Nathan Graveson

Icon Of The Seas will have a Parabolic Ultra Bow similar to Celebrity's Edge Class ships. It just means that it is bringing something different to Royal Caribbean, which some people will think is ugly, but having seen the renders and the 3D models of the ship, I can confirm that the new bow designed works for the overall design of Icon.

At first, I thought that Norwegian had screwed themselves over by introducing this style of ship and during it's construction, I started to really see the purpose of the design and have some appreciation of the complexity of the ship. I am going to be on the 2nd ever paid-passenger sailing and I am looking forward to it. I am personally excited to see how they make the ship bigger for Prima 3 - 6, and I don't know how it will effect the overall atmosphere of the ships in the future.

I’m just going to bump the thread a bit here, but I think people are expecting an announcement of the 2nd Triton Class name at the D23 Expo this year. This corresponds with announcement of the Wish’s name reveal 2-3 years before its launch. So it would only be right for Disney to announce it this year for the delivery of the 2nd ship in 2024. My guess is maybe because of the 3rd ship coming right after in 2025 we could see them announce the rest of the names because the next D23 is in 2024 which is slightly too late to announce the 3rd ship as it will be delivered in 2nd quarter of 2025 which doesn’t give enough time for bookings and reveals of new features. So, Disney should reveal the name of the 2nd ship in a few weeks at D23 Expo 2022 and also expect the announcement of the 3rd ship as well. As DCL Fan covered about a year ago there are two other names on the Disney Cruise Line collection of merchandise. Those names being, “ Imagination”, and, “Adventure”, which I think are good names, but I think, “Adventure”, should be changed to, “Enchantment”, which reflects the Disneyness of the Cruises.

Bridge!! There’s the Bridge!!

It looks really retro Royal Caribbean and it will just give this ship a unique look especially in top of the parabolic ultra bow.

Is this ship going to be based on the Excel-Class ships or is it a ground up design? Also, i have heard a few rumours about the propulsion of the ship. Instead of the Twin - Screw and Stern Thruster design, having an Azipod powered system.

The ship looks a little different to what you have in mind

That could be for the Ice Skating rink.