The Gang of Five

The Land Before Time => 1988 Theatrical Release => Topic started by: Petrie. on October 08, 2006, 10:03:18 AM

Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Petrie. on October 08, 2006, 10:03:18 AM
Well, anyone who can remember the late 1980s knows that VCR's were still pretty darn expensive and tapes were over $25 a pop.  I only recall having the Land Before Time on tape and it was one of my favorites to just watch.  That and Bambi.  Didn't have much to choose from in those days.  :P:

What attracted it to me in those days was dinosaurs....loved 'em, and at that time, people still used the name brontosaurus like it was the only one out there....that and T-rex.  These days, I keep revisiting the original film for the love of hand drawn animation, and James Horner's score.  I'll always cherish those. :)  I even remember setting up a tape recorder so I could listen to the story of LBT on car trips. B)  Good times.

Now as for the sequels, there was a time, I didn't mind them.  Then again, I was ten when the first one hit store shelves, and then we added the third and fourth to our collection, and that was it.  I guess me and my sister never bugged my mom to buy the rest.  I saw 5, 6, and all the rest much later, and by then, they were ok, but they became second nature as I had a stronger interest in Jurassic Park and James Gurney's Dinotopia.  Do I still watch the sequels?  Nope.  To this day, I still have no copies of the shows to watch, save of course the theatrical film.  Michael Tavera's scores aren't too bad; those I have and listen to them every now and then.

Of course these days, I have the Gang of Five to keep me busy, meeting new LBT fans and followers as we come up on the twentieth anniversary of the original film.  We can only hope that Universal treats us well. :) :)
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: DarkHououmon on October 08, 2006, 11:10:39 AM
I'm not sure...It's been so long since I remember seeing Land Before Time for the first time. Hey I was only 3 when the movie came out to theatres. Maybe even just 2. So I'm just gonna take a guess here; I was a big dinosaur nut when I was a kid. I still like them today, but I'm not as obsessed today as I was as a kid. My brother Clint saw it when he was 7 or 8, and the sharptooth scared him so much. My dad was upset though because the movie was little over an hour long, and he considered it a waste of money because it was so short.

I used to love the sequels as they came out. I kept wanting to rent/buy them as soon as they came out and watch them at home with my sisters, or by myself. My interest started to diminish around the 6th movie because I got sick and tired of those songs they sang. Nowadays I can't stand the singing, so I fastfoward past any song sequence.

While I am not as interested in the sequels as I was as a kid, I've made it a tradition to myself to watch any new release of Land Before Time. LBT reminds me of my childhood days, and that's why I continue to watch new movies as they come out.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: NewOrder on October 08, 2006, 01:12:58 PM
I was born the same year the movie came out to theatres so I only heard of lbt much later. I remember my 3rd grade teacher bringing it to class one day and showing it to us, I was one of the few that were actually interested. I was a dinosaur nut, still am, and hopping to one day become a paleontologist. So during my childhood, movies like Jurassic Park, and "Denver the last dinosaur" were my bible. I first really noticed lbt (eventhough my teacher brought it to class, I kind of just sat there, enjoyed it, and forgot about it the next minute), when I was watching my JP tape that had the trailer in the beggining. I was like, dad, I want to watch that! But he never gave much thought into it.

In december 97, the national channel decided to air translated versions of lbt 1,3 and 4 (don't know why they forgot 2). I watched them, taped 4, and just fell in love with the series. I used to watch them every weekend, my tapes ended up all messed up. I used to go to the local library and just rent them, I was always upset because they never had no 2, and that was the only one I hadn't watched. Anyway, I kept waiting for lbt's until no 7, then I lost interess, I used to watch them every once in a while, but I just stoped caring. Had other things on my mind =p After a couple of years, eventhough I was aware that there were lbt 8, 9 and 10, I just ignroed them, 'till one day, I decided this couldn't go on, and my interest come back. It's sort of a love, hate story, where the hate is replaced with misregard =x Anyway, I like lbt and intend to own all of the sequels even if I don't like them, mostly because of the impact lbt had on my life, and it's importance in my childhood.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: pokeplayer984 on October 08, 2006, 02:42:45 PM
Oh, so we basically tell our story of how we became a fan, starting from the beginning, huh?  Okay! ;)

Okay, so I am one day watching TV and I see this comercial for The Land Before Time.  So as it looking like a good movie and all, I run up to my mom and dad and beg them to let us go see the movie.  So we go and see it and I end up enjoying it so much that I wished it would be on video immediately.  Impatiently, I wait for Christmas and I get the movie finally.  I watched it many times after that, but after several years with no sequal, you eventually stop watching it.

LBT 2 finally comes out after several years.  However, I do not get it right away.  We rent it and watched it.  I must say this at least, waiting several years for a sequal was worth it.

I then see LBT 3 and own it by it's year's debut Christmas.  One of the better earlier ones I must say.  Well worth getting in the end.  By that time, I'm the only member in my family to actually like it.  My brother hardly cared for it, but he was willing to watch it just to pass time when he's bored.

The preview of LBT 4 got me excited.  From the moment I saw Ali, I had a feeling there was going to be some sort of relationship between her and Littlefoot.  However, once I saw it, I was a little disappointed as it did not meet my expectations.  Lovewise, I was expecting something like Ali licking Littlefoot across the face. :lol I was very hooked on Disney Cartoons back then, many of which involved Minnie giving Mickey a big kiss on the lips. :lol: The closest thing we get is that Ali taps Littlefoot on the cheek with her nose.  I often inturperted that as a peck on the cheek.  His shocked face is what made me inturpert it like that.  These days I know better. :P:

In all truth, I got 2 and 4 together, which was not such a big regret.  For many years I watched these four videos in my free time.  However, as the years progressed, my love for LBT diminished, because I was only watching these four.  It gets quite boring after so many times you know. :P:

I only got to watch LBT 5 by rental and TV airing purposes.  Sad to say, I even dropped spending time with family just to watch it.  Something I regret nowadays.  It seemed that TV and video games were all that mattered to me back then, which is just sad. :(

By LBT 6, I had watched LBT videos far too much and my love for kid shows had nearly died.  I forever regret not paying attention to how great it was.  As such, it gave me quite the bad image of LBT.

For years then, I put myself on a hiatus of watching LBT.  I continue to see comericals of upcoming LBT videos, simply wondering how they continue to keep going?

I then see LBT 11: The Invasion of the Tinysaurus for sale at Wal*Mart and wonder to myself why I stopped watching it.  So I buy it and watch it.  My love for the series returns. :)

Determined to see what I missed, I go on a search to find them.  Slowly saving up my leftover spending money, I then get LBT 9.  I must say, it was the best sequal ever made.  The writers had decided to get back to how it all started.  Giving us a little major earthquake and have the gang try to get back home.  Having yet another dark scene put in that, if I could, would've left me in tears.

Continuing to save up money, I get 10 next.  I had once called it one of the most misunderstood LBT pieces ever made, but Malte, after somewhat amount of debating, set me pretty much straight.  I still hold quite the opinion of how well done the sharptooth battle was, but those were the three worst sharpteeth I had ever seen.  Still, it is a good one, and I continue to watch it from time to time. :)

Next came LBT 8 for me.  Where I live, this is THE most recurring LBT video to appear on TV.  Seriously! :P: Despite the simple plot involving snow, there is alot to talk about.  At that point, I wondered why I even went on hiatus.

The last ones were difficult to get.  I was only able to get LBT 5 on VHS before it seemed like they would no longer be sold anywhere on VHS.  I would've preferred DVD, but meh! :nyah

I then hear about a new Wal*Mart opening.  As part of my job, I feel it a need to check out other opening Wal*Marts, so I ask my mom to drive me over there.  So we go over there and split up.  As I'm in the electronics department, checking out movies and such, I then see a DVD set having the final two LBT movies to complete my collection, 6 and 7. :D As such an oppurtunity, I buy it with a gift card that I got for Christmas. :^.^:

What it is that keeps me coming back is hard to say.  There's just too many good things about LBT in my book.  I could go on an hour long to read list of what good things are in it, but I don't feel like putting that in. :nyah

Hopefully, I will one day find someone who I can get the book from on eBay, who doesn't want it done by PayPal.  Either check or cash payment please. (Check preferred.) :^.^:

So this is where I stand today.  Being a loving fan of LBT time, continuing to love the series and buying new things from it until the franchise becomes illeagal. :lol
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: WeirdRaptor on October 08, 2006, 09:28:14 PM
Well, I had to see it on VHS the time I saw it, because I was three when it was in theaters. I was about five when I first saw it on VHS when my parents bought it for me for a birthday, I think, and I was immediately hooked. I still have my old VHS version of it...somewhere, but it was lost in the depths of time when when I got it on DVD. I vagely remember there being a Pizza Hut commercial before the film on it.

Then I saw the sequels and became a fan of some of those, and so on and so force, you now the story.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: action9000 on October 08, 2006, 10:25:37 PM
I was a bit of a dinosaur fan as a kid, especially of the "main" dinosaurs known at the time: 'brontosaurus', triceratops, Tyranosaurus, diplodocus, etc.  My mom caught onto this pretty fast, and she bought book after book after computer simulation after movie about dinosaurs.  I first watched the original LBT as a child, perhaps 5 or 6 years old.  My Mom showed it to me for the first time.  It actually didn't have very much of an impact on me at the time, but I didn't Dislike it.  

Enter LBT 2: My mom bought it for me soon after it came out, and I immediately fell in love with it!  I must have watched it countless times, when I was between about 7 and 11 years old, and I never grew tired of it.  The same went with LBT 3. I never got into LBT 3 Quite as much as a child, but I still wanted to watch it sometimes.  My Mom also got me LBT 4 when it came out, as I loved the first 2 sequels.  I just couldn't get into LBT 4 as much as 2 and 3 for whatever reason.  I think I expected more adventure, and more time in the valley of Mists than there actually was.  I  guess I just expected more cool hazards and fun stuff to happen in the valley of mists, and I wasn't a fan of the "grandpa gets sick so let's find a flower to heal him" story.  

By the time I was 13, I basically stopped watching the LBT movies, except on very rare occasions.  A few years pass where LBT has little to no effect on me, aside from the very occasional viewing.  I think I watched one sequel Once between the ages of 13 and 17.

When I turned 17, a turnaround came about.  My girlfriend at the time and I plugged in the original LBT, because we both enjoyed it and haden't seen it for years.  This rekindled my interest in the series, and I started watching the sequels 2 through 4 on VHS on a fairly regular basis.  Eventually, I started surfing the Internet for LBT-related items; music, sheet music, collectibles, artwork, and forums.  That led me here, novemeber of 2005.  I steadily found and watched the remaining LBT sequels on DVD. I didn't particularily enjoy the Grosvenor sequels (5 onward) at first, because of the radical change in style of animation, voice actors, etc. but it eventually grew on me, and I watched them all regularily for some time.

And here I am. :P:

I don't often watch a LBT movie nowadays, but may once again, in the near future :)
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Highsoar on April 01, 2007, 01:09:52 AM
My parents took me to the theater to see the first one. I had to be about 7 since it came out in 88. Mom got the tape of the original but it was before the case type containers, it was just a box type cover (it's gone now :( ) The first tape wore out after a while and we had to get a new one...that was when the post office was selling them with the stamps.

I recall quite a bit of the Pizza Hut thing...I once had Ducky and Spike puppets and got Littlefoot later on but the darn things got lost in moving :( I also had two storybooks but am down to one now.

I had most of the sequels at one point but no longer do...I've thought about taping them off Cartoon Network but have never gotten around to it. I still have, I believe, 2,3 and 7 plus the sing a long.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Malte279 on April 01, 2007, 02:51:57 AM
My Dad, my sister and I went to see the land before time when it was released over here in 1989. I must have been five years by that time. Funnily enough the only clear memory I still hold to that day is not of the movie itself, but to something I saw en route to the cinema. A commercial sign on a wall. The sign was in the shape of a blue and golden four-pointed star with the lower point being longer than the others points. The sign was attached to building's wall of dark grey / silvery stone. I have absolutely no idea why this star stuck to my memory rather than anything else. The movie itself must have an impression too though as in the years to come lets pretend land before time games were among the most popular games I played with my best friend back then.
The cinema in which I watched LBT for the first time has been closed several years ago, but the building still exists (an issue of protection of historic monuments prevents any major changes being made on the old cinema building). The blue and golden star too is gone, but the building and the wall on which it was attached are still there.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: novaflare on April 01, 2007, 07:45:59 AM
I was 16 was at my friends house who was 13 at the time his little sister had just had her bday the day befofre and had just turned 11. I stoped by me and matt had plans to go do some hikeing in  the woods down by my place. But his dad had decided quite spur of the moment to take them to the theator to see this new "bluth film"  Being that i was a bluth fan any ways and his dad knew it he says hey why dont you come aloong. So i did. Chances are it would have ended there but then shortly before nuumber 2 came out i read who was doing the voice oers. Noticed most were not the same people. I had already read about various things about judith barsi like how she was a ocomplished adliber and a bit of a line theif and every one loved her in the cast. So i wondered why she did not do ducky for number 2. I dug deeper. Need to remember in 93 94 the net was still a very young place. Months of searching later in every thing from telnet gofer space to aols search and meta crawler i found out that she had been murdered. At this point i re watched the original land before time while waiting for number 2 to hit the shelves.

Land before time went from being a simple movie to a almost video memorial in my eyes and still remains as such today. So even if a given movies story is a bit lacking il still watch it because of that.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Digi-Dragon on April 21, 2007, 04:57:26 PM
How'd I get into it? ... Man, I don't even know...

Well, the movie came out before I was even born, so I know I didn't see it in theaters... I only have it as a recorded-tape instead of a bought one, and there's a show for toddlers on before it. My brother saw the original at a friend's house when he was maybe four or something (he was born the year LBT went into theaters), and then he recorded it or asked my parents to when it came on television. I don't remember much of seeing it the first time, except that I always laughed at Petrie, and I was sobbing when Littlefoot's mother died. I remember seeing it many more times with my brother, and apparantly I loved the series a lot, because we would always play pretend with an old "friend" of my brother's (AKA girl who would hang around with him and had a crush on him). I wanted to be Cera, but the other girl always claimed that role, so I was Ducky instead. My brother was Littlefoot and we'd always have adventures about being chased by sharpteeth and such. I would "talk" to Spike even though we had no one to play him, and I would sometimes make comments for Petrie.

I don't remember a specific time before getting LBT 2, but I remember after that my brother would sometimes be Chomper as well, most often in a scenerio where he was older and could talk (you have no idea how thrilled he was when we got LBT 5). LBT 3 came along and there was no big change. We got the Sing-A-Long Songs and I would watch it every day until I had memorized most of the songs on it.

When LBT 4 came around, I was estatic because the Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus type dinosaurs were my favorites, and I loved seeing a female one. When it came time to play pretend again, I wanted to be Ali, but my brother told me I couldn't because he was Littlefoot. I didn't understand him at the time, but after another viewing or so I did. :lol

We first watched LBT 5 at my grandmother's house, and I was singing the songs constantly (along with crying at "Always There"). We sang "Friends for Dinner" and "Big Water" in the car ride home (for two days) until my parents told us to be quiet. At this point, I was extremely obsessed. We got LBT 6 and my obsession intensified. At this point, I was expecting a new movie every year, and when 1999 rolled around and I got no LBT 7, I was disappointed.

Somewhere between 6 and 7, my brother stopped playing pretend. It was understandable, as he was eleven and had friends of his own, but I was a naive little girl and wasn't good at making friends. I wasn't atheletic, so I spent my time in my imagination, playing anything with the few kids I could and using the television to cultivate my creative side. Sadly, no one I played with knew of LBT.

When LBT 7 unexpectedly hit shelves, I went to get it, but a little half-heartedly. My obsession was waning, and when LBT 8 came out it took me at least a month to pick it up. I wasn't even keeping track of releases, and school work pulled me away from LBT 9, which I still have to see.

I saw LBT 10 at Blockbuster one day and wanted to rent it because of the word 'Longneck' in the title. I remembered Ali, my favorite character from when I was younger, and figured she'd be in it. I was very disappointed to learn she wasn't, but pleased to find Littlefoot's mother hadn't been forgotten.

I heard of LBT 11, but I was now in the dreaded Junior High School and therefore had no time to watch old children's cartoons, as I thought. By the time I could've watched it, my interest was gone, and the movies I owned, 1 through 8 and the first Sing-a-Long just sat discarded on my shelf like most of the other movies from my childhood.

Well, it was actually only a week ago when I can say I got back into LBT. I admit I'd heard of the series, and I'd wikipedia-ed LBT 12 when I was bored one day (a habit of mine ever since discovering the website), but I merely sighed because I figured the series was only being milked now and had lost all the messages of the old ones, and the characters of my childhood. I was looking through the Digital Cable Guide last week (another habit of mine), and decided to see what was on Cartoon Network while I was gone. I grinned upon seeing one of the movies would be on (LBT 5, I think), and then saw the series would be before it. I shrugged and looked at the summary to find myself squealing for joy like a little child. My old obsession with Ali had paid off, because the episode that would be coming on was the one she made her re-appearance in. I set a tape and decided to see if the series was worth my time. When I got home from school and watched it, I found myself slightly disappointed, but also wanting more. I took out my old tapes and began to view them, and set another tape for the next morning. It was only by chance that I happened upon this website while searching for a place to listen to "Always There", and here I am.

I'm hoping when I get enough money (ie during the summer), I can go and buy the rest of the movies and perhaps get DVDs of ones I already have. Needless to say, I'm quite obsessed with the films again, and Littlefoot's mother's death still makes me cry. :DD
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: The Great Valley Guardian on June 13, 2007, 04:47:28 PM
I don't honestly believe any true fan of LBT can watch Littlefoots mother die and NOT cry!

I never actually saw LBT in theaters, but when I heard about it on VHS.....It was no contest I HAD to have it.....I was soooo obssesed with LBT, that I had a copy at home and another at my grandmothers house for whenever I visted! (And I think she still has it... :DD )

I still make it a personal objective to collect all the sequels spawned from the original, however I was forced to stop at #8 in the series, only becuase my mother said I was 'too old for kids movies' and now unless I get a job,  I won't be able to buy anymore.

I was hoping to record The Great Days of the Flyers on CN, but they showed Scooby doo instead! You can not imagine how upset I was!

Oh well,  enough of my useless rambling!!!!

I am having SO much fun on this site!!!!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! :lol
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: DarkHououmon on June 13, 2007, 05:13:31 PM
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I don't honestly believe any true fan of LBT can watch Littlefoots mother die and NOT cry!

I guess I'm not a "true" fan, then eh? I don't think I ever cried during that scene.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: The Great Valley Guardian on June 13, 2007, 05:20:04 PM
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I don't think I ever cried during that scene.

Well, I also believe others are better at controling their emotions...me....not so much, whenever I see that scene, crying is like a refllex action for me.....it just happens! :lol:
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: DarkHououmon on June 13, 2007, 05:26:22 PM
Same thing with Jana. She absolutely refuses to watch the first LBT because of that scene.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: The Great Valley Guardian on June 13, 2007, 06:19:08 PM
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She absolutely refuses to watch the first LBT because of that scene.

I may not be able to control myself when it comes to that scene, but to not watch it all together! (well, it is her choice after all....so I'll just do this  :bang )

However a friend of mine whom I don't converse with anymore used to fast forward through
the scene...and to me that's like watching Star wars and skiping the Lightsaber fights!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Timber on June 13, 2007, 07:18:46 PM
The first time I remember seeing it was in Guam, my mother brought home a huge box of tapes with a VCR on top and I went digging into it while she set it up I found the LBT and American tail I remember that my mother sat me on her lap while I watched it. I loved it and as I got older I was told men don't watch girly movies so I stopped watching it until I was around 13 and diggin in the supply coset in our house. Now you can figure the rest, (Timber + LBT= Good m'kay)
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: landbeforetimelover on August 04, 2007, 08:48:51 AM
When I was about 3 or 4 (1994 or 1995), My mom just brought home the land before time VHS.  I remember watching it with my step sister.  She thought it was okay, but nothing like me.  I loved it.  I even remember back then, I used to crank the volume up to max when the end credits with Diana Ross came on.  I loved that song since the age of 3 and I still do.  Anyways, I loved the movie so much, so when I went to a few garage sales with my mom, I stole the second one.  I didn't know it was stealing at the time.  Mom mailed them the $1 they were asking for the movie after I stole it.  Then, it just went on from there.  Every time I saw a new one, I'd ask my mom for it and she'd get it for me.  Then I stopped watching them so much at the age of 7.  I can't remember why.  Then mom sold them at a garage sale.  Some guy bought them all.  Then, when I was 13, I was bored one day and searching bearshare and came accross the land before time movie.  I thought "what the heck, I need a good laugh"  and downloaded it.  I watched it and discovered that it was pretty good, so I went out and bought it along with all the other sequals.  I ripped them all to the computer and threw them away to hide them from my mom cuz I knew it wasn't normal.  I just watched one a day.  It was wonderful.  I've been an ultimate landbeforetimelover ever since.  Then, I thought there was something wrong with me and seriously went to a shrink and they said I was fine.  I finally found the MIDI forums and met Novaflare there, who knew of GOF.  I emailed her and she gave me the link to here.  Ever since then, I've been posting here for about 3 months now and I'm totally obsessed.  Actually, the real reason I wanted the land before time movies is because I wanted to see how much I could remember from 10 years ago.  Surprisingly, I remembered almost every detail.  I never expected to like them, I was just doing a memory test.  I thought it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity to see how good I could remember stuff from such a long time ago.  I could even sing along with the songs.  I remember how GOOD I felt when I could remember the song "Always there" from LBT 5.  It was good to hear that song again.  I loved it so much.  I'd have to say it's still my favorite song.  I thank god every day I was bored and downloaded the LBT movies.  I couldn't imagine my life without LBT now.

NOTE:  Please don't mention anything about piracy here.  I did download the movies illegally the first time.  I did go out and buy them though, so I don't see anything wrong with that.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Manny Cav on August 04, 2007, 10:47:23 AM
I can vaguely remember several years back (I'm talking mid 90's) watching LBT 4. However, I wasn't a real fan, and pretty soon, LBT just got shoved into the back of my mind to be forgotten forever...?

Then, one day, while watching Cartoon Network (I forget the year, as it might have been '04, '05, or '06), I stumbled across LBT 9. I thought it was okay/pretty good, so I decided to record it the next time it came on. Sure enough, it did. And thus began my LBT journey....

I began searching CN for LBT movies all the time. When one would come on, I would record it and watch it. It was great!

After recording/watching several of the movies, I stopped seeing ones I had (now this would be late '06/early '07). I was missing LBT I, II, IV, and XII. I got XII on DVD, and the rest on ebay. Ever since, I've been keeping a close eye on the progression of the series.

I suppose the weirdest things about my experience with LBT are that I never got into it in my "target years," only in my teen years. Also, for the longest time of being an LBT fan, I never saw the first two. All I knew were the sequels. I went that whole while of being an LBT fan without even knowing what the first one was like. A sad case, but I eventually fixed that.

And, landbeforetimelover, what I suppose you did is "sample before you buy." Sort of illegal, but you DID buy the movies eventually, so....
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: landbeforetimelover on August 04, 2007, 11:17:07 AM
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And, landbeforetimelover, what I suppose you did is "sample before you buy." Sort of illegal, but you DID buy the movies eventually, so....

haha.  I just downloaded them at first to get a laugh and to see how stupid my favorite show as a kid was when I was younger.  I never expected to actually LIKE it.  And of course, to test my memory as well.  Hey, I was bored.  I do strange things when I'm bored.  Like that Cera collage of mine.  Talk about being bored... :blink:

I still don't know why I like LBT, and when people ask me, I don't know how to answer them. :unsure: Most of them think I just have brain damage :P:



EDIT:  Also, I never really liked dinosaurs.  I still don't.  They're sorta...uninteresting to me.  I dunno why.  I was never into dinosaurs, I just loved littlefoot and his friends so much!  They sorta became part of my family! :D  

I love all the LBT movies more than anything in the world.  I only rank them in 2 ways.  The first one was my favorte, the rest of them are my second favorite! :P:

I cannot say I disliked any of the LBT movies, nor did it take me any time to get used to them.  I sorta got used to the idea of singing dinosaurs when I was 3 and it's never bothered me then, or now.  I find nothing better about the sequals 2-5 than the sequals 5+ as so many do.  They're all just LBT in my opinon!  Let me get one thing clear though:  the first one was by far the best and there is no way in H*** that any movie is going to ever be made that will surpass the quality and magic of the first one. Not gonna ever happen.  I have no problem with anything LBT.  I do not think that the sequals took away the "magic" from the original at all, I think they enhanced it.  LBT is the best thing that's ever happened in my life and I love being a landbeforetimelover.  Nothing is ever gonna change that for as long as I live.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Nimrod on August 04, 2007, 06:23:47 PM
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And, landbeforetimelover, what I suppose you did is "sample before you buy." Sort of illegal, but you DID buy the movies eventually, so....

haha.  I just downloaded them at first to get a laugh and to see how stupid my favorite show as a kid was when I was younger.  I never expected to actually LIKE it.  And of course, to test my memory as well.  Hey, I was bored.  I do strange things when I'm bored.  Like that Cera collage of mine.  Talk about being bored... :blink:

I still don't know why I like LBT, and when people ask me, I don't know how to answer them. :unsure: Most of them think I just have brain damage :P:



EDIT:  Also, I never really liked dinosaurs.  I still don't.  They're sorta...uninteresting to me.  I dunno why.  I was never into dinosaurs, I just loved littlefoot and his friends so much!  They sorta became part of my family! :D  

I love all the LBT movies more than anything in the world.  I only rank them in 2 ways.  The first one was my favorte, the rest of them are my second favorite! :P:

I cannot say I disliked any of the LBT movies, nor did it take me any time to get used to them.  I sorta got used to the idea of singing dinosaurs when I was 3 and it's never bothered me then, or now.  I find nothing better about the sequals 2-5 than the sequals 5+ as so many do.  They're all just LBT in my opinon!  Let me get one thing clear though:  the first one was by far the best and there is no way in H*** that any movie is going to ever be made that will surpass the quality and magic of the first one. Not gonna ever happen.  I have no problem with anything LBT.  I do not think that the sequals took away the "magic" from the original at all, I think they enhanced it.  LBT is the best thing that's ever happened in my life and I love being a landbeforetimelover.  Nothing is ever gonna change that for as long as I live.
I can¥t remember exactly, but what I know is, that I looked it very often as I was a child. My parents bought me some LBT storys. I loved it (what means loved, I love it yet, too). As I grew up, I slowly forgot LBT. But than, one day it came in the TV and I remembered now again. I think I was 14 that day. What  me had remembered LBT before two months, was the song Always there. I find that song wonderful. So I thought, I look these LBT story again. After that I wanted to know everything about LBT. I searched in the Internet for LBT movies and trailers and I loved it more and more. And than I asked me, if it given¥t a forum where I can discuss about LBT or where are people, whose are feeling like me. That¥s my story. And I¥m very proud about this forum. :yes
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Malte279 on August 05, 2007, 04:19:05 AM
Funny how familiar from own experience this sounds. Even the age of my own LBT "renaisance" was the same when it started in December 1998.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Nimrod on August 05, 2007, 05:44:32 AM
Quote from: Malte279,Aug 5 2007 on  03:19 AM
Funny how familiar from own experience this sounds. Even the age of my own LBT "renaisance" was the same when it started in December 1998.
Wow, that¥s a bit strange.^^
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Nimrod on August 14, 2007, 06:08:36 AM
Quote from: Nimrod,Aug 5 2007 on  04:44 AM
Quote from: Malte279,Aug 5 2007 on  03:19 AM
Funny how familiar from own experience this sounds. Even the age of my own LBT "renaisance" was the same when it started in December 1998.
Wow, that¥s a bit strange.^^
What I wanted to say too is, that I haven¥t got many friends. The LBT series help me to forget it, cause it¥s about friendness.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Weather_lord_7 on August 19, 2007, 09:53:08 PM
Well, when I was around 4 or so, I watched the first (and cried too). Then I got the little pizza hut puppets (which I lost), and then it went onto the sequels. I loved them, and even got some cute little LBT cereal spoons (which I gave to my older sister), and so on. Now, the only LBT merchandise I have is the first LBT movie, and I hope to never lose it.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Manny Cav on August 28, 2007, 11:03:54 PM
I just did some research, and I believe my "renaissance" occurred somewhere between October 31, 2005, and August 22, 2005, mabey a little earlier than that.

EDIT: Hahaha, this is pretty weird. Judging from the birthdate on your profile and the date you gave for your renaissance, it looks like we were both 14 years of age when we had our renaissances. Pretty neat, eh?
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Malte279 on August 29, 2007, 06:19:42 AM
We are not the only ones. 14 seems to be an age of significance if it comes to rediscovering LBT. A lucky number :lol
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: TheNumberOneShmuck on August 29, 2007, 07:14:18 AM
When enter this topic, became Grug. Grug tell story.

First time: Babysitter place Grug in front of TV, put in cassette. Repeat for II, III, IV and VI(damn shame Grug not see V in first run).

Second time: Youtube search, find tree star scene. Nostalgia strike, like club in face. Got series, same bad way as lbtl. Must get job, make purchase.

Moral of Story: Grug need use words more.

End.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: NewOrder on August 30, 2007, 09:59:08 AM
This is my 1000th post, after 3 years in this board this is a long waited mark. To celebrate it I decided to dedicate this topic to telling how I came in contact with LBT.

I had seen the original movie a few times as kid, but I never gave that much importance to it, I remember when I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade and my teacher brought the video of The Land Before Time (Em Busca do Vale Encantado) for my class to watch, mostly because of me since I was the dinosaur nut, and my teacher really liked to support my "hobby".
Oh well, eventually it was December 1997, I was 9 years old, and RTP decided to show Jurassic Park for the first time, to celebrate it, they made December the DinoMonth, so each weekend they'd show a land before time sequel. The original, the time of the great giving and Journey Through the Mists. I watched them - 3 and 4 for the first time, and the original like it was the first time - I just enjoyed them so much, especially 4, since I taped, because it aired on a holiday and we went to this place, don't remember where, don't know why.
I was amazed by the movies and basically fell in love with the series. Since then I've been a Land Before Time fan, and it marked most of my childhood.
I'll end this post with my favourite all time quote from The Land Before Time:
"Some things you see with your eyes, others you see with your heart!"
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Raptor on September 26, 2007, 10:11:23 PM
I was four. We had the movie. I loved Dinosaurs. I watched the movie, and have never been able to let go. I still get choked up at Littlefoot's Mother's death scene. And I recently got the original from the library. Now the only problem is that I'm going to have to return it. I used to have all the movies up to 7, but my parents got rid of them all when I went into a short stage of "LBT ignoring". I regret that stage, cause now I don't have the movies anymore :cry .
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Malte279 on September 27, 2007, 03:23:07 AM
You could perhaps find them at ebay?
Up to the eight movie I have them as videos (and we don't have any working video player in our house any more), but I was very lucky to find all the LBT sequles which I didn't have for sell in a video store where the movies had apparently rarely been rent, so I got them very cheaply.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: lbt/cty_lover on November 27, 2007, 05:27:19 PM
I believe I was three when I first saw it. I was young then, though, and it was just a movie. When I got a little older, I felt it become more than a movie. I also began watching the sequels. It became an obsession at around seven.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Kor on November 27, 2007, 05:58:46 PM
I saw it first, not sure which movie it was, on cartoon channel.   Could have been 3 or 4.  Not sure how long ago that was.  Was still an old foggie,  though a younger old foggie then now.  :)
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: StarfallRaptor on November 28, 2007, 10:53:24 AM
Lemme See here...
Saw it the first time when I was...dunno about 2-3, as I was a Huge Dinosaur nut.  Then I watched the later ones when I was about 12 at my Grandpa's house while babysitting my little step-cousisns, then got hooked in 8th grade when we watched it in Spanish.  That's about it, but I think I got hooked because of the music.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: LBTFan13 on January 01, 2008, 05:49:48 PM
I was born in 1991, and didn't learn about the movie until I was 4. I loved dinosaurs, so my mom got this for me to watch while my neighbor was babysitting me. I loved the movie so much, but it also gave me some nightmares with the T-Rex and all. Once the first sequal came out, I knew I just had to watch it. Every christmas after that, I would get every sequal until my mom stopped buying them for me because I got too old. Now, 8 years after I received LBT 6, the last movie of the franchise she would ever get me, I started missing my childhood movies. Luckily, I found a bittorent link that contained every LBT movie, minus the sing along songs, to date. Now I watch them, in secret so nobody can see me, and I have fallen back in love with it.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: ArtemisPanthar on January 18, 2008, 03:14:16 PM
Well, I was born in '88 so obviously I didn't see it then XD I don't exactly recall WHEN I saw the first movie, but I definitely saw it before the sequels. I had the VHS and I remember always liking it. Like many of you, I was big into dinosaurs when I was little (loved Jurassic Park and We're Back: A Dinosaur Story) so that was a major factor in my enjoyment. The death of Littlefoot's mother always made me cry. Nowadays, though, I usually only cry at the part where he thinks his shadow is his mom =( I can't stand people in mourning/denial. It breaks my heart.
I believe I only kept renting/buying the sequels up until 4. The only VHS I still own is tLBT III. I don't think we ever owned II, which is odd because I always adored Chomper.

Anyway, I kind of lost interest after that. Not in animation, but in the sequels. Although I went through a phase where I hated kid's movies, then a phase where I hated movies where they sing. Now...I love both of them XD I also like a lot of musicals so there you go. I wish more animated films would have character songs, I'm tired of the pop music injected into movies these days =\
In anycase, I thought it was ridiculous that there was so many sequels but..now I'm not so sure XD I think the first four are cute, but I've yet to really see any ones after that (yeah, yeah, I know, I'm working on it XD). I love getting obsessed with things, though, so I plan to start collecting the DVDs when I get some money.

I got back into the series through the TV show. I like to keep tabs on animation things so when I heard they were making the series I was a little outraged XD I decided to check it out though and it really quelled my fears. It's so cute and harmless, I just can't help but watch it! XD I assume I'll like it better than the sequels, because the short time frame really works for it. It'd be nice if all the songs didn't use the same tune, but I understand why they do that. I rather like the "I Feel So Happy" song, it's really cute =D Sometimes I sing the songs I can remember to my baby sister.

Incidentally, I think it's really sad that some of you are made to feel you're odd, childish, or "too old" to watch this series. I've always felt one of the problems with this world is that everyone is too afraid to 'play' anymore =\ Sure, not everyone likes the series, or other cartoon shows, but I think a lot of people would watch and enjoy them if they weren't so afraid of being seen as immature. It doesn't make you immature to watch cartoons. What DOES make you immature is thinking less of someone simply because they like cartoons! It's not a barometer of intelligence or maturity, it's just something you enjoy. I thank my lucky stars my mother never made me feel immature for liking kid's movies and I'm sorry you folks don't have the same freedom =\
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Kor on January 18, 2008, 05:00:17 PM
To bad more are not allowed the freedom to like what they like without comments, belittling and such.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: LBTFan13 on January 23, 2008, 10:33:09 PM
i know. it just goes to show how society is today. if you are a minority of some sort, you end up being criticized or shunned by the world. it sickens me.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: landbeforetimelover on January 23, 2008, 10:53:31 PM
It seems that most people here are or were big dinosaur nuts.  Strange that I never was one but I still loved LBT more than any other show.  So, I guess it takes a crazy obsessed dinosaur nut hours googling to find GOF huh? :lol No wonder we don't have too many members.


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if you are a minority of some sort, you end up being criticized or shunned by the world.

How true that statement is sadly. -_-
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: The Great Valley Guardian on January 23, 2008, 11:00:57 PM
Yeah I can offically testify to that...with me being African American...discrimination is so sad. :(
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: landbeforetimelover on January 23, 2008, 11:05:31 PM
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Yeah I can offically testify to that...with me being African American...discrimination is so sad.


Really?  Racism has almost disappeared where I live.  I've only seen someone act racist a few times, and each time all the people around them jumped all over them calling them racist Ba***** and refusing to talk to them after that (myself included).  Racism isn't accepted here in any form. :yes
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: The Great Valley Guardian on January 23, 2008, 11:10:11 PM
THere really isn't alot of racism where I live either, but I've been on two job interviews where the questions got kinda personal...and I refused to answer and didn't get the job at all! But most of Chicago is pretty well deversed and I love the windy city...well except during the winter!  <_<
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: landbeforetimelover on January 23, 2008, 11:16:13 PM
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I've been on two job interviews where the questions got kinda personal...and I refused to answer and didn't get the job at all!

Refusing to answer questions shows that you are an uncooperative individual and that you won't do things because you're told to do them.  Employers typically use the method of asking invasive questions to see what kind of person you are.  If you're going for a typically lower job in the company, they expect you to act like a machine and just do what you're told.  If you're going for manager or something, they'll appreciate your independence and willingness to go against the rules for your principles.  Nevertheless, they never want you to act human.  All they want is good workers who don't ask questions and just do what they're told.  It most likely has nothing to do with what race you are (unless your boss is racist or something).



Anyway, we've side stepped onto a big issue here and it's gone way off topic.  Let's not discuss this anymore in this section.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: arrogantrex on January 23, 2008, 11:21:57 PM
I really don't remember...

It was all my mom's doing. She knew I liked dinosaurs and when she saw the movie come out an equation must have popped into her head.
Dinosaurs + Children's movie = My son not crying for a while.

So, it was all her. She put the movie in the VCR and I stared in awe. TALKING DINOSAURS! HOLY CRAPSHAITH! Is what I probably would have said if I had been able to fully articulate my thoughts.

I started to understand it as I grew up... I know I was born in the year the movie actually came out, so I didn't actually watch it until a few years later. Besides Pinnochio, it was one of the only movies I ever actually WANTED to watch, so I did...and often. So, mom tried to take good care of it whenever my daily, or sometimes weekly whim came to pass.

The movie started to be an emotional attachment to me, and when I found out that I was getting the sequel for Christmas the year it came out, I was flying through the roof. I unwrapped it at my Grandma's house and probably watched it ten times within the following six days.

As the years went by and all the sequels started coming out I was getting disenchanted with the whole thing... There were just plain too many... But then there was another side of me that just wouldn't let go of it. I cherished these characters and grew up with them too much in my childhood to just let them go...maybe I'm pathetic, maybe I'm just obsessed. But either way, I rediscovered the series last year when I got sick and watched 1-12 on youtube.

I kinda rationalized it to myself that they were simply pointing it at the kids now. This isn't Don Bluth we're talking about with the sequels, I guess I just wasn't quite old enough to realize it. So I thought about it and gave up trying to be against it, I liked it too much. So now I own LBT 1-3 on DVD, and I'm trying to get the rest of them so I can watch them all I like...seeing as how youtube has frustratingly taken down all the full LBT movie parts, but whatevah.

Anyhow...I guess I have to attribute this obsession to at least my mom. She was the one who popped in the tape... Hehehe.  :lol
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Flathead770 on January 24, 2008, 01:47:15 AM
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We are not the only ones. 14 seems to be an age of significance if it comes to rediscovering LBT. A lucky number
Wow...i just realized that i was 14 as well when i got back into LBT. :wow
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: mcr mad on January 24, 2008, 04:09:43 AM
well at about 8 or 9, one day there was nothing on the TV for me at that age so i watched a load of film that one of my dad's freinds got me one of them was the land before the 3 and it was the only one i liked aswell.
i thort i'd try and watch the other aswell if thay came on and thay did so i realy got into it at about 10 maybe 11.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on January 24, 2008, 10:08:03 PM
When my dad showed me my first LBT (don't know which one, probably the first, 'cause my dad's chronologically inclined like that  :lol ) I enjoyed it, and ranked it somewhere on my mental list of good movies. That was enough for mom, and she quickly bought the first three movies, which were all that existed then.

After that, she bought 4-7 (plus the Sing Along Song one) when each one came out. At some point, probably around 12, LBT became my favorite movie series, and I wanted to contribute. I had lots of of good ideas for future films, and for the next two months I typed up and sent a series of 15-20 letters to Universal Studios, each one teling them how big a fan I was, some ideas I had for future movies, and my exitement at waiting for The Big Freeze to come out. Each letter ended with a small request that they send a letter back, or at least acknowledge me.

I never got a letter back.

Seeing how this saddened me, my father decided to help. I remember how he actually called Universal Studios, got in contact with somebody high up, and spoke to them about the letters I'd been sending, and asked that they write one back. Whoever it was assured him they would. They didn't.

This (coupled with the fact that my brother, who had scribbled a hand-written "I Love You" note to the makers of G.I.Joe, and recieved in the mail a coupon for $3 off his next action figure) sort of turned me off the series. When Big Freeze came out, I watched it, and (probably because of the letter fiasco) decided that it wasn't any good. After that, I gave up Land Before Time entirely.  :cry

For the next 8 year of my life, I had absolutely no contact with anything LBT. I develope new intrests: Star Trek, soccer, Drama, this one girl in my English class  :lol: .

I don't know what got me reintrested. I think it was during a conversation a few weeks before with my firends about the "Good ole days," that I remembered my passion for the series. I looked it up on youtube, and watched a few clips. I decided that dislike for the producing comany is no reason to stop lovng the series itself, and two days later watched my first of the 'new' LBT movies, The Stone of Cold Fire (still my all-time favorite). One of the Youtube videos included the link to this forum, which is why I'm here!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Malte279 on January 25, 2008, 05:45:26 AM
Wow, I haven't heard of a case before in which the parents have been as positively supportive of any fan's LBT enthusiasm as to get the movies themselves and support their kids in writing to to the studios etc. How old are you?
As for sending letters to the studios I too made a sad experience though one I'm not really entitled to complain about.
When LBT 7 was released here there was a leaflet in the video box (yes it was before DvDs had completely ousted videos over here). That leaflet was about a land before time painting competition. The winner would go for two weeks to Universals Fuerte Ventura (Spain) while the 2nd to (I think) 99th winner would receive one "surprise about LBT" (they sure weren't specific, were they?). I was curious about that "surprise" and send them this aquarelle picture:
(http://mitglied.lycos.de/malte279/Wettbewerb.jpg)
I never heard anything about the competition again and of course the picture was gone (luckily I had scanned it before sending it). I wonder if even 100 people participated in the competition and I would love to see their pictures. Place 99 would have perfectly satisfied me. I guess I won't ever know what that "surprise" would have been.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Mistress Dragon on January 25, 2008, 07:18:51 PM
I was only a year when the first LBT film was in theaters. It was until the movie could be purchased/rented (back in the times of VHS) that my mother got a hold of it. I do believe she bought the VHS around my older brother's birthday when he had a few friends over. I was still young and in the state where either parent set you on the floor near the TV and played a VHS tape to distract and keep you entertained with. This happens to be LBT for me. And yes, the movie was quite a distraction for me! I stared at the screen as Littlefoot traversed the Mysterious Beyond with a treestar draped over his back, when Cera was freaked out by the 'tar monster' Littlefoot and the others posed towards her, how I didn't give as much thought as I do presently with the relationship between Ducky and Spike as two different types of dinosaurs, and then finding Petrie's fears amusing itself. It was after seeing LBT when I was a few more years older that I came to have an intriguement for dinosaurs themselves.

Dating back to Elementary, whenever one of my teachers mentioned or said he/she would be talking about dinosaurs and then would ask for us to do a project about one of them, I was beyond excited. And as long as I can remember, I always chose along the lines of the Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus - so from this proof alone, I had a liking towards the longnecks. Of course, I love all kinds of dinosaurs, namely those such as Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike.

Sometimes when I'd be at places like Walmart or Blockbuster with a friend or family member, the other side would come across another LBT that wasn't the first original. They'd joke: "Ha! Just how many sequels will this show go to?" I grudgingly chuckled along with them, giving them the satisfaction that I agreed with them, whilst in the back of my mind I desired to rent/buy the very one we passed. :lol:
The first LBT will always be the all time classic. At times when I would see sequels such as II-V be brand new and purchasable I was quite thrilled and interested to see what Littlefoot and the others had in store. But when it got passed those numbers, I grew a little concerned. Were they sucking this idea far passed dry? Weren't they overdoing this a little?

I've seen all of the LBT, except for VIII, IX, XII, and XIII. Yes, I can't lie; I have yet to see those yet; though I've had at least glimpses of VIII. I've heard comments on them, such as for XIII wasn't at all good, but I can't be sure until I see those I haven't for myself.

Favorites? Well, I like all I've seen, they each have at least one or more things I like about them whether that be development or plot. But for me, the ones that got to being my greater favorites were IV and X.
IV: There was the introduction of Ali. Big surprise. :lol  I also liked the idea of Grandpa Longneck getting ill, showing that without him both Grandma and Littlefoot were a lot more vulnerable. And as a writer, I kept thinking about what would have happened if they hadn't gotten the Golden Nightflower to him in time and the two had to actually leave with the migrating herd of longnecks. That and how it would be such a huge twist for Littlefoot and his friends and they didn't come across the other until further into their lives. Then there was the fact Ali's a female. Male + Female = hatchlings! I really would like to see Littlefoot and Ali become mates, or at least be given that lead that they would be in the end run. Of course, I find that to be pretty obvious anyway!
And then I saw Rhett's debut WITH Ali. When I was watching 'The Brave Longneck Scheme', I mentally fumed. There's no one meant for Ali except for Littlefoot!

X: Seeing several longnecks was a joy itself for me. I loved Sue. When she found someone taller than her, I was happy she was no longer the 'big one' to everyone and hoped that turned out to be her mate. Then there was Bron, Littlefoot's long lost father. Bringing back characters we never really saw such as a main character's parent is an instant plus for me. We got to hear his story when the earthquake separated them and how he never gave up looking for Littlefoot, despite he was now seen as a leader of a separate herd. Shorty annoyed me at first, but it was made up for having Littlefoot have bonding time with his father. Then Littlefoot had a talk with Shorty and wanted to consider the other like his brother. THEN I liked Shorty. Finally, there was the debate of whether Littlefoot would go with his father and herd or stay with his Grandma and Grandpa. Again, as a writer, I couldn't help but imagine if the alternative had happened, but Littlefoot is such a sweetheart, he stay with his Grandparents. But hope was not all lost; Bron and Shorty may appear at the Great Valley. The one thing about this movie I was disappointed with was that Ali let alone her herd was never there. If they say 'Longneck Migration' I expect MOST of them to be there, including a reoccurring of characters in a previous movie. Alas, one can still dream, can't they?

With that, I can't help but just picture Littlefoot, Ali, Rhett, and Shorty as a group of friends together with the others.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on January 26, 2008, 04:48:11 AM
Quote from: Mistress Dragon,Jan 25 2008 on  06:18 PM

I've seen all of the LBT, except for VIII, IX, XII, and XIII. Yes, I can't lie; I have yet to see those.
Finally, someone else who hasn't finished watching the series! I still haven't seen the 9th one (Journey to Big Water), or the... 11?, 12? (the Tinysaurus one).

I also agree with you on many points, including having to laugh about the excessive number of sequels, while secretly wishing the movies would never stop. Kinda gets to be a little trying after a while.

Also, Malte, that is an awesome picture. I once drew the five original characters, though not original drawings (I traced their images off the back of VHS boxes, and colored them in.) Sorry about the contest letdown. Personally, I'll bet the "surprise" was a coupon for a free Littlefoot plush toy :wow .

By the way, I'm 20 years old now. At the time, I was around twelve.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: lbt/cty_lover on January 26, 2008, 12:32:59 PM
The only two I haven't seen are LBT XII and LBT XIII. Otherwise, I have seen all of them.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: DarkHououmon on January 26, 2008, 12:54:15 PM
Quote from: LettuceBacon&Tomato,Jan 24 2008 on  10:08 PM
At some point, probably around 12, LBT became my favorite movie series, and I wanted to contribute. I had lots of of good ideas for future films, and for the next two months I typed up and sent a series of 15-20 letters to Universal Studios, each one teling them how big a fan I was, some ideas I had for future movies, and my exitement at waiting for The Big Freeze to come out. Each letter ended with a small request that they send a letter back, or at least acknowledge me.

I never got a letter back.

Seeing how this saddened me, my father decided to help. I remember how he actually called Universal Studios, got in contact with somebody high up, and spoke to them about the letters I'd been sending, and asked that they write one back. Whoever it was assured him they would. They didn't.

This (coupled with the fact that my brother, who had scribbled a hand-written "I Love You" note to the makers of G.I.Joe, and recieved in the mail a coupon for $3 off his next action figure) sort of turned me off the series.
I'm not really surprised. Companies are really busy in general, aren't they? They may not have the time to reply to fan letters. With all the stuff they may have to worry about (keeping schedules, hiring quality help, etc) they could forget to reply to fan letters.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Mornai on March 18, 2008, 08:24:38 PM
Sorry for being so late on putting my reply in here, i hope i didn't ruin it by bringing this topic back up.

Anyways, when i first saw the LBT, i was about 9 years old, and i just sat there and watched it. I loved the characters personality, the theme the way they talked, and the characters themselves. I just took so much of an interest in it, i never wanted to rid it from my life. It was like when i saw the first disney film i've ever seen, which is The Lion King, i just loved it and and made a promise to myself that i will never forget it, and keep it in my life forever. And as for MY favorites, my main one is LBT IV and for almost the same reason as Mistress Dragon. (except i hoped they would have sort of a young love boyfriend/girlfriend thing, and also hoped they'd make a movie about it, although my hopes have nearly been crushed, they'll never disappear.) And another late reply, maybe the reason Ali's herd wasn't at the great longneck migration was probably because they were too far away, or migrated in the opposite direction from where the other longnecks migrated.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Cancerian Tiger on March 19, 2008, 07:49:13 AM
I was seven years old when LBT 2 came out.  I was in the process of learning about dinosaurs in the second grade, and in doing so had developed a love for dinos :D.  Anyhoo, my neighbor's oldest son who was roughly my age came over one Friday afternoon with the newly released sequel.  I loved it immediately.  It was my father's weekend to have visitation with my sis and myself, and I talked him into getting the sequel that night.  I never saw the original until the fourth grade, when we were discussing dinosaurs and cavemen again :p.  There was never a movie that made me cry so much.  What I found strange was how Cera's attitude problem was not to the extent of the original by the time the first sequel came out :wow.  It does not matter, though.  My favorite dinos are threehorns, and she's my favorite threehorn thus far :^.^:.  I don't care what anyone says.  I'll be 22 years old in July and still love LBT just the same.  It's part of who I am and if folks have a prob regarding it I don't give a darn!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: stars on March 22, 2008, 06:54:54 PM
my story is this that i was younger at the time and loved dinosaurs so my mom got me a land before time tape and i loved it it was one of my favorite movies now it is my favorite movie i had almost all of them up to part 8 on tape. Then i stoped watching it for a while now that the series is on i am back in to it, and even more hooked on it now. It never got old for me. i still like it and think its cool i now like it more than i did before. :D  :lol:  B)  :)  :DD  :wave  :yes
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Clawandfang on March 22, 2008, 07:19:43 PM
I really don't rmember much of my childhood, just glimpses and flashes. I completley forgot about the Land Before Time for many years, until a friend one day said somthing along the lines of "Hey, do you remember...?"

At first I was thinking... "Yeah....sort of..." and this grew and grew until I searched "Land Before Time" into Youtube, and found real memory joggers. My friend and I then arranged to meet up to watch my old VHS copy of the 1988 release, which wasn't even bought, just taped. Fortunately my family was out at the time, so we didn't have to worry about people being curious as to why we were watching a children's film. I found it hard to gage my friends reaction to it, but I fell in love with it. I have no recollection of crying in the past few years, but watching that again brought a lump to my throat.

Soon I got ahold of another friend who, despite having no idea why I could possibly like LBT, agreeded to get hold of the 1-11 box set off Amazon for me, as I didn't want to approach my parents about it. I'm writing this just after watching number four for the first time in years, and although I enjoyed it, nothing can stand up to the original.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Kor on March 22, 2008, 08:25:09 PM
I watched it originally since it was on cartoon network at the time.  Don't recall the first one I saw.  It may have been 4, or 5, but not sure.  I liked it right off.  The seriousness, some danger, comedy, and the music/songs.  Though I find I prefer the earlier stuff.  Though the more comedy of the latter sequels is fun to watch also.    Some of the animation mistakes of the movies and tv series can be pretty funny too.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: The Great Valley Guardian on March 22, 2008, 08:57:56 PM
I still remember my first time was my grandmothers house...I fell in love with it almost immediately...and my firneds know about ti now too, so they don't hastle me about it anymore!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Sky on March 23, 2008, 08:30:42 AM
It was a boring day like others. My brother was watching cartoons while I was doing my homework for school tomorrow. After I finished homework, I then saw a commercial on TV about a movie with dinosaurs in it that was airing next week. Since dinosaurs were my favourite animals, I checked it out. A week later, after wachting the original movie, I was like: "Wow. That was so beautiful. Why can't there be more movies about dinosaurs?". After saying that, another commercial began, showing LBT2 next week.
And it was going on all weeks until LBT6. Then there where no more. I was quite sad as it wasn't going on anymore.
Time passed (about 1 year) and my memories about LBT was vanished.
Until I saw a commercial of LBT8 coming out on VHS. "Wait a minute...LBT8? Where's LBT7?" Running to a store with that mind I looked everywhere and found the two movies. Though, I didn't have any money to afford any but bought them later. So I watched LBT7 and LBT8. I was kinda shocked after seeing the new colors and animation quality. Then LBT9 came out. Mo is such a cutie. ^^
And again, time passed and I lost interest in LBT. Though, I bought LBT10 too, but it wasn't so great to me any more with dinosaurs. I lost my interest. About 1-2 years later, they were airing LBT2 - LBT10. A small memory came back why I actually love LBT.

And that made me curious if there will be any more movies to come. And they did. I instantly bought LBT11 and LBT12. Seeking for more information I "accidently" bumped this forum. Today I have all 13 movies and I'm still really enjoying watching them.
And this forum kinda made me an artist. I haven't drawn that much in my life, especially LBT related works. ^^

A big "YAY!" for LBT.  :lol:
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Timehopper on April 14, 2008, 07:47:57 PM
I was about five when I first saw the LBT movie (it first came out in theaters the year before I was born) and I remember watching it over and over again. And after 17 years, I felt that I could never grow out of it. :^.^:
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: jedi472 on April 27, 2008, 05:02:10 PM
I watched it alot when I was younger, and it sorta stuck with me ever since. ;)

EDIT: Ok, I lost interest after seeing Star Wars at 5, but I rediscovered it during a casual web session about three years ago. I've been hooked ever since, but I have had to carry out this hobby without drawing attention from others. That's people. <_<
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: jedi472 on April 27, 2008, 05:03:52 PM
Quote from: Malte279,Aug 29 2007 on  05:19 AM
We are not the only ones. 14 seems to be an age of significance if it comes to rediscovering LBT. A lucky number :lol
yeah it happened right around there for me, too.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: jedi472 on April 27, 2008, 05:07:34 PM
Quote from: Kor,Jan 18 2008 on  04:00 PM
To bad more are not allowed the freedom to like what they like without comments, belittling and such.
yeah. I haven't actually told anyone I'm into this, for fear of shame. Typical, eh? <_<
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: The Chronicler on April 27, 2008, 05:12:55 PM
Some of us are fans of something else, and I'd imagine that many of those some would rather talk to others about that something else instead of LBT. In my case, it's Bionicle.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: jedi472 on April 27, 2008, 05:24:56 PM
Quote from: The Chronicler,Apr 27 2008 on  04:12 PM
Some of us are fans of something else, and I'd imagine that many of those some would rather talk to others about that something else instead of LBT. In my case, it's Bionicle.
Yeah, i like Star Wars at least as much as LBT, if not more. :blink:
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on April 27, 2008, 06:54:16 PM
Hmm...  How I came to know about The Land Before Time...  It's rather a mystery.  I thought I knew back in the day, thought it was because of my now dearly-departed grandmother (on my mom's side), but, after talking about it with my aunt on a family reunion trip...  The mystery only deepens...  I know I was into the whole "dinosaur craze" when I was a kid; I still have all the books...  I think.  Not Land Before Time related specifically, though.  ...Anyway...  I don't remember the details...  I don't think I saw it in the theaters, because I asked my mom about it...  Perhaps I saw it at a friend's house, and told my grandma?  Whoever this friend was, I just don't remember...  ...Anyway, I eventually get III and IV, for XMas presents (which I no longer celebrate due to many changes in my beliefs, yet, gifts are gifts; if anyone wants to share a gift with me, that's nice.  It's more blessed to give than receive though.), but not on the same XMas; back to back.  And...  I grow up on them.  Kind of like someone else on here; I'm sorry, I didn't read the entire post up until now, I will later.  But some things did catch my eye...

Anyway, years pass, and mind you, I amassed a pretty decent collection of VHS movies - mostly Disney - and I grow out of most of them.  (Still have all of them to this day, too.  Well, except for The Lion King, more on that later...  It is INTEGRAL to my story!)  Not because of my own radical changes or anything like that; nowadays I'm pretty much the same little boy from Stanwood...  (Thanks to LBT, but I'm getting to that.)  Anyway, in 1995, my mom met this nut, got married to him eventually.  He cheats after three weeks, they get divorced, he leaves.  Some time later, after several months, they *gulp* reconcile.  (To this day, my mom still can't quite figure out why; sometimes, love is blind.)  They marry AGAIN, much to the disgust of my grandmother...  Although, she had a delicate way about her, about wording things.  Well anyway, he turned out to be a total psycho, busting up the house on drunken nights...  Every six months...  I had that guy pegged.  I knew so much more than him, but I never let it show.  I let him think that he was "top dog."  Anyway, years pass, I change into this cynical, yet-still-friendly person, all the while the only thing keeping me together was my faith...  (That never changed...)  I go on...  Oh, by the way, I almost lost my VHS collection (including The Land Before Time; the first one I almost lost TWICE!) - and some other things - because the freak was always hocking things for money, for weed and alcohol!  He'd spend 600 bucks a month on weed alone!!  (Nowadays, we're fortunate enough to have 300 bucks to get us through the month...)  It eventuallly got out of hand; he gets hepatitis (incurable type; he was into all kinds of drugs on occasion); it's affecting my schooling, I hang around him just to keep him balanced when he's drunk - figuratively and literally; I mean, I'm not that strong, but the guy's a pipsqueak...  I finally told my mom, it was like I was in a nightmare that I couldn't wake up from.  THAT got her going.  Eventually, it's planned that they would divorce, and he would leave soon.  He stays PAST the leave date, and, I go up to my OTHER grandma's - the one that's still alive, 83 and still a spring chicken - where I'd spent most of my life...  Things get really ugly.  He wasn't even that drunk when he...  Tried to kill my mom...  It was THIS DATE, SIX YEARS AGO!  Oh my god!  ...It just hit me.  This was IT.  ............

Anyway...  Some years before that, one of the last times I remember watching The Land Before Time all the way through, was back about eleven years ago.  However, before that occured, I found out that the weasel had loaned out two of my VHS tapes; The Lion King, and, lo and behold, The Land Before Time.  The original.  Which I wanted to watch.  I had to explain that to him; he wasn't thinking about the sequels I had...  Anyway, so it turns out that he'd loaned them out to his nieces...  And later on, when I got IT back, he tells me that they fought over them; The Lion King was destroyed, and The Land Before Time came back without a case.  Doesn't sound like something THEY would do.  I think he got jealous and started doing it himself.  But, that tape - The Land Before Time...  ...If that isn't a sign of providence from on High that I'm supposed to have it, and learn from it, and be made into more of a childlike state because of it...  To have it almost taken, not once but TWICE - well, that's rather significant, don't you think?

Anyway...  Eleven years pass...  I grow up, and change...  Not watching anything from my collection.  Until, last year, around the time that college fell totally apart for me.  (I did graduate high school, though.  But just barely.  I wrote poetry; a compromise was made because the teacher thought I had skill.)  I was just sitting around, on the computer...  What else is new, kinda day.  When, out of the blue, I remembered...  That song...  At least, the chorus to, "If We Hold On Together."  ...It felt strangely...  Nostalgic.  To make a long story short...  The first time I saw The Land Before Time, after not seeing it for TEN years...  You know, I didn't remember hardly a single LINE from the WHOLE MOVIE, just bits and pieces.  The other movies in my collection?  To this day I haven't seen any of them, and I could quote you paragraphs FROM MEMORY.  PARAGRAPHS.  But...  ...I couldn't remember anything from The Land Before Time.  Seeing it again after ten years, I cried.  I just absolutely cried.  It always hurt when I saw Littlefoot's mother die, but...  Knowing how close I came to losing MY mother back in April 2002, was, a stunning comparison.  (And, a few months after, I almost lost her AGAIN, on a more permanent basis; it was too close...  This only intensified that moment in The Land Before Time for me...)  At the end of the movie, I cried too; this is a perfect example of what friends can do, if THEY hold on, together.  Helping each other out, along the way...  Littlefoot lost his mother, Cera lost her mother, who knows whatever happened to Petrie's dad, and Spike...  Well...  We all know about that...  But, in the end, they MAKE it to the Great Valley, after avenging the deaths caused by Sharptooth - including Littlefoot's mother...  It is...  One of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen to THIS DAY; it runs rings around everything else, in my book.  I've caught up with all the sequels; I like the way that Grosvenor took the series.  I admit I had to watch "The Wisdom of Friends" TWICE to finally get it because of the new director (Jamie Mitchell), and then, I couldn't get enough of it...!  Watching 10 made me cry too...  In particular, the song "Bestest Friend."  It, and the situation Littlefoot was presented with, just...  Shook me.  Still does, every time I watch it.  Five shook me somewhat too, during the song "Always There."  ...Poor Littlefoot...  ...There isn't hardly anything else I'd rather watch anymore, hardly even The Simpsons, which I also grew up on.  I can hardly handle death, either, despite the fact that I believe it is only the beginning...  I've had to put on a tough exterior, but I'm a marshmallow inside...

EDIT: Hmm...  It may have been my cousins, that I saw it through first!  After talking some more with my aunt...  Hmm...  The mystery only deepens!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Kor on April 28, 2008, 04:36:15 AM
A detailed and sad story, though it does sound as if things did turn out for the better. Good luck.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on April 28, 2008, 04:54:59 AM
Thank you...  ...  ...  ...
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Cancerian Tiger on April 28, 2008, 10:09:37 PM
Dang!  And to think I thought my life was tough :bang.  I'm sorry about your background, NeptuneNavigator2001, but I'm also happy things are improving.  LBT will help get ya through the day, and I'm glad ya never lost your interest in it :yes  :wave.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on April 28, 2008, 10:22:45 PM
Thank you, Cancerian Tiger...  It hasn't been easy; I may lose my mother again yet.  Years ago, back when that moron was still around, he got real mad, and actually THREW my mother DOWN, on a hardwood floor!  I was hiding scared, two rooms over, in the kitchen, on the other side of the wall...  Ready to bolt out the back door, I might add...  That was always what I had to do to survive.  *Petrie: Me a BIG scaredy-egg!*  *Yeah, I can relate; guess I'm just a yellow-bellied coward...* I also took stuff over to my grandma's (the one that's still alive) to keep his destructive little mitts away from 'em.  (Took my computer over there too, once, after getting it out of hock.)  Her hips lately, may have advanced arthritis.  ...She's lost all her fight, and I'm starting to slip because of her groaning and screaming...  Day in, day out...  For the past four months...  ...Ah...  Don't worry about me...  I'll be fine...  Yeah, LBT is about all I've got going for me now...  Besides listening to Jazz, which is "my new thing," although I've liked it for oh, about a year and a half; I sit here, listening to Miles Davis, a lot of the time; kinda partial to him...  Hope to get a Trumpet soon too, though, as brokeback poor as we are, I only really see money like, twice a year.  (I'll probably do a rendition of "If We Hold On Together;" maybe I'll even share it..)  Those things are keeping me sane, and my eternal King, Yahweh-shua.  (Although, I've been a slackey lackey about prayer these days...  And I'm ashamed of my lack.  VERY ashamed, but if you've been looking for missing Scripture books for two years, without finding some of them, well...  Anyway...)  I can only accept pity if I'm not cast in the spotlight; this isn't just about me, it's about everybody here.  I'm just sharing my story...  That rat's brother was the really good artist that blew us away with his minute details...  I still have one or two of his drawings...  Both of those men almost drove me to suicide; I threatened it twice because of that bullhead - in school nonetheless, indirectly - and thought about it once because of the "con" artist - on my 21st birthday, nonetheless.  That's right, you read it right - on my 21st birthday, I was in hell on earth, thinking about suicide.  I was never one to go that far, though.  I just wanted to get away...  I've written a poem or several about some of this stuff...  Perhaps, soon...  I'll upload them somwhere...  She's also one of the reasons why I want to write that document on the parallels between LBT and my life, but that sure isn't the only reason...  It does take courage to live...  It kind of reminds me of that song "If Only" from LBT 11 - living does take courage.  (That may be the only bit that would actually apply here, though.)  Don't worry; this Nazarene Hebrew (by birth and faith) won't go down without a fight!  ;)  :wave  :yes
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Inl?-rah on May 31, 2008, 04:48:30 AM
On the subject of mothers, mine died when I was two years old of complications from diabetes, so I never really knew her. Any animated sequence that features a mother, either in life or death, stirs emotions in me. When I was young, I never thought about her much, but as I've gotten older, I've sensed a void deep inside. My dad ended up marrying my mother's sister, so at least I had someone related to raise me, and who is still around. But yes, I do feel something is missing, that will never be filled. I have depression, so things have more of an emotional impact on me(I first started showing signs of it in 1996, and I'd never been more emotional than I have since then).  However, I'm also emotional in happiness, so joyful things can make me cry as much as sad things. :)  I have a rough exterior though, so I hate for anyone to see me cry.

I worship Mother Nature, and now when I think about it, that might be because of the loss of my mother. Perhaps on a subconscious level, I see Nature as my mother. But I'm just rambling now...

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In 1989, I was six years old. Loved dinosaurs. Was absolutely nuts about them(still am, heehee--I became obsessed with JP when I saw it in the summer of 1993).  My folks ended up renting LBT, and I fell in love with it. It just became my favorite movie ever. I must have watched it at least three times, all in one day.

In hindsight, I don't know why I never got the video. Some years later, I heard of a LBT II, and became excited. But nothing came of that. I must have had a short memory span back then too, because I never looked further into it.

Sometime in the 2000's, I watched the original on Cartoon Network, and it took me back to my childhood. I remember wanting the soundtrack, since I was just getting into film soundtracks back then. I still want that soundtrack...

Then I dropped the subject AGAIN. How it kept flying from my memory, I'll never know.

I joined this place in 2004, but never really came here for LBT discussion. Now that I've read a few threads, made a few posts, I want to change that. I want to find the sequels on DVD, and especially the original(if need be, I'll buy it again if ever a Special Edition is released). Something has been reawakened in my soul, a feeling I thought I'd lost, and this time I'm going to capture it, and hold onto it.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: kjeldo on May 31, 2008, 05:36:15 AM
i ever saw 2 and was a LBT guy!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on June 05, 2008, 05:22:10 PM
Quote from: InlÈ-rah,May 31 2008 on  01:48 AM
On the subject of mothers, mine died when I was two years old of complications from diabetes, so I never really knew her. Any animated sequence that features a mother, either in life or death, stirs emotions in me. When I was young, I never thought about her much, but as I've gotten older, I've sensed a void deep inside. My dad ended up marrying my mother's sister, so at least I had someone related to raise me, and who is still around. But yes, I do feel something is missing, that will never be filled. I have depression, so things have more of an emotional impact on me(I first started showing signs of it in 1996, and I'd never been more emotional than I have since then).  However, I'm also emotional in happiness, so joyful things can make me cry as much as sad things. :)  I have a rough exterior though, so I hate for anyone to see me cry.

I worship Mother Nature, and now when I think about it, that might be because of the loss of my mother. Perhaps on a subconscious level, I see Nature as my mother. But I'm just rambling now...

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In 1989, I was six years old. Loved dinosaurs. Was absolutely nuts about them(still am, heehee--I became obsessed with JP when I saw it in the summer of 1993).  My folks ended up renting LBT, and I fell in love with it. It just became my favorite movie ever. I must have watched it at least three times, all in one day.

In hindsight, I don't know why I never got the video. Some years later, I heard of a LBT II, and became excited. But nothing came of that. I must have had a short memory span back then too, because I never looked further into it.

Sometime in the 2000's, I watched the original on Cartoon Network, and it took me back to my childhood. I remember wanting the soundtrack, since I was just getting into film soundtracks back then. I still want that soundtrack...

Then I dropped the subject AGAIN. How it kept flying from my memory, I'll never know.

I joined this place in 2004, but never really came here for LBT discussion. Now that I've read a few threads, made a few posts, I want to change that. I want to find the sequels on DVD, and especially the original(if need be, I'll buy it again if ever a Special Edition is released). Something has been reawakened in my soul, a feeling I thought I'd lost, and this time I'm going to capture it, and hold onto it.
I can completely relate to you, Inle-rah.  (Well, except about the Mother Nature thing, anyway.  But, everything else, spot on, pretty much.)  You're not alone...  Get the sequels, and tune yourself into that passion!  I did, and it has done WONDERS for me!  ...Could I even begin to describe the good things that have come about in my heart, since February 15th, 2007?  No...  I cannot...  So, I can completely relate to ya, Inle-rah.  I hope to see you around more often!  Hey...  Maybe on MSN, too?  I'm on there more than the forum these days...
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Spike_of_the_Valley on July 01, 2008, 02:00:39 AM
Well, my story is a little bit bizarre.  Apparently, my primary school showed us all the original Land Before Time a few times when I was little, but I have no memory of this, so it's difficult to say whether that had any lasting impact.  I certainly knew of the film and its sequels, but that was it.  

At any rate, early this year I was looking through a rack of discounted DVDs at Target, and saw LBT 11 and 12.  If I recall correctly, my reaction was something the lines of "They're still making sequels to that?"  (Don't kill me yet, I'm going somewhere with this)

A couple of months later, I was looking through the kids' DVDs section at Kmart for some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVDs (which I didn't find), when I saw the DVD of the original Land Before Time for $16 Australian, which is a decent price for a DVD over here.  I half-considered buying it then and there, but for some reason I can't quite remember, I didn't.  A few days later, I still couldn't get that spectacular cover out of my head, as well as the mention of Lucas and Spielberg on the back.  I decided to take a punt on the film, and bought it.  It actually wound up costing me only $9, which I still consider the best $9 I ever spent.  

It took me a few days to get around to watching it, as my parents' TV was broken so I was renting mine out to them.  When I finally watched it, it skipped to a ridiculous extent right near the end (still does occasionally, but a clean fixes it up), but I loved what I saw.  I was finally able to see the ending properly after I cleaned it with my proper CD/DVD cleaner, which took a bit of time.  Once I'd seen the whole thing I absolutely loved it.  The film simply has all the stuff I love in animated films - charming characters, great animation, great music, loads of emotion (I generally cry a few times whenever I watch it) and that undefinable "x-factor" that somehow raises things above the pack.  

I was hesitant to get into the sequels - I'd watched the sing-along sequences contained on the DVD of the original and been less than impressed.  When Target put the films on sale, however, I couldn't help myself.  I wound up buying all of them, and am pleasantly surprised.  None of them are as good as the original, of course, but they've got their own appeal.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Sharptooh #436 on August 19, 2008, 06:27:54 AM
Someone bought me the fifth movie, I watched, and I soon bought the other movies.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Lillefot on September 19, 2008, 01:40:30 PM
Came to think that I haven't told my story yet.

Sit back, relax, enjoy the... fright?

NOTE: My whole life hasn't been LBT only. I've had and have tones of other hobbies/interessts. Just so that you know before reading. ;)

Where to begin?

My absolute first encounter with The Land Before Time was in June 1998, at Gotland, an island in the Baltic Sea where we used to spend some weeks during the summer holidays. I don't know the exact date. But hey, I was close! :^.^:

Anyway, me and my little sister, I was 7, made some friends there, a boy and a girl, same ages as both me and my sis.
They lived not to far from our cottage, so we became good friends.
Now, one day when we was playing in their garden, the girl came running out of their house and said to us that Littlefoot was on TV.
Once we got inside and placed us infront of the TV, we could see that it was a cartoon dinosaur movie of some sort.
That was, The Land Before Time V - The Mysterious Island. (1997) Yeah, that was the very first movie I saw.
We saw it, and I belive we enjoyed it alot. I did most of us, as I was dinosaur fanatic.
But, it was still just another movie in a long series of kid movies.
So, that was the first encounter with LBT, no big deal.

Moving forward, 1999.
At this time, I belive I was 8 years old.
One day at school, they showed LBT movies from time to time.
Why? I guess because we had "play breaks", and that some kid had the movies and decided to take it to school.
And saw them we did: LBT III, LBT IV and LBT V again.
Ofcourse, it was good kid's movies. So naturaly, everyone enjoyed them.
Still, no biggie.
But to me it was.
I really, really liked it. I mean, I loved it!
Why I didn't nag my parents to buy me the movies... I have no idea.
Maybe because I had other interessts aswell. Such as playing James Bond with finger pistols! :lol:

Ok, time for a break.
No further encounter with LBT untill 2000 - 2002. Here, I don't know the exact year.
But I know that we went to some friends to lend some movies.
Along with titles that I don't remember, we lended two LBT movies.
LBT I and II.
Of all those movies we had lend, those were the ones I watched the most.
My sis watched it to, but she was more interessted in another Bluth Movie acctually: Anastasia.
But for me, Littlefoot and the gang was everything!
I remember one particular event:
My sister and I, plus two friends were suppose to stay home alone because mum and dad were invited to some adult party.
We were bored and asked what we should do?
My mum said, watch a movie or something. You have "Littleman" to watch.
I stepped in and said: "No mum, that's Littlefoot!"  :^.^:

So we watch them that evening. (I and II)
But as for everything that you lend, you're supposed to give it back once in a while, right?
By that time, I guess I was dissapointed, but it was no biggie either. I don't know why. But I think that it was during this period that my real lobe for LBT started for real.

Now for the longest break.

No LBT for years!
Ofcourse, I saw pictures in town, new releases etc. I also saw it in some of my friend's homes. But I didn't mind.

Untill, I think it was 2005. Yes it must have been, because LBT XI was out.
I really can't remember where it exactly started.
But I thought more and more about LBT for some reason.
I got more and more back to it.
So I went onto the net and did some searching.
LBT XI out? Eleven!? Already?
I started to watch clips on Youtube and saved pictures on my PC.
The more I got, the more I wanted.

But... And this is where I'll tell the dark parts of my story. Listen closely, it's not often I speak about it.

You know kids? They can be pretty mean.
I had some years in school that was a real nightmare.
I was being bullied, treated bad by girls, acused for things I wasn't.
This really torned me down...
I became more and more shy infront of other kids.
But started to evolve a bigger interessts for adults.
I've always had easy to speak with adults, and  eversince daycare, I've shown more independence, more adult behaviour than any of my classmates/friends.
The backside of it? Didn't make much friends... And the only way of getting some atention, was to play a fool... I tell you, most of my childhood... I want to forget it. Badly. It haunts me...
So, with this, you can guess that I was very shy to tell anyone about my liking for LBT...
I belive that I was sure to be bullied again, for the reason of LBT would be considered childish when you're 13, 14.
So I kept it a secret. No one knew. Not even my own family. The ones that I should trust above anyone else!
That pain... A pure torture...

But, I did not give up LBT.
Everytime I saw anything related to it, or heard someone mention it, my heart made a jump!

So it continued with the Youtube clips etc.

But one day, I was with two friends in town. I was 15.
We went to Movieline. A place where they told me that one could find and buy any movie.
At Movieline, I discovered that they had the LBT movies in stock.
Took some huuuuuge deep breaths and meditating phrases before I took the courage to walk into the kid section, grabbed LBT I, before quick as a fox blend it together with "Eagles Nest", "Shrek 2", Pink Panther" and "Blazing Saddles"!
Payed.
Outside, my friends demanded to see what I'd bought.
Ofcourse, they saw the LBT DVD.
I said it was for my sister. (I hate and regret that I did!).
They payed no mind. One of them said like: "Oh that one. I saw it as a kid."

When I got home, I waited until 14. 14:00 middle of night!! Before I got up and watched LBT I.
And that night, I was forever caught. Heat of the moment! Yes, I did all the usual LBT fan stuff, such as cry when Littlefoots mother died, and at the end credits with Diana Ross's "If we hold on togheter".  :(  :^.^:

I kept the DVD far in the back of my bookshelf. I feel so weak and pathetic when I think about it...

Moving on.
Still, no one knew about my passion. My sis knew that I had the first DVD, but payed it no mind.

Now, something, like a milstolpe, occured.
I found the GoF!  :yes  At the 28th of March 2008.
And you all know that story by now.  :nyah

And thank god for that. I don't have to tell you how much I love this place, so lets move on.

With GoF, my self encouragement raised.
I went and bought LBT II and III.
First time I had watched LBT II since those days in 1 grade.
I meet all these lovely people here!  :^.^:
Trough that, I grew even more.
I decided to buy two LBT DVD's per month.
Soon I had LBT IV and LBT V in my collection.
Loved it. Some of the best months of my life this spring!  :)

I think the next event (and the most recent) is when I meet Nimrod (Patrick).
He was the first one that I told this whole story for aswell.
When he was here, I also bought the rest of the LBT DVD's.
To be sure, as by that time, I feared they were about to go out of stock, as the LBT office had closed.  :bang
Patrick told me his story aswell, and listended to me.
And for the first time in my life...
I got to watch the LBT movies with a friend. A friend that loves LBT aswell...
I really grew...

Patrick left after a week, and yes, I cried. :o
But that week, is one the top three of the best weeks in my life.

End of story!

Here I stand now, writing this extremly long post. Sorry!  :wave
By now, my closest friends knows about my passion and love about LBT.
One of them, proved that he was a real friend when I told him. As we sat down and discussed it a whole night. Not about LBT (he doesn't exactly like it) but about why I liked it, and why it meant so much to me. He also had equal expericences with the anim'e Naruto. He accepeted me for who I am. A real friend, and I feel sorry that I was nervous to tell him...

By now, my room's crowded with LBT stuff. I've made most of it myself though!  :)
I've made my own fanvids, RPG, and have fanfiction ideas.
My family knows about it, so does my sis and my cousin.
Some other friends do aswell.
I still avoid to watch or talk about LBT in public. But I think that I really don't have to. And when I bring the laptop to school, it doesn't have an LBT desktop.

Well, this is my story.

I can't thank the people who've helped me trough this enough.
That is, the whole GoF.
But some have played a bigger part than others.
These people know who they are. And I'm not favorizing anyone.

But I take the chance to thank Patrick here.
Thank you for everything. I can't thank you enough.
And I really long for Silvretta in January!    :^.^:
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: buffypii on September 19, 2008, 02:14:05 PM
Oh, Gustav!
I'm sorry that you have been bullied!
I've gone through the same thing, and still going through it!
Of course not for the same reason...
I know it can be tough! I'm glad you made it through!!
After reading your story, you've proved to me that I will make it through...
I've always thought so, but now I'm positive! If you can do it, I know I can!!
*hugs*
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Lillefot on September 19, 2008, 03:12:04 PM
I'm glad that I could give you some encouragement Linda.  :)
Keep the spirit up!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: buffypii on September 19, 2008, 03:18:48 PM
I will Gustav!
Promise!

And to stay on topic!
I'll add my story tomorrow...Right now I feel like doing random posting!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Shinji-Lee on September 19, 2008, 03:40:10 PM
mah lbt-story...
i can't remember very much from me past. it isn't special or anything, like NeptuneNavigator's...just one of the two most important stories of mah life, thou very short.

i was born in 1991, so i missed the theatrical release(don't think there was one in germany, anyway)
and i wasn't lucky enough to see it in school. it happened accidentally, like one could say, but there are no accidents: between the age of 6 and 10 i watched almost everything calling cartoon. eventually i saw the 1988 land before time movie. and i was like "...woah..." (i cannot describe the feeling, cuz i didn't know it back then, but i hope ya know what i mean...because i don't). during those years the sequels from 2 to 5 were shown on cable TV quite often, so i got them recorded on very old tapes (which i made useless by watching) German dub, of course. it was great and probably influenced me subconsciously. around the time the tapes turned into rubbish, i sadly forgot completely everything about lbt. until i read about movie 8 showing on cable (i been obviously missed 6 and 7). it was nice watching it. that might be...2 years ago...maybe 3. i didn't know about the following sequels.

we jump to the time around two months ago. somehow the thought appeared in me mind: land before time...there has been somethin...
so i got all of them and i was surprised by the number of movies they made. i went through a marathon, and here we reach the point, in which i explain the importance, that marathon pulled me out of a hell of a depression.
and here i am now, alive, 17 years old, and thanks to people like don bluth and judy freudberg and all of you of the gof (special thanks to Nimrod and Mumbling), i feel the happiest boy alive.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on September 19, 2008, 04:38:38 PM
I'm glad for you, Shinji-Lee..  And Gustav, wow, that was an amazing story of overcoming... :)

Yeah, Iris, she's...  Very special to me as well; she's helped me in so many ways, I can't describe it all...  I'd give up anything and everything for her... :^.^: No limits on that...  Even, well...  Yeah, my life...  ...She's become the sister I never had...

And I'm honored and humbled you made mention of me...  Heh...  But as far as being "special," hmm...  I dunno... :p Hmm, thanks...
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Shinji-Lee on September 19, 2008, 05:30:02 PM
of course your case is not a positive way of spacial. i don't know many people with such a hard life...and even harder it might have been to write about it
yer strong, me heartie. got my respect. i dunno, if i would have been able to be, what i am now, carrying such a fate.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Malte279 on September 19, 2008, 06:31:30 PM
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i was born in 1991, so i missed the theatrical release(don't think there was one in germany, anyway)
Yes, there was in 1989. It is possible (though I'm not sure) that LBT was the first movie I ever saw in the cinema.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: 812558 on February 20, 2009, 11:39:38 PM
I Just was feeling bored one day a few months back and wanted to see if i could peck anything up that i had not when i was younger, seen about every one 1-8 on youtube twice
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Saft on February 22, 2009, 02:36:20 PM
I first saw The Land Before Time by VHS.  

I was four years old and just recently had moved to live with my Grandparents because my Mum's pregnancy and eventually my sister's birth led to complications were my Mum nearly died.  

To keep a four year old, a sensitive and a child with Asperger's occupied, my Grandfather took me to the museum to see the dinosaurs as I was very obsessed with dinosaurs.  

Furthering the whole obsession, my Dad who was a contractor for Barclay's bank came to visit.  With him he bought to great movies that I will always cherish (although he regrets it now).  

He came with The Land Before Time and The Lion King.

Both films were and still are amazing, but my interest in dinosaurs pushed The Land Before Time to the hundred time watchable movie during those few years.  

Along with the other VHS films, they will always be held in high regard.

Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Keni on February 22, 2009, 08:39:45 PM
I...Honestly don't remember how I got into LBT. As far as I remember I always had the first movie on VHS. I don't remember when I got it or why I got it, I...Always had it. *Shrugs*

My second LBT movie was the fifth one (Currently my favorite of the series). I don't remember how I got it either. But I remember I used to love it, more than the first one. Then I got the Stone of Cold Fire, another I liked, but not as much as the fifth one. A friend of mine then lent me the sixth one, and from there I started the idea "hey, why not collect the whole series while I'm at it?"

And thus, I got into LBT.

I never really remembered how and why I got the first movie on VHS. I guess it was one of those mom things when they were looking at movies at the store for their kid. "This looks good for my son, he'll probably like it." Or I probably asked for it just because it had dinosaurs. *Shrugs*
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Littlefoot1616 on February 23, 2009, 06:44:43 AM
Hmm....thought I posted in this topic already...obviously not :DD

I was always into cartoons from an early age and I think I was great influenced by parental choice (my mum's a big fan of old school animation). With that, I was all into 80s cartoon shows like Ulysess 91, MASK, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Transformers, Thundercats, Snoopy, Scooby Doo and the like. Obviously, with the TV shows, animated feature films was just the next step up. Through family friends, I had a pretty impressive VHS collection of a lot of animated movies but LBT was one of my favs. I never got to see LBT in the cinema (I was only like 3 or 4 when it was on national release, doubt I could sit still for that long in a confined space in the dark at that age :lol) By a means I'm still not 100% sure of to this day, I obtained LBT on VHS and, apparently, I used to drive my mum mad coz it was the only movie I would ever want to watch (but to her bliss, I would sit down and watch it without making a sound so some peace for her :DD). After a little personal history rolled on, I then picked up the movie again when I was in primary (elementary) school and I guess, since then, I just kinda stuck with it. The rest is history as the saying goes ;)

Since then, I've got all movies on DVD, 1-11 on VHS, a fair amount of LBT memorabilia and this wonderful community board ;) Think LBT has served me well throughout my years :smile
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: NeoGenesis005 on April 10, 2009, 12:36:36 AM
Quote from: landbeforetimelover,Aug 4 2007 on  07:48 AM
When I was about 3 or 4 (1994 or 1995), My mom just brought home the land before time VHS.
Same thing happen to me but my first LBT Movie was Movie 2, and I was 4 - 5 years of age at the time.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Sharptooh #436 on June 02, 2009, 01:43:13 AM
I first watcehd LBT when I was like three and a half years old in 1999. It soon became my favourite show due to its nice but meaningful music (I didn't understand too much at that time, of course) and its lovable characters.

It also had a nice balance between scary (ish), sad, funny and interesting scenes. I watched the movies until I was like six, the stopped. Sometime in 04-5, I think, someone gave me LBT 10, watched it once, then forgot about it. I had basically grown out of it.

Then, half a year or so ago, while I was clearing out some of my old CDs in the basement, I came across the LBT set from 1-8 stored in there. I was bored, and with my homework done and parents coming back only in a few hours, I inserted LBT 1 into the CD player and watched. I soon fell in love with the series again, because it reminded me of when I was younger. Its a strange feeling you can't describe, especially when the songs are heard. I (almost) cried when hearing 'always there' and 'Bestest friends' (yes, I know its an LBT 10 song =|)

I bought LBT 9 soon after. It was enjoyable.

So I went on the net, searched for stuff about LBT and any future movies they might be making. I learned about movies 11-13, and the TV series. This also happened to be the time when I registered to this forum.

I watched some of the TV episodes of Youtube (I don't have any TV channels which show it). Unfortunately, I went back to the store where I bought LBT 9 and they no longer sold LBT (neither do any other stores in my country, I think)

When my dad bought some items off Amazon (I can't remember what), due to me doing well in tests, he granted me the permission to buy off the net LBT 11-13.

I felt that 11 was ok, too unrealistic, 12 was nice to watch, and 13 was just.....cheesy. I still prefer the original ones (1-10) due to their (as stated above) balance of meaningful lessons, epic, funny, and sad scenes. In my opinion, creators of LBT should switch back to their original style.

I still cannot find a place to obtain any new videos (except off the internet).
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Amaranthine on June 08, 2009, 06:19:42 PM
I don't think I posted in this topic before, so I'll say it now.

I can't remember when I first saw the original LBT, I know I didn't see it in the theatres, I wasn't around then! I remember my first time watching the second sequel. Before I got the LBT plushies, I would use my own cat plushies to act out the scenes of LBT. I loved stuffed animals as a kid, and I still do love em. hehe I wanted ALL of the LBT plushies and I wanted as many VHS tapes of LBT as I possibly could. :) And yes, I know what they are....I'm not that young...:lol

Little Foot was definitely my favorite character at the time. Everyone else, I was just okay with. I just accepted them as part of the plot. My second favorite character was Chomper. He definitely had a special place in my heart. Now I just like Chomper as a general character and a character that I will always remember loving as a kid. No offense to any fanfiction writers, but having Chomper as a fierce t-rex...I don't know...I just don't care for that. It's so not Chomper. :lol:

I remember coloring in those LBT coloring books and using those sticker books. :)
Some of the people that tested me when I was very young, (I was diagnosed with PDD-NOS around my LBT obsession and LK obsession, and some other obsessions I had) they would have a hard time trying to get me to sit still sometimes, so my mom would say, "Just give her some Land Before Time films to watch, she'll stay right in her spot." :DD

LBT, like LK and some other things, like Barney were in a deep part of my childhood. I only watch LBT and LK, because I still believe they are worth watching and spending time on. Barney...nope. I loved it as a child, and I do recommend it for parent's kids to watch, but when you're older, it gets annoying. :p To me it did at least. lol

I think right after the sixth sequel came out, I stopped being interested in LBT. I went on to other things. Like Spongebob and actually my head was in school most of the time. Then in 2000, I started getting into LBT again once I saw the seventh sequel. It was love at first sight when I saw Pterano and his henchmen. I also started to have Petrie be my favorite out of the gang. Then right after the eighth sequel came out, and I saw the reviews on the other films like the eleventh film. I wanted to write the sequel in hopes of saving LBT from those reviews. But the chance never came and my fanfiction simply became that, my fanfiction. And you know, right now, I really wish I sent in those ideas and did something...so LBT wouldn't be in the state that it's in now...it's so sad.

Though the tweleth sequel ended up not being so bad anyway, still...once the thriteenth one came out...I knew...it was the end. It had to be. :bang

So yeah. My love for LBT exists, but I am VERY disappointed of the office for closing LBT down. I really am. So that's it.

Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Cancerian Tiger on June 09, 2009, 10:49:35 AM
Quote from: Rat_lady7,Jun 8 2009 on  05:19 PM
I wanted to write the sequel in hopes of saving LBT from those reviews. But the chance never came and my fanfiction simply became that, my fanfiction. And you know, right now, I really wish I sent in those ideas and did something...so LBT wouldn't be in the state that it's in now...it's so sad.

Though the tweleth sequel ended up not being so bad anyway, still...once the thriteenth one came out...I knew...it was the end. It had to be. :bang

So yeah. My love for LBT exists, but I am VERY disappointed of the office for closing LBT down. I really am. So that's it.
I could not agree more.  I hate to see the state LBT is in now :cry2.  It is very disheartening and disgusting to see the way Universal has treated such a beautiful series.  They should at least give LBT a decent ending (and no asteroids either :anger) instead of doing it dirty <_<.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Paradise Bird on June 11, 2009, 04:10:54 AM
I learn about it when I was fighting with swords when I saw dinos on the screen years ago.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: action9000 on June 11, 2009, 02:49:41 PM
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I learn about it when I was fighting with swords when I saw dinos on the screen years ago.
Now that has to be up there on the list of random "How I got into LBT" stories! :p
:D
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Belmont2500 on August 04, 2009, 09:30:26 AM
well I never saw the film until the late 90s I remember my mom entering the living room with the VHS saying I would like it although I wasn't much of a dinosaur fanatic at the time she popped it in the VCR and I watched it and boy did that film get me depressed I think I was 4 or 5 at the time and I still remember the first time I heard the narrator (Pat Hingle) say "and they called him Littlefoot" it brings a tear to my eye whenever I think about it and of course me and my sister had all these LBT figures and plushies and what not, I sold all those though even the films ,I didn't know what to say when I did. :cry
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Leopardi on November 18, 2009, 10:47:42 AM
Sometime in the beginning of 90's when I was like 4 years old, we were at our cottage in lapland. Then some evening it came from the TV and I saw it for the first time... I was totally blown away.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Pangaea on November 18, 2009, 04:26:38 PM
I believe I mentioned in my introductory post that I would share my complete LBT story in this thread. It’s been over five months since then (22 weeks, 5 days, 4 hours, and 3 minutes, to be precise :p), and I’ve finally gotten around to it. Talk about procrastinating. :rolleyes

The account I am about to share is unfortunately missing several details, due to my having a pathetically unsound memory and not being as much of an archivist as I’d like, :p but it I have done my best to make sure it as accurate and complete as possible:

I don’t remember the first time I watched The Land Before Time, but know for certain that I was very young. Theoretically, I could have seen it in theaters, but I would have been less than a year old at the time, so I highly doubt it. :p

One thing I do know is that my love for LBT was closely tied in with my early obsession with dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. In the spirit of the chicken-or-egg causality dilemma, I can’t remember which came first: I’m reasonably sure that I already liked dinosaurs before I saw LBT, but again, it was so long ago that I can’t say for certain. In any case, I owned the movie on VHS, and watched it addictively; I think I can safely say that it was my favorite movie for much of my early childhood.

For years, the original film was the only Land Before Time movie I knew. It appeared that I lacked a concept of sequels back then; indeed, it must have been a paradigm of sorts, as I remember seeing copies of the LBT sequels in video stores, but not recognizing them as separate from the original film. I didn’t realize the significance of the Roman numeral (if I even noticed it); I would just see the title “The Land Before Time,” and assume it was simply the original movie with different cover art. :wacko I was observant enough to see Hyp, Mutt, and Nod on the cover of LBT III and think “hmm... I don’t remember those characters from The Land Before Time,” but, if I recall correctly, it wasn’t until Burger King released its line of LBT toys (in 1997, I believe) that the paradigm shift was triggered, and I realized that there were more LBT movies out there (the fact that one of them contained a baby sharptooth character and two Struthiomimusómy favorite dinosaur at the timeówas further cause for excitement). Within a few months’ time, I had watched (and my family had purchased) LBT II, III, and IV, and my enthusiasm for the series was still strong at the time LBT V came out. (I remember finding the plot device of the swarming leaf-gobblers fascinating even then.) In fact, I so enjoyed the sequels that I virtually stopped watching the first LBT after I discovered them. However, I did watch the original again at some point after we bought the sing-along songs video (whose purchase had in turn been preceded by that of the first three or four LBT sequels); I recall seeing the sing-along version of “If We Hold On Together”, not recognizing it as a sequel song, and going back to the first movie to hear the original version (previously, I had almost always stopped and rewound the first movie as soon as the credits started, and so had rarelyóif everólistened to the song).

My recollection of the state of my fandom at the time of LBT VI’s release is poor, but I believe it was much less active at that point. (I seem to recall that I found the sixth movie less satisfying than its predecessors.) By the time LBT VII was released, however, I had definitely lost most of my interest in the series, and when my family purchased it (primarily for the benefit of my younger siblings, I believe), I didn’t even care to watch it at first. However, in retrospect, I think I was in a state of denial at the time, believing LBT to be something I should have outgrown, and was therefore embarrassed to admit that I was, in fact, interested in watching it. Indeed, I was curious enough to ask one of my brothers about the movie, and was surprisedóand a little impressedóby its explicit reference to the original film, and the darkness of Pterano’s backstory. (Perhaps it evoked a sense of nostalgia for the first film?) I subsequently joined my siblings in watching the movie a few times, on the pretense that I had nothing better to do :p (though secretly I did enjoy it). But my parents never bought any more LBT films after VII, and gradually the family interest in the series faded.

I believe the last time I even looked at an LBT video (at least until the revival of my fandom) was in December 2001, while my family and I were Christmas shopping at Toys ëR’ Us. LBT VIII had just been released, and when no one else was around, I picked up a copy in the store to read the synopsis. I thought it was interesting that a movie had been made that focused on Spike, and wondered what type of dinosaur Mr. Thicknose was, as he was not depicted anywhere on the videocase. (For some reason it never occurred to me that he would be a Pachyrhinosaurus; I envisioned him as being an Altirhinus (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Altirhinus_kurzanovi.JPG) or some other large ornithopod with a similarly prominent proboscis. :wacko) But my interest in LBT was no longer sufficient to motivate me to pursue watching the films on my own (that, and it did not outweigh my shyness to admit that I still HAD that interest), and I never even watched another LBT film for the next seven years.

At the time I “lost interest” in LBT, my interests in movies were very narrow. Nature documentaries, and a few “real-looking” films such as Jurassic Park and Dinosaur were about it. By 2008, however, I had significantly expanded my horizons, and was a much more avid movie-watcher. I had also come to use the Internet much more frequently, and tended to browse sites such as Wikipedia and the Internet Movie Database when I was bored. I believe it was some point in that year (it may have been 2007) when, for some reason, I became curious about how many sequels LBT had produced since I had stopped following it. On that whim, I checked out the Wikipedia pages for the original Land Before Time and the post-Stone of Cold Fire sequels. I was actually quite intrigued by some of the new plots and characters that had been added, the biggest surprise perhaps being Guido (I was impressed that such a recently discovered dinosaur had been incorporated into the series). This was also when I learned that Mr. Thicknose was a Pachyrhinosaurus (cue the “duh” :slap moment). But I still couldn’t be bothered to watch an LBT film, and much of what I discovered that day was pushed to the back of my mind.

Then, in late 2008, three events took place which ultimately precipitated the revival of my interest in LBT. My memory of the events is blurry; I can’t remember the order in which they occurred, when exactly they occurred (it was most likely late November, but could have been as early as October), how they may have led to or influenced one another, or what prompted them to occur in the first place, so I’ll just present them individually:

1. I visited Wikipedia’s LBT pages again, exploring them more thoroughly this time. This was when I definitively cemented my knowledge about the new sequels and TV series, which had previously been only a passing curiosity to me that I had quickly forgotten.

2. I learned from an online TV guide that The Great Day of the Flyers was going to air on Cartoon Network (a channel I normally never watch). I thought, “What the heck, I’ll tape it and see what this ëGuido’ character is like”, but when the day came that it aired, I forgot to record it. I didn’t care much at the time, but as it turned out, the movie reran several times over the next few weeks, providing me with further opportunities to tape it. Again and again I missed doing so, either out of forgetfulness, or simply because I decided not to bother. Eventually, however, there came a day that I DID remember to set the timer on my VCR to record it.

3. For whatever reason, in late November or early December, I felt an impulse to watch the first LBT again. Dimly remembered scenes, dialogue, and music from that movie kept playing and replaying inside my head, and I eventually decided that the only way to get them out was to watch the movie. (At the time, it had been as much as ten years since I had seen it; no one in my family had watched it much after we discovered the sequels.) It’s possible that my visits to the Wikipedia pages had served to rouse these memories. I also may have been spurred by the consideration that if I was going to watch the twelfth movie when it aired on TV, about the twelfth movie’s TV airing by this point, and decided that if I was going to watch it, then I might as well re-familiarize myself with the original film beforehand. In any case, it was this nagging urge to re-watch what had once been my favorite movie that had the greatest impact on me.

I began combing the house for my old VHS copy of the original film. This was far more daunting than it sounds, as our house contains literally hundreds of videotapes (mostly recorded TV shows), lined up on shelves and cupboards, and stored away in boxes and bins. Over the course of several days, I searched through every household cache of videos I could find (though I never spent more than a few hours searching on any given day). In the process, some of the sequels my family already owned began to turn up. At first I ignored them, my interest being solely in the original film, but as my search continued to turn up fruitless, I decided to take them as well, partially to put a stop to the irritating false alarms I kept experiencing (“I found it! Oh, dang, it’s ëThe Land Before Time II’!”), but also because I considered that I might feel like watching them later.

Eventually, however, after tearing apart (and subsequently repairing :angel) every possible video-storage area in the house (often checking the same places twice), I gave up my search. I had acquired sequels II, V, and VII, but not the original. Taking the course of action any sane person would have chosen much earlier, I borrowed the DVD of The Land Before Time from the public library, and late that night, watched it. (I’d estimate the date to have been December 15, perhaps a few days later.)

My first viewing of the original The Land Before Time in (possibly) a decade didn’t feel particularly momentous at the time. I wasn’t in a constant state of nostalgic delight or satisfaction, and there were even a few moments when I thought “Wow, I don’t remember the dialogue being this silly!” :rolleyes Once I had finished watching the movie, I thought that I’d just return it to the library the next time I got the chance. But a day or so later, I found myself pining to hear “If We Hold On Together” again (there was also a particular scene I wanted to rewatch, but I can’t remember now which one it was :bang). So I watched the DVD again (at least the parts I was interested in). If memory serves, I later watched it in full a second time. It seemed that the movie was once again growing on me. At some point around that time, I watched LBT XII (which by then I had recorded), and LBT VIII (also rented from the library; I can’t remember whether I saw it or XII first. :unsure:). Having seen the unparalleled original immediately beforehand, I wasn’t too impressed with them, but I enjoyed them nonetheless.

It seemed that a switch in my brain had been flipped, because I started watching the three sequels I had found while video-searching, and after Christmas, I started renting the other sequels from the library, and buying the movies on eBay. By mid-January, I had watched all of the LBT movies (LBT IX being the last one I saw), many of them two or more times over. Even before I had reached that milestone, it was official: I was once again officially obsessed with LBT.

By then, I had paid many more visits to Wikipedia, as well as the LBT Wiki. I had read in depth about the TV episodes, and though I had not been particularly interested in watching them before, I now turned to them to satisfy my now-ravenous hunger for more LBT. The first one I watched was the readily available “The Hidden Canyon” on the LBT XIII DVD. I didn’t like it that much, but my newfound LBT addiction was in full swing, and the disappointment, if anything, only increased its momentum. After some initial difficulty, I downloaded most of the TV episodes (Thank you, landbeforetimelover ;)), and began watching them fervently. On multiple occasions I stayed up well into the night (4 AM or later), watching episode after episode. Once I had seen them all, I found myself once again experiencing LBT withdrawal. To satisfy my addiction, I turned to reading LBT fanfics, some of which I found almost as enjoyable as the LBT films themselves.

I soon learned, however, that there were all too few good LBT stories available on the web, and few places where they could be found. Inevitably, my obsessive quest for new LBT material brought me to The Gang Of Five. My first act upon discovering the forum, of course, was to skim through the entire “Fanart and Fanfiction“ section, reading every fanfic that caught my attention. Afterwards, I started reading through RPs, figuring that they were basically collaborative fanfictions by multiple authors. It was around this point (for reasons that remain fuzzy in my memory) that I registered as a GOF member, choosing “Pangaea” as my screen name for no other reason than that it was prehistory-related, and the best thing that I could come up with at the time. :rolleyes

Finding that the RPs weren’t as satisfying (or easy) to read as regular LBT stories, I returned to the fanfiction section, combing through the threads in search of fanfictions I thought I might have missed, or ignored because they had not initially interested me. I didn’t find many, but in the process, I started reading the discussion threads about fanfictions, and later, threads on other LBT topics. Many of these I found very interesting, and occasionally, even felt like participating in them. For many weeks, however, I was too shy to do so, preferring to remain an observer.

Eventually, however, my desire to be useful, to receive social attention, and to be a part of something won out, and I decided to become an active member. Not wanting to enter without properly introducing myself, I spent a few weeks writing and refining an introductory post and designing an avatar. At one point I thought to wait until my star day to make my entrance, but I’m an impatient fella, and everything was ready and I still had a month to wait, I decided “what the heck!” and made myself known right then and there. :p

Okaaaaay....looking back at what I’ve written, I’m pretty sure I’ve stretched the definition of “LBT story” to its limits. :blink: If anyone who’s bothered to read this autobiography has made it this far, I congratulate you. :cheers For obvious reasons, I’m going to stop here, though I will not hesitate to add updates to the end of this post if I learn any more details about my history with LBT that change, clarify, or conflict with the story I have recounted here.

Pangaea
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Caustizer on November 18, 2009, 07:20:22 PM
I first got interested in LBT because of how far out and away it was from the other movies and cartoons at the time.  In the 90s, it was very rare to come across a story set in a place beyond religion, streets, cars, and nearly outside our comprehension without being completely abstract.

Back then most movies were very grounded in the current reality - either New York City (Oliver and Company, We're Back, Godzilla, An American Tale) or Hollywood (Cats Don't Dance amoung others) or other places not too far out from human civilizations.  Even newer movies like Ice Age still include humans in it, to give it a link to the future.

LBT is completely and entirely outside humanity, and despite numerous fan-fictions that feature humans meeting the dinosaurs I would prefer it remain that way to keep splendor.

Caustizer.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Animeboye on July 22, 2010, 11:19:30 PM
I may have already posted in this topic. I don't remember.

There's not really much for me to tell. The first Land Before Time was my very first movie. I don't remember much since I was most likely no older than 2 when I first saw it. I do remember me and my mom driving to McDonalds and me holding the VHS in my arms. I remember seeing Littlefoot's mom's death which may or may not have terrified me on the concept of death. As a kid I related a lot to Littlefoot. Even though my mom is still alive and my father isn't a deadbeat XD

When I was in Kindergarten, I would occasionally bring in one of the Land Before Time movies and we would all watch them during naptime. We may or may not have seen the fifth one, I don't remember.  I know we did watch one through four.

After Kindergarten, my interest in the franchise began to fade. Eventually I moved on to other stuff like Dragon Ball Z.

Skip to about a decade later, I'm a senior in high school, more than halfway done with school. After my 18th birthday, I was bit by the Nostalgia Bug. I began to miss all the stuff I grew up with as a kid. LBT, Thundercats, Super Friends, Aladdin, you name it. Of course I just had to have some LBT stuff. I hoped to find some toys at Toys r Us, but to my dismay, they had no more LBT toys in stock. All they had were two DVDs from the TV series. Two DVDs!!  But I bought one anyway. Next I tried over at Suncoast and thankfully they had a pretty decent sized selection of Land Before Time movies. They had the two disc DVDs and some from the TV series.

So now I've got the entire series(yes even the 13th movie although I don't know if I'll ever watch it) including the entire TV series, Great Valley Racing Adventure, a t shirt on the way, and my very own Littlefoot plushie!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Adder on August 09, 2010, 02:25:01 PM
Quote from: DarkHououmon,Jun 13 2007 on  04:13 PM
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I don't honestly believe any true fan of LBT can watch Littlefoots mother die and NOT cry!

I guess I'm not a "true" fan, then eh? I don't think I ever cried during that scene.
Well, the last time watched it (back in June 2009) I felt like doing so when I saw it, but my parents were watching it to, so I held it in.

But when I watched the scene on youtube, my eyes watered. That's the only movie I've everywatched that even made my eyes water, and I've seens tons of shocking movies (Sand Serpents, Grizzly Rage, The Descent, etc.) and they never did, but that scene ALWAYS dose, I don't know why. Even reading it on wikias or wikpedia dose make me sad. When I was eight and watched it, that was the first time I noticed her death. Before that I never did. I just though they got seperated after the earthquake and she never found him.

I was always hoping that she would live, but I really don't know why I watched the sequels. It's way with a sequel to any movie I watch, just for the fun of it.

Like Sasquatch, watched, wanted to see 2, now I want to see the third. Same with Happy Feet, Ice Age 3, and The Pebble and the Penguin (even though there won't be one :cry )
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Campion1 on August 09, 2010, 04:13:33 PM
Watched this movie on VHS at a babysitters house. My babysitter was a prick, his son was a prick, I would get blamed for EVERYTHING his son did, and sometimes that little EXPLETIVE DELETED would do bad stuff on purpose just to get me in trouble. Of course I was spanked if ANYTHING went wrong. (Rather or not that actually psychologically effected me I don't know) As a kid, that place was HELL.

From what I remember, that guy let me choose a VHS to watch just to keep me quiet for the evening, so I picked out LBT 1 because it had dinosuars. The only problem was the VHS was a little damaged, so sometimes this rippling would happen on screen, and another was that the vhs was 3/4's into the film! To make matters worse, I only got to watch 10 minutes of it!!! Just littlefoot and the gang jumping on lava and getting stuck in tar and stuff, and that was IT!!! The B-tard turned it off to play a stinking football game, and sent me off to bed!!! I didn't freaking get any sleep because I was left the rest of the night to think about this film!!

Now it's like 11 years later or something, and I have only found out by now of memories long ago that I actually did see many of the lbt sequels! Some songs I knew more then others, even some dialogue I remember, certain musical scores, topsy being a punk, tinysauruses, Ali, littlefoot... Little did that guy know that he STARTED my fandom for LBT. Thanks a lot, ya good-for-nothing! That's the only good thing to happen from my time with you!

One edit: I DID get to see LBT all the way through a month after this happened, so HA! TAKE THAT, PUNK!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Karmarsi on September 26, 2010, 11:00:35 PM
I remember that I had seen a small portion of it in a blockbuster store. The store ( sadly now closed due to the recession ) had tvs in a circle at the center of the store for people the see. I remember standing near those tvs, watching the movie. I suppose after that I begged my mom to find me that video  :lol Funny enough it was on a high shelf that my short young self couldn't reach
hence a kid like "ffff"

Ironically it happened again a year or two back at the same store ( it was an anniversary thing ) and later that day went home and popped it on youtube :D
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: m01 on September 28, 2010, 10:43:51 AM
So, after quite a few years of not seeing any of LBT movies, I've rewatched the original and it didn't dissapoint. It is without a doubt one of best children movies ever made. It was innocent and light hearted in spite of dealing with hard themes and quite dark/sick looking enviroments.
Land Before Time clearly is a unique children movie and I give it 10/10

On the other side, I haven't watched too many children movies so my review may not be good  :lol:
I'll continue watching LBT sequels and although I'm quite sceptical about them being half as good as original, I'll give them a chance
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Daddytops2009 on September 28, 2010, 06:03:20 PM
I rented LBT for the first time on VHS for years ago, and for some years ago I stumbled upon the Network 54 forum.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Almaron on September 28, 2010, 09:59:10 PM
I'm not sure, but I believe I first saw the original Land Before Time film on video when I was three. I remember wanting to watch a film and searching through the videos my family had and seeing it there. As far as I recall, I'd never seen the film before, so I decided to put it on to see what it was like. Apart from the obvious trauma of Littlefoot's Mother dying, I liked the film.

I don't remember much about the other films coming out, but I know I saw LBT 2 at some point, because I remembered Chomper when I watched 5 (come to think of it, it might have been broadcast on the telly, and I saw the end of it). But I remember watching 4 and loving it because it gave Littlefoot an obvious love interest.

I was never really into Dinosaurs when I was young, but I still watched the odd show along with any other animated thing. Eventually, around the year 2000, I saw an advert in a magazine talking about winning a guest role in Balto 2 (at that point unnamed) and getting LBT 7 on VHS. I had no idea that there were now six sequels, and so I spent the next three weeks renting out the ones I hadn't seen from the video store. I remember liking 2 but not 3 (the bullies annoyed me, and I thought the ending was weak), and liking 5 but getting bored with the story of 6. 7 I thought was great.

The next year, 8 came out. I checked it out from the video store, but there were several things that disappointed me about it. I don't actually remember what, but I believe it was mainly the story. One other thing I remember thinking at this point was that time must be running out for the LBT cast, because they've had a meteor in the last film and now an ice age?

After that, I lost interest. I remember the odd advert for 9, and Cartoon Network furiously advertising 10 when it came out. When 11 came out, my Dad bought it because it included the original film, which we wanted. At this point, I started looking up LBT on the internet, mostly ignoring the scorn on imdb, and I learnt that Littlefoot's father appeared in the 10th film. Around this time, I also started reading Dinotopia*. I don't remember which one started it, but I know I became interested in either LBT or Dinotopia after watching/reading the other, and looking for more things involving Dinosaurs. Eventually, I gained a vague knowledge of Dinosaurs in general, and attempted to make a chart to simplify all the species into various groups, so that anybody could remember them (Herbivores were easy, but Carnivores...that's where it fell apart). I later used this knowledge as part of a theory that the LBT had to take place in a fictional Mid-Cretaceous time, and that it must be located in North America (both due to fossil records of different dinosaur species).

Because I wanted to see them again (and I hated the fact that the numbering system on my shelf meant that XI was the only number), I decided to track down the rest. I got 5, 6 & 10 first, I believe. Funnily enough, this time round I preferred 6 to 5, but as time went on and I got the rest, they remained amongst my favourite sequels. 10, however, annoyed me. Littlefoot's actor just sounded wrong to me, plus it seemed like his character had become several years younger and more immature compared to the other films. I also got the first four films on video (part of a second hand set of LBT videos), which were fun to leave on in the background while doing something else on the computer. Oddly, most of the time, I "watched" a LBT movie by playing some video game and listening to the film. I suppose it provided a sort of soundtrack to whatever game I was playing.

I got the first three films as part of a DVD Multipack, and enjoyed 3 a lot better this time. My Dad soon found 12, which I really enjoyed (good characters and music, for one thing). Eventually, I got 4, 7, 8 & 9 at a Whitcoulls Xmas sale (annoyingly, they got WAY cheaper the next year. D'oh). 4 wasn't as good as I'd remembered, 7 was still good, 8 I liked better, but I thought that Ducky's voice actor no longer sounded right for the part, and 9 was alright.

Some point during all that, I found the GOF Message Board (I think it was Christmastime; I remember a holiday-themed banner with Chomper and Littlefoot), but I didn't join for a while. I did have good fun reading several of the fics that had been written (Out Of The Shadows, A Sharptooth's Heart, Time Gate X and the one by Threehorn involving a wish on a star are ones I mostly recall), and I eventually decided to try and make a map of the world of LBT (And I did...sort of. I added a page to this Message Board with some of my findings; there are plenty of pages covered with sketches and notes regarding sun placement, mountain ranges, rivers and the like crammed in a box somewhere). I also bought the game Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, and many attempts were made to create a Great Valley of sorts.

At some point, I tracked down the LBT Soundtrack via Ebay (woohoo!). After a while, I listened to the film and made my list of how the soundtrack differed from the film, and thus listed where missing scenes were (well, I started doing that. Originally, I made various notes listing the obvious cuts, then later I made a quick note of what music made up the large gap (something I never actually posted on the net), and then even later I got around to typing it all up). My Dad later found the Sing-A-Long cd, which was cool (although it was annoying having each song being preceded by a bunch of kids saying stupid crap).

To complete my collection, my Dad found LBT 13. I wasn't as put off by it as most people (probably because I was more listening to it then watching). After that, things sort of died down. The TV series didn't come out here for quite a while, and when it did, I always managed to miss the episode for some reason or another. The DVDs have finally been released, but I'm in no hurry to get them; there's plenty of others things that have my interest at the mo.

And...I think that's everything. Apart from that, the only other thing is that I generally check this forum every day, and usually only add a post if it's to do with some sort of theory regarding the films.

*Dinotopia happens to be where my user name comes from. When I was joining this message board, I wanted an original user name (something with no numbers on the end). So I quickly looked through my books, and found Almaron, a dinotopian orator. Since I planned to jabber on about various theories, I figured that made an ideal user name.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: LBTDiclonius on December 28, 2010, 05:50:18 PM
Hmmm...now there's a good question. I don't really know what made me watch it. Now the origanal movie rcame out long before I could walk and talk and actually enjoy movies. When I started watching them, number 6 was already out. so I had a lot to chose from. :D But I think the one thing that really caught my eye would probably be dinosaurs. And who doesn't like dinosaurs? I still love them. I think my mom got it for me and made me watch it. Since I had no refusals I sat down and looked at the screen. When it came to the part when Littlefoot's mother dies I remember gasping and crying, crying, crying, crying. And more crying! Lot's and lot's of crying. But I got over the shock. Thank goodness I know there's gonna be a happy ending now. :) As of right now I own two VHS tapes and still are able to watch them because I own a tape player and are able to watch them when ever I want. Yay me! ;)  
For the sequals, I watched 2 and 3 recently but haven't really made contact with any of the others lately.  For number 4 I still like it. Possible love interest for Littlefoot? 5 is one of my favorites because Chomper's back. 6? Bored easily. That's about it. 7 was okay. I love Pterano. He's so funny. :DD 8 was fine some songs were...a little off with me. Coughthelessoncoughcough. 9 fine I liked it. 10 weird...I'm actually suprised Littlefoot didn't run away crying after Bron said, "then I heard about...about you mom and a sharptooth." He just looked up. What the heck? If it were me, you can be sure I would run away screaming. 11 bored easily, but good lesson there. 12 I liked. 13 ARGGGGGGG!!!!!!!. Nuff said. And for the tv series, it was okay I guess. Lot of unnecessary characters though.
Well, that's my LBT excperiance.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Allicloud on February 25, 2011, 05:38:58 AM
Ah, I have quite a story about this:

First time I watched this series was back in Primary school...year 1 or 2, I think, so I was between 6 and 8. For some reason, our year was having a Dinosaur-themed week, when they themed every lesson around Dinosaurs. I can't remember exactly what kinds of stuff we did, but I do remember that in maths, we'd get out tape-measures and use them to see for ourselves exactly how big they were. That was kinda fun.
But the part everyone liked the most was the afternoon, when everybody would sit down in one room, they'd wheel out the Tv, and put on a VHS of The Land Before Time. Of course, back then, I wasn't exactly the film-geek I am now, I was just a kid, but there was something about the series that just hooked me in. Also, as I recall, we didn't watch them in the correct order. I think we actually watched the first one last! But I definitely remember watching the original, 2nd, 3rd and 5th ones, because I could very vividly remember scenes from those ones (Heck, I've had Big Water and Eggs stuck in my head ever since those days!)
After that, they kinda vanished from my life, till my teenage years. Being a huge fan of cartoons, I was also a fan of Don Bluth especially. Just the unique was he animates really got to me. So, I was working my way through his best films, like Secret of Nimh, American Tail, Dragon's Lair, and then I discovered to my delight that he made the original Land Before Time! So, I looked around on the net and found a Megavideo link to the first one and watched it. It was like I was 8 yrs old again.
So, after watching the original, I remembered the sequels. I knew they wer all direct-to-video affairs with no help from Bluth himself, but II had to check them out anyway.  It was hilarious how certain scenes just kept popping up that I remembered, and how I found myself singing along to quite a few songs.
So, I was pretty much hooked on the series by then, watching every Megavideo of the films there were, and buying as many of the DVDs as I could find. Luckily for me, my local HMV sells the movies for anything between £3-18, and so far, I have every one except for numbers 4, 5, 6 (Which I can get cheap as a collection), 11 (which I can watch on Youtube for free), 12 (which I can't find at HMV) and 13 (which I never intend to watch). I also found number 8 by pure luck, as a VHS in a Durham charity shop for 50p!
Just yesterday, I bought numbers 8 and 10, and I've pretty much decided that my favourite sequels are definitely 8 and 7.

The rest is (pre)history.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: BigMouth on May 15, 2011, 03:04:41 PM
It's hard to say when I first saw the Land before time, probably around the time I turned 3.  It was my favorite movie at the time along with Jurassic Park.  I watched the original LBT with my parents over and over again, I even took the movie to pre-k so I could show it to all of my friends.  The series stuck with me then because I loved dinosaurs(and I still do.)  I stuck with the series watching all the sequels ending on the fifth movie.  After the fifth movie I hit a stage in my life where I grew out of 'kiddie' movies, I felt that I had to be more mature and stop watching these kinds of movies.  So my parents sold all of the movies at a garage sale and LBT was just a distant memory waiting to get pushed out of my head for good.  Fast forward to nearly 14 years later I was logging into my netflix account and I scrolled down the front page until something caught my eye.  Sitting dead center in my recommendations was none other than the original LBT.  At that moment I had a nostalgia shock and watched the movie, then watched it again the day after along with the sequel.  I continued to look up the soundtrack on youtube wondering what had possessed me to ever leave this series.  While searching for the soundtrack on youtube I also decided I wanted to see if there were any forums devoted to LBT and I stumbled upon GOF.  So here I am, a long time LBT fan who forgot about the series for 14 years only to rediscover it after a chance nostalgia shock. I will always love this series, especially the first movie!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Pterano on May 15, 2011, 06:05:49 PM
I do have distinct memories of seeing it in the theater, during its release. I really don't remember much though of that time, except specifically the earthquake scene and the conversation with Rooter. That I do remember, though of course I saw the film plenty of times after that. That was my first experience with it though, seeing it when I was two years old.

My dad was pretty awesome, because I'm sure this was totally illegal at the time, but he was a media professor and just made our family copies whenever he rented them from the video store. XD That's how I ended up with all the subsequent films on VHS, though later, once the price in VHS plummeted, we just bought them if I recall. Or rented them. I think after the seventh one we didn't buy anymore, for whatever reason. Just rented them.

I do not own any of the films currently (or any copies of them for that matter), but I just bought the seventh one two days ago, and it shipped yesterday, so I'm sure it'll be here this coming week. I intend to use it as a starting point, and build up my collection from there. I'll probably pick and choose though, as I like some of the films better than others.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Salvatore Blackheart on May 15, 2011, 06:58:48 PM
I was very young when i saw the film for first time, i can't remeber the day or details, but i saw the film in 1992 with my cousins while we were take the breakfast.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Im little green glyder :J on May 16, 2011, 11:24:17 AM
At the beginning (recently) thought about the five dinosaurs, he does not know where this idea came up. I meditated on what it might be, could the inspiration for the art project. years later, I saw LBT TV series, I realized that he has something to do, and I knew that those idea came from viewing an old part of the LBT which I watched long ago I watched a young age.
Of course, I do not remember it, and it does not allow me to live.
I would like to see all of the LBT. :cry
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: LBTLover1 on October 03, 2011, 09:53:01 PM
I was like 5 years old.

When I was in my preschool, the teacher put on the movie.  I really had nothing to do, but to watch it.  I hated it.  I wanted to watch something a little more childish like Dink the Little Dinosaur.

Later, I watched it again in my car (we had a small 15in. television in the car.) and I watched it while going to Colorado.  I somehow changed my opinions and decided to watch it twice.

After that instance, I started watching sequels from it.  Like when number 3 (or 4) just came out.  I watched it.

I watched every sequel that came out and enjoyed ALMOST every minute of it.  By the time I was 13, however, I stopped watching, thinking it was to much.   When I turned 17, I was thinking about the film for some odd reason and began watching the TV Series.  I really missed.  Now, I am a freak about it, posters, GoF member, fanfic writer, youtube, etc.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Petrie85 on October 03, 2011, 10:30:39 PM
I was three years old when it came out in theaters. I don't remember if I saw it in theaters back than. I highly doubt it. I remember watching it at preschool or my parents rented the movie for me and I loved it and I remember crying my eyes out as a kid when I saw thew movie. I liked how dark it was even tho it was ment for kid. I liked the background music and so on in this movie. Don Bluth did a fantastic job making this movie. And as I heard about the sequels I remember my parents rented a handful of the sequels and I remember liking them a lot as a kid. Than went I watched them as a got older I was thinking eh I saw a lot of things I hated about them but some where still very enjoyable. But a lot of them did really suck and I mean really suck. I hated 13 when a passion. It was god awful. And I hated movie  eleven that was god awful as well. Everything about that movie sucked. But the others where okay and decent.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: CreativePerson on October 03, 2011, 11:17:02 PM
When I was in Kindergarden I loved sharks. I read books about sharks, watched documentaries, and watched movies about them. So one day, I was sitting on my couch watching some kids channel( I can't remember what it was) and Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island was playing. It was the first time I ever set eyes on dinosaurs so it caught my attention. Then the swimming sharptooth scene came up and I loved that scene! Although, I wanted atleest one of them to get eaten since I didn't really pay attention to the characters. Ever since then I loved that movie, then I found out that there were other movies around so I went around collecting them and finally I have the whole collection. Thank goodness for LBT or I wouldn't have know anything about dinosaurs until the second or third grade!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Bruton the Iguanodon on November 08, 2011, 01:04:33 AM
Alright, here goes...

When I was about 2 or 3, in 1996 and 1997, I was disapointed by the lack of good dinosaur shows on TV. Sure, there was the Disney live action "Dinosaurs", but that just didn't do it for me. I wanted to see dinosaurs  portrayed a little more realistically. And then, one day on the disney channel, I think it was probably in 1997, this awesome show was on about dinosaurs. I'm pretty sure it was "The Great Valley adventure". Anyways, I immediately loved it---this was how I thought a dinosaur show should be done!

Well, at some point shortly afterwards, we got movie 4 on VHS. I loved it! I loved the whole "Journeying into the land of mists" storyline, loved the characters, particularly the new one, Alley, although I wasn't a fan of the "fdingin a flower to cure grandpa" storylin, "Grandma's lullaby", the mouse Tickles, and didn't really like the song "Who needs you". Overall, though, I loved it! It was just pure brilliance, was so magical and mysterious...oh yeah! I would watch it from time to time; for example, me, my sister and my cousin watched three episodes of "the little twins" and then Land Before Time 4 on the 4th of July, 1999. We watched it while waiting for the big fireworks show and after we came home from the show I think we finished it! It must have been the latest I ever stayed up! For a while it was pretty much the only one I knew. I had a story book of lbt, but the only pictures i remember was one of Cera's dad, cera and littlefoot, with Cera's dad telling her "Threehorns don't play w/ longnecks!" and one of Littlefoot, Ducky, Spike and petrie covered in tar and laughing at Cera. I saw part of 5 at my cousin's house in the summer of 1999, I think; from what I saw of it that day I didn't think it was as good as movie 4. I remember seeing them jump into the water and then spit it out, and three songs---one about the big water (i which the gang got grabbed by a bunch of seacreatures, with Littlefoot being grabbed by an octopus---which I thought fitting that our hero gets grabbed by the coolest creature there), and then a pretty one they were singing at night, and a rather bad "friends for dinner" one which took place in this grass and had this annoying "Chomper" and used "telephone" graphics. There's also another time I vividly remember watching 4. We'd only watch it occasionally, which was what made it so special. It was in sometime in 2000 and a few babysitters were over, and I remember complaining about Grandma's Lullaby, that it lacked a beat, and one of my babysitters humored me by tapping her knee. Well, we didn't finish watching it that night. My dad said we would in the morning, although we didn't end up doing it. I also saw a commercial for Stone of cold fire during Christmas of 2000 since it was on the Chicken Run VHS I got. I saw the scene with Cera having a halo and Petrie landing on her head.

It was in January 2001 that i saw it again. Ah, it was a grey sunday morning and my sister and I were watching cartoons as usual, I think we watched "Rolie Polie Ollie" that morning. And then my dad changed it to cartoon network. Now usually I didn't watch too much of cartoon network but guess what was on? Movie 5!It was at the pont where they were trying the green food on the island. So this time I knew what was coming, unlike the last where I don't think i even stayed to the end. And it did---they started singing "Big Water"! I loved it so much this time---espicially the climatic moment where they all became sea creatures!! Then there was the awesome scene where they were on the log being chased by the shark, and then, where they're singing on the beach at night...oh, my 6-year-old heart melted that day. Hardly any show was as special as LBT at that point in my life. Anyways, I left the room after that---I didn't want to ruin this perfect image--but came back upstairs to see they'd met up with Chomper and Ducky got kidnapped by a pteradactly. I really hated friends for dinner this time. As you all know, there was the huge Sharptooth fight, and Elsie taking them back to the mainland and their families. It was really great to see it that morning. The concluding shot of them returning to the great valley, along with the beautiful credits score, truly touched my heart. We later went out to the coast on that cold day.

It wasn't until spring 2002 that I really got into it though. On Easter we went to my cousin's house and guess what what I saw in the TV guide, which would be on that night on Cartoon network? "The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island". But we were watching The Little Mermaid 2 that night. Then the next morning, on Easter Sunday,  I read in the TV guide that it would come on again! But I didn't get to see it. Well, it was a few weeks after that that Dad rented stone of cold fire and i enjoyed it. It was then i realized how frustrated i was that i didn't watch more LBT. (I remembered seeing the preview for stone of cold fire on the video for chicken run when I got it for Christmas 2000 and thinking the same thing. Part of the preview that stood out was a halo appearing above Cera's head and Petrie knocking it off. I was glad to see that was on this film.) So from may to July I watched a lot of LBT.  Right after we rented 7 we rewatched 4, Dad soon rented 3 on a sunday, and me and my sister watched it on that sunny morning and i really liked it. As I watched it I couldn't help thinking about 5...ah, 5. I was gonna save renting 5, which i remembered fondly, for last. So we then got 6, which i thought at the time was good, but deep down knew it...was more kiddish then I wanted and wasn't quite LBT that I loved. At least it still had an interesting plot.  8 followed soon, and i didn't like it that much. It was bland and the formula was showing. It wasn't even that exiting. So much for an amazing, near-flawless series. Then it was 1. Geez, I did not see what happened in this one coming! Littlefoot's mom? I'd never even heard of her! The death was...really sad! And Littlefoot crying like that...but I didn't dwell on it or anything. But it's weird, it felt like a long lost LBT film to me, since the animation was so old and it was so much darker! So then we finally rented 5 (as well as 2, which I still had yet to see), which i hadn't even seen from he beginning. I waited all day for it in anticipation and exitement, savoring each moment building up to it. As a result it was a really fun day. Mom was in a run that morning, and me, my sister and my dad walked, disscusiing LBT and which ones we hadn't seen. We went home afterwards and me and my sister watched TV, and all that afternoon we had fun outside. A babysitter came that night and watched it with us. I finally got to see it from the beginning, with the leaf gobblers, everyone leaving the great valley, them getting to the island. In the end it was okay, but i realized it was mostly the first half I liked, and most stuff after the song "Always there" sucked. Once again I walked out after that song and I barely watched any of the 2nd half. I wasn't as touched by it as I was the last time. Well, what I'd been anticipating had come, so there wasn't much to look forward to. We watched 2 the next day but I wasn't really in an LBT watching mood, walking out during songs and not even staying for the last 15 or so minutes.

After that the LBT spark in my life quietly started to go out---I'd realized this film sries wasn't quite as good as I'd initially thought it was from mainly just seeing 4. 4 had seemed...so mysterious and special. Maybe not having Ali around made it less so. Or maybe it was seeing a lot of it at once that suddenly made it less special. Anyways the next time I saw it, my sister and i saw a some of "Stone of Cold fire" in a hotel in November 2002, on a saturday late in the afternoon. It was fun to watch it again after a bit. Also, I noticed from the captioning the Sarah's name was spelled..."Cera"? Huh? Then in February of 2003 guess what we got on VHS? "Journey to big water!" I was quite irratable about certain things in LBT at the time and kept leaving at points where i wanted. Such as during that stupid bit with Petrie's imaginary friend.  And I didn't like Mo as much as i wanted to because...I just didn't like the name. Maybe it was cause I was older, maybe it was the CGI, maybe I just had had enough. And in the end though...I felt guilty cause it was a beautiful film overall and I hadn't been loyal to it and was rushing for it to end! But this was a film that shouldn't be rushed! And I should have loved Mo as much as I wanted to cause, well...not since Alley had we had a character in LBT this interesting. Now though, i enjoy it fully, and heck, i've basically associated the name Mo with this wonderful LBT character! Oh, and it's also the name of a pretty girl I know! :)

Well later that week mom got my sister "Time of the great giving" from the library, and she watched it, but i didn't really. And later that June, during a sleepover at my cousin's house, we watched the original land before time. And that pretty much ended my days with LBT. Or did it? I mean, i saw 2 and 7 on cartoon network at some point that year, and on christmas dad rented the new 10. I only poked my head in for a bit. I saw the song "Adventuring", Littlefoot and his grandparents crossing the swamp and meeting Sue, and Cera's nightmare. But we had to stop it and dad had to take it back before my sister could watch it all. I'd seen a bit and was disapointed Cera's dream about littlefoot being honored and covered in flowers wasn't real...so i told her, as dad was tucking her in "That's how it would have ended!" And my sister was like "No, it isn't!" and my dad was like, "Well you don't know that, maybe it was! Maybe littlefoot did get covered in flowers!" And i was happy cause i'd basically won this round. And to this day my sister doesn't know the truth. :)

Anyways, after being disapointed in the little bit of what i'd seen of 10, I wasn't really attracted to LBT at all anymore. I continued to occasionally encounter it---in June 2004 me and my family went to see my aunt and cousins in Montana. They had a VHS collection with all the LBT movies, and I was surprised to see the first one in a clamshell case. Before going to bed, one night, my cousin and I talked about the movies--we talked about the fight scene at the end of 6, which he reminisced about being seriously brutal, and we talked about Pterano, who I still a little confused about---was he bad or good? My cousin explained that he starts out bad, but turns good.  ;)

I saw a trailer for 11 in january 2005---and was just disgusted. Little longnecks? Uh...not for me! I was officially done with LBT! Then, later that year, I woke upm trying to recall the main theme for the LBT movies. And couldn't. It had just been too long. I thought maybe one was the one, but no, that was the theme from "Stranded". Huh. I also discovered this year that Alley's name was spelled...Ali? I didn't like that spelling cause it wasn't what I imagined and I think I lost a little respect for the character.

In late '05 I was at my grandparents house, it was close to new year's ad I saw 10 on tv; I watched the swamp scene and the part with Sue, maybe, and then the dream scene, which I'd forgotte was Cera's not Littlefoot's, oops

Then in February 2006 while waiting for the Narnia movie to start there was the music video for flip flap fly. At this point i never wanted to reutrn to LBT again and was horrified at this and wanted out! I was trapped! Trapped, I tell you, TRAAAAPED!!!

April 2007. While at  a hotel my sister and i saw the shiny stones episode on tv. My sister made me stop to look at it cause Tria was there and she didn't know Cera had a mom. So i now knew there was a tv series with chomper...and, uh, miss pink. Yeah, i really missed Ali from way back in 4. I wanted her as member 7 instead of Ruby and was afraid ruby was gonna be littlefoots new girlfriend. Either way, though I was trying to convince myself at that point I was a big kid and didn't want LBT, I kept thinking about it, due to this and Jordan Sparks singing "If we hold on together" on American Idol, which brought back near tearjerking memories of the gang singing out the beach at night.

In November 2008 I Lwas flipping around on the net and googled "Littlefoot's dad", sice weirdly I remembered the old guy he met after his mom died in movie 1 as a longneck and bee speculatig that this might be his longlost father. Anyways I saw I remembered wrongly and that "Rooter" is...some creepy lookig kind of dinosaur. I also  discovered (again, thanks to the net!) that littlefoot did ended up finding his dad in 10, which I hadn't seen in its etirety.. Who knew he'd show up? And that there was an LBT wiki. Interesting.

In August 2009 two little kids were over at my house and they were watching 4, which we owned, but I didn't watch any of it. All I heard from upstairs was a voice yelling, "Where are you...?" and it echoing

In January 2010, in science class, I began thinking of...Petrie. A cute little thing I'd barely thought about in years. Maybe it was partly cause there were these things called "petrie dishes" in science, but I found myself thinking about LBT a lot for a while. Just seeing a lunar halo in the night sky in January made me think of Cera's halo in movie 7. In may, I even looked up somethings  about it online. I finally found out that the second song in LBT 5--where they're singing on the beach at night---was called "Always There". (Also, it was around this time that I got to know Mo, the cute girl I mentioned earlier.)

Then, this year, in February, Dad was wondering what the bird and the crocodile's names from the LBT we owned were. So he pulled it out and found out they were "Dil" and "Ichy". Geez, I didn't remember that! WEll, it was from this that I started to get interested in LBT again, and in late march, i finally got back into it fully. I started listening to the soundtrack for the movie one friday afternoon (March 25) after coming back from a run, and was really moved by it.

Two days later, I ended up finding this awesome new forum site, and a read review of the movies. Over the course of that week, I watched beautiful music videos for them like the "19 years of Land Before Time" video you made, Darkhououmon, read a beautiful fanfic called "Two from the past" (now lost, I'm afraid) and I even found out the names to each of the DVD movie scenes you can skip to. Some were good, although some I might retitle. I even watched the last 15 minutes of LBT 5 late on Friday, April 1st! (Not to mention a bit of the beginning of LBT 2, which was even better than I remembered! To make things even better, I was discovering some awesome music, like Michelle Branch's "Breathe". Life had been going rough for me since early that January, and this, combined with some great songs I'd found that I was gonna put on my mixed CD for my next birthday, was a pure oasis. During spring break in early April, we went on a trip to Disneyworld. It was a wonderful trip, as you can imagine, but this warm, happy, nostalgic feeling LBT had given me only made it better. All the way down to the airport and on the plane that night I dreamily thought about LBT, and continued to as I enjoyed the sun-kissed Florida. It was bittersweet, though, cause I had decided to put off watching it until I got my life back together. And what's really hard is I was seeing it everywhere---on the "Dinosaur" attraction, and in a beautiful picture in our hotel room that reminded me of the great valley. Eventually, a week after our return, I decided to go back to watching it. It was a friday, I'd had a great day at school, and it was grey and rainy---my favorite weather! I went for a nice run and decided to watch movie 2 that night. However, when I asked Mom and Dad, they asked which movie I'd be watching and I reluctantly admitted LBT, and Mom said no. Frustrated, I ended up browsing around on this forum all of Saturday and even watched some of the songs. I planned to watch 2 anyway after mom went to bed; I waited until she and Dad were finished watching a movie ("Black Swan"...very creepy) and was ready to rejoice when my annoying little sister told Mom what my new favorite show was. We had a nasty argument that resulted in me storming upstairs. The next day, however, things went pretty nicely.

I then held off watching it for three painful months. During Easter, we went down to my aunt and uncle's house and I was tempted to look at their copy of the original movie. My parents and aunt and uncle had gone out and my sister and I were alone for the night, and I watched Jeporady and an episode of Malcolm in the Middle. I also read some of "The Hunger Games" and listened to Roxette's "Look Sharp!" album. As the last track, "Listen to Your Heart", was playing, I decided to be a little naughty and showed my sister the copy of the DVD. She was at first like, "Where did u get that?!" and then teased me by saying "I know you like the little dinos, but that t-rex is a little too scary for you." I ran off downstairs (bumping my head) just as the adults came in. I managed to sneak the VHS back into the case without Mom noticing, though.



Anyways, as I said, holding it off, just when I'd gotten back into it, was painful. I was thinking about it all the time.  I made it to the end of the school year (somehow) and started reading a book with a character named "Allie" in it. Eventually, my dad left to go see Grandpa in Florida, and my sister was gone a lot of the time, so it was pretty quiet, being just me and my mom. I occupied my time by reading, running, and going for bike rides; we had a nice 4th of July (my aunt, uncle, cousin and grandparents came for a barbeque the day before, and we watched the fireworks with a friend of my sisters) and  and we even saw the midnight showing of the last Harry Potter movie in Canada, cause my Grandparents had gotten tickets. But I was itching so badly for LBT.

Well, the day before Dad came back I ended up going around on the archive versions of these forums---staying away from LBT related images, but getting relief from hearing something about the franchise. The next day, I finally decided I was going to watch them, and that night, after mom went to bed, I watched the first 30 minutes of movie 6. And I was all "eeeeeeeee!!!" on the inside. The next day I watched the rest of 6, in doses, secretly hiding what I was doing. That evening, I watched 10, and late that night (my mom was on a girl's weekend with my aunt) I watched 8. Later that week, on thursday night, I watched 9, (most of it---I'd started watching it in the morning) and the next day, I watched 5 in the middle of the day. We went to Silverwood park, in eastern WA (GORGEOUS scenery, btw) the next week and on the rollar coaster, I admit I was so exilerated that I scremed the lyrics to "Big Water" and "Bad Luck" at the top of my lungs. Anyways, I started watching MarzGurl's reviews ended up seeing Movie 7  I watched soon after we got back; I started watching it one night and finished it in the morning. I enjoyed it, too. Later, figuring it'd give me something to watch and to say I'd seen them, I watched 11 and 12---in the middle of the day on a friday (although I'd started 11 the previous day).  Fianlly, to cap off the summer, I watched the original in the middle of the day on friday the 26.  

Well, after that (I was still holding off watching 2-4 and wasn't going to soil my eyes with 13) the LBT spark in my life was at risk of going out. It just...wasn't really interesting me as much as it had. I even discovered, to my horror, that the beautiful fanfic I'd read last spring was gone.

And then in October I joined you guys.

And really, the rest is history. Joining this site was a decision I feel was really worth it. Suddenly, I could openly talk about LBT, something I'd been kinda alone in prior to. It was espicially great timing seeing as the month after I joined, the Harry Potter site I'd been a member of for no less then three and a half years shut down. So yeah, I'm so glad I'm here and part of the Gang of Five!
:DD

P.S.  I ended up watching movie 2 again in December. But I really enjoyed it this time! :DD Also, on a friday in February I watched 4 (before dinner) and 3 later that evening. 4...wasn't as great as it was back on 4th of July 1999, but 3...that one left me really touched. It really is my favorite.  :DD
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Petrie85 on November 09, 2011, 02:58:58 PM
Even tho the sequels where a let down they where still somewhat enjoyable to watch. The songs where actually good and the graphics where blinding at times where pretty decent for the sequels. I should someday do a marathon and watch all 13 movies soon.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Dr. Curzon on December 26, 2011, 11:27:10 PM
After 10 Minutes of thinking...

Well, it all started when I was about 4, and I was staying in my relatives' house. I was eating dinner in the kitchen, and there just so happens to be a TV there. Since the TV is always showing random channels, it was by luck that the channel I was watching was showing the original Land Before Time. I really liked it, and pretty much watched most of it. but that was a long time ago, and I started to forget about LBT. But I remembered one scene that stayed in my mind for many years to come. It was the scene where Littlefoot got the treestar from his mother.

A few years later, my mom bought me a CD with children's songs. I listened to all of them, but the one I loved was the first one, which was If We Hold On Together. For the next years of my life, this would've been my fave song, which I would enjoy laying on my piano.

And just recently, I "rediscovered" LBT. I liked TLK at that time, so it seemed that one thing led to another. I was listening to a TLK song when I saw an LBT song and I liked it. I wondered where it came from. I heard the name Littlefoot, and it rang a bell. Then I knew it was what I watched many years ago.

So I got hooked, and started doing LBT stuff. Listening to songs, reading fanfics, and watching the 13 films my mom got for me. And so a month after rediscovery, I found the GOF (which I could've done sooner if I was more curious) and After another month, well... Here I am.

              The end! (finally!) :smile
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: PanickyPetrie14 on January 03, 2012, 03:33:37 PM
When I was a kid (I don't remember what age am I at that time) I happened to came across the first movie, but as far as what I can remember... I only catched up the last part (when they discovered the Great Valley) and then the credits, the song "If we hold on together" just clung to my mind at that time, because my parents used to play that song. I even sang it at that time. But, as far as I know, I wasn't still quite a fan of LBT back then, I just happened to came across the movie while switching channels. (I actually don't know what channel was that, I can't remember) At that time during the credits were rolling and the song "If We Hold On Together" was playing, I said to my parents "Hey Mom! Dad! It's If We Hold on together, the one you used to play!" They actually went in front of the television and they heard the song. At that time, I remembered the characters (Littlefoot, Cera, Petrie, Ducky and Spike)

After some years, I went into a bookstore just to check some books, then I came across this book about Dinosaurs and something triggered into my mind, but I can't remember what was it at that time. After one year, I used to hear that song more often now, since my dad has this mp3 disc that has that song and he plays it in his car, I often heard it there everytime we went to Manila. But I just said "Hmm... this song kinda reminds me of something..." But then, I didn't know what was that.

Then it came, 2011, around the month of April. I already have the song in my computer, and one time I played it, and then it came... it triggered something in my mind, and I remember what was it, since I recalled the past at that time, I said "That's it! Land Before Time! That's where I've heard this song! It was on the credits if I am not mistaken" Then I searched through the internet for Land Before Time, first I searched in youtube, I watched some clips there, and while I was  watching it, it made me bring back the memories when I was a kid. After that, I suddenly had the urge to be a LBT fan. I searched for pictures and that's when I bumped through Sky's artworks.

May 2011, I researched more and more about LBT and then I tried searching for forums that were still active, from the first search results, the forums were already dead, then I bumped into this site and I tried to look for posts which were just recent, and I found those posts.

May 23, 2011, I suddenly had the urge to join this forum and be one of the LBT fans around the world, that's where I became a member here. :)

June 2011, I looked for links to download 13 LBT movies and I found them in a torrent, I downloaded them one-by-one and trust me, it ain't that easy, since there weren't enough seeders or leechers to make the download fast, it took me weeks to download all 13 movies, plus I also downloaded the sing-along videos.

And until now, I'm still a big LBT fan and I'm really proud of it. :DD
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: zupahome on July 24, 2012, 09:50:20 PM
To be honest I'm just a fan of LBT since one year. You see I only have watched the second movie once when i was like  4 or 5 which made me bareley remember anything of it (sadly). I was a massive fan of dinosaurs until i was 8 so I loved the movie back then . later on when i grew older and became seperated from dinosaurs i forgot anything about it...anything except a big blur of 5 dinosaurs living in a valley... I still blame myself of forgetting anything about those five but back then the programming of cartoon network and other child channels in The Netherlands were getting all my attention.

Suddenly carttoon network was canceled on the tv as well as one more which left me only one channel left to see... and it's programming sucked so i was looking for something else to spend my time exept playing outside and making things out of lego's with my friends. I was 9 then and we got soemthing new into our house... a computer. That thing .... that thing was amazing i played games for kids from over 12 quake 2, need for speed, croc and a  dinosaur game Turok
Playing turok made me remember me how much i used to love dinosurs and... a... wait... something about.... uuuh... a big valley bur thing...... damn...
So it began that i wanted to now what that blur thing was again, i soon realised it was a movie so i looked into our VHS collection, wedding movies and disney movies.... that didn't helped... so I soon quit searching. Still that image of the valley blur got though my head... I was like "What was that? what was that thing i just cant get together? ". I got really annoyed of it, i wanted to know what that image i remembered came from. We got internet pretty soon on that computer so back then with my dial internet i searched  and searched but i couldn't find it... i wasn't that good with google back then . So at the age of 12 i stopped searching thinking to never been able to know what that image i remembered came from. Out of frustration I dropped dinosaurs again (why you moron).

Anyway now i'am 21 (nearly 22  :lol  ) and i was just surfing on the web downloading some cartoons from my childhood. I found everything... and then that flash of that valley blur came back. When that flash came i went to google and started the search again i had 13 years ago, but the results never revealed the answer. I guess that blur of tfive dinosaurs in a valley wasnt really helpful until one day I got to ... well e621.net to find avain pictures ( was fan of birds just one year ago... but i had a feeling it just wasn't my thing so i was open to something new ). The result returned a picture of what seemd like a pterodactly (petrie ofcourse). I just took one look at the picture and I really liked the style... so I looked who the artist was.. didn't budge but the tags where pretty interresting: avain, pterodactly and Land before time.. what is LBT i thought, never heard of that, soon enough i got on pirate bay downloaded the first movie and started watching.. Really I did know what cam over me.... so much emotions, I loved it! Soon enough i downloaded the rest of the series and began watching the second and.... out of nowhere i remembered what that blur was.. it was The land before time. Still i wasnt completeley sure since when i remembered the blur i only remembered a title: Platvoet en zijn vriendjes... which was is the dutch title of LBT which google gave me as a answer.

So now I'am a fan just out of my endless search for 'a blur of a movie' and ofocurse my perversity of adult art  :oops
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: StrutEggStealer on July 30, 2012, 04:04:01 PM
Well, I've always been a huge dino fan. I was born like four years after the first one came out, so basically two years before Great Valley Adventure came out ;) which is my favorite besides LBT 7.
I don't remember how I got into LBT, it seems like I've always been watching it. (I have the VHS' of 1 - 8, minus 4) So I suppose older siblings had something to do with that ;)
I lost touch with it a few years ago but recently was thrust back into my childhood thanks to a nostalgic feeling I had not two months ago. "I feel like watching LBT 7 again!" XD I'm random like that. And then BOOM!! I was back!
It's been a nice part of my childhood, indeed, I remember pretending I was a dinosaur at age five and thinking: "These plants look tasty..." thanks goodness i didn't swallow :p yuck
And I love the songs, too. They're catchy and fun and I still find myself humming them during the day. I like the lessons the movies teach, as well as the TV series. I think it's awesome that LBT was carried on with a fresh start and new characters :)
About the only think I didn't, stil don't, like in the movies is that the adults barely do anything.... except for Grandpa Longneck, he's the best^^
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Fyn16 on August 08, 2012, 02:30:54 AM
I got into LBT at somewhere around age six. I'd never heard of it until then, and probably never would have if my mom hadn't seen it in the rental store and picked it up for me while I was sick. Watching it was pretty darn intense for me when I was a little guy. The death of Littlefoot's mother hit me pretty hard. However, I loved the movie and started watching the sequels like crazy. Like StrutEggStealer said, my favorite game was pretending I was a dinosaur, and I was always either Littlefoot or Chomper. I'd romp around the back yard, exploring the "Great Valley." Fun times. Eventually, I lost interest, but when my little brother was born and of the age when he could understand movies, I dug through my family's old VHS collection and found the original Land Before Time. He enjoyed it, and I watched it with him. Seeing it again reminded me of just how much of a well thought out and inspiring story it was. To that end, I started doing additional research into LBT, eventually going as far as to make an OC (Fyn, an Amargasaurus). After that, I figured it was my turn to contribute to the LBT community, so I started writing fanfiction, which I do to this day. It never gets old.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Daddytops2009 on August 08, 2012, 04:20:10 AM
I been a fan since the 1990s, but I haven't seen any LBT for years.

Back then I was buying the videos, and used to write LBT fics on Fanfiction.net and the forum by Malte.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: EggStealerGirl on August 09, 2012, 01:59:24 AM
My older brother and I absolutely LOVED watching the first one when we were younger; besides Toy Story, this one happened to be another one of our favs growing up! We never saw it in theaters, but we rented it all the time!

Heck, I think we have the VHS of it lying around somewhere!

Knowing how much we enjoyed the first one, the mother didn't hesitate to buy us II, III, and IV! :DD

The second one actually came out the year after I was born, and it continues to be the one LBT sequel that I have the fondest memories of.

So in a way, I was exposed to this film at a fairly early age in my life, and I'm rather surprised on how nothing seemed to scare me about the movie! :blink:

If you really must know what got me back into the series, it was Ozzy and Strut! :lol  I still had faint memories of them as a kid, which led me to stumbling across their song on Youtube one day, and things just kicked off from there...

I also remember on how Cartoon Network used to show the Land Before Time IIV, but I sadly never watched it all the way through. :cry

Looking back at it now, it's become another favorite LBT sequel of mine! :D
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Ghostfishe on August 16, 2012, 02:38:44 PM
I was only born toward the very end of the 80's, so I was way too young to see the movie when it was still "new". I first saw it at a babysitter's house when I was for or five, because she had a copy of the tape. It was actually one of the first things I ever saw that had dinosaurs in it... so in a way it was part of my introduction to the whole concept. :)

That having been said, it was also probably the first thing I ever watched in which a character's mother actually died. I was horrified. When my parents showed up right at the most dramatic part (Littlefoot's mother's death), they said "no way" when I said I wanted to keep watching and whisked me home. It was a few years before I had the chance to watch the rest of it and find out what happened. Given that I'd ended up having nightmares, was somewhat paranoid for a while, etc. etc., I can't say I blame them!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: The Anonymous Person on October 06, 2012, 07:08:15 PM
How do I put this?

For most of my sacred life, I had never really been into The Land Before Time series.

Every so often, I would come around a Land Before Time movie, but I usually wouldn't tune into it. I do have faint memories of seeing "TLBT III: The Time of the Great Giving" back in elementary school, around 3rd or 4th grade. Until now, the only thing I remembered from that movie were the song "When You're Big", which got stuck in my head for a while, and the scene where Hyp nearly drowned at the tar pit.

Around that time, I bought the anniversary edition of the original movie on VHS, but of course, it remained discarded in my collection of VHS tapes.

I remained uninterested in the series until one day, about a few months ago, I decided to watch one of my movies to get off my computer that I was on all the time for once. Being the random person I am, I pick the original LBT, which was still in my collection and had remained unwatched.

So I watch the movie, feeling rather average about it during the first 20 minutes (And no, I didn't cry when Littlefoot's mother died. I'm not that kind of person). But then when Petrie showed up, I was suddenly really interested. Overall, I watched the movie start to finish (including the song "If We Hold on Together" at the credits). By the end of the film, Petrie had become my favorite character from that movie, because hey, he's another one of those comic reliefs you can't help but love.

After that, I began to listen to the sequel songs, look up fanfiction, and eventually I ended up finding these forms. On my birthday, I went to a record store as my surprise place and bought "TLBT IV: Journey Through the Mists" and "An American Tail" on VHS. I obviously watched both of those, and not surprisingly, "AAT" was a really good movie, while TLBT IV was...decently average. Is it obvious that the original movie was better than anything else, even though I haven't seen 'em all?

Anyways, two months after that, here I am! Great to be on this forum with other LBT fans around the world! Later!
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Bruton the Iguanodon on November 26, 2012, 08:14:39 PM
Just saw this quote:

Quote
I don't care what anyone says. I'll be 22 years old in July and still love LBT just the same. It's part of who I am and if folks have a prob regarding it I don't give a darn!

I love it when people have a positive attitude and won't let themselves be bothered by other people's opionions!  :exactly   You go, Cancerian Tiger!  ;)
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: RainbowGirl 39 on December 28, 2012, 06:31:44 PM
I think I saw the first one when I was like 5 or something but never saw the rest of the land before time movies but now I've have and I really like them my younger sisters
Kara 10 and Tarah 12 they are always say everybodys ugly people and they said Littlefoot was so ugly and all the other dinosaurs Kara says she hates Littlefoot because he thinks hes so cute and said Petrie and Ducky were braggers because Duckys always bragging about swimming and petries always bragging about flying
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: jalistair on April 05, 2013, 07:24:15 PM
My LBT story begins before I was born. Picture it, it's the mid 1990's, Jurassic Park had not long come out in theaters and the dinosaur craze was at it's peak. My brother was a kid in these days, he (like all young boys at the time) went nuts for dinosaurs. He worshiped them. So when I was born, I was born into this craze. My brother never stopped his obsession with dinosaurs, so by the time I was a toddler, I'd already seen The Land Before Time (And 2, 3, 4 and 5  :DD ) and Jurassic Park and all the others. So when something is with you that early on in childhood, it sticks with you, It will never go away. I went for a few years without seeing any of them (my rebellious tween years, we all go through it folks), but like most people, I remembered the nostalgia and wonder I got through watching the film and I revisited it. So that's my introduction to TLBT, It sure seems like a long time ago now.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Hexadecimal on June 20, 2013, 09:31:13 PM
My mother had bought it for me and I remember crying my eyes out after Little Foot's mom died but I still really liked the film. I've always had more boyish interests so you can bet that I really dug this movie, but hated Cera with a passion xD

What's funny though is that the Sharptooth never scared me at all; it was when they disguised themselves in the tar that almost made me stop watching as it absolutely horrified me as I didn't realize it wasn't a horrible monster.

I know I watched the sequels but they never lived up to the first movie and may be the reason why I sold the original along with those when I was older.

Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Dalekdino on April 17, 2014, 12:22:40 PM
My mum always knew I was a real dinosaur nut, so she rented the first film for me when I was 4 and I loved it right away. (even if I did finds some scenes upsetting, scary and awkward) I also remember just calling the film "Littlefoot" as I wasn't good at remember the names of films back then. You know in Japan the film is called Littlefoot. I also remember getting the film on VHS for my 5th birthday and was very happy about that:) And when I heard there were more LBT films I was overjoyed:)
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: The Ferbguy on November 18, 2014, 08:07:36 PM
I first heard about The Land Before Time movies when I was young. I manly saw VHS trailers for two movies, The Time of the Great Giving and the Big Freeze. I never watched them despite me being into Jurassic Park.

Jump to 2011, April of 2011 to be more precise. I was going through Netflix on my grandmother's service finding movies to watch when ever I came back, Back then they had Starz Play and their we're some movies that they had that I sent to the "Watch Later" file. I already got dinner prepared for myself and was going to find a movie to watch. I browsed through "Watch Later" and saw that The Land Before Time was one of the movies that was on Netflix from Starz Play.

I thought for a few seconds and decided to watch and see why people liked the movie, so I watched to whole movie then I stopped the move and said, "Well. That was.. spectacular. I mean, the animation, the score, the story and the characters. This film is worth owing on VHS." I over the years I've owned 5 copies of the first movie, 4 on VHS and 1 on DVD.

After that, for some random reason, I decided to watch the first movie every November 18th of every year.

I've gone as far as to say that The Land Before Time is one of my all time favorite movies.

I sort of explained why I like the first movie in my marathon I did last year.  :D
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: bestariana1girl on November 20, 2014, 10:09:21 AM
My older brother loved TLBT and had lots of VHS, I loved dinosaurs; so when I was little I picked the first one up and watched it. From then until Universal Studios was done with TLBT I collected every TLBT VHS or DVD possible. I still love the series today.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Littlefoot fan 1990 on November 20, 2014, 11:23:47 PM
I have loved the Land Before Time series since I was about six. I got movies 3 and 4 recorded on a video tape from tv. Then, not long after the 5th movie came out on video, I got it along with movies 1-4. The 5th movie was the one I watched so much that I thought the tape was going to break. Ever since then, I got one Land Before Time movie a year up until the 10th movie. Then, I bought movies 11-13.

So sad that the Land Before Time series has ended; but, it still lives on in fanfiction and fanart.

Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: LittlefootAndAliTogether on December 31, 2014, 05:48:59 PM
Quote from: Bruton the Iguanodon,Nov 26 2012 on  07:14 PM
Just saw this quote:

Quote
I don't care what anyone says. I'll be 22 years old in July and still love LBT just the same. It's part of who I am and if folks have a prob regarding it I don't give a darn!

I love it when people have a positive attitude and won't let themselves be bothered by other people's opionions!  :exactly   You go, Cancerian Tiger!  ;)
Exactly.  Maybe I should let my father know.  I always feared he'd tease me.  On the other hand, though he'd be upset with me watching "kiddie" shows, I think he'd be madder if I watched South Park or whatnot instead and maybe I should point that out to him.   :idea

P.S., I'll be 26 in April and I really don't give a Threehorn's toot either if people think I'm nuts.

Also, the series is set to have another film in 2016.   :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: bestariana1girl on December 31, 2014, 05:55:16 PM
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Also, the series is set to have another film in 2016.   :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate  :celebrate

How can that be? The offices closed. Where did you find out this information?
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: LittlefootAndAliTogether on December 31, 2014, 06:16:59 PM
Quote from: bestariana1girl,Dec 31 2014 on  04:55 PM
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Also, the series is set to have another film in 2016.   :celebrate :celebrate :celebrate :celebrate :celebrate :celebrate :celebrate :celebrate

How can that be? The offices closed. Where did you find out this information?
The Gang of Five forum itself.  They mentioned that Universal confirmed it.  Perhaps they gave the copyright to someone else.  

Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Ducky123 on December 31, 2014, 08:40:23 PM
Quote
How can that be? The offices closed. Where did you find out this information?
http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...post&p=22072547 (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=5912&view=findpost&p=22072547)
http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...showtopic=13959 (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=13601)
Here you go :) Who would've expected that after all this time? :p
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: LittlefootAndAliTogether on January 01, 2015, 01:02:54 AM
Quote from: Ducky123,Dec 31 2014 on  07:40 PM
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How can that be? The offices closed. Where did you find out this information?
http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...post&p=22072547 (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=5912&view=findpost&p=22072547)
http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...showtopic=13959 (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=13601)
Here you go :) Who would've expected that after all this time? :p
Who would have expected a Star Wars Episode VII?  This world always surprises us!  


 :smile


Someday I hope they actually have one LBT in theaters again.  Perhaps the series finale (which I'd like to be multi-part of a flash forward, a coming of age story for the Prehistoric Pals.)  

Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Chloe on July 08, 2015, 10:32:19 AM
My whole story of how I became a Land Before Time fan is pretty long, so I'll just go with how I saw the 1988 one.

My great-grandmother had a few VHS tapes and one of them was The Land Before Time! Every time I went to see her I would always want to watch it. Eventually, my great-grandmother became old, she sadly then passed away in 2008. I was really young when I first saw that movie, though. I think it was around the early 2000's when I first saw it, though. I just adored that movie, and I loved Ducky.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Dr. Rex on August 06, 2015, 06:23:03 PM
Well, I was born during the 1990s, when "Jurassic Park" was the big dinosaur fad and they started dishing out the LBT sequels. As a result, I never had the honor of seeing the first movie in a theater. Instead, I just got into the sequel craze.

The first LBT movie I watched was LBT 3. I don't know why, but I just picked it out from the video shelf in my local library and watched it. I was hooked in an instant, and then I watched the other movies the library had in its stock at the time. Then, I started buying them whenever I could. At the time, I just couldn't get enough of the adventures Littlefoot, Cera, Petrie, Ducky, and Spike went on.

I actually still remember the chronological order of me first watching these movies:

-LBT 3 (ironically the only LBT movie as of now that I still don't have in my possession)
-LBT 2
-The original LBT (at last)
-LBT 5
-LBT 4
-LBT 6
-LBT 8
-LBT 7
-LBT 9
-LBT 10
-LBT 11
-LBT 12
-LBT 13

The last five are in correct numeral order because I believe I managed to catch up to watching all of the movies released by the time LBT 8 or 9 was out.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: G-bot on April 05, 2016, 05:42:04 PM
Well, let me see. I can't remember how old I was, but at the time my adult half sister used to babysit me and one day she bought over her copy of LBT on VHS. I enjoyed it immensely! It was also my first exposure to dinosaurs. (At least I'm 99% sure it was) My parents recorded LBT for me a couple times when it aired on TV but they broke after countless rewatches. :( a few years later me and my brother were watching TV when I saw something I never expected to see. A commercial for LBT II :D Needless to say we were both excited. And ididn't take long for mum to get it for us. I quite enjoyed it as well. (Though the musical numbers caught me off guard. XD But being a Disney fan also I soon got used to them.)

I also heard that III was coming out. Then IV, then V! :o I kinda stopped for awhile after VI though. There was just getting to be too many by that point. lol Also I had gotten into Pokemon around that time. So that commanded total attention for a bit. Then my brother found LBT1 airing on TV around Easter time and childhood memories resurfaced! I heard that LBT also recently got it's fourteenth sequel after nine years of dormancy so I guess what better time to look into the series again? ^^
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Coyote_A on April 07, 2016, 01:56:38 AM
Watching the original LBT movie is actually one of my earliest memories. I was only about 3 years old when I first seen it.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Dracorider19 on March 31, 2017, 08:59:47 PM
I remember first seeing LBT as early as age 5 or 6, but I don't remember seeing most of it, though the scene I remember most was Littlefoot hatching and sleeping on his mom's back.  When I attended kindergarten through the 1st grade, my teacher would sometimes play some of the sequels for the class. I distinctly remember the 4th movie with Ali meeting Littlefoot.

Then just before I entered middle school (around age 9 or 10) I seemed to have almost forgotten about LBT; the original film and sequels faded from my mind. Then at the age of 14 (in 2008), I rediscovered the first LBT at my grandma's beach house  in
Galveston, TX. My family had left except for me to go on some two-hour outing.  I decided to watch a film while I was alone, and I found a VHS for LBT. Curious, I decided to watch it. And let me tell you, it was one of the most memorable experiences in my life. I rediscovered something that I realized was my childhood icon, and the music, story, and characters moved me. The end credits song was incredibly beautiful. I went back to LBT again in the summer of 2014, as I mentioned in another reply,
and then after viewing a piece of fanart, I clicked the link and found myself here
on this wonderful forum.
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Rustam on May 31, 2017, 05:46:26 AM
Beginning at the age of nine, I began to get seriously involved with LBT. By that time, they created only three parts of the cartoon, but for me it was like "as many as three parts!" :DD In my hobby, I bought videotapes with the same parts of the cartoon in the hope that there would be just another dubbing. Videotapes in the early-90's were a rare and expensive treat, so you can imagine a child who, instead of buying a new cartoon, took what he had already seen. It was a serious sacrifice in favor of my passion. The covers on my tapes were exactly the same as in the photo below, only the inscriptions were in Russian.

(http://domiktoriel.myjino.ru/uploads/2017/03/videotapes-600x600.jpg) (http://domiktoriel.myjino.ru/uploads/2017/03/videotapes.jpg)

I had videotapes with "like an official translation", videotapes with the translation of our Central Channel, when they undertook to broadcast these cartoons (I recorded them on a VHS), as well as videotapes with single-voice amateur translation. How many different names have received Littlefoot in different versions of the translation! Crumbs-Feet, Little Leg, Melkonog. :lol:  Then I took these videotapes, turned them on, and brought the audiotape recodrer to the TV when the characters were beginning to sing. So I created a collection of different songs on the audiotapes. I listened to these songs quietly, so that my neighbors would not hear them and did not think that I was a too childish, if I was addicted to such children's songs. :oops
But there were no toys with Littlefoot and the gang. And there were no books with pictures, and in general, there was nothing but the cartoon. But there was something else: my dreams of the Great Valley and the belief that in the future I necessarily I will get there. And that I, perhaps, even become my favorite hero - Littlefoot. It can be said that the LBT was also for me a religion, a place where one can hope to get to avoid cruel reality. :angel
The Great Valley, I later found it - it was closer than it seems - in my memories of childhood. :) True, by the time I was already an adult, but better late than never. But Littlefoot and remained my idol, even despite the fact that it took many years. Subsequently, I was often asked "Rustam, what's your fursona?", To which I replied "I do not have it, I do not associate myself with any furry-character." But now I can say with confidence: my fursona is a little dinosaur! After all, I carried the feeling of unity with Littlefoot through the years and did not lose faith in him. :yes
I can say about Littlefoot: he always did the right thing. And did not hesitate to show weakness. And everyone loved him. For this I liked him. For something that I did not have myself. Other characters from the cartoon I also liked. On the second place in the list of my favorites was Strut - an egg-stealer, who suddenly decided to become a vegetarian. It seems to me that there are many positive qualities hidden in it, and if he succeeds, he could even become friends with the Littlefoot company, and stay in the Great Valley.
But my friends did not support my enthusiasm and mocked the "too childish cartoon". So I had to fan myself.
One of my favorite songs from the LBT it is Kids Like Us.  In this part of movie, Littlefoot surprised me when he went to save the bullies, who always verbally attacked him.
"He's so compassionate!" I thought. I certainly would not have had the heart to do such a good deed in relation to the guys, from whom I received only pokes and tricks. So my idol Littlefoot outstripped me and in part of kindness too. :)
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Coyote_A on June 01, 2017, 06:38:11 PM
Quote from: Rustam,May 31 2017 on  01:46 PM
I had videotapes with "like an official translation", videotapes with the translation of our Central Channel, when they undertook to broadcast these cartoons (I recorded them on a VHS), as well as videotapes with single-voice amateur translation.
Lucky you. All I had were the latter ones until pretty late in the 90s when I watched LBT IV with a professional dub on TV and recorded that. Before that all I had were the original movie, LBT II and LBT V where all the voice were done by one guy. :lol:
Title: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: ADFan185 on June 02, 2017, 06:01:14 AM
I rented all of the VHS Tapes back in the 90s and watched them and I enjoyed them even tho they where not that good but I still liked watching them.
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Metro717 on June 29, 2018, 06:14:25 AM
I was VERY young when i first saw the Land Before Time (the first one, to be precise). Before rewatching it a week ago i only had a very vague memory of what was the movie like. The only thing i remembered for sure are the gang of five (but mostly Cera and Spike for some reason) and the earthshake scene. Of course i stumbled open the famous "Littlefoot mother's death" scene once in a while, and despite being one of the most emotional scene i don't seem to remember it from my childhood.
And when i remember watching LBT back then was still the early days of DVDs and we had it on VHS. (which i'm willing to guess isn't even a legit, bought one)

Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: DiddyKF1 on October 02, 2018, 11:54:42 PM
Well, ... here it goes ...

I was born in 1992, so I obviously would not have been around to see the first movie when it came out.

So, in 1998, I was five years old, and I had this fascination with dinosaurs. My mother and my kindergarten teacher took such great notice of it, and eventually, my mom rented a VHS of the original Land Before Time. I had wanted to see a dinosaur movie, and I had never had that chance (I wouldn't see Jurassic Park until some years later, so I missed out on quite a lot back then... :(petrie).

The very first time I watched it, I felt speechless. I wasn't just fascinated by the fact that it was a dinosaur movie, but it became the first movie ever to pull on my heartstrings (maybe because of my Asperger Syndrome making it difficult for me to understand emotional movies until I watched LBT). I had never shed a tear while watching a movie until I watched Littlefoot's mother die, and again when he mistook his own shadow for that of his mother's.  :cry I watched the movie as many times as I could until we had to return the tape back, and while we were in the video store, I noticed some tapes of the sequels that were around at the time (II-VI), so I asked my mom if we could rent those, too, and she told me we could only rent one at a time, to which I reluctantly agreed. So, we left the store that day with a rented copy of The Great Valley Adventure.

Over the next few months, I greatly enjoyed watching the first six movies (although, my view of The Secret of Saurus Rock has obviously changed since then). They became my childhood favorites, but I have great regret in having never owned a copy of any of them.  :(petrie

That was until 2002, where we, by random chance, happen to buy a copy of the latest sequel at the time, The Big Freeze. It wasn't until sometime later where I saw parts of The Stone of Cold Fire on TV. However, by the end of that year, my love for The Land Before Time had apparently started to dwindle. We had stopped renting (or buying, in one case) tapes, and never once did we get a DVD of any of them, and my dinosaur movie interest had shifted over to Jurassic Park.

By 2003, after I had taken a small glimpse of The Great Longneck Migration on TV, my interests had taken a completely different turn, and my love for The Land Before Time had seemingly died completely. I distanced myself from LBT for the next 13 years, believing myself to have grown out of it. It was during this 13-year hiatus when I discovered the disturbing story of Ducky's original voice actress, Judith Barsi. However, it wouldn't be until 2016, by which time I was 23, when things would finally change ...

Believe it or not, how I rekindled my love for the series was NOT by watching the first movie again, or the sequels, or even finding out at some point that it had a TV series... Instead, it was fanfiction that brought me back...

In 2013, I became a fanfiction author, and for a few years, I focused mainly on the Donkey Kong Country and Sonic the Hedgehog fandoms, but one day in 2016, curiosity simply got the best of me, and I thought I'd, just for a moment, browse the Land Before Time fandom. That was when I found ... The Swimmer Trials by The Lone Dragon. I quickly found the story so interesting. The idea of Ducky being chosen to do something that no Swimmers are known to have survived was so intriguing that I couldn't take my eyes off my laptop's screen until I got to the end of what was the most recent chapter at the time I discovered it. I then read a few more stories on the fandom, and that was when I found myself looking back at the old memories of watching movies of those lovable characters. In that respect, I owe The Lone Dragon my thanks for bringing me back and rekindling my love for The Land Before Time which I thought I had outgrown. Thanks to you, I realized that I could never outgrow any of my childhood favorites!

In 2017, I started watching the TV series on YouTube, and soon after, I finally started writing my own LBT stories on FanFiction. The first one was simply a ridiculous movie parody which I wonder why I even wrote, but the one after that, "Secret Love," a Ducky x Petrie romance story, became my fanfiction highlight of 2017, even though it clearly shows signs of the fact that I spent years away from the series.  :lol Although "Secret Love" gained good reception on FF.net, I now have an ambition to write an improved version of that story for this forum next year!

Finally, this year, through my connections with the LBT fandom on FF.net, I discovered this wonderful forum where I could talk about LBT without the fear of being looked down upon or shammed just for talking about movies which we are believed should have outgrown, which I believe is absolutely ridiculous. I am happy to have rediscovered my passion for the Land Before Time series, and to have never lost my childhood enthusiasm for dinosaurs, even though I have NO intention of becoming a paleontologist.

I also now have all 14 movies and all 26 TV episodes on my computer, after I tried a couple of other methods of watching the series in secret without my family finding out. I've left them sitting in my videos folder for a few months now, but I hope to, at some point, marathon the entire series so that I can really understand the dinosaur world I've wanted to visit again since my childhood VHS days, and also to see what I've missed out on during my long absence from the series. I've only seen bits and pieces of each movie I didn't watch during my long hiatus, but not enough to fully understand the movies or give a proper review on them. Perhaps, after I've watched the whole series, it will give me a better idea on how to write my planned new version of "Secret Love." Surprisingly, my youngest brother, who is 17 and knows nothing whatsoever about LBT, recently bought me a VHS copy of the first movie, along with "All Dogs Go to Heaven," but we have not yet watched either of them.

So, yeah, that's pretty much my Land Before Time story. I might have had the strangest of all comebacks, but I'm glad it happened nonetheless, and I'm proud to be a LBT fan again as I once was when I was a little boy.  :)
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Littlefoot505 on October 05, 2018, 10:09:59 AM
Well, here's mine:

I was born in 1998, so I'm a full decade removed from having been able to see it in the theaters. When I was a kid, I really loved dinosaurs (and I still do, actually). and I really wanted to see Jurassic Park, but my mother didn't feel that it was very age-appropriate (I was around 5 or 6 at the time, and I was sheltered from a lot of the more intense movies out there), and told me that there was another dinosaur movie that might be a little bit more age-appropriate called The Land Before Time, then we rented it from Netflix DVDs (back when that was a thing). I saw it and I really loved it, then we rented some of the sequels, and I saw up to LBT 6 before my interest in LBT subsided. I did stumble upon an LBT 4 DVD a few years ago, but sadly, I think I got rid of it not knowing I would get back into LBT :(petrie .

Fast forward to 2017: I'm browsing Netflix, and I stumble upon LBT 14. Reading the synopsis, I see that there was quite a bit that I missed (like Littlefoot having a father, and there being eight movies I hadn't seen), and that inspired me to get back into LBT. A little bit later in the year, as I'm getting ready to start my first year of college, I started binge-watching the movies, and the interest in LBT was back, and is likely here to stay forever. One little random note: I watched Great Longneck Migration for the very first time the day after the solar eclipse last August, not knowing that it was about all the longnecks going to a solar eclipse.

For the majority of the time I was binging LBT, I hadn't told anyone, and would've died from embarrassment had anyone found out, until I admitted to it on a camping trip I did as part of my college orientation, then I started being more outspoken about my love of LBT, and in fact, after I returned from that trip, I was watching the original and LBT 2 (even though I think the next movie in line at the time was LBT 11 or 12 :p ) in the lobby of my dorm building, when someone came up, started watching with me, and we quickly became best friends over our mutual love of LBT. I forget exactly when I started watching the TV series in relation to the movies, but I remember watching it on Kisscartoon for a little bit before I found out that it was on YouTube.

When I was almost done with my LBT binge, I started looking for LBT fan sites, and I joined every semi-active one I could find, (including GOF, obviously :p ), although the only ones I've ever really been active on are GOF, TheLandBeforeTime.org, and the LBT wiki.
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: LeventeII on November 18, 2018, 05:06:18 PM
For this year's anniversary I would like to take the opportunity to tell my complete story about The Land Before Time.

The Land Before Time... I have often wondered whether it has influenced me since childhood.
I didn't have a real "first time" with LBT. It was just one of many movies that kids get to see. When I was still in kindergarten, my father brought me some movies that my cousin didn't need anymore. He is many years older than me. These movies were no longer useful for him. Among these movies were:
-LBT 1
-LBT 2
-LBT 3
-LBT 4
-LBT 6
I don't think I saw them in the right order, at least I couldn't count at that time, especially not read.

I saw only a few other Sequels on TV, including Sequel 9 and 10. I didn't know anything about the others at that moment.
LBT made sure that I got a love for dinosaurs. When I was allowed to choose a school bag for primary school, I immediately chose the one with the dinosaurs on it. In addition there were pencil cases and gym bags. I still use the pencil case since then.

At that time, I was pretty good at Jump'n'Runs, mainly Super Mario. I especially liked Yoshi, who quickly became my favorite character. And why? Because he was a dinosaur. He was the reason I didn't lose interest in Jump'n'Runs. I would even say that I was the best in my class.

At the same time, I started writing stories. Very short, but... creative ones. My first story was about Mario meeting Yoshi in a stable. It was short, but my teacher praised me for it.

In the 3rd grade something small happened, but it is still bothering me today.
In fact, I was glad when I found out that we would be talking about dinosaurs for the next few weeks. Finally I could prove my knowledge!
We were split into groups. My group had the task of writing down the reason why the dinosaurs disappeared.

I explained and wrote down that a giant Meteorite and its consequences was causing it. I am still convinced of this today. However, the others of the group saw this thing differently. "It was a gigantic volcano! Together with earthquakes! Nothing survived!"
I will never forget these phrases. One of the group then took my note and tore it apart. A luck that I don't know anything more about this person today...
So, if since this „trauma“ somehow the topic "death of the dinosaurs" is discussed, whether in conversation, on television or elsewhere, my mood sinks, unintentionally.

This caused a small minus point for my interest in dinosaurs, but not for LBT. On the contrary. My father bought me the remaining LBT cassettes up to Sequel 10. At first I knew nothing about 11 and 12. But 13 was different. I soon saw The Wisdom of Friends on television and, in fact, I was more than impressed! I realized that there are more LBT movies than 10.
And the yellow bellies? Well, I've been in The Gang of Five for 11 months now. It's time to solve my secret at this point... As already mentioned I loved Yoshi more than anything. And the yellow bellies, they reminded me of him. I don't know why. I found them great. Their jokes or even their silly way didn't bother me, after all I was only 10 years old. Back then I was only concerned with the fact that LBT had dinosaurs and something was happening. For this reason, the Sequel that bored me the most back then was actually Sequel 7. It was too much talk for me.

Soon I got LBT 11. As DVD! Something different... What was also special about it was the fact that it was not in German language, like every VHS of LBT I had until then, but in Hungarian! That's my mother tongue, so it wasn't really hard to understand. Nevertheless, my German is much better.

After the 4th grade came the secondary school. In the meantime the dinosaurs and reptiles have moved into the background. The interest disappeared. It even went so far that when someone said "dinosaurs" I thought about Jurassic Park than about LBT. It's not as if I felt it was too childish and therefore no longer concerned with it. Rather, I just forgot it. In the same way I forgot other interest at that time. What remained was the computer and Jump'n'Runs. And of course Yoshi.

My interests were pretty lonely. Everyone else in the new class was playing shooters, disliking strategy games, and unwilling to learn. So they were the opposite of me. That made me an outsider.

I've changed a lot since then. Old interests disappeared and new ones appeared. Including history that had a very strong influence on me.

At the end of 8th grade I wanted to see the Jurassic Park series. Simply because almost everyone I knew had already seen it. I was quite skeptical about Jurassic Park, probably because of Antimainstream. However, I didn't have time to watch them.

A year ago, I was busy every day with history. For my knowledge of history, I am known in the entire class. At that time I was in the 9th grade.  I know a lot about the first half of the 20th century. So I was glad when we discussed this as a topic in history.  About 80% of the class was bored, while only a few were present. For many I am only such a history nerd without hobbies. Some even wrongly describe me as a person without dreams.

And then came the day... On which the course of my life, at least inside, but also outside changed significantly. Unfortunately I don't know the day any more, which I find very sad. I guess it was December 7th. It was the last lesson of the day, physics. Our teacher told something about isotopes. For me it was nothing new, I already knew this topic. The teacher went to a website where one could play around with protons and neutrons. With it one could build different isotopes and see their status.

And miraculously, Pterano came into my head, and with it LBT. I thought nothing big about it. Arriving home, I did my daily routine. In the evening I packed my bag for the next day and talked a little to my sister. Then I remembered that I wanted to google something! So I went on the internet, went to Wikipedia, and read the article about LBT. At first I thought it was funny that I informed myself about it. When I read about the latest sequel, I laughed about the name together with my sister. I mean, the German translation is "The Journey of the Brave Dinosaur Friends."
I laughed, quite strongly even. But somehow... there was something else than mockery. I couldn't get LBT out of my mind anymore. Over the next few days I informed myself more and more about LBT. I read the Wikipedia article about 10 times in the next week.
That about 10 minutes were deleted from the movie, was worth knowing, but not meaningful to me. I pretty much ignored them.

On the weekend, I decided to watch all the sequels I had. From 1 to 11. After the first two sequels I felt strange. It's a feeling I can't describe until today. I can feel this feeling in my fingers and all over my body. And then a feeling of sadness comes up.
On the last day of school in 2017 my friend gave me a DVD of LBT 13. He is the only one I told about my new love for LBT. He told me when I was gambling on the computer: "Well, you know, this thing with LBT doesn't suit you at all". And I can only agree with that. Most people think I'm going into the military because of my knowledge, like playing tank commander. And then comes something like that? That's exactly why only very few people know about my interest in LBT.

I set my record the following week. On one evening I saw Sequel 3, 4 and 5.
Soon came the winter holidays. That was a bit of a problem for me as I knew that we wouldn't have a VHS player until then. I got a little under time pressure, so I saw LBT 10 only a few hours before we left. I could take Sequel 11 and 13 with me as a DVD. Over the holidays I had enough time to watch the DVDs.
Meanwhile I kept myself informed about LBT. I came across a German LBT forum through some websites. Actually cool, I thought to myself, but on the other hand I noticed that nothing had been posted there for years. Even the number of members wasn't very high.
However, there was a reference to a still active forum, which is English speaking. This was the first time I heard about The Gang of Five.

LBT made me get interested in dinosaurs again. Besides history and computers, it's my third big interest that makes me different. But what amazes me the most is that it took me several years for my greatest interest, the history, which is now one of my most important things about me, until it really got to me. Before that it was only a "hobby". In the meantime it has become an important part of my personality.
And then came such an interest, dinosaurs, that didn't suit me at all. And it took only 3 days until it became equal to history for me. Does that mean that dinosaurs and LBT are more important than what I've lived for all these many years?

It may be that for my young age I am not really allowed to write about my life that way. However, I am very sure that LBT has changed a lot in the course of my life, at least in the long-term. Just like the Butterfly Effect.

Besides, I was wondering one other thing. My interest in Jump'n'Runs was because Yoshi is a dinosaur, just like Littlefoot. Does that mean that without LBT, I wouldn't have been playing Jump'n'Runs? Would I never have become a "gamer"? Playing computer games has definitely influenced my life. So if my assumption is true, then LBT has actually changed the course of my life, because without Jump'n'Runs and later through modern games, I would never have gotten interested in history or computers, as I do today.

Where would I be today without all this? Thank you very much for that! LBT has got a very special place in my heart!
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Bruno on November 20, 2018, 03:38:45 PM
I think the first Land Before Time movie I saw was The Mysterious Island, and in fact some of my earliest memories involve watching it and the other movies in the series. The song "Big Water" is still referenced by my mother, jokingly, whenever we go anywhere close to the ocean or I make a comment related to a large body of water. I remember having my parents buy the different movies whenever we went to Sam's Club as they had the movies back in the late 90s. I can't remember when I saw the first movie, though I know it was early on. I followed the movies a bit a longer than some people, as the last movie I bought was the 11th movie, which came out when I was 9 years old. Following this, my interested faded and I essentially forgot about it until I was 14 when I rediscovered it, though I can't remember how I did.
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: StardustSoldier on April 27, 2019, 01:14:56 PM
I wasn't old enough to have seen the original movie in theaters, but I did see some of the films back in my elementary school days in the 90s. As LeventeII said above, I too didn't have a real "first time" with LBT. I can remember it was a popular series back then and it was just something I happened to get exposed to. In particular, I saw films #1-3 and #5 & 6, but the others I never watched until my adult years. I also remember my family used to own a VHS copy of the original film, but it wasn't until many years after elementary when I saw the film again.

In 2009, a couple or so years after I graduated from high school, I composed a long list of "movies to watch or rewatch," and the original film was on that list. Yet, for some reason, it still took me nearly an entire decade. The film occasionally lingered in the back of my mind, but I just kept not getting around to it. Finally, as the new year was approaching, I started seeing links on Fandom.com to this article (https://www.fandom.com/articles/land-before-time) discussing the film's 30th anniversary. And this is what inspired me to rent it from my local library. So, come December 2018, and here I am finally watching it one evening at home. By this point, it had been at least 15 years since I last saw it. Maybe even 20 years.

While I could still remember the characters, it had been enough of a time gap that I'd forgotten large chunks of the film itself. The very opening underwater scene and our first shot of the dinosaurs on land were ever-so-vaguely familiar, but most of the rest of the beginning was gone from my memory. I didn't even recall Littlefoot and Cera meeting for the first time, or Sharptooth's first appearance and the subsequent chase and battle.

I did remember the massive tearjerker of Littlefoot losing his mother (which made me cry when I watched it again), and the following scene where he runs into Old Rooter. Those were probably the two scenes that had stayed the most vivid in my mind. There were several other fragmented images I could remember, even if the context around them was forgotten. I remembered the treestar floating down to Littlefoot while he was out wandering alone, seeing his shadow and thinking it was his mother, Cera exploring underground and finding Sharptooth, the fake "Great Valley" the kids discover before the herd of dinosaurs eat up the leaves, and Littlefoot's treestar getting crushed. But that was pretty much it. Even other iconic and emotional scenes like Littlefoot and Cera's fight, or the journey through the volcano with the tar and the boneheads, or the climatic final battle against Sharptooth, I had no recollection of.

What I also forgot was just how good the film was! I knew I liked it as a kid, but it actually resonated with me more as an adult. Watching it again all these years later and I immediately fell in love with it. Things like Rooter's speech are more meaningful to me in light of some of the loved ones I've lost over the years. It might be my favourite animated film of all time now. I enjoyed it so much, it's the very thing that inspired me to join this forum.

About a month-and-a-half after I joined, I got around to watching the sequels as well, both the ones I had seen long ago and the ones I hadn't. I was apprehensive about it initially. However, I loved the characters enough that I wanted to be able to spend more time with them, and I wanted to more openly discuss the rest of the series with the community (and partly just for the sake of completionism), so that eventually motivated me to give them a chance.

The original film is still my personal favourite. Sometimes lightning only strikes once. But I like most of the sequels. Some were better than others, but overall it was a fun marathon and I enjoyed posting my thoughts about them on the forum. As of July 2019, it's only the TV series that I have yet to watch, but I plan to cover that as well.

(Edit: Updated this with a bit more information.)
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Anagnos on April 28, 2019, 01:53:29 AM
I likewise didn't see the original in theaters, telling the truth, I didn't really see any of the movies in theaters, I just watched them on VHS or DVD later on. Right now those films that I owed are probably in my storage as of this moment, I might go see one day what I can find there, can't remember anymore.  :)

After that, I just sort of forgot about LBT in general, until I went to vocational college (where I'm still right now) and I just started to watch LBT once more one day when it popped into my head, and it was really great experience after so much time had passed.

I have watched every film, though, so no need to worry about that. However, I did watch Journey of the Brave after some time it was released, I did hear that LBT was coming back, and I thought it was cool, but then I just forgot about it and continued my life forward.

As of now, if I don't have the films anymore in my storage, I'm really interested in buying them online and starting to watch them from the start to finish. I really would like to visit one of my childhood favorites.  :smile
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: StardustSoldier on April 28, 2019, 10:22:07 AM
Where did you get the VHS/DVD copies when you were in vocational college? Did you rent them from somewhere or someone?
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Anagnos on April 28, 2019, 01:51:20 PM
Where did you get the VHS/DVD copies when you were in vocational college? Did you rent them from somewhere or someone?

Oh, nothing like that. Sorry, you might have misunderstood part of that. I continued to watch LBT online via YouTube or such. I'm sorry if I confused you for a second.  :lol
But I believe I got those from stores over the years when growing up. That's really all I can remember.  :p
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: StardustSoldier on April 28, 2019, 03:50:38 PM
Oh, okay. Lol, no worries.
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Chomper123 on July 21, 2019, 05:03:24 AM
Well, my story began when i was a bit younger but enough to be a long time fan, there was a store that had the first LBT Movie and so i thought i wonder what this is about, and after i watched it, i felt a warm feeling and the credits, ending song "If We Hold On Together" added to that effect, so i started watching the tv series and sure enough fell in love with it, I've watched the same movies over and over again and still watch it alot to this day, so its felt like a wonderful journey with the gang and i wish it would continue on with more movies which would be amazing and so briefly, thats my story and if anyone felt similar then that is wonderful  :Mo
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: RainbowFaceProtege on June 09, 2020, 03:56:29 PM
I suppose it's about time I posted here! :OhYou My LBT story actually didn't begin with the original movie but with Journey to Big Water. As a dinosaur-obsessed kid, I first saw it soon after it had been released on video. I didn't realize it was the ninth in a series at first (or I probably wouldn't have started there, good thing most of these movies can stand alone), but once I realized there were eight more to collect, I was thrilled! It took me no time at all to gather the whole collection and snap up whatever new movie came out.

I guess this is as good a time as any, though, to admit the embarrassing fact that I was unable to become as attached to the original movie as I've become to the sequels. Why? Because when I was a kid, I lost my videotape of the first movie and didn't get around to replacing it until way later, which meant the other movies got way more watch time out of me. That's the weird reason why I get a lot more nostalgia (and correspondingly, more enjoyment) from the sequels. Now, wait, wait, don't get me wrong! I'm definitely not saying I dislike the first movie, just that it doesn't personally mean as much to me as the others. And I know my reason why is pretty random, but that's just my experience.
The Stone of Cold Fire was always my favorite LBT movie, which isn't really gonna surprise anybody. :rainbowwave I had this kids' book about the Roswell incident, so I was already fascinated by the idea of aliens landing on Earth...and when that happened in LBT, I was MIND-BLOWN. You wouldn't think characters with as little screen time as the Rainbow Faces would be such a big deal to a kid, but they sure were to me. I wanted to be every bit as intelligent as they were, and I wouldn't be surprised if the value I place on knowledge today was something I first learned from them back in my childhood. I have no doubts they increased my interest in outer space, too. Of course, these days, I don't much believe in the idea of aliens actually landing on Earth. But Roswell aside, there are plenty of wonders out there that we know exist...not to mention an infinite amount that we don't know. :smile

Anyway, a few years later or so, I began getting into franchises other than LBT. Figuring I was outgrowing LBT (guess I thought I was a big girl :p), the movies got packed away for a while. Turned out that didn't last very long, though. :lol I don't even know if two years went by before I discovered my old movies again and decided I wanted to introduce them to a certain @Little Bro. :DD I put on Journey to Big Water, the movie I'd first fallen in love with years ago, and we watched it together. While he enjoyed it, I enjoyed it even more, and I soon began entering a full-blown LBT phase all over again.

Ah, this is where things get interesting...the only LBT movie I hadn't seen at that point was The Wisdom of Friends. :rolleyes Upon first watching it, I was really dumbstruck. I was astonished at how silly they let that movie get, and my first thought was, like many of you, that I wanted nothing to do with it. BUT: a certain goofy little kid I knew thought it was hilarious. That LBT movie soon became one of his favorites, and as I watched it alongside him, the enjoyment I watched him get out of its pure silliness made it grow on me. Objectively speaking, of course, I'm not gonna try to say that The Wisdom of Friends isn't one of the worst LBT sequels, but I don't hate it, either, thanks to Bro.

Then there was the LBT TV series. That definitely felt like a letdown for me during its run. I had expected a lot more from it like a Rainbow Face reappearance, which I'm still annoyed didn't happen, absurdly enough. But these days, I have to admit there were some episodes in there that were quite good...but there were also some I thought were really bad, so overall, my opinion on the whole TV show is just neutral. :p

By the way, did I mention that LBT was the reason I ended up learning to sew? Somewhere in that second phase, I decided I was gonna make the LBT plushies I'd always dreamed of when I was little. I had official plushies of the main characters, of course, but I wanted MORE! *cough*rainbowfaces*cough* :lol So I started teaching myself to sew by hand, and after several initial failures, I was able to make plushies that I was happy with. (I think Guido was my first success.) :DD Not all my sewing is LBT-related anymore, but I've got LBT to thank for moving me to get started in the first place. (And I'm actually in the middle of a Strut plushie right now...just gotta push myself to finally make the feet and hands, which, let me tell you, are not fun to sew.) :confused

I was disappointed that the LBT franchise stopped after the TV show and Wisdom of Friends, wishing it would have ended on a higher note. You can probably imagine how thrilled I was when news about the movie then called "Journey of the Heart" surfaced years later. It brought back all the feels, setting off a third LBT phase for me. I mean, I went ahead and sewed plushies of Etta and Wild Arms after they appeared in the previews, before the movie had even come out. Once the movie's release was close enough, I even used my computer to set up a countdown to when the movie was going to be released, with a different LBT desktop picture each day for...what was it, 30 days or so? Look, when you get your first opportunity in years to geek out over a new LBT sequel, you don't let it go to waste! :oops
Yeah, at this point, it's pretty safe to say that LBT is always going to be with me. There's no getting rid of it now! :)littlefoot I've loved plenty of other shows and things before, of course (and I still do), but my long history with LBT alone will always make it one of the series I hold closest to my heart.
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: StardustSoldier on June 09, 2020, 04:29:48 PM
@RainbowFaceProtege: Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed reading this. We were overdue for another response to this thread. I also think it's endearing that you watched the series with your brother. :)
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: RainbowFaceProtege on June 10, 2020, 03:19:14 PM
@RainbowFaceProtege: Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed reading this. We were overdue for another response to this thread. I also think it's endearing that you watched the series with your brother. :)

Glad you enjoyed it. :) I'd been meaning to post something here for ages--finally, I got around to it. :p
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Goldenwind on June 10, 2020, 04:25:28 PM
My first introduction to TLBT was through a VHS tape my parents had. I think the first time I saw it was at the shore house and I may have brought it home a couple of times though they're vague memories. I remember the film being breathtaking with it's style and music... I cried everytime watching it (Littlefoot's mom...  :cry ), but it didn't stop me from rewatching the film.

It was also through VHS I saw The Land Before Time 2 and 3. I think I saw 3 first and then 2, though I don't think I missed much as I could get into the 3rd movie just fine. I thought the villains in the 3rd movie were enjoyable as unlike Sharpteeth they were an actual foil to the gang that were still a threat despite being leafeaters and were on equal footing as the gang. I also enjoyed Hyp's song, it sounded like the big bad villain song that makes me want to like the guys while wanting to see them get stopped. I thought trying to combine the conclusion of Mr. Threehorn's arc with that of Hyp and his gang was quite clever. It almost made me prefer the third movie over the first when I saw it long ago.

The Land Before Time 2 is a movie that I also enjoyed, but it was more light hearted in my opinion compared to the other two movies I watched. Really like Chomper's introduction. He would become one of my favorite characters, along with Strut who also made his debut.  :chompysmile I thought it was awesome that Ozzy and Strut were the villains as to me, I thought the ending of the first movie foreshadowed it showing the egg stealer in the ending credits which in itself brought up a idea that would be expanded in this film, the valley, despite being a haven, still has it's own dangers. In the end, however, I still prefer the original and movie 3 over it due to their more serious nature. I am either all in silly or all in action, which is why I like movie 13.  :PCera  Will say I felt like it would have been perfect that we get to see Chomper with his parents during the movie credits as well as Ozzy and Strut, because I wanted to know what happened to them.  :OzzyAngry

I don't think it was long after that I would get introduced to the sequels through airings on Cartoon Network. I even saw the TV show when it was first aired. I was immediately hooked on it. Fun fact, when I first saw Chomper in the TV series I was super shocked that 1. he was in the valley and 2. he could talk which blew my mind as I haven't seen movie 5 yet. I need to say I've been wanting a season 2 since I first saw it as a kid. Sadly, I didn't see much of the other movies till I was older, I think I only saw the rest including movie 14 recently. But now that I have, I still wish for the franchise to continue as least for it to cover any loose ends from the TV series and some of the previous sequels (LOOKING AT YOU REDCLAW, THUD, PTERANO, GUIDO, AND RAINBOWFACES!!... Maybe Shorty... Also Saro).
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Sharpely on October 17, 2020, 03:51:28 PM
When I was around four years old in the early 2000s my grandparents gave us some VHS tapes. One of them was "The Mysterious Island", and at first glance I remember thinking it was some Jungle Book movie because I thought Chomper was a monkey on the cover  :ChomperImAwesome So we watch it, and I fall in L.O.V.E. Particularly around the part where they're lost on the outskirts of the ocean and get caught in an earthquake. I'd never seen anything so psychedelic and awesome in a movie before, and it was how I learned how destructive and powerful nature can be in real life. Oh yeah, and the part where they're debating who's going to cross the ocean to alert the adults of their whereabouts and then start singing about how "deep and dark and dangerous" the ocean is? My God, what an awesome sound! Little kid me would play that film on repeat and just wait all excited for that song to come on every time :petrieLOL Particularly because I loved how adorable and scared Petrie looked in that scene. At first my favorite character was Littlefoot (because I thought he was a girl and he seemed like the "older sister" of the group), but eventually it became Petrie. His sweet, unique voice and awkward way of talking/moving really drew me to him, and I remember pretending he was real and I was protecting him from all the mean, scary things. I'd make up stories about how Petrie was friends with a little human girl (*cough*yours truly*cough*) and tell them to my mom. I was disappointed to learn that dinosaurs had gone extinct long ago and that I'd never get to play with the Go5 in real life (let alone the part that they're cartoon characters), and I'd bring this up to my parents at unwelcome times. A lot. My dad got frustrated with me and told me that humans couldn't even have survived in the time of dinosaurs. I listened to his spiel, but I still wished I could still have Littlefoot and the others as my friends in real life. For Christmas that year (I was five), my mom gave me a cardboard box. Inside were stuffed toys of the entire gang of five, plus Chomper! I practically screamed, I was so excited. I'd take them outside with me and pretend we were exploring together  :CeraHAPPY
I didn't grow out of LBT until I was around seven. By that time I'd seen most of the subsequent films (originally I'd just had the first one and V, which are still my favorites), but around that time Cera took the place of my favorite character. By now I'd realized she was a girl and not just another dumb, aggressive boy, which I thought was really cool. I started trying to act more like her, which led to me picking fights with my younger siblings a lot more. I thought her dad was cool as well; I had these little triceratops figurines I'd pretend were Cera, her dad and her little sisters I'd made up. But yeah, after that year I moved on to Disney Channel, Pokemon and stuff. Now that I'm an adult, I've accepted that I'll always love this series, both for the nostalgia aspect and for the general style of the whole thing. Plus it has awesome characters :)petrie
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: RainbowFaceProtege on October 17, 2020, 07:27:18 PM
@Sharpely Oh my gosh, the way you describe receiving your GoF plushies is almost EXACTLY the way I got mine as a kid! I think I was even the same age! But it happened on my birthday, and I wouldn't get ahold of a Chomper until years later (I would've been SO JEALOUS of your Chomper back then). :lol For years, my LBT plushies were my best friends who I took on all kinds of adventures as well. :D Do you still have yours around?

Coincidentally, I also was 7/8 when I thought I was outgrowing LBT...and yeah, that would definitely prove not to be the case. :p
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Sharpely on October 17, 2020, 07:51:52 PM
@Sharpely Oh my gosh, the way you describe receiving your GoF plushies is almost EXACTLY the way I got mine as a kid! I think I was even the same age! But it happened on my birthday, and I wouldn't get ahold of a Chomper until years later (I would've been SO JEALOUS of your Chomper back then). :lol For years, my LBT plushies were my best friends who I took on all kinds of adventures as well. :D Do you still have yours around?

Coincidentally, I also was 7/8 when I thought I was outgrowing LBT...and yeah, that would definitely prove not to be the case. :p

That's so awesome!!! Unfortunately my LBT stuffed animals are no longer with me, since I lost/forgot about most of my childhood toys around the same time my parents split. I troll eBay on the rare occasion hoping some of them might be there, but so far no such luck. And they're pretty expensive to boot!  :opetrie
Yup, I might've been trying to get away from "kid stuff" at that age, but I, too, harbored a secret affection for those movies. When I had more little siblings who were in its age demographic, I'd get secretly excited when my mom put those films on for them  :petrieLOL
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: RainbowFaceProtege on October 17, 2020, 08:51:11 PM
@Sharpely Oh my gosh, the way you describe receiving your GoF plushies is almost EXACTLY the way I got mine as a kid! I think I was even the same age! But it happened on my birthday, and I wouldn't get ahold of a Chomper until years later (I would've been SO JEALOUS of your Chomper back then). :lol For years, my LBT plushies were my best friends who I took on all kinds of adventures as well. :D Do you still have yours around?

Coincidentally, I also was 7/8 when I thought I was outgrowing LBT...and yeah, that would definitely prove not to be the case. :p

That's so awesome!!! Unfortunately my LBT stuffed animals are no longer with me, since I lost/forgot about most of my childhood toys around the same time my parents split. I troll eBay on the rare occasion hoping some of them might be there, but so far no such luck. And they're pretty expensive to boot!  :opetrie
Yup, I might've been trying to get away from kid stuff at that age, but I, too, harbored a secret affection for those movies. When I had more little siblings who were in its age demographic, I'd get secretly excited when my mom put those films on for them  :petrieLOL

Same, I would always hint reeeeeaaally hard for my brother to choose LBT when it was his turn to pick movies! :lol

Aw, I'm sorry to hear that you lost those toys. :( What brand were they? I didn't even know there were many Chomper plushies out there before the TV show came around.
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Sharpely on October 17, 2020, 10:49:59 PM
@Sharpely Oh my gosh, the way you describe receiving your GoF plushies is almost EXACTLY the way I got mine as a kid! I think I was even the same age! But it happened on my birthday, and I wouldn't get ahold of a Chomper until years later (I would've been SO JEALOUS of your Chomper back then). :lol For years, my LBT plushies were my best friends who I took on all kinds of adventures as well. :D Do you still have yours around?

Coincidentally, I also was 7/8 when I thought I was outgrowing LBT...and yeah, that would definitely prove not to be the case. :p

That's so awesome!!! Unfortunately my LBT stuffed animals are no longer with me, since I lost/forgot about most of my childhood toys around the same time my parents split. I troll eBay on the rare occasion hoping some of them might be there, but so far no such luck. And they're pretty expensive to boot!  :opetrie
Yup, I might've been trying to get away from kid stuff at that age, but I, too, harbored a secret affection for those movies. When I had more little siblings who were in its age demographic, I'd get secretly excited when my mom put those films on for them  :petrieLOL

Same, I would always hint reeeeeaaally hard for my brother to choose LBT when it was his turn to pick movies! :lol

Aw, I'm sorry to hear that you lost those toys. :( What brand were they? I didn't even know there were many Chomper plushies out there before the TV show came around.

I think most of them were Equity? I dunno, I'm having a hard time doing a Google search for the specific ones. I definitely had the four pictured here (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/22/58/b2/2258b2b6e425d7e2b1c5bbde4dae8610.jpg) in the same pose, just with cheaper fabric. What kind are yours?
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Mumbling on October 18, 2020, 04:47:48 AM
Maybe they are listed here? https://lbtcollection.weebly.com/plushies.html :)
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Sharpely on October 18, 2020, 02:12:39 PM
Maybe they are listed here? https://lbtcollection.weebly.com/plushies.html :)

Hey yeah! A few of them are there  :^^spike Interesting how none of the ones I'm looking for seem to have an associated brand. Still, pretty cool list!
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Mumbling on October 18, 2020, 02:58:58 PM
Yeah that page still needs some work, but it can be tough finding out the brand. One day it will be more complete :P
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: LittleDas75 on October 25, 2020, 04:52:19 PM
I had watched the oringial when I was around 4. I bought it on Blu-Ray 10 months ago.
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: Gentle Sharptooth on March 11, 2021, 04:39:16 PM
Today I sang the credit scene song, “If We Hold On Together.” It makes me weep because it has major relevance to my life and memories.

I love the lines, “Tell your story, faith, hope and glory.”
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: WinterFan on August 22, 2021, 02:13:49 PM
Wish I knew how old I was when I first saw it.  It's a bit hard to tell the story of the first time when you don't remember it haha., But my story of LBT and my relationship to all these lovable characters started before I could even remember, which is kind of cool. But my strongest early LBT memory was bringing the VHS to school for movie night. I was a little worried my classmates would think it was childish or that they wouldn't like it because it was old. Anyway, turned out everyone loved it and a few of the parents really teared up because they had memories of seeing it when they were young. 

Anyway, it's still probably my favorite animated movie of all time. It got me into animation, something that I've wanted to pursue for the longest time. I loved all the sequels, I would think about Littlefoot and his friends all the time and make up my own adventures in my head , a few of them I still think could have really worked!

When I got older I sorta decided that I needed to hide it. Even though my family is the really supportive , I didn't even want them or my sisters to know how much this stupid dinosaur movie and all the sequels meant to me. That it was basically the source of all my creativity for the longest time. Of course, I had other such inspirations as well, Walking with Dinosaur and later Jurassic Park and the Wings of Fire books which more of the kids were into. But Land Before Time was my first really big obsession.

I would have probably gotten a Littlefoot plushy or something if I could but I never did. I don't even know if there are any good ones, I just remember it being one of those things I used to want.

I still get a weird warm fuzzy feeling thinking about the movies and the characters and basically I've stopped caring whether I'm too old to like them anymore. Life is just more fun with a little bit of LBT in it than without it!  :PAli
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: HotelValleyfornia on April 02, 2022, 06:50:04 PM
I had a pretty simple story myself. I saw some of the TV series episodes when I was just a hatchling, but I fully got into the movies in late 2012, I think. I obsessed for about a year. I was kind of on-and-off for a while after that, but I always came back to it and liked looking back on the movies and the TV series. And it was only recently that I finally decided to join you guys. Took me long enough :bestsharptooth
Title: Re: Tell Your Story About LBT
Post by: 00not_nathan00 on July 15, 2022, 07:34:33 AM
Jeez IDK when I got into the series in the first place. I think it was because when I was young, I was really into dinosaurs so my parents got me I think the 4th movie first, then they would get me more and more over the years. then after I watched them up until 2010 I fell off it I did go back to the first movie here and there but It wasn't until 2020 when my mum mentioned to my cousin that her son should watch some of the movies. because her son is really into dinosaurs that I thought I should re-watch them. that is when I looked up reviews and found Jenny's tier list on the movies and mentioned the LBT squad which is where I stared watching him (PS please Alex make another review we need more review from you) and yea thats bout it.