Is it true the ship is blue and not black?

[justmestace]

Just for fun.....black isn't really a true color. Therefore, the ship's hull can't be "black".



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[Dug720]

It's pretty whatever it is!!

 

[IBelieveInTheMagic]

We knew about this "it's really blue, not black" before our Alaska cruise on the Wonder last month. When we boarded the ship in Vancouver, we had to walk across the gangway and then onto the ship and it's not 100% covered like it is in Port Canaveral. There is a small opening and we were right up against the ship and for the first time - we *definitely* saw the blue. It was interesting my DH and I immediately said it at the same time - now I see the blue. It was the first time I've ever really seen it this blue albeit it was very dark blue. The sun was shining brightly and at just the right angle so I know that helped. I'm a believer now - although I always believed it, I was just able to see with my own eyes.

I agree with the other posters you can see the paint markings on the glass/windows and certain places where the blue is much more noticeable. This was my experience on the Wonder but I don't remember this on the Dream and Fantasy but I'll be looking now

Heather

 

[pixie08]

Just for fun.....black isn't really a true color. Therefore, the ship's hull can't be "black".



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lets not go there. Scientifically black is not a color it is the absorption of light. Artistically (where paint is concerned) black is all colors. The darkest color. You are cracking me up !!!!


IbelieveinMagic Yes it is a blue, but a bluish black or a blackish blue. Either way it is supposed to represent Mickey Mouse, therefore should not really be perceived as blue.

 

[AndyR]

Well just for fun....

The paint used is International's Interfine-878.

And you can see how the blue tint dries on their paint buckets.

Andy

 

[disneybass]

When I cruised last, I took the tour on the ship and they talked all about this. They talked about how the colors of the ship came to be. They wanted to use the three Mickey Colors. Black, Yellow and Red. But they had a few problems with that. All lifeboats have to be orange, so Disney had to fill out lots of forms and fight to prove that yellow was just as noticeable as orange in the water…….they won and now even other cruise lines have yellow lifeboats. It cost Disney a bit of money to get this law changed, but to them it was worth it. As far as the black, no way would they let a black ship sail on the open waters. Then one day a Disney cast member walked into a meeting and had on a very dark blue dress. They right away asked the woman for the dress and they took it to the painters and had that color made. It’s NOT black; it’s a blue, so it was approved. The color of the ship is Monica Blue, named after the woman who was wearing the dress that day.

So the person who said it's BLUE, is correct!

We were told the same thing on the Dream tour of the ship.

 

[wcw57]

this thread is amazing...were Shakespeare here he might intone: Much ado About.......

welll, you know

 

[pixie08]

this thread is amazing...were Shakespeare here he might intone: Much ado About.......

welll, you know

As long as things stay friendly and in good fun it is ok!

No joke, I have written DCL for their "official" response on behalf of my Disney travel blog. I find this trivial but funny and an interesting part of Disney trivia I can't believe there is so much conflicting info out there. Plus color is so subjective and I know what the Imagineers were trying to convey but it is very different from what the public sees as the truth and interprets. This happens very often in design and even Disney is subject to it. Not sure if they will give me an official answer but we will see...

 

[Kendal]

It says this abou the color on one of the Disney cruise shows on the travel channel

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[Slappy32]

According to VP of Imagineering Joe Lanzisero, it's not black, but black with a little blue in it.

Here's the video:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1yt0SkiPoXmdmIyZWxTZFRkVGM/

It's at the 10:55 mark.

 

[justmestace]

Well just for fun....

The paint used is International's Interfine-878.

And you can see how the blue tint dries on their paint buckets.

Andy

GREAT PICTURES!!!!
I bow to you!

 

[ppony]

I do not want to keep stirring the pot here but everyone is getting caught up in the minutia. I am an Interior Designer specializing in hospitality, so I work with paint all day. Yes the color is a blue based BLACK named Monica Blue etc that is used to reflect light because pure black can read very green or unreflective.

Bottom line though, it's black. The colors on a DCL line are clearly representative of the big cheese down to the perfect yellow life boats they needed permission for. Mickey does not wear blue slacks folks, they are black.

So the Imagineers gets get carried away with telling these stories of how we designers find our colors and this happens in our business all the time. All colors have bases. Grey brown, pink white, yellow etc. At the end of the day that ship is supposed to read black white yellow and red.

As an artist and designer who works w/ color day in and day out, THANK YOU!!!!! And truly, it IS minutia. There are lots of hues that can be (and are) called black. It's closest to blue black in my Winsor & Newton oil paint tubes. So there!

 

[robin19871]

http://disneycruiselineblog.com/201...mystery-of-the-black-hull-is-it-really-black/

 

[pixie08]

According to VP of Imagineering Joe Lanzisero, it's not black, but black with a little blue in it.

Here's the video:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1yt0SkiPoXmdmIyZWxTZFRkVGM/

It's at the 10:55 mark.

Perfect! banana:

He says They wanted Mickey colors but it isn't pure black because it is "dead color" (as I said it absorbs all the light and looks bleh) so they got a lot of blue in there. So in a sense everyone is right! Case closed imo!

 

[AndyR]

GREAT PICTURES!!!!
I bow to you!

For extra credit......name the port.


Andy

 

[owensjro]

I really don't care if it is called black, black/blue, blue/black or blue. I'm just glad it isn't white like all those other boring ships. The Disney ships just look so much better thanks in large part to their color scheme!

(personally though, I call it more of a blue than black)

Jim

 

[Wendy&Grumpy]

I believe my own eyes before anyone/anything else... it's a very dark blue/black that looks black without sun and blue with.

And DH is ALWAYS contradictory and insists it's black (even after spending 8 years on USCG Buoy tenders that ARE black... of course he was ON them and not LOOKING AT them) so that alone proves to me that Disney ships are dark blue.

(And I like the explanation of "peacock blue" from aways back. )

End of argument for me.

 

[Gabe]

For extra credit......name the port.


Andy

ST. Marteen, maybe? I'm guessing that because of the Blue letters next to the bucket with blue paint.

 

[justmestace]

For extra credit......name the port.


Andy

Cartegena, Columbia


Where's my Mickey Bar?

 

[AndyR]

Cartegena, Columbia


Where's my Mickey Bar?

Wow! that's good Stace. Winner! Winner!