Pop Century Legendary Years

When you think of Disney's Pop Century Resort, you usually think of the Classic Years buildings -- decades 1950-1990.

What Will Become of the Legendary Years?

Believe it or not, the resort blueprints included two sections to the hotel -- the Classic Years and the Legendary Years, which were to include decades 1910-1940. For multiple rumored reasons, including the travel slump after 9/11/2001, the resort was scaled back to production of only the Classic Years; Legendary Years were put off until an unknown time. To date, the empty shells of resort buildings and rooms are still there, on the other side of Generation Gap Bridge and Hourglass Lake.

Unfortunately, the buildings are mostly gated and enough foliage has grown up around the main building as to keep folks from poking around.

Here's a video of one of the Legendary Years unfinished rooms.

Art of Animation Resort and Suites

Disney's recently announced what will become of these buildings, and of the space across the lake from Pop Century Resort. These will be turned into a brand new resort -- Art of Animation -- which will provide both larger "family suites" and regular hotel rooms themed after some of Disney's most famous recent films. Click the link to read more!