Eric Bauza voices Ferv in Disney’s Mickey’s Home Alone special

The late Eric Bauza plays Ferv, one of two animal bandits, in Disney’s new Mickey Christmas special. The producer says his sessions with Jason Marsden cost them time “because we were laughing so hard.”

Disney’s new Mickey Mouse Christmas special has a pair of bandits, and one of them is voiced by Eric Bauza.

Bauza plays Ferv, “the slightly dim-witted sidekick” in “Mickey’s Home Alone,” writer and executive producer Tom Rogers told Animation Magazine in a Monday, Nov. 9 interview. Jason Marsden, the longtime voice of Max Goof, plays Freddy, “the brains of the operation.”

Bauza, the modern voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, died suddenly in late October at 46. We covered his life and career in [our Oct. 26 obituary](https://news.piratesandprincesses.net/p/eric-bauza-the-voice-of-bugs-bunny).

His work was already done. Rogers told the magazine the team delivered the finished special in June 2026, about four months before Bauza’s death. Animation Magazine refers to him as “the late” Eric Bauza but doesn’t say whether the special carries a dedication.

The two bandits are a raccoon and a weasel, the special’s answer to Harry and Marv from the 1990 movie. “We wanted to create Mickeyverse analogies for the bandits,” Rogers said. Neither Disney nor the magazine has said which actor plays which animal.

Rogers said Marsden and Bauza recorded together in the booth so they could riff off each other. His only complaint was “how much production time we lost because we were laughing so hard.”

Here’s Disney Jr.’s official trailer for the special:

Who is in the Mickey’s Home Alone voice cast?

Disney’s June announcement didn’t name any voice actors, and its press kit still doesn’t. Animation Magazine filled in the main cast:

• Bret Iwan: Mickey

• Kaitlyn Robrock: Minnie

• Tress MacNeille: Daisy

• Bill Farmer: Goofy and Pluto

• Jason Marsden: Freddy

• Eric Bauza: Ferv

Rogers said the classic Disney cast members “bring an incomparable soul and silliness to the picture” when you give them a framework and turn them loose.

What else did Eric Bauza voice for Disney?

Plenty, and a lot of it for kids. Disney’s own press bio lists him as Fozzie Bear in Disney Junior’s “Muppet Babies,” Reggie in Disney Channel’s “Kiff” and Harry, Sniff and Lloyd in “Pupstruction.”

He also voiced the Beagle Boys in the 2017 “DuckTales” and Jose Carioca in “Legend of the Three Caballeros.” Theme park fans heard him at Universal Orlando, too, where he recorded Puss in Boots lines, as our obituary noted.

When does Mickey’s Home Alone premiere?

Thanksgiving night. Laughing Place laid out the full schedule when the trailer arrived Nov. 3:

• Disney Jr.: Thursday, Nov. 26, 6 p.m. ET/PT

• Disney+: Friday, Nov. 27

• Disney Channel: Monday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m. ET/PT

• Freeform: Saturday, Dec. 19, 2 p.m. ET/PT, during 25 Days of Christmas

We first reported the Disney+ date in [our Oct. 16 story](https://news.piratesandprincesses.net/p/mickeys-home-alone-hits-disney-nov), then broke down the footage in [our trailer story](https://news.piratesandprincesses.net/p/mickeys-home-alone-trailer-is-out). A digital EP came out Nov. 6 with two original songs by Keith Harrison Dworkin, “Ho-Ho-Home for Christmas” and “Favorite Christmas Feeling.”

New Yorkers get an early-ish look, too. The special screens at the Paley Center’s Paleyland event on Saturday, Dec. 5.

What is Mickey’s Home Alone about?

Mickey wants a quiet Christmas at home. Minnie surprises the gang with tickets to a world-famous Ice Palace instead, and in the morning rush, Mickey and Pluto get left behind.

Then the raccoon and the weasel show up for Mickey’s Christmas dinner, while Minnie and the others race to get back.

It follows the 1990 movie loosely, then heads off on its own. “Our story actually deviates from the original movie at a certain point,” Rogers said.

Director Shane Prigmore said Mickey’s house layout takes “subtle inspiration from the McCallister house.” The team also pulled from classic Disney winter shorts, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Charlie Chaplin’s roller skating bits and the 1950s short “Pluto’s Christmas Tree.”

That Chaplin influence shows up in one scene in particular. Rogers said there’s a sequence where Pluto gets onto a pair of roller skates. Nothing bad has ever happened to a dog on roller skates, right?

Who made Mickey’s Home Alone?

Wild Canary produced it with Disney Jr. Most of the animation came from ICON Creative Studio in Vancouver, Rogers said, with a crew he put somewhere between 100 and 200 people.

Rogers and co-executive producer Rachel Ruderman have done this before. The pair made 2024’s “Mickey and the Very Many Christmases,” where Mickey wishes every day could be Christmas and then regrets it.

Prigmore joined around July 2025. Disney wanted the new special to have “the look and feel of an animated feature film,” he said. Tony Morales wrote the score.

Article compiled and written by Kambrea Pratt (editor-in-chief), Derek Gibbs (beat editor) and the Pirates & Princesses newsroom. Pirates & Princesses is part of WebReef Media.

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Hat Tips:

• Animation Magazine (Nov. 9, 2026), the voice cast, Bauza’s and Marsden’s roles, Rogers’ and Prigmore’s quotes, the production timeline and inspirations

• ToonHive on X (Nov. 9, 2026), the tip

• Laughing Place (Nov. 3, 2026), the premiere schedule, the EP and the Paleyland screening

• Disney Plus press (June 16, 2026), the story, songs and crew

• Disney Branded Television press (2026), Bauza’s Disney Junior and Disney Channel roles

• Gray News (Oct. 26, 2026), Bauza’s death

• Animation Magazine (Nov. 27, 2024), Mickey and the Very Many Christmases

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