Country Bears' Romeo McGrowl Now Appearing for Meet and Greets at Magic Kingdom

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Monday May 5, 2025 2:15pm ET · "Country Bear Musical Jamboree"

A new character has joined the meet and greet lineup in Frontierland — Romeo McGrowl is now appearing to greet guests at Magic Kingdom.

Romeo, who features in the newly reimagined Country Bear Musical Jamboree, is now meeting guests near Grizzly Hall. This is the first time Romeo has been available for meet and greets, joining fellow Country Bear characters Big Al, Wendell, and Shaker, who have also been appearing in the area since the new show debuted.

He’s dressed in his updated outfit inspired by the show, which gave the long-running attraction a fresh musical lineup and new costuming. Romeo’s rockabilly-inspired look matches his role in the show and adds a bit of flair to the Frontierland character experience.

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Romeo McGrowl has a new outfit:
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LET'S GOOOOO!!!!

Actually the most exciting bit of park news for me in awhile lmao. Here's hoping Shaker gets some TLC soon, cause he looks nothing like how he does in the show. I Photoshopped him and Wendell back when the new show premiered:
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Am I wrong or does it looks like he got a bit of a new head sculpt? He looks thinner than his old design
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The neck looks like it could've had some material taken out, but I'd say the head looks the same.

Here's an old pic, the neck is a little thicker here compared to the new costume.
↩ replying to Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
I think it may be also that he's now wearing clothes plus a wig that makes the sculpt look different.
↩ replying to EagleScout610
They definitely repainted his face! Looks like his eyelashes are shorter and his eyebrows are larger, too.
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Coo - I guess we will take these little victories when we can.
Do we know how much it costs Disney to make a costume? Surely it can't be that expensive. I wonder if they'd ever pony up some money to finally give Henry a walk-around costume (other than the one from Disney on Parade in the 70s), or for Trixie since they've been using her a lot in the marketing for the show lately? I know four bears is a lot already, but at least have the main character as a meet-and-greet!
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Knowing them they would be TDL M&G's only...We don't even have a new version of Orange Bird out yet....
He will always be Liver Lips to me.
I find Liver Lips even more funny these days than it was before with all of the bizarre lip augmentation that you can find in the media.
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Including the design process, testing, fabrication, and labour (especially labour)? Several hundred thousand, is most likely. Some properties (Lion Guard I know for a fact, but there are others) have even had characters designed and tested but never brought out for guests... I'd expect that this design probably cost well north of $200k all in, assuming they didn't just modify an existing costume. One of the rare things I don't have particularly hard numbers on, unfortunately.

Of course copies are a fraction of that.
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I still can’t believe Henry doesn’t have a costume as the second most recognizable bear.
Asking here because I can’t find any mention online- is Trixie’s original Marc Davis painting still on display in the lobby? I haven’t seen it in any POVs, and I just thought that they could’ve removed it due to her having a glass of wine- which seems weird given Big Al still has his moonshine jug that’s labeled “XXX”- making it unmistakably alcohol.

If it is gone, I hope it’s being well preserved. Would much rather have Trixie up on the walls instead of the rejected concept art bears.