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The script for LBT 3 Time of Great Giving Found?!?!?!

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaaa-a-a-ah! This rainbow swimmer is kinda flipping out in excitement, hehe-hahaha! :Mo :Mo :olittlefoot

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
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And thank you as well for bringing Mr. Clubtail's wiki post about the script to my attention. I highly doubt I would've noticed it in time otherwise.
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Well this is a bit speculative on my part. But I think that certain movie ideas got changed around in the LBT production queue. They were probably originally planning something else for the third movie, and so The Time of the Great Giving was going to be the fourth movie. Which makes me wonder what the original third movie was going to be. Maybe Journey Through the Mists?

It does remind me of the original LBT 6 script. At the end of it, there's mention of the weather getting colder and snowy, which makes me think that The Big Freeze was originally planned to be the seventh movie, before it got pushed back to being the eighth.
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It is such great news if the script is real!!!!!  :)littlefoot  :CeraHAPPY  :duckyhappy  :petrieLOL  :^^spike  :chompysmile  :RubyCurious
Thank you everyone who helped to find it and to share information!

Hope someday we will see scripts for every sequel!

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Originally 3rd was 4th and 4th was 3rd, according to some storyboards.
https://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=16525.0
« Last Edit: Today at 01:27:32 PM by Sneak »


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@Sneak: Thank yo-o-ou so-o-o much for sharing that link with us! :ChomperPOG
I'll add this link you shared to the OP. This does give me faith that this should be the real deal. :D

And yeah, Mo-o-o hope so-o-o to-o-o-o! Having all of the original scripts safe and sound in the community's hand is quite vital for their preservation! :smile

@StardustSoldier:
Hmmm, fascinating. Mo-o-o wonder if this will be reflected on the titles of the final draft scripts for "The Big Freeze" movie once that script is found. :ChomperOhhh :olittlefoot :RubyCurious :petrieooohh
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