It’s been more than two years since Disney’s ambitious animated fantasy Owl House ended, and a little over a year since we last saw the Owl House characters turn up in the studio’s comedic Chibi Tiny Tales shorts. That series puts cute, simplified versions of Disney characters through teeny adventures in a series of micro-shorts that sometimes cross over with other Disney content — previous Chibi Tiny Tales episodes have featured crossovers between Owl House and the animated series Amphibia and Kiff, along with stories featuring Rapunzel from Tangled and characters from DuckTales and Moana.
For Halloween 2025, Disney is bringing back chibi Owl House for a new short that pictures the monstrous Emperor Belos in a way we’ve never seen him before, as an ordinary guy who’s just trying to enjoy a cold (and suspiciously glowing-green) smoothie on a hot day, until inconsiderate witch teacher Helen from Kiff bumps into him and spills it. His attempted revenge is not exactly the stuff of nightmares. You can watch the entire short here, or on Disney Channel when it goes live on Sept. 29.
For 2025’s spooky season, Disney is also adding to the collection of Halloween-themed stop-motion Mickey Mouse shorts it launched last year under the title Mickey’s Spooky Stories, as a spin-off of the 2023 stop-motion special Mickey and Friends: Trick or Treats. These shorts are once again produced by Robot Chicken production company Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, with The Simpsons’ David H. Brooks directing and producing.
The 2024 shorts are brief narratives, with Mickey, Minnie Mouse, Donald and Daisy Duck, and Goofy telling each other spoopy stories in the dark. 2025’s shorts, under the collective label Mickey and Minnie’s Holiday Songs: Halloween, are music videos instead.
In this short, provided exclusively to Polygon, Mickey’s gang goes on a haunted hayride to a spooky house, all to a cover version of “This is Halloween” from Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s stop-motion classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s all in good fun, though — no skeleton kings are lying in wait to capture the characters. And while Mickey and company look pretty unsettled and uncertain throughout most of the short, there’s a sweet surprise waiting for them at the end. (Notably, they’re still dressed up in the same trick-or-treat costumes they’ve been wearing for the last couple of years — but no shade, Minnie’s tarantula costume just gets cuter and fuzzier every Halloween.)
Two other Halloween-themed stop-motion music video shorts are on the way as well, with Mickey Mouse and his costumed friends dancing to sing-along remixes of “Hot Dog!” and “Monster Boogie” from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Those shorts will be available on Disney Jr. on Sept. 29 and on Disney Plus on Oct. 2, and the songs will be available from Walt Disney Records on Oct. 3. Be careful with “Hot Dog!,” though. It’s a “Baby Shark”-level earworm that will colonize parts of your brain you might have been hoping to use for other things, and that’s creepier than anything you’ll see in Disney’s 2025 Halloween shorts.
