Board Thread:Staff Discussion/@comment-27901943-20190908135840/@comment-27624304-20190929165527

Okay, so Jack Thomas said many different things:
 * "The idea was to take the world and the DNA of the franchise and create a new type of storytelling aimed at a younger audience. That’s why it’s all new characters and all new locations, so that we could make it its own thing."
 * So, I interpret this to mean he is using the HTTYD world and elements from it to create RR. It is also 'its own thing', because there are new characters and locations. Why can't there be new characters and locations in the HTTYD world we know? Other than the 'talking dragons' bit, it is the same world
 * Jack uses the phrases "other franchise" and "our universe", despite just saying they were using the HTTYD world.
 * "I worked on the other franchise “Race to the Edge” ..."
 * Here Jack refers to RttE as its own franchise, rather than the main/HTTYD franchise.
 * "Dean came in early on. We pitched the show to him. And he gave us some advice on the design, and I think he loaned us one of his designers to give us some ideas – to try to bring the characters a little more into the Dragon world. But pretty much he gave us free hand. He was very hands off."
 * Dean DeBlois was involved and consulted, even if just minimally, indicating connection. Yes, Dean has said RR is not "canon" to his movies. Yet canonicity is something the fan decides.
 * "I hope that what we’re doing with these characters is introducing a new, younger audience to the main franchise."
 * Here, he refers to the other HTTYD stuff/Hiccup's story or world as the 'main franchise', not the 'other' franchise. And he wants younger kids to see RR and have the chance to grow with the franchise - ie what the other Dragons shows.
 * As far as the quote you gave: "I would say this: if you’re a fan of the franchise, and if you watch carefully, you will see Easter Eggs. But I’m not going to give you clues on where they are or what they are. I love the main franchise. I did 78 episodes of “Race to the Edge” and before that “Defenders of Berk”. It’s really important to me that we fit in even though we are a very different aspect of the main franchise. So there are references."
 * Yes, he said 'Easter Eggs'. I am having a hard time conceptualizing the definition of easter egg, but that's my own problem.
 * In this same quote, he also says "It’s really important to me that we fit in even though we are a very different aspect of the main franchise." So he purposefully made connections with HTTYD world/main Franchise, so they are more than whatever 'easter egg' is defined as. They are there for more than just fun tidbits. He wants RR to be a new piece of the Dreamworks Dragons whole (franchise).

Anyway, going back to the practical application of this discussion: how to present RR stuff on the Wiki. I think we can all agree that if we define "Franchise" as being "Dreamworks Dragons", then that would cover all media created and sanctioned by Dreamworks, right? So we should go ahead and change the page How to Train Your Dragon (Franchise) to "Dreamworks Dragons Franchise". I think we can agree that "Dreamworks Dragons Franchise" is still separate from the Book series? This way, we are all right no matter how you view RR, and we can stick to the 'Franchise' color scheme and navboxes. We can still use the Navboxes for Practices, Objects, People, and places for RR.

As far as some Navboxes however, as suggested in a post above, we might have a new navbox for RR dragon species and dragon characters, since our other navboxes are based on the Dragon Classes (Franchise), which is a Berkian invention and currently not present in RR. I don't think we should change the present navboxes to suit RR, just make a new one, until such time when and if RR decides to use the Dragon Classes. I'm hoping that would be satisfying to all?

Also to note, I am trying to work on an RR logo render. PLEASE let me know if someone finds a really good HQ image I can use!!