Trivia / How to Train Your Dragon 2

• Direct to Video: The film did not receive a theatrical release in Japan, and it took until mid-2015 for it to even get a DVD/Blu-ray release in the country.
• DVD Commentary: On the blu-ray release, with writer/director Dean DeBlois, producer Bonnie Arnold, head of character animation Simon Otto and production designer Pierre-Olivier Vincent. It's the only commentary from the DreamWorks/Fox era.
• Kids' Meal Toy: As they did for the first movie, McDonald's released a set of figures in their Happy Meals. This set consisted of fourteen different figures; Monstrous Nightmare, Skullcrusher, Cloudjumper, Scuttleclaw, The Terrible Terror, Bewilderbeast, Grump, Barf and Belch, Baby Scuttleclaw, Astrid, Hiccup, Toothless, and two different versions of Stormfly.
• Non-Singing Voice: When Valka joins in Stoick's song, that's Mary Jane Wells, not Cate Blanchett, even though Blanchett can actually sing pretty well as she has proven in a few interviews.
• Playing Against Type: Snarky Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain Eret is the complete opposite of Kit Harington's other major role.
• So My Kids Can Watch: Apparently, at least part of the reason that Cate Blanchett agreed to voice Valka was because her children loved the first movie.
• Throw It In!:
  • While watching Stoick and Valka argue, Gobber comments, "This is why I never got married. That and one other reason." Craig Ferguson ad-libbed the second part.
  • Djimon Hounsou, Drago's voice actor, would do a series of vocal exercises before speaking as Drago, one of which was a loud, intimidating scream. The directors liked it so much they used it as Drago's dragon call for summoning his Bewilderbeast.
• What Could Have Been: Fly to this page on your dragon.
• Word of Gay: Gobber remarks during an argument between Stoick and his wife Valka "This is why I never married. This, and one other reason." It was originally a Throw It In! moment by Gobber's voice actor Craig Ferguson, but was eventually backed up by the film's openly gay director Dean DeBlois.

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