Initially, those who love the animated adaptations of Cressida Cowell's book series were worried about the creature's design, noting that the dragons would look a little uncanny if their computer-generated looks jarred with the real-life actors – but it seems they've been won over by the first promo. Watch it above.

The trailer introduces Hiccup, Stoick and Toothless, who look exactly like their animated counterparts. As part of his viking training, Hiccup is instructed to go out and kill a dragon, but instead he befriends the adorable dragon Toothless.