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.
Oswald Oswald! It's the first of the month! And with a new month comes Fab News' first, brand-new sponsor, DVC Resale Market. I'm really...
Reading Is rewarding - there's a surprise here folks!
We took a family trip to Medieval Times in Buena Park Friday night. My husband Noe...
Oh the places I'm am willing to go, or in this case not go, to bring you the latest Disney news. . .
Marvel's Ant-Man...
There's a lot of celebrating going on, but I'm celebrating because today, November 17, is my husand Noe's birthday. Happy birthday, honey! If I...
It's nice and cool out. I can't get over it, after the long, miserable summer. I'm so happy! The parks were packed over Veterans'...
Coming back after a long absence has been a gratifying and humbling experience. I'm gratified every time someone remembers me, and every once in...
The Southern Californian version of Autumn has hit Southern California, bringing with it cooler weather (all the way down to the low 70s during...
I'm back from the MiceChat Walt Disney World Invasion. It was amazing, and I'm very, very sick. I'm actually writing this lying on my...
Hong Kong is No Phooey
As wonderful as the Halloween festivities are in the US parks, they pale in comparison to what happens overseas. I...
I am writing this from the foot of a bed at the Cabana Bay Beach Resort in Orlando, and I still cannot believe that...
In the midst of packing for the MiceChat Walt Disney World Invasion and having a quick afternoon Kungaloosh with MiceChatter and swell fella David...
Hello, Fab Nation! The air here in California reached a brisk 89 degrees today, heralding the entrance of fall and all of the wonderful...
Sorry I'm late, Fab Newsies. I got hit with several native curses Monday night after the Mahaloween Luau, namely my inhaler reacting really badly...
Hello, sweet Fabanistas. The weekend approaches, and for us, it's going to be a busy one!
Luau, Baby!
There's still time to get tickets for the...
Rebel, Rebel
Sarah Michelle Gellar, whom I loved as Kendall Hart in All My Children, will be playing the Seventh Sister (Sithster?) a cunning, evil...
It's October, and that means even more to us Disneyland-loving folks than Ghost Galaxy and pumpkin beignets - it means that it's time for...
Hello Fabanistas! Hasn't it been an exciting week? Well, that's nothing compared to what's coming up!
Register This
I wrote this year's ocregister.com Knott's Scary Farm...
It's been a heck of a week, and it's just beginning. Strap in and hang on tight!
Congratulations!
Sergio Iriarte and Mike are our winners, according...
Wondering where I was all day? I was in Embargoland! I signed a thingy! But I can show you now!
So, here it is:
Disney Home...
What a couple of days it's been! And what a couple of days it's going to be! I'm writing this Monday night after a...