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Hungry Bear Barbecue Jamboree
- Thread starter Disney Analyst
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Phroobar
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So ChatGPT is smarter than Imagineering.
Bear portraits have been added
Too Many Hats
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Replace Pooh with a Country Bears musical dark ride. Bulldoze the Fantasyland Theater and build a plussed-up Pooh dark ride in its place.
mickEblu
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trueblue.221
New Member
Those are really well done!
trueblue.221
New Member
Any update on when the Hungry Bear BBQ Jamboree will open? Or is it already open?
Too Many Hats
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Not currently open.
SuddenStorm
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I'm fairly certain if Country Bears had lasted another decade or two out here, it would have increased in popularity. Limited overlays have proven to be all the rage with AP holders, and having the original, vacation, and Christmas versions of the show to rotate would be excellent for marketing.
Too Many Hats
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All things considered, we’ve entered an era in which Disney is a bit more protective of Walt-associated attractions. If only CBJ had held on a bit longer, it might’ve been grandfathered into “irreplaceable” status. Alas, it became one of many Pressler-era casualties.
Of course, even if it had survived, it’d likely be downgraded to the Disney Sing-Along we now see in MK. But at least it’d still exist in some form.
PiratesMansion
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If Disneyland had had the sense of doing what Tokyo does (play all three shows at different points of the year) that might have helped, but I'm not convinced that there would necessarily have been a CBJ resurgence at DL. There's been too much ink (digital or otherwise) spilled about DLers not wanting to watch static shows AND the bad location/double theater blunder AND the show primarily being retooled for Californians who didn't get it for me to feel this would have been the case.
Walt approved of it, but the gags he saw bares little resemblance to the final product, let alone the subsequent overlays that actually became the attraction's primary legacy in CA.
People miss the bears now, but I imagine if it was still around today it would be something most people in here ignore more often than they actually did it.
Walt approved of it, but the gags he saw bares little resemblance to the final product, let alone the subsequent overlays that actually became the attraction's primary legacy in CA.
People miss the bears now, but I imagine if it was still around today it would be something most people in here ignore more often than they actually did it.
Ice Gator
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I’d argue Ratatouille qualifies as well.
chadwpalm
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- In the Parks
- No
Ironically, that's why it's gone. It's a case where nostalgia beats out reality. People stop watching it, so attendance goes down and eventually they get rid of it. Then 20 years later everyone is like, "Why did they get rid of that show. It was great!" Well, if it was so great why didn't anyone go watch it?
I wonder if they had just refreshed the show with new songs and acts if people would have started watching it again? Then again, you would have had a ton of people complaining that they are changing a beloved classic, so it was a no-win situation for Disney.
I'm pretty sure Disney didn't refresh the one at MK because it had full seating every show.
zipadee999
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I think that if DL kept the bears, the CBMJ overlay would’ve actually made a lot of sense for the Californian audience and the more common complaints made about the California show. Florida on the other hand made a mistake with the overlay I think as country continues to get more and more popular with general audiences, especially on the east coast and in the south. If both shows were still around and keeping the original wasn’t an option, I’d say give Cali the CBMJ and give FL an updated version with newer country songs
PiratesMansion
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I remember Tony Baxter on a podcast talking about this. People would tell him things to the effect of "oh, we love the Bears but we never go see them" all the time.
I know there are people who defended the changeover at MK because "the theater wasn't full", and I'm sure for some people that was the case. However, each time I went to see CBJ, the theater was always decently full-frankly, about as full as a show like that is going to get nowadays. There wasn't that much more capacity utilization to be gained by changing the show, so in my view the changes were probably because somebody at Disney decided the show was too adult in spots for what people now expect of Disney attractions, and/or thought that it was/could potentially be offensive to southerner or redneck types. Both idiotic reasons that miss the point of the show and what people liked about it in my view, but Disney gonna Disney.
Phroobar
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You got to appeal to the four year olds to keep the Disney Moms happy. Old 40's & 50's cowboy songs are far too dated for modern audiences. One would need to be in their 80's & 90's to remember those songs. The only reason we do is because we heard them in the show in the 70s. That is still a long time ago.
mickEblu
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Maybe if it was just one theatre. It never stood a chance here with the two theatre set up and all that space it sat on. IPless show at a park dominated by locals who aren’t going to take the time to watch more than a few times a year max. That’s probably being generous too.