Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party 2025: Parade, Fireworks, and Showtimes Released

Christmas Tree Installed - Disney's Animal Kingdom Now Fully Decorated for the Holidays
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Did they remove some of the garlands in Discovery Island? I seem to recall garland hanging along with the lanterns on the rooflines ….

Disney has shared new photos showing that Glisten! performers will debut a new look for their costumes at Jollywood Nights:

Here's a new photo of Chewbacca in his Life Day look for Jollywood Nights:

Disney has also shared showtimes for Sunset Seasons Greetings during Jollywood Nights: 7:30pm, 8:00pm, 8:45pm, 9:45pm, 10:45pm and 11:30pm.

We will be in the parks next week, and we are choosing MVMCP over Jollywood, and probably a good idea, because I'm gonna guess that lines to meet Chewie in the Life Day outfit will take up a sizable potion of the evening. And I would be in that line for sure.

quick question, a friend received a ticket to MCMCP from his family member, and wants to know if they require a name attached to it to enter? Or can he just use it as it was given to him for the date its for.

If they both have MDE accounts, the family member should "assign" the ticket to the friend in MDE.

So would I! 😀

I’m honestly perplexed by the merch prices this year. They’re truly getting out of hand. No wonder a lot of the exclusive Halloween party merchandise is at the outlet now. Maybe Disney will learn you cannot just charge endless amounts for the merch. I know, the tariffs. But let’s be honest, Disney could definitely absorb some of that. Disappointing.

I am surprised the parties continue to sell out, especially this year, with the prices. I still wonder what the ceiling will be for people. I’d love to go to one but the price is really tough to swallow.

Flamingo Crossings got some new holiday decorations this year as well. I had been waiting the last few years when they would do more in that area so when I drove by and saw them I was happily surprised.

2025 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party character lineup:

Main Street:

•Mickey & Minnie, Jack as Sandy Claws & Sally: Town Square Theater

•Elena of Avalor

•Mary Poppins

Adventureland:

•Aladdin & Abu/Jasmine & Genie

•Moana

•Jack Sparrow

Liberty Square:

•Tiana & Naveen

Fantasyland:

•Anna & Elsa, Cinderella & Prince Charming, Rapunzel & Flynn: Princess Fairytale Hall

•Aurora & Phillip, Snow White & her Prince

•Peter Pan

•Belle

•Ariel & Eric

•Donald, Daisy, & Scrooge: Pete’s Silly Sideshow

•Pluto (the only noticeable addition to this year’s party)

•Alice and Friends

•Pooh and Friends

•Mirabel & Bruno

Tomorrowland:

•Stitch

My thoughts: “Jollywood Nights wins the Christmas Hard Ticket Event Character lineup for 2025, because they’re all unique and at least they add something new and noteworthy each year, but for its older sibling, how the fridge do they continue to have the same lineup for every MVMCP without having any major additions or losses, come on, they shouldn’t cheap out on this event, the Lilo & Stitch made billions of dollars and so will the new Avatar movie out in December, and yet WDW Entertainment continues to be cheap and lazy with the most popular theme park’s hard ticket event that continues to sell out dates and yet they can’t get their hands on new things, at least Jollywood Nights can get away with anything.

And honestly…, I do not get why Disney refuses to let go of Elena of Avalor from the parks, even though her show has been cancelled for over five years now, hasn’t had a new episode since 2020, hasn’t found any plans for a new movie or spinoff series, why is she still getting frequent theme park appearances when she has no future, I don’t get why Disney continues to underestimate their television animation IPs in the parks including this one

Second off, Jack Sparrow should not be in the lineup, he always has regularly scheduled appearances at the same spot, when is Disney going to know that they can NOT have the same character appearing at both the hard ticket event while also appearing on a regular basis

Moana, I know she’s wildly popular and all, but there’s really no reason for her to still be at those ticketed events when she already has two regular appearances at both Epcot and Animal Kingdom

And don’t get me started on this quote on quote Disney Jr Dance Party at Cosmic Ray’s, it’s the same four characters that appear every since year since 2019, there’s no reason for Timon to still be associated as a DJR character when the Lion Guard was cancelled for six years now and the other DJR characters are no longer appearing at DHS on a daily basis

I hope when Josh D’Amaro becomes Disney CEO next year, some big changes will be made to this roster and one of his first plans that he will do is to permanently phase Elena of Avalor out of the parks for good, if Disney doesn’t announce anything new for the character

All of Frontierland and LS Decor is New Correct???

Ahoy Happy Lids All!!!!!! 😀😃🙂

Frozen Holiday Surprise is the same as 2024!!!!

Disney has the stats to see who's still watching Elena.

The beauty of streaming is that discontinued series are still available for viewing.

Friends and Seinfeld keep showing up on the top 10 streaming lists.

The series is dead, but the library is alive. And Disney knows how many clicks Elena is getting.

Most Merriest is the same except for a new Outfit for the Female lead singer.

MOUACT's Soundtrack same as 2024 with 2 Trolley Dancers holding the Banner!!