I always felt like it wanted to be 2001: a Space Odyssey. Watch it as an art piece more than a movie.

And an amusement park

Milton Hershey made chocolate, a town, and a school that inherited a controlling interest in the chocolate company.

The posted article says no, not even with an amateur telescope

McDonald’s(and others) used to sell promo glasses that might have looked like this. My LOTR goblets I think were from Burger King.

The difference may also be how the business is structured. Personal vs a corporation (LLC or otherwise).