Originally Posted By J_E_Smith The Country Bears are slated for another refurb, this time a bit longer than the previous one in 2008. The bears will be down starting August 22nd and reopen on October 18th. Hopefully this time they'll work more on the AAs (Though to be fair they do try to keep them in good a shape as they can as of late), since last time the bulk of the refurb was just giving the AAs new cosmetics and fur and replacing the old 70s speakers with new ones. Rumors say that they may be shortening the show but I really hope that isn't true.
Originally Posted By J_E_Smith The Country Bears are slated for another refurb, this time a bit longer than the previous one in 2008. The bears will be down starting August 22nd and reopen on October 18th. Hopefully this time they'll work more on the AAs (Though to be fair they do try to keep them in good a shape as they can as of late), since last time the bulk of the refurb was just giving the AAs new cosmetics and fur and replacing the old 70s speakers with new ones. Rumors say that they may be shortening the show but I really hope that isn't true.
Originally Posted By J_E_Smith Okay why did it post the same message two times in a row? That's odd...
Originally Posted By Donny I would like to see them update the audio to a higher quality,improve lighting,maybe bring back the Christmas overlay.improve set display But enough of this chit chat, yick yack, and flim flam.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer I'm cautiously optimistic for this. Happy to see that they are going to preform work on the show, but I really get nervous when they toy with the classics.
Originally Posted By J_E_Smith It did. It opened in WDW a couple of months after DL got it, but they brought back the original in 1992.
Originally Posted By leobloom Yes, shorten the show because goodness knows people hate sitting in an air-conditioned theater in Central Florida. I never noticed a lot of walk-outs in CBJ like I did in the old Tiki Room. Not sure why they'd need to shorten the show. But I suspect the cuts will be in the vein of PC-clean-up work, so the humorous bits of the show for adults will probably be lost. Hope not, though.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Interested to see what happens. I know they didn't get to do what they wanted last time because of budget.
Originally Posted By J_E_Smith Well to be fair the shorten the show rumor has only been mentioned by one guy at WDWMagic, so I'm hoping it's false.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "It did." OK. Considering that the show is still relatively popular at WDW, perhaps a new show is in the works? I never understood why a computer programmed AA show like The Country Bear Jamboree couldn't run different shows at different times of the day. They did this for a while at Disneyland with Circle Vision right before it closed.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "It did." OK. Considering that the show is still relatively popular at WDW, perhaps a new show is in the works? I never understood why a computer programmed AA show like The Country Bear Jamboree couldn't run different shows at different times of the day. They did this for a while at Disneyland with Circle Vision right before it closed.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Yeah, I don't think that rumor from WDWM is substantiated. What else is new? I do know, however, that there are plans for a whole new show WITH the same bears. I hope this isn't it... I would think they would want to show that off.
Originally Posted By Bellella I devoutly hope that all they are doing is giving the bears a full refurb so that everything works the way it's supposed to. As I have never so much as been to WDW, let alone seen the original Country Bears show, I REALLY hope they're not changing it. As I understand it, they had to keep updating the D-land version with the Vacation Hoedown and such because of low attendance numbers. But hasn't the original show played all this time in Florida, and they haven't seen any need to permanently change it? Your Vacation Hoedown show lasted only so long, before they brought back the original. Doesn't that say anything? What if they put in a new version that totally sucks, like they did with your Tiki Room before they wised up? Also, interesting that they're refurbing an attraction during the peak summer months.
