LEGO Icon of the Seas - The Chronicle of the Newest Once in a Generation Ship

NOTICE: A 20 second portion of the naming ceremony had to be cut so you will notice a jump from no music to some music.

Royal Caribbean's newest Icon comes to life in the form of LEGO bricks! In Episode 2 of this 3 part series, you will take a journey throughout passenger ship history, from Ocean Liners, the early cruise industry, and Royal Caribbean's past newbuilds in order to fully understand why and how Icon came to be and what influenced her creation and design. You will also take part in the journey of secrecy that encircled "Project Icon" for many many years as well as her construction and delivery. And, of course, you will finally get to see my nearly 10 foot long LEGO model of Icon!

At the end of the video is a tease for an upcoming LEGO model and historical video.

The model was built well before Icon was completed, so many of the structures, colors, and features were based off of renderings which sometimes showed different iterations of the same thing. There are places in the build that do differ from what is now on the actual ship that simply did not exist or were changed well after the build was completed.

Music in this video was provided by Epidemic Sound and Soundcloud. "Voyage" license down below:

Voyage by LEMMiNO / lemmino
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/voyage-lemmino
Music promoted by Audio Library • Voyage – LEMMiNO (No Copyright Music)

00:00 - Introduction
03:17 - Main Titles
04:26 - Understanding Icon
05:58 - The Early Cruise Industry
09:37 - Song of Norway Class
13:20 - Song of America Class
16:54 - Sovereign Class
24:49 - Vision Class
27:48 - Voyager Class
32:10 - Radiance Class
33:38 - Freedom Class
34:35 - Oasis Class
39:24 - Quantum Class
42:55 - Project Icon / The Never Ending Veil
51:33 - Construction Begins
54:42 - Keel Laying Ceremony
01:00:32 - Reveal
01:06:24 - Launching
01:09:00 - First Sea Trials
01:11:53 - Second Seas Trials
01:13:03 - Handover
01:15:17 - Final departure from Turku
01:18:04 - Cadiz, Spain
01:19:27 - Transatlantic Voyage
01:23:38 - Arrival in Miami
01:26:54 - Test Cruises / Naming Ceremony
01:30:51 - Maiden Voyage
01:33:54 - Historical Conclusion
01:36:16 - Building the LEGO Icon of the Seas
01:55:17 - The LEGO Icon of the Seas
02:32:16 - End Credits / Coming Soon

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