![]() This comprehensive approach proved particularly challenging when it came to the pool deck, as senior creative director of Walt Disney Imagineering Danny Handke explained: “How can you add a story to a waterslide?” Expertise from the wider Disney brand came to the rescue, with the Mickey shorts team collaborating on nine show scenes for the Aqua Mouse water coaster. Wish is the most completely realised Disney ship yet, with every single experience and detail designed around a movie, from Hook’s Barbery, where you can get a shave in a wood-panelled, vaguely piratical venue that also serves craft cocktails, to the one-of-a-kind Wish Tower suite, a two-storey stateroom set in the ship’s funnel with luxurious décor that references the South Pacific world of Moana. Witty asides fizzed, scenery exploded, and green screen technology showed the superheroes getting up to high jinks right on the decks of the Wish.Įven the onboard ice cream parlour – in a nod to the mood-altering qualities of sugar – is peopled by Inside Out’s emotional cast order your cone next to the leaping yellow statue of Joy and pay by raging red Anger. Under the low, blue-tinged lights of Worlds of Marvel I ate bao buns stuffed with pork belly as the screen in the wall lit up with original, interactive footage filmed purely for Wish, with Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie and Brie Larsen reprising their roles as Ant-Man, The Wasp, Captain America and Captain Marvel. In Arendelle, our Nordic feast was served with song and dance from all the Frozen favourites, courses interspersed with table-side visits from Ana, Elsa and a charming animatronic Olaf the snowman. The dining choices alone are a reminder of the breadth of the Disney brand. The line has told Cruise Passenger it is watching Australia and New Zealand closely as a market. For all those families who spent much of lockdown plugged into the Disney Plus streaming service, it’s an opportunity to set sail into a parallel universe where their favourite fictional worlds are brought to life. This truly out-of-this-world bar is accessed via a sliding portal and its giant “window” looks out onto shifting scenes from galaxies far, far away which were specially designed for the ship by the team from Lucasfilm.ĭisney Wish is the fifth in the Disney Cruise Line fleet (after Dream, Fantasy, Wonder and Magic), launching into a post-pandemic world hungry for experiences. I was photobombed by Pluto in the lift, given advice on the correct web-shooting pose by Spiderman in the kids’ club, and sipped luminous, smoking cocktails in the Star Wars: Hyperspace Lounge. ![]() In fact, it’s peopled by a whole host of colourful characters from the big screen. ![]() On most cruise ships this would be a cause for alarm, but on Disney Wish bumping into Mickey and Minnie is par for the course, reports Joanna Booth. Crossing the pool deck on my way to breakfast, I spotted two mice. ![]()
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