David McCloskey
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What?
What's the theme park?
Damascus Station, the theme park.
I start with a theme park and then the story just kind of gets built around it.
And there's concept art of what the theme park would look like.
And Barry Geller, when he was asked why it wasn't built, said it gives a whole bunch of reasons that he's basically like, it was going to cost a half billion dollars.
It was just going to, it was insane.
It had like levitating trains on magnets and stuff.
You can find them.
the art online.
It's quite amazing.
Now, the screenplay and the park had unfortunately, all of the financing for this had collapsed when Geller's business partner was indicted for embezzlement.
And so, the screenplay, the concept drawings by Jack Kirby have basically been sitting
on the shelf and Chambers has copies of this at his home.
And he hands the stuff to Mendez and it's pretty β I would β we got to create a link to this at the show notes because the concept art is wild.
It's geographically ambiguous, I would say.
And the slightly scantily clad woman, when I went deep,
in my researches on this.
So the big shape, the big kind of people in this Pavilions of Joy picture, those are 10,000 foot statues.
And then beneath that is the cityscape.