Board Thread:Staff Discussion/@comment-27901943-20190908135840/@comment-27624304-20190929001808

I'm sorry Dub, I disagree. I think HTTYD Franchise = Dreamworks Dragons Franchise. That said, I totally agree it would be better changing the How to Train Your Dragon (Franchise) page to "Dreamworks Dragons" or thereabouts. That way it'd all work, right? Not to mention it'd be heck of a lot easier typing it out on pages :P We could have the heading "Spin-offs" or something, as I think we all agree to that. You never know if DW will pull something else out later down the road also even separate from RR or Hiccup's story.

I see RR and everything else (just referring it to Hiccup's story), as the same Universe/World/Franchise. If I understand correctly, DW has rights to Cressida's Book series so anything produced under that licensing constitute the Franchise, even if it has a tenuous connection to the original Book series. Also, I feel that the RR creators purposefully added connections to Hiccup's story through small mentions like ice-tailed pike, titan wing Submarippers, Hobblegrunts, etc (Franchise/Hiccup's story exclusives). Also the glimpse of Leyla's Dragon Diary I'm 99% sure that was meant to represent Bork's Dragon classes.

For documenting these mentions, they ought to be discussed directly on those pages in the "Appearances" section, as those were what they were meant to be, i.e. not a special RR Submaripper, but the Submaripper species we saw in RttE. Or the Hobblegrunt species we saw in HTTYD2.

That said, pretty sure we can all agree on a separate RR species Navbox, no matter our take on the issue? Won't hurt if I start working on one, I think.

Also, I was thinking it might be neat to include a heading on the RR page (or perhaps RR Season 1 page might be better) listing all the connections between RR and Hiccup's story media i.e ice-tail pike, Hobblegrunts, Submarippers, etc. etc.