An Odd Rumor

[Raptor]

Way back when, when The Land Before Time was the only LBT film, some people thought that the Gang had died, and the The Great Valley was an interpetation of Heaven. Now, this, I thought, was weird. Where did people get that idea? A little more research, and it led to me finding that this was started when some guy thought the Sharptooth had killed the Gang, and that the whole "Sharptooth's Death" and "Great Valley Arrival" Sequnces were just the Gang arriving at "heaven". Anybody else heard of this weirdness?

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[DarkHououmon]

I have heard of that rumor. Some guy on DA claimed that that was the original ending to Land Before Time.

http://neverland-syndrome.deviantart.com/a...al-End-54143793

[Raptor]

I'm fairly sure Don Bluth has said that the ending was never meant to mean any sort of "heaven", and there was never any other ending involving the Gang's deaths. Besides, that would have been rather depressing for all the kids watching. The rumor that had started said that the deaths weren't shown because it would be too violent. So.... thier idea of heaven was killing a giant Tyrannosaurus and ending up in a lush valley?

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[DarkHououmon]

Yeah, true.

[Raptor]

More reseach, and I've discovered that the guy who started it really believed this, and didn't just start it to mess people up. He thought that Littlefoot's mother's ghost was guiding him to heaven, and that the first view of the Great Valley was just Littlefoot realizing he was going to die. Depressing, ain't it? I think it would have been a horrible ending, to find out that the Dinosaurs had died after going through so much to get to the valley.

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[DarkHououmon]

Quite a unique way to look at the ending.

[Raptor]

Admittedly, it would have been interesting if that's how they meant the ending, but it still would have been rather saddening.

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[DarkHououmon]

Yeah.

Then again they pulled off something similar in All Dogs Go To Heaven, didn't they?

[Malte279]

I heard that rumor too, but I didn't ever see any reference in an official source. In general I don't consider a children's movie with dying main characters an impossible thing, even at that time. Don't forget that "All dog's go to heaven" was in the cinemas at the same time as the land before time was. With dinosaurs being "destined" to die out it may be that somebody thought about such an ending of LBT. There are also more official sources claiming that earlier concepts of LBT were more gloomy (for example by a higher stress of the theme of racism), but I never saw any official claim of LBT characters' death. So it remains a rumor though one which I would not label as as unthinkable as some other LBT rumors we have had before.

[Malte279]

You beat me to the "All Dogs go to heaven" reference Kacie

[DarkHououmon]

You beat me to the "All Dogs go to heaven" reference Kacie

Yeah I apparently did. XD

All Dogs Go To Heaven did have the main character die in the end.

[Raptor]

While that is correct, All Dogs go To Heaven took a more cheerful angle(I haven't seen it in ages, but I'm fairly sure this is true, unless this an entrily differant movie I'm thinking about) on it. The angle this seems to be coming from, whilst being a happy ending, would still be saddening. All this talk of the orginal LBT makes me want to watch it again, but unfortunatly, my parents got rid of all my LBT movies because they thought I was too old for them. But, never mind that, back to the main subject.

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[DarkHououmon]

I have the original movie..somewhere. It's an old VHS tape. I dunno if it still plays or not.

[Raptor]

I read up on it, and indeed, the main character of All Dogs go to Heaven was already dead before his death at the end. So, it seems differant then the circumstances suggested in the LBT rumor.

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[DarkHououmon]

I read up on it, and indeed, the main character of All Dogs go to Heaven was already dead before his death at the end. So, it seems differant then the circumstances suggested in the LBT rumor.

He did die earlier on, near the beginning. But he revived himself with that life clock of his. So he was technically alive during the course of most of the movie.

[Sky]

I heard that rumor too.
I was quite depressed when I heard that.  :cry2

But thankfully, it was a rumor. Still, I'm quite sad if I think of it.

[Raptor]

Alright, it's been confirmed. Don Bluth always meant the ending to by portrayed as it currently is. The Great Valley was never meant to by Dinosaur Heaven, at least not in a literal sense. Sure would have been a sad ending, though. If that was what the ending was going to mean, how would it be identified as Dinosaur Heaven?

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[Malte279]

I do see where the assumption of the Great Valley as a dinosaur's heaven might have come from.
"Some things you see with your eyes, others you see with your heart."
In a way it is almost a little disenchanting to see the quote referring to the solid real place the Great Valley turned out to be. Littlefoot's Mum might have responded that the Great Valley's existence is an asserted fact based on the many reports from dinosaurs who have been there before (from a sequel's perspective Littlefoot's grandpa even knew about details of the Great Valley such as the legend of saurus Rock, implying that maybe he had actually been there before).
That way there would have been no speculation on the Great Valley being a kind of dinosaur heaven and the land before time as a whole would have been considerably worse without that magical quote and the impression it created.

[Raptor]

Ah, it makes sense now. Still, it is odd that he would assume that. You'd think it would be more obvious if the Gang was meant to be dead.

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[The Great Valley Guardian]

That's a rumor I've never heard of before! This is an intersting topic!