Not sure where your comment is going, so I guess I will just explain more? :veryconfu The most successful companies that have developed major brands have realized the need to tweak and do special events in individual locales. There are regional tastes, desires, cultural norms, etc. Therefore, if you utilize those in implementing your brand, it works infinitely better. Even worse, if you do not, you run the risk of oversaturation, backlash, and, most of all, cultural offense. Disney dealt with this in Paris. More related, you see the items places like McDonald's promotes varies from geographic region to geographic region. However, it all relates to some overarching brand statement at the time (i.e. "I'm loving it" or whatever it may be). Disney Parks does not have the luxury of being a globally available product. Therefore, it only makes sense to market them individually in some way, although I will concede that global branding works to an extent. The combination is what breeds truly successful products. Doing that is tough, but that is just basic marketing.
Now, a marketing campaign is different. However, truly global branding doesn't work very well. It's just a fact. What works is when you have a global overlay with smaller, market-oriented reinforcement events/promotions/etc.
This provides Disney with that same opportunity. The bottom line was if the YOMD goes on until the end of 2007, that does not necessarily mean that Epcot's 25th will not be celebrated. Instead, or even on the contrary, it provides Disney an opportunity to promote a WDW-oriented event with marketing in the strongest sources for WDW guests in the 1980's and 1990's to be implemented as a PART of the YOMD. That reinstills new life into a celebration that will start to wane towards its end. It coincides with an already existing Epcot event that could easily be used as the kick off to the sub-celebration. And, it doesn't cost as much to try and force a celebration on other resorts that simply don't have a lot to do with Epcot or WDW as a whole.
