Movieland
- proper noun
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Museo de Cera Movieland
- We went to the Movieland Wax Museum at Buena Park, where wax film dummies were everywhere, even sitting at tables at the coffee shop.
Examples
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Snakeskin Scott, as we know from the newspapers, had an unhappy, scandal-ridden later life and died without reopening his ghost town, but some inventors attempted to revive it; it became "Old West Movieland."
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When I was a kid... and I'd come out from Boulder on vacation... he'd always take me to, like, the Movieland Wax Museum... or some touristy place.
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Last summer, we visited the Movieland Wax Museum, where we took pictures with lifelike replicas of movie stars.
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The Movieland Wax Museum showcases impressive figures of famous celebrities from various films and eras.
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Many tourists flock to the Movieland Wax Museum to see their favorite actors in wax form.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Movieland combines movie ('film') and land ('place'), so it suggests a 'place of movies' full of stars. That makes it a natural name for a wax museum or attraction where visitors can see lifelike movie celebrities.
