News Country Bear Jamboree is getting new songs and acts

[Charlie The Chatbox Ghost]

Did we hear anything about Little Buford other than speculation on this board?

I'm not sure, but if you look at their track record of things they're changing/removing lately, there's a common theme. I would personally believe if there was a single thing they didn't like about the 2012 version of the show, it's Little Buford. Again, full disclosure, I love that bit and I think it's hilarious, but I doubt corporate feels the same.

 

[trueblue.221]

Can anyone tell me exactly what kind of stuffed animal baby oscar is holding in the country Bear musical jamboree? From YouTube it looks like a blue bulldog to me, and a small Big Al plushie to my son LOL

 

[The Leader of the Club]

Can anyone tell me exactly what kind of stuffed animal baby oscar is holding in the country Bear musical jamboree? From YouTube it looks like a blue bulldog to me, and a small Big Al plushie to my son LOL

It’s Big Al

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Can anyone tell me exactly what kind of stuffed animal baby oscar is holding in the country Bear musical jamboree? From YouTube it looks like a blue bulldog to me, and a small Big Al plushie to my son LOL

Yep it is Big Al...

It reminds me of the discontinued Pook-A-Looz..

 

[Charlie The Chatbox Ghost]

I still can’t believe they’d make a Big Al plush for the show and NOT sell it as merchandise. Teddy bears for the Country Bears seems like a no brainer. Maybe they’re testing to see how the show is received (which so far seems generally positive)? Maybe the Pecos refurb will turn the area around the exit of the CBJ into a gift shop?

 

[zipadee999]

I still can’t believe they’d make a Big Al plush for the show and NOT sell it as merchandise. Teddy bears for the Country Bears seems like a no brainer. Maybe they’re testing to see how the show is received (which so far seems generally positive)? Maybe the Pecos refurb will turn the area around the exit of the CBJ into a gift shop?

Even if they don’t want a fully-fledged gift shop, they could at least start selling CBJ merch at Big Al’s. If they started selling it there, they could test the waters, and if it proves popular then they could consider a gift shop

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I still can’t believe they’d make a Big Al plush for the show and NOT sell it as merchandise. Teddy bears for the Country Bears seems like a no brainer. Maybe they’re testing to see how the show is received (which so far seems generally positive)? Maybe the Pecos refurb will turn the area around the exit of the CBJ into a gift shop?

Even if they don’t want a fully-fledged gift shop, they could at least start selling CBJ merch at Big Al’s. If they started selling it there, they could test the waters, and if it proves popular then they could consider a gift shop

Or the pin shop that hugs the side of the attraction..

 

[Charlie The Chatbox Ghost]

Even if they don’t want a fully-fledged gift shop, they could at least start selling CBJ merch at Big Al’s. If they started selling it there, they could test the waters, and if it proves popular then they could consider a gift shop

I would love some plushes like they have in Tokyo, and definitely more shirts. The one they made for the new show is underwhelming and the last one we got before the original closed… well, “Grizzy Hall” speaks for itself.

 

[Charlie The Chatbox Ghost]

Or the pin shop that hugs the side of the attraction..

Even better, forgot that was right there. Then the exit space for the CBJ could be decorated like Tokyo’s and DL’s, with all the stage doors and photos and such.

 

[MarissaBullock]

I like the vibe of this show, so I'm super glad that there will be new songs

 

[lightningtap347]

Just left. It was okay.

I really liked the look of it and the movement of the bears was top notch. The fiddle scene was also great.

That's about it.

 

[Charlie The Chatbox Ghost]

Just left. It was okay.

I really liked the look of it and the movement of the bears was top notch. The fiddle scene was also great.

That's about it.

The highlight of the show is 100% the AA quality. It’s insane how amazing and reliable these new AAs are, as far as I’m aware there’s been no errors at the fault of the AAs, just that power outage.

The fiddle scene is also the highlight of the show itself. Love that my favorite bear is getting his dues!

 

[Ukdisneyguys]

Hope ok to post, as struggled to upload last time but we recently went to Sequoia National Park and saw an American black bear and as this chat looks at The Country Bear Jamboree, if anyone is interested video is embedded below! The animatronics make him look just like them haha!

 

[J.E.Smith]

By the way, is Ernest's smoke an actual smoke machine or dry ice? Some people are curious if it's actual smoke that it doesn't set off the fire alarms

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

By the way, is Ernest's smoke an actual smoke machine or dry ice? Some people are curious if it's actual smoke that it doesn't set off the fire alarms

I would think it's the same kind of fog smoke used in Dinosaur when your time machine vehicle goes back in time...

 

[Castle Cake Apologist]

By the way, is Ernest's smoke an actual smoke machine or dry ice? Some people are curious if it's actual smoke that it doesn't set off the fire alarms

To my knowledge, "smoke" machines don't produce actual smoke. They're the same as fog machines.

Using actual smoke would be hazardous.

 

[Mike S]

Considering it might’ve been IP or nothing…

The animatronic upgrades are amazing and the artists did a really good job with the material. Using “Fixer Upper” rather than other more popular choices from Frozen was a good call. My only real complaint is that in addition to “Come Again” at the end I wish they could’ve kept the original intro song as well.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

By the way, is Ernest's smoke an actual smoke machine or dry ice? Some people are curious if it's actual smoke that it doesn't set off the fire alarms

It’s a theatrical fog machine. A liquid is heated up to cause a vapor and that vapor is released as a cloud of “smoke”

There are also haze machines, like the kind used in theaters - they want an even haze to build up rather than a puff of smoke so they break up particles that fill the room with a light haze.

Then there is “low lying fog” which has the same effect as the old dry ice effect. The fog is cooled so it hugs the ground - this effect is used in the frozen show during let it go for example.

 

[Steamboat71]

Are we getting overlays or not?

 

[Inspired Figment]

BGM loops are full of songs they don't own, and presumably paying a fee for.

Insiders have not cited the cost of licensing for the demise of GMR, but rather the cost of its upkeep.

And insiders have repeatedly said the cost of licensing TZ is negligible.

IP has its own reason for taking over everything that has nothing to do with the cost of licensing. It's... synergy as Uncle Walt wanted...

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As I’ve pointed out before and is shown.. quite clearly.. “Creative ‘TALENT’ of Studio Theatrical Films”.. VERY important distinction. not the theatrical films themselves. Hence why folks like Marc Davis, X Atencio, Claude Coates, etc. ‘all’ came from the film studio and Walt had them work on original WED/WDI stuff because of their ‘talent’. Nuf said, this point and saying it was the way “Walt wanted/planned it” is false. End of story. There was also a reason their theatrical films were relegated to Fantasyland, its castle, and meet n greets and why Walt never stopped strictly there when it came to new park attractions. If he wanted it the other way around, it would’ve been that way and we never would’ve gotten Park originals.