Michelle Valladolid
Shelly Valladolid, aka Fab, has been writing about Disney and theme parks for about two decades. She has written for various fan and pop culture sites, Disney Magazine and OCRegister.com and participated in several books, including Passporter's Disneyland and Southern California and Disney World Dreams. She was co-founder and president of the Orlando, Florida chapter of the NFFC (now Disneyana Fan Club). She taught a class on theme park history at a Southern California University. She is creator and co-owner of Jim Hill Media, one of the creators of MousePlanet and was a consultant on MSNBC, The Motley Fool and others about Disney and various media matters. She was a Heel wrestling manager on TV and a voice artist on the radio in Honolulu, HI, where she grew up. She has a blog and a podcast with her daughter, Mission:Breakout Obsessive Alice Hill. She and her husband, MiceChat columnist Noe Valladolid, live in Southern California with Alice.
What a week! Theme park fans have much to rejoice as the boy wizard apparates in Hollywood, Food and Wine returns to California Adventure,...
Disney*Pixar’s 'Inside Out’ and ‘Boy and the World’ Win Top Prizes at 43rd Annie Awards
The filmmakers behind Disney*Pixar's Inside Out had a lot to...
Creativity is the spice of life. Imagine Disneyland without all the innovative ideas and theme. Today's Fab News starts off with a project very...
Hello to all my wonderful MiceChatters and Fab Newsies! I hope you're holding up in this sudden heat. I'm in the middle of moving,...
I celebrated my first anniversary with MiceChat last weekend, as MiceChat celebrated its eleventh anniversary. What a great year it's been! I would have...
Star Wars Days at Sea or "Aye Aye, Cap'n Phasma!"
The first images of the Star Wars events on the Disney Cruise line are up,...
I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band and seen a needle wink its eye. But I be done seen about everything, when...
This is the week, for a decade or so, that me and my family would pack up and make the long, long flight from...
Is Star Wars Land Worthy of Discovery Bay?
I finally figured out why I am not as broken up as my friends about losing Big...
Here's the photo Disney just released of the way the Rivers of America will look upon completion of the project at Disneyland. Is Star...
Hope your week's been great and your weekend is relaxing and happy. I've been up 40 or so hours with a sick cat. She's...
2016 (thanks Jason) is here, and so far it's okay. We have packing and moving in our near future, closer to Noe's work, Alice's...
// Happy New Year's Eve to one and all! If you're staying home, I hope you have a fun and comfy night, if you're...
Fab News delivers a jam packed end of year Disney news update from Disneyland, Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland. Arendelle delayed at Tokyo DisneySea, New Years Eve options at Disney World, and a MiceChat interview with the Force Behind Lucasfilm, President/Producer Kathleen Kennedy!
First of all, Hau'oli la hanau (happy birthday) to one of my best pals, Roger Colton, one of the best bad influences a Disney...
Metal Detectors have landed at Disneyland. How will it impact lines and security at the happiest place on earth?
Is everyone getting ready for the holiday rush? I have one more day with my daughter until I put her on a plane; she'll...
This hectic week is starting to wind down. I have yet to see Season of the Force at Disneyland, and I'd better get over...
It's been a busy week, and we're only a day or two in! So far, it's finals week, packing to send the kiddo back...
Hello, everybody! It's December, time for candy canes and eggnog...lattes. Hey, it's California. Let's keep the Holiday spirit of peace on earth alive and...