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Come here to talk about stuff in the book and the awesome art.

Though please keep MAJOR spoilers under a "spoiler tag". Thank You.

I hold the book in my hands right know, but when I opened it for the first time, I saw a picture which I haven't seen before and I closed it immediately. Now I am afraid of opening it again.

I need to buy the book sometime around, the first was great.

Can someone post something from the book! I want to see!

TheEleventhViking

06 May 2014, 13:38

Can someone post something from the book! I want to see!

Me too

Beware! Huge spoilers inside!
Toothless: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... hless-post
Hiccup: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... iccup-post
Astrid: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... strid-post
Bewilderbeasts: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... lderbeasts
Valka: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... alka-valka
Ruff, Tuff: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... twins-post
Snotlout: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... tlout-post
Fishlegs: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... hlegs-post
Scenery: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... 63/scenery
Storyboards (more and more spoilers... ): http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... toryboards

And my favorite:

Lastandir

06 May 2014, 14:32

Beware! Huge spoilers inside!
Toothless: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... hless-post
Hiccup: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... iccup-post
Astrid: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... strid-post
Bewilderbeasts: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... lderbeasts
Valka: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... alka-valka
Ruff, Tuff: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... twins-post
Snotlout: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... tlout-post
Fishlegs: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... hlegs-post
Scenery: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... 63/scenery
Storyboards (more and more spoilers... ): http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... toryboards

And my favorite:

Spoiler: click to toggle

Thanks for the post!

Lastandir

06 May 2014, 14:32

Beware! Huge spoilers inside!
Toothless: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... hless-post
Hiccup: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... iccup-post
Astrid: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... strid-post
Bewilderbeasts: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... lderbeasts
Valka: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... alka-valka
Ruff, Tuff: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... twins-post
Snotlout: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... tlout-post
Fishlegs: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... hlegs-post
Scenery: http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... 63/scenery
Storyboards (more and more spoilers... ): http://howtotrainyourbabyboo.tumblr.com ... toryboards

And my favorite:

Spoiler: click to toggle

I didn't see a single spoiler of note in there. I demand a refund! I'll be expecting my $0.00 transferred into my bank account.

In all seriousness, I see three possible things going on here:

(a). I missed something that was scanned up.

(b). We have very different ideas of huge spoilers.

(c). I have some sort of psychic powers that allow me to see the future, subconsciously assume that everyone has the same ability, and have been mixing up what was already revealed loads of times already with information that is new to the mundane masses. Okay, that's at Valka Villain Probability, but hey, I'm just throwing ideas out there, as this notion of those scans containing "huge spoilers" is baffling me somewhat.

Yeah I have the book, and I've flipped through Hiccup, Toothless, and most of "the gang" and while I've seen a bunch of new pictures, most of it is concept art and I haven't read anything I didn't already know. To be fair, I have watched all the clips/trailers, so I probably know everything there is to know already anyway.

I didn't really see any major spoilers in that. If you've seen all the trailers and clips, nothing was surprising at least in the portions of the book uploaded here. A do have a couple of thoughts though.

1. This did nothing to alleviate my fear that Valka is going to be too perfect for the movie's own good. If anything, it increased my concern in that area. A quick rundown of the producer comments about her in those couple of pages. She's a fierce warrior in her own right, capable of doing things with dragons that Hiccup never dreamed of, remarkable for being a woman who asserts herself in a male-dominated society, yet also extraordinarily compassionate and capable of making a deep connection with Hiccup as his mother despite being gone for 20 years. Um...... yeah.

2. On a better plot note, there was a comment in there that called Ruff's obsession with Eret a "running gag", so I don't think we'll have to worry about that taking up too much plot space.

3. For some reason I thought I found it interesting that the producers envision Hiccup and Astrid as the William and Kate of the Viking world. That's a comparison that I never would have thought of.