No, I always thought it was a money issue as well. I thought the idea that they would stop just because of the holidays didn't make much sense since I didn't think they had ever done that before. Also, at the time, they had just been cutting other things in the parks as cost-saving measures, so yeah, money made the most sense to me as well. My point was that a poster on wdwmagic was saying it was a budget decision as if he KNEW that to be the case, but I don't know him enough to know if he's a real insider or just someone like us.