Disney could run every pavilion, every ride, every attraction at EPCOT without a sponsor. Am I overstating the case? No, I don't think so. We're seeing the net result of that malicious intent across the board, thanks to those brilliantly educated MBAs, every day when we turn on the news, open the newspaper or check our 401(k) values. ![]() If by malicious intent you mean, "We've got to continue cutting back on meaningful guest improvements in order to realize greater profit so that bonusable executives can get more money and Jay Rasulo can continue having multi-million-dollar events to announce birthday-party promotions and curry favor with Wall Street," then, yes, I believe there has been malicious intent. I'm going to *guess* that Epcot has a pretty strict policy about not doing much with non-sponsored pavilions (and it really shows - I'm waiting for Universe of Energy to get the axe.) I will say that I was at "Norway" a few weeks back and it is clean and maintained- like everything else at Epcot. I'm not sure there's a clear answer here - there are probably not too many organizations in norway who would be interested in renewing sponsorship (especially in this economy). (even short films are extremely expensive to produce, after all.) There's an interesting catch-22 here: "why would we renew sponsorship if you've let the pavilion stagnate?" "we wouldn't have let the pavilion stagnate if you had renewed sponsorship." etc. Everything else is maintained at status quo until Norway someday hopefully decides to sponsor their own pavilion once again. So they cut some corners and shove princesses into the restaurant to help pay for the upkeep of the pavilion. I'm going to assume that in this case it's not malicious intent (wouldn't it just be easier if it was always malicious intent on some Disney exec's part that caused the decay or something at Epcot?) Here's how I think it has probably played out: Norway pulled their sponsorship from their own pavilion Disney was faced with another pavilion that *must* make money (i.e. ![]() ![]() I agree that the Norway pavilion is in a pretty sad state.
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