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December 2 1999: News in from Joey
I noticed the Group NSYNC is on the Leave a Legacy monument. They are located on the front middle marble structure as you walk in. Their plate is the last one on the structure.
November 13 1999: Thanks to Sam Shirley for the pictures.
September 29 1999: The Completed Area (Thanks Greg)
September 18 1999: Latest Construction Photos (Thanks Robert!)
September 14 1999: Latest photo from Adam
August 23 1999: Latest Photos
Photos below were taken late June/early July.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Epcot guests can leave a personal record of their millennium memories at Leave a Legacy, a dramatic piece of art created by Walt Disney Imagineering at the entrance to Epcot at Walt Disney World Resort.
Leave a Legacy creates a new threshold for Epcot, with 35 sculpted and polished granite megaliths appearing to emerge out of the ground like foothills, continuing to grow as they point up toward Spaceship Earth. Each of the stones will be covered with engraved images of guests who have visited Epcot during the millennium celebration. Images will live on so guests can revisit them each time they return.
There is room for 750,000, 1-inch-square images. At one of five Photo Capture Stations, guests can have their photos digitally taken, either individually or in pairs, then etched onto a steel tile. The tile is attached to the stones in less than 48 hours, and computers at the site show the location, so that many Epcot guests will be able to locate their permanent places before the end of their Walt Disney World vacation. Certificates indicating tile locations are mailed to guests so they can come back in the future to see how they looked during this historic milestone.
The cost is $35 for one image per tile, $38 for two images per tile, plus tax.
The Leave a Legacy plaza was designed by veteran Imagineer John Hench, along with a team of Walt Disney Imagineering interns. Hench started as an artist with The Walt Disney Company in 1939, and went on to help design and build Disneyland. He was the original art director for Epcot, and chief designer of Spaceship Earth. The megaliths range from 3 to 19 feet high, and the heaviest weighs more than 50,000 pounds.
Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Online have collaborated on a project that enables guests to continue their legacy by accessing the "Living Legacy" at Disney.com, a part of GO Network. The "Living Legacy" allows guests to record their family's personal hopes and dreams for the future. They also can add digital photographs and build a living family tree that will grow with each passing year.