Orange County’s Movieland Wax Museum opened in 1962 with all the hoopla of the place it was imitating -- Hollywood. Searchlights combed the skies above Buena Park, actress Mary Pickford cut a ...

It’s the end of an era for Buena Park, when what used to be the biggest, tallest, brightest sign on Beach Boulevard is getting torn down. Even after the Movieland Wax Museum closed in 2005 because of ...

BUENA PARK – A longtime fixture of this city’s entertainment corridor will soon disappear, with Buena Park leaders agreeing to the removal of the iconic Movieland Wax Museum sign. The City Council on ...

This Saturday, March 25, 2017 photo shows a close up of Captain Kirk's wax likeness from the now out of business Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park in a hangar at Fullerton Airport in Fullerton, Calif ...

It was back in 1974 that the Movieland Wax Museum first unveiled the beginnings of a set of what would eventually seven life-sized wax figurines of the main cast of Star Trek. The figures included ...

The old sign still looms over Beach Boulevard, a 20th century landmark that, like the museum it once trumpeted, held out past the dawn of multiplexes and YouTube. The Movieland Wax Museum, which ...

LOS ANGELES - Daniel Roebuck showed up at Buena Park's Movieland Wax Museum on Saturday with one major goal. "I want their Frankenstein to live in my house," said the 43-year-old Los Angeles resident ...

Mr. Spock’s head cooled in a wooden crate for 10 years before someone noticed something was wrong. The piercing eyes looked great. The pointy ears were perfectly preserved. The tweezed eyebrows jutted ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The starship Enterprise has a new five-year mission: to boldly go and raise money to help a quirky museum live long and prosper. The Hollywood Science Fiction Museum recently took ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The starship Enterprise has a new five-year mission: to boldly go and raise money to help a quirky museum live long and prosper. The Hollywood Science Fiction Museum recently took ...