Momma Longneck? whats your name?

Bruton the Iguanodon · **Reply #40 on:** November 18, 2011, 05:08:42 PM

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A good name for littlefoot¥s mom would be "Bleu" (french for blue) Because in LBT 10 her skin color is blue. if we talk about of couples "Bron and Bleu"(Brown and Blue) sounds good for me. Because they remind me to Hige and Blue a couple of the anime serie named "wolf Rain".

She wasn't blue, though! I don't know what color she really was but the people who drew 10 never watched 1.

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According to that book Littlefoot's grandfather placed his huge foot beside Littlefoot's tiny foot right after Littlefoot hatched and said: "Look how small his feet are! One of my toes is bigger than one of his feet!"

Is that the speaking role Bill Erwin almost got?

Malte279 · **Reply #41 on:** November 18, 2011, 07:32:34 PM

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Is that the speaking role Bill Erwin almost got?

That is very uncertain. Thing is that this story appeared only in a German book adaptation of the movie that appeared long after the movie. I really like that explanation for Littlefoot and I cannot exclude the possibility that there may have been any such idea from the makers of the original movie, but there is not the tiniest shred of evidence for it, so it remains pure speculation.

Pikkutassu · **Reply #42 on:** November 18, 2011, 10:09:32 PM

I thought her name was Thunderfoot?

Malte279 · **Reply #43 on:** November 19, 2011, 05:22:47 AM

Thunderfoot was a name originally considered for Littlefoot but then changed because they thought Thunderfoot would sound a little intimidating. For all that is proven no official name for Littlefoot's mother was ever considered.

Petrie85 · **Reply #44 on:** November 19, 2011, 09:03:23 AM

Maybe a good name would be Lisa.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #45 on:** November 19, 2011, 11:55:13 AM

Quote from: Bruton the Iguanodon,Nov 18 2011 on 04:08 PM

She wasn't blue, though! I don't know what color she really was but the people who drew 10 never watched 1.

That is correct. She was never blue in the original. She was actually brown, closer to Bron's color. I did a comparison of how she was in the first movie and tenth movie and found her colors were completely wrong. For some reason, they decided to change her to blue.

Another piece of evidence that shows that they may not have watched, or paid enough attention, to the original when they made the 10th movie is Bron's excuse as to why he was gone for years. I can't remember, but there's something about what he said that contradicted something in the movie or didn't make sense.

Bruton the Iguanodon · **Reply #46 on:** November 20, 2011, 03:34:29 AM

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I can't remember, but there's something about what he said that contradicted something in the movie or didn't make sense.

What was it? If you can't remember it can't be that big of a deal. And why did they change her to blue?

Malte279 · **Reply #47 on:** November 20, 2011, 06:26:05 AM

There was very little in LBT 10 (link leads to a discussion of LBT 10) that did make any sense if one takes the content of the original movie into account.
As for the why (and as for many of the why's you are asking) we don't have any more information than you. About many of the why's we can only speculate rather than provide the official / absolute answers you seem to be looking for.

Pikkutassu · **Reply #48 on:** November 20, 2011, 08:18:51 PM

Quote from: Malte279,Nov 19 2011 on 04:22 AM

Thunderfoot was a name originally considered for Littlefoot but then changed because they thought Thunderfoot would sound a little intimidating. For all that is proven no official name for Littlefoot's mother was ever considered.

Ah. On some cel auction lists her name is claimed to be Thunderfoot:

http://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?...370949#topoflot

Bruton the Iguanodon · **Reply #49 on:** November 30, 2011, 07:25:44 PM

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There was very little in LBT 10 (link leads to a discussion of LBT 10) that did make any sense if one takes the content of the original movie into account.

Like what, exactly? Bron looking for a place for his family when they were traveling to the valley? Momma Longneck being blue? What else?

Malte279 · **Reply #50 on:** December 01, 2011, 03:11:26 AM

Look up the link in the post and you will find the thread in which this was discussed in detail.

LBTLover1 · **Reply #51 on:** December 13, 2011, 08:45:53 PM

Her name would go by her species just like other characters...

Micro-rapter Gui - Guido
Pteranodon - Pterano
Hypsopholodon - Hyp
Nodosaurus - Nod
Muttasaurus - Mutt

jansenov · **Reply #52 on:** December 14, 2011, 08:02:23 AM

Cera, Ms. Maia, Toppsy, Tricia, Tria, Rinkus, Sierra, Mo, Dil, Icky and Bron were also named after their species or a higher clade their species is a part of. Even Ducky, from English "duckbill" ( the Greek "saurolophos" means "pointed lizard", and "hadrosauros" would be "strong lizard"). However, Littlefoot, Petrie, Spike, Tippy, Thicknose, Rhett, Ali, Sue, Tickles do not follow this convention. So, she can be given any name.

Bruton the Iguanodon · **Reply #53 on:** December 31, 2011, 10:49:31 PM

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For some reason, they decided to change her to blue.

This greatly saddened me because it felt disrespectful to a dead character

LBTLover1 · **Reply #54 on:** January 03, 2012, 09:52:13 PM

I honestly don't see how color disrespects a character...would you rather her original or follow the bright color scheme as of the the 10th movie.

Petrie85 · **Reply #55 on:** January 04, 2012, 07:44:33 AM

I don't think it's disrespectful at all.

Dr. Curzon · **Reply #56 on:** January 06, 2012, 05:01:59 AM

^Hmmm... Maybe it was because of the light. They had...different colors at the end of I.

As for the name, it's one of the things that just have to be guessed.

Petrie85 · **Reply #57 on:** January 06, 2012, 08:05:31 AM

Yeah most say her name was blue tho.

Bruton the Iguanodon · **Reply #58 on:** January 08, 2012, 01:02:02 AM

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I honestly don't see how color disrespects a character...would you rather her original or follow the bright color scheme as of the the 10th movie.

Her original color, hands down.

Bruton the Iguanodon · **Reply #59 on:** February 23, 2012, 10:29:51 PM

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I honestly don't see how color disrespects a character...would you rather her original or follow the bright color scheme as of the the 10th movie.

I know it's not exactly the same, but imagine this: there's a character on a TV series; she has black hair and green eyes. But the actress playing her is fired. Then they put a actress/actor in the same role, but that actor/actress has blonde hair and brown eyes. Should the character's hair and eye color matter? No. But the point is, it's hard not to look at the new version of the character and still see the original character you fell in love with.

Take Beauty and the Beast, for example. People say the prince, once he's human, doesn't look like he should, but as Doug pointed out in his Disneycember review, this is cause it's the best the audiences grew to like. We know it's him, but yet it's not.

So while I can live with the decision to make Littlefoot's mother blue, like a navvi, or the little blue brotosaurus---it's simply not the same longneck mother who we grew to love, who we cheered on while fighting the sharptooth, and whose death we cried over by the bucketloads. I'm not saying I like it, but if they really felt they had to change it...well, I guess it could be worse. They could have made her bright yellow, like a yellow belly's belly