Making of The Disney Magic - Disney Cruise Line (1998)

ABOUT
Disney Magic is the first cruise ship owned and operated by Disney Cruise Line, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. She has 11 public decks, can accommodate 2,700 passengers in 875 staterooms, and has a crew of approximately 950. The interior of Disney Magic is decorated in the Art Deco style.
The ship has 20 bright yellow lifeboats which, along with the black, red, and white colors of the ship itself, match the colors of Mickey Mouse. This change from the standard safety orange took a waiver of international maritime rules. As with other Disney cruise ships, the ship's horn blast plays an excerpt from Disney's famous flagship tune, '"When You Wish upon a Star". Disney Magic's Godmother is Patricia Disney, former wife of Walt Disney's nephew, Roy E. Disney.
Disney had cruise ship designs drawn up by February 1994. Disney Cruise Line in 1995 ordered Disney Magic and Disney Wonder from Fincantieri in Italy. The ship was built in two halves with the bow built at Fincatieri's Ancona shipyard and the stern at their Marghera shipyard.
The planned maiden voyage was for March 12, 1998. In January 1997, the first ticket for Magic's first trip was raffled off on Lifetime channel, while ticket sales would begin in September 1997. Delays on the construction of MS Rotterdam kept additional workers from the Magic. Thus, by November 1997, the cruise line initially rescheduled the ship's initial voyage to April 30, 1998. However, further delays from suppliers and poor weather conditions at Fincantieri pushed back the maiden voyage even further by a few months. The bow was towed to the Marghera shipyard where the halves were joined.
With livery and design evocative of the RMS Queen Mary, Disney Magic set sail on her maiden voyage on July 30, 1998, out of Port Canaveral. The ship's initial cruises were to Nassau, Bahamas with a stop at Castaway Cay over three to four nights.
Originally, from 2000, Disney Magic had been undertaking weekly cruises to Castaway Cay and Caribbean islands out of its home port in Port Canaveral, Florida.
In June 2005, Disney Magic was dispatched to the West Coast as part of Disneyland's 50th Anniversary celebrations and as a test for California expansion. The transfer cruise sold out quicker than expected. Bookings from first time Disney cruisers were up for these cruises by at least 60%.
In May 2007, Disney Magic started her inaugural Mediterranean cruises out of Barcelona, Spain. At the end of the summer, she returned to her home port of Port Canaveral. In the summer of 2008, Disney Magic was moved to Los Angeles once again. The ship returned to Barcelona in 2010 for another summer of Mediterranean cruises, as well as several northern European cruises before again returning to Port Canaveral in September.
In May 2012, Disney Magic was relocated to New York City, where she sailed 8-night cruises to the Bahamas, New England, and Canada. In September, she was relocated to Galveston, Texas for the remainder of the year and offered 4-night Caribbean cruises, 6, 7, and 8-night Western Caribbean cruises, and 8-night Bahamian cruises. In June 2013, Disney Magic was re-positioned to Barcelona, Spain for the summer.
Disney Magic was put in for an overhaul at Navantia shipyard, Cadiz, Spain. In October 2013, Disney Cruise Line completed renovations to Disney Magic including updates to the ship's cabins, lounges, restaurants and spa and introduced new features including; "Marvel's Avengers Academy", a play area based on Marvel's Avengers characters, the AquaDunk and the AquaLab, consisting of a pool and waterslide. Carioca's restaurant was replaced with Rapunzel's Royal Table, Club Disney Junior replaced the Mickey Mouse Club and other changes were made.
In 2016, the Disney Magic sailed Disney Cruise Lines' inaugural Northern Europe itineraries, homeported in the port of Southampton, 80 miles from London, England. She sailed to Norway, the British Isles, and the Baltic Sea during her brief three month season. With the October 6, 2017 cruise of Disney Magic from New York to the Bahamas, the cruise line held its first Marvel Day at Sea.
Spoken in the video
Wing Chao - Executive Vice President Planning Architecture and Design, Walt Disney Imagineering
Michael Eisner - Chairman and Chief Executive Office, The Walt Disney Company
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[@DanielGomez-gw4kt]

It was a good thing that Michael Eisner had the idea to have the Disney Magic, to have the entire ship to look like the Golden Age of ocean liners. Because ever since I've seen the movie Titanic, learn about the history of the real ship. And at the same time going to visit the Queen Mary, and learning about other ships that looked exactly like those ships. You know looking at the dark blue or black colors, as well as the white on the top. And the finals they either look orange or red. Looking at those classic ocean liners, and all of those big ships definitely is nostalgic and classic. Something I wish that ocean liners of today would have, and carry those colors as a tradition. But thanks to the creative imagination, and the spirit of the people from Disney. They made that all happen with the first ship of the Disney Cruise Line, the Disney Magic. And of course with the other ships that were billed afterwards, I think Disney with its own Fleet of ocean liners as a cruise line, and to carry the classic tradition of those colors from the Golden Age of ocean liners ships. I believe that Disney should be the only company to do that, rather than Carnival Cruise Line or any of the others. Because Disney can really make the magic of nostalgia to come to life, just like what they did with Disneyland. When you first enter Main Street USA. For years to come, I hope to see more Disney ships to be built for the Disney Cruise Line Fleet. And to see those ships to carry those classic golden age of ocean liners nostalgia

[@TropicalHonduranDominican]

It’s nice that they sketch cruise 🚢 boats like movie storyboards

[@mabelmartian]

I was practically a baby during the whole process of the Magic and only two years old during the Christening.

[@LetThereBeWar]

congrats

[@Taniere]

How much was a ticket in 1998 3 day to Nassau? I want to torture myself 😂.

[@JulieWallis1963]

Why am I seeing 70% of the screen as picture and 30% black edges?

[@cowmissing]

It was a highly compressed low resolution video. We didn't want to "blow it up" to fill the raster. So we left it in its original format to preserve it.

[@TropicalHonduranDominican]

It was released on non anamorphic widescreen dvd

[@samuelsantiagodasilva9450]

Gente tudo bem com vocês eu te amo muito i love you gente i love you a gente tá brincando do Disney personagem Mickey electricity Lilo Stitch o leite dia da Disney a gente tá brincando de LEGO a Minnie e o Pateta é o culto que é Lego tudo a Margarida é brinquedo

[@matthewhahn1132]

From 1998 to 2025

[@ummmbye1228]

Don’t remind me