Overview
- Disney Cruise Line’s seventh ship began public sailings on November 20 from Port Everglades on four- and five-night routes to the Bahamas and Western Caribbean, with calls that can include Castaway Cay and Lookout Cay.
- Disney released the first episode of its Disney Unscripted series, offering a behind-the-scenes look at creating the Destiny-exclusive Hercules production now performing onboard.
- The Hercules show features near-100 automation cues, large-scale puppets, and 3D performer tracking, with deliberately low-tech Hydra mechanics designed for reliable maintenance at sea.
- Imagineering designed shipwide storytelling spaces, including the Haunted Mansion Parlor, the Pirates-themed Cask & Cannon, and the Doctor Strange-inspired Sanctum, anchored by a Wakanda-influenced Grand Hall.
- Built at Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, the roughly 144,000-gross-ton Wish-class ship advances Disney’s strategy to grow cruising, with leadership pointing to a path toward a 13-ship fleet by 2031.