Season’s greetings have arrived as Disney brings out the holiday spirit with an all-new animated holiday story starring the mouse of the house.
While everywhere we look is already decked out for the holidays, Disney is preparing to excite fans with a long-awaited Christmas story starring Mickey Mouse and friends this Thanksgiving. The new holiday special, “Mickey’s Home Alone,” is headed to our screens on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 26) at 6 p.m. EST/PST on Disney Jr., with next-day streaming on Disney+. The special will also have encore airings on Disney Channel on November 30 at 7 p.m. EST/PST and will join Freeform’s “25 Days of Christmas” in December, along with other airings throughout the season.
If the title wasn’t already a hint, this new Mickey and Pluto adventure puts its own unique spin on the plot of the 1990 holiday favorite “Home Alone.”
Official synopsis: Mickey’s Home Alone puts a Mickey Mouse spin on the holiday classic. In the special, he can’t wait to spend Christmas at home, but Mickey’s plans take a turn when Minnie surprises him and the gang with tickets to spend Christmas at a world-famous Ice Palace. In the morning rush to make it out the door, Mickey and Pluto are left behind and home alone, and must protect their Christmas dinner from two feisty villains—a raccoon and a weasel—who are after it.
In true Disney fashion, audiences can get ready for the new seasonal staple by streaming the special’s soundtrack right now on their preferred music platform. The EP features new and original songs, including “Ho-Ho-Home for Christmas” and “Favorite Christmas Feeling” by songwriter Keith Harrison Dworkin. And while there’s always excitement around new holiday songs, the EP also offers a magical new arrangement of the classic “Jingle Bells.”
A new Mickey Christmas story feels both exciting and overdue. As far back as 1931, with the theatrical short “Mickey’s Orphans,” Mickey and his friends have woven holiday tales that fans revisit year after year. From theatrical shorts and made-for-home-media releases to animated television specials, there’s already an extensive range of holiday stories for audiences to enjoy during the most festive time of the year. Still, there’s always room for more.
For many, titles such as “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” and “Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas” are pulled out at family gatherings year after year. Given all we know and have seen so far, it wouldn’t be a stretch to see “Mickey’s Home Alone” added to that tradition.