Happy 10th Birthday, How to Train Your Dragon!
Posted: 26 Mar 2020, 07:39
Happy Birthday, How to Train Your Dragon!
Today (March 26th) is 10 years to the day since the first How to Train Your Dragon had it's US theatrical release! And what an amazing 10 years it's been! Since then we've had two more movies, 5 shorts, 8 seasons of a TV show (and 2 more if you count Rescue Riders), a (sadly short lived) live show, three soundtrack albums, and enough merch to fill a house!
But more importantly to me is the community that's built up around the film, with multiple fan-sites (including Berk's Grapevine!), forums, more than 21638 fanfictions written across both fanfiction.net and archiveofourown.org, an active subreddit, many hundreds of tumblr blogs, several different discord servers, even some real life meetups, and much more that I'm probably forgetting!
I'd like to thank both Cressida Cowell for creating the amazing characters, and then everyone at DreamWorks animation (but especially directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois) for making such a wonderful film that's clearly resonated with us all.
What have your favourite httyd moments been? I think mine have to include finding this site and realising there are so many people who love the franchise, all the friendships I've made online, and the real-life meetups - including managing to watch the first film in a cinema surrounded by fans last year.
Today (March 26th) is 10 years to the day since the first How to Train Your Dragon had it's US theatrical release! And what an amazing 10 years it's been! Since then we've had two more movies, 5 shorts, 8 seasons of a TV show (and 2 more if you count Rescue Riders), a (sadly short lived) live show, three soundtrack albums, and enough merch to fill a house!
But more importantly to me is the community that's built up around the film, with multiple fan-sites (including Berk's Grapevine!), forums, more than 21638 fanfictions written across both fanfiction.net and archiveofourown.org, an active subreddit, many hundreds of tumblr blogs, several different discord servers, even some real life meetups, and much more that I'm probably forgetting!
I'd like to thank both Cressida Cowell for creating the amazing characters, and then everyone at DreamWorks animation (but especially directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois) for making such a wonderful film that's clearly resonated with us all.
What have your favourite httyd moments been? I think mine have to include finding this site and realising there are so many people who love the franchise, all the friendships I've made online, and the real-life meetups - including managing to watch the first film in a cinema surrounded by fans last year.