Dreamworks Dragons Riders of Berk / How to Train Your Dragon 2 Toys Review!!

Dragons!! Everywhere!! 

What is it!? 

This is a review of the new range of Dragon toys from the soon to be popular How to Train your Dragon 2 movie and also a few from the Dreamworks Dragons Series "Riders of Berk"! Just in time for the new film which opens in cinema's nationwide TODAY! See the trailer here!!

Fizzing egg:

What we thought

The instructions could have been better. It advises to remove packaging, but doesn't tell you that there are two layers, I was waiting about 30 minutes before I realised the egg wasn't fizzing the outer layer away, there were holes in it so looked like it was doing the job.. in the end I took off the second blue layer pictured and it fizzed away in what seemed like seconds.. and I was elated to find a cute tiny Toothless model (mine and my sons favorite!)..


The Verdict

Very cute and nice detail, but just a little TOO tiny.. There are four of the dragons to collect and these RRP at £4.99.

Toothless - Night Fury (Action Dragon):

What we thought

This Toothless 'Figure' is brilliant, he can fire a blue fire projectile from this mouth by pressing his head and also (my fave bit) at a press of a button, his wings expand! "gasp! How does it do that!?!!" See below:

Toothless also fits the standard 3" figures on his back.


The Verdict

My son loves this smaller version of Toothless, it's not as heavy as the massive one, so he can run around the room ducking and diving and weaving around his copious amount of toys on the floor!

It really is a great representation from the film and the expanding wings is really fun.

There are also other dragons to collect in this range, 4 in fact and the below "Stormfly - Power Dragon" has flapping wings and a light up mouth! Really cool detail and also can sit a figure on his back. 

Both of the above dragons RRP at £12.99 and are great to play with on their own or part of a set. 

Large Flame Breathing Toothless

This is what I opened the box to! AWESOME!

This BIG version of Toothless is just brilliant, the detail is immense and the fire breathing feature is just amazing! I have no idea how it works, but the blue light really shows up the "smoke" (steam really, I know that much), not sure how good you can see it below..

His ears are the buttons, one side makes his mouth open with the blue light on and breathes, and the other ear opens his mouth, with the blue light and shoots a blue projectile!

I haven't let my son play with the projectile bit yet, but it easily flies six feet! 

As per the back of the box below, you can (like the little one) expand the wings (no button though, manual only) to over 22 inches!!  

I may have to invest in a few of the figures as this Toothless hold those on it's back too!

The Verdict

Again, a great toy, personally, my favorite of the range! Probably my sons' too as we haven't stopped filling it up with water for the fire breathing! It only needs a few drops of water and lasts for around 3 minutes of CONTINUAL (i.e. keep the button held down) use. That's quite a long time when you're only using it in short bursts. 

This RRP's at £34.99 and is available at all good toy stores. Check Amazon I would, they always have good discounts! (try my search on the right!)

Cloud Jumper - Mini Dragons Assortment

These cute collectable dragons make good babies for your bigger dragons and are slightly posable (head and legs) 

What we thought

My son liked to play with these and pretend the babies were captured, then Toothless comes along to save them!


The Verdict

Another good addition to the range, these are pretty cute, they RRP at £4.99 which I think may be a tiny bit overpriced, available on Amazon they're actually a pretty good price there.

All of the above are available in the stores right now!! More info available at Spinmaster Toys!