Prep & Landing Trilogy

<p>🎄 It’s the Advent Calendar House’s 5th anniversary, so instead of celebrating one Christmas special, we watched three! Clear the runway as we salute Disney’s trilogy of 2009’s “Prep & Landing,” 2010’s “Operation: Secret Santa,” and 2011’s “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice.”  </p><p><strong>SANTA SPOILER WARNING:</strong> This episode contains Santa-adjacent spoilers from 1:24:28 to <a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/prep-and-landing-trilogy/?t=1h26m49s">1:26:49</a>.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>Jeff Somogyi (Linktree: <a href="https://linktr.ee/Sommerjam">@sommerjam</a>).  </p><p>Paxton Holley (<a href="http://cavalcadeofawesome.net/">Cavalcade of Awesome</a>, <a href="https://cultfilmclub.com/">Cult Film Club</a>, <a href="http://hellbentforletterbox.libsyn.com/">Hellbent for Letterbox</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. Disney’s <a href="http://disney.go.com/prep-and-landing/home/">Prep & Landing Website</a> from 2009 is still up with character and gadget profiles.  </p><p>2. “<a href="https://video.disney.com/watch/tiny-s-big-adventure-4cef9103f498cfd3d26f9f53">Tiny’s Big Adventure</a>,” a minute-long short starring Magee’s assistant.  </p><p>3. Super Golden Crisp Cereal’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxG01wf7K5s">Sugar Bear musical Christmas ornament</a>.  </p><p>4. <a href="http://findingmickey.squarespace.com/walt-disney-studios-animated-s/prep-landing/">Prep & Landing Easter eggs</a>.  </p><p>5. <a href="https://movies.disney.com/prep-and-landing?image_id=open-uri20150608-27674-1eemx9r_9fe294df">Santa’s castle</a> looks familiar.  </p><p>6. <a href="http://findingmickey.squarespace.com/walt-disney-studios-animated-s/prep-landing-operation-secret-santa/18751832">Noel’s early cameo</a> in “Operation: Secret Santa.”  </p><p>7. A hat tip to the <a href="http://classicfilmjerks.libsyn.com">Classic Film Jerks</a>.  </p><p>8. Captain Avalanche and Snowball’s poster looks like a Batman and Robin <a href="https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Detective_Comics