New Norway movie at Epcot

[mickhyperion]

...One easy solution for the Norwegian Travel Board would be to use the movie as the "Preshow" and make everyone enter and watch it BEFORE opening the doors to the ride!...

I agree. Since everyone has to wait in line before the ride for at least 5 minutes (and usually much longer), this would be the perfect time to show the movie. Most people would end up seeing it several times this way, rather than having to beg/guilt people into sticking around to watch it afterward and only retaining a fraction of the guests (most relunctantly, at that). There's no other Disney attraction I can think of that tries to hold you after you've experienced the attraction in order to show you what should be a preshow movie.

 

[Nana birdie]

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[sherpadude]

I'd take the Norway movie over Expedition Everest any day!! Expedition Everest is so boring!!

:snore: :snore: :snore:

 

[tomm4004]

Doesn't this set a bad precedent for Disney? If I am the other countries in World Showcase and I read this article the first thing I would do is stop paying rent to Disney. Norway doesn't pay anything and gets free advertising.

This article gave more insight into the operation of World Showcase - which I have never completely understood. It also explains why the Norway restaurant is now all princess all the time - Disney runs it. As for other countries, I'm not sure how they run.

I assume that Mitsukoshi runs the Japanese restaurants and store (which just expanded), makes a big profit, pays Disney rent and royalties, and is very happy. Whether or not the government is involved I don't know.

As for Canada, most of the stores have closed and the film is old. They even lost the beaver tails. I guess there is no Canadian company behind it. Perhaps not even the government.

It is dissapointing that we've had no new countries in almost 20 years, especially after all the plans that Disney itself showed us in the 1990s. Maybe it was due to the Norway problems. Maybe Disney drove a hard bargain. But the restaurants are always picked (huge profit margins) and the stores will do well is run probably. And there's the promotion aspect. You'd think countries would be begging to get in. Canada spent a ton for a pavilion at the World's Fair in Japan, but I would think that EPCOT gets more visitors in the long run.

 

[peter11435]

My understadning is that the restaurants in Norway, Germany, Morrocco, US, and UK are operated by Disney, while the rest are operated by others.