Country Bear Jamboree

[PerceptiveCoot]

Please forgive me if I just hallucinated, I thought I saw that they would be adding Disney songs to the Country Bear Jamboree.

 

[GAcoaster]

They did and the reaction has been very negative...

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

They did and the reaction has been very negative...

Oh no, who could have seen this coming, what a tragedy...

 

[Nick]

CBJ has been on chopping block for a long time now due to a multitude of issues. First being lack of interest in the show among general day guests, but also, they've been phasing out anything deemed problematic.

Honestly, i'm just happy that the characters are staying around and it's not going full Toy Story at this point. If I had to guess, i'd say that internally they realize that the only group of people CBJ is popular with are the hardcore fans so they're keeping the name and the characters, but Disney-fying it in the style of CBJ.

It's a half-measure.

 

[JungleSkip]

My problem with this is they could do rotating shows like they use to.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

Honestly glad I got most of these updates through the Parks blog, because the actual live presentation was so shaggy.

EDIT: The bluegrass version of Bear Necessities did sound nice

 

[SeventyOne]

CBJ has been on chopping block for a long time now due to a multitude of issues. First being lack of interest in the show among general day guests, but also, they've been phasing out anything deemed problematic.

Honestly, i'm just happy that the characters are staying around and it's not going full Toy Story at this point. If I had to guess, i'd say that internally they realize that the only group of people CBJ is popular with are the hardcore fans so they're keeping the name and the characters, but Disney-fying it in the style of CBJ.

It's a half-measure.

Original show was gutted for running time long ago. As long as they keep "Davy Crockett"--a true Disney and American music classic--and an Americana sound, I'm ok with this. Maybe even a bit excited.

 

[Tbad556]

Change away, but if they scrap Blood on the Saddle, they lose me. You can't toss out my boy Big Al's opus

 

[BigHouseFootball]

The outrage for the CBJ replacement is laughable. You have this tiny hardcore fan base for it while the majority of park guests don’t even know it exists.

 

[Tbad556]

The outrage for the CBJ replacement is laughable. You have this tiny hardcore fan base for it while the majority of park guests don’t even know it exists.

Meh. It's a fan favorite and adding some old Disney songs like Bear Necessities isn't suddenly going to increase it's popularity amongst the general day guests. It doesn't really fix anything. Magic Kingdom has much bigger fish they could & should be frying instead (hey Tomorrowland/Stitch's Great Escape space, "beyond Big Thunder" proposal, etc.). Admittedly though, I was always shocked "All the Guys That Turn Me On Turn Me Down" lasted as long as it did lmao.

 

[Nick]

If they are going through the trouble of putting some Disney songs in here (sung in the style of Bluegrass), I hope they record one for the holiday season and then we can at least get some sort of holiday version of this back.

 

[Tobias]

CBJ has been on chopping block for a long time now due to a multitude of issues. First being lack of interest in the show among general day guests, but also, they've been phasing out anything deemed problematic.

Honestly, i'm just happy that the characters are staying around and it's not going full Toy Story at this point. If I had to guess, i'd say that internally they realize that the only group of people CBJ is popular with are the hardcore fans so they're keeping the name and the characters, but Disney-fying it in the style of CBJ.

It's a half-measure.

Agreed, I'll take these changing the songs up and replacing Liver Lips with Romeo McGrowl over whatever Toy Story thing was rumored to replace this.

 

[belloq87]

I'll take the bears singing Disney songs over no bears at all.

But I'm not thrilled.

 

[Freak]

Just bring back the Vacation Hoedown Disneyland had from the 90’s. Nobody wanted new more “modern” songs added.

 

[Nick]

This was first pitched in 2004 and worked heavily on from 2018-20 before being put on pause according to this former Imagineer:

 

[SailwiththeTide]

So are they going to add zippidy doo dah?

 

[Mad Dog]

We like the show. But we did like the longer version more. Always try to catch it a few times while on vacation. It's a nice way to pause the day, sit down in some nice A.C., and be entertained. It doesn't get a big crowd, but the crowds it gets seem to be very into the show. Lots of applause, laughter and cheering. That big reaction always surprises me. I'm glad they're keeping it, albeit with Disney songs in a Nashville style, but I'm fine with that. We like the Disney music, especially songs from the animated films. The present song list was getting old to me anyway.

 

[Legacy]

If they don’t do any songs from “Home on the Range,” they’re misunderstanding the assignment…

 

[Cup_Of_Coffee]

If they don’t do any songs from “Home on the Range,” they’re misunderstanding the assignment…

I’m already laughing in my head at the bears singing “We Don’t Talk About Brunoooo”

 

[Nick]

Get your last showings in for the current show and possibly the last time ever to see Blood On The Saddle.