Meet an Imagineer Who Built a Wish

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Last summer, Disney Cruise Line released its fifth and most technologically advanced cruise ship yet: Disney Wish. We’ll meet Laura Cabo, a creative executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, who shares the excitement and challenges in designing a cruise ship that’s nearly as long as the Eiffel Tower, and how Imagineers turn visions into reality. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard. Want more? The documentary Chad made with Laura and other Disney Imagineers is called Making the Wish: Disney’s Newest Cruise Ship. It will be available on Disney+ February 17. And while you’re there, check out the documentary series The Imagineering Story about other Imagineers all over the world. If you like what you hear and want to support more content like this, please consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/exploremore to subscribe today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to my garage. This is my brain. This is where I have to make the magic happen.
0:13.0	Laura Cable is a Disney Imagineer. For the last five years, many of them surrounded by
0:18.6	blueprints and scale models from her garage here in Los Angeles thanks to the pandemic.
0:24.2	She's been running the creative design of a cruise ship nearly as long as the Eiffel Tower,
0:29.4	a Disney Wish. The scale of it is unbelievable. You know, they're 1.2 million square feet,
0:37.0	at least. They're more than three football fields long. But a Disney cruise ship, there's
0:42.9	no other cruise ship like it. I'm Chad Cohen, a filmmaker at National Geographic, and you're
0:52.1	listening to Overheard, a show where we eavesdrop on the wild conversations we have here at
0:57.3	Gio and follow them to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world. This week, I'm here at
1:03.8	Disneyland to talk with Laura Cable about the Disney Wish. We discuss what it means to be an
1:08.8	Imagineer and how she turned her vision for the Disney Wish into reality. The Walt Disney company
1:15.2	is a majority owner of National Geographic Media. I worked with Laura and her team to produce a
1:20.0	documentary on the making of the Wish, coming soon to Disney Plus. And for over a year, I got to follow
1:26.2	her from her tiny little garage in California to the enormous shipyard in Germany, where parts
1:31.9	arrive from all over the world to assemble into what is basically a floating Disney castle.
1:36.8	She'll tell you how it happened right after the break. Fuel your curiosity with a free one-month
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