This past week, I finally had the chance to sit down and watch Dragons: Race to the Edge on Netflix. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed watching it along with my nine year-old son. The two main characters, Hiccup and Toothless risk leaving the safety of their home, on the island of Berk, to search for new dragons. My boys had a ball using their imaginations to create their own adventures where they set out to find mystical dragons. They were so excited about possibly finding dragons with some of the abilities of the dragons on the show including sending shock waves, cannon balls and fire blasts. Who knew that modern dragons had such amazing abilities? In Dragons: Race to the Edge, Hiccup finds the magical Dragon Eye artifact aboard and abandoned ship. This discovery leads him to learn that there is much more to find outside the Berk limits and he allows his curiosity to get the best of him. Hiccup’s own words, “this changes everything,” shows us that … [Read more...]