Hard Luck Bears / Show dos Ursos - Playcenter, Brazil (1981 - 1998) [Full Show]
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 Published On May 19, 2021

Hard Luck Bears / Show dos Ursos at Playcenter in São Paulo, Brazil (1981 - 1998; Replaced with "Castelo dos Horrores")

Dubbed audio and video speed correction by me.
Dubbed with the Hard Luck Bears showtape audio, the original showtape audio featured in the video was the Portuguese version.

Characters
Billy Wilbur - A bear who played the guitar and would later become the Rock-afire's Billy Bob.
Billy Bill - A bear who played the piano.
Billy Boy - A bear who played the drums.
Billy Bob - A bear who played the washtub bass.
Choo-Choo - A baby bear who bounced to the music in a wash basket.
Pete and Repeat Thornsberry - Two brother bears that worked at Smitty's Super Service Station on Stage Right.
Mama Granbags - The mother of Billy Wilbur, Billy Bill, Billy Boy and Billy Bob. She was located on Stage Left.
Gooney Bird - A bird hiding in a wooden barrel who would later become the Rock-afire's Looney Bird. He was located on Stage Left.

Trivia
This show seems to be very similar to Disney's Country Bear Jamboree.
The "Show Dos Ursos" installation of the show at Brazil's (now closed) theme park, Playcenter São Paulo is notable for many things.
It opened in early 1981, and was the second international Hard Luck Bears shows in operation (behind only to Blackpool Pleasure Beach).
The Brazillian-Portuguese names of the characters go as follows:
Mamãe Úrsula (Mama Granbags)
Papagaio Respondão (Gooney Bird)
Tiburso (Billy Wilbur)
Murso (Billy Bob)
Dudu Urso (Billy Boy)
Laurso (Billy Bill)
Nhõ Pita (Pete Thornsberry)
Repita (Repeat Thornsberry)
Ursinho Bebê (Choo Choo)
Several props are exclusive to the stage, such as different curtains, backdrops, and some instruments excluding Billy Wilbur's guitar and Billy Boy's drums.
In the Brazillian-Portuguese dub, the concept of Smitty's Super Service Station has been phased out, leading to the Super Service Station song topic being changed to chicken omelettes.
Despite this, a gas pump can be seen on stage reading "Alcool."
Despite Mama Grandbags' preference of civilized, softer music over honky tonk (or rock in this case) being the same, the main ecological moral is stated as "do not mistreat the animals."
Pete & Repeat are now cousins of the bears in this dub.
Some product placements could be seen on Stage Left and Right in some pictures, although these were phased out for unknown reasons prior to the attraction's closure in 1998.

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