This is the way I heard it.

It was supposed to be bigger than Star Wars, the most expensive sci-fi film of all time.

It was called The Lord of Light, and it would be cherished by adoring fans for generations

to come.

That was the pitch, anyway.

Here's is Barry Gellers' wildly ambitious script was really an attempt to finance the

mother of all amusement parks, a fantastical place called Science Fiction Land.

Three times the size of Disneyland packed with rides and exhibitions guaranteed to bugle

the mind and stimulate the brain.

Science Fiction Land would make six flags look like the dilapidated playground of a condemned

elementary school.

A 38-story Ferris wheel, a holographic zoo, an anti-gravity chamber, summerine rides and

man-made rivers a bowling alley with a thousand lanes attended by Androids.

All of it housed on a thousand-acre parcel under a massive climate-controlled dome just

south of Interstate 70 in Aurora, Colorado.

Sure, there was money to be made, lots of money.

For getting rich was not Barry Gellers' primary goal.

Barry was convinced that Science Fiction Land would encourage innovation by attracting

scientists and investors from all over the world.

By providing a venue for their latest gadgets and inventions, Barry believed that freedom and

democracy could be advanced for all mankind.

But of course, big dreams require big money, and since Hollywood wasn't rushing to

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