Disney's Up Coming Cruise Ship, the Disney Fantasy

Disney's Up Coming Cruise Ship

Disney's Up Coming Cruise Ship, the Disney Fantasy, will boast many new options including an elaborate new dinner show, executives revealed now in a private briefing for a compact group of journalists.

"We don't like to repeat ourselves," Disney executive Joe Lanzisero noted throughout the briefing, which took place on the line's three-month-old Disney Dream. "We have a incredibly loyal fan base, and we need to give (them) a reason to encounter each ships."

Scheduled to debut in March 2012, the two,500-passenger Disney Fantasy is usually a sister ship towards the Dream that is identical in size and common layout. But Lanzisero says the two vessels will probably be far from carbon copies of one another.

To be called "Animation Magic," the new dinner show will take place within the Animator's Palate restaurant on the Disney Fantasy and star an animated Mickey Mouse. The new show might be moreover for the Locating Nemo-themed experience involving a speaking Crush that fills the Animator's Palate restaurant on the Disney Dream.

Animator's Palate restaurants are a staple of all three Disney ships at present at sea. As on the Disney Dream, the Animator's Palate on the new Disney Fantasy may have an animation theme (pillars fashioned like massive pencils and brushes, character sketches on the walls) and involve the participation of diners.

Lanzisero offered writers attending today's briefing a sneak peek with the new Animator's Palate show as they sat from the Disney Dream's version from the restaurant. The expertise begins with diners being invited to draw a character on the placemat at their dinner spot that later will probably be incorporated in to the animated film projected on the eatery's walls.

"There's absolutely nothing much more thrilling than the very first time you see your animation on the screen," stated Lanzisero, a top rated executive at Disney's style division, Walt Disney Imagineering, who got his start out in animation. Lanzisero is overseeing the innovative improvement with the Disney Fantasy.

The new show centers around a Sorcerer-themed Mickey who appears on the walls from the restaurant just just before dinner is served. Transforming static, black-and-white drawings of Mickeys around the room into colorful, animated Mickeys, the Sorcerer Mickey introduces a montage of food-themed moments from Disney and Pixar films. The montage is set to the song "Be Our Guest" from the movie Beauty plus the Beast.

Immediately after the montage, diners possess a few minutes to total their placemat drawings, which then are whisked away behind the scenes. Throughout dinner, the walls from the room are filled with classic Disney and Pixar characters celebrating more than meals, after which soon after dinner Sorcerer Mickey returns for a finale that incorporates the passenger drawings.

During the demonstration of the dinner show, which was completed in a sped-up format not having a meal being served, the drawings of the journalists and Disney executives in attendance may very well be observed dancing across the walls with the space with Disney characters including Jiminy Cricket.

As the show ends, credits roll on screen showing the names of the "guest animator" diners whose function was just shown.

The new dinner show is 1 of about half a dozen new elements for the Disney Fantasy revealed currently. Executives also showed off plans for a nighttime entertainment district on the ship that varies markedly from the one with the Disney Dream (see related story), plus the line also plans a brand new show for the ship's principal theater that has an Aladdin theme. Disney's Aladdin -- A Musical Spectacular, it'll be named.

Also new will be a salon known as Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique where young children can get princess and pirate makeovers (hair, nails and makeup) and buy Princess costumes total with crown, wand and shoes. Among the packages obtainable will probably be "Captain Mickey Mouse" and "Princess Minnie Mouse" makeovers. Costs for the packages have nevertheless to be set, but executives say they'll be roughly exactly the same as at related salons at Disney parks on land

Lanzisero also announced that the atrium of the ship will function a cast bronze statue of "Mademoiselle Minnie Mouse." Inside a Disney tradition, every single of its ship features a single primary character in its atrium that serves as a focal point for Disney fans.

The Disney Fantasy's maiden voyage is scheduled for March 31, 2012, out of Port Canaveral. The ship will sail seven-night Caribbean itineraries, alternating among an Eastern Caribbean route (with stops in St. Maarten and St. Thomas) and a Western Caribbean route (Grand Cayman, Costa Maya, Cozumel). Exceptional Eastern Caribbean sailings in November and December 2012 will stop in St. Thomas and San Juan, Puerto Rico. All of the itineraries will contain a cease at Disney's private island within the Bahamas, Castaway Cay.

Fares for the voyages start off at $959 per person for a regular inside stateroom, according to double occupancy

Disney's Up Coming Cruise Ship, the Disney Fantasy