WEBVTT - How the Disney Magic Works 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:12.120 Get in technic technology with tech Stuff from stuff dot Com. 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:14.720 Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.560 Jonathan Strickland, and this week I want to talk about 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:22.959 Disney Magic. Not just Disney Magic, but the Disney Magic, 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.680 the oldest of Disney's cruise ships. And the reason I 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:28.800 wanted to tackle this topic is that by the time 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.840 you hear this episode, I will have just returned from 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.599 my tenth cruise with Disney. So you might say I'm 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:37.760 a bit of an addict. I thought it would be 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.440 cool to talk about how the Disney Magic works and 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:44.080 explore the sort of things that make cruise ships possible. Now, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.839 before I jump into this show, I just want to 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.239 let you all know Disney had nothing to do with 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.479 me choosing this episode, apart from the fact that I'm 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:56.840 going on a cruise anyway, this is not a sponsored show. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.120 I'm not getting any perks for recording it. In fact, 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.280 Disney is not even aware I'm doing this. They wouldn't 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.319 know me from anybody else out there. And I say 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.720 this because I am a Disney fanboy. I'm gonna geek 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.280 out over Disney stuff as well as the cruise ship 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.280 technology stuff. And it's important. You know, I have a 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:23.920 completely biased opinion, but it comes to me honestly. Now 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.199 that being said, the company, if they decide they want 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.240 to sit be on a cruise, they can do that. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.640 I'm not gonna turn it down. I love them. I'm 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.720 really hoping that I can actually get a bridge tour 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.919 this this cruise, but they don't tend to do those, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.880 so if it happens, it will only be because somebody 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.240 took pity on me. All right, So let's let's talk 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:51.520 about the history of Disney in the cruise industry. Um 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.560 before the Disney Company actually commissioned its own cruise ships, 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:59.120 it partnered with an existing company called Premier Cruise Line. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.920 Back in nineteen five. Premiere became known as the official 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.000 cruise line of Walt Disney World, and Disney characters would 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.840 appear on Premiere ships. It was one of the things 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.400 that set Premiere apart. Premiere was also known as the 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.560 big Red Boat because some of their ships were big 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.560 and red, big ish, They're not as big as the 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.600 ones that you would see today in the industry, and 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.000 the nickname of its flagship, Starship Oceanic, was the Big 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.520 Red Boat, and it actually became the official name of 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.040 two of their other ships. They actually renamed them because 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.720 both of those ships were older. With the exception of 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.680 one of their ships, the starship Atlantic, which was built 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.040 in nineteen eighty two, the company's fleet consisted of ships 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.440 built between nineteen fifty five and nineteen seventy, so they 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.960 were a little on the creeky side. The partnership with 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.680 Disney ended in nineteen Premiere would eventually go out of 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.920 business in two thousand and Out of all the ships 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.880 in their fleet, only one still exists, and that is 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.480 the Atlantic. All the others have either been sold for 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:06.640 scrap or they sank. So Disney had kind of dipped 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.560 its toe in the cruise partnership world. And once that 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.160 partnership with Premier ended, you know, it was an agreement 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.640 to last a certain amount of time, essentially a little 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.320 less than ten years. The Disney Company started to hold 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.720 talks with other cruise lines, including Carnival and Royal Caribbean, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.120 but neither of those companies could agree to Disney's terms, 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.400 essentially how much money they would have to pay Disney 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.560 to allow Disney characters to appear on those cruise ships. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.120 By the rumors were that Disney the company was looking 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.200 at creating its own line of cruise ships. Now, the 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:44.600 actual Disney Cruise Line Department was founded in nineteen and 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.600 Disney commissioned two ships from an Italian shipyard called Finn Cantieri. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.920 The two ships would become the Disney Magic and the 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.840 Disney Wonder, and according to a website called Hidden Mickey's, 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.800 the Magic cost three fifty million in dollars to build. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.760 I've also seen that figure go up as high as 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.760 four hundred million dollars to build, So between three fifty 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:12.120 and four hundred million dollars. So a big, big investment 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.400 on the part of Disney in an area that they 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:20.599 had not really explored. But they saw an opportunity because, 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.640 as Disney representatives will tell you, the issue with the 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.400 cruise industry was it was mainly geared towards adults and 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.440 a lot of UH senior citizens as well, but not 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.080 so much to families with children. And so they saw 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.720 it as an opportunity to do to the cruise industry 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.880 what they had done with theme parks and hotels and 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:44.120 other things like that. So they decided to take this plunge. Now, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.279 Michael Eisner was in charge of Disney at the time, 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.839 and he wanted the ships to have a classic ocean 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.279 liner feel, so something akin to what you would have 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.200 seen back in the old days of ocean liners were 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.680 talking like the early nineteen hundreds, and to take those 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.719 lines to kind of update it with modern accents, but 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:11.440 to still have that classic style. So that's exactly what 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.039 the engineers did. They started to design this so it 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.559 kind of had this sleek look of a classic ocean liner, 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:22.440 complete with two smokestacks, even though those were not both necessary. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.640 More on that in a second. And they decided that 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.640 the interior decoration was going to be in the Art 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.880 Deco style for the Disney Magic the Wonder actually has 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.440 an Art Nouveau style. Now, the ship was constructed in 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.440 two halves. You had the bow and the stern, the 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.919 front and the back. The front half of the ship 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.320 was built at the Ancona shipyard and the back half 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.080 was built at the Margara shipyard. And those two shipyards 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.159 are more than a hundred miles apart from each other. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.920 So once they finished building out the four half, the 0:05:55.600 --> 0:06:00.320 forward or front half, they had to tow it back 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.640 to the other shipyard, and they did this by placing 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.919 it on a giant kind of floating barge essentially, and 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.280 towed that more than a hundred miles to the other shipyard. 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.560 And then they had to fit the two together. Now, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:19.080 remember that this ship is like a small city. It 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:23.920 has all of these independent systems that make up the ship. 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.320 That includes a water system, so lots of water pipes, 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:32.920 and electric grid including electric generators, climate control, and more. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.400 I mean, everything that you would expect to have in 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.040 a nice hotel has to be on the ship, which 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.440 means all those systems have to be self uh self contained, 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.480 and that means that all of this stuff laid out 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.560 had to fit together perfectly. You could not have any 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.640 misalignment or else. The conduits where you would allow electrical 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.560 wires to go through, or the air duct systems or 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.680 the water pipes they wouldn't match up. So they had 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.600 to make it precise and hope that they could fit 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.960 it together exactly the way it needed to. And this 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.880 is not a a small challenge. It's actually pretty tough. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.520 So once they got to the point where they were 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.400 ready to put the two halves together, each half had 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.040 to be put on a giant rail system and this 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.560 allowed them to very slowly bring the two halves until 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.360 they met in the in the center, and then they 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.480 started to weld the ship together and that's where you 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.640 get the full ship, the Disney Magic. Now, this construction 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:38.120 project encountered multiple delays throughout the process due to other 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:43.640 construction projects being a little slow at the shipyards, and 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.240 it meant that Disney had to keep pushing back the 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:52.040 date of its initial sailing, and UH it ended up 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.040 being almost five months late as a result of this. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.520 The Magic finally set sail across the Atlantic to its 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.840 home port in Florida or Port Canaveral and was ready 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.920 for its first cruise, UH several months later than it 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.440 was originally planned, and I believe it was July of 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:15.760 n so a little bit later than what they had hoped. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.320 At any rate, it does take a long time to 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.560 build one of these ships. There's a lot that goes 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.800 into it. In the design process. You have the imagineers, 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:29.440 that's the Disney term for the engineers who bring Disney's 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:34.560 flare into whatever projects they're making. So Disney imagineers are 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:40.520 responsible for pretty much anything physical that you encounter within Disney. 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.280 So you think about the Disney parks, the imagineers are 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.920 the ones who are designed, who had designed all the theming, 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:50.680 all the rides, everything that you encounter, an imagineer has 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.800 had a hand in designing the same thing is true 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.920 for the cruise ships, but it meant that they had 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.880 to design things and then shipbuilders actually had to make 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.480 it happen. So it was an interesting relationship because this 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.840 was not something that they had done before. So imagineers 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.000 would typically use three D rendering software to build virtual 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.320 representation of a space that they wanted to create within 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.600 the ship. So you had a virtual model, and then 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.760 you had to plan out how could you achieve this physically, 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.520 and in some cases it might mean that you had 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.720 to go back and redesign. That's why you have to 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.040 use that three D approach so that at least it's 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.640 less complicated than building something out and then realizing it's 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.800 not going to work. Now. Part of that included building 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.880 up spaces specifically for kids. I mean, this is Disney 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.680 we're talking about, and in fact, kids have a couple 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.400 of different areas on a couple of different decks of 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:48.319 the various Disney cruise ships that are dedicated just for them. Adults, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.000 apart from the supervising adults are not allowing that space. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.640 So uh. The worst part is these are some of 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.400 the coolest areas of the ship, and typically you only 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.040 get to see it maybe when you first board. Sometimes 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.200 the Disney allows adults to tour the spaces before the 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.360 ship gets underway, because you might be looking at it 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.600 in order to decide whether your kid will go to 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.080 the Oceaneers Club, for example, and maybe you don't have 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.400 a kid, but maybe you do want to be an Avenger, 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.439 so you go anyway. I'm not saying I've done that. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.680 I'm just saying I'm not above doing that at any rate. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.960 A lot of really interesting spaces, and when the imagineers 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:33.080 were designing these spaces, they had to take concertain considerations 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.920 in mind that you wouldn't necessarily think of for other spaces. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.839 So they actually built out some rooms that had lower ceilings, 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.640 which makes the kids feel taller because they're in our 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.400 space that is scaled more to their size. They also 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.600 created different stories for different areas, like there's a toy 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:56.280 story area, there's a uh Pixie area, there's the Avengers area, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.079 which is the one I really I want to go through, 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.880 And then they are like the Ocean Eers Lab, which 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:07.000 is more of a science e ocean voyage themed area, 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.000 and all of this had to be done on computers 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:16.800 first before building out the actual physical uh stuff that 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.360 would fill up these spaces, and then there had to 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.440 be the installation phase. So all this is very technical. 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.839 It takes a lot of work on the front end 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.240 before you ever get to a point where a guest 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.160 actually walks onto the ship. Now, the ship's tonnage is 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.400 eighty four thousand tons. That means the ship has the 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.440 volume of eighty four thousand tons. That's typically what tonnage means. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.800 And it's a pretty big ship, though not as big 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.920 as the Disney Dream or the Disney Fantasy, which are 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.160 two of the younger ships in the Disney Cruise line, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.080 and of course there are other cruise lines that have 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:53.640 ships much much larger. So the Magic is nine four 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.440 ft long and one hundred six ft wide at the 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.320 beam that means just the whitest part part of the ship, 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:04.040 and it's one seventy one and a half feet tall. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.320 The draft of the ship is twenty five point three 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.160 feet Now the draft refers to the distance from the 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.280 water line to the bottom of the hull. Also known 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.280 as the keel, so you measure that distance and that's 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.720 how you get the draft three ft. Now, when it launched, 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.120 the Magic was one of the largest cruise ships in service. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.360 In fact, I think it was the third largest ship 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.520 in service at the time. Now since then it's been 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.560 eclipsed big time. There's a Lure of the Seas, which 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.320 I believe is the largest cruise ship currently in service 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.840 that's run by the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. That one 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.440 is one thousand, one hundred eighty one ft long and 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.280 two dred eight feet wide with a ton unge of 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:52.000 two thousand, two hight two tons, So enormous, huge, much 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.760 bigger than the Disney Magic. But when Disney Magic was 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.240 first built, it was considered to be a pretty big ship. Now, 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:03.360 the Disney Magic has five sixteen cylinder Solzer diesel engines, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.520 each of which can has an output of fifteen thousand, 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:12.560 four hundred forty eight horsepower. Serious horse power. There, the 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.280 total horse power for the ship is sent two hundred 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.040 forty three. Now that means the Magic's engines have the 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:23.679 power equivalent to one hundred Formula one race cars running 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:30.080 full speed. They're also to nineteen megawatt general electric propulsion 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.720 motors that's what actually turns. They are provides the power 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.560 to turn the propellers in the propulsion system. And the 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.000 ship has a fuel capacity of twenty thousand gallons of 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:45.160 diesel fuel, so it's running on diesel um to run 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.880 these engines, which also provide the electricity for the entire ship. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.920 And the ship's hull has a special coating on it 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.559 that's designed to actually make it move through the water 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.760 with less resistance, which reduces the amount of work the 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.160 engines have to do in order to move the ship. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:05.000 So this was an effort to reduce the fuel consumption 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.120 of the Disney Cruise line ships, and uh also means 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.360 that the engines themselves don't have to do as much work, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:17.359 so they don't need to be um, replaced or repaired 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:22.040 nearly as frequently, although of course every cruise ship out 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.880 there undergoes a period of maintenance. It's called dry dock. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.160 It's when you bring a ship in you elevated above 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.520 the waterline and you're able to really work on it 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:35.400 and make sure that it's ship shape. Now, there are 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:42.360 three bow thrusters and two stern thrusters, each watts and 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.000 the arrangement allows the ship to turn into play turn 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.000 in place without moving forward. So, in other words, you 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:51.400 can rotate the ship three sixty degrees and not be 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:56.840 moving forward at the time, which is pretty cool. And 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.680 I've actually seen it done because that's how I've seen 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.680 it done with a hundred eighty degrees, because that was 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.240 how the cruise ship would pull into one of the 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.600 ports of call, the Disney's private island. They would actually 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.520 turn the ship completely around so that you would back 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.960 into the space. I don't think they actually have a 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.520 rear view camera to do that, but maybe they do. Actually, 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.800 they have lots of cameras all over the place in 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.080 order to be able to navigate the ship. Now, like 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.160 I said, the ship has two smoke stacks, but one 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.120 is used for exhaust and the other is decorative and 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.000 actually houses some other stuff in it. Um, so only 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.640 one of the two smoke stacks actually is for exhausting 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.600 smoke from the engines. But they decided that they wanted 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.800 to have the two smoke stacks on the cruise ship 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.040 to give it that classic look. The cruising speed that 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.120 the ship can attain is twenty one and a half 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.560 knots It has a maximum speed of around twenty four knots, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.480 although I've read that it can go as fast as 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.560 twenty six knots, which might be after The Magic has 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:02.160 had a couple of renovations. It's been and upgraded, both 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.000 in two thousand thirteen and two thousand and fifteen. More 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.400 on that in a little bit. One of the interesting 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.440 things about the Disney Magic is that they have their 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.600 lifeboats painted a yellow color to match the color of 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:19.200 Mickey Mouse's shoes. This was actually a big deal. The 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:23.320 US Coastguard has a standard for lifeboats. It's they're supposed 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.040 to be a bright orange, which is considered to be 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.960 one of the most visible colors on the surface of 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.160 the ocean. So if you are in a lifeboat, you 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.680 want to be really visible so that you can be rescued. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.680 And Disney had to prove to the Coast Guard that 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.200 the yellow they wanted to use was in fact just 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.280 as visible as the orange or else. The Coastguard We've said, 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.400 I'm sorry, I know you want to have this beautiful 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.520 color because you wanted to fit the theme of your boat, 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.400 but people's safety is more important than theming. But Disney 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.000 was able to prove that the yellow was in fact 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.680 just as visible, and so they were able they were 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.640 allowed to paint are their lifeboats yellow, and in fact 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.840 the cruise ship in general is designed to have the 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.720 color palette of Mickey Mouse, so it's essentially white, black, red, 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:14.760 and yellow. Uh. It has eleven passenger decks and three 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.480 I think crew only decks, but eleven decks that passengers 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.400 can go on. The decks, of course, are floors, kind 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.560 of like floors of a building. And it has the 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.720 capacity to hold two thousand, four hundred guests, although according 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:30.679 to some some sources I've read, the actual limit is 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.120 closer to and it has a crew of about nine 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.119 hundred and fifty people, so you have just shy of 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:41.080 a thousand people working on this ship to make everything go, 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.840 and then another twenty four hundred who are guests. That's 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.840 a lot of people to be on one boat. There 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.200 are eight hundred seventy five state rooms, two hundred and 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.359 sixty two of which are inside state rooms, which means 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:55.920 you don't get a view of the ocean, which is 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.439 kind of sad. But you have six d thirteen that 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.560 are outside state rooms, and out of those, four have 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.160 a veranda, which is really nice. And there are three 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:10.520 major themed restaurants Lumier's Animator's Palette and what used to 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.879 be parrot Key and is now Kariokas. Plus you have 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.880 an adult's only restaurant called Palo and a buffet restaurant 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:22.840 called Cabanas. And every restaurant has its own galley attached 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.119 to it. Then a galley is a kitchen, so every 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.639 single restaurant has its own kitchen. Um and on the 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.199 big ships that's seven galleys total. Now, this was actually 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.760 a new approach in cruise ships. A lot of cruise 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.760 ships have a single galley that provides all the food 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.320 for any of the places where you can get get food. 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.080 And in fact, a lot of the cruise ships only 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.080 have one restaurant that you go to. Disney was different 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:51.080 and had all these different themed restaurants. So by having 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.919 a galley attached to each restaurant and meant that the 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.960 white staff doesn't have to travel a ridiculous distance or 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.640 use escalators or elevators to get food to the guests 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:05.200 are uh So this was another innovation in the cruise industry. 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.480 In addition, guests rotate through the restaurants, I mean not literally, 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.840 you actually go to a different restaurant each evening. You 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.000 get an assignment when you get to your stateroom that 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.000 tells you which restaurants you go to on which evenings, 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.560 and you travel one to the next and uh, if 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.280 you know. You also get your wait staff to travel 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.240 with you, So the people who are doing your drinks 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:32.200 and food service go restaurant to restaurant as you do, 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.040 which means they get to know what you like, what 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.560 you don't like, any allergies you might have. This was 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.840 another big innovation in the cruise industry, something that you 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.560 don't see in other cruise lines. So some of the 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.399 innovations that the Disney came up with aren't necessarily technological, 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.920 but they were big changes to the way things had 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.879 been traditionally done within the industry. So those galleys have 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.720 to store a lot of food, and according to Disney, 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.840 on a seven day cruise, passengers consume a total of 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:04.639 five thousand pounds of beef, ten thousand pounds of chicken, 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:09.920 twelve hundred pounds of salmon, hundred pounds of shrimp, which 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:13.560 I will skip because I discovered this year I'm allergic 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.040 to shrimp and it will kill me a thousand pounds 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.520 of lobster tails. I'll also skip that because I found 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.440 out on my first Disney cruise that I'm allergic to lobster. 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:29.800 That was about seventeen years ago. Fifteen thousand pounds of melant, 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:34.640 hundred pounds of pineapple, seventy one thousand, five hundred eggs, 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:39.679 fifty seven thousand, eight hundred twenty cups of coffee, three thousand, 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.560 one twenty five gallons of soft drinks, twelve thousand, three 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.840 hundred eighty five bottles or cans of beer, and twenty 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:52.520 seven hundred bottles of wine and champagne. And that, my friends, 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:57.359 is a party. Also the cruise I'm I'm going to 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.400 go on that I've already been on by the time 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.200 you hear this is a twelve day cruise, so those 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:04.600 numbers are even higher for my trip. For the larger 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.800 ships essentially comes down to having to prepare twenty thousand 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.959 meals a day, so that means that these galleys have 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:14.440 to be outfitted to do that, and that includes these 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:21.040 huge industrial sized ranges, ovens, boilers, all sorts of equipment 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:25.160 that is of enormous size to allow for simultaneous preparation 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:28.560 of hundreds of dishes. Some of the stuff they'll do beforehand, 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:32.000 like for sauces, they'll actually make sauce by putting all 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.600 the ingredients in these huge boilers that can hold gallons 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.280 of sauce at a time, and they'll have it cooked 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:42.720 down overnight. I actually have done tours of the galleys 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:47.040 aboard these Disney ships and they are incredibly impressive. They 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.960 are enormous. They have to be spotless. I mean the 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:54.720 Disney Disney in general prides itself on trying to maintain 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:58.760 a clean environment as best it can. The kitchens are 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.879 are amazing in that respect. You will also see some 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:04.680 of the largest cook where you've ever seen in your life, 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:07.760 unless you're in the military, in which case you'll say, yeah, 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:12.159 I'm familiar with that um And it's laid out in 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.960 such a way to be as efficient as possible and 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:17.480 allow for a massive amount of traffic because you have 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:19.400 the weight staff coming through to pick up the finished 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:22.840 dishes and take them out to the various tables. Meanwhile, 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.159 you've got the cooks actually actively working on the food. 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:31.640 So seeing this enormous amount of technology all in one place. 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.600 Even though it's technology, we're all familiar with on some level. 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.280 The kitchen stuff is not like it's super high tech 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.760 kitchen stuff, but just seeing it on that scale is 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:46.840 incredibly impressive. And if you do ever take a cruise 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:49.040 and they have a galley tour, I mean it doesn't 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:51.159 have to be a Disney cruise, any cruise and they 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:53.040 have a galley tour, I encourage you to try and 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.679 take that because it's really an interesting experience to see 0:22:57.000 --> 0:23:00.200 how behind the scenes things have to happen in a 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:01.879 roor for you to be able to get your dinner. 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:06.200 And it's pretty phenomenal. Now, out of the major restaurants, 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:11.600 Animator's Palette is probably the most technically sophisticated in the 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.919 original incarnation aboard the Disney Magic. The way this worked 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:18.720 was you walked into Animator's Palette and the restaurant starts 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:22.440 out with just everything in black and white. The table cloths, 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:26.800 the walls, the columns, which were designed to look like 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:30.359 paint brushes. Everything's in black and white. Even the white 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:34.320 staff's outfits were all in black and white. And as 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:37.960 you sat down to dinner and dinner commenced, you would 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:41.400