Disney's Adventure

Introduction

With the introduction of the second prompt of the SAU6, we’ve decided to create a cruise ship based on the countries of the world, their countries, and the theme of exploration since all of these would fit well with the idea of staying on a boat, a mode of transport made for travel. With this, we hope to have innovated the idea of the classic Disney cruise.

For example, this cruise ship has flat rides in it’s array of entertainment, some of the most innovative shows ranging from expanding on original classics, and original stories. We have a wide selection of shops and restaurants as well, although it’s not anything out of the ordinary for a Disney Cruise Ship, three clubs for all ages, sixteen floors themed to their respective countries, and a theme shrouding the topic which makes the experience more enjoyable and much more less gaudier than the rest of the fleet Disney has in its clutches.

With this, we hope to have made a major statement in the world of Cruise Ship design and have started a new era of themed Cruise Ships in the SAU’s reality, and eventually leading to more cruise

Theme

Our final theme for our project originally wasn’t the first pitch for our project. Originally, we were looking at four proposals by Tiki. One was based off Aladdin, one was based off Disney Princesses, one was based on the Nautilus, and finally we had one based off either The Flying Dutchman or The Black Pearl. The Nautilus theme felt like too much of a stretch in order to work since the Nautilus was a submarine and we’re working on a cruise ship, although it had potential if it was in the same universe. The way the Disney Princess idea was supposed to work was that it was a royal ship and everyone was meeting up on there, but it felt looser than all the other themes here which could fit a cruise ship better. Aladdin was also cut because we realized there wasn’t enough material to properly fit an entire cruise ship with without having to retcon stuff into existence.

So, we originally were working on The Flying Dutchman idea, with the idea of condensing the ship into three main levels: Kid-Friendly, Teen-Friendly, and Adult-Friendly. The Kid-Friendly layer was supposed to be happy and comedic in order to cater to that age group, with the Teen-Friendly and Adult-Friendly layouts being creepy and comedic at the same time utilizing Marc Davis type humour and experiential storytelling with ideas of skeletons being stuck in the walls in HUMERous fashion in a SkeleTON of poses.

Then Mickeyfan responded to the Theme proposals

Their proposition was the idea of a fantasy world showcase, named The Disney Journey. The main atrium was to be themed off of It’s A Small World with Mary Blair artwork, and decks themed to areas around the world, much like the actual World Showcase.

At first some were a bit confused because we were worried that it would be too much content for this boat, while some were worried about how worldly conflicts could affect how the boat’s reputation and accuracy. However, Mickeyfan assured us that it would focus more on exploration and culture/mythology. I was still curious to how splitting the compartments worked. I got confused on how the ‘It’s A Small World” theme worked, but, after some explanation that “It’s A Small World” just made up the main atrium and the exterior, I finally understood. Plus, using the capacity of the Oasis Of The Seas for reference, we had a total of 14 countries allowed, however, we did cut down on the restaurant amount of the original Oasis Of The Seas because they had a total of 17 restaurants, and if we want to go into detail here, we can’t exactly do that since there are so many of them and so little time.

Tux did a poll in the chat on the popularity for either The Flying Dutchman concept or The Fantasy World Showcase, and we got 50/50 results. However, at this rate we already had more content for The Fantasy World Showcase idea and Tiki was okay with it, making our main theme for The Disney Journey about countries, exploration, and their cultures.

The whole theme is supposed to work based on how It’s A Small World uses boats as the main ride vehicle, how land masses are typical surrounded by bodies of water, and how boats are a major part of exploration processes and transport, which ties into our mascots for this ship being Peter Pan and Tinkerbell due to their links to our theme of exploration and journey since they take the children to Neverland in the movie, which can be connected to your visitation throughout the countries.

Decks

Decks 1-4 - Backstage Areas

Decks 5 -7/Main Atrium - It's A Small World

Deck 8 - Egypt - Egyptian Mythology

Deck 9 - South Africa - Zulu Mythology

Deck 10 - U.S.A - Native American Folklore

Deck 11 - The Yucatan Peninsula - Aztec Mythology

Deck 12 - Australia - Dreamtime

Deck 13 - New Zealand - Maori Mythology

Deck 14 - India - Dashavatara

Deck 15 - China - Classics Of Mountains And Seas

Deck 16 - Norway - Norse Mythology

Deck 17 - UK - Camelot

Deck 18 - Germany - The Black Forest

Deck 19 - Japan - The Shinto Pantheon

Deck Area: Neverland