Leave A Legacy Walls - An Eyesore?

[stevenpensacola]

Would like to see them do away with them, as well as all the tacky "add-ons" on the BIG GOLF BALL. Always loved the plain simplicity of SE, doesn't need the gimmicks to be an icon.

 

[currycook]

BOY, someone knocked on one of my pet peeves! My dear wife knows it because everytime we enter Epcot I mention how they ruined the entrace to this park. Here are just my main points.

1. Ruined the entrance to Epcot on how it was originally designed.

2. Instead of walking into a wonderful fun theme park you walk into a cemetary. You can flame me for this but its like waling through a cemetary past tombstones.

3. Disney's goal in this is guess what - to make money! No other real motivation.

my main objection is #1. I'm been coming to Epcot since it opened in 1982. I really liked how the entrance to this park was designed. It was especially designed as the largest park with this wonderful huge entrance where you walk through a garden entrance and all walkways converge on the space-ship earth and then you make a choice to go right or left around the spaceship earth or go into the first attraction (Space ship earth). Now all that has changed, for the worse in my humble view. But its just one view. If you like it, so be it.

I told my wife when I die, then put my picture up on one of the tombstones.

 

[AladdinsPrincess]

I agree! And my DH and I do have tile there. I like the idea of putting them somewhere else with a fountain or something. They look very awkward at the entrance.

 

[chesirekate]

BOY, someone knocked on one of my pet peeves! My dear wife knows it because everytime we enter Epcot I mention how they ruined the entrace to this park. Here are just my main points.

1. Ruined the entrance to Epcot on how it was originally designed.

2. Instead of walking into a wonderful fun theme park you walk into a cemetary. You can flame me for this but its like waling through a cemetary past tombstones.

3. Disney's goal in this is guess what - to make money! No other real motivation.

my main objection is #1. I'm been coming to Epcot since it opened in 1982. I really liked how the entrance to this park was designed. It was especially designed as the largest park with this wonderful huge entrance where you walk through a garden entrance and all walkways converge on the space-ship earth and then you make a choice to go right or left around the spaceship earth or go into the first attraction (Space ship earth). Now all that has changed, for the worse in my humble view. But its just one view. If you like it, so be it.

I told my wife when I die, then put my picture up on one of the tombstones.

I agree totally. I hadn't been to Epcot in ages and as soon as I walked in I made some disparaging comment about the walls to my DH. He'd never been to Epcot so he had nothing to compare it to, but even he thought they looked liked they had just kind of been stuck there for no good reason. My idea of Epcot (at least Future World) has always been of a large park with lots of wide open spaces. A well-designed, logical, bucolic 'community of the future'. Beautiful landscaping, fountains, striking buildings... I'm not sure how the 'tombstones' fit in with that. I love Epcot but I thought it was better many years ago.

and Ambifins, I love the MK bricks too! Based on the dates I saw, it looks like they haven't laid any of those in years though. Anyone know the story there?

 

[beautybelle]

Well I dont mind the LAL at all but I dont think it would be the same without the big hat. I love seeing it.

 

[Bracho]

I agree with Leota bigtime.... That hand really should go!!. well I think it does... LAL is somewhat strange but like it's been said.. where else could it go....

 

[HollyJoy]

I do! When we first walked into Epcot, I was like, "what in the world is that!?" I thought they were ugly! It surprises me that Disney couldn't come up with a more attractive way to display all the pictures.

 

[Luigi's Girl]

I guess I've always been too excited to be at Disney to think of the walls as an eyesore. Either that or maybe we're just exited to hurry up and get to the walls to see our family's pictures up there!

 

[skiwee1]

Would like to see them do away with them, as well as all the tacky "add-ons" on the BIG GOLF BALL. Always loved the plain simplicity of SE, doesn't need the gimmicks to be an icon.

I love the giant mickey hand on the golf ball. I think it's cute. I also don't mind the LaL stones either.

 

[lehrsj]

BOY, someone knocked on one of my pet peeves! My dear wife knows it because everytime we enter Epcot I mention how they ruined the entrace to this park. Here are just my main points.

1. Ruined the entrance to Epcot on how it was originally designed.

2. Instead of walking into a wonderful fun theme park you walk into a cemetary. You can flame me for this but its like waling through a cemetary past tombstones.

3. Disney's goal in this is guess what - to make money! No other real motivation.

my main objection is #1. I'm been coming to Epcot since it opened in 1982. I really liked how the entrance to this park was designed. It was especially designed as the largest park with this wonderful huge entrance where you walk through a garden entrance and all walkways converge on the space-ship earth and then you make a choice to go right or left around the spaceship earth or go into the first attraction (Space ship earth). Now all that has changed, for the worse in my humble view. But its just one view. If you like it, so be it.

I told my wife when I die, then put my picture up on one of the tombstones.

I couldn't agree more. I think when these things were put in it was for the millennium. I got the impression that they expected to sell them all in that year. It looks like it will take forever before they are all sold.

If you get a picture, is there anything that says how long it is guarentted to be there? I think the bricks at Magic Kingdom are something like 15 years.

 

[goofy4tink]

I don't think of them as 'gravestones'. I tend to view them as the world community as we pass through to Spaceship Earth. I really can't remember what the entrance was like before since I've only been going since '99. But I kinda like them. And yes, we finally did have a picture put on.

I like the Mickey hand also. I mean, come on, this is Disney World. They could probably do much worse things. One of those things being that stupid Sorcerer's Hat in MGM. Now that I don't care for. It looks like it fell from the sky and just plopped down and stayed there.

 

[WaltD4Me]

I have to agree about LAL, I couldn't put my finger on it at first, but they do look like tombstones now that someone mentioned it...I don't think it would be so bad though if the whole area wasn't so "concrete"... they do need to add a couple fountains or flower beds or something to add some color and interest.

The big hat at MGM didn't bother me. I really liked it when it was lit up at night and it was a great meeting place...we all kept saying "We'll meet you at "The Hand!"

Lisa

 

[DisDarling]

Where are they located??? I havent been to Epcot since 1999.
Thanks!
D.D.

 

[jarestel]

Doesn't really matter to Disney whether everyone likes them or not, it's a money maker and that's what counts. Unless Epcot attendance falls off specifically because of the Leave a Legacy walls ( not likely to happen ), they'll be there for the next 15 - 20 years or so. Might as well get used to it.

 

[chesirekate]

I guess I've always been too excited to be at Disney to think of the walls as an eyesore. Either that or maybe we're just exited to hurry up and get to the walls to see our family's pictures up there!

Well, I'm excited to be at Disney too, but that doesn't mean I think Disney is perfect or a I can't be a discriminating fan. I want Disney to be the best that it can be, and for me, those LAL walls are an eyesore and screw up the entry way to Epcot.

DisDarling: They're located right inside the turnstiles at the Future World main entrance. They're are several of them spread out across the walkway, in rows. Some are tall, but with a ragged, diagonal cut along the top. If you've ever been to an old graveyard where the tombstones haven sunken into the ground on one side so they're lop-sided, you'll get the idea. They are much taller than tombstones, but from far away the effect is similar. You can buy a small tile that has an etched outline of your (or your family's) face. I think you can also get just your name or a dedication of some sort on the tile too, I didn't look too closely. I think it's a fine idea, just not executed very well at all.

EDITED TO ADD:

Here are some pics I found on the web. Gosh, looking at these pics just reminds me how ugly I think they are.

http://www.wdwmagic.com/2000_legacy.htm

 

[chesirekate]

Okay, I was just reading that side that I posted. I can't believe John Hench designed the LAL walls! What was he thinking? Here I was thinking Disney must have brought in some cut rate design team to come up with such an eyesore, when it was the original Epcot Imagineer. *sigh* Now I'm just sad.

 

[sugermouse]

We prefer the bricks that they did in the MK area. Wish they would do them in Epcot or MGM.

 

[vjc715]

We like the bricks better too. Although, it is a neat idea with the pictures. But I would have to agree....just not executed well.

I'd be kinds ticked if I was on the top row, as it's very hard to see the pictures. It looks like more of a war memorial more than anything. Cut outs of characters or SOMETHING else would have been better.

Does anyone know if pricing is different to be placed low, medium or high?

 

[Limmer]

I don't think they are so bad. Probably could be done a little more attractively but definitely not disgusting or an eyesore. Much more attractive than the hat at MGM or the arm on SE as someone else mentioned.

 

[chesirekate]

It looks like more of a war memorial more than anything.

Yet another accurate description. There's a solemnity about them that just seems un-Disneylike.

Do they still sell the bricks at the MK?