Disney's Holiday Short 'The Invisible Horse' Arrives With Woody and Elsa Cameos
Disney's 2026 holiday short, A Disney Holiday Short: The Invisible Horse, is available on Disney+ and online, and it includes two familiar faces. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Woody from Toy Story and Elsa from Frozen both make cameos.
The film is live-action. It follows a boy in a cowboy hat who believes he has found an invisible horse. The story is built to carry Disney's "Make the Holidays Magic" campaign, according to the same report.
Disney began teasing the short in the days before its debut. On November 7, the company posted a video titled "A Disney Holiday Short: The Invisible Horse Coming Soon" on its official YouTube channel. The clip was announced to premiere on November 9. A companion post on Facebook carried the line "A little magic, before the whole story unfolds," along with the hashtags #TheInvisibleHorse and #MakeTheHolidaysMagic.
The short was directed by Dougal Wilson. Many British viewers know his work from the Christmas commercials he has made for the retailer John Lewis, and he also directed Paddington in Peru. Holiday shorts have become a regular part of Disney's year. Taika Waititi directed two earlier entries, The Boy & The Octopus and Best Christmas Ever.
For families planning their evening viewing, the short is a quick watch. It sits on Disney+ alongside the rest of the studio's catalogue, and it can also be found online. Disney has not said how long it will stay in the holiday line-up or whether it will appear in other formats.
The cameos are the detail most likely to draw attention. Woody and Elsa are two of the best-known characters in Disney's library, and placing them in a short about a boy and an unseen horse gives the film a wink to longtime fans. Whether that becomes a larger thread in the campaign is not yet known.
