systems all on the bridge, and you'll 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:07.240 see lots of screens showing stuff like current sea conditions, 0:31:07.600 --> 0:31:11.560 whether any sort of a naval traffic that's going through 0:31:11.600 --> 0:31:14.800 the area, ship status, that kind of stuff. They do 0:31:14.880 --> 0:31:18.960 have a ship's wheel, so you could stand behind the 0:31:18.960 --> 0:31:21.720 wheel and use the wheel to steer the ship, but 0:31:21.800 --> 0:31:24.400 they also have an option to route all the ship 0:31:24.440 --> 0:31:28.720 controls into a joystick, so you could actually have the thrust, 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:33.920 the steering, all of that in a single joystick, which 0:31:33.920 --> 0:31:37.800 is particularly useful if you are maneuvering in or out 0:31:37.800 --> 0:31:40.680 of a dock. You can also hand over controls to 0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:45.760 a land based system if necessary, but it's really interesting 0:31:45.760 --> 0:31:48.720 to see that all of these complex controls like the 0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:52.800 thrusters and the steering and all of these other elements 0:31:52.840 --> 0:31:56.840 can be boiled down to a single joystick control when necessary. 0:31:57.160 --> 0:31:59.800 In normal operations, you wouldn't be using that, but for 0:31:59.840 --> 0:32:03.280 something where you're using precise movements and you're trying to 0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:06.720 maneuver so that you can dock or something similar, then 0:32:06.760 --> 0:32:13.400 it becomes necessary. They also have a semaphore flag station. Yeah, 0:32:13.480 --> 0:32:16.480 the cruise ships still uses semaphore flags in case other 0:32:16.480 --> 0:32:20.800 communication tools are unavailable or not working, so semaphore you've 0:32:20.840 --> 0:32:23.800 probably seen it, the idea of holding flags that have 0:32:23.840 --> 0:32:26.120 symbols on them and then you move your arms in 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:29.200 a particular way. It usually looks very robotic, very stiff, 0:32:29.680 --> 0:32:34.120 but those are specific ways of communicating messages to other 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:37.560 ships when your communications tools have otherwise died down. It's 0:32:37.600 --> 0:32:40.920 all visual based and you can send messages like we're 0:32:40.960 --> 0:32:46.840 in distress or you know you know, we've got we 0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:50.080 need some help, whatever it might be, And they have 0:32:50.200 --> 0:32:53.600 a whole cabinet filled with the various semaphore flags they 0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:55.760 would need in order to communicate at any part of 0:32:55.800 --> 0:32:59.040 the world, which is pretty cool that they have the 0:32:59.120 --> 0:33:02.800 low tech version of long distance communication along with the 0:33:02.840 --> 0:33:06.280 more high tech versions as well, because you want to 0:33:06.320 --> 0:33:10.080 have some redundancy in those when you're talking about more 0:33:10.120 --> 0:33:13.560 than two thousand guests, you've got to have those redundant 0:33:13.600 --> 0:33:17.640 systems in place just in case something goes wrong. There's 0:33:17.680 --> 0:33:21.920 also apparently a bridge simulator for the kids in ocean Quest, 0:33:21.960 --> 0:33:24.480 but that's a kid's only area, so that's one of 0:33:24.520 --> 0:33:27.160 those things I've heard about but I've never actually seen, 0:33:28.360 --> 0:33:33.600 because despite my sense of humor and my general personality, 0:33:33.680 --> 0:33:36.200 I am not a child, so I'm not allowed to 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:40.440 go there. But they apparently have a live camera feed 0:33:40.640 --> 0:33:45.000 from the bridge that serves as the vision they see 0:33:45.040 --> 0:33:47.440 like the they have windows or actually their displays, but 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:49.760 they look like windows up in front of them, and 0:33:49.760 --> 0:33:52.640 that's coming from the live camera feed from the bridge. 0:33:53.200 --> 0:33:56.160 And then you have controls that you can use as 0:33:56.200 --> 0:33:59.720 a kid that simulate the way it would work if 0:33:59.800 --> 0:34:03.640 you actually on the bridge of the ship itself, which 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:06.160 sounds so cool that I wish that all the State 0:34:06.240 --> 0:34:09.200 rooms had one of these because I would play with it. 0:34:09.520 --> 0:34:12.319 But again, I'm not allowed to go there, so I 0:34:12.320 --> 0:34:15.960 haven't been able to experience this myself. Some other interesting 0:34:15.960 --> 0:34:20.120 technical details. When Disney Magic anchors when they have to 0:34:20.160 --> 0:34:22.799 lower the anchor, they're lowering an anchor that weighs twenty 0:34:22.800 --> 0:34:26.600 eight two hundred pounds, So imagine the torque necessary on 0:34:26.640 --> 0:34:30.400 the motor to be able to lift twenty eight two 0:34:30.480 --> 0:34:34.160 hundred pounds worth of anchor. The ship has seven propellers. 0:34:34.239 --> 0:34:37.320 They has two primary propellers and then five thruster propellers. 0:34:37.320 --> 0:34:39.680 I mentioned the thrusters earlier. You have two in the 0:34:39.719 --> 0:34:43.239 stern and three in the bow. The two primary propellers 0:34:43.400 --> 0:34:49.000 weigh eighteen tons each. They are enormous and heavy and 0:34:49.160 --> 0:34:52.640 in order to limit the amount of rolling that the 0:34:52.719 --> 0:34:56.360 ship does. Rolling is the side to side motion, like 0:34:56.400 --> 0:35:02.040 if you're looking four, meaning you're looking forward from the 0:35:02.080 --> 0:35:04.480 position you are in on the ship. Rolling would be 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:08.000 the left right mission the import and starboard rising and 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:11.320 lowering as opposed to the fore and aft that's rocking, 0:35:11.640 --> 0:35:14.320 So you can rock and roll on one of these ships. 0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:18.440 The stabilizers are meant to reduce that rolling. They are 0:35:18.480 --> 0:35:22.560 actually two large wings that can retract into the ship 0:35:22.640 --> 0:35:25.920 or extend outward if the seas start getting choppy and 0:35:25.960 --> 0:35:28.399 it's beneath the water line so you don't see it 0:35:28.600 --> 0:35:31.920 as a passenger, but beneath the water line, these two 0:35:31.960 --> 0:35:36.839 wings extend outward and create some stabilization, and they look 0:35:36.960 --> 0:35:42.520 like plane wings and they're pretty big, so they, according 0:35:42.560 --> 0:35:45.799 to Disney, they reduce roll dramatically. They actually sat up 0:35:45.800 --> 0:35:49.880 to ninety degrees, which is pretty amazing, and I'm not 0:35:50.160 --> 0:35:53.839 entirely sure how that's possible, but at any rate, they 0:35:53.880 --> 0:35:56.480 are meant to reduce that rolling so that you don't 0:35:56.760 --> 0:36:00.919 get that seasick feeling walking around inside and being rocked 0:36:00.920 --> 0:36:05.040 all over the place. I am not prone to sea sickness, 0:36:05.160 --> 0:36:07.160 so I haven't really had an issue with it, apart 0:36:07.160 --> 0:36:09.759 from I think one cruise where for some reason that 0:36:09.880 --> 0:36:13.480 was affecting me. But I do know that even with 0:36:13.600 --> 0:36:16.640 the stabilizers, some folks are a little susceptible to that. 0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:18.600 So if you ever do go on a cruise, look 0:36:18.600 --> 0:36:22.239 into dramamine. That can help you out a lot. Now, 0:36:22.360 --> 0:36:23.680 one of the other things you have to think about 0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:25.600 is when you're on a ship and you're out at sea, 0:36:26.160 --> 0:36:29.719 you are a completely self contained community, and that means 0:36:29.719 --> 0:36:32.080 you have to figure out how you deal with other 0:36:32.120 --> 0:36:36.840 stuff like garbage and waste, and how do you conserve 0:36:37.000 --> 0:36:41.400 water and energy so that you're not being wasteful. So 0:36:41.440 --> 0:36:43.279 one of the things I do is they actually have 0:36:43.960 --> 0:36:47.680 a way of collecting the condensation from air conditioning. So 0:36:48.320 --> 0:36:52.160 as air conditioners work and water condenses, water from the 0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:57.560 atmosphere condenses on the equipment, they can actually collect that water. 0:36:57.640 --> 0:37:00.600 They harvest it, and they use that water to wash 0:37:00.640 --> 0:37:03.120 the decks, and they also use it in the laundry system. 0:37:03.200 --> 0:37:06.200 It's perfectly fine. It gets filtered through into everything. It's 0:37:06.760 --> 0:37:10.000 just condensed water from the atmosphere. It's actually pretty clean stuff. 0:37:10.520 --> 0:37:13.880 But Disney estimates that this approach saves them up to 0:37:13.920 --> 0:37:17.520 twenty two point three million gallons of fresh water every year, 0:37:18.480 --> 0:37:21.680 so it's a pretty interesting way to get around the 0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:25.879 issue of how do you deal with all of these 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:30.240 needs without wasting fresh water. The ship can also distill 0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:36.000 two hundred tons of fresh water from seawater every day, 0:37:36.600 --> 0:37:39.919 and the total potable water storage capacity aboard the ship 0:37:39.960 --> 0:37:45.360 is eighty two thousand gallons. They also recycle used cooking oil, 0:37:45.560 --> 0:37:48.120 so they go through about two hundred and sixty four 0:37:48.280 --> 0:37:51.680 gallons of cooking oil every week. Now that oil is 0:37:51.719 --> 0:37:55.480 taken by a company called the Bahamas Waste Management Company 0:37:55.840 --> 0:37:58.600 and they convert it into biodiesel. They also have a 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:03.600 partnership with BMW and there's several BMW vehicles that run 0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:08.760 on this biodiesel in the Bahamas. Disney estimates that recycles 0:38:08.840 --> 0:38:13.640 nine hundred tons of aluminum, paper, plastic, and other odd 0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:19.040 recyclable stuff every year from their cruise line. Now, going 0:38:19.080 --> 0:38:23.040 back to the Disney Magic and talking about its original cruises. 0:38:23.600 --> 0:38:26.120 It sets sale and it's made in voyage on July thirtieth, 0:38:26.200 --> 0:38:29.280 nineteen ninety eight, out of Port Canaveral, Florida, And originally 0:38:29.360 --> 0:38:33.040 it only sailed for three or four day cruises. In fact, 0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:35.040 the first time I ever went on one, it was 0:38:35.040 --> 0:38:38.560 a four day cruise. Then a year later the Disney 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:42.360 Wonder joined the fleet. The Disney Wonder and the Disney 0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:46.120 Magic are nearly identical. The theming is different. It's Art 0:38:46.120 --> 0:38:48.799 Deco and one Art Nouveaux in another. Some of the 0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:52.360 spaces are themed a different way, like the different nightclubs 0:38:52.400 --> 0:38:55.160 and stuff that you can go to have different themes. 0:38:55.360 --> 0:38:57.880 The main restaurant on the Disney Magic is Loumiere's. The 0:38:57.960 --> 0:39:03.640 main one on The Disney Wonder is Tritons. Helmsman Mickey 0:39:04.160 --> 0:39:06.600 is in a statue in the lobby and the Magic 0:39:06.640 --> 0:39:10.600 and Ariel the Little Mermaid is on the Wonder. But otherwise, 0:39:10.719 --> 0:39:15.400 apart from some superficial differences, they're largely the same. So 0:39:15.440 --> 0:39:17.759 once the Wonder came online, it started doing the three 0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:19.719 and four day cruises, and the Magic began to do 0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:22.120 seven day cruises, which meant that Disney had to come 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:26.520 up with all new ways of entertaining guests and feeding 0:39:26.560 --> 0:39:28.560 them and making sure they had enough variety on their 0:39:28.600 --> 0:39:31.160 menus so that people weren't just tired of eating the 0:39:31.200 --> 0:39:33.279 same thing over and over. So it came up with 0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:38.800 new challenges. Well, we're getting ready to conclude our episode 0:39:38.840 --> 0:39:41.239 about the Disney Magic, but before we returned to port, 0:39:41.719 --> 0:39:55.279 let's listen to some more messages. In twenty thirteen, the 0:39:55.320 --> 0:39:58.719 Magic went in for a massive facelift. Disney actually called 0:39:58.760 --> 0:40:02.120 it a reimagine, which makes perfect sense when their engineers 0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:05.759 are called Imagineers. Now this time they took it to 0:40:05.800 --> 0:40:10.480 the Navantia Shipyards in Cadiz, Spain, so they weren't at 0:40:10.520 --> 0:40:12.920 the same place that they were when the ship was 0:40:12.960 --> 0:40:16.120 being constructed, and there was another dry dock period in 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:19.560 twenty fifteen that updated a few more features. The twenty 0:40:19.640 --> 0:40:22.719 thirteen dry dock lasted two months and involved taking a 0:40:22.719 --> 0:40:26.480 part about eighty percent of the ship for upgrades, including 0:40:26.520 --> 0:40:29.439 stripping the ship completely of paint. So you can see 0:40:29.440 --> 0:40:31.680 pictures of the Disney Magic and dry dock from twenty 0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:36.120 thirteen and it looks pretty pretty banged up because all 0:40:36.160 --> 0:40:39.560 the pain has been removed. In twenty fifteen, they upgraded 0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:42.040 the engines aboard the Magic to be more efficient and 0:40:42.120 --> 0:40:45.920 reduce fuel consumption further along with that special coating on 0:40:46.000 --> 0:40:50.239 the hull. And one practical addition to the ship was 0:40:50.360 --> 0:40:54.800 the duct tail. And this was not a Donald Duck reference. 0:40:54.880 --> 0:40:58.480 The ductail is an industry term. It's essentially a tank 0:40:58.800 --> 0:41:01.239 that's placed in the back of the show that adds buoyancy, 0:41:01.840 --> 0:41:05.800 and it's distributed so that it provides buoyancy without making 0:41:05.840 --> 0:41:09.600 the ship list to either side. This is really important 0:41:09.680 --> 0:41:12.799 because during this renovation period They added a lot of 0:41:12.800 --> 0:41:15.759 features onto the Disney Magic, which increased the weight of 0:41:15.800 --> 0:41:19.120 the ship, and it wasn't built to hold that much weight, 0:41:19.440 --> 0:41:22.320 so they had to adjust the design of the ship 0:41:22.360 --> 0:41:27.600 in order to account for that. To account for the change, 0:41:27.640 --> 0:41:30.719 Disney added a second water slide. There was already one 0:41:30.800 --> 0:41:33.200 small water slide, which they actually replaced and made a 0:41:33.239 --> 0:41:37.040 slightly larger one, and this new water slide, called the 0:41:37.080 --> 0:41:42.160 Aqua dunk is a is a slide that's designed to 0:41:42.200 --> 0:41:46.480 do a pretty rapid drop into water. It's actually a 0:41:46.480 --> 0:41:48.840 twisty slide. It goes two hundred and twelve feet and 0:41:48.960 --> 0:41:51.960 twists that way, and part of that includes a twenty 0:41:51.960 --> 0:41:54.920 foot clear section that extends out over the side of 0:41:54.960 --> 0:41:58.040 the ship and over the ocean. So for a twenty 0:41:58.040 --> 0:42:01.440 foot stretch of that, you're directly over the ocean. You 0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:03.800 can look down and see the ocean about one hundred 0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:07.360 feet below you. Sliding down takes about five seconds, so 0:42:07.400 --> 0:42:10.480 you have to look fast. It's actually a really tough 0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:13.600 thing to have water slides on a ship. This is 0:42:13.640 --> 0:42:18.239 another engineering challenge. Water slide technology is pretty simple. You 0:42:18.280 --> 0:42:20.840 pump water up to the top of the slide. You 0:42:20.920 --> 0:42:24.080 let the water go down using gravity as your main 0:42:24.120 --> 0:42:27.040 force to the bottom, and then you collect the water, 0:42:27.160 --> 0:42:30.680 filter it, pump it back up. Not a whole complicated 0:42:30.680 --> 0:42:33.799 technology there, but the engineering when you're talking about a 0:42:34.200 --> 0:42:36.960 water slide on a cruise ship is much harder. And 0:42:37.000 --> 0:42:40.920 the reason for this is that cruise ships can twist 0:42:41.000 --> 0:42:45.040 and torque, they can bend in different ways. They also 0:42:45.440 --> 0:42:48.000 can expand and contract because the body of the ship 0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:50.680 is made out of metal, and all of these mean 0:42:50.800 --> 0:42:54.160 putting extra stresses on what is supposed to be a 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:57.920 water tight tight water slide. So if you want a 0:42:57.960 --> 0:43:01.040 watertight slide and you're going to have all of these 0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:03.080 different motions to take into account, you have to build 0:43:03.080 --> 0:43:05.080 it out a very special material, and you have to 0:43:05.120 --> 0:43:09.640 figure out a support system that will move along with 0:43:09.800 --> 0:43:13.560 the ship while keeping the integrity of the slide intact. 0:43:14.480 --> 0:43:18.320 On top of that, you have engines running at different 0:43:18.400 --> 0:43:20.920 levels throughout the cruise, which means you're going to have 0:43:21.000 --> 0:43:24.800 vibrations sent through the ship. And yes, if you're quiet 0:43:25.120 --> 0:43:27.279 and you're in a quiet spot, you can feel the 0:43:27.360 --> 0:43:30.320 vibration from the engines pretty much anywhere on the ship. 0:43:30.400 --> 0:43:32.280 Of course, you can feel it better when you're closer 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:35.880 to where the engines are. But if you're very quiet 0:43:35.920 --> 0:43:38.879 and you just touch a wall, you can pretty much 0:43:38.920 --> 0:43:42.400 feel the vibrations. Well, that slide has to take that 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:47.160 into account too. You are constantly being rattled. So this 0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:50.120 was actually a pretty tough challenge for the imagineers to 0:43:50.200 --> 0:43:53.799 create a slide that was fun and safe and would 0:43:53.840 --> 0:43:57.680 be resilient to these different stresses on it, and I 0:43:57.680 --> 0:44:01.680 think that's pretty impressive. One of the other changes they 0:44:01.680 --> 0:44:04.680 made was to the ship's horn. Originally, the horn only 0:44:04.719 --> 0:44:07.200 played the first few notes of when You Wish upon 0:44:07.239 --> 0:44:09.560 a Star, And if you're a Disney nut like me 0:44:09.920 --> 0:44:11.640 and you hear it for the first time on your 0:44:11.640 --> 0:44:16.120 first cruise, it's a pretty phenomenal experience. You are surprised 0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:19.759 and delighted to hear this little Disney touch early on 0:44:19.840 --> 0:44:22.000 in your cruise experience. It's also fun to see all 0:44:22.000 --> 0:44:24.560 the families and kids kind of light up at it. 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:26.839 These days, when I go on to Disney cruise, I 0:44:26.840 --> 0:44:30.120 see a lot of returning cruisers because you can tell 0:44:30.600 --> 0:44:34.239 the more cruises you go on, the different lanyard you 0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:37.280 will get, like you have a silver level, a Gold level, 0:44:37.600 --> 0:44:41.160 a Platinum level, and I just went on my Platinum cruise, 0:44:41.520 --> 0:44:44.920 so anyway, I see a lot of returning guests. So 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:47.880 the ship's horn doesn't have quite the same effect that 0:44:47.920 --> 0:44:51.640 it used to. But the upgrade allowed them to create 0:44:51.800 --> 0:44:54.640 new tunes for the horn to play, and they're all 0:44:54.640 --> 0:44:59.160 Disney related or one of the Disney properties are property 0:44:59.200 --> 0:45:02.520 owned by Disney. Like Star Wars. There's an Imperial March 0:45:03.200 --> 0:45:08.040 horn now as well. Also, this is kind of dorky 0:45:08.239 --> 0:45:11.880 but awesome, there is a physical button to sound the 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:14.800 ship's horn. You have to make an announcement first to 0:45:14.880 --> 0:45:16.320 let people know, hey, by the way, we're going to 0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:19.799 sound the horn, so be prepared for that. But the 0:45:19.800 --> 0:45:23.080 button itself is on a console and around the button 0:45:23.239 --> 0:45:26.000 is a little frame in the shape of Mickey Mouse ears. 0:45:26.680 --> 0:45:28.200 So the button's in the center and you got the 0:45:28.239 --> 0:45:30.440 two ears on either side. And I know it's dorky, 0:45:30.680 --> 0:45:33.719 but I love Disney, so I think it's awesome and 0:45:33.760 --> 0:45:38.760 I want to push that button so badly I wouldn't 0:45:38.800 --> 0:45:41.520 be able to resist it. That, of course, is on 0:45:41.640 --> 0:45:44.319 the bridge, so it's right there along with all the 0:45:44.360 --> 0:45:48.360 other controls. There's a console area where there's the ship's horn, 0:45:48.800 --> 0:45:52.040 and you usually sound that whenever you're entering or leaving 0:45:52.680 --> 0:45:59.080 a dock area. The parent Key restaurant during this renovation period. 0:45:59.280 --> 0:46:03.160 The thirteen to one was changed at that time, so 0:46:03.360 --> 0:46:05.560 parrot Key, which you can no longer go to, had 0:46:05.600 --> 0:46:08.960 a Caribbean theme. Actually, I don't know. The Disney Wonder 0:46:09.080 --> 0:46:11.160 might still have parrot Key, but I haven't been on 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:13.640 the Wonder in years, so I'm not sure. But the 0:46:13.680 --> 0:46:16.320 magic the parrot Key is gone. So I had a 0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:19.319 Caribbean theme. It was a lot of the cuisine was 0:46:19.360 --> 0:46:24.080 Caribbean in inspiration. They have now replaced that with a 0:46:24.200 --> 0:46:29.440 restaurant called Karriokas, and Karaokas is named after Jose Karaoka, 0:46:30.000 --> 0:46:33.440 a Donald Duck character in the Three Caballeros cartoon. I 0:46:33.560 --> 0:46:35.880 don't know why I'm suddenly adopting an accent here, but 0:46:35.920 --> 0:46:41.960 the Three Caballeros cartoon is a very fun classic Disney cartoon. 0:46:42.480 --> 0:46:47.320 And so the Three Caballeros takes place in South America, 0:46:48.200 --> 0:46:53.759 and the cuisine at Kaiokas is largely influenced by the 0:46:53.800 --> 0:46:57.439 food of Brazil, so it's a different change, different style 0:46:57.480 --> 0:47:00.799 of cuisine, and they did different theming, different lights in 0:47:00.880 --> 0:47:05.880 order to give it this much a pretty large change 0:47:05.880 --> 0:47:08.800 in identity, and another space that got a major overhaul 0:47:08.880 --> 0:47:10.960 was the Oceaneer's Club. That's when they ended up being 0:47:10.960 --> 0:47:15.240 able to incorporate stuff like Marvel Avengers and toy story 0:47:15.600 --> 0:47:19.560 things that weren't as prominent back in the late nineties 0:47:19.600 --> 0:47:21.520 when they were building the ship in the first place. 0:47:22.480 --> 0:47:26.319 So when you go to like the or when your 0:47:26.400 --> 0:47:29.120 kid essentially goes to the Avengers Academy, they can train 0:47:29.200 --> 0:47:32.640 to become a superhero. No word yet. If Captain America 0:47:32.680 --> 0:47:37.200 whispers hell Hydra to each recruit, that's a reference to 0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:39.920 a storyline that's going on right now in Marvel that 0:47:40.000 --> 0:47:44.600 I'm not crazy about. I also wonder if the Captain 0:47:44.640 --> 0:47:48.240 America aboard the Disney cruise ships is getting any flack 0:47:48.400 --> 0:47:51.520 about being a secret Hydra agent, because they do have 0:47:52.520 --> 0:47:56.399 lots of different Disney characters aboard these various ships, including 0:47:56.600 --> 0:48:01.680 Marvel characters. Typically it's Captain America. They've also had Star 0:48:01.719 --> 0:48:06.440 Wars characters as well. They've done Star Wars themed ship cruises. 0:48:06.480 --> 0:48:09.200 I have not gone on one of those, despite the 0:48:09.239 --> 0:48:12.240 fact that I also loved Star Wars as well as Disney. 0:48:12.960 --> 0:48:15.560 I did not do one of those yet by stress 0:48:15.600 --> 0:48:18.520 yet now. One of the other changes they made was 0:48:18.560 --> 0:48:22.320 at animator's palette. I mentioned the fiber optics static displays earlier. 0:48:22.400 --> 0:48:25.560 The ones that were just black and white sketches of 0:48:25.640 --> 0:48:28.760 various Disney characters, they couldn't change because they were built 0:48:28.800 --> 0:48:31.640 into the wall. But then the fiber optics would allow 0:48:31.760 --> 0:48:35.319 color to come into the picture, and so they would 0:48:35.360 --> 0:48:37.320 change from black and white to color, but you couldn't 0:48:37.680 --> 0:48:41.839 change what the portrait was of, Right, like a picture 0:48:43.080 --> 0:48:46.080 of blue the bear from the Jungle Book is always 0:48:46.120 --> 0:48:48.120 going to be blue the bear. It would never change 0:48:48.120 --> 0:48:52.120 into anything else. When they did the renovation, they pulled 0:48:52.120 --> 0:48:54.880 out some of that and swapped in LED screens, and 0:48:54.920 --> 0:48:57.719 now you get a different experience. So instead of it 0:48:57.840 --> 0:49:00.680 just being images that go from black and white to 0:49:00.719 --> 0:49:05.600 color on the screens, you'll see sketches start to appear 0:49:06.000 --> 0:49:10.160 on the various portraits of various Disney characters. And as 0:49:10.200 --> 0:49:14.160 the dinner progresses, you get more details, you get color, 0:49:14.640 --> 0:49:18.200 you get animation, and they change over time, so you're 0:49:18.239 --> 0:49:22.360 not looking at just an evolving sketch of a single character. 0:49:22.400 --> 0:49:26.759 It swaps as the dinner goes on, and again it 0:49:26.920 --> 0:49:29.640 ends up being kind of a show. It's not just dinner, 0:49:29.719 --> 0:49:34.040 it's also a performance, which is kind of cool. At 0:49:34.040 --> 0:49:37.000 the end of one of the dinners at Animator's Palette, 0:49:37.000 --> 0:49:39.360 if you go twice, if your cruise is such that 0:49:39.440 --> 0:49:42.040 you go to Animator's Palette two times, the second time, 0:49:42.400 --> 0:49:46.320 they have a special show where all the guests are 0:49:46.560 --> 0:49:49.080 invited to draw a character on a piece of paper, 0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:51.759 and all of those pieces of paper are taken backstage 0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:55.520 and scanned into a system, and then when you watch 0:49:55.560 --> 0:49:58.560 the show at the end, these characters are animated and 0:49:58.600 --> 0:50:02.319 they appear on screen. So a character you drew will 0:50:02.320 --> 0:50:06.960 appear on screen and dance around and move about. The 0:50:07.000 --> 0:50:09.080 way they do this is they have special blocks set 0:50:09.120 --> 0:50:12.840 aside that you draw in things like legs and arms 0:50:12.880 --> 0:50:15.400 and hands and a head and a body and that 0:50:15.480 --> 0:50:17.840 kind of stuff. And when they scan it, each of 0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:21.919 those blocks is design in such a way that it's 0:50:21.960 --> 0:50:24.440 considered to be a joint, right, like the shoulders or 0:50:24.480 --> 0:50:28.120 the hips or whatever. And so when it's animated, it 0:50:28.160 --> 0:50:30.440 animates each of these blocks in a way so that 0:50:30.480 --> 0:50:32.920 the characters can move around when you're looking at them 0:50:32.920 --> 0:50:36.200 on the screen. When I did this, I drew a 0:50:36.200 --> 0:50:38.680 pirate with a peg leg and a hook and an 0:50:38.719 --> 0:50:42.800 eye patch, and his name was Lucky. Other Disney touches. 0:50:43.120 --> 0:50:45.840 Of course, you've got the characters, You've got the Disney 0:50:45.880 --> 0:50:50.000 movies that are shown in the various theaters. If a 0:50:50.080 --> 0:50:54.120 Disney film comes out during your cruise, they show it 0:50:54.880 --> 0:50:58.480 that same day on the ship, so it's premiere on 0:50:58.640 --> 0:51:03.040 land and sea. And I think I might be seeing 0:51:03.120 --> 0:51:06.799 Finding Dory by the time this episode goes live, I 0:51:06.840 --> 0:51:10.360 will have seen Finding Dory, assuming that I it premieres 0:51:10.840 --> 0:51:12.880 while we're on the ship. I think it will actually, 0:51:13.800 --> 0:51:16.200 which is kind of cool the neat idea that you 0:51:16.320 --> 0:51:23.680 get this unique Disney experience. Disney actually also does this 0:51:24.040 --> 0:51:27.040 big fireworks display out at sea. Typically they do this 0:51:27.200 --> 0:51:31.440 with a pirate themed deck party. So if you've heard 0:51:31.480 --> 0:51:34.080 the tech Stuff episode on fireworks, you know how technical 0:51:34.160 --> 0:51:37.040 that can get. In the Disney shows. They tend to 0:51:37.080 --> 0:51:40.560 be three hundred or so shots per fireworks display, which 0:51:40.600 --> 0:51:44.080 is modest by Disney standards, but it's at sea, so 0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:48.200 that makes it different. These are also controlled by a 0:51:48.239 --> 0:51:52.600 system that is highly synchronized with music and other effects, 0:51:53.080 --> 0:51:57.280 so that you get a story throughout the fireworks display, 0:51:57.400 --> 0:52:00.319 not just stuff. Shooting off into the sky. I am 0:52:00.320 --> 0:52:04.040 blowing up, which is also pretty cool, but it's more 0:52:04.040 --> 0:52:06.640 effective when it's all synchronized with music and everything else. 0:52:07.840 --> 0:52:11.239 They actually hold several patents for their fireworks displays, and 0:52:11.280 --> 0:52:13.879 they were the first cruise line to have a fireworks 0:52:13.880 --> 0:52:16.440 display out at sea because it involves getting a lot 0:52:16.480 --> 0:52:22.160 of permissions from various nautical authorities. The fireworks themselves are 0:52:22.200 --> 0:52:25.319 made out of edible material, so when they are done 0:52:25.360 --> 0:52:28.440 exploding and they go down into the ocean, they can 0:52:28.480 --> 0:52:33.719 actually be eaten safely by sea life, so there's no 0:52:33.760 --> 0:52:38.239 pollution there. I thought that was pretty cool, so you 0:52:38.280 --> 0:52:40.880 can actually check this out and not feel any guilt 0:52:40.960 --> 0:52:44.080 about it. Some of the ships also have interactive portraits 0:52:44.120 --> 0:52:46.680 that animate or a part of an augmented reality game 0:52:46.920 --> 0:52:48.520 aboard the ship. I got to play with one of 0:52:48.560 --> 0:52:53.160 these on the Disney Dream I believe, and that's really 0:52:53.200 --> 0:52:56.400 cool too, this idea that you've got these things that 0:52:56.480 --> 0:53:00.440 look like they are static portraits from Disney movie, but 0:53:00.520 --> 0:53:02.480 if you watch, you see that they start to animate 0:53:02.800 --> 0:53:05.760 and sometimes they interact with each other. I remember coming 0:53:05.760 --> 0:53:08.880 to one hallway where there were portraits of pirate ships 0:53:08.920 --> 0:53:12.080 on either side of the corridor on either side of 0:53:12.239 --> 0:53:15.080 a doorway really and they had a battle with each other. 0:53:15.120 --> 0:53:17.600 They actually started firing cannon balls at each other, and 0:53:17.600 --> 0:53:19.279 I thought that was really a clever thing to do. 0:53:19.640 --> 0:53:22.839 And the game aspect, you can play a game where 0:53:22.880 --> 0:53:26.279 you have cards that have a low pattern on them, 0:53:26.680 --> 0:53:28.680 and when you hold them up to the portraits, the 0:53:28.800 --> 0:53:31.880 portraits have an embedded camera that can pick up the 0:53:31.880 --> 0:53:35.440 pattern on the card and tell the portrait this person 0:53:35.560 --> 0:53:39.080 is playing this particular game. And it's almost like a 0:53:39.239 --> 0:53:42.120 scavenger hunt as you go through the ship and you 0:53:42.200 --> 0:53:45.480 try to solve a mystery or help out a character, 0:53:45.960 --> 0:53:49.200 and it's really an interesting way to explore the ship 0:53:49.280 --> 0:53:53.080 as well as engage in a fun interactive form of technology. 0:53:53.600 --> 0:53:58.720 A very clever approach to using augmented reality and video 0:53:58.800 --> 0:54:03.680 interactive video. So well done there. That was the episode 0:54:03.719 --> 0:54:06.640 on How the Disney Magic Works, which published on June 0:54:06.640 --> 0:54:10.359 twenty second, twenty sixteen. These days, the Disney Cruise line 0:54:10.440 --> 0:54:15.239 has five ships. There's the Magic, the Wonder, the Fantasy, 0:54:15.719 --> 0:54:20.839 the Dream, and the Wish. Actually spent my twenty fifth 0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:24.480 anniversary on the Wish, which ended up being a longer 0:54:24.560 --> 0:54:29.719 cruise than we intended because Hurricane Ian hit Florida while 0:54:29.719 --> 0:54:32.040 we were at sea and we could not return to port, 0:54:32.400 --> 0:54:35.440 so we had to stay on the ship two extra days, 0:54:36.200 --> 0:54:38.800 which you know, there are worse ways to have to 0:54:38.880 --> 0:54:42.440 ride out a hurricane, trust me. But it was definitely 0:54:42.440 --> 0:54:44.719 a stressful time because you also had to try and 0:54:45.160 --> 0:54:49.960 arrange things like travel and stuff like that, things that 0:54:50.160 --> 0:54:53.280 you couldn't easily do because you were on a boat 0:54:53.320 --> 0:54:56.799 at sea and didn't have very much connectivity. It was 0:54:56.840 --> 0:55:00.080 a complicated time, but yeah, it was fun to If 0:55:00.120 --> 0:55:02.400 you do that episode, hope you enjoyed it. 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