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! Today, we're taking a look at The Jungle Book at the El Capitan Theatre as well as my visit to the Disney...
Greetings and salutations, friends and Fabanistas! I hope everyone is enjoying the completely unpredictable weather this week. I'm hoping to finally get to the...
Greetings, Fabanistas! We've got some exciting news from D23 today and something to get you fired up for Civil War, plus a guest post...
This is the best of good mornings if you're into some of the major fandoms today. There are Theme Park openings! Trailers! Movies to...
We have a lot of news for you today. First up is the surprise announcement that Tom Staggs is departing Disney. It's a move...
Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival is back! If there were anywhere tailor-made to have a food and wine festival, it's Disney California...
Does it seem like everything is coming up Star Wars these days? It's the movie that ate the universe and I've got some fun...
New Teaser for Secrets of The Force Awakens: Deleted Scenes:
Kylo Ren visits the Milennium Falcon, Maz Kanata uses The Force (she says she's not...
Lupita Nyong'o Shares Some Maz Love, Plus Emoji!
One of the complaints about The Force Awakens that I heard from someone was: I could tell...
There's some big items to share in Today's Fab News. SeaWorld is ending its captive breeding program, Marvel is moving at the Disneyland Resort, Star Wars everything, and winners of our Boysenberry contest!
A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT CONTENT/COMMENTS TODAY: One of today's news items is about some Star Wars Episode VIII filming photos. These photos show scenes,...
This week marks 100 days until the opening of Shanghai Disneyland, plus there's all sorts of fun and fascinating things going on as groundbreaking...
Hello MiceChatters and Fabanistas! There's a whole slew of great news going on, and today's Fab News just touches the surface of some of...
From Disney Cruise Line: (emphasis in bold mine)
The leader in family cruising will grow its award-winning fleet with imaginative innovations that are uniquely fun and...
March came in like a very sheepish lion here in SoCal, which is nice, because as soon as I got over pneumonia, I came...
There is so much for me to geek out over today. Luigi's Flying Tires is gone, but the adorable car is returning to DCA...
This morning, we learned that our friend, Jack Lindquist, died. And by "our", I don't mean just those of us who were lucky enough...
Happy Thursday! I hope you're all having a fabulous week. It's looking more and more like spring here in Southern California, when it's not...
Hello, and thanks for all the well wishes! I'm still (sort of) obeying doctor's orders (and missing AP days, dash it all!) but it...
It's been quite a week: movie premieres, DCA News, a new wizard, oh . . . and I'm in the middle of a big...