Fans of the The How to Train Your Dragon animated films have a live action adaptation to look forward to in 2025. That will end a five year drought since How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World hit theaters way back in 2019. That said, Funko Pops in the HTTYD have experienced a similar drought, though that ends today with the release of the Hiccup with Toothless Pop Ride and 7-inch Plush of Light Fury and Toothless.
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Pre-orders for the new How to Train Your Dragon Funko Pops are available in the list below. Note that U.S. shipping is free at Entertainment Earth on orders $79+. You can keep up with all of this week’s Funko Pop releases right here.
- How to Train Your Dragon Funko Pop Ride – Hiccup with Toothless – See at Entertainment Earth / Amazon
- HTTYD Funko Pop Plush – Light Fury – See at Entertainment Earth / Amazon
- HTTYD Funko Pop Plush – Toothless – See at Entertainment Earth / Amazon
Who Stars in the Live-Action How to Train Your Dragon?
Last year, it was announced that Mason Thames and Nico Parker have been cast as the lead roles of Hiccup and Astrid in a live-action How to Train Your Dragon film. Thames is best known for starring in The Black Phone, as well as stints on Walker and For All Mankind. Parker portrayed Sarah Miller in the premiere episode of HBO’s The Last of Us, and also had roles in Dumbo and The Third Day. They will be joined by Gerard Butler, who is reprising his role of Stoick the Vast from the animated How to Train Your Dragon movies, as well as Nick Frost as Stoick the Vast.
The live-action How to Train Your Dragon will be written, directed, and produced by Dean DeBlois, who will be making his live-action debut after spearheading much of the animated franchise. Marc Platt, whose work includes Legally Blonde and the studio’s upcoming Wicked movie, will be producing.
How to Train Your Dragon is set to be released exclusively in theaters on June 13, 2025.
What Are the How to Train Your Dragon Movies About?
This will be the first instance of an animated DreamWorks franchise being carried over into live-action. Loosely based on the books of Cressida Cowell, the How to Train Your Dragon franchise spanned three films from 2010 to 2019, which starred Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, and Craig Ferguson. It also led to multiple short films and television spinoffs including DreamWorks Dragons, DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Rider, and DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms.
“We definitely wanted it to feel hopeful but also conclusive,” DeBlois previously said of a potential reboot. “And I think what we tried to do was deliver a satisfying ending that ultimately meant that Hiccup and Toothless would go their separate ways, but also reassure the audience it was for the best, that we see them thrive in their adulthood. For me it’s a satisfying end, and that was the intention, to really kind of bring it back to the disappearance of dragons and having them kind of fall away into legend, but we the audience kind of know they’re still around. And beyond that, I don’t own the franchise, so I think if Dreamworks wanted to open it up again at some point, I would hope that it a different timeline, different characters, with the Hiccup/Toothless story remained intact.”
