From Country Bear Playhouse to Grizzly Hall and everywhere in between, we hope that this brief jaunt back in time helps you have a wonderfully kitschy, “beary” merry holiday season!
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Beautiful Disney art can be “part of your world” when you download these desktop backgrounds for you computer or Facebook and Twitter accounts.
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New music was written for the bears by Disney arranger and composer George Wilkins, who wrote and adapted popular holiday music to align with the classic, twangy “Country Bear sound” established in the first show.
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Transforming Main Street into a Winter Wonderland
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Making its debut in late 1984 at Disneyland and Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort, The Country Bear Christmas Special opened as a seasonal overlay to the immensely popular Country Bear Jamboree attraction.
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These vintage story sketches show Mickey Mouse’s speaking debut in the 1929 short, The Karnival Kid.
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Before the storyboarding process was pioneered by the Disney Studios in the early 1930s, story sketches for an animated short were often drawn comic-book style with several panels to a page.
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He may never have been named Time magazine’s Man of the Year, but Walt Disney was spotlighted on the cover of that venerable news journal twice.
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The adorable Jungle Cubs animated television series, which ran on ABC from October 5, 1996 to September 5, 1998, had characters that would claw your heart out with their cuteness.
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For the first time, the radio and television broadcasts from the Mary Poppins premiere have been stitched together to recreate the excitement of the film’s original gala premiere in Hollywood.
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