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.
On May 27, Walt Disney World guests will begin to experience the wonders of Pandora - The World of Avatar at Disney's Animal Kingdom....
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Hello my loves! I've missed you! Time to curl up in front of the comforting glow of your second-favorite electronic device and find out...
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Friend of MiceChat and Disney Legend Floyd Norman will be doing a "QuickDraw" January 13 at 9:30 AM Pacific Time on the Disney YouTube...
Somebody wring me out, already! I don't think it's rained this much since the storm of '78! Back in the day, Imagineers Bruce Gordon...
Happy Fab News Friday! It's the end of 2016 tomorrow, and I'm really not unhappy to see it go. While there have been some...
Happy holidays to all of my Fabanistas and all of the other MiceChatters out there. I've been away for a few weeks because my...
Oswald, Oswald! It's December 1st!
Ah, sunny Southern California! Post-Thanksgiving, we said farewell to the leftovers over the course of several days as it rained...
It's just a little bit of Fab News for the holiday - Happy Thanksgiving for those of you in the USA, and for those...
There's no better place to be during the holiday season than the Disneyland Resort, and while Disney is famous for their gigantic spectaculars and...
It's a wonderful fall day here in Southern California. Today is my husband Noe's birthday, and I talked him into playing hooky and going...
GMA Celebrates Mickey's Birthday on November 18th!
This Friday*, ABC's Good Morning America is going to feature a visit from Mickey Mouse, fresh off his...
Once upon a time, there was a single resort, simply called the Disney Vacation Club, and you could get a ride to go look...
Hi MiceChatters and Fabanistas! There are some changes afoot at Fab News that will make news easier to get to for you and easier...
Hello to all my Fabanistas and MiceChatters! I hope you're doing swell! Chili mochas are in so I'm happy when a friend brings me...
Hello everyone! Because I got two days due to a MiceChat outage, I took yesterday off and am backing up darling Darth Daver's wonderful...
Well, it happened. After an amazing year and a half, the Diamond Celebration at Disneyland has departed. I'll really miss those projected orange groves...
Hey Fabanistas! Have I got some stories for you! How about a once-in-a-lifetime shot at some genuine Disney treasures. (Leave them to a museum...