Hi!
There is a number of questions I'd like to have answered about the character Bron, because the way facts are put in LBT 10 they clearly contradict the original movie. So long these questions are answered I really can't fit him into the world of LBT.

1. Why did Bron leave his wife and Littlefoot's grandparents to look for a good place to hatch Littlefoot, while they were (according to LBT 10) standing amidst the most beautiful Great Valley like landscape imaginable?
Remembering how most of the land looked in LBT it seems plain nuts for all of them to think of leaving.

2. Why didn't Bron know where to go after the earthquake? According to the original movie the Great Valley was not exactly a secret place nobody knew about. Even if Littlefoot's mother and grandparents didn't intend to go there before Bron left, it should have been easy enough for him to figure out that it would be their aim if (according to the original movie) all herds were going there. Or may it be that unlike Littlefoot's mother Bron does not see anything with his heart?

3. I really don't consider Bron's duty as the leader of a herd as a good excuse for him not to head for the Great Valley or for not having tried to find his son there. If the herd really needed Bron so much that he cannot accompany Littlefoot and his grandparents on their journey to the Great Valley, home come that Bron could leave his herd to head for the place where the solar eclipse happened? Except for Shorty it appears that very few members of Bron's herd were arround, or why else would he say that he couldn't wait to introduce Littlefoot to the others? Or if they had been around, what reason would've been left for him not to accompany Littlefoot and his grandparents? Apparently not nearly as many longnecks were at the side of the solar eclipse as it was claimed in other parts of the movie. Really I don't get that part.

Altogether I really can't say that I like Bron. Not only are so many facts about him in conflict with things that happened or were said in earlier movies but the little we know about him doesn't make him appear very likable either. Apparently there must be something about him that made other longnecks follow him, but he doesn't show much responsibility (abandoning his family as well as his herd). Bron shows a certain arrogance most notable in the following line: "Sharpteeth are cowards!" This is quite a generalization, but I really don't find it very sensitive if he talks this way in front of Littlefoot whose mother was killed by a sharptooth. Also I wonder if Littlefoot thought of Chomper when his father said this. Wouldn't Chomper be a perfect counterproof? It does take courage to attack a grownup sharptooth while you are still a hatchling, and it does take courage (even for a grownup sharptooth) to attack huge leafeaters.
But Bron doesn't need to fear sharpteeth, for he is invulnerable! We see a sharptooth biting his leg, but it doesn't cause much more than an "Ouch". We don't see a scratch, Bron doesn't limb or anything. They could've made all this so much more dramatic if they had stirred up some memories about the death of Littlefoot's mother.

Hi!
Dengar recently posted a message at the network54 forum about things he finds criticworthy about the land before time sequels. In some points I agree with him, in others I don't.
Anyway, that is not exactly what I meant to talk about here in a forum for fanart. But one thing Dengar pointed out was that:

The colors(or colours) of the dinosaurs are getting unrealistic. Yay a purple dinosaur! If I wanted a purple dinosaur, I'd watch Barney.

I assume that he refers to Chomper (though there are other examples of purple dinosaurs). When I thought about it on earlier occassions (after "getting acquainted with the really shrill colored Mo) I was surprised that I had never felt disturbed at the idea of a purple sharptooth. Neither do I feel disturbed about his color now as I write this. However I thought it might be interesting to see how Chomper might look if he had been colored in a more sharptooth-like color (looking at the other LBT sharpteeth green would be the first choice here). I took a JPEG of Chomper and colored it green. I colored it rather roughly, and it's not really finished (with most of the arms being left green and the belly not being changed to a color that fits better to the green), but still I don't think that it looks too bad either. What do you think of such an alternative color for Chomper?

The cover of LBT 11 has triggered a discussion on wether people like it or not in the network54 forum. I consider this an interesting topic in general. What do you think of the LBT covers in general, which do you like or dislike?
As this is a message based on mainly my personal opinion I beg your pardon for any subjective statements on the look of the covers, and you are all most hearty invited to give your own oppinions which naturally are likely to be different from my own.
In general I think one can say the covers have changed a bit since LBT 7. From LBT 1 to 6 the characters on the cover looked pretty much like they looked in the movies. From LBT 7 on they began to look different. They had more (sorry if this sounds too storng, but my dictionary didn't provide me with any more polite term for the additional curves and different propotion sto be found on the characters since LBT 7) puppy fat. This was not a constant developement though. I refer to Ducky on cover number 7 and 10 while she looks alright on number 8 and nine. Littlefoot looks okay on number 9 while he sports "puppy fat" on number 7, 8 and 10 (and he is going to on number 11 with his face there being ripped from number 8). Cera has that lack on each single one of these covers (just look at her cheeks) while surprisingly Spike shows very, very few changes, though the color of his backplates and the crest on his back changed from dark- to lightgreen and finally to light brown (almost beige) on the covers.
Petrie went through some of the most scary changes looking like the old bat he resembles to on most products that bear the seal of the land before time collection. To be precise: Petrie got bat like wings, hairs on the head and the throat and a crooked beak on the covers of LBT 7, 8 and 9; while they mercifully spared him the large rings below the eyes and the wrinkles at the neck some of the "land before time collection seal product's Petries" sport with. With all my criticism of LBT 10 I have to give the cover of LBT 10 credit for letting Petrie look more like Petrie again.
I don't mean to talk on the characters outward appearance in the covers only, but also on the arangement of the characters and what else is to be seen on the cover. This brings us to the fact that covers don't always look the same in every country. The cover of LBT 7 for example looked better in US than it did in Germany. The US version showed the stone of cold fire and a volcano in the background. It gave an idea of the content of the story and made curious to learn more (which I think ought to be the basic idea of any cover). The German version however showed the characters (aranged just like in the US cover) in front of a clear sky looking out of a sort of frame of flowery jungle. It had NOTHING AT ALL to do with the story! However, even in the US cover I missed Pterano who seemed to important to me to keep him out of the story.
Here are the two different covers (sorry, they are tiny) so you can compare them yourself:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/malte279/LBT7.jpg[/URL] http://mitglied.lycos.de/malte279/LBT7D.jpg
Another cover of which there were two different versions is the cover of LBT 3. In some countries (including Germany and I think the US) the cover showed the bullies in the foreground with Hyp sinking in the mud and Littlefoot and the others on (in Petrie's case above) a log in the background. Other countries had the maincharacters in the foreground at that lake they had found with the sun rising in the background and the bullies sneaking upon them between the reeds. Personally I prefered the lighter picture at the lake, which also gave reference to the water problem while the other one was mainly focused on that one scene with Hyp sinking in the pond. Here are the two covers: http://mitglied.lycos.de/malte279/LBT3.jpg http://mitglied.lycos.de/malte279/LBT3-2.jpg
Please note that whenever I'm talking of the covers of the land before time 2 to 6 I'm refering to the earlier versions of the covers like they can be found at www.landbeforetime.org, not to the new covers shown at www.landbeforetime.com. I do not like the new cover versions which contain less than the older covers, make a bat of Petrie and puppies of the others. The new LBT 4 cover doesn't even include Ali!!!
I think my favorites were the old covers of number 2 and 5 both of which show references to different parts of the story (Chomper with the egg, Chomper's parents, Ozzy and Strut / Chomper, the island, the Big Water the swimming sharptooth). It's the same with LBT 4, and to a certain degree with LBT 6. By the way, did you notice Ichty holds a binocular in the cover of number 4? It was mentioned in the forum before.
A drawback of the cover of number 10 was that most of the longnecks in the background (except for Bron, Pat and Littlefoot's grandmother) have been used more than once, with just a little change of size or color.
Much more can be wrote about the covers, but I'm afraid I begin to lull everyone here to sleep (I hope this essay will even be read). So what do you think of the covers? Which are your favorites or least favorites? And are they for particular reasons?

Hi!
I used colored pencils for this picture. A raw sketch for it was one of my earliest free hand LBT drawings, while I made this colored version some time later. The picture shows a scene from one of my LBT fanfictions. Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, and Ali are fleeing from the sharptooth in the background. During the flight Ducky (who at first sat on Spike’s back) was separated from the others and only just managed to catch up and overtake the others at this shallow lake shown in the picture (with water being a swimmer’s element). What Ducky calls in the story (“Come on! Come on! Come on!”) became the name for this picture.

My name is Malte, I’m 19 years (20 more days to my 20th birhtday as I write this) old and live in Dortmund / Germany.
I'll begin to study history (I have an almost fanatic interest in history and also an increasing interest in current day politics), and Anglism/Americanism at the university next October and my first aim is to become a secondary education teacher for history and English (though I don't think I want to stay a teacher for my whole live).
I’m very attached to the land before time, and may be infamous for being present at almost every active land before time message board in the web.
Among my other hobbies (most of which I combined with my enthusiasm for the land before time) are reading, writing, painting and drawing, model building, creating figures of tin, soapstone, clay and other materials figures, and playing the music keyboard.
As for my personality, I usually tend to say what I mean. Praise but no flattery   , criticism, but nothing I couldn't found by means of reason   :huh:  .
But no total lack of humor  
Few oppinions I hold on to so much that I think I couldn't be convinced of something better if what I'm told sounds more like it.
By all this I try to meet people with respect and kindness.
I like to be treated the same way.