The Making of the Wish will be on D+ on March 3

[Dug720]

I subscribe to the Overheard podcast (it's from NatGeo) and this week's episode is talking to the Wish designer. The show notes say that the special/ad that was on NatGeo Christmas Eve will be on Disney+ March 3. I know people were wondering, so I thought I'd share.

 

[RedHead0186]

Thanks for sharing. I missed it when it aired over Christmas, so I've been eagerly awaiting its Disney+ release!

 

[Love2Cruise2015]

I cant wait to see it-thanks for sharing Dug720!

 

[TikiRob]

This is great to hear! Now I can't decide if this would be spoilers for our first Disney Cruise at the end of March...

 

[Erica1016]

This is great to hear! Now I can't decide if this would be spoilers for our first Disney Cruise at the end of March...

Having watched it (and having already sailed on the Wish), I think you're safe!

 

[drstrange]

The most frustrating part about the documentary is that they continuously talk about working hard to meet deadlines, but they never mention that they had to cancel the first month of sailings because they missed deadlines. Seems pretty disingenuous to be honest.

 

[Snowwhyt]

I saved the program and watched it last month. The Wish was supposeW to have several magical moments. But they weren’t working when the documentary was made. So other than watching everyone lay on the floor of the Wish atrium area and see the fiber optics. It looked a lot like every other ship. I believe this documentary did the best they could with what was working at the time they didn’t put much into the theater on the documentary.
I definitely watch it because the construction was very interesting. It just was missing the special effects that they had planned. They used to talk about magical moments that would happen throughout the cruise different than any other ships they have. Kind of didn’t mention that during the show.
I really hope they’re able to eventually to get them all to work. If not, maybe the next ship will have all of them working like they had planned.

 

[Dug720]

Apparently they may have bumped it up to Feb 17. I'm seeing that date floating around now.

 

[RedHead0186]

Apparently they may have bumped it up to Feb 17. I'm seeing that date floating around now.

I've seen that date as well.

 

[DCLCruiseFan09]

The most frustrating part about the documentary is that they continuously talk about working hard to meet deadlines, but they never mention that they had to cancel the first month of sailings because they missed deadlines. Seems pretty disingenuous to be honest.

They could have met all of their Deadlines and the ship could still be late. Lots of moving pieces that do not involve those particular people/crew/cast, etc.

 

[drstrange]

They could have met all of their Deadlines and the ship could still be late. Lots of moving pieces that do not involve those particular people/crew/cast, etc.

I hear ya, but I still find it odd that they did not mention at all in this "documentary" that the ship was delivered a month late.

 

[brentm77]

I hear ya, but I still find it odd that they did not mention at all in this "documentary" that the ship was delivered a month late.

Honestly, this highlights one of the reasons I stopped watching any of the Disney+ behind the scenes / parks documentary type of programs. They all feel like they were made by a marketing team instead of a quality filmmaker. It's 30 minutes of fluff for every 2 minutes of something new or interesting. I have no interest in watching a hour-long commercial. It's too bad, because I think there is a way to make a real documentary about this stuff without harming the image of the company, which they are understandably trying to protect. I will probably give the Wish version a shot, because I like the subject so much, but I am skeptical that it will be better than the other stuff the company has produced in this vein.

 

[Snowwhyt]

Honestly, this highlights one of the reasons I stopped watching any of the Disney+ behind the scenes / parks documentary type of programs. They all feel like they were made by a marketing team instead of a quality filmmaker.

Think my cable company listed it as an infomercial, then it changed. I expect the Treasure will have a better result for cinematic enjoyment. I think they have plenty of feedback for the Wish and it’s “tv show”