User blog comment:Lightning the Skrill/New dragons of Race to the Edge/@comment-27624304-20160623223036

I also am a little put off with the upcoming season's dragons. I also haven't seen Pokemon, but totally see the resemblence. And the sentiment that the Triple Stryke looks like a Pokemon seems to be widely held. With the Buffalord, Stryke, and Singetail - it just looks like they were trying too hard to come up with different dragons. And I agree also with the comment about them looking less dragon-ish. Certainly the definition of a "dragon" is very wide, but the Buffalord and Triple Stryke look more like simply a monster of some sort, than a dragon. Or at least a dragon in the HTTYD franchise. Or Books for that matter. Or maybe they are trying too hard to placate the fan-base, who generally wants more and more dragons?

IMO, they have so many wonderful concept drawings, they ought to make use of those first, or get permission to develop the many species mentioned in the HTTYD Books.

I also agree about the texture of these dragons - too "plastic" maybe? But I just attributed that to the TV series being lower quality (not bad, just not movie quality) due to a lower budget.

All that said, I will still watch RTTE, and get these dragons when (or if) they become available in SOD and ROB. Gotta train'em all, right? :)