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General Land Before Time / Original script drafts for LBT 1 and LBT 3 Time of Great Giving Found?!?!?!
« on: May 11, 2024, 11:44:16 PM »
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Aaaa-a-a-ah! This rainbow swimmer is kinda flipping out in excitement, hehe-hahaha!
Why, yo-o-ou may ask? All credit goes to Disneysaurus of LBT wiki, and also, thank you to @Mr. Clubtail for sharing the Ebay link auction listing on the LBT wiki (Disneysaurus shared with him prior).
Disneysaurus found the original final draft of the Land Before Time 3: Time of Great Giving movie, which seems to have been written on April 5th, 1994 according to the photo of the first page shown. There are multiple previews of what the script looks like, which can be found on the Ebay listing below.
LAND BEFORE TIME III: Time of Great Giving (4/5/94) Universal Animation Final++
With the images that can be found at the link above, there is one important discrepancy that Mo-o-o-o wants to point out here in the first picture shown (if you haven't noticed yet):
Instead of saying "Land Before Time III" as you may expect at the top of the front page of the script, it says "Land Before Time IV" instead. Peculiar, right? Mo-o-o had suspicions of the authenticity of the script, but @StardustSoldier assured me that it is probably legit. Since I don't have much understanding of this, he gladly agreed to help me explain why the title is listed differently in this original final draft script.
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Edit: Thank yo-o-ou to @Sneak for a proper explanation of why the first page of the final draft script would show "Land Before Time IV" instead of "Land Before Time III" as expected.
Edit 2: Thank yo-o-ou to @RainbowFaceProtege for pointing out that the same seller on Ebay also has another script up for auction. This time, it is an early draft for the script of the first Land Before Time movie! Littlefoot was still referred to as "Thunderfoot" in this script compared to the final version.
Here's a cleaner link to that Ebay listing for that LBT 1 script.
LAND BEFORE TIME (BEGAN) (4/23/87) Early Title 64p. Hand-Stamped Numbers + COA!
Aaaa-a-a-ah! This rainbow swimmer is kinda flipping out in excitement, hehe-hahaha!
Why, yo-o-ou may ask? All credit goes to Disneysaurus of LBT wiki, and also, thank you to @Mr. Clubtail for sharing the Ebay link auction listing on the LBT wiki (Disneysaurus shared with him prior).
Disneysaurus found the original final draft of the Land Before Time 3: Time of Great Giving movie, which seems to have been written on April 5th, 1994 according to the photo of the first page shown. There are multiple previews of what the script looks like, which can be found on the Ebay listing below.
LAND BEFORE TIME III: Time of Great Giving (4/5/94) Universal Animation Final++
With the images that can be found at the link above, there is one important discrepancy that Mo-o-o-o wants to point out here in the first picture shown (if you haven't noticed yet):
Instead of saying "Land Before Time III" as you may expect at the top of the front page of the script, it says "Land Before Time IV" instead. Peculiar, right? Mo-o-o had suspicions of the authenticity of the script, but @StardustSoldier assured me that it is probably legit. Since I don't have much understanding of this, he gladly agreed to help me explain why the title is listed differently in this original final draft script.
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Edit: Thank yo-o-ou to @Sneak for a proper explanation of why the first page of the final draft script would show "Land Before Time IV" instead of "Land Before Time III" as expected.
Originally 3rd was 4th and 4th was 3rd, according to some storyboards.
https://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=16525.0
Edit 2: Thank yo-o-ou to @RainbowFaceProtege for pointing out that the same seller on Ebay also has another script up for auction. This time, it is an early draft for the script of the first Land Before Time movie! Littlefoot was still referred to as "Thunderfoot" in this script compared to the final version.
How cool!
The same seller also has an early script from the original LBT film, too! With Littlefoot's name as "Thunderfoot!"
Here's a cleaner link to that Ebay listing for that LBT 1 script.
LAND BEFORE TIME (BEGAN) (4/23/87) Early Title 64p. Hand-Stamped Numbers + COA!