This paper presents a warts-and-all discussion of what we learned from embedding digital and physical interactives within the Australian National Maritime Museum’s new immersive navy experience "Action Stations." The experience combines a magic-realist interpretation of the submarine HMAS Onslow, an update of the on-board experience for the destroyer HMAS Vampire, digital and physical interactives, and an eight-minute widescreen immersive cinema experience.