Sorry, the character lists are supposed to be pasted in the thread under Character Discussion. I'll change there to there in the other thread.

Welcome Iris! Have fun and post lots.  

You're right. Also there's the fact that it was Ruby who called thm 'rare,' and she hasn't been in the Great Valley for long. This may have been the first time she's seen that spot.

I've always felt embarrasd about liking Land Before Time, except when the other person does as well. Lucky for me I gave it up right about when I started high school, and redicovered it some time afterwards. High School is not a place to have weaknesses like that.

Starday is not used by everyone since as I recall Ruby had to explain what she meant by Starday.

Oh, I haven't seen that episode yet. What was her definition of a Starday?

The term "Starday" has been universally accepted to mean birthday, since it's mentioning in the similarly named TV episode. However, there was a refrence to birthdays much earlier in the franchise.

In LBT5, when the gang was walking to the Mysterious Island over the land bridge, Cera griped, "Its like waiting for your hatch day, it never seems to get any closer!"

To be honest, the first time I heard this line, I thought she meant the actual day that one hatches out of their egg, (for example, mine would be December 8 1988, as opposed to just December 8). For the next few minutes untill the giant wave blasted it's way on screen and drove all else from my mind, I was sitting thinking about the implications of this statement (does that mean unborn dinosaurs are in their egg, already awake and thinking before they hatch? What would it be like to be trapped in an egg like that for so long? Would they really think of their hatch day in relation to 'closer,' not knowing what hatching is yet?) Soon after, some slightly more logical part of my brain took over, and I realized she might have just meant every generic birthday, and immediately dropped all the intriguing thoughts about being trapped in an egg, waiting for days on end for the Hatch Day to arrive.

However, then the TV Series came along, and this new episode established very clearly and indisputably that a birthday is known as a Starday, not a Hatch Day.

Does this mean that a Hatch Day could really refer to just the day of hatching, and only the day of hatching? Would that mean Cera's statement shows that, in the LBT universe, unborn dinosaurs are still awake and aware of their surroundings while still in their egg? I know the producers probably were not meaning to imply this, but it's a really interesting idea all the same.

Maybe, but usually the term "rare" represents hard to find, which means that if they just grew in one spot that everyone (or at least Spike) knew about, they wouldn't be "hard to find."

Which is the Episode with Lava?

Happy Birthday! Here's your obligatory candle-blowing smiley:  

Yeah, and I just realized that the Berry Valley from LBT13 could technically qualify as a haven also. Not to mention that, if what The Chronicler said was true, the civilization no longer existed, and therefore wouldn't be mentioned by the narrator. Guess I struck out with that theory.