Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs It's gotten to the point where I can pretty much do all three shows by memory thanks to the CDs and videos I have. Sad, yes. Anyway, three questions (for now): 1. When was Tennessee's face changed to his current wide-eyed dorky grin? Or has it always been like that? 2. I can't for the life of me figure out the opening part of Big Al's lyrics for 'Another New Year' in the Christmas show. Here's what I have: Another New Year Would be as bad If you aren't ????? (bangin??) Or a-leasin' the car Another New Year And I'm lonely and low Since you stole my heart And my truck, and... my... dog. And then Buff gets that great line, "Oh no. Not his *truck*" 3. Does anyone know why there are only two stages each on the sides instead of three? They'd be able to actually include Ernest and Trixie in the finale.
Originally Posted By Disneydanny Another New Year wouldn't be quite as hard if you'd only come back or at least send a card Another New Year and i'm lonely & low since you stole my heart and my truck and my dog.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech I always thought it was truck and dog too until I realized that "dough" rhymes with low more than dog does. Don't think Tennesees face has ever changed, but sometimes the different fur used (which has changed over the years) can have a significant effect on what the face looks like. As for the eyes, the eyelids are their own piece and sometimes they may work better than others, perhaps staying open all the time. Could that explain the look you're thinking of? The lack of one more stage on either side was probably just done for space. Additional stages would have made the theater that much wider. They probably figured out how much spac ethey had and worked backwords from there. The lack of 2 bears at the end wasn't deemed a big enough deal.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Well, the way people in the south say "dog" makes it pretty much rhyme with "low", so I geuss it works.
Originally Posted By englishboy And have they fixed Trixie's eye yet? Last two times I was at the park there was an animation problem with one of her eyes.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<SIR at X-S Tech: Don't think Tennesees face has ever changed, but sometimes the different fur used (which has changed over the years) can have a significant effect on what the face looks like. As for the eyes, the eyelids are their own piece and sometimes they may work better than others, perhaps staying open all the time. Could that explain the look you're thinking of?>> According to one of the LPers, I think it was jesmith, it was probably just the way Tennessee was designed for WDW, as most of you know that most of the bears have slight differences in the CA and FLA counterparts, such as fur coloring or fuller face "masks". When I saw the videos of the shows, the WDW Tennessee looks like he's wired on caffeine. SIR, drop me an email and I'll show you the difference between the WDW and DL ones. As for the Big Al lyric... it could probably be 'dough', but I doubt that the word is ever used in country songs. Besides, don't most depressing country songs involve the singer losing his heart, his truck and his dog?
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech <<As for the Big Al lyric... it could probably be 'dough', but I doubt that the word is ever used in country songs>> Yes but most of the songs for the Christmas and Vacation shows are only mock country songs. They're written in the style but that doesn't mean they wouldn't use a particular word or phrase that was out of place, if it provided a good joke.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN FYI... TDL is currently the only DL Park offering a rotation of all three Country Bear Jamboree shows (regular/Xmas/summer) thru the year as the seasons dictate. You may proceed now.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros So, they do the holiday one in the holidays, the regular one in the spring, the vacation one in the summer, and the regular one again in the fall? It seems like it would be much easier to just split up the non-holiday part of the year in two, and then do one show for one half, and the other show for the other half.
Originally Posted By Disneydanny nope in Tokyo it goes Original,Vacation,Christmas, there is no switching back to Original B4 Christmas.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech Let's all thank God that TDL doesn't do things "the easy way". Or we might have an incident like in DL CA where because they didn't want to bother rotating costumes and scenery they just relegated one theater for each show. It was allright except on a few occasions where high summer attendance pushed them to open both theaters and guests in one theater watched the Vacation show but in the other theater watched the Christmas show- simultaneously!
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 LOL, they really did that? Well, I guess if it works for TV reruns to have Christmas in July, then it's good enough for Disneyland, LOL!!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I have never heard of this. I think they ran one theater, while the other was switching, but never both shows at the same time.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA By the way, Kar2oonMan and I can recite the original Country Bear Jamboree from memory. Ask us sometime, ya hear?
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech Yes, they did run both shows at the same time. It wasn't planned, nor probably talked about. But I experienced it once myself and have had a CBJ CM tell me the same story. They were swamped, and someone thought it would be fine to do.
Originally Posted By J_E_Smith Actually, WDW Tennessee's face looked like DL Tenn's when the attraction first opened, but somewhere down the line he lost the fur on his cheeks.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech I'm fairly certain that the sculpt of the faces has never changed, though the way it was painted, the fur used, and the way the fur was applied could very well have been different.
Originally Posted By J_E_Smith Tenn in 1971: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/tms-442j.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/tms-442j.jpg</a> Tenn today: <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/J.E.Smith/TennesseeBear.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.photobucket.com/alb ums/v135/J.E.Smith/TennesseeBear.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Did you also know that TDL has in fact TWO Country Bear Theaters in the same building???
