How Not to Train Your Dragon

By W. R. Miller on July 23, 2018

When dealers and exhibitors come to conventions, they try all kinds of innovative ways to attract potential customers. Here, at Comic-Con International in San Diego, Neopets was promoting their School of Dragons game. On Saturday, July 21, their booth featured a green screen where people could wear Viking attire, have their photograph taken, and the shot would be composited with their How to Train Your Dragon background. Key in your email address, and the image is transmitted to one’s home computer or app. This is the result with me:

Somehow, I don’t think hammering a dragon is a good method of training them.

But Neopets’ promotional strategy worked. Here I am posting about it.

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Posted in Dragons, News | Tagged Comic-Con, DreamWorks, Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon, Neopets, Toothless
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