Disney World brutally axes beloved character after 50 years over fears his name is offensive to alcoholics

Walt Disney World is relaunching a fan-favorite attraction aft making awesome updates, including renaming 1 its astir celebrated characters.

The Country Bear Jamboree - a Magic Kingdom institution since 1971 - unopen down successful January of this twelvemonth for a revamp.

Renamed 'Country Bear Musical Jamboree,' nan animatronic unit of singing bears returns connected Wednesday minus 1 beloved character.

Liver Lips McGrowl, a somewhat chubby brownish carnivore pinch pouty lips, was axed from nan programme complete concerns his sanction is offensive, reported Inside The Magic.

The word 'liver lips' describes swollen lips owed to excessive alcohol depletion and has besides been utilized arsenic a group slur.

A poster advertizing nan reimagined attraction shows nan carnivore has been renamed Romeo McGrowl. 

His quality is mostly unchanged, but he sports a bouncy caput of blonde hairsbreadth and a purple cervix tie.

The revamped acquisition features a marque caller book and people made up of Disney songs performed by musicians including Mac McAnally, Allison Russel, Chris Thile and Emily Ann Roberts, according to Variety.

The caller setlist features a caller original - and eponymous - opus written for nan attraction.

Other numbers see songs from caller films specified arsenic Zootopia and Coco to classics from The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book.

The only opus that is from nan original group database is 'Come Again,' nan closing number.

Disney has splashed retired connected woke replacements for immoderate of its best-loved taxable rides since deciding to ditch them astatine nan tallness of nan George Floyd protests. 

The corp ordered nan leveling of its Splash Mountain flume rides successful 2020, deeming their references to nan 1946 movie Song of nan South 'not due successful today's world'.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure, based connected nan 2009 animated movie The Princess and nan Frog, keeps Splash Mountain's DNA arsenic a log-flume ride, but it's infused pinch music, scenery and animatronic characters inspired by 'Princess,' group successful 1920s New Orleans.