Here in Zagreb there are many new "Zemlja daleke proslosti" ("Land of distant past" in Croatian) DVDs too. Especially DVDs of the original movie (this is the 66 min version, and Ducky is male in the Croatian dub :blink: ). In book stores they cost 60 kunas (8 euros or 11 dollars), and in supermarkets you can find them for 30 kunas. No sign of VHS though, in stores or newspaper announcements. It seems that LBT is a relatively recent phenomenon in Croatia. The TV series haven't been translated to Croatian, though I don't know why because Croatian is well understood by Slovenes, Bosniaks, Serbs and Macedonians. It's a market of 20 million people. I know that Serbs don't do their own dubs, they simply take the Croatian ones. I guess they don't appreciate their language as much as we appreciate our own.

^Heh, I loved high school. The faculty, not so much, but only because there's much more work. In high school I had all 5s (the highest mark in Croatia) with little effort. But the job is fantastic once I have my diploma.
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I misread the poll question. I spend less than 5% of my total time on LBT. That would be about 20% of my recreational time.

I had an eight year long "LBT hibernation". I rediscovered LBT in February 2010, but I joined this forum just recently. There are other members here who had even longer periods of "hibernation". But silly me! This is your introduction thread. So welcome to the GOF and have a blast!

Walking away seems to be the most logical explanation. After all, the many dinosaur skeletons we see just outside the Great Valley in LBT 2 could be a dinosaur graveyard. It's kind of hard to believe those dinosaurs died of starvation just the moment before entering the Great Valley. And we also see a Tyrannosaur skeleton, so maybe they are the scavengers who frequent the graveyard. It could be one of the reasons why there are so many sharpteeth roaming around the Great Valley. The other reason would be ambushing migratory herds who get in and out.

That would mean that historic events lie at the core of myths. But is this really so? I think that myths like the siege of Troy, the foundation of Rome, the Niebelungslieder, rather than being a glorified review of historic events, are actually ancient cosmological myths set in a historical setting. Siegfried is an archetypal Cultural Hero, who confronts the God of the Underworld (the Serpent). It is probably just a historicized, and thus euphemized (and thus more acceptable to a Christian society) version of the cosmological battle between Thor and the World Serpent for the World Tree. Historical events did have an impact on mythology, but it's core remained intact. Some deities, like Zeus, go millenia back and are older than the Greek language itself. Zeus is just a Greek rendering of the Proto-Indo-European name Deiwos phter. The Lithuanian rendering is Dievas, the Germanic rendering is Tiwaz (Tiw, Tyr), and the Latin rendering is Iuppiter. All these (I can elaborate on this later) are essentially the same deity. Proto-Indo-European was spoken 5000 years ago.

Not sure if this is offtopic, but I have first hand experience of bombing. As you all I know, I'm from Croatia. And Croatia was in war with Yugoslav forces and Serb separatists from 1991 to 1995.  Since Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia left Yugoslavia in 1991, the vast majority of the soldiers and nearly all of the officers in the Yugoslav army were Serbs. From 1991 to roughly 1994, the Yugoslav military had complete superiority over Croatian forces.  

My hometown is located near the Bosnian border, and we experienced bombings day and night from Serb positions over the border (today Republika Srpska is located there). Occasionally there would be air bombings, but most of the bombings were carried out by howitzers and multi-rocket launchers. When the siren went of off, my family would rush to the basement. Sometimes you could hear the howitzers firing, and you count seconds until the bombs fall on the ground. I was a kid back then, but I knew something terrible was happening outside, and I never even asked my parents to look outside, even though I was very curious as a child. The buildings that sustained the greatest damage were the church and the hospital, so I think the purpose of those bombings were to break our morale, since eastern Croatia was effectively a large cauldron, cut off from the rest of the country.  

We were surrounded by Republika Srpska (Serb-occupied part of Bosnia) in the south, Republika Srpska Krajina (Serb-occupied part of Croatia) in the west, and the Republic of Serbia to the east. The only friendly area was to the north, Republic of Hungary, one of Croatia's closest allies. Fortunately, in 1994, with all the new weapons illegaly acquisitioned Croatia started to gain superiority over Yugoslav forces, so in 1994 Croatian forces destroyed the Serb pincer that separated eastern Croatia from central Croatia. The war ended in 1995 with wiping of all Serb forces from Croatian territory and the disbanding of Republika Srpska Krajina. Arguably, that's also the time when Croatian forces comitted atrocities over the Serb population.

This is still a matter dispute between Serbia and Croatia, as well as Serb atrocities in Vukovar and Dubrovnik.

I sincerely do hope that, if not avoided alltogether, that bombing will become very precise in the future. It's a terrible thing to see half the houses in your street destroyed, believe me.

I searched through this subforum and realized this wasn't asked before.

Petrie's mom has always been one of my favorite adults from the Land Before Time universe, but why did she leave her son behind? Sure, Petrie was clumsier than his siblings, but couldn't she carry him with her? Petrie was a baby after all.

Petrie could have been scared by the earthquake and ran away from his family, but still, wouldn't a flyer be able to find him? It's not like the chasm left by earthquake represents an obstacle to a flyer.

What's your speculation on this?

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