Disney Magic
Disney Cruise Line · Cruise · In service · built by Fincantieri
Disney Magic launched the cruise line in 1998 with a deliberately retro silhouette: black hull, white superstructure and two red funnels, at a time when every competitor was building white boxes.
Derived metrics
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How big is it, really?
The Disney Magic's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
The 747-8 held the longest-airliner record for over a decade, until Boeing's 777-9 took it by about 19 inches (76.72 m), our sibling site aircraft.fyi measures everything that flies the same way.
One Disney Magic = 1.09 Titanics · 2.8 football pitches · 12 blue whales · 3.9 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.
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The numbers
| Length overall | ≈294 m |
|---|---|
| Beam | ≈32 m |
| Gross tonnage | ≈83,969 GT |
| Passengers | ≈2,700 |
| Crew | ≈950 |
| Staterooms | ≈875 |
| Decks | 11 passenger decks |
| Entered service | July 1998 |
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What makes it different
Disney Magic is the ship that made Disney a shipping company. She entered service in July 1998, built by Fincantieri, and she looks the way she does because Disney made a decision nobody else was making in the 1990s: build a ship that reads as an ocean liner rather than a floating hotel.
The result is a black hull, a raked bow, a white superstructure and two red funnels with black caps, plus, in place of a coat of arms, a Mickey silhouette worked into the funnel markings and a Goofy figure hanging over the stern with a paint pot. Only the aft funnel actually vents anything; the forward one is filled with youth club space.
She also introduced rotational dining, where guests and their serving team move together between three themed restaurants across a voyage rather than staying in one room, a genuinely original piece of hospitality design that Disney still runs on every ship. At around 84,000 gross tons she is now the smallest ship in a fleet whose largest is 208,000.
The Disney Magic line
Magic class
The liner look
Who operates the Disney Magic
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
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