I really don't remember...

It was all my mom's doing. She knew I liked dinosaurs and when she saw the movie come out an equation must have popped into her head.
Dinosaurs + Children's movie = My son not crying for a while.

So, it was all her. She put the movie in the VCR and I stared in awe. TALKING DINOSAURS! HOLY CRAPSHAITH! Is what I probably would have said if I had been able to fully articulate my thoughts.

I started to understand it as I grew up... I know I was born in the year the movie actually came out, so I didn't actually watch it until a few years later. Besides Pinnochio, it was one of the only movies I ever actually WANTED to watch, so I did...and often. So, mom tried to take good care of it whenever my daily, or sometimes weekly whim came to pass.

The movie started to be an emotional attachment to me, and when I found out that I was getting the sequel for Christmas the year it came out, I was flying through the roof. I unwrapped it at my Grandma's house and probably watched it ten times within the following six days.

As the years went by and all the sequels started coming out I was getting disenchanted with the whole thing... There were just plain too many... But then there was another side of me that just wouldn't let go of it. I cherished these characters and grew up with them too much in my childhood to just let them go...maybe I'm pathetic, maybe I'm just obsessed. But either way, I rediscovered the series last year when I got sick and watched 1-12 on youtube.

I kinda rationalized it to myself that they were simply pointing it at the kids now. This isn't Don Bluth we're talking about with the sequels, I guess I just wasn't quite old enough to realize it. So I thought about it and gave up trying to be against it, I liked it too much. So now I own LBT 1-3 on DVD, and I'm trying to get the rest of them so I can watch them all I like...seeing as how youtube has frustratingly taken down all the full LBT movie parts, but whatevah.

Anyhow...I guess I have to attribute this obsession to at least my mom. She was the one who popped in the tape... Hehehe.  

I don't know, one of the pieces of dialogue in Journey to Big Water kinda startled me. Littlefoot was talking about how he wished his mother had left him a little brother or something like that, and the line was delivered in like...annoyance. I dunno, I just never expected a character like Littlefoot to say something like that, even if he was bored out of his poor little skull.  :blink:

Okay...where to start...

Well, first off, I just would like to say that I'm almost shocked that a place like this even exists, although exceptionally happy that it does.

I'm just a simple 18 year-old, my earliest memories are of watching the 1st one a hundred, thousand, million times as a toddler and still being almost completely obsessed with it even as the sequels came out.

Littlefoot and Chomper are my favorite characters. No exceptions.

It's hard for me to determine my most favorite one...I love the 1st one of course, but the 5th one had such a different feel to it, and alot of my most favorite songs are in it too...and then there was the Great Longneck Migration with Brom...Gah.

Also, where the heck did the 13th one suddenly come from? I didn't even see advertisements for it. O_o

Anyhow, I'm overjoyed to see this site. I almost shed tears of disbelief...haha...I'm a wuss..........

So it's nice to be here. And very nice to see that people still care about those five. ^_^