Full List of New & Rare Characters at 2025 Disney Jollywood Nights Christmas Party

Walt Disney World has revealed the full list of character meet & greets for the 2025 Jollywood Nights Christmas Party at Hollywood Studios, which features a mix of new additions & returning fan-favorites and includes several rare ones appearing in Florida for the first time ever!

Before we dig into the details, let’s start with basic background on Walt Disney World’s second Christmas party. Jollywood Nights is a separately ticketed event at Disney’s Hollywood Studios that combines old Hollywood glam with festive fun during the holiday season. Disney Jollywood Nights is a limited-capacity hard ticket event held on 13 select nights from November 8, 2025 through December 22, 2025.

This year, you can make merriment a half-hour earlier, with Jollywood Nights entry available at 5:30 p.m. before the Christmas party kicks off at 7:30 p.m. You’ll have up to five hours to jingle into the night, all the way until 12:30 a.m. During Jollywood Nights, Disney’s Hollywood Studios sparkles with special stage shows, elegant décor, specialty food & drinks, exclusive entertainment, and lower ride wait times.

Tickets are now on sale for the 2025 Christmas party. Party dates & ticket prices for Disney Jollywood Nights are:

• November 8, 2025 – $169 SOLD OUT
• November 15, 2025 – $169
• November 17, 2025 – $159
• November 22, 2025 – $169
• November 24, 2025 – $179
• November 29, 2025 – $189

• December 1, 2025 – $179
• December 6, 2025 – $189
• December 10, 2025 – $189
• December 13, 2025 – $199
• December 17, 2025 – $189
• December 20, 2025 – $199
• December 22, 2025 – $199

You can buy tickets over the phone or online: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/events/jollywood-nights/purchase/

As reflected above, the opening night of Jollywood Nights on November 8, 2025 is now sold out.

This happened several weeks earlier than last year, in mid-October as opposed to the day before the event like last year. Given this, it’s entirely possible that Jollywood Nights sells out faster than either of the last two years–especially if Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party keeps selling quickly and guests are left with DJN as a “consolation prize.”

Last year, Jollywood Nights only sold out four nights–November 9, plus December 7, 14 & 21. That was the first party, and 3 of the final 4. By contrast, Jollywood Nights sold out 6 nights in its inaugural year.

It’s not surprising that the 2025 Jollywood Nights is selling better. Reviews last year were much more positive, including ours, but it takes time for word of mouth to result in improved sales. All of the tourists visiting Walt Disney World during the first party last year would’ve been basing their decision to purchase tickets (or not) based on the previous year’s negative reviews.

Vacation planners are largely making itinerary and upcharge decisions weeks to months in advance, not at the absolute last minute. So it wouldn’t be a surprise if last year’s ticket sales were a reflection of inaugural year reviews, and 2025 sales will reflect last year’s much more glowing reviews. Just something to keep in mind if you’ve yet to make a decision about attending Jollywood Nights this year and are assuming you have a ton of time based on slow sales in the past. That may not be true in 2025!

That’ll be doubly true if Walt Disney World announces more additions to the 2025 Jollywood Nights. Speaking of which, we have the first somewhat significant news on this front–new, rare & returning characters have now been announced!

Full List of 2025 Jollywood Nights Characters

We’ve got lots to celebrate with more than 20 classic and rarely seen characters who have gathered to join you for Jollywood Nights.

Here’s everywhere that you can find fan favorite and rare characters at the 2025 Disney Jollywood Nights:

Season’s Meet & Greetings at Echo Lake

• Phineas and Ferb
• Max Goof as Powerline
• Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers
• Santa Stitch
• Baloo and King Louie

Pixar Plaza Pals

• Mike Wazowski
• Edna Mode
• Frozone
• Joy from “Inside Out”

Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Friends

• José Carioca and Panchito from “The Three Caballeros”
• Miguel from “Coco” (NEW)

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

• The Mandalorian and Grogu
• Chewbacca celebrating Life Day (NEW)

Toy Story Land

• Lotso from Toy Story 3
• Partysaurus Rex (NEW)

Walt Disney Presents

• Santa Duffy

Commissary Lane

• Donald Duck and Daisy Duck

Grand Avenue

• Goofy and Pluto
• Bing Bong from Inside Out (NEW)

Red Carpet Dreams

• Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse

Our Commentary

Walt Disney World made great strides in making Jollywood Nights feel like a more cohesive event last year. The atmosphere improved over year one, thanks to thoughtful moves like relocating entertainment and characters, and little enhancements. It flowed better throughout the park, with far fewer dead zones.

But there were still dead zones. The biggest of these was Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, which was eerily quiet and dark during Jollywood Nights. It felt like a desolate planet, and not really in a good way. We’ve openly asked for a Life Day overlay for each of the last two years, and it seems like that’s finally happening:

Celebrate like a Wookiee this holiday season during Disney Jollywood Nights! ✨ pic.twitter.com/XAbHTPE4PR

— Walt Disney World (@WaltDisneyWorld) October 22, 2025

Obviously, the ambition level remains to be seen. If this is just Chewbacca in his Life Day costume, it’s not going to be a game-changer for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. But at minimum, it will draw more guests back to this corner of the park, spreading out crowds and making Batuu feel a bit less like dead space.

More atmospheric enhancements are needed, though. Partysaurus Rex will be another good one, but it would’ve been nice to see a few more characters in Toy Story Land. That land never felt as dead as Galaxy’s Edge, but it also hasn’t felt alive in the same way. It’s basically just guests venturing back for the rides–and could be something more with characters and a dance party or some sort of small-scale entertainment.

Like the park itself that hosts it, Disney Jollywood Nights still felt a bit like a grab bag or hodgepodge of intellectual properties. For an event that purports to have a narrower theme than Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, it’s less focused. There are a lot of disparate things, with little-to-no connective tissue. It almost feels like Disney got cold feet about doing an adult-oriented ‘Old Hollywood’ Christmas Party, and threw in ingredients that would appeal to younger audiences.

Nevertheless, last year’s Jollywood Nights was a massive improvement over the inaugural season of the new Christmas party. If you’re planning ahead for 2025, it’s worth reading Disney Jollywood Nights Christmas Party Year-Two Review: Wow, What a Difference a Year Makes! We’ve attended both years, and it was truly a night-and-day difference.

The first night ever were absolutely atrocious. It made Madame Web sound good by comparison. If you’re curious for whatever reason, our experience at the inaugural night of the event is covered in Disney Jollywood Nights Christmas Party Review: Good, Bad & Ugly. That’s now obsolete for planning purposes since so many changes were made.

Walt Disney World management and entertainment teams deserve kudos for taking the negative year one reviews panning the party to heart, and making major changes for its second season. From a planning perspective, we also have a 1-Night Disney Jollywood Nights Itinerary, if you already know all about the event, don’t need an overview, and just want tips & tricks.

Our hope is that Walt Disney World is not done with the 2025 Jollywood Nights announcements, but the clock is ticking. Last year was a massive improvement, sure, but it’s too early to hang up the ‘mission accomplished’ banner. Although we really enjoy Jollywood Nights for what it is and think it’s a great counterprogramming Christmas party (and one that’ll really appeal to select audiences), it’s still nowhere on par with Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. Further enhancements are still needed to ensure this becomes a fan-favorite holiday event. We shall see whether those happen in 2025!

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YOUR THOUGHTS

Thoughts on the character lineup for the 2025 Disney Jollywood Nights? Thoughts on Walt Disney World eliminating ‘dead zones’ or adding more to make Jollywood Nights more on par with Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party? If you’ve attended this Christmas party, what was your experience? Will you be doing it this year?Do you agree or disagree with our review? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!