{"id":437053,"date":"2025-12-10T04:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437053\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:40:15","slug":"destruction-of-sheringham-bus-shelter-could-affect-pokemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437053\/","title":{"rendered":"Destruction of Sheringham bus shelter could affect Pok\u00e9mon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  But fans of Pok\u00e9mon Go, a video game with 100 million users that asks people to hunt for fictional creatures using their mobile phones, could also be devastated by its planned destruction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The &#8220;Sheringham Bus Stop Mural&#8221; is a Pok\u00e9Stop in the popular game (Image: Save Sheringham&#8217;s Historic Bus Shelter)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The brick shelter in Station Approach, erected in the 1950s, has become the scene of a now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25679396.bailiffs-sent-protest-bus-shelter-sheringham\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nine-day-long protest that has seen demonstrators sleep at the site<\/a> in an attempt to fend off its demolition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Pok\u00e9mon Go players visit real-world landmarks such as Norwich Cathedral to receive useful digital items &#8211; and the Sheringham bus stop is one of these so-called Pok\u00e9stops.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For a location to become a Pok\u00e9Stop, it must encourage exploration and possess &#8220;historical, cultural, or unique visual value&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Protesters have been at the shelter for more than a week (Image: Charne Jones)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bailiffs have been sent to the bus shelter by Norfolk County Council (NCC), which wants to build a new &#8216;Travel Hub&#8217; at the site.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They slapped the protesters with an eviction notice last week, but demonstrators resisted the letter, which was deemed invalid due to the land being owned by Sheringham Town Council.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Pok\u00e9mon Go is a videogame that lets you use your mobile phone to catch the fictional creatures (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25680106.sheringham-bus-shelter-demolition-meeting-held-in-secret\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fate of the shelter will be decided tonight at an extraordinary &#8220;secret&#8221; meeting.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And if NCC gets the green light to remove the protestors, the Pok\u00e9stop could become invalid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It would mean north Norfolk Pok\u00e9mon hunters will be left with one less place to grab some Pok\u00e9balls &#8211; an item used to catch the fictional monsters &#8211; no doubt ruining their hunts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Bus stop protester Paul Goldsmith in his homemade &#8220;Save Our Shelter&#8221; hat (Image: Denise Bradley)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Could Pok\u00e9mon Go be affected if the shelter is destroyed?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Niantic, the company behind Pok\u00e9mon Go, does not automatically remove a Pok\u00e9stop when the landmark it is connected to is destroyed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Locations are only deleted from the game when an eagle-eyed player files a report stating that a Pok\u00e9stop is no longer valid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>You can see the Pok\u00e9mon in the real world by using your phone&#8217;s camera (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If the bus shelter is demolished, and nobody thinks to report this to Niantic, Pok\u00e9mon hunters could soon find themself searching for a landmark that no longer exists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But if the demolition is reported, players will be left with one less place to visit when playing the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But fans of Pok\u00e9mon Go, a video game with 100 million users that asks people to hunt for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":437054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-437053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115693435118669967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}