Consider yourself to be a Disney expert? Think you’ve found ALL the hidden details around the parks, resorts, and even on the Cruise Line? Well, we’ve got details on something NEW you’ve probably never seen!

We got the chance to hop on Disney’s brand NEW mega cruise ship — the Disney Wish — and explore everything it has to offer. From a new Frozen dining experience to a Marvel restaurant unlike any Marvel experience they’ve offered before — the Wish has it all. And it has hidden details too! There’s one particular detail we walked past during our time on the ship that we just HAD to share with you.

There are a LOT of things to look at on the Disney Wish.

You could spend a long time in Arendelle: A Frozen Dining Adventure hunting for references to the popular Frozen films.

Or you could admire some of the amazing things over in the kids clubs.

As you stroll through the hallways, you’ll also see artwork and other details scattered throughout the ship. In fact, according to the Orlando Sentinel, there are more than 4,400 pieces of artwork on the new ship! There are tons that we could point out, but there’s one in particular that caught our eye.

If you aren’t careful, you could walk right past it! It’s a piece of artwork featuring multiple princesses helping each other up and over what appears to be some kind of cliff/obstacle. According to the Orlando Sentinel, it is a print of what was originally a digital art piece. The Sentinel describes it as featuring “10 versions of the famous Disney princess helping one another climb from the depths of darkness over a cliffside with a shimmering castle in the back.”

The artwork comes from Nikkolas Smith. He is a former Imagineer and now an author, New York Times Best Selling Illustrator, and speaker.

You may recognize him from his work on the “King Chad” mural, which honored Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman. This mural was placed in Downtown Disney at the Disneyland Resort in 2020. It is now on permanent display in the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

According to a post on his Twitter, this new artwork on Disney Cruise Line is called “Cindys.” In talking about it it, Nikkolas shares, “Shoutout to every woman rising up after getting knocked down…The strength of Women is unmatched.”

In the painting, you can see what appear to be multiple princesses all in their finest gowns, helping one another up. Some princesses are lifting others from the ground, others are pulling them up from above.

In describing the piece, Nikkolas said, “It’s like every woman rising up after getting knocked down, because it’s just like this story of Cinderella — just being at the bottom, like being pushed to the lowest point, and then being able to rise up — rise up from the ashes. And so I wanted to create that kind of darkness, that cave kind of atmosphere and all these women helping each other up.”

You’ll notice that the Cinderellas in this version don’t all look alike though. There is a variation of sizes, national origins, and skin colors represented. Nikkolas shared, “I wanted to show all these different variations of that kind of traditional Cinderella that we know — to show every woman has Cinderella, to show that character, but every possible way you could imagine from every part of the world and every culture.”

The painting feels particularly appropriate to be titled “Cindys” on a ship that features Cinderella as the gold statue in the atrium (“Grand Hall”)…

…and has an entire Grand Hall inspired by the magical moment when Cinderella’s outfit transforms into her iconic gown.

It’s just another reminder that sometimes you’ve really got to slow down and take in the images around you, or you might miss some details that are hiding in plain sight! Want to learn more about what you’ll find on the Wish? Click here to explore the exclusive merchandise on the ship, join us for our Pirate Night adventure on the Wish, or click here to see EVERYTHING we tried at the Star Wars lounge on the ship.

The Wish is set to go on its maiden voyage soon, on July 14th.

If you want to know EVERYTHING you need to know about the Wish, click here for our FULL coverage from our time aboard!

We’ll keep an eye out for more Disney news and we’ll be sure to share all of that with you!

Disclosure: In nearly all circumstances, Disney Food Blog writers and photographers pay full price for their own travel, hotel, food, beverage, and event tickets. We do this because it’s important to us as journalists to ensure not only that we give you unbiased opinions, but also that you can trust us to do so since we’re paying our own way. On rare occasions, when we are invited by a company to attend a preview as media, and when we choose to accept that invitation, we will always make you, our readers, aware of that situation. We were invited by Disney Cruise Line to attend their media sailing on the Disney Wish. Note that when we attend events as media we are 1) Not required to review that event/food on any of our channels, and 2) Not required to review that event/food favorably. You can always count on DFB to give you a 100% unbiased and honest review of any event that we attend, food that we eat, or beverage that we drink. You can see more in our Disclosure Policy. Thank you for reading. — AJ

Are you planning to go on the Disney Wish? Tell us in the comments!