The rumors are that Disney will take out the Country Bear Playhouse in order to put a Winnie the Pooh ride in it's place. Don't get us wrong, we love Winnie the Pooh, but we don't think that Disney has to take out CBP in order to put in a Pooh ride. There is room in the park for another ride of that sort. A very nice spot would be where the Skybuckets used to stop at the edge of Fantasyland right before going behind Thunder Mountain Railroad. That hasn't been used for a long time and would be a perfect spot for the Hundred Acre Wood.
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April
10, 1999:
We'll be
going to Disneyland on Sunday April 11. So we should have more news....hopefully
good. :) Also letting you know that the email server that the petition
names goes to is a acting weird as of late, and we can't get in to check
mail. We'll update the names as soon as those problems get worked out.
Sorry about that. More news after Disneyland. ~Jonathan and Tina~
April
2, 1999:
Well, over
the last couple months we've heard lots of different things about the Country
Bear Playhouse. I still hear persistant rumors of the CBP ending after
summer, but practically all the Castmembers at Disneyland that we've asked
have told us otherwise. :) The last CM named Geoff that worked at the CBP
when we asked him about CBP being taken out after summer....said, "NO....Never..
not anytime soon." Obviously he can't say never, but we even told him that
we would quote him and he siad, "OK" and smiled. I hope that the good news
just keeps coming! Oh, a lot more petition signers that I still have to
add....Until next time, bye. ~Jonathan~
February20,
1999:
Sorry for
the lack of updates. On a good note, we have had a ton...I mean a TON of
petition signers as of late!!!! We've more than doubled what we had before.
I need to say thanks to Mike for putting up a link to the petition from
his Save the Country Bear
Playhouse site! You can also go there for tons of multimedia stuff
about the Country Bear Playhouse. The news as of late from Disneyland is
the same good news. :) Hopefully more news soon. Bye for now. ~Jonathan~
January
6, 1999:
Happy New
Year! Well, a little late, but better late then never. :) I am going to
add a page where you can read people's experiences/stories about the Country
Bear Playhouse. So please, if you have any experiences/stories, email it
to me or Tina and we will put it up on a page! As soon as we find a way
to scan our pictures, we will add a page about us, and also add our own
pictures of the Country Bear Playhouse. SO PLEASE SEND IN YOUR EXPERIENCES!
Thanks. ~Jonathan~
December
28, 1998:
Hopefully
everyone had a great X-mas! I did. Latest news on the Country Bear Playhouse
is.....we were told that the reason that Pressler decided to close it wasn't
cuz of his goodness (as I suspected), but because of "lack of money" from
DCA and then after that, the new Atlantis ride that goes in place of the
Submarines. So it should be at least another 3 years before anything happens
to CBP. I hope he just forgets changing the CBP all together after that.
:) The petition is growing slowly but surely. Please let others know
about this site! :) Bye for now. ~Jonathan~
December
5, 1998:
We hope
you had a good Thanksgiving! We still couldn't bring a camera. It was being
used by Jonathan's parents again, but we have GREAT NEWS!!! Tina talked
to another castmember and the castmember said that they WERE plans to close
down the Country Bear Playhouse very soon, but Pressler looked at it and
decided that it "wasn't time" for it to be taken out. Also told us that
it would be up at LEAST long enough to see one more X-mas season! He said
that of course it may not ever be taken out too, Pressler and Co. are thinking
right now. I think Pressler really has another reason to keep it there(like
maybe he doesn't have the resources to change it right now cuz of DCA),
but it doesn't make a difference as long as CBP stays! :) Hope you liked
that news! Oh also, as you can see I added a chart with the positive and
negative castmember reports. Until next time. ~Jonathan and Tina~
November
20, 1998:
Another
trip to Disneyland, but again without a camera. Well, not exactly. I found
my camera not working because it needs batteries, and my mom's camera had
finished film in it and I didn't have the money to buy another roll at
Disneyland. Hopefully I have better luck next time. On a good note, we
talked to another castmember who worked at the CBP and he said that he
had been working there for a long time and he would have heard of something
by now, and as far as he knows, CBP isn't gonna close anytime soon. :)
He was a really nice man, funny too. Well, more later, and please sign
the petition! ~Jonathan~
November
9, 1998:
Good news
and bad news! First the bad news. We went to Disneyland, but I forgot my
camera again! :( Sorry folks. I'll be sure to remember next time. Now the
good news. Jeremy
from Operation: Preserve Disneyland finished the PETITION!
It should be working ok, but we'll see for sure in the next day or two.
Please sign it! I hope that the petition will be as big a success as the
one for the Tiki
Room with Chris Wingert. More good news is that we asked another cast
member that works at the Country Bear Playhouse and this time she said
that there were no plans to close the Country Bear Playhouse as far as
she knew(she gave us the impression that she has been there a while). We'll
just keep asking cast members about it and hope that the positive ones
are right. :) Sorry if some of our soon-to-come extras(like history of
CBP and guestbook) come a little slow, but we're kinda busy with college
too. So please Bear with us. LOL. Sorry lame joke. Oh yeah, the Country
Bear Playhouse is now in it's X-mas program as well as the rest of Disneyland.
We'll put more news up as soon as we can. ~Jonathan~
November
3, 1998:
Well, we
just got back from Disneyland and the Country Bear Playhouse is one of
the attractions that closes early, so we didn't get a chance to go on it
or to confirm from another cast member about the rumor. Next time though,
we will make sure we ask another cast member about it. I'll email Jeremy
and ask him how the petition page is coming along. That's all for now.
~Jonathan~
October
30, 1998:
We'll probably add a guestbook
so that you can comment on the site, and we'll probably also add, as soon
as we can, a memories page where you can email in your memories and experiences
of the Country Bear Playhouse and we'll post em on the site. We might even
make it a contest....not sure yet. Keep mailing Disney and checking back
here for updates! :) ~Jonathan and Christina~
October
27, 1998:
Jeremy Riney
from Operation:
Preserve Disneyland has offered to make a petition page for our Help
Save the Country Bear Playhouse project, and should have it ready by the
end of the week. Thanks Jeremy! Soon to come: History of the CBP and hopefully
sounds. :) Keep checking back. ~Jonathan~
October
26, 1998:
We're going to
put up a petition for you to sign and we'll send it in to Disney. Hopefully
we can save the Country Bear Playhouse just like Chris
"Disneyguy" Wingert saved the Tikki Room with his petition. We'll take
a few pics of CBP and put them on this site soon. Please check back for
new updates! ~Jonathan and Christina~