Mickey’s Holiday Plans Go Awry in New Animated Special, Coming This Christmas Season

Published: June 19, 2026

Mickey Mouse had a modest Christmas wish: stay home. Disney had other plans.

“Our shows are often a child’s very first connection to the world of Disney, sparking the songs they sing, the characters they adore, and the adventures they want to live again and again,” Ayo Davis, president of Disney Branded Television, said.

Disney announced MICKEY’S HOME ALONE on June 16, a new full-length animated Christmas special heading to Disney Jr. and Disney+ this holiday season. No premiere date has been set.

The premise borrows something from the 1990 holiday movie HOME ALONE, minus the booby traps and scaled for kids who still believe in magic. Mickey can’t wait to spend Christmas at home when Minnie turns those plans sideways with surprise tickets to a world-famous Ice Palace for the whole gang. In the morning rush to make the trip, Mickey and Pluto get left behind.

While Minnie and friends scramble to get back, Mickey and Pluto find themselves guarding the house against two uninvited guests — a raccoon and a weasel with their sights set on the Christmas dinner. The setup delivers on two levels: slapstick fun for the little ones, and for the parents on the couch, a story about a family fighting to get back to each other. That’s a Christmas theme worth returning to.

The special features two original songs — “Ho-Ho-Home for Christmas” and “Favorite Christmas Feeling” — by songwriter Keith Harrison Dworkin, plus a fresh arrangement of “Jingle Bells.” Tony Morales provides the score.

Wild Canary Animation, the Burbank-based studio founded in 2007, produces MICKEY’S HOME ALONE in association with Disney Jr. Executive producer Tom Rogers is Wild Canary’s executive producer/showrunner, with Rachel Ruderman serving as co-executive producer — the producing pair’s second Mickey holiday special together for the channel.

Director Shane Prigmore brings serious animation credentials to the special. A two-time Annie Award winner for his work on CORALINE and THE CROODS, Prigmore spent years at Walt Disney Television Animation as VP Creative, overseeing the development of DUCKTALES, AMPHIBIA, and THE OWL HOUSE.

Movieguide® has followed Disney Jr.’s preschool lineup with genuine interest, knowing it lands in homes with the youngest viewers before most parents have a chance to preview much of anything. Davis described that responsibility in terms that sound less like a tagline and more like a mission.

“From BLUEY to SPIDEY AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS, MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE, SUPERKITTIES and beyond, our Disney Jr. content brand delivers trusted, joyful stories with characters that stay with audiences for a lifetime,” she told Deadline.

MICKEY’S HOME ALONE arrives on that platform with a premise that does something quietly countercultural: it treats the desire to stay home for Christmas as the right instinct, not an obstacle to be overcome. Mickey isn’t wrong to want what he wants. The story’s second engine — Minnie and the gang fighting their way back to him — makes the case that some reunions are worth every wrong turn. For families trying to keep the holidays simpler than the culture usually allows, there’s something in that worth paying attention to.

Mickey Mouse made his debut in 1928’s STEAMBOAT WILLIE and has anchored Disney Jr. through multiple series and holiday specials. He turns 98 this year and is still drawing crowds.

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