Virtual Toad
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What the???
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News Country Bear Jamboree is getting new songs and acts
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What the???
Castle Cake Apologist
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What's with the wildly sloppy paint job on Teddi's feet? Eef.
For comparison from before:
For comparison from before:
flynnibus
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I don't know, I think that design is kind of amusingly over-the-top in the spirit of Dolly Parton's old adage "it costs a lot of money to look this cheap." One of the things I like about the new character designs is that they seem to have understood that the original designs worked because they were humorous. I could see Trixie eliciting a bit of a chuckle just by appearing!
I think someone gen Z imagineer heard 'country' and thought that meant Nashville... and didn't even know what Appalachia was..
Starship824
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- In the Parks
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Thank you, I have nightmares now.
Captain Barbossa
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The chance is like 0.00000000000000000000001%……..but……….maybe Big Al interrupts the end of the show with a blurb of Blood on the Saddle like the old version?
Yes, I know it’s not happening, but I can dream lol
Yes, I know it’s not happening, but I can dream lol
zipadee999
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When the Blood on the Saddle rumor first began circulating, I always assumed that it would be played off as a joke and would be the reprise version when Big Al interrupts Henry when he’s singing with Sammy. He could do Bear Necessities or whatever IP mandate they have him singing, and then he pipes in later with a section of Blood on the Saddle and then Henry scolds him for not sticking to the setlist
Just released, a track from the new Country Bears...
Homemade Imagineering
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The Country Bears Yacht Rock Jamboree
Dear Prudence
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Honestly, the new costumes look so good and are freaking ADORABLE.
lazyboy97o
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Should all future Disney movies only use existing Disney songs?
Disney Analyst
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lazyboy97o
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And yet it’s not silly when it comes to theme parks.This question is just silly.
James Alucobond
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While I agree that there should be original music throughout the parks, I think the situation of the Country Bears is a bit different in that much of the draw was the bears performing familiar, pre-existing songs in a humorous medley. It's not in the same vein as removing A Pirate's Life for Me or Grim Grinning Ghosts; it's actually more akin to swapping Rock 'n' Roller Coaster to something else.
WorldExplorer
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Were the old songs SUPPOSED to be familiar? I presumed they just chose a bunch of funny and bizarre songs that fit the theme and jokes and didn't expect anyone to go in knowing them already.
(Davy Crocket being the exception.)
(Davy Crocket being the exception.)
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Disney Analyst
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I think my post laid out my perspective clear enough, no need for snarky gotchas.
Many of the theme park fandom want new original attractions in the parks, like the days of old. But reality shows that is unlikely, anytime soon.
It’s also not shocking or surprising that Disney would use their already developed, loved, and popular music, from their original films, in their attractions. Especially an attraction that is all about music.
Disney will mine their IP, and that’s that. As I noted, perhaps in a decade or two Disney will swing the other way and decide to build original attractions. Who knows.
Hope you have a fantastic rest of your day - thanks for the kind visit
James Alucobond
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Most were fairly recent songs when the Country Bears originally opened. Also, I doubt they would've bothered getting Tex Ritter to do Blood on the Saddle in the show itself if you weren't supposed to recognize it as a Tex Ritter song.
Virtual Toad
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Also, for those not already familiar with the material, it was fun as kids to see older relatives relate to the songs. Later as adults, it was just as much fun to decipher the lyrics and their meanings. "Did he really just sing 'Every time I looked cross-eyed, she'd hit me with a shovel?!'" I still remember my wife cracking up when she figured that one out.
The irreverence of CBJ was a big part of the fun. The bears singing hilariously inappropriate songs worked so well because the characters did it with so much charm and sincerity.
Over time CBJ-- as an attraction-- became a unique IP of its own, for many as much a part of the classic MK experience as Haunted Mansion, Small World or Pirates. Admittedly not an E-Ticket in the way we might categorize such things today, but something you couldn't wait to share with the next generation the same way the previous one shared it with you.
So by extension, the songs in the original became part of the IP since (again, over time) many had never heard most of them anywhere else. In that way they were somewhat adopted by Disney and became "Disney" songs themselves.
Turning the show into yet another "greatest hits" singalong attraction makes the bears themselves less about originality and simply a disposable, easily interchangeable vehicle to promote what Disney sees as "the brand." It's a somewhat lazy approach and risks overexposing the guests to songs they've already heard a million times before across venues and media too numerous to mention.