Now with Dragons and Viking living peacefully, Gobber finds that his occupation of being making weaponry is no longer needed. Feeling guilty that he has caused Gobber's sudden loss of purpose, Hiccup tries to get Gobber to be his father's right hand man, but it doesn't work out. Now with Gobber feeling more lost then ever, Hiccup desperately tries to find Gobber a new occupation in the village. But the task is harder then Hiccup anticipated.
Director: Anthony Bell
Writers: Mike & Linda Teverbaugh
Aired: 7 August 2012 Episode List
Shortly after the events of the first movie, the dragons have finally come to live on Berk. Unfortunately they're a chaotic nuisance that constantly bothers the villagers and, frankly, everyone's getting sick of it. When local curmudgeon, Mildew, rallies up the village to force the "pesky dragons" out off the island, it's up to Hiccup and the rest of the Viking Teens to show them that although dragons are going to act within their nature, it can be used to the Viking's advantage.
Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 by IcelandicEel
Today we're proud to announce that we're finally getting a proper web address! Gone are the days when you'd have to type .blogspot.com when you want to visit this site! Now it's just berksgrapevine.com.
Don't worry, though. All .blogspot.com links will still redirect to the new address. However, it may take Google some time to recognize our new address. So if you find this site via Google, don't worry if it disappears for a couple days. We haven't died or anything.
Although it's not completely confirmed all of these pictures come from "Animal House" (episode 3), or are even from the same episode. There's one screenshot that shows Hiccup and Astrid trapped in the snow shown above that we're sure is from the same episode as the Avalanche clip found a few weeks ago.
UPDATE: Episode 4 will apparently be named "Terrible Twos" [which we're guessing is about Torch and his mother].
Thanks Serimon for finding the title for episode 4!
UPDATE 2: Episode titles and descriptions for episodes 5 and 6 are here! Go to the "Episode List" on the Riders of Berk Overview page for more!
Reminder: You might need to install "Unity Web Player" to play.
Cartoon Network is releasing a new 3D game based on Riders of Berk. From the video it looks like you will be able to create and customize a Viking avatar and you will have the opportunity to train your own digital dragons.
Not only that, it looks like Cartoon Network will add new dragons to the game as they are introduced in the series. Here's their description:
Think you've got what it takes to be a rider of Berk? Put your skills to the test! Blaze your own path as a dragon trainer. Explore the island, train wild dragons, and take flight in awesome aerial challenges!
Ride the dragons you love from the movies: Gronckle, Deadly Nadder, Monstrous Nightmare, Hideous Zippleback, and Night Fury! Plus, watch for new dragon species from the series. Every time a new dragon appears in the show, you'll be able to train it in the game! — blog.cartoonnetwork.com
Also, you may have already seen it in the sidebar, but it looks like the next episode of Riders of Berk will be called "Animal House." Does this mean Viking fraternities? Oh gods.
UPDATE: I found a second video of the game. Wander past the page break to see it.
SOMEWHAT UNRELATED UPDATE 2: Found a screenshot of Episode 3 on the CN server as well as the title to the next episode!
UPDATE 3: A few new logos and screencaps from the game!
UPDATE 4: The game will be released "early next week." The game studio calls it one of the coolest games they have ever made. It looks like it will be written using the Unity game engine.
UPDATE 5: A couple more pictures.
UPDATE 6:Here's a blog post from one of the people who made the game. They call the game a "a basic flight simulator of sorts." (Thanks to StaticTheSkrill!) UPDATE 7: The Game is Here!!!
Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2012 by IcelandicEel
DreamWorks is planning to build an indoor theme park in northern New Jersey. According to this article, they hope to open the park in 2014, just in time for the sequel.
Along with characters from How to Train Your Dragon, the park will feature those from Kung Fu Panda and Shrek. The theme park may be similar to the somewhat unknown Dragons attraction at Ocean Park in Hong Kong (the picture above), which opened after the film was released.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm hoping for a Night Fury roller coaster.
In an exclusive interview, an anonymous commenter from DreamWorks told us a few things about what to expect in the sequel to How to Train Your Dragon, and how the films will tie in with the TV series.
By the way, this is the largest piece of information we (or anyone else) have ever found about the sequel. So enjoy it, because you're probably the first people outside DreamWorks to know.
It's one of the most important questions of our time: who is taller, Hiccup or Astrid? In the film it looked like Astrid was taller. In Gift of the Night Fury, suddenly Hiccup looked taller. But what's the real answer?
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2012 by IcelandicEel
It looks like we may be getting a new set of How to Train Your Dragon toys! This set features some of the new dragons from the "Book of Dragons" short and, according to the website we found, will be sold by Spin Master just like the first set of toys.
The prototypes, which were created by Mana Studios, supposedly have 14-inch wingspans. Now those are some giant dragons (relatively speaking)!
And here's a bonus playlist we found on the Cartoon Network site. It's really badly written and features at least one embarrasing typo. Can you find it?
AvannaK is holding a coloring contest to celebrate the premiering of Riders of Berk. If you want to participate, just download the line art and start coloring! The deadline for submissions is the end of September. Check out some of the prizes!
First place:60 points, an artist feature, and a finished art piece or a one-shot
Second place:40 points, an artist feature, and a lineart
Third place:30 points and an artist feature
* if the artist doesn't have a deviantArt account, they can receive sketches instead of points.
Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2012 by IcelandicEel
This is a completely new Riders of Berk clip released today. We were told during the Comic-Con panel that Episode 3 would feature an avalanche. I guess this is the avalanche.
UPDATE: If you live outside the US, you can also watch it here.
UPDATE 8/13: The clip was uploaded to the CN servers with the title "Downhill Dragons" and this description: "Astrid and Hiccup race their dragons down the icy slopes of Berk. Watch more DreamWorks’ Dragons: Riders of Berk on Cartoon Network!"
Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 by IcelandicEel
Caption: Just a bunch of kids with swords.
Test sketch for… somethin’….
And that something is a comic book based on Riders of Berk. If you're on Tumblr, you may have seen some of these awesome images floating around. We saw a tweet about it a while back, but thought it was a joke. Turns out it wasn't.
The book will be published by Ape Entertainment, and will probably look something like the kung Fu Panda comic book. According to a tweet by James Silvani (below), it probably won't be as "dark" as the TV show, but judging by the art we've seen, it's going to look pretty awesome anyway.
Read more for several comic-related images and quotes.
The Riders of Berk preview is today 7:30/6:30c! If you can't watch it, we will be covering it here as well. So after it airs, don't expect this post to be spoiler-free. Additionally, Disqus (our commenting system) has real-time updates, so you can talk about the show while it's happening.
There are also several people who are doing live streams of the event. You may be able to find them on the Riders of Berk tag on Tumblr.
If you have any questions, you can check out our sites (BlackRose108 and IcelandicEel) or comment below.
For all of you who entered in our first fanfiction contest, we have picked a winner who will win a free game code. We got some amazing entries, and it was incredibly fun to read your stories! Thank you to everyone who participated!
Read more for the list of stories.
NOTE: The stories are posted on this site. If you don't want your story to be publicly posted, please notify us and we will take it down.
When I saw that, I thought it might be time for a new post.
So far I've found a lot of dragon content. And I'm going to be staying up all night searching for more, all of which I will put under the break. Read more for... dragons!
UPDATE: A new image says September 4 (which is actually a Tuesday) instead of September 7.
Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2012 by IcelandicEel
These may be images from the hour-long sneak peek, they may be from Comic-Con, or they may be from completely original footage. Here's what the poster said about them:
It's now less than a week until the sneak peek, but I can't figure out why Cartoon Network keeps using stuff from the movies in order to promote the show. I may be wrong, but I don't think Nickelodeon did that with their DreamWorks shows. I could understand them doing that months ago, but it's about to premiere and they have plenty of complete footage. The show holds up well enough on its own anyway. At least it does look like they're going to start using in-show stuff on the website promotions, as is evident by these screenshots. — Source
There's a good chance they are from the Cartoon Network site because of the cloudy background, but no one on the Night Fury's Den has seen it yet.
We'll update when more is found.
Thanks to skrill! UPDATE: Here's the video (thanks to skrill!):
