Royal Visit: Visiting Malaysian King Yang di...

Royal Visit: Visiting Malaysian King Yang di Pertuan Agong will get a private tour of Universal Studios today.. . . Saturday, the royal entourage will party at Saddleback Ranch in Malibu. Owner Ronald Semler’s father, Arnold Semler of North Hollywood, met Agong 20 years ago when the king was just a sultan, and stayed in touch.

Bidding War: On a lark, Steven Heard of Van Nuys bid for the Tickle Me Elmo doll auctioned on KISS-FM. . . . Then his wife, Linda, raised him. Four hours later, stunned deejay Magic Matt dropped the gavel at $10,001. Linda paid up Thursday. Steven’s thoughts on her zany purchase? “Christmas magic,” he says. The money comes from the foundation left by his grandfather. KISS will give the money to the Ronald McDonald House for families of young cancer patients.

Winning Ticket: Talk about convenience! . . . Now you can scratch a dozen lottery tickets while your gifts are wrapped at Fallbrook Mall in West Hills. . . . In the year since the mall joined California’s 22,000 lottery outlets, it has sold 584,000 tickets. It has been named the lottery’s “Retailer of the Month.”

Now the Good News: And you thought the MTA only dug up trouble. . . . At 10 a.m. today at the Universal City Red Line Station, the agency will show off a piece of a 46,000-year-old tree found 80 feet below Lankershim Boulevard. That, and fossilized critters like shrews, frogs and lizards, will one day go to the county’s Museum of Natural History.