Is it true the ship is blue and not black?

[mindy327]

per a recent reply to a hot thread recently, I thought I would look this reference up... LOL.
Interestingly enough I started this thread too!

 

[JennandJaryd]

Food for thought..........Have you ever looked at the windows and noticed the blue streaks from the missed strokes on the hull?

Lmao. The travel channel dcl special said it's blue. Why does this dursin care so much? Must be a man...

 

[justmestace]

per a recent reply to a hot thread recently, I thought I would look this reference up... LOL.
Interestingly enough I started this thread too!

I swear to you, I had no idea you started both when I mentioned that. I think my point was missed completely when I mentioned this thread.

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

If an official source like DCL states that it's BLACK, then black is the correct answer until proven differently. The story about taking a dark blue dress from a girl named Monica and running off to the painters doesn't seem all that believable...even if it is a cute story.

I can't confirm the Monica story, but the hull is 85% black and 15% dark blue. The blue gives the blue tint you see when the sun shines on the black.

DCL calls is black.

AKK

 

[BobandLee]

I guess I have listened to the wrong "DCL officials".
I have heard many times during presentations both live and video, that the ship is blue, Monica blue, and not black.

Oh well.

 

[mindy327]

I swear to you, I had no idea you started both when I mentioned that. I think my point was missed completely when I mentioned this thread.

I know. No offense taken! That's why I thought it was so funny. we've been on the boards for a long time and this thread gets mentioned a lot. I still can't tell if its blue or black.

 

[disney1990]

If an official source like DCL states that it's BLACK, then black is the correct answer until proven differently. The story about taking a dark blue dress from a girl named Monica and running off to the painters doesn't seem all that believable...even if it is a cute story.

We have toured 3 of the 4 ships and this is what is told n the official Disney cruise.

 

[cruisecrasher]

We have toured 3 of the 4 ships and this is what is told n the official Disney cruise.

Not only have we heard it on three different Art of the Theme tours, if they're sloppy when they repaint around the portholes, you can see that it's blue when its on the glass. There's a picture of it somewhere...

 

[justmestace]

I have no way of verifying this story, but it's cute:



http://pixiepranks-panstinkerbell.blogspot.com/2012/02/redwhite-mickey-shoe-yellow-and.html

 

[cruisecrasher]

http://disneycruiselineblog.com/201...mystery-of-the-black-hull-is-it-really-black/
Not officially from DCL, but here's a picture showing what it looks like around the porthole windows when they aren't careful when reprinting and get the blue paint on the glass. Also The Art of the Theme ship tour says so (on three separate cruises from three different CMs.)

 

[Capt_BJ]

I can't believe I'm gonna add to this unbelievably long discussion of a trivial point BUT

On the side I've painted cars .... done some low end body repair and keep my 79 Mini looking good IMO.

would you like to guess how many different colors are 'black' just for this years models?

or 'white'? If you think Chevy white is the same color as Ford white well let me tell you something!

I KNOW many of us tried to match our 'white' house paint!

Right now I have 5 different can's of 'white' on my shelf for the house: trim vs walls vs cabinets vs doors vs exterior, and 3 different auto touchup bottles ....

Real "black" has a tendency to chalk IME, blue is a wee bit 'stronger' in the pigment department.

I've heard the story of DCL wanting to retain the colors of the first color Mickey Mouse images: primary colors of white, red, black and yellow .. sounds good to me

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so far as a maritime law prohibiting black hulls???? I guess you have never seen a US Coast Guard Buoy Tender

 

[cruisn2castaway]

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 also heard this on our tour of the ship, We also bought a mug with the blueprint of the Disney Dream and it shows the bottom color as blue.

 

[justmestace]

I can't believe I'm gonna add to this unbelievably long discussion of a trivial point BUT

On the side I've painted cars .... done some low end body repair and keep my 79 Mini looking good IMO.

would you like to guess how many different colors are 'black' just for this years models?

or 'white'? If you think Chevy white is the same color as Ford white well let me tell you something!

I KNOW many of us tried to match our 'white' house paint!

Right now I have 5 different can's of 'white' on my shelf for the house: trim vs walls vs cabinets vs doors vs exterior, and 3 different auto touchup bottles ....

Real "black" has a tendency to chalk IME, blue is a wee bit 'stronger' in the pigment department.

I've heard the story of DCL wanting to retain the colors of the first color Mickey Mouse images: primary colors of white, red, black and yellow .. sounds good to me

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so far as a maritime law prohibiting black hulls???? I guess you have never seen a US Coast Guard Buoy Tender

Ain't that the truth!!!! I wanted a neutral "beige" to paint a room......HA!!!!.....there have to be hundreds of shades!!!!

And white....whew......well, thousands. It's mind boggling.

 

[king kamehameha]

 

[Bear3412]

per a recent reply to a hot thread recently, I thought I would look this reference up... LOL.
Interestingly enough I started this thread too!

This is not allowed on the Disboards.

No OP can resurrect an old thread originally posted by themselves.
See rules at www.disboards/rules/that/don't/exist.com



Amazing, and spooky, at the same time.

As stated earlier in another thread, the world is shrinking.



Oh, BTW the hull is painted black fwiw.

 

[maria-fan-22]

The hull is in fact are very dark BLUE… not black… it looks black, but it is blue…

The story I heard is very similar to the monica dress story but adds as to why they didn't want black. They said black would look to sinister, but the touch of blue gives it a dash of whimsey...

 

[EvaSue]

Pink. Definitely pink.

 

[pixie08]

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.

 

[Silverfox97]

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.

I believe this. We saw hull paint on a porthole that was clearly blue. Having a blue-based black paint makes perfect sense. Thanks for this!

ETA: My DH just told me he did a post on the Disney Cruise Line blog about this in July 2012. Apparently, we own a book on the Disney Magic that shows the percentage of the blue and black make up of the paint: 87% black and 13% blue.

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[pixie08]

I believe this. We saw hull paint on a porthole that was clearly blue. Having a blue-based black paint makes perfect sense. Thanks for this!

ETA: My DH just told me he did a post on the Disney Cruise Line blog about this in July 2012. Apparently, we own a book on the Disney Magic that shows the percentage of the blue and black make up of the paint: 87% black and 13% blue.

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Yep. It's black with a percentage of blue. This is so it does not suck the light. It makes it reflective otherwise the ship would look awful on the water, but it is not blue. It's black!