[4] The park contains live action models such as trains, mills, an erupting Mount Vesuvius, and cable cars.

After his association with the Société régionale d'Investissement bruxelloise, which took a stake in the miniature park, he withdrew from the project following bad business fortunes.

The park having already been sketched out and the models ordered, the Société approached the Walibi group, headed by Eddy Meeùs, about becoming a joint shareholder by taking over the designer's shares.

[b] The Escurial Monastery, the Palace of Westminster, the Nyhavn in Copenhagen, the Grand-Place/Grote Markt, the Arc de Triomphe, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Parthenon and the Brandenburg Gate were among the first models visible to visitors.

[10] Mini-Europe and Océade were threatened by the NEO project at the Heysel—a large shopping, residential and office project—and were originally due to close their doors at the end of 2013.

Numbering 165, the designers and model makers are Belgian, British, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish.

[7] Three of the monuments were made out of natural stone (e.g. the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Château de Chenonceau, in marble).

[20] In addition to static models, the park brings the site to life with a variety of animations: trains, windmills, sounds, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the fall of the Berlin Wall, gondolas in Venice, wire-guided lorries, etc.

[21] These animations are industrial prototypes designed to withstand the many hours of operation and the different seasons (frost, rain, heat).

[21] At the end of the tour, the area reserved for the European Union gives a brief presentation of its history, its successes, its culture, the workings of its institutions, the single market and the reasons for enlargement, usually in the form of multimedia games.