Leave A Legacy pre-reimagining
At Leave A Legacy, view a special program where Guests’ likenesses were etched on steel tiles to commemorate their visit to Epcot.
Ever notice those plaques out front of Epcot? Look closer and you’ll see names and faces of Guests from around the globe.
The program, launched during our Millennium Celebration in the fall of 1999, gave Guests the opportunity to leave a little piece of themselves at one of their favorite places. Photo-capture stations took their digital images, which were then etched onto steel tiles and mounted on one of 30 granite megaliths in the Leave a Legacy Plaza. The megaliths range in height from 3 to 19 feet, and the heaviest one weighs more than 50,000 pounds!
Veteran Imagineer John Hench (1908 – 2004), an artist with The Walt Disney Company since 1939, designed the plaza as well as Spaceship Earth. He was also the original art director of Epcot itself and helped design and build Disneyland before that. (source)
Please note that Leave a Legacy was removed from Epcot’s main entrance in the Summer of 2019 and was relocated just outside the entrance.
At a Glance
- Disney Resort: Walt Disney World Resort
- Disney Park: Epcot Attractions News and History
- Attraction Type: Disney Park Exhibits, Extinct Disney Attractions
- Official Page
- Year Opened: 1999
- Year Closed: 2019
Leave A Legacy | Disney World News:
- PHOTOS – Demolition walls up around Leave a Legacy at Epcot’s main entrance, May 21, 2019
- Work to begin imminently on the new Epcot entrance with portions of Leave a Legacy to close, May 18, 2019
- The 15-Month Walt Disney World Millennium Celebration: A Celebration Too Big For Just One Night, October 1, 1999
