Last year concluded ten years of advent calendar style countdowns of classic and not-so-classic holiday specials. Twenty five posts on consecutive days for one person with a family and a full-time job is a pretty big time sink each year. It’s a year-round endeavor of hunting for specials never before seen or covered, viewing them, viewing them again, viewing them often a third or fourth time, then writing and capturing images for a blog post that routinely runs for thousands of words. I spend days on each post as a result and while I love Christmas, the sense of accomplishment I feel each year from doing The Christmas Spot dwindles. That’s why last year I decided I needed to make 2024 the last year. I knew I’d do something Christmas-related in 2025 and I figured I’d actually have several posts to make, but 25 posts in 25 days? No, those days are gone. Sort of.
Let’s not sugarcoat things: 2025 has sucked. It might be one of the worst years I’ve lived through and I’m not even factoring in things that have happened in my personal life. There’s a lot of unrest, social and economic. My favorite hobby, toy collecting, has been hit hard by tariffs and other sanctions delaying releases, cancelling some, and making the hobby a whole lot more expensive. The grocery bill reaches past $400 and things are unlikely to get better in the near term. In short, we need The Christmas Spot! We need a season where we can wrap ourselves in warm blankets and good feelings, even if we’re just lying to ourselves temporarily. Christmas itself brings along its own stresses, but let’s push past it, and here’s some free content to get you through the month of December.
Is The Christmas Spot back? Yes and no. Yes, there will be 25 posts in 25 days about Christmas specials. Actually, once you factor in the toy reviews there will be even more than 25 posts this holiday season. What there won’t be are 25 posts on 25 different Christmas specials like we’ve been doing for the past decade. Instead, I’m going to lay out all of the Christmas specials covered on this blog in order to figure out the proper viewing order. Or rather, the ones you should seek out year in and year out and the ones you probably don’t need to.
If you ever wondered how many Christmas specials have been covered here then I have an answer for you: 209. Now, if you run over to the index page and tally them all up you actually won’t find 209. That’s because five (well, technically four, but we’re doing one redo this year) haven’t been written yet! I always intended to rank the specials I’ve looked at, and while I’d love to say it’s all-encompassing the short order of it is that it’s almost impossible to view every Christmas special out there. I’ve covered most of the essentials and most of the well known, but I did feel like I had a few missing ones. Some I avoided because they’re very well known and I didn’t feel like I needed to add to it. Some I avoided because they’re an hour long and I hate doing specials longer than a half hour (it just gets tedious, even if I like it). And in the case of at least one of them, I just don’t particularly care for it, but it’s popular!
So here’s the deal: each day in December starting on December 1st, come here to see me rank each special ten at a time. Because we’re dealing with odd numbers, there will be some days when I rank more than ten, but no days where I do less. I will do a mini review of each special, tell you what I think, and move on. I also have five traditional write-ups planned which will go up in the order in which they appear. I’ll tell you right now that the first one is schedule to go up on December 5th. That special is the one I decided was fit for number one-hundred and sixty-nine. I did consider doing more since 209 is such a stupid number, but once I was past 200 it felt pointless to extend myself further.
That’s the deal though: one massive ranking spread out over twenty-five days. It’s not exactly a quick way to do things, but it’s certainly a far smaller workload than Decembers past. I have no idea what I’ll do in 2026, but for now we have plenty of Christmas content and a whole month ahead of us to fit as many holiday specials into that window as humanly possible. Happy viewing and merry Christmas!
It’s Christmas, baby! Let the good times roll:
The Christmas Spot is back for 2024
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NECA TMNT Dimension X-Mas Vacation
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November 28th, 2025 at 9:14 am
A never-ending well of content!!
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November 28th, 2025 at 4:26 pm
Thanks! I appreciate it.
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