I had all the Pixar movies, every single animated Disney movie except Beauty and the Beast, and some odds and ends such as Prince of Egypt, Road to El Dorado, Anastasia, Cats Don’t dance and Swan Princess 1&2.
What are Package films, EJE?
IV: My bro is a huge fan of the Swan Princess trilogy (he recently rediscovered it after torrenting the films), he sings their songs all the time and we would quote the “It’s fiiine by me” line from that ginger-mustached villian whasthisname-i-fogot.
Package films are those produced by Disney during the wartime between 1942-49 and that are anthologies.
They were the result of the Disney Animators Strike, the disappointing box office performances of Fantasia and Pinocchio and the lost European market due to WWII.
They were smaller and cheaper stories ‘packaged’ in full-feature format. So the two Latin American films (Saludos Amigos and Three Caballeros), two musical themed movies (Make Mine Music and Melody Time) and two films featuring two stories (Fun & Fancy Free and Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
I was watching The Incredibles with the commentary on, (Brad Bird) And during the dinner scene at the beginning, Brad was talking about the studio fretting about the changing position of the broccoli. I thought it was hilarious!
Bonanna: I love that part! lol I told my dad about that, and he looked like it was nuts. He said, “Who cares about CGI broccoli?” 
TDIT: I mostly grew up watching whichever animated(r otherwise) movies my dad liked. Of course there was the Little Mermaid and Tarzan and Hercules(and sooooooo many more) which he hated, but my mom insisted upon my having/seeing. Thank goodness! I was not allowed to see Beauty and the Beast until I watched it on Disney Channel(haha I win)alone when I was 7. So I was familiar with some fairly underrated/forgotten animated films.
Whoa what hang on I’m genuinely sorry if I’m stepping on some toes here, but what’s with people thinking HTTYD sequels are only being made for a quick buck? This is definitely not the case. How To Train Your Dragon was based on a book by the same name and the sequels will also follow the book’s sequels’ plotlines in some way, or so I’ve read. So they’re not just doing it for the money.
But; I don’t hate anyone, honestly. You have your valid points for thinking that they’re in it for the money. 
Dreamworks seems rather intense when it concerns bringing out new movies.
Blue Sky, for one, releases a new film once in two years, Pixar and Disney once per year and there’s Dreamworks, well, with a whoppin’ 2 films per year (which they want to change to three as well!) and two television series. Well, gotta hand it to them; they sure know how to churn out a lot in a short time compared to other studios. But like all studios, some of their films are good, and others are… less good. I love everything though.
Wait, isn’t there a foil to this topic? Like, ‘Things in animation you simply adore?’? I might take a look there.
…I’m hungry
If they would of announced that they were doing a sequel, I wouldn’t complain. But the announced that they are going to make what was it 4? sequels. They decided that way ahead of time, it’s just too sketch to me.
I think it’s more because of their track record than anything else. Also, although I haven’t read the books, I’m pretty sure the first movie deviated quite a lot from them? Like, in the books I’m pretty sure it’s about a kid who lives in a village where everyone has a pet dragon to train, and he struggles with it at first. Although I guess the movie ended at a point where they could comfortably adapt the later books I guess (with everybody owning a dragon).
Having seen the recently leaked promo images for the movie I’m pretty interested though- [spoil]the fact that they’re aging the characters suggests they’re going for something a bit grander than most animated sequels[/spoil].
Speaking of things we can’t stand in animation- I really dislike it when a cartoon uses character designs that are inherently hard to animate. As in, the animation often looks awkward, and the characters just look weird if the animators attempt to show them from more than three basic angles. These may not be the best examples, but All Grown Up and As Told By Ginger comes to mind. There’s nothing wrong with the designs themselves neccesarily, it’s just that they seem kind of limiting when it comes to actually animating them. Then again, maybe it’s just the limits of TV animation, I dunno.