3 years before the 2025 movie DreamWorks partnered with Creature Technology to bring audiences a live stage show adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon the How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular later renamed the How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular toured all around the world from Australia and New Zealand to the United States Canada and China featuring incredible animatronic dragons actors trained in martial arts and a massive stage the size of 27 football fields it was a show that truly lived up to its
spectacular title the geniuses behind the show are Creature Technology a division of the entertainment company Global Creatures creature Technology makes animatronics for theme parks movies and even the Olympics it took them four years to build the animatronics for How to Train Your Dragon starting after they were contacted by DreamWorks during the production of the film the animatronics are incredible and I can’t praise Creature Technology enough for the amazing amount of detail that went into them
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from their designs movements and even the technology to animate them personally I love the stage shows dragons designs and I prefer them over the live action movie especially Tooth less’s design sure the live action movie Toothless is basically the same as the original but it’s kind of funny isn’t it if live action remakes are supposed to be quote unquote more realistic than animated movies Tooth less’s original anime design is out of place in a realistic setting in real life many animals including reptiles and birds have something called
countershading this means that the underside of their body is lighter than the top making it easier to camouflage themselves so Toothless who is supposed to be a dragon so elusive that no one’s ever seen him before would actually benefit from not being entirely black tooth less’s original design is iconic but I appreciate the designers of the stage show for trying something different while still being recognizable as Toothless how to Train Your
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Dragon wouldn’t be complete without its human characters according to the show’s director Nigel Jameson they searched around the globe for actors to play the role of Hiccup and his fellow Vikings there were two actors who played Hiccup Riley Miner and Raiman Newton while I wasn’t able to find much info on Miner his last post from 2015 being a parkour video he filmed with his friends Raiman Newton has gone on to have a successful career on film and stage nun’s latest role is that of Frodo Baggins from the Lord of the Rings a musical
tale hiccup’s love interest and a fearsome warrior in her own right Astrid was played by Sarah Mc Cringer and Gemma Nain today Sarah is a content creator known for her dancing and comedy videos and Gemma is a successful stunt actress who’s done work for films like Everything Everywhere All at Once fishcakes actor Dexter Mayfield is a model and dancer who’s performed with pop stars like Taylor Swift shootouts actor Godfrey Rick award is an award-winning director and Roughout and Doughnuts actors Calle and Luke are successful dancers it’s inspiring to see how much the cast from the How to Train Your Dragon live show have grown and made names for
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themselves but looking at old vlogs and behind the-scenes footage from the show they were just young adults having fun what the How to Train Your Dragon Arena Show and indeed live stage adaptations or Broadway musicals of animated films like Disney’s make me realize is missing from live action remakes is the passion although they’re working with different mediums you can tell that the artistes and crew working on stage shows are just as passionate as the animators of the original films meanwhile live action remakes are either worse in every way like Disney’s or so derivative of the original that you might as well skip the live action remake and rematch the animated
