The Renaming of Pop

Communicore

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Should Pop be renamed to just Pop? It's not like they need to use the full name anymore.

I say it should just be called Disney's Pop. No resort or hotel.
 

wdwmagic

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Should Pop be renamed to just Pop? It's not like they need to use the full name anymore.

I say it should just be called Disney's Pop. No resort or hotel.

Disney in almost all cases use the word "Resort" on the end. Disney's Pop does indicate what it is, so I do not think it is a good idea.
 
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Communicore

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Disney in almost all cases use the word "Resort" on the end. Disney's Pop does indicate what it is, so I do not think it is a good idea.

Well I guess I agree but it's not even a "century" anymore and the signage still has "The Classic Years" so they should remove those references.
 
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tecowdw

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How about "Disney's Pop Culture Resort" for a name? I like that. They really do need to drop the "classic years" regardless.

And while at it, I'm not a fan of "Disney's Art of Animation Resort" for a name. I would have liked "Disney's Animation Resort" alot better. Then again, they forgot to ask me for some reason!
;)
 
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b94ronman

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Why do they need to change the name of the resort? It would be just as easy to add the other decades then to retheme...... Or they could leave it the ways it's been for the last decade.....
 
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SMS55

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Well I guess I agree but it's not even a "century" anymore and the signage still has "The Classic Years" so they should remove those references.

To be historically accurate it would have to be named POP Culture, not Pop Century, since popular culture is something that has happened predominantly since WWII. WHile there were some movements prior to WWII most of it has come since. Problem is POP Culture doesn't sound to appealing and the average person thinksthe entire century has been about popular culture.
 
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slappy magoo

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I'd rename it "Pop 50." To be honest, as the internet and the current condition of TV can now offer so much more entertainment at your fingertips, I think the notion of what's "Pop" is going to change drastically. You already see it on TV, where many of the most popular shows have a rating that used to be considered absolutely awful in ye olden days of three (maybe 4) networks. Now networks are thrilled with 7 million people watch something live, when that used to be a chopping-block number. But I digress.

Those 50 years, which coincides with TV's boom - is a period where it was easy for the nation to kinda all be on the same page in terms of what people were watching and what they were listening to. Even stuff you weren't watching or reading or going to the movies to see or listening to, it was easy to keep up with what was out there, to say nothing of then-current events or fads taking the country by storm. Now you have access to so much that's new, to say nothing of all that's come before now just being a few keystrokes away, it's hard to get everyone looking in the same direction, or aware of the same things. it's also easier to avoid the stuff you have no interest in. Soon, pop culture, the things that "everyone see," is really going to be nothing more than youtube videos and movie trailers. So a resort that celebrates 50 years of pop culture before it got narrowcasted to near-obsolesence (sp?) is all right by me.

So, Pop! 50.
 
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Worldlover71

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I've always seen this resort as having a shorter shelf life than the others because people's memories are short. The Polynesian and Grand Floridian Resorts are timeless but 50 years from now will people still care about the icons on Pop's facade or will they be wondering what a Rubix Cube is? I have a feeling this resort will be re-themed within 20 years as phase II of Art of Animation.
 
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NiarrNDisney

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Yup, it's not a century anymore.

call it the "Half Pop Resort"

Or POP Half Century Resort

Personally I like Disney's Pop Resort maybe just take down the large 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 00, and put more "Pop" icons in their place to complete the theme.

~edit~ Oh and I also like the idea of Disney's Pop Culture Resort so kudo's to the person who suggested it.
 
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