Just want to thanks to Ian Parkinson on yet another fantastic photo tour of Disneyland Paris.I would even say its your best one yet.Just looking at the detail all around the castle just makes me realise how lucky we Europeans are.

Yes, thank you! I especially loved the shots of the castle as the sun set. Brought back nice memories of our trip :)

I agee with LisaP...great shots. I am glad to see some good pictures of the dragon. My camera did not do that great beast justice :( . I was so disappointed. I am waiting for my daughter's pictures to see if her pictures were better.

For people who have not been to DLP...the castle is the best attraction at the park. It is beautiful. Pictures cannot do it justice...you have to see it live to really appreciate the time, money and creativity that went into it. The dragon is absolutley amazing. My hubby stood there for 45 minutes or so just watching...and enjoying seeing the children run out scared. It is so life-like.

Thanks for the pictures Ian.:D

I'm glad that there is still a Sleeping Beauty walk-thru somewhere in the world. Disneyland was letting theirs get really sorry looking before they used 9-11 as an excuse to close it. The version in Paris really looks amazing.

Thanks for all the praise, it's nice to know all my hard work is worth while.

A few people have pointed out a possible mistake in my story about the castle, and they could be correct.

I said that the owls at the rear of the castle looked like Archimedes (from Sword in the Stone), but I have been told by our readers that it is the owl from Sleeping Beauty.

I chose the Sword in the Stone option because the owls look down on the Sword in the Stone event area in the castle courtyard, but the Sleeping Beauty view is just as possible.

So I contacted Tom Morris who was the lead designer for the castle, he had a look at the photos and used a bit of memory and his view is that the owl is not really a good model of either owl. He thinks it could be the love child of both :-)))

What he said was that it is not really 'on model' for either of the films (meaning it does not look like the models used when the film was being made). He also said that the Sword in the Stone team used a lot of designs from Sleeping Beauty when they did the film. He also thinks it may have been outsourced to a non Disney design house which could also explain the inaccuracy.

Anyway I guess what all this means is that the owl is not really from either film, but was supposed to be from Sleeping Beauty, so I stand corrected.

Ian Parkinson