The theater includes three audio-animatronic animal heads mounted on the walls who interact with characters on stage.

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

Instead, the Imagineers working on the project decided to place the show in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in time for its grand opening in 1971.

Imagineer X Atencio and musical director George Bruns created songs for the bears to sing.

On October 1, 1971, The Country Bear Jamboree opened its doors in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.

It received so much positive feedback that Imagineers immediately planned to make a replica of the show to be placed in Disneyland.

The addition to the show in Disneyland inspired a brand-new land appropriately titled Bear Country.

However, unlike Disneyland, the trophy heads of Max, Buff and Melvin hang on the right side of both identical theaters (in the same arrangement as Magic Kingdom's).

On August 24, 2001, it was announced that the Disneyland location would close on September 9 to make room for The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

[3] On August 21, 2012, the Walt Disney World version of the Country Bear Jamboree closed for a nearly two-month-long refurbishment.

[4] In September 2023, it was announced that the Walt Disney World version would receive a new show titled the Country Bear Musical Jamboree.

[5] In June 2024, Magic Kingdom announced that Country Bear Musical Jamboree would open on July 17, 2024.

Wendell's role in the Florida version of the show was severely reduced during the October 2012 refurbishment when "Fractured Folk Song" was removed, and is no longer mentioned by name.

In September 2023, it was revealed that he would be renamed Romeo McGrowl when the attraction was rethemed to Country Bear Musical Jamboree in Magic Kingdom.

The center stage proscenium of Grizzly Hall features a plaque decorated with a Victorian style portrait of Ursus, dedicated to his legacy.

In the Country Bear Musical Jamboree, it was revealed that Henry is his grandson (identically resembling Ursus in appearance).

At several points during the show, guests can hear some of the bears yelling about a skunk that got backstage, and eventually Randy finds himself on top of Henry's head.

In the English versions of the show, Webster is frozen in a block of ice and does not speak, instead just rattling around every now and then as Terrence asks him to sing.

In the Japanese version, she is a more cartoon-like octopus as opposed to the original realistic design, and she sings a love song with Terrence.

At Disneyland, Max, Buff, and Melvin currently reside in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which replaced the Country Bear Playhouse in 2003 (which had closed nearly two years prior).

The set of Max, Buff & Melvin featured there were the static non-animatronic figures found in Mile Long Bar.

[7] At the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland the three trophy heads of Max, Buff and Melvin hung on the right side of the theater.

Note: List does not include Gomer, Ted, Fred, and Baby Oscar, as they never speak in any of the shows.

As each bear sings their song, a curtain opens to reveal them, except in the case of Wendell, Gomer, and the Sun Bonnet Trio (all of whom rise from the center stage), and Teddi Barra (who descends from the ceiling).

The Walt Disney World version remained unchanged until its 2012 refurbishment, when the set list was altered.

[14] In 2002, Walt Disney Pictures released a live-action feature film based on the attraction, starring Christopher Walken, Daryl Mitchell, Diedrich Bader, Alex Rocco, and Haley Joel Osment as the voice of Beary Barrington.