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 Fabanistas! Did you have a fabulous long weekend? I hope so! Things are swinging right into fall, and unlike last year, the temperatures...
Hello my dearest Fabanistas! Yesterday, the "Fab Fund For Shelly's Recover," GoFundMe Campaign that Dusty Sage set up reached its goal for my surgical...
I want to thank those of you that have been thinking of me and helping me in different ways, from the bottom of my...
Hello Fabanistas! I'd like to start by thanking you all for the kind words, calls, emails and donations after Tuesday's article. This has been...
Hey there, Hi there, Ho there! I'm so happy to be with you today. It's been a scary roller coaster week since I last...
Hello my loves. I always like to get the scary stuff out of the way first - but, actually, it makes me feel a...
ABC Studios Scandal: The Complete Fifth Season DVD Giveaway
With EXCLUSIVE Bonus Features!
The Oval Office is up for grabs, and none of the players are...
Happy Monday from sunny Southern California - though for a lot of folks in Glendale, the skies might be looking pretty gray. The layoffs...
So, so much from the mailbag today! In fact, just about all of it! But it's everything that wouldn't stay put last night for...
Art for the kids, Muppet history lessons and a night at the Symphony with legends. There's a little something for everyone today. AND, I'll...
MiceChat Runners’ Deal at The Anabella Hotel!
Okay, you all know that I am very #PRFriendly, but I am seriously happy to promote this special...
Today we've got Cosplay, Midsummer, stuff from the floor, musicians, artists, Adventures and MORE!
KEEPING SCORE WITH TELEVISION & FILM’S GREATEST COMPOSERS AT COMIC-CON 2016
Tyler...
San Diego Comic-Con fun. Lots to share with you today my dear readers.
While I was out of town, some of my friends were at...
There's a little Craftsman bungalow at 4406 Kingswell Avenue that looks like a reasonably well-kept, but otherwise unremarkable home. That it might be destroyed...
Bob Gurr's Disney History Trail Bus Tour
The awning was pretty easy to spot!
I got there nice and early (for once) and had time to...
Disneyland's birthday is approaching and that means so many things - the Disneyana Fan Club's DisneyMania, lots of friends coming into town, and Comic-Con...
Greetings, my Fabanistas! So much to talk about! What do you want to see at the D23 EXPO? What makes a hero heroic? What...
I hope you all had a glorious fourth of July, or Treason Day if you live across the pond (do they still say "across...
Warm and happy greetings, my Fabanistas. The first thing I'm doing today is handing the keyboard over to the lovely and talented Dennis Ritchey...
Adventures in Babysitting Hits the Streets TODAY
Join stars Sabrina Carpenter (“Girl Meets World”) and Sofia Carson (“Descendants”) as two competing babysitters that turn an...