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.
Hello to all of you! I'm on the tail end of a horrific cold, but I've been bundled up, with a bunch of DVDs...
Hello, greetings and welcome! Don't fall asleep on me! I've been binge-watching Netflix shows with Alice (YES! She's back after two months away!) and...
Greetings and salutations! Is everybody getting used to writing "2018" on whatever we write dates on instead of checks nowadays? Back in the parks...
It's a beautiful night in the galaxy and I certainly know that Disney has over 1.2 billion reasons to be happy right now. How...
Happy New Year!
I'll type this quietly just in case your cabeza is still a little tender from New Year's Eve festivities. There's still five...
No sooner is The Last Jedi out of the gate than we have a release date and working title for Episode IX. As most...
Can you believe that it's almost Christmas? Not enough time to gather together all my favorite things to share. But I've got a running...
Shelly's Fabulous Things 2017
Happy Jolly, everybody! Fabby's back and wow, do I have a Santa's bag o' fun stuff to show you instead of...
Today, the Walt Disney Company announced that it would pay $1.58 billion to acquire a 42% stake in BAMTech to add to the 33%...
Marty Sklar
Feb 6, 1934 - July 27, 2017
Marty Sklar was a student at UCLA and editor for The Daily Bruin when Walt Disney hired...
As anybody who has crossed the Disneyland Resort Esplanade, experienced Autopia or visited Innoventions in the past decade knows, Disney and Honda have had...
The Animation Show of Shows' Kickstarter is in its last day and its not looking great for them, but if anybody can pull a...
Musical Theatre West (MTW) is partnering with the Dick Van Dyke Foundation to raise funds to support the next generation of performing artists. Purchase...
Sigh. I miss Darth Daver. I know I can't fill his big, black boots, but it's Friday, so here's some news about Star Wars...
There are lots of places in this world I'd like to go, but I can't necessarily afford. But Disney sure does make it sound...
Are you planning a Disney vacation for you and your loved ones and you're not sure where to start? Here's a really fun way...
Today in Burbank, coinciding with this week's E3 in Los Angeles and last week's starry Premiere of Cars 3 in Anaheim, Warner Brothers Interactive...
Chicago: where it all started. Where Elias Disney worked as a contractor at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 (the famed White City) and...
An enchanting experience awaits! Disney today announced the launch of Beauty and the Beast: Perfect Match on the Apple App Store and Google Play....
D23.com has the scoop on next Sunday's fabulous musical ep of Once Upon a Time, composed by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, who also...