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Disney's Pop Century Resort
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Disney's Pop Century Resort is a resort at the Walt Disney World Resort. It is one of four hotels that make up the "value resort" group, along with the Disney's All-Star Sports Resort, Disney's All-Star Movies Resort, and Disney's All-Star Music Resort. The hotel is themed around different decades in American pop culture. Much like the other resorts within the value category, there are giant versions of various items built around the hotel. Each themed area features motel-style buildings adorned in gigantic (3 meters+) phrases and iconography of the particular decade being represented. The resort has 2,880 rooms in ten separate buildings, three pool areas, and one central area that houses the front desk, gift shop, arcade and food court. The buildings are four story versions of the three story All-Star Resort buildings.
Classic Years
Themed areas
Each area themed with a specific decade and giant items related to that decade.
1950s
Giant bowling pin staircases
Giant Lady and the Tramp statue
45rpm records
Transistor radio
Jukebox
Bowling Pin Pool
1960s
Giant Yo-yo staircases
Hippie Flowers
Peace symbol
Big Baloo statue with Mowgli
1970s
Giant 8-track tape staircases
Disco Dancing
Giant foosball setup
Four-story tall Big Wheel
Mickey Mouse phone
Mood ring
1980s
Giant Rubik's Cube staircases
Roger Rabbit
A giant Walkman
Mr. Potato Head
Pac-Man
1990s
Giant cell phone staircases
A giant Laptop
Giant floppy disks and a computer keyboard by the pool
Rollerblades
Hip hop dance
Shopping and dining
Disney's Pop Century Resort has several shopping and dining locations, including the following:
Everything Pop - Everything Pop is both the food court and the gift shop for the resort. The gift shop has products based on the time era (the 1950s-1990s) as well as Disney World merchandise. The food court has different five specialty shops; Bakery, Grill, Market, Pizza, and Ethnic. The Disney Dining Plan can be used to purchase Quick Service meals.
Grab-N-Go Market - The Grab-N-Go Market is located in the back of the Everything Pop food court. The market offers foods that can be carried into the theme parks, such as water, muffins, sandwiches
Petals Pool Bar - Petals is a bar located near the Hippy-Dippy Pool in the 1960s themed area (which is near the Classic Hall lobby). Drinks may be purchased at the bar.
Legendary Years
The second phase of construction for the resort is the Legendary Years - 1900-1940. This part of the resort resides across the Hourglass Lake, and is connected by the Generation Gap Bridge. Its construction was halted after 9/11 due to the reduction in tourism. As of 2009, the "Legendary Hall" building and a few of the units have been constructed but are not finished. The buildings can be seen on the right hand side of the entrance to Pop Century. Initially the completed resort was to have an additional 2,880 rooms on the "Legendary" side, configured identically to the "Classic" side.
The parking lot for the Legendary Years section was completed during the earlier phase of construction, and occasionally is used as overflow parking for Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex.
Disney transportation
Disney Transport buses provide scheduled service between the resort hotel and the theme parks, water parks, and Downtown Disney.
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