NelsonRD
Well-Known Member
They were grouped alphabetically by letter, not necessarily by name. So if your name was Arnold, you would be in A, which I find more attractive than 005.
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Will Leave a Legacy Return
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Goofyernmost
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I'll have to take your word for it. I never felt that spending that kind of money for a postage stamp size, almost distorted to the degree unrecognizable if you didn't know the people involved, to be something that was right for me. I would have gone with the entrance blocks with names and dates but I didn't get there in time, nor go often enough to warrant the expense. Didn't they decide to pull the blocks at one point? Did they ever do it? I'm afraid that my walking habit usually made me look forward and not down I didn't notice whether or not they were removed. Since I didn't have one, I had no reason to look down.
If they are still 1 inch square tiles, rough estimate would be between 5 1/2 and 6 feet off the ground, accounting for a base.
Lots more up today
Tom Morrow
Well-Known Member
Did no single person in the creative process think, "people might be upset that their tiny 1"x1" picture is several feet higher than their head"?
Also, this looks like construction walls. There were better ways to do this.
Also, this looks like construction walls. There were better ways to do this.
NelsonRD
Well-Known Member
I think you are trying to have a different argument that my post? I said nothing about about the practicability, or value of this, I just suggested the implementation should have been grouped alphabetically opposed to numerically, as it was alphabetically before.
Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
I wasn't arguing about anything. I was expressing a deep emotional thing that involved a part of my life. It just struck me as wrong to compare the supreme sacrifice of so many people of promise to the legacy tiles at Epcot. Other than that I have no real concern about how anyone individually see things. But, now you know how I feel and why I feel it. The rest is up to you.
scuttlebud
Active Member
Haven’t seen reports of anyone whose photos are super high. Is it possible those are repeated photos and just there for composition?
No they aren’t repeated. There are people with tiles on the top row.
SplashJacket
Well-Known Member
I was so confused how this thread had already reached 4 pages in a single day, then I realized while it was posted February 11th, it was February 11th 2020, not 2021
Biff215
Well-Known Member
Wow, if they were alphabetical before, I never noticed that. Sure there were letters at the top of each panel, but those were simply for location purposes and repeated in every row. I'm sure they needed some sort of plan for spreading them out from the start, so it does make sense that there could be a specific order.
As others have mentioned, however, keeping them in alphabetical order throughout 7-8 years of sales would be impossible, particularly because Disney had no way of predicting how much space they would need for a particular letter. Each monolith differed in size as you got closer to SSE, so I'm not sure how they could keep it alphabetical. I'm not saying you're definitely wrong, I just can't wrap my brain around how that could work.
With the new setup they certainly could have alphabetized them. This would be mostly useless to those of us with tiles though since there are no names on them. You'd only know that your last name that starts with "S" would fall on one of maybe a dozen or more wall sections. Really cool that they finally created a website with this info, it certainly beats bugging a CM in a store or at guest relations.
nickys
Premium Member
I think people are mis-understanding.
I believe it alphabetised in that all the A names were together, all the B names and so on. It was not strictly alphabetical within that because of the continuing nature of sales.
NelsonRD
Well-Known Member
I though I made it clear that it was alphabetized by category, not by name, and I find letter headers more attractive than numerical.
Biff215
Well-Known Member
I understand what you're saying and don't disagree. I just wasn't aware that they were alphabetized before. Looking at where these walls are popping up and how it's not continuous, they may have decided that alphabetical would actually be more confusing.
Plus, then how could they keep NSYNC together???
