'How To Train Your Dragon' Second TV Spinoff Series Revealed

By Liezl Dunuan, Christian Post Contributor Wednesday, June 17, 2015

DreamWorks Animation is bringing Berk and its beloved dragons and their Vikings to Netflix. As part of Netflix's multiyear contract with DreamWorks, fans of "How To Train Your Dragon" will be happy to see more of their favorite Berk characters in the online streaming service. To kick off the partnership, DreamWorks recently unveiled its second TV spinoff series "Dragons: Race to the Edge" which will start airing on Netflix on June 26.

According to a report in Variety, the series was formally launched during the Annecy Festival, the world's biggest animation meet. The first two episodes of the 13-episode series was previewed during the event and DreamWorks Animation's head of television Margie Cohn was on hand to answer questions about the new series.

"Race to the Edge" is the second TV spinoff after "DreamWorks Dragons" which was played on the Cartoon. Unlike the Cartoon Network series however, this new series is more "serialized" and its first seg is called "Dragon Eye of the Beholder Part One." "DreamWorks Dragons" was episodic in nature.

The new series happens a year before the events in "How to Train Your Dragon 2," where Hiccup and his friends were already adults and full-pledged riders of Berk. "Race to the Edge" features a younger and more impulsive Hiccup, who still wants to fulfill his dream of "charting all the dragons on the archipelago" rather than settle down.

If "DreamWorks Dragons" show a young Hiccup, here they are young adults. According to Margie Cohn, "'Race to the Edge' is a kind of prequel to 'How to Train Your Dragon 2.' In the Cartoon Network series, the kids are still young; here they're young adults."

The new series also brings Hiccup and his friends to a land far away from Berk. This new experience is likened to the kids being away on college and figuring out where they fit in their world. It's the kids who take the center stage and not the adults. Their adventures bring them to unknown worlds and unknown dragons, of course.