Movieland Wax Museum is auctioning off their statues! - Beyond Tiki

M mbonga Member La Mesa, California Joined: Dec 04, 2005 Posts: 556	M mbonga Posted posted on Thu, Feb 23, 2006 1:52 AM I just heard about this tonight. Movieland Wax Museum (MWM) that used to be in Buena Park will be selling off their collection of wax statues. http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=110235 What is particularly amazing to me is that I hadn't thought about this museum for many years, then just found out this week that it had closed recently (along with Magic Mountain, Van Nuys Busch Gardens, and a few other major theme parks I knew from the past but was unaware they had closed), and just last night I had been wondering what they did with all their wax figures. For anyone interested in that museum or such things, this auction should be a once-in-a-lifetime event. I visited MWM only once, in 1976, and since it was one of the last places I ever visited with my dad before he died, that place has some indirect significance for me even though I'm not particularly interested in movie memorabilia. Ableauctions to Host Movieland Celebrity Wax Museum Auction on eBay Live Auctions -- Take Advantage of This Event, and Take Hollywood Home BUENA PARK, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/16/2006 -- Ableauctions.com (AMEX: AAC), through their subsidiary iCollector.com, announced today it will host the Movieland Wax Museum auction for Asset Reliance, Inc. on March 11, 2006. This promising event holds the opportunity to bring movie stars such as Marilynn Monroe, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Mae West, John Travolta, the Little Rascals, "Star Trek" crew members, and Burt Reynolds to your home. Asset Reliance and the Movieland Wax Museum will also auction movie props, wax figures, autographed celebrity photos, and the opportunity to purchase exact marble carved replicas of Michelangelo's "the David" and "the Pieta." Movieland Wax Museum opened their doors in 1962 showcasing nearly 300 wax figures, proving to be the largest wax museum in the United States for 43 years while hosting 10 million visitors. Sadly they closed their doors October 31, 2005 to be replaced by an entertainment centre and pizza parlor. Asset Reliance, as a full service valuation research and asset disposition firm, has been in the business of providing services such as: liquidations and auction services, remarketing, surplus equipment buying, asset brokerage, and inventory and business appraisals for almost 15 years. Asset Reliance has, in this time, developed one of the world's largest proprietary databases of equipment costs and remarketing sources. For more information on this auction visit http://www.icollector.com About iCollector.com iCollector.com is the pre-eminent supplier of live online auction technology and services to some of the world's most prestigious galleries and industrial auction houses and operates one of the largest eBay Live Auction sales and support centers in the world. It is the only auction technology company to be endorsed by the National Auctioneers Association (NAA) and has partnered with eBay Live Auctions in streamlining the process of broadcasting auctions real-time on the Internet. iCollector's technology enables auction houses to open their establishments to the world by allowing online bidders to participate in real-time on the auction floor. Visit http://www.icollector.com or (www.icollector.com/ourTechnology.aspx)

I just heard about this tonight. Movieland Wax Museum (MWM) that used to be in Buena Park will be selling off their collection of wax statues.

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=110235

What is particularly amazing to me is that I hadn't thought about this museum for many years, then just found out this week that it had closed recently (along with Magic Mountain, Van Nuys Busch Gardens, and a few other major theme parks I knew from the past but was unaware they had closed), and just last night I had been wondering what they did with all their wax figures. For anyone interested in that museum or such things, this auction should be a once-in-a-lifetime event. I visited MWM only once, in 1976, and since it was one of the last places I ever visited with my dad before he died, that place has some indirect significance for me even though I'm not particularly interested in movie memorabilia.

Ableauctions to Host Movieland Celebrity Wax Museum Auction on eBay Live Auctions -- Take Advantage of This Event, and Take Hollywood Home

BUENA PARK, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/16/2006 -- Ableauctions.com (AMEX: AAC), through their subsidiary iCollector.com, announced today it will host the Movieland Wax Museum auction for Asset Reliance, Inc. on March 11, 2006. This promising event holds the opportunity to bring movie stars such as Marilynn Monroe, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Mae West, John Travolta, the Little Rascals, "Star Trek" crew members, and Burt Reynolds to your home.

Asset Reliance and the Movieland Wax Museum will also auction movie props, wax figures, autographed celebrity photos, and the opportunity to purchase exact marble carved replicas of Michelangelo's "the David" and "the Pieta."

Movieland Wax Museum opened their doors in 1962 showcasing nearly 300 wax figures, proving to be the largest wax museum in the United States for 43 years while hosting 10 million visitors. Sadly they closed their doors October 31, 2005 to be replaced by an entertainment centre and pizza parlor.

Asset Reliance, as a full service valuation research and asset disposition firm, has been in the business of providing services such as: liquidations and auction services, remarketing, surplus equipment buying, asset brokerage, and inventory and business appraisals for almost 15 years. Asset Reliance has, in this time, developed one of the world's largest proprietary databases of equipment costs and remarketing sources.

For more information on this auction visit http://www.icollector.com

About iCollector.com

iCollector.com is the pre-eminent supplier of live online auction technology and services to some of the world's most prestigious galleries and industrial auction houses and operates one of the largest eBay Live Auction sales and support centers in the world. It is the only auction technology company to be endorsed by the National Auctioneers Association (NAA) and has partnered with eBay Live Auctions in streamlining the process of broadcasting auctions real-time on the Internet. iCollector's technology enables auction houses to open their establishments to the world by allowing online bidders to participate in real-time on the auction floor.

Visit http://www.icollector.com or (www.icollector.com/ourTechnology.aspx)

Post #216692 by mbonga on Thu, Feb 23, 2006 1:52 AM