One really has to tip their colorful, blinking mouse ears to the Disneyland Paris Creative Entertainment team. Between those two new scenes that were just added to the Disney Dreams! nighttime spectacular and that "Glow with the Show" technology which made its international debut this past weekend, DLP is now a brightly shining star in the theme park heavens. Which -- as you may recall -- wasn't always the case. Back in April of 1992 when this $4 billion project first opened to the...

It's kind of funny to think that Fantasmic! opened in Disneyland on May 13, 1992, just 1 month after the April 12, 1992 grand opening of the EuroDisney Resort (as it was then called). Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved Disneyland Paris has always been considered the most beautiful of the Magic Kingdoms. This theme park might also have the very best versions of Pirates , the Mansion ( Phantom Manor in Paris), Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain . Not to mention the most magical...

How'd you like to be JHM writer Andrea Monti? The lucky guy who actually managed to score a ticket to the opening night of Disney Theatrical's latest extravaganza, "Mary Poppins"? Details on the opening night festivities and the show follow....

JHM columnist Andrea Monti returns with even more stories about the overseas Disney theme parks. This time around, "Mickeyfantasmic" shares secrets about Tokyo Disneyland & Tokyo DisneySea....

JHM's Andrea Monti (AKA MickeyFantasmic) returns with some little-known tales about the Disneyland- Paris and the Tokyo Disney resorts....

Andrea "Mickey Fantasmic" Monti chimes in wth an article that discusses some of the unique problems that Disney's European offices are dealing with when it comes to selling the company's films & characters in overseas territories. ...

Andrea "Mickey Fantasmic" Monti returns with an interesting follow-up to his earlier article this week. In which Andrea offers up a spirited defence of this beleagured little theme park....

Guest columnist Andrea Monti is back, continuing his look at what's going on with EuroDisney. With less than four weeks 'til the waivers that DLRP's lenders just gave this troubled resort expire, will Disneyland Paris' beleaguered management team be able to pull another financial rabbit out of their hat? Or is this resort slipping irretrievably into the red?...

JHM columnist Andrea Monti reminds readers that not all of the Disney-related news these days is coming out of Burbank and Philadelphia. Prepare for a pretty grim report about what's going on with DLP....

JHM's Andrea Monti (AKA MickeyFantasmic) returns from the U.K. with a truly terrifying tale about his trip through the new interactive version of the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussauds' waxworks. ...

Andrea "Mickeyfantasmic" Monti returns with a potpourri piece about the Disneyland Paris and Tokyo Disney Resorts, highlighting some of the lesser known aspects of these resorts and their theme parks....

Andrea "MickeyFantasmic" Monti returns with an article that details what the DLP resort has in store for theme park visitors during Halloween and the upcoming holiday season....

Guest columnist Andrea Monti returns with a follow-up to a recent JimHillMedia.com column. Can it be that Walt Disney Company officials actually are now trying to fix their previously unacknowledged errors?...

Or "the secret of how to save WDW summer season with one simple announcement." Yes, Andrea Monti - AKA MickeyFantasmic - returns to entertain JHM readers (in his imitable writing style) with a look at the recent announcements of what's opening down in Orlando......

Andrea Monti - AKA MickeyFantasmic - returns to give JHM readers the skinny on Andre Lacroix and Yann Calliere, the new chairman and COO of EuroDisney SCA....

You never know quite what you're getting yourself into when you start reading an Andrea "Mickeyfantasmic" Monti column. My advice: Maybe you'd better sit yourself down with a glass of wine. For you're in for a twisty tale....

As a special holiday treat, Andrea Monti returns to offer up some of his favorite memories of the Walt Disney Company, then asks: Do you JHM readers have any stories that you'd like to add to the pile? ...

This time around, Andrea uses the recent arrival of ESPN on European cable systems to talk about what Disney is planning to do to expand its brand internationally. More importantly, he identifies some of Mickey's top players in the European arena. ...

Andrea Monti gives his view of the changing of the guard this week. ...

The story of the French version of the Tower of Terror could very well be featured in its very own episode of Rod Sterling's "The Twilight Zone", since it features so many surprises, dark corners and 11th hour twists that even folks in those Paris offices don't know exactly what happened......