Originally Posted By elene "The CBJ was amazing in 1972. it was an electronic miracle like we"d never seen before. Now, 40 years later, (yes, Kar2oonMan it's been 40 years -- *sob*) the wonder of sitting and passively watching Animatronics perform, just isn't the thrill that it once was." It still is for SOME of us! I only get to see the show a few times each year on our annual trip to WDW. You can bet we see the show every day we hit the Magic Kingdom. It is my favorite show (has been since I was a kid at Disneyland and played the record TO DEATH!) I too can recite every word from the original show without even thinking about it because I played the record so many times its just ingrained!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I too can recite every word from the original show without even thinking about it because I played the record so many times its just ingrained!<< Excellent! Elene, you can join Jim and I at Sunny Acres Retirement Villas, performing the roles of Bunny, Bubbles, Beulah, Teddy Barra and Trixie. This is going to be great!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Ooooh, can I join too? I don't know the songs very well but I can clap rhythmically.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Well, as I've written before.... I worked the Tiki Room at WDW in the Summer of 1986, and was amazed to see all the walk ours during the show. It was a fairly consistent occurrence -- something I had never seen at Disneyland in all my visits to their Tiki Room. And that was 26 years ago....
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Teddi Berra: "Y'all come up, see me sometime you hear?" Henry: "Soon as find a ladder, I'll be right up. Mmmm-mmmmm"
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan See? This is what kids did before computer games and the internet. Played Disneyland Records over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... Someday I will perform my recreation of Ronny Howard in the classic Disneyland's Haunted Mansion long-playing record from memory.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 Several years ago I found the Ron Howard/Haunted Mansion recording on cassette tape at Virgin Records at DTD at WDW and bought it. It brought back amazing memories for me. Of course, there are no more cassette tapes, no more Virgin Records and DTD isnt that interesting anymore
Originally Posted By dshyates I can only hope that in the redo Trixie gets to sing "Poker Face"! "My,my, my Poker Face...."
Originally Posted By joe80x86 Personally (I will be hated for this) I wish Disney would just put the show out of it's misery.
Originally Posted By dshyates Well, they could replace it with a nice Mulan or Wall.E Meet and Greet.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^Exactly. The show doesn't take up much space. Ripping it out would lead to empty space or a meet and greet.
Originally Posted By danyoung >America is too fricking sensitive... Take this story for instance...< I saw The Campaign today, and saw and heard the title mentioned. I just can't believe that anyone would mistake the gunshots on the title for anything other than what it was. Silly, silly, silly!
Originally Posted By Bellella I. Want. To. See. The. Whole. Show. When. I. Go. To. Disney. World. This is the one show besides the Vacation Hoedown I'll ever get to see live. I have wonderful memories of the Hoedown at D-land before they took it out completely. And now they're going to wreck the original show at Disney World?!!! Come on!! Just give the attraction a really good refurb and LEAVE THE REST ALONE!!!!!
Originally Posted By danyoung What a surprise - Bellella wants something left just the way it is . . .
Originally Posted By sjhym333 Screamscape is reporting that one of the cuts maybe the whole Big Al section with a new finale to the show installed.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Interesting news there. In the first incarnation, Big Al was the climax to the whole show. Heeee-larious stuff!
Originally Posted By elene I find it very hard to believe they would completely remove Big Al. He's the most famous bear in the show. They would have to have him do a different song or something but there is no way they'd get rid of him surely! Nothing will ever top Big Al as Baby New Year in the Christmas show for me! HILARIOUS!
Originally Posted By Manfried The new Country Bear Jamboree. It opens the same as now, but then something goes terribly wrong. Teddi Barra drops down and says someone has kidnapped Big Al, the show cannot continue without him, so everyone will have to leave. The characters mounted on the wall try to sing, but give up and they open the exit doors. The entire show is about two minutes long multiplying the through-put of the show by ten. Oh, did I mention the in-theater effects of fleas scratching at you from the seat effects? Then there's the new smellitzer that makes it smell like a bear has been sleeping in the theater all winter long. If that doesn't excite you, there's the glowing back of the seats in time with the music.
