Country Bear Jamboree

Country Bear Jamboree
Attraction poster
Magic Kingdom
Area	Frontierland
Status	Operating
Opening date	October 1, 1971
Disneyland
Area	Critter Country
Status	Closed
Opening date	March 4, 1972
Closing date	September 9, 2001
Replaced by	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Tokyo Disneyland
Area	Westernland
Status	Operating
Opening date	April 15, 1983
General statistics
Attraction type	Audio-Animatronic theater presentation
Designer	WED Enterprises
Theme	Country Songs
Duration	15:55
Host	Henry the Bear (Pete Renaday)
Required Ticket	E (Magic Kingdom) D (Tokyo Disneyland) E (Disneyland)
Audio-animatronics	27 (Magic Kingdom) 48 (Disneyland) 50 (Tokyo Disneyland)
Sponsor	Pepsi and Frito Lay (1971-1981) (Magic Kingdom) Wonder Bread(1975-1990) (Disneyland) House Foods(Tokyo Disneyland)
Wheelchair accessible
Assistive listening available
Closed captioning available

The Country Bear Jamboree is an attraction at the Magic Kingdom in the Walt Disney World Resort and at Tokyo Disneyland in the Tokyo Disney Resort, as well as a former attraction at Disneyland Park. All versions of the attraction are similar.

The attraction is a stage show with audio-animatronic figures. Most of the characters are bears who perform Country music. Characters rise up to the stage on platforms, descend from the ceiling, and appear from behind curtains. The audience includes audio-animatronic animal heads mounted on the walls who interact with characters on stage.

Due to overwhelming popularity, The Country Bear Jamboree was given a "spin-off" show which appeared during the 1984 winter season at Disney World and Disneyland. It was called The Country Bear Christmas Special.

In 2002, a movie titled The Country Bears was released which was based on the attraction and its characters.

The Country Bear Jamboree was originally intended by Walt to be placed at Disney's Mineral King Ski Resort which he was trying to build in the mid 1960s. Walt knew he wanted some sort of show to provide entertainment to the guests at the resort, and he knew he wanted the show to feature some sort of bear band. The project was assigned to imagineer Marc Davis.

Davis, together with Al Bertino, came up with many bear groups, including bear marching bands, bear mariachi bands, and Dixieland bears. One day Davis was working on drawings of the characters in his office. Walt Disney walked in and saw the drawings and laughed because he loved the characters. On Disney's way out he turned to Marc Davis and said good-bye, which he was known never to say. That was the last time Davis saw Disney, who died a few days later on December 15, 1966.