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Hey there and welcome to TechStup. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland and this week I want to talk about Disney Magic.

Not just Disney Magic, but THE Disney Magic, the oldest of Disney's cruise ships.

And the reason I wanted to tackle this topic is that by the time you hear this episode,

I will have just returned from my 10th cruise with Disney. So you might say I'm a bit of an addict.

I thought it would be cool to talk about how the Disney magic works and explore the sort of things that make

cruise ships possible.

Now before I jump into this show, I just want to let you all know.

Disney had nothing to do with me choosing this episode apart from the fact that I'm going on a cruise anyway.

This is not a sponsored show.

I'm not getting any perks for recording it.

In fact Disney's not even aware I'm doing this.

They wouldn't know me from anybody else out there.

And I say this because I am a Disney fan boy.

I'm gonna geek out over Disney stuff as well as the cruise ship technology stuff and it's

important you know I have a completely biased opinion but it comes to me honestly. Now that being said, the company, if they decide they

want to Sid me on a cruise, they can do that. I'm not going to turn it down. I love them. I'm really hoping that I can actually get a bridge tour this this cruise but they don't tend to do those.

So if it happens it will only be because somebody took pity on me.

All right, so let's talk about the history of Disney and the cruise industry.

Before the Disney company actually commissioned its own cruise ships, it partnered with an existing company called Premier Cruise Line back in 1985.

Premier became known as the official cruise line of Walt Disney World and Disney characters

would appear on Premier ships.

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