Film Score and More | Music Cut From HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 @FilmScoreandMore | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
This is Dragon's Lair (2m12), an unreleased track from John Powell's How To Train Your Dragon 2 score. It was cut from the movie and not included on the original album. It is now available on the How To Train Your Dragon 2 deluxe album from 5 Cat Studios.

This track sets the tone for the scene and reprises familiar music from the series, but this would have made six-and-a-half minutes of wall-to-wall music. There needed to be a breather right here.

I carefully synched Dragon's Lair with the scene so it overlaps Toothless Lost/Hiccup and Toothless Attacked, and I mixed it in with the film audio so it sounds like it would have if it stayed in the final cut. SaltyGamer777 helped me to place the music in the right spot.

Listen to Dragon's Lair: youtube.com/watch?v=FWP4rXmsCP8

Official How To Train Your Dragon 2 Scorebook: omnimusicpublishing.com/product/john-powells-how-to-train-your-dragon-2-full-orchestral-score

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I do not own the rights to How To Train Your Dragon 2 or John Powell's soundtrack. Both belong to NBCU. No copyright infringement intended.