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Prep & Landing (2009)

Prep & Landing poster
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
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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)

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