In a 2011 interview promoting the fourth entry in the series of Christmas specials, Naughty vs. Nice, creators Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton stated that there were plans for a fifth entry in the series, but that they could not reveal any more about the project.[2] The project ultimately never made it to broadcast, and the two were instead assigned to a different Christmas short, Olaf's Frozen Adventure, in 2016; by this point, the two spoke of the series in the past tense.[3] At the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2024, it was announced that the franchise was revived at Disney Television Animation with a new 22-minute special called Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol, written by Hilary Heldin and directed by Shane Zalvin, while the original franchise creators will serve as executive producers.[4] It was animated by Canadian animation studio ICON Creative Studio.[1] By September 2025, Dave Foley was cast to reprise his role of Wayne, alongside Sarah Chalke as Magee and Derek Richardson as Lanny, while newcomers include Manny Jacinto as Renato, Dulcé Sloan as Janice, Danny Pudi as Chef Geoff, and Christopher Swindle as Santa Claus.[5] Swindle replaces W. Morgan Sheppard, who voiced Santa Claus in the previous entries but died in 2019.[6]
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