Prep & Landing (2009)

Directed by

Stevie Wermers, Kevin Deters

Genre

Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

22 min

Rated

G

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 154 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In this animated Christmas special, an elite team of elves prepares homes for Santa's visit. They face challenges and mishaps while carrying out their high-tech holiday mission.

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What happens

Prep & Landing is an American animated television special, based on an idea by Chris Williams at Walt Disney Animation Studios and developed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton into a half-hour Christmas special. The first installment in the Prep & Landing series, it first aired on December 8, 2009, on ABC. The special was released online the next day, along with an original one-minute short film Tiny's Big Adventure. An 8-minute short, Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa, aired on December 7, 2010, reprising the original cast with the addition of Betty White as Mrs. Claus. The next half-hour Christmas TV special, Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice aired on December 5, 2011, on ABC. A third half-hour special, produced at Disney Television Animation, Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol was released on November 27, 2025 (Thanksgiving night) on Disney Channel, the first of the series to debut via that channel, followed by Disney+ on the next day and was rerun on Freeform as part of the 25 Days of Christmas, as well as an additional airing on ABC. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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