Talk:Toothless' Saddle and Tail Fin/@comment-38622675-20190224064849

Ok, I did something possibly a bit dumb. I went to see the third movie without seeing the first 2. I really liked it, tho. There was something that confused me about this tailfin issue. I was hoping you might help me.

Hiccup makes a point about how Toothless can't fly without him. Then they make Toothless a prosthetic tailfin so he can court the light fury.

However, earlier in the movie, they showed Hiccup throwing his own prosthetic leg off a cliff, and toothless going and fetching it -- by flying -- and Hiccup wasn't on Toothless's back at the time. Why can Toothless fetch over the edge of the cliff -- but not take off from the beach?