News Country Bear Jamboree is getting new songs and acts

[J.E.Smith]

No thank you no thank you no thank you no thank you

Honestly, I'm hoping for no Frozen either. But then I realized that if they still have the old snowflake projections from the Christmas Special lying around, that would make it easier for them to put in a Frozen number because they already have snowflake projections for one.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

I'm trying (and so far failing) to imagine a worse song existing than a hypothetical country-fied arrangement of Let it Go...

 

[MisterPenguin]

I'm trying (and so far failing) to imagine a worse song existing than a hypothetical country-fied arrangement of Let it Go...

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

They could rework the lyrics so the Bears are singing about stepping into mound of fire ants or better yet, tasting Tiana's hot sauce.

 

[hismattjesty]

What's sad is this is the first song I thought of as well, and I love Hunchback.

 

[bmr1591]

Saw CBJ for the first time this past weekend. We had a great time. Some of the songs certainly show why Disney wants to change it, but as adults, we thought it was hilarious.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I'm trying (and so far failing) to imagine a worse song existing than a hypothetical country-fied arrangement of Let it Go...

Actually, the harmony is tight!

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

My guess is ‘Davy Crocket’.

If too problematic for whatever reason they can always do a rendition of:


With the Alan-A-Dale rooster being featured in 100 years short it seems likely.

 

[Brer Oswald]

Saw CBJ for the first time this past weekend. We had a great time. Some of the songs certainly show why Disney wants to change it, but as adults, we thought it was hilarious.

I think this is one of the biggest reasons why CBJ works so well. For the kids, it’s a bunch of funny looking singing bears. For the adults, it’s the raciness of the songs and dialogue in contrast with the cartoon bears that make the show so funny and entertaining.

Changing the show to a Disney medley removes any chance of humour in the music, and I worry the “banter” is going to be too “referential” of pop culture.

 

[PiratesMansion]

I think this is one of the biggest reasons why CBJ works so well. For the kids, it’s a bunch of funny looking singing bears. For the adults, it’s the raciness of the songs and dialogue in contrast with the cartoon bears that make the show so funny and entertaining.

Changing the show to a Disney medley removes any chance of humour in the music, and I worry the “banter” is going to be too “referential” of pop culture.

I do think that there's an oversensitivity to kids potentially understanding more adult jokes, and that's definitely a motivation to this change. I really don't think most kids would really get anything from the OG show that they wouldn't get mostly from their parents' reactions rather than the actual context of the show. The vast majority of them won't know what Henry's going to do when he gets to the top of that ladder.

If they do, it's probably because their parents let them use their cell phones and/or the internet too much without monitoring, something I have little sympathy for.

Pop culture references-I understand the fear, but the original did include references to a then-current Pepsi slogan and Liberace (and latter versions of the show basically just decided to make Liver Lips into Elvis), so I feel like the ship has already sailed in that regard. Though I'm sure the modern versions will be more obvious and obnoxious, because subtlety in the parks is dead.

 

[SuddenStorm]

Changing the show to a Disney medley removes any chance of humour in the music, and I worry the “banter” is going to be too “referential” of pop culture.

I would say this is a fair assumption- Disney has started to over rely on meta humor in all of their new offerings for the last five to ten years.

 

[WorldExplorer]

My nightmare scenario is that they copy the "everyone plays the final song to drown out Big Al" thing, but instead of him interrupting he sings Let It Go and it ends up being one big, obnoxious "haha that song is overplayed hahahaha" joke.

(...okay, ONE nightmare scenario...)

 

[_caleb]

Is this going to be just songs and story? What ever happened to the food service/snack bar rumor? Maybe that was for the Woody’s Roundup concept?

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Is this going to be just songs and story? What ever happened to the food service/snack bar rumor? Maybe that was for the Woody’s Roundup concept?

All three versions of the Country Bear shows never really had a story around it except to showcase the variety of songs that the bears wanted to sing....
As for the snack bar...They will probably just retheme the Westward Ho Snack Stand since it sits slighlty across from Grizzly Hall....
IMO The Prairie Outpost Should become a dedicated CBJ store instead of Big Al's which doesn't even have anything CBJ Related merch anyways..

 

[Brer Panther]

I would say this is a fair assumption- Disney has started to over rely on meta humor in all of their new offerings for the last five to ten years.

I didn't even think of that... but I could totally see Disney doing that.

Maybe they'll throw in a reference to Disneyland's version being shut down too...

 

[bmr1591]

I think the retheme has far more to do with numbers at the attraction than overly sensitive parents. Do I think some parents would blush at “all the guys who turn me on turn me down?” Sure. But Disney cares about numbers over that. If it’s not attracting guests, they want it to do the opposite.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I think the retheme has far more to do with numbers at the attraction than overly sensitive parents. Do I think some parents would blush at “all the guys who turn me on turn me down?” Sure. But Disney cares about numbers over that. If it’s not attracting guests, they want it to do the opposite.

Except that the attraction cannot really hold that many more guests.

 

[JoeCamel]

As for the snack bar...They will probably just retheme the Westward Ho Snack Stand since it sits slighlty across from Grizzly Hall....

Do you want fries with that?

 

[PiratesMansion]

I think the retheme has far more to do with numbers at the attraction than overly sensitive parents. Do I think some parents would blush at “all the guys who turn me on turn me down?” Sure. But Disney cares about numbers over that. If it’s not attracting guests, they want it to do the opposite.

Except that whenever I went to see the show, and maybe this has to do with when I was visiting (early summer or October), the theater was pretty much always full.

The idea that it just wasn't attracting people doesn't hold water to me or many of the other people who *actually did the attraction regularly when they visited the parks*.

 

[celluloid]

Except that whenever I went to see the show, and maybe this has to do with when I was visiting (early summer or October), the theater was pretty much always full.

The idea that it just wasn't attracting people doesn't hold water to me or many of the other people who *actually did the attraction regularly when they visited the parks*.

Yeah, this is more changing for the sake of more film IP and the chance to do something silly like a line of merch where the Country Bears are in Disney character costumes that can become a fan collectable for a few years.