I think it was because of budget reasons. I know there are a lot of country bears fans out there and I'm probably gonna get some responses from those people, but I just saw the country bears for the first time a few weeks ago and we found it to be very borring. My Dh and DD fell asleep during the show. Half the theater was asleep and the man next to Dh was actually snoring! They either need to update this or close it down.