Leave a Legacy at Epcot

[FettFan]

I've never been a fan of these things. They are bland and uninteresting...and part of me keeps hoping that as I walk past, a group of cast members dressed as apes decide to reenact 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

[George1995]

I love Leave a Legacy (but that's probably just because I love seeing my picture in it) but it definitely needs a makeover. The way it is now it's just very bland and doesn't look appealing. If they spiced it up with a little added scenery then it would be appealing to people who's pictures aren't in it because at least it looks nice.

 

[Mattius]

Haha love the 2001 reference. I don't really have a strong opinion about the stones, but I wouldn't call them attractive. According to Yesterland, "You can no longer purchase a square on the Epcot Legacy Sculpture, but the monument itself will remain where it is until at least 2027." That's quite the long-term investment.

 

[Bob]

You can never go wrong adding some nice shade trees.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Nothing says hope and optimism for the future like the feeling of walking through a mausoleum.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Get rid of it. Vandals in management took something priceless and unique and sold it for scraps for a one-time profit. They got their bonus, everybody else is stuck with their mess for all eternity.

Hey, I can copy-paste that and post it in any finacial paper about any economics subject!

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

This to me looked much better....

 

[The Empress Lilly]

The London Oz war memorial.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

This to me looked much better....

Hear hear!

 

[copcarguyp71]

I personally think they are more hideous than Jake from state farm but this is taken from another site...

this is the photo agreement from 1999 regarding Leave a Legacy:

• Agreeing that the image and/or sculpture may be replaced or relocated within Walt Disney World at any time, and that the image may be permanently removed on or after the twentieth anniversary of its installation.

So yes, it can be moved at any time and we are a mere few years away from being able to just throw it on the scrap heap entirely.

 

[Disney Shib]

Back in 2005, I booked a stay at POP and they gave my boyfriend and I a free "leave a legacy" with our package. We went back two times after that and never even bothered to go see it. I think all they do is cause traffic buildup at the front of the park... throw them over in the boneyard at the Backlot Tour. They could use some new material.

 

[Susan Savia]

It's the first thing we do upon entry on our first day into Epcot...check out our picture on the Leave a Legacy wall.

 

[DisneyDebNJ]

It's the first thing we do upon entry on our first day into Epcot...check out our picture on the Leave a Legacy wall.

We do the same thing. My now, 24 yr old son's pic is on there. He was 10 when he had the pic taken. When we had it done, it was with the intent of his kid's seeing it some day. Well.... there goes that idea!!!

 

[PolynesianPrincess]

Some of the photos on there are so faded you can't even see them. Same thing with the Walk Around the World stones at MK but at least those aren't a distraction and look completely hideous like these do. I say get rid of em! Bring back the old Epcot entrance.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Back in 2005, I booked a stay at POP and they gave my boyfriend and I a free "leave a legacy" with our package. We went back two times after that and never even bothered to go see it. I think all they do is cause traffic buildup at the front of the park... throw them over in the boneyard at the Backlot Tour. They could use some new material.

Leave a Legacy is one of the most ignored things in all of WDW. I know they have special meaning to those the purchased one, but, by the looks of the numbers it's not very many. It looks like about the same number of people that go into the park the first hour of any day. Not overwhelming. It is, however, extremely ugly and distracting from the beauty that once was the entrance to EPCOT.

So the day that they hit twenty years since they sold the last one, we should see it disappear. I don't know how long ago they started that Legacy thing or even if it's been 20 years now, but, maybe they have a way of easily identifying those that have already been there twenty years (should be easy because they are completely faded by now) and making a smaller graveyard to the side of the entrance until the twenty years is up and restore the gardens.

 

[Zman-ks]

You can never go wrong adding some nice shade trees.

Yes!

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

You'd really think that with all of the engravings made they could put them on the first few slabs and just remove the other ones..Heck just display them on a wall at Innoventions with all of them considering any sponsors are far and few for that pavilion..

 

[worldfanatic]

I rarely complain about things within Disney World. And unlike many, I trust management to make the right moves in the long run.
But that's not the case with these ridiculous, ugly slabs of concrete in front of Spaceship Earth.
I can't believe they haven't been moved yet, and I'll be very disappointed if they aren't removed the "MOMENT" they legally can be.

 

[Soarin' Over Pgh]

It looks awful.

As a first time guest to Epcot (I was, just last month!) it gave an awful first impression of the park. It looks like a cemetery.

To someone who has been there dozens of times, maybe things like that are often overlooked. But to someone who is a 'newbie' to WDW, it certainly wasn't overlooked on my part. It looked bleak, like it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be futuristic (albiet rocky and Mars-like) or an ancient tribute to... to what? People who paid to have a picture there? I just don't get it.

The park would have a much more dramatic feel to it, if you stepped out from the turnstiles into a lush garden with trees, flowers... and maybe leave a few topiaries up from the F&G festival.

Just a first-timers humble opinion.

Ps- wasn't impressed with the entire park, in general. but especially the graveyard.

 

[Goofyernmost]

It looks awful.

As a first time guest to Epcot (I was, just last month!) it gave an awful first impression of the park. It looks like a cemetery.

To someone who has been there dozens of times, maybe things like that are often overlooked. But to someone who is a 'newbie' to WDW, it certainly wasn't overlooked on my part. It looked bleak, like it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be futuristic (albiet rocky and Mars-like) or an ancient tribute to... to what? People who paid to have a picture there? I just don't get it.

The park would have a much more dramatic feel to it, if you stepped out from the turnstiles into a lush garden with trees, flowers... and maybe leave a few topiaries up from the F&G festival.

Just a first-timers humble opinion.

Ps- wasn't impressed with the entire park, in general. but especially the graveyard.

No, it looks like that to all of us except the dozen or so, that bought into it.