I didn't do a marathon per se, but over the last month I've watched all 14 movies and the TV series. Haven't done this since 2016. This is the first week for me with no TLBT content. I feel kind of lost tbh.

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Quote from: Sneak on April 15, 2020, 10:37:59 AM

well, if you mean "Littlefoot with his parent - being without his friends - joining friends - travel - great valley" sequence, then well, there's some mirriring, partly.

That's what I mean. Even the part when Littlefoot and Cera fight is mirrored.

I also noticed the similarity...Littlefoot and Cera fight, and then the Gang splits up, with Littlefoot on his own and Cera leading the others. I thought that latter detail was kind of an absurd thing to rehash. (Ducky, Petrie, Spike--what on earth are you guys siding with Cera again for?? You've learned how that goes!) If there was one problem I had with XIV, it was that.
Fortunately, though, that was the only big problem I had with XIV! I enjoyed the rest of the movie enough that I was able to roll my eyes at the rehashed bit and move on. Ever since the franchise seemed to end on the disappointing note that was XIII, I'd been dreaming (sometimes literally!) about a new LBT movie happening, so finding out XIV was going to happen, anticipating its release, and finally getting my hands on it brought back all the feels for me!

I felt the same way, it was so disappointing to let it end on XIII. Too bad XIV wasn't enough to kick the franchise back up. But I believe we'll get a remake or a new tv series, even if it takes another ten years to do so.

Has anyone pointed out how this movie is in a way a reverse mirror of the original? Plotwise, of course.

According to this article, The Land Before Time is now streaming on Netflix. I don't know if it's only in the UK, I don't have Netflix, so can any of you confirm this?

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Quote from: RainbowFaceProtege on April 07, 2020, 04:03:59 PM

Quote from: Gentle Sharptooth on April 07, 2020, 02:46:43 PM

What offends me most is there is no OG Sharptooth Plushie! RAWR!

Now that you mention it, it is weird that they never made any sharpteeth, original sharptooth or otherwise. When I was little, I was stuck chasing my plush Gang of Five with generic T. rex toys...sigh.

Its a Sharpspiracy! I think the plushie makers are anti-sharpteeth! #sharpteethlivesmatter

Well, Pizza Hut made a Sharptooth hand puppet. It's quite big.

Wow. I had no idea these existed.

Are the Playmate's toys still available on Amazon? I've checked but couldn't find them.

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Quote from: NewOrder on March 30, 2020, 02:11:54 PM

I've been on lockdown for 19 days and I've decided to rewatch the entire LBT series. Today was time for The Great Longneck Migration. It's incredible how after all these years this movie still fills my heart. It's hard to stop the tears listening to Bestest Friends.

I know this sequel has a lot of emotional points, but it still grinds my gears that they didn't find a way to include Ali in it. What about you guys? How do you think they should've included her?

Honestly, I've thought about it, and it made me realize something.

This is supposed to be a story about Littlefoot reuniting with his father, first and foremost. It may not look like it in the beginning, but ultimately, that's what this film boils down to. Without that, there's no other meaningful theme or message that can be gleaned. The whole Longneck migration/solar eclipse thing is just a complex excuse to get the two of them together, as well as a red herring/smokescreen to make the twist leave even more of an impact. (Plus, since this is the tenth LBT film, I assume the crew wanted to make this commemorative movie as special and epic as possible.)

Because of that, I think Ali's inclusion in the film would've been more of a detriment, a distraction from Littlefoot and Bron's storyline, than anything else. As much as I would've liked for Ali to be in the movie, I think it might've been for the best. For example, before I thought of this, I thought Ali could've played the role of Littlefoot's love interest here, and Shorty falls in love with her too, so he and Littlefoot strike up a rivalry over her. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized how out-of-place it would seem in the overall movie. I can't imagine what kind of role Bron would've played in this scenario, how it would affect Littlefoot and Bron's relationship (whether positively or negatively), and whether it would've been beneficial or detrimental to Shorty's own character arc as the writers intended it.

There's also the issue of pacing and fulfilling time quotas for the movie. The movie needs to be 85 or so minutes, otherwise I assume it would go over-budget. How much of the film would've been sacrificed just so Ali can have a role in this? Maybe there might be a sequence or two that could be cut for her sake, but once again, this goes back to my earlier argument on how out-of-place she already would be.

With that in mind, I personally can't imagine anything that would be good for her outside of a small cameo. But that's just me, though.

Honestly, I feel like had they put her in the film, she might have served a real purpose instead of being completely forgotten. This entire film's plot was simply too boring to get excited about, and it showed especially with the level of writing. I can't be the only one to think that it was probably one of the laziest in the entire franchise. From the very start, they gave us this foreshadow that the dreams the longnecks had would play a major role, but they seemed completely okay with ditching that idea before it even had a chance to take root.

We can argue that had they put her in the film, she would've become essentially useless and merely served a side role in the grand scheme of things. However, I feel like her presence would have made the movie so much more enjoyable to watch. And the talk about Littlefoot and Shorty having a quarrel about who will eventually triumph to become her mate is just ridiculous. They're children. Love is not the first thing on their mind, especially after coming to a new place in search of answers for their peculiar dreams.

Yes, the 10th film is not the best sequel there is available, but it doesn't deserve the place of being the worst sequel overall. People's opinions are not always one, and there is nothing wrong with that.

I agree that in terms of pacing and the overall plot, it would be hard to find the time or the space in the movie to fit Ali in a way that would be satisfying for the fans and that would make some sense to this sequel's main story arc.

That being said I thought about a few ways that she could be introduced. One way would be for her herd to arrive in the great valley just before the sleep stories about the eclipse began. Then the old one could be the one to tell the story about how Longnecks stopped the night circle from bringing the bright circle down upon the Earth. Littlefoot and his Grandparents would follow Ali's herd to the meteorite crash site.

Seeing Littlefoot and Ali going off on an adventure together would make Cera jealous and she and the rest of the gang would follow. The third act could still be about Littlefoot meeting Bron, with Ali falling a bit to the background.

Another way would be to have Littlefoot and the gang meet Ali as they were leaving the crash site at the end of the movie and this could serve as cliffhanger for the next movie. Instead of Invasion of the Tinysaurus we'd have something like Return to the Land of Mists with Ali having a greater roll.

PS.: I had no idea there were people who liked Rhett's character.

I can't believe it's already been 15 years. I know I haven't been as active here as I have in the past, but it's one of those places I love to return to every once in a while. Glad to see it's still up and running.

Keep up the great work guys! Happy Star Day for all of us

This is great news. Hope we're getting new sequels or at least a new tv series. I just hope it's not a reboot.

The new forum looks great, had a bit of a hard time finding it on google though.

We are a small comunity but a very tight one. I've met a few people throughout my life who have been TLBT fans, most of them only watched the original movie and maybe one or two sequels.

I guess the problem with this franchise is that it's targeted towards a very young audience, so most fans eventually grow out of it. Since, it's sort of a niche franchise, it doesn't attract a lot of fans in the first place, so the amount of people who keep on loving it throughout their adult life diminishes through time.

It also doesn't help that in the last ten years all we got was Journey of the Brave.

I am not really a fan of reboots, but if we want new people to join our fandom, maybe it would do The Land Before Time well to reboot the whole thing and update it to current audiences.