Prep & Landing and Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa.
Prep & Landing.
Wayne, a Christmas elf, is part of an elite organization known as "Prep &
Landing", whose job is to ready millions of homes around the world
for Santa Claus's visit. After working with "Prep & Landing" for 227
years, Wayne looks forward to getting promoted to director of the
naughty list. Instead, his former partner and trainee, Peterson, gets the
promotion, and Wayne is introduced to Lanny, a freshly graduated rookie
whom Wayne has to also train. Wayne is still bitter about the promotion,
and decides to slack off during a mission. He permits Lanny to do all of
the work, which is disastrous. Meanwhile, Santa is informed mid-flight of
a massive snow storm and that Wayne and Lanny haven't fully prepared
the house yet. He is told to cancel the landing, which has never
happened before; they promise to make it up for Timmy, a boy living at
the house. Wayne and Lanny discover that the re-routing was a final
decision, but after hearing Timmy thank them in his sleep, Wayne
decides to fix it. He calls up Santa, telling him that he must land at
Timmy's house. Wayne and Lanny then work together to land Santa
safely on Timmy's roof. On Christmas morning, Santa shows Wayne that
Timmy had a merry Christmas. Santa offers a promotion to Wayne as the
director of the nice list, but he turns it down so he can work with Lanny.
Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice.
The beginning of the special introduces the Coal Elf Brigade, a special
unit of Christmas elves resembling coal miners that is responsible
for delivering lumps of coal to naughty children. While seeming cruel to
some, the brigade adds small, encouraging notes to the lumps such as
"Try Harder next year," in an attempt to steer the children back to the
nice list.
With the Big 2-5 fast approaching, Wayne and Lanny must race to
recover classified North Pole technology that has fallen into the hands of
a hacker identified only as "jinglesmell1337." Desperate to prevent
Christmas from descending into chaos, Wayne seeks out (at the
insistence of Magee) the foremost Naughty Kid expert to aid in the
mission, a bombastic member of the Coal Elf Brigade who also happens
to be his estranged younger (but larger) brother, Noel.[2] Reluctant to
take the extroverted Noel along with him, Wayne relents, and Noel joins
the Prep & Landing team on the mission. During the trip, Noel and
Wayne reminisce about their childhood, when they worked together far
better than they do now. As the trio arrives at the hacker's house,
Wayne sets off a booby trap, imperiling the entire team; Noel manages
to defend himself, Wayne takes a particular beating from the trap's
various mechanisms, and Lanny makes it into the hacker's room, only to
accidentally "sparkle" himself and end up taken captive.
The hacker then reveals herself to be Grace Goodwin, whose sole
mission is to get herself off the naughty list, believing that she had been
set up by her toddler brother, Gabriel, who had destroyed her favorite
toy and ruined her chances to ask Santa for a new one by his crying.
After a somewhat intoxicated Lanny suggests using the "magic word" to
get the password for the device that will get her off the list, she does
just that: using the word "please" as the password, since genuinely
naughty kids never say "please." At first, she appears successful in
changing her status from naughty to nice, but the device malfunctions,
threatening to place the entire planet on the naughty list unless she and
the team can pull off a risky operation to fix the problem.
Meanwhile, Wayne is particularly bitter at being "shown up" by his
younger brother, prompting a fight in the street in front of Grace's house
in which Wayne wishes he never had a brother. Shocked at his
statement, Noel (who always idolized Wayne growing up) asks Wayne to
say he didn't mean it, then throws what he had intended to give Wayne
as a Christmas present at him. The gift—a toy sled that Wayne had
wanted as a boy but was never able to get—prompts Wayne to reconcile
with Noel and carry out the mission. Grace, watching the whole
argument as it unfolds, learns a powerful lesson and a newfound
appreciation for her younger brother.
The next morning, the scene at the Goodwin house shows Gabriel giving
Grace her new Christmas present, a replacement toy for the one he had
destroyed a year prior. Meanwhile, back at the North Pole, Wayne and
Noel both win the title of "Elves of the Year" for their efforts and
cooperation (although the headline of the local paper misprints Wayne's
name as "Dwayne").
Operation: Secret Santa.
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.
This is a series that gets better every time I watch them. My hope is that
they make another one cause they are so good, the animation is top
notch, so if anyone from Disney read this please make another one
pretty please. The chances of them reading this is 0% but a man can
dream am I right. please watch these when they re on T.V. or
DVD, online, Disney plus has them so after your done watching
The Mandalorian series look them up and watch them I guarantee
you will love them just as much as I do.
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