| Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa | |
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| Also known as | Operation: Secret Santa |
| Genre | Animated short |
| Created by | The Walt Disney Company |
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| Music by | Michael Giacchino |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
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| Producer | Dorothy McKim |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
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| Network | ABC |
| Release | December 7, 2010 (2010-12-07) |
Operation: Secret Santa — A Prep & Landing Stocking Stuffer is an American animatedshort film sequel to 2009's Christmas specialPrep & Landing, produced byWalt Disney Animation Studios, and directed by Kevin Deters andStevie Wermers-Skelton. The short premiered on TV channelABC on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. The second half-hour Christmas TV special in thePrep & Landing series,Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice aired on December 5, 2011, on ABC.[1]
Wayne and Lanny, now partners, are called by Magee to meet with a secret contact –Mrs. Claus, who sends them on a new mission to retrieve a box from Santa's secret workshop. Later they sneak into Santa's office while he is asleep, using their high tech equipment from the previous film. Lanny's expertise at dressing the tree enables them to enter the hidden workshop where they recover the box and escape just in time. Mrs. Claus reveals the contents of the box to be the last part of the first toy that Santa ever made, and gives the complete toy (a wooden duck on wheels) back to him as his Christmas Present.
Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa aired on TV channelABC on Tuesday, December 7, 2010.[2]
The short was released on thePrep & Landing DVD on November 22, 2011, accompanying the original special and the short filmTiny's Big Adventure.[3] It was also released on DVD and Blu-ray ofPrep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection on November 6, 2012, together withPrep & Landing,Naughty vs. Nice, andTiny's BIG Adventure.[4][5] It was released on theWalt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection Blu-ray on August 18, 2015.[6]