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Disney Cruise Line today revealed several more morsels of info about the Disney Fantasy. At the Disney Parks Blog, they reveal that the Muppets will feature in the ship's interactive scavenger hunt, "The Case of the Stolen Show," using the same approach as "Mickey's Midship Detective Agency" on the Disney Dream.
The cruise line also revealed more details about Animator's Palate on the Fantasy. Not only will the dining room offer a new "show," "Animation Magic," which will incorporate drawings by the diners into the animated story, but on another night (on the Fantasy's 7-night itineraries guests will dine at least twice in each of the three main dining rooms), they'll enjoy "Undersea Magic," the Animator's Palate show that debuted on the Disney Dream. In Undersea Magic, Crush, the sea turtle from Finding Nemo, swims around the dining room via nearly 100 video screens, while chatting with guests. This will make cruisers' "Which night for Palo/Remy?" quandary that much more difficult.
The line also described some of the Enchanted Art on the Fantasy, which will be different than the Enchanted artwork on the Dream, and released a video of one of the works, featuring Daisy Duck modeled on the Thomas Lawrence portrait "Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie." Other works of art describe are:
Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse flying from one adjacent painting to the other (on the Dream, the two-painting scene features the cannon battle from the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction).
The painting featuring Walt Disney will have three new animation clips featuring the Fab Five (on the Dream this work is located on Deck 4 near the theaters).
Two scenes from Fantasia featuring the dancing fairies from Nutcracker Suite segment and a unicorn and satyr from the Pastoral Symphony segment.
Alice in Wonderland scenes inspired by Disney Legend Mary Blair's artwork.
Finally, they revealed that Skyline Lounge, in the adult entertainment district, would show nighttime cityscapes featuring Paris, London, Barcelona, Florence, Athens, Budapest and St. Petersburg. Of these, only Paris is among the cities depicted at Skyline Lounge on the Disney Dream.
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I cannot wait to enjoy all of this! I'm especially excited by the prospect of getting the Animators' Palate show from the Dream, as we loved that. As we're on early dining, we'll solve the Palo/Remy quandry by hopefully going for something like 7:15 or 7:30. I cannot wait to see the London skyline - that's going to make me feel homesick!
I find it interesting that DCL is going beyond simple "cloning" of their gee-whiz features. It gives regular cruisers more reasons than simply a difference of itinerary to sail on both the new ships. If they were thinking only about first-time cruisers, they wouldn't have bothered to go to the extra effort and expense. Like the differences between nominally identical attractions at the various Disney parks... Every Haunted Mansion, every Pirates of the Caribbean, every Big Thunder Mountain is at least somewhat different, and sometimes dramatically different. Sure, part of it is Imagineering striving to improve upon everything it does, but it also ensures that the Disney "gourmets" have to taste them all.
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I find it interesting that DCL is going beyond simple "cloning" of their gee-whiz features. It gives regular cruisers more reasons than simply a difference of itinerary to sail on both the new ships. If they were thinking only about first-time cruisers, they wouldn't have bothered to go to the extra effort and expense. Like the differences between nominally identical attractions at the various Disney parks... Every Haunted Mansion, every Pirates of the Caribbean, every Big Thunder Mountain is at least somewhat different, and sometimes dramatically different. Sure, part of it is Imagineering striving to improve upon everything it does, but it also ensures that the Disney "gourmets" have to taste them all.
The ships sound like fun. Also, now that I've seen Disneyland and California Adventure, I have to agree with this. The subtle differences were FASCINATING to me, and made my next trip to WDW seem more interesting as I compared it to Disneyland.
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As we're on early dining, we'll solve the Palo/Remy quandry by hopefully going for something like 7:15 or 7:30. 
I cannot wait to see the London skyline - that's going to make me feel homesick!
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