Hi! I’ll warn all of you in advance that I’m terrible at introductions so the following paragraph may seem quite awkward...
I am Danosaur, or just Dan if you want to refer to me by my actual name, and I am currently 18 and will soon be studying Film and Media at university. I am a huge fan of all types of animation, and have been since I was around 13 years old. (Weirdly, I was much more into live-action stuff when I was a child.) Since I started an interest in animation, Don Bluth has always been my favourite animator, and a lot of his films are some of my favourites of all time. I originally took a large interest in The Secret Of NIMH, but more recently upon re-watching The Land Before Time I think that has taken the spot as my favourite of his films, and I have started watching through all of the sequels and TV series and lurking on here for about a year or so. (I’ve seen all of the TV series but I still need to get around to watching the 10th, 11th and 13th film.)
Because I can’t think of what to write next (again, awkwardness) here are some random facts about me:
-As stated earlier, animation is my favourite type of film, and my favourites include all of Don Bluth’s work, a lot of anime films such as Ghost In The Shell, Perfect Blue and Ninja Scroll (although my favourite anime film is called You Are Umasou, and is coincidentally another dinosaur film), and also I am a big fan of animation from my home country of the UK, especially Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, When The Wind Blows and Animal Farm. Despite this, my favourite animated film of all time is Walt Disney’s Bambi.
-I live in England, in the north-west where everyone basically talks like ëyer warra ye gonna do abarr it lad m8 yeah????’ I swear sometimes I am the only person in my area who can actually spell.
-My favourite Land Before Time is the original, obviously, but I love the sequels and the TV series aswell. My favourite character from the films is a tie between Petrie and Ducky, and Ruby is my favourite in the series.
-Other than animation, my favourite live-action films include RoboCop, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park, Jaws, DragonHeart, Commando, Hard Boiled, Battle Royale and Shaun Of The Dead (all pretty clichÈd and obvious choices, I know.)
-I also watch a lot of TV series but there are way too many of them to list here, I’m currently in the middle of watching Gravity Falls, Spooks and Arrested Development.
-I would consider myself a video game fan but it’s mainly restricted to the 32-bit era of the PlayStation, Saturn, Dreamcast etc. My favourite video game of all time is Spyro The Dragon (I’d probably consider him my favourite fictional character of all time aswell)
-I collect VHS tapes and LaserDiscs. My LaserDisc collection is fairly small as they are very expensive and hard to find in the UK because the format was pretty much nonexistent here (My most prized laserdisc is probably the CAV collectors’ edition of the first LBT film) My VHS tape collection is currently sitting at 1052 tapes.
-I am absolutely hopeless at drawing/writing, which I know is very unusual for an animation fan as everyone else seems to be great at drawing fan-art and such.
-I’ve never been able to make many friends in real life, which is why I try to make as many online as I can, but I am quite the introvert and have a lot of problems with real contact.
-I am blind in one eye. (Random fact, but it’s the only other notable thing I can think of now.)
So, feel free to ask me any questions and I hope I don’t come across as too awkward.
