The Christmas Toy is a 1986 television film directed by Eric Till and produced by The Jim Henson Company, featuring Jim Henson's Muppets, including Rugby the Tiger, who remembers being last year's Christmas Toy and thinks that he will be unwrapped again this year.

In 2008, HIT Entertainment, distributed by Lionsgate, released the special on DVD, with Kermit's opening introduction edited out due to legal issues with The Walt Disney Company, which had owned the rights to him since 2004.

[2] When people are not around, toys come to life to play, but they must be careful because if a person catches them out of position, they will be frozen forever.

As he tries to get into the Christmas package, he releases Meteora, Queen of the Asteroids, who is unaware that she is a toy and thinks that she has landed among aliens.

The other toys hurry to get Rugby out of the box and Meteora back in before they are found and frozen forever.