What I should have said was that as Disney was deciding what to have ready on opening day, they went with what “had” to be there and what could be best funded. Other things, like Africa, were bumped to Phase II – not eliminated completely. Heaven knows there was neither time nor money to have everything ready to go in 1982. I have a feeling that had management stayed in place, we’d have seen those key delayed attractions – Africa, the German and Italian additions, Meet the World, etc. It wouldn’t have made since to ditch Africa since, as AV points out, the films had been shot and the pavilion designed.

I’ve always wanted to see those films… I wish they’d release them in some format. That would have been a neat pavilion.

The project was one of the first that Eisner put a stop to when he took over. Nothing – not even a bench – was to be built at EPCOT Center if Disney had to pay for it. Eisner never cared for the “higher purpose” of anything Disney. You, the admission paying public, were too stupid to understand it anyway. To him, World Showcase was nothing but a collection of restaurants he wanted to hock to conventioneers on expense accounts.

Sadly, that attitude is even worse now than when Eisner was around. I really doubt Disney would open another pavilion even if they found a sponsor.