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However, over time their obsession level ramped up (at least in part because Grace became really wrapped up in working on her own Book of Dragons). When my kids start asking to watch the same show every day, I sit up and pay attention. That combined with the fact that I am often in the room with them when they are watching TV, has led to me getting drawn further and further into the dragon riders of Berk, and to be honest, getting sucked into the setting and storylines.

This, of course, made me want to watch the movies, and as I started poking around I came to the realisation that there was a heck of a lot more Dreamworks Dragons stuff out there that we had yet to see (in total there are three movies, two older television shows, a handful of short films, plus the Netflix exclusive series).

Next up is a handful of short films; Gift of the Night Fury, Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon, and Book of Dragons. You can find all of these on Netflix, and I recommend streaming them there versus trying to hunt down the DVD versions, which can be pricey.

The short films can be difficult to locate on Netflix. For example, Book of Dragons and Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon can be found bundled together under the title How to Train Your Dragon Legends.

After that come two seasons worth of Dreamworks Dragons television episodes. These originally aired on the Cartoon Network, and are currently available on DVD. The first season was called Dragons: Riders of Berk. You can find it on DVD packaged as Dragons: Riders of Berk Part 1 and Dragons: Riders of Berk Part 2. The second season was called Dragons: Defenders of Berk. You can find it on DVD packaged as Dragons: Defenders of Berk Part 1 and Dragons: Defenders of Berk Part 2.

Thank you SO much for your quick and easy guide on how to watch how to train your dragon. We were completely lost! We started watching one episode from Dragons: Race to the Edge and realized there were new characters, enemies and quarrels so I looked for some guidance on the net and found yours! SO happy for that!!
Best wishes from Argentina!

Thank you very much. I love how to train your dragon 1 + 2 and a friend of mine told me there is more, because her son loves it in german. I prefer english to improve mine. So you guided me what I really want to buy.

For those of us who still have Netflix DVD service, all of Riders of Berk and the first half of Defenders of Berk are available through it. I also successfully requested that my local library buy the second half.

Dragons, commonly referred to as DreamWorks Dragons, is an American animated television series based on the 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon. The series serves as a bridge between the first film and its 2014 sequel.[3][4][5]

Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller, and David Tennant reprise their voice-acting roles from the film. Other cast members include Julie Marcus and Andree Vermeulen as Ruffnut (previously voiced by Kristen Wiig), Zack Pearlman as Snotlout (previously voiced by Jonah Hill), Chris Edgerly as Gobber the Belch (previously voiced by Craig Ferguson), and Nolan North as Stoick the Vast (previously voiced by Gerard Butler).

Dragons was announced by Cartoon Network on October 12, 2010.[6] According to Tim Johnson, executive producer for the film, the series was planned to be much darker and deeper than DreamWorks Animation's previous television series spin-offs, with a similar tone to the film. Dragons was the first DreamWorks Animation series to air on Cartoon Network rather than Nickelodeon.[7]

A one-hour preview consisting of two episodes aired on August 7, 2012, on Cartoon Network,[8] with the official premiere of the series airing on September 5, 2012.[9] A total of 40 episodes aired on Cartoon Network during the first two seasons, subtitled Riders of Berk and Defenders of Berk respectively.

Afterwards, the series was subtitled Race to the Edge, the first season of which debuted on Netflix on June 26, 2015.[4] The second and third seasons of Dragons: Race to the Edge premiered on January 8 and June 24, 2016, respectively.[10][11] The fourth season was released on February 17, 2017.[12] The series was renewed for a fifth season, which was released on Netflix on August 25, 2017. The series (alongside the Netflix exclusive, All Hail King Julien) is syndicated as part of the newly rebranded Universal Kids on September 9, 2017. Dragons: Race to the Edge was renewed for the sixth and final[2] season which was released on February 16, 2018.

On October 12, 2010, it was announced that Cartoon Network had acquired worldwide broadcast rights to a weekly animated series based on the film.[6] According to Tim Johnson, executive producer for How to Train Your Dragon, the series was planned to be much darker and deeper than DreamWorks Animation's previous television series spin-offs, with a similar tone to the film, and would follow after the events of the first film. DreamWorks Dragons is the first DreamWorks Animation series to air on Cartoon Network; DreamWorks Animation's previous television series, including The Penguins of Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, and Monsters vs. Aliens, had aired on Nickelodeon.[7]

Although it was initially announced that the series would be called Dragons: The Series,[13] the San Diego Comic-Con schedule announced in June 2012 revealed the new title to be Dragons: Riders of Berk.[19] The second season of the show was titled Dragons: Defenders of Berk.[20] At the end of May 2014, DreamWorks Animation announced that the series would move to Netflix in spring 2015.[4]

A 3D Unity-based in-browser game, titled Dragons: Wild Skies, was launched on August 27, 2012, on CartoonNetwork.com.[33] Players will go through a tutorial with Hiccup, and train a Deadly Nadder, before being able to free roam around the several islands in the Barbaric Archipelago, with dragons scattered around them. The player can choose to be a blonde/brunette male or female Viking, before setting off to explore the islands. To train a dragon, players must feed the dragons correct food before doing correct gestures to gain the dragon's trust. In the game, players do not die or otherwise fail. Players complete challenges to earn gold for buying tools to obtain food for training dragons. The overworld consists of six islands, each with a unique dragon to tame. The number of dragons and worlds to explore is set to expand over time, as the series introduces more and more places and dragons...[34]

A DVD collection of the first four episodes, titled Dragons: Riders of Berk, was released on November 20, 2012.[35] The first season of the series was released on DVD in two parts on July 23, 2013. Dragons: Riders of Berk: Part 1 contained episodes from 1 to 11,[36] and Dragons: Riders of Berk: Part 2, episodes from 12 to 20.[37] In December 2013, Walmart released an exclusive pack containing the Complete 1st Season in a special edition "Toothless" plastic package.[38] A DVD collection of the first 10 episodes of the second season, titled Dragons: Defenders of Berk: Part 1, was released on March 25, 2014.[39] The second part, titled Dragons: Defenders of Berk: Part 2, was later released on May 27, 2014.[40] On February 12, 2019, the first two seasons of Dragons: Race to the Edge was released on DVD in one set. Seasons three and four were released on DVD on March 5, 2019, and seasons five and six were released on DVD on March 26, 2019, albeit all only in Region 1 format.

Dagur the Deranged (David Faustino) gets more importance in the series after escaping from his prison. He swears that he will get his revenge on Hiccup (Jay Baruchel). The war with the Outcasts and Berserkers is over, and while peace seems to reign, more trouble is brewing. When the young stewards of Berk locate a boat containing treasures from foreign lands and find a mysterious Dragons Eye (a slide projector with kaleidoscope capabilities to cast and merge images out of a tube when properly illuminated), only adventure beckons the leader of the group. Hiccup wants to discover what secrets this cylinder has in its encoded messages. Some of it suggests answers to the origins of dragons and others unveils a bigger world for him to explore.

Even Tuffnut and Ruffnut get better treatment as characters worth noting than laughing about. Instead of them always providing the comedy relief or being the clowns of the series, there are moments where they shine with some wonderful bits of dialogue that show their intelligence and vocabulary is not limited. Just where did they learn this knowledge does require a suspension of disbelief as higher learning was limited and exclusive to royalty during the Viking age.

Production problems aside, at least the writing has improved. Hiccup is no longer obsessed with training every wild dragon he sees and that did get redundant in the first two seasons. His new obsession in exploring the world takes precedence and that makes for a better driving force to carry the series forward. When He finds his companions have moved on, this new journey may well be a lonely one. As the first episode reveals, Astrid joined the honour guard. The rest have settled in their new roles in the village: Fishlegs is an educator, Snotlout is a guinea pig (technically, works at the armoury testing equipment) and the Twins are dedicated to becoming the ultimate pranksters. Curiously, they are able to drop all that to join Hiccup. Some story could have been made to detail how they get out of their obligations before leaving Berk. I would have liked to see how the gang explained themselves to the village elders, especially Astrid and Fishlegs, in explaining why they must follow Hiccup. I can see Gobber easily letting Snotlout go and nobody is going to miss Ruffnut and Tuffnut, since they are mostly troublemakers. The first two episodes just felt rushed, and the narrative did not find its flow until three more episodes in.