I've seen countless subjects about this brought up and I agree, this is an issue that is basically beating a dead horse. Don Bluth stated the footage is not available, so that's that.
That would have been nice to know before I made an intro topic about it.... I wasn't trying to stir up trouble, I should have looked to see if it was okay to talk about it but I didn't see anything in the rules.
I basically just said that I own a first wave release of this movie and it's identical to the ones that you see now. Granted, yes, it's been a long time since I watched my VHS, maybe 10 years?) but I remember it very well. I still have the movie memorized. However, many say that the early McDonalds version has uncut footage (though I'm almost certain I own this one, but it's in storage now so I can't check atm, but I'll try to get a hold of it in the next few days)
But if someone REALLYwants to put that speculation to rest:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Land-Before-Ti...g-/390763842899I'd be willing to chip in for this but I'm not going to buy it myself as i don't even own a VHS player anymore.
You claim there's no proof for the existance of the uncut version of the original LBT movie?! Well, likewise there's no proof that it doesn't exist...
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Also if you are making a claim (in this case, that there's an uncut version of LBT) the burden is on you to prove that it does exist, not on anyone else to disprove it.
For what it's worth though, I remember watching the VHS a lot as a kid, and then sometime later in my young adult years, getting into LBT again and rewatching the VHS I had numerous times. I had this memory in my mind, that I STILL have of when they escaped the Sharptooth by running through that narrow rock (this was right before they saw the rock shaped like a Longneck)... and I totally remember Cera glaring back at it then going "NYA NYA!" as the Sharptooh was struggling to get through (I know she did this earlier when she thought it was dead too, but this one was different)...
Now that scene isn't in the movie, and when I watched it in my adult years, I was surprised because I could have sworn I saw that happen. I think sometimes we remember things we saw as a kid and our memories don't work so well. So even though you might swear up and down that you saw a more violent version of the Sharptooth attack, you might just be remembering it wrong. There's nothing wrong with that, my memory fooled me as well.
So that could be what's going on... again there's nothing wrong with that, I'm not insulting anyone for it, but it makes more sense than these elusive copies evading the internet for decades.