FIRST LOOK: New Costumes Revealed for the Country Bears in Disney World
Country Bear Jamboree is currently undergoing a big refurbishment in Magic Kingdom as a new show makes its way to the stage! We’ve already seen some changes, like a covered-up sign, and heard a little about the new music we can expect.
And now, we have a first look at the makeover some of the characters got at the attraction!
New Country Bear Jamboree Outfits
The Country Bears have completely new looks! Disney says all of the bears will be in new costumes and shared a video of the new outfits for Bunny, Bubbles, and Beulah.
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In the video from Disney, we get to go behind the scenes with a costumer at Disney Live Entertainment, Sara Landesberg, as she explains how the costumes came together for the bears.
“I help source all the fabrics and components and rhinestones. I also work really closely with the patterning team to figure out how we’re actually going to make the garments come together in 3D, and how they’re going to fit the bears, who are all very uniquely shaped and different sizes,” says Sara.
She goes on to say that dressing the bears is more complicated than you think because Audio-Animatronic figures don’t more in the same way that humans do. Sara says, “They have lots of repetitive movement, so a lot of times we’ll add gussets or additional pockets of fabric to give them more room to move in those repetitive movements without destroying the costume.”
The new show at Country Bear Musical Jamboree should debut sometime this summer. It will include easter eggs from start to finish, like a familiar tune you might remember!
But, there will be a bunch of new, reinterpreted Disney songs sung in different styles of country music, like bluegrass, pop-country, Americana, rockabilly, and more.
Stay tuned for more Disney news and updates!