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LBT Fanfiction / Re: "Unused" fanfiction ideas
« on: March 31, 2020, 02:56:25 PM »
Quote from: Goldenwind on March 25, 2020, 11:48:53 AM
A new idea crossed my mind thanks to the Ducky caption!  :chompysmile

Remember the imaginary creatures that appeared in LBT 9 and 10? What if they become real? Out of some supernatural circumstances,  the gang brainstorms some imaginary friends and creatures, and they all come to life, including Petrie's imaginary friend from movie 9. The gang would then have to hide them from the adults to prevent them from causing a panic with humorous results.

I would so totally read this, it sounds like a lot of fun! :lol

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LBT Fanfiction / Re: How to name fanfics?
« on: March 31, 2020, 02:55:05 PM »
Quote from: Sleeping-force's-inside on March 30, 2020, 02:13:25 PM
Quote from: Sleeping-force's-inside on March 30, 2020, 02:13:25 PM
What sometimes helps me is letting a friend read it and ask their opinion about the story/first chapter. You then find the most notable thing regarding it, which is usual a good hint towards the title :>

It's a good idea, but IRL I don't know anyone who has time to read most of my fanfics (they can be pretty long). Thanks anyway, though!

Quote from: Sneak on March 30, 2020, 03:46:39 PM
But you can ignore me, since I still didn't release any LBT fanfic, so I am not person who can give such advices  :bestsharptooth
Well, I never would've guessed that, because you came up with a lot of good tips! Much appreciated. :)petrie

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LBT Fanart / Re: jassy’s Fanart
« on: March 31, 2020, 02:48:22 PM »
Oh my gosh!!! My heart...squeeeee!! :Mo You did such a great job drawing Littlefoot with that little guy! Their facial expressions have been recaptured so perfectly!

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Silver Screen / Re: The My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic Thread
« on: March 31, 2020, 02:45:23 PM »
Quote from: ImpracticalDino on March 30, 2020, 05:59:46 PM
Honestly, I really wanted to like Discord a lot and to regard him as one of my favorite MLP characters, I really did. But the way the writers portrayed him and made him do stupid actions and decisions all the time (like you said yourself) has really dimmed my perception of him overall. I really dig his relationship with Fluttershy, Big Mac, and Spike, but other than that he's been unnecessarily rude to the other characters. I wouldn't mind if it were sometimes, since being snarky seems to be part of his personality, but doing it all the time is just overkill.
Well, I can't deny that Discord spends much of his time being a jerk. No beating around the bush there! :rolleye I actually used to dislike him quite a bit, but after Season 4 he somehow began growing on me. I realize he's not everyone's cup of tea, though. The way his personality demands attention both from the other characters and from the viewer every time he shows up probably contributes to how fans are divided between loving and hating him...not a lot of neutral ground. I was disappointed that certain episodes involving him (What About Discord, Matter of Principals, the show finale) did not fit with the character arc they'd been giving him earlier at all. I wish the fan theory that he'd actually been trying to trick the villains into reforming when he released them would've been correct--that would've been far, far better development for him.

Did I mention that when director Jim Miller was interviewed on the season finale, he said that having Discord be Grogar made sense considering Discord's weird logic, then went on to say Discord was his favorite character?? Just--gahh--what--WHY would you give your favorite character such a poor ending at the finale of the show? How could you twist his development for the sake of some "big reveal" that, no matter what you may have thought, DOESN'T make sense?? You betrayed me and the rest of your fellow Discord fans, man!!

*Sigh*...Nevertheless, though I can sit here and go on about all this, I've never been able to bring myself to quit liking Discord again. Who am I kidding here? I get a kick out of wordplay and visual gags, and this guy delivers them in buckets. More than that, his unlikely friendships with Fluttershy and the guys always make me love him again regardless of how much he's screwed things up. Call it Fluttershy syndrome! :lol

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Silver Screen / Re: The My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic Thread
« on: March 30, 2020, 03:27:20 PM »
Quote from: ImpracticalDino on March 30, 2020, 02:55:03 PM
Should I be surprised or not that every single member that joins the GOF is an MLP fan? :Mo :lol
Probably not, haha...we like our friendship-oriented musicals! :lol

I've seen almost the entire show! Only thing I've missed is a lot of the Season 9 episodes. I went to YouTube for a handful that I just had to see, but aside from that I'm waiting on Netflix to pick up that season. My pony phase, too, faded out for a few years, but lately I've started re-watching the show, and I'm really enjoying it.

I'm also looking forward to the Season 10 comics! It's too bad they had to be delayed, but I understand why. I've been diving into the comics more than ever lately. Now that the show's over, I gotta get my pony fix somewhere!

Quote from: ImpracticalDino on March 30, 2020, 02:55:03 PM
My favorite pony as of now is Pinkie Pie! What’s yours? :Mo
Not surprised, you definitely strike me as a Pinkie Pie person. :PAli My favorite "pony" is actually Discord. :p I love his humor and what a soft side he develops as the show keeps going. Though I was pretty disappointed with how they used him in the Season 9 finale...
Spoiler: ShowHide
It made him look pretty dumb IMO for him to think that such a shabby plan wasn't going to go awry somehow. I think he would've kept better control of things than that. And considering the Season 4 finale, I just can't believe he would ever think letting Tirek loose was a good idea!


For my favorite main character, hmm...I'm between Fluttershy and Twilight. Back outside the main cast, I also like Celestia and Luna--the comics and episodes where you get to see their everyday lives are hilarious! :lol

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Silver Screen / Re: The My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic Thread
« on: March 30, 2020, 02:28:03 PM »
Ooh, fellow pony fans!! :Mo

I have mixed feelings on the Season 10 comics, considering that some of the previous comic storylines have been difficult to fit into MLP canon (though I've enjoyed them anyway). Is this "Season 10" stuff just a rebrand of the regular FiM comics, or is it going to ignore characters and plots from previous comics (seems unlikely) and use only the show for reference? Guess we'll just have to see...

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Silver Screen / Re: Winnie the Pooh Films and TV shows
« on: March 30, 2020, 02:17:01 PM »
Right next to the Land Before Time, Winnie the Pooh is another old favorite of mine! LBT ultimately won my top spot due to my love of dinosaurs, but I'll always have a place in my heart for Pooh and his friends. Piglet was always my favorite character.

Quote from: Enchanted-Valley96 on March 30, 2020, 02:06:15 PM
Yeah. He was never in the A.A Milne stories.

I believe one of Gopher's lines in the movie actually referred to that, where he said something like "you won't find me in the book," talking about the phone book in the context of the scene but also serving as an inside joke about the fact that he was a new character.

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The Welcome Center / Re: Greetings
« on: March 30, 2020, 02:02:03 PM »
Hello and welcome, Enchanted-Valley! :Mo I'm a newbie, too!

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LBT Fanart / Re: RainbowFaceProtege's Plush Projects!!
« on: March 30, 2020, 01:56:49 PM »
Quote from: Goldenwind on March 30, 2020, 12:57:31 PM
All these plushies are amazing! I don't think I ever seen such nicely stitched fan made plushies like these before! They re so adorbs!  :Mo Don't worry, I won't go  :TakeMoney over them. XD ...But I wouldn't mind paying for some yellowbelly plushies. :PCera (Just joking  :bestsharptooth)

Also I can't wait to see your second Rainbow face!  :chompysmile

Aww, thank you!
 :lol :lol :lol

Fan-made plushies do seem to be rare, though I must say I once came across a really great Ducky someone crocheted. This felted one is also amazing, though she seems to have a bit of an underbite.

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LBT Fanart / Re: Gentle Sharptooth’s Fanart
« on: March 30, 2020, 01:48:04 PM »
Sorry, I can't see any of these for some reason. Not sure what's going on there.

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LBT Fanart / Re: Drawings by RainbowFaceProtege :)
« on: March 30, 2020, 01:46:28 PM »
Quote from: Anagnos on March 30, 2020, 12:08:14 PM
More rainbowfaces, there can't ever be enough of them. :p
That's right...they're invading!!! :rainbowwave :rainbowwave :rainbowwave

Just when you thought you had things figured out, now I'm gonna tell you this one actually is a 9x12 poster. :lol

I'm considering doing a series of Rainbow Face fanart with a different "Beyond the Mysterious Beyond" verses on each picture, so putting all the pieces together would result in sort of a collage of the whole song. The words to this song definitely take on a deeper meaning as you grow up, and the same goes for so many other LBT songs, which makes me appreciate them even more that I used to!

I've been drawing fanart on a regular basis since 2016, though I'd done stuff here and there before that. It was when someone gifted me a very nice set of Prismacolor pencils that I really hit the ground running! :DD

Quote from: OwlsCantRead on March 30, 2020, 12:23:05 PM
The blue and white palette works surprisingly well with the wonders of the stars, probably a reference to the ending scene with the night sky in LBT7? The wavy and rounded text also gives the entire piece a modern feel to it, no surprise considering the rainbowfaces.

I like how you made the male and female rainbowface visually distinct. :rainbowwave They are actually quite different in character. :p

Yep, that was a scene that I was taking inspiration from here, along with that moment from "Beyond the Mysterious Beyond" where the background fades to black and a glowing blue meteor shows up.

Thanks, one of my favorite things about the Rainbow Faces is their different personalities! Especially since they don't even have names, it would have been easy for the writers to make their personalities identical, but they didn't, and the result is a couple of characters who bounce off each other pretty well. I feel like one's more head and the other's more heart.

Quote from: Flathead770 on March 30, 2020, 12:40:50 PM
Oh wow that's awesome! Great job with the colouring as well! That is indeed a lot of blue, but it certainly helps with the mysterious nature of the Rainbow Faces!

Thanks, Flathead, I'm happy it seems to have been worth the sacrifice of some pencils. :DD

Quote from: Goldenwind on March 30, 2020, 12:43:00 PM
I am late to the party, I know. XD But I have to say all the art pieces you've shown are simply amazing! As someone who is also a fan of the Rainbowfaces from 7 I am "beyond" impressed.  :rainbowwave :rainbowwave

Thank you! :lol Hey, better late than never for sure!

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LBT Fanfiction / Re: How to name fanfics?
« on: March 30, 2020, 01:15:42 PM »
Quote from: Anagnos on March 30, 2020, 12:42:53 PM
What I try to accomplish when it comes down to naming my fanfics, is to use words that have a sentimental value within the story itself. This can either be quite easy, or very hard. Let's take a look at my latest fanfiction: Ballad of Endless Remorse. Can you see what I try to do here? I try to do my best to give a meaningful impact on the title using themes in the story. I don't know how helpful this is, but there's always the option to use a title name generator, which in my opinion, are quite horrible. :(

As Dr. Seuss might put it, I wouldn't touch one of those generators with a 39-and-a-half foot pole...  :p
I do like the idea of drawing from a theme in the story. Assuming I manage to do a good job putting the theme into words, that should at least give a reader a good idea what the point of the story they're about to read is. Thank you for the tip!

Quote from: Anagnos on March 30, 2020, 01:09:22 PM
And that being said, they're probably one of the most hard-headed thing about creative writing. :(

Yeah, who would've thought it? I can pull a good story out of myself (well, hopefully) and have a great time doing it...but wait, then I need a title and/or summary? Nooooooooo! :olittlefoot

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LBT Fanfiction / Re: How to name fanfics?
« on: March 30, 2020, 01:05:01 PM »
Quote from: OwlsCantRead on March 30, 2020, 12:46:48 PM
You are not. Half the times the title (and summary) of a story makes me backtrack and second-guess myself. Chapter names are just as bad.

CHAPTER names?! Whoa, I don't even go there! "Chapter 1" has a nice ring to it, don't you think? As do Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4...

That's a good tip about following the LBT language, I'll have to remember that one! Your other advice is also helpful, especially considering that I write non-LBT fics sometimes, which (as you said) are just as hairy to invent titles for. You sound like you've managed to get this down to a science! Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it.

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LBT Fanart / Re: RainbowFaceProtege's Plush Projects!!
« on: March 30, 2020, 12:53:00 PM »
 
Quote from: Gentle Sharptooth on March 30, 2020, 12:19:38 PM
More plushies! More plushies! Mlre plushies! :bestsharptooth
Rest assured I'll be putting "mire" up when I'm done with improvements to my second Rainbow Face. :PAli

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Land Before Time TV Series (2007) / Re: So... is the LBT tv series canon?
« on: March 30, 2020, 12:45:07 PM »
Quote from: Anagnos on March 30, 2020, 12:01:50 PM
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I am puzzled why Chomper left his parents. That was never explained to my satisfaction in the series.

The best explanation we got was that Ruby was keeping him ''safe'' for them. For whatever reason, that was never revealed. Which is quite dumb, if you ask me. Perchance it had something to do with Red Claw, but that was never confirmed.

I remember there was one episode (don't know which one) where they showed a flashback of Ruby saying goodbye to her parents, and they were saying she and Chomper needed to go to the Great Valley to find out how the dinosaurs there coexisted and worked together or something like that, since that knowledge could help defeat Red Claw one day. Still not a satisfying explanation for me, though. Why are Chomper and Ruby the "chosen ones" to make this discovery? Why do they make it sound like Chomper and Ruby are on some sort of mission when all through the rest of the series, it seems like they're not actively making observations and seeking knowledge about teamwork and whatnot so much as they're just hanging around and having fun with the other kids?

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LBT Fanfiction / How to name fanfics?
« on: March 30, 2020, 12:37:58 PM »
:areyouserious Am I the only one who really struggles with this? Rargh...more often than not, I never find a satisfactory name for most of my fanfics. Hey, I reach fifty pages of writing before I've even settled on a working title!

For example, I have this fanfic where a sharptooth OC of mine and Chomper befriend each other, and the last name I thought of for it was The Friendship of the Sharpteeth. But I'm not satisfied with that name anymore, since the fanfic is more about the relationship between sharpteeth and leaf-eaters than about just those sharpteeth becoming friends. Plus, I feel like that Friendship of the Sharpteeth title has too much of a cheesy, wishy-washy connotation to it...kinda like the title of The Wisdom of Friends, not adventurous enough!

Similarly, my fanfic-prompt story in which an abandoned baby flyer mistakes Sierra for its father was originally titled Punk, referencing Sierra's opinion of this hatchling (no one'll be surprised that the hatchling totally irritates him). But after looking at this title for a while, I didn't think it had the right ring to it. Looking up the word "punk" in the dictionary confirmed this when the word was defined as "a ruffian; a rebellious young person" making it sound more suitable for a story about a teenager or something. Not the "annoying little kid" connotation I was looking for. After searching through some different words, I settled on Brat (defined as "annoying child"). Then, just in case I still wasn't clear enough on the little-kid angle, I further changed the title to Little Brat!
See how terrible I am at these things?? :facepalm *stuffs my fanfiction docs into a virtual shredder*
So...yeah, if anybody has tips on how to come up with good names, I'd sure be grateful!

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Character Discussion / Re: Top 10 favourite Characters
« on: March 30, 2020, 12:03:10 PM »
Quote from: Anagnos on March 30, 2020, 09:29:49 AM
6. Guido - Who could've seen this coming? I know for sure that I didn't, but after watching the movie again, I grew to appreciate his character more. Here is a person who likely lost everything before winding up in the valley. Though, I wish they'd actually included backstory for this character. That could have changed everything.

Man, if Guido had gotten a backstory, that would've been so cool! I've thought about exploring that in fanfiction before...lots of potential!

Nice assessment of the Rainbow Faces, also, I agree that they were alien scientists of some sort. :smile

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LBT Fanart / Re: Drawings by RainbowFaceProtege :)
« on: March 30, 2020, 11:51:11 AM »
Ah, my profile pic!! It's actually part of a larger picture I drew several months ago that took me five days at least (and ate up more than one whole blue pencil in the process). The profile pic version is also blurred somewhat...I just liked how it looked. :rolleye

Thanks, Impractical--sorry, Sharptooth, it actually is an atom. I always liked that moment in "Beyond the Mysterious Beyond" where he opens his hand and there's an atom spinning above it, so that's where that came from. I'll attach the whole pic here so you guys can see it!
Thank you, Mumbling, I'm glad you like my art! :)petrie Sorry to turn down your offer, though...I tried venturing into DeviantArt before, and it wasn't for me. There are plenty of great artists on there, but there's also plenty of...uh...questionable stuff, which eventually drove me to leave. I also found it annoying that the site was determined to bury my work in the search results since I wasn't a paying member, even when the art above mine wasn't as relevant.

Quote from: Mumbling on March 30, 2020, 02:56:36 AM
One small point of feedback I'd offer for the first picture of the rainbowfaces, would be that there are probably more stars visible in the not-light-polluted dino world. But it's really just a small thing in another wise great picture.

Good point--the Milky Way probably would've been plain as day stretching across the dino world's night sky! Eep...I don't know if my art skills are up for the challenge, though. :confused

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Land Before Time TV Series (2007) / Re: So... is the LBT tv series canon?
« on: March 30, 2020, 11:24:56 AM »
Quote from: Gentle Sharptooth on March 30, 2020, 01:31:05 AM
Quote from: OwlsCantRead on March 30, 2020, 01:23:31 AM
Quote from: Gentle Sharptooth on March 29, 2020, 09:30:02 PM
I think the Series is canon now because of LBTXIV: Journey of the Brave which features Chomper and Ruby. This crosses over the movies and series.
This should pretty much quash this argument once and for all. The TV series itself has a sense of continuity by bringing back old characters, so having Ruby (a TV series gang member) appear in Journey of the Brave should prove once and for all that it is a canon part of the LBT continuity, even if the Red Claw plot thread was left dangling.


Redclaw may make an appearance in LBTXV, so there still is hope. :)

I was sort of surprised they didn't put Red Claw in XIV, since Chomper and Ruby made it in there. Of course, I also remember hoping we were going to get a proper backstory for Chomper and Ruby when I saw them in the XIV trailer...but it was not to be.

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LBT Fanart / Re: RainbowFaceProtege's Plush Projects!!
« on: March 30, 2020, 11:18:25 AM »
Quote from: Mumbling on March 30, 2020, 02:50:13 AM
I understand your own critiques, Rainbow, but again this plushie looks really adorable :D I love the fact that it can sit upright (which would be harder to accomplish with "proper" anatomy). Do you happen to remember how long this one took to finish?

Thanks Mumbling! :SmugSpike Yep, having her able to sit upright was one of my goals when I was making her. As for how long she took to finish, I don't remember since this is one of my older ones, but I'd venture to say it was about a week. That head would've taken me a long time.

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