Zac Moncrief, Co-Director and Writer for the holiday special, is doing a daily countdown towards the special with info and behind the scenes stuff on his Instagram! These also include nods to the first ever appearances of the characters!
The watch party will not be the intro, from what is described it seems like its gonna be the second act. That’ll be your judgement if you wanna watch a mid-way preview of the special or wait to see the full thing yourself. If you’re wanting to get a gist of the intro, the clips uploaded of the party mobile and the call with Sandy is what’s been shown of that first third, which pretty much is all you need to know.
Be aware that fireables for the special have been uploaded to Navori today. If you have this fireable, please do not leak it until after the watch party has concluded in all timezones. Let’s all enjoy heading to our locals instead.
And the entire special has now leaked on YouTube in 360p quality. This is outside of CEC’s irrational decision to post the fireable days early for the preview, someone has gotten ahold of the entire thing from some other means.
EDIT: Apparently it has been on a piracy website since November 9th.
Out of respect for the artists, don’t watch it like that. I won’t be permitting discussion of any spoilers either here or in the Discord server.
The leak was taken down, sent out an email last night so CEC knew the second they got in the offices.
In other news CEC continues to spoil the hype of their own special with another 3 minute clip released, I’m personally sitting out this one cause its just gonna continue to degrade the charm of seeing the preview event.
More news, site has been updated to show more platforms its coming to. Also, new greeting cards from Evite. Then another Nathan Kress interview has released!
And day 6+5 of the countdown. It is directly confirmed Pasqually is now his last name, though nothing on what his first name is (I vote it be Winchester )
We also have another Nathan Kress interview, and also a mention by Zac that he will be attending his local’s watch party. Who knows, show up to yours and you may see other cast and crew there.
Watch party results are in for visits! It wasn’t much. One person reported 4 small families in attendance, one reported being the only person watching, going to my location it was just me and 2 other small groups. I mean it wasn’t advertised crazy so there wasn’t ever a chance it’d be a huge thing.
Its been mentioned a few times of a last minute rewrite, and this is now given full context. It also mentions a meeting with Melissa and Matt, which is the most we’ve seen in terms of what they did with the special. David has credited a lot of his team to the project but their exact roles aside from oversight haven’t really been defined.
And also they comment on AI and give a much better take than literally anything from CEC Entertainment so far. Its kinda strange this month being at this juxtaposition of Adventure World’s apathetic marketing vs such a lovingly crafted animation piece by another company.
And also day 3 of the countdown, its a video! Its just Robot Banana Christmas again, but this time they mention that it is indeed the ending song of the special. The preview did show us a gag scene for it, which was apparently later decided to be turned into a song, not something directly planned.