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Hey, everyone. After such a disastrous 2022, I knew I had to do something to bring a productive start to 2023 with the Stone of Cold Fire VO project still pretty much in a state of limbo. I recently watched a video by MovieFlame showing how much screen time each Harry Potter character got in the films versus how many times they were mentioned in the books, and this inspired me to start my own screen time experiment, only here I'll be giving it a shot with Land Before Time characters!
We all know how the original Gang of Five tend to be ranked (Littlefoot, of course, being their fearless leader, followed by Cera, then Ducky, Petrie, and finally Spike), but this had me wondering, how relevant is each character, and does their screen time match up with how they are generally ranked? This would especially be questionable for at least a few of the sequels since Cera, whom is considered the #2 member of the Gang, has never been the central focus of ANY of the 14 films, and we have at least one film focused on Ducky and Spike, and two films focused on Petrie.
The way I'm going to be doing this is that I am going to add up every single frame which a particular character is on screen and see how much it adds up on the editing system (that being Vegas Pro). I will then rank each character based on how much screen time they got. I am likely going to split this project into 15 separate parts, in which I focus on each of the 14 films, and then wrap it all up by adding up all the films together and rank each character based on their total screen time throughout the entire film series.
There are a few certain criteria I'll be using here. Unnamed background dinosaurs who have no dialogue will NOT count (unless it's a character who becomes notable in a later movie, such as most of the Gang's families in the first movie who become major supporting characters later in the series). Certain sequel Sharpteeth may count if they come into conflict with the main cast of children on one or more notable occasions.
I'm honestly curious to see what results I get, and I'm sure there might be a few surprises here and there. I can't wait to share whatever surprises I end up finding! :)petrie
I'll follow this up with a post later this week with the results I get for character screen time for the original movie! I seriously doubt the first movie will have any wild, shocking surprises, but you never know.
Anyways, have a nice day, and I'll see you later! :)petrie
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Sounds like a lot of work! Good luck! :littlefoot:)
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This project sounds really fun! :D
I would like to see it!
(I have to say, if you meant Stone of Cold Fire as one of films focused on Petrie, then there's at least one film focused on Cera: Invasion of Tinysaures. In both movies they share spotlight with one popular longneck, but still)
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That sure sounds like an interesting project. I look forward to seeing the results.
If it's not too soon to ask, would you consider also doing all 26 episodes of the TV series? I'm just as curious about the characters screen time there as I am with the movies (especially since there's one episode where Cera, Spike, and Ruby make no appearances at all, so it does make me wonder if being completely absent from just one episode has any significant impact on such a statistic).
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That sure sounds like an interesting project. I look forward to seeing the results.
If it's not too soon to ask, would you consider also doing all 26 episodes of the TV series? I'm just as curious about the characters screen time there as I am with the movies (especially since there's one episode where Cera, Spike, and Ruby make no appearances at all, so it does make me wonder if being completely absent from just one episode has any significant impact on such a statistic).
Just to be clear, I have no intention of including the TV series in this project. I honestly feel it would throw the whole thing off, especially when it comes to the overall rankings at the end of the project. This will focus ONLY on the 14 films. I might try out the TV series in a separate future project someday.
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Separated project / round would be nice for TV series. :)
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Okay, everyone. After thoroughly analyzing the movie frame-by-frame multiple times and having to re-watch infamous, cringe-worthy scenes (some of them no less than five times), I have the results for each character's screen time for the original Land Before Time!
Fair warning: I ended up discovering a startling surprise that may make us all never look at this movie the same way again ...
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No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Even I thought for a moment that Vegas Pro had left me cross-eyed, but the editing system speaks nothing but the truth ...
Ducky has more screen time than Cera! MORE THAN TWO MINUTES no less! :littlefootscared
Even though Ducky was formally introduced to the audience much later than Cera, the Threehorn's absence from most of the final battle coupled with Ducky being the bait for Sharptooth essentially allowed the Swimmer to overtake the Threehorn for second place in screen time.
Rooter was on screen for only 73 seconds, but that was all he needed to deliver his powerful message about the great Circle of Life.
I was honestly expecting slightly bigger numbers for Sharptooth, but given that a big chunk of scenes ended up being cut from the movie, I guess it's no wonder his screen time was cut down to just over 4 minutes.
As for the siblings, those are credited as a combination of the siblings from each of the Gang's families. The only reason I counted them was because they are related to the main characters, even though Cera's siblings will never be seen again (their shared combination of 14 seconds ALL during Cera's hatching scene, shockingly). Ducky's siblings never really become supporting characters, either, but we know very well that Petrie's siblings eventually will. :petrienotamused
Littlefoot's grandparents were just utterly confusing throughout the time I studied their scenes. This is actually the only film in the series where they have the scientifically correct coloring (based on gender), as these were mysteriously swapped out from the second movie onward. Their numbers were simply based on assumption after I decided to go with my gut.
Of course, though, Littlefoot is unsurprisingly far ahead of everyone, his screen time almost doubling that of the runner-up. It should be noted, though, that most of the movie was essentially being seen through his perspective, so it should come as no surprise that Littlefoot the fearless Longneck leader of the Gang starts off the series seated on the throne as Screen Time King. The question is, though, will he stay up there throughout the entire series given just how many sequels there are?
That's all for now, though. I'll see you later with my next post, where we dissect the characters' screen time in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure! :)petrie
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Great job! :D Thank you!
I am also surprised Cera has less screen time than Ducky. :smucky :cerasus
And Sharptooth only needed about 4 minutes to become the legend. (https://imgur.com/VNu4Jsc.gif)
I am also surprised to see Littlefoot has less time than I expected. :lfsadface
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Interesting findings! :)littlefoot
What were the "cringeworthy scenes" if you don't mind me asking? :thinking
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Interesting findings! :)littlefoot
What were the "cringeworthy scenes" if you don't mind me asking? :thinking
Mainly the infamous tar monster scene. I had to watch that FIVE times.
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My screen time results for the second movie are in! Some of the main characters took hours each, but all that work has paid off.
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
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Okay, I know you're gonna say why didn't I include all those babies that appeared at the end, but I only decided to include the baby Swimmers and count them as Ducky's siblings, as Spike has no known relatives and I don't believe Petrie had any additional siblings after the first movie.
Topps and Mama Swimmer ended up being tied at 1 minute, 35 seconds each, but I couldn't decide on the countback factor, although in the future event of a tie, I'll rank them based on how many lines of dialogue they have. Granted, many of the shots with adult characters left me feeling rather uncertain, so I only counted shots including those who I KNEW for a FACT were the Gang's family members.
We ended up with a couple of very close ones. Ozzy just barely edged out Chomper by six seconds to take the #6 spot, while Petrie took the #4 slot by only 14 seconds from Spike.
And now, let's take a look at the top three!
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Well, well, after Ducky shockingly beat Cera for the silver in the original movie, Cera has bounced back to claim the silver over Ducky in the second movie by almost a minute. :cerasmug :duckyworried
And unsurprisingly, Littlefoot once again wins the Screen Time Gold by a long shot with a margin of just under ten minutes! :littlefoot:) Of course, though, I'm sure a number of the sequels (but not all of them) will see him take the top spot by a mile because the series mostly tends to visualize the story through his perspective. At the rate we're going right now, if I were to show the overall leaderboard (which I'm not going to do so as to avoid spoilers for the end of the project), Littlefoot would have a massive lead in overall screen time after just two movies, but we still have twelve more to go.
Up next, we delve into The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving!
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I'm surprised that Ozzy and Strut didn't have around the same screen time. :ozzysmug
I wonder if there will be a movie that doesn't have Littlefoot take the top spot. :yum
Keep up the good work! :Dducky
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XII is only movie where Littlefoot isn't one of center characters, so I guess it will happen there, though VII also has a change due to a very large amount of Ducky/Spike screentime.
(why this flathead has so much screen time, like he is center of the Earth? :cerasus)
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Man, this one was an absolute nightmare, specifically for certain background characters that seemed to just be a bunch of carbon copies, which made Mama Swimmer, Mr. Clubtail and Hyp's father very difficult to track down, but I hope it was worth it in the end ...
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
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Mama Flyer, having narrowly avoided last place on two previous occasions, ends up taking last place in this film. It really shows how she was practically nonexistent early on in the series. :(petrie
Topps was absolutely horrible in this film, and his selfish actions ultimately allowed him to steal a lot of screen time from the Gang during the middle portions of the movie. :threehorn
Hyp didn't quite beat out Ozzy for most antagonist screen time here, so the Egg Stealer will keep that honor for now.
We're definitely seeing a pattern with Spike consistently at #5 and Petrie consistently staying at #4. Then again, Topps ensured that the Gang didn't have that many scenes in this movie.
And now, the top three ...
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Absolutely no change in the top three here. Even though all five Gang members saw their numbers go down considerably in comparison to the previous movie (EVERYONE went down by about 5 minutes or more), Littlefoot has performed a hat trick with his third Gold in a row, whilst Cera is beginning to show signs that Ducky's shocking Silver in the first movie might have been a fluke. Also, this is the first movie where NOBODY made it to 30 minutes.
Coming up next, The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists! I'm sure many of you can't wait to see how Ali ends up doing!
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I'm surprised to see how gang got much less screentime comparing to original movie. :O
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I love the screenshots you choose for each character! :^^spike
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Hmm, ... it appears we may have a temporary change in the pecking order with this film ...
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
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Um, yeah, this was quite shocking for me, but Spike ended up having more screen time than Petrie in this movie, and furthermore, Petrie has the unfortunate distinction of being the first Gang member to fall out of the top five for screen time in a movie. :opetrie That said, though, in all fairness, Spike did have a big highlight right at the end where he spoke his first word and then proceeded to deliver the final blow to Ichy and Dil. :spikeblush He really had a great moment here, but as we know he'll have to wait another four movies before his true spotlight comes.
Aside from Littlefoot's grandparents, the Gang's other families were absent from this film entirely, so this one felt relatively empty compared to the previous films. Grandma Longneck gets more screen time than her mate this time around because of Grandpa being ill for most of the film.
And now, the top three, and I'm sure this may come as a BIG surprise ...
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Cera only just barely got into the top three, beating Ducky by only seven seconds. Cera thus wins her second Bronze while Ducky falls out of the top three for the first time. It seems the two girls are really going at each other in their battle for second place on the overall leaderboard.
However, the BIG one here is Ali. She really had the potential to be an excellent guest character, and the filmmakers made sure to do just that, giving her so much screen time that even Cera and Ducky were not able to keep up with her. As such, Ali wins the Silver in her first and only appearance.
Littlefoot seemed to be almost everywhere once again, and thus he takes his fourth Gold in a row by a margin of almost ten minutes. It only seems fitting that we have two Longnecks in the top two positions for this film, but I'm sure things will go right back to normal in the next one.
Stay tuned as we await Chomper's return in The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island!
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Wow, i had not noticed this project until now. First of all, kudos on taking the time to actually measure the screen time of each character. That takes some serious dedication. :yes
The first four films certainly have their share of surprises. The most notable ones that I have noticed is that Ducky beat out Cera in the first film, Chomper only made 7th place in the second film, and that Littlefoot was only challenged for top screen time in the fourth film thus far. The fact that Rooter's appearance in the 1st film was only 73 seconds also blows my mind. If I had to venture a guess, I suspect that either the 8th film or the 12th film might be the only ones where Littlefoot is knocked off of his 1st place pedestal.
Keep up the good work! I look forward to seeing what the remaining films look like in terms of screen time. :)
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I thought Tickles would have a little more screentime. Other places are not surprising.
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I am amused with Tickles having more screentime than Archie. That took me by surprise for sure XD
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I'm surprised that Ali got second place! :PAli
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I'm kinda sad to see ichy and dil at the bottom of the list but overall. Good experiment.
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Okay, um, ... I was wrong to predict that things would go back to normal in this film ...
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island
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Petrie's siblings are finally back in the picture with their first appearance since the end of the first movie, but it didn't mean much as they ended up getting less screen time than even a Swimming Sharptooth!
As expected, Chomper did indeed end up having the most screen time outside the Gang with his triumphant return, and this may be as high as he's going to get. We're not going to see him again until the 14th and last film, and chances are he may not get #6 for that installment.
Getting the Gang's numbers seemed to take an eternity because we spend almost the entire film focused on the five of them together as they get marooned on a dangerous island.
As we can see, all five members of the Gang exceeded 20 minutes of screen time for the first time. However, 3rd, 4th and 5th may end up being quite jarring. Even I did not see this coming at all ...
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This was so unbelievable that I had to make sure I wasn't going insane, but Spike unexpectedly ended up taking the Bronze for this movie! There were certain scenes that simply didn't include Ducky and Petrie because of them being so tiny that either the animators just didn't include them or they got obscured by their bigger friends. This was ultimately their downfall for their shot at a top three place for this film.
Cera has reclaimed the Silver after missing out to Ali in the previous film, but Littlefoot ended up with over half an hour of screen time once more and takes his fifth Gold in a row, keeping his perfect record.
With Spike having won a Bronze, this leaves Petrie as the last remaining Gang member to have not yet won a single medal. Poor Petrie. Poor, poor Petrie. It seems they found nothing for Petrie to do in these earlier sequels, and thus he ended up with less screen time than Spike for the second time in a row and is almost the least relevant of the main characters at this point. As we know, though, he does have a focus film coming up pretty soon ...
Up next, one of the lesser films in the series, in my personal opinion; The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock.
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I am shocked to see Spike so high too. :O
And I expected Chomper to have a little more screen time.
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I'm so happy Spike got 3rd place! :^^spike
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And so, we've reached the end of an era, as following Secret of Saurus Rock, the LBT film series will make the transition from traditional hand-drawn animation to digital ink and paint from Stone of Cold Fire onward.
The horrible picture quality of this film made it almost unbearable to watch, and it also wasn't helped that this is one of my least favorite LBT films, but I endured it and gathered up the numbers.
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock
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Yeah, Mama Flyer had 19 seconds of screen time ... without a single closeup shot of her. Even small characters like her couldn't escape my eyes despite this movie's terrible video quality.
I was sorta stunned that Topps ranked lower than I thought he would, but then again this was kind of a Longneck-themed movie. The Threehorns were pretty much the secondary focus in this case, and Topps' role ended up being smaller than I remembered.
Sure enough, the annoying twins got the most screen time outside the Gang, as they have a big focus during the second quarter of the film where they absent-mindedly run away to Saurus Rock.
Spike has beaten Petrie again! :SmugSpike :opetrie This is the third time in a row that the Spiketail has beaten the Flyer for screen time! Again, this was not expected.
And now, here are the top three.
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Ducky receives a warm welcome back into the top three with her third Bronze after missing out in both the fourth and fifth installments. :duckyhappy However, she almost didn't make it, as she only ended up beating Spike by just five seconds! Spike was that close to what would have been his second straight Bronze.
I knew Cera was going to be the runner-up without question. The film essentially made her the secondary focus by adding the twins into the fold. That makes it 4 Silvers out of 6 films for the Threehorn.
However, Littlefoot remains untouchable. He again smashes everyone so easily and topples the half hour mark for his sixth Gold in succession, making it a double hat trick. There was no doubt he'd easily destroy the competition in this one, though. I knew from the beginning that he'd take an easy Gold.
So now, there's just one problem left ...
Poor Petrie has now gone 0 for 6 in the medal count, and even worse, after Spike beat him three times in a row, the Flyer has now fallen to 5th place on the overall leaderboard behind Spike, meaning Petrie is the least relevant member of the Gang. :(petrie
However, ... it appears the producers had taken notice of this, and may be looking to remedy this with a sinister plot for the next film ...
Coming up next, Petrie may finally have his first true chance to take a medal in The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire!
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I wonder if someone else will ever take 1st place? :thinking
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I wonder if someone else will ever take 1st place? :thinking
Complete guess as I haven't watched the films for a while, but I think Littlefoot might get knocked off his pedastal in either the 8th or the 12th film. I'm interested to see that Spike has overtaken Petrie a few times, especially considering he has no dialogue like Petrie does.
Littlefoot's grandparents were just utterly confusing throughout the time I studied their scenes. This is actually the only film in the series where they have the scientifically correct coloring (based on gender), as these were mysteriously swapped out from the second movie onward. Their numbers were simply based on assumption after I decided to go with my gut.
It's weird that that the grandparents' voices were swapped for this one, especially as, if I recall correctly, the design sheet for the film does show them as they appear in the sequels. That and when they appear just after Littlefoot's birth, and in the ending scene, the one with the good old female-distinguishing eyelashes is who we see as Grandma in the sequels. It's strange. It's kinda funny how even the first movie got them mixed up. :lol
Good work on this project, Diddy! There have certainly been a few surprises so far!
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have officially reached the halfway point of the film series! :)petrie
So, let's see how everyone fared in this movie to wrap up the first half ...
The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
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Petrie's siblings are AGAIN in last place despite the fact that TWO of their relatives are prominent characters in this movie. It honestly seems that they can just never avoid last place.
The Spokes Dinosaur counted because he was included in the end credits (voiced by Jeff Bennett) and was the most prominent Far Walker in the meeting at the beginning of the film.
For the first time since the first movie, Topps has come out on top over both of Littlefoot's grandparents. His part in the meetings was apparently bigger than I remembered.
The big shock here? Pterano actually beat one of the Gang members! He topped Spike by just eight seconds to win a place in the top 5 for his only appearance in the series! :PteranoPlotting :spikenotamused
I'm sure some of you were thinking that Ducky was going to make the top 3. It seemed reasonable to believe so, given that her kidnapping and subsequent escape from the Flyers boosted her screen time quite a bit, but not enough. :duckysad
And now, here are the top three!
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Honestly, 2nd through 6th places all felt rather unpredictable for me, but in the end, some of my predictions ended up being correct.
Cera takes her third Bronze, again beating Ducky by less than a minute. However, she ended up being no match for the top two ...
YES! Petrie finally win medal! :)petrie It took seven films for him to pull it off, but thanks largely to his uncle Pterano coming into the picture, Petrie comes back from an 0-6 record to finally win his first medal! Even better, he went even further by toppling the 20-minute mark to take the Silver!
Despite Petrie's valiant efforts, though, Littlefoot still tops everybody to win his seventh Gold in a row, sweeping all seven Golds for the first half of the film series. His margin of victory was only four minutes, and it seemed that Petrie looked like a threat to challenge for the Gold, but Littlefoot was more prominent, being the one who saw the Stone of Cold Fire crash into Threehorn Peak. That, along with the opening meeting and his conversation with the Rainbow Faces at the end ultimately ensured that he remained unchallenged for the top spot. Thus, Littlefoot is perfect for the first half of the series.
With halftime now upon us, it's time to delve into the second half, beginning with The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze!
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new surprise: Mama Swimmer got more screen time than Mama Flyer. :O
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That moment when you realize how overly obsessed you were with just 6 minutes of animation in your childhood... :ChomperOhhh
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So, here we are, ready to kick off the second half of the film series! I'm sure many of you were anticipating surprises in this film, and I ended up finding quite a number of them, but before we get to the top three, we have to look at everybody else first ...
The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze
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Right away, shockers are out in the open. For the second time in a row, the main focus family had a pair of siblings that ended up in LAST PLACE for screen time! This seems to be becoming an unfortunate trend.
What's even more jarring is that Tippy actually got LESS screen time than his mother, but by just two seconds! This might be the only time in the entire series where a child character has less screen time than his or her own parent.
Yes, even I went into this thinking that Spike might be a medal contender, but in the end he was NOT EVEN CLOSE! This was because the Spiketails got very little screen time in the second half of the movie. A majority of Spike's screen time was actually in the first half, but by the time he left the Great Valley, he only got about 5 minutes on screen for the rest of the movie, and thus he shockingly failed to even reach the top five.
Mr. Thicknose made a big impact during the second half of the film, and that included screen time, where he even managed to take down Petrie by just six seconds to take a stunning 4th place.
And now, the top three!
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What's this? Oh! OH! OH MY GOODNESS ME! Littlefoot is finally defeated! :littlefootscared
Then again, many of you came here anticipating that Ducky would be a serious contender, and now I can officially prove that Ducky did indeed get more screen time than anyone else in LBT 8, including Littlefoot! Ducky has the honor of being the one to shatter Littlefoot's undefeated record! The lovable Swimmer has her Gold medal, and she can now smile bigger than ever with her moment of glory! :duckyhappy
Meanwhile, as Littlefoot's streak of seven consecutive Golds comes to an end, Cera was the only other character to reach 20 minutes and easily wins her fourth Bronze. Nobody else really came close to consideration for the 20-minute mark in this movie.
Now that we at long last have our second different character to clinch a Gold medal, we can have a little more fun with this project as we swim under the sea in The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water!
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Finally, it has happened. Littlefoot has been knocked off of his pedestal in favor of Ducky no less. Though I think we all know the person who is most happy for this event is x(cera and will no doubt give Littlefoot grief over it. :p
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So, it happened... I thought Littlefoot will be defeated only in 12th movie... :littlefootoh
I am very surprised to see Spike being so low in this one... It is supposed to be his movie too after all.
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So, it happened... I thought Littlefoot will be defeated only in 12th movie... :littlefootoh
I am very surprised to see Spike being so low in this one... It is supposed to be his movie too after all.
Same! :spikenotamused
I'm very happy for Mama Swimmer and Mr. Thicknose. I have a soft spot for those characters.
Also, congratulations to Ducky for winning the gold! :Dducky
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I am quite surprised that Littlefoot lost 1st place in the 8th film, I truly believed that would only happen in the 12th film! Congrats to Ducky though!
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What's this? Oh! OH! OH MY GOODNESS ME! Littlefoot is finally defeated! :littlefootscared
I KNEW it! :rhett_brag I had a feeling both Littlefoot's absence in the Mad Song and more focus being on Ducky with just Spike and/or their mother would tip the scales in the swimmer's favour.
What I wasn't expecting, however, was Mr Thicknose taking 4th place, but then I suppose that makes sense with him joining the gang in the second half... and he gets a song.
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Took me a couple days, but here are the results for the ninth movie!
The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water
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Petrie's siblings continue their trend of being in last place for screen time in EVERY film they've appeared in thus far! It appears we're not gonna see them come out of their shadow until the 12th movie.
I hesitated in adding Petrie's imaginary friend into the mix, but I decided to go for it after seeing that he'd clearly have more screen time than the sibling groups, so here he sits in 16th on this list.
We saw so little of the supporting characters in this movie that NOBODY made it to 5 minutes besides the Gang and Mo. Once the kids were off to the Big Water, everyone else was essentially out of the picture after that (except for two scenes).
I'll be honest, I was expecting Petrie to have a shot at a medal for this one, considering he had a scene of nearly two minutes all to himself, but he wound up taking last place among the Gang once more (which greatly disappointed me), mainly because of a certain surprise I'm about to reveal ...
Here are the top three, and get ready for a MAJOR surprise ...
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Yes! There was no way this should have happened, but Spike beat Cera and took the Silver! :spikeblush :ceramad
I have no idea how this happened, but it seemed the Spiketail managed to just throw himself into as many frames as possible, and he ends up doing something I was NOT expecting him to do at ANY point during the film series! This now means that all five Gang members have won at least one Silver medal!
As for Littlefoot, it seems that he couldn't stand a certain someone giving him hell over his defeat by Ducky in the previous film, so he decided he was going to get the best form of revenge possible. He DESTROYED the entire field by miles to win his eighth Gold medal.
Oh, but wait! That wasn't enough for Littlefoot! He had to kick it up a notch! He was so hellbent on reclaiming his pedestal that he did more than just obliterate the competition. He went so far as to come within ONE SECOND of beating his own record of 34:36 from the original movie! We so nearly ended up with a new series record for screen time right here! His screen time almost tripled Mo's, for crying out loud!
So now that Littlefoot is back on top, we're about to get ready to see his long lost father come into the picture in The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration.
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ok, I wouldn't be suprised to see Spike above majority of the gang in some movie...
but he has almost twice more time than in previous movie? srsl? :O
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I'm surprised (and happy) that Spike managed to get second place! :^^spike
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Slow and steady (almost) wins the race for Spike. :SmugSpike
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Well, here we are in the final five films! I can definitely feel that finish line coming up in a few more weeks!
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration
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Sue's Boyfriend and Bron's flashbacks with his deceased mate from the first movie were both added at the last minute after I initially considered not including them. This was because the voice for Sue's boyfriend was not credited, and Littlefoot's mother played no part in any of the sequels due to her death in the original film. However, I decided to include them because I thought it would be too cold to exclude them.
We actually have a movie where Topps is on screen for less than a minute (not counting the 4th film, where he was completely absent)! He only appeared in one scene, and the only thing we see him do is sleep (and cheer for Littlefoot in Cera's dream).
The Sharptooth Pack was split into three because combining them like the Fandom did would have been utterly ridiculous, so they are divided into three slots.
Bron amazingly got JUST enough screen time to breach the ten-minute mark. This slotted him in between Littlefoot's grandparents at a respectable #7.
Petrie has unfortunately been gaining a habit of ranking #5, which he has now done in FIVE of the last six films. Also, he has now lost to Spike five times (this time, by only ten seconds). Their battle for fourth place on the overall series rankings is nowhere near over, even though we still have Great Day of the Flyers eventually coming up.
And now, the top three!
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It appears we have made a return to seeing our most common combination of characters make the top three. Ducky was able to easily burst ahead of Petrie and Spike to win her fourth Bronze medal.
Cera had a slightly bigger abundance of screen time than Ducky as she took over leadership of the Gang in Littlefoot's absence, ensuring her fifth Silver medal (her first since Secret of Saurus Rock).
As for Littlefoot, he again had no competition. It was known from the beginning that this film would be an easy Gold for Littlefoot because we once again have a prominent Longneck theme and plot. This is the sixth time that Littlefoot surpassed the half-hour mark, and he now has nine Golds out of ten films.
Now we begin to delve into questionable territory with the remaining films, beginning with The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses.
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I'm surprised that Shorty has so little time. Always thought he was around a lot more.
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This one was just pure awful. I had such a hard time tracking down certain Tiny Longneck characters, especially the twins Rocky and Dusty. Mama Swimmer was also very difficult to track down during the Creepy Crawlies musical number. Those numbers are thus composed just from frames in which I can CONFIRM they were in.
The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses
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We have a new record for lowest screen time for any character in any film, as Ducky's siblings were on screen for just two seconds, only appearing in two shots where an exhausted Ducky and Spike return home after visiting the Tiny Longnecks.
Quite bizarrely, a number of characters ended up with surprisingly lower numbers than I expected. I wasn't very surprised to see the Threehorns pretty high up.
Topps, for the first and possibly only time in the series, has the most screen time outside the Gang, coming in at a personal best #6. We can definitely see how the film put a big spotlight on the Threehorn family, and as we know, they will do it again in the next movie.
For once, we have a film where #5 isn't Petrie! Having placed at #5 in five of the previous six movies, it's very refreshing to see the Flyer in a different position! In this case, Ducky and Spike were the two who fell by the wayside.
And now, the top three!
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Well, well, Petrie ended up taking his second medal! :)petrie The Flyer ended up stealing a couple scenes during the first half of the movie, particularly from Ducky and Spike, and this allowed him to take the Bronze. As I mentioned, this is the first time since Stone of Cold Fire that Petrie isn't #5, and I'm sure you all know he is poised to post BIG numbers in the next movie. :)petrie
Cera was without question the one destined for Silver. She was the main focus of the subplot, as we see her become jealous of Tria "stealing" a lot of time away from her father. Cera now has six Silver medals (and her second in a row), and she is still the only character to win the Silver more than once.
Littlefoot built up yet another considerable margin, having seven minutes more screen time than Cera. The Longneck takes his third Gold in a row, performing his third hat trick, and he now has a total of ten Gold medals. :)littlefoot
Up next, Petrie searches for his BIG moment in the Bright Circle, whilst his siblings look to finally avoid last place in The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers!
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Are Rocky and Dusty listed as the same character because there was not a single frame where they were separated? :D
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Are Rocky and Dusty listed as the same character because there was not a single frame where they were separated? :D
I couldn't really make up my mind on those, but knowing that they were twins, I decided to give them the same treatment as Dinah and Dana from the sixth movie.
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I didn't expect to see Petrie take 3rd place. Well done Petrie! :)petrie
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Oh my gosh why am I seeing this until now??
You have such dedication! It is truely a time consuming project to embark upon, and it's really cool to see the results side by side!
For the most part, Littlefoot seems to be taking the lead, he is the main character after all. It really depends on the movie, but I don't think there's a Cera centered film. Keep up the great work and good luck to you!
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This one I managed to nail quickly because a few of these were done weeks ago during the early stages of the project. This was one of the big ones for me, and the rest of you made it clear that this would be the one to keep an eye on.
BTW, before I bring the results up for the 12th film, I want to thank you all for your kind words regarding this project. :)petrie This has been a massive undertaking, and I'm happy to see so many of you interested in this! I know this was conceived as an idea just for fun, but given how time-consuming it can be, it's no easy task. I'm even ecstatic to see that this project made the front page for the forum this month! It shows that I've succeeded in my intended goal of building a productive start to 2023 after the Stone of Cold Fire voiceover project faded into obscurity.
Fittingly, the showcase for Great Day of the Flyers popped up just as I started working on this one! Thank you all for your support, and keep it going! I'll especially need the good luck considering what the next film is ...
Now, here are the results for the 12th movie!
The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers
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If there's one thing we can notice immediately, from this point on, the movies will be in widescreen, as the series had just made the transition from fullscreen to HD widescreen.
I was honestly surprised that neither Mama Swimmer nor Grandma Longneck ended up in last place, even though neither of them had dialogue while Mr. Clubtail did (in TWO scenes). They just did a better job at looming in the background than he did.
Big shocker: Mama Flyer did NOT make the top ten. I thought for sure she'd get into the top ten, but she ended up with much smaller numbers than I anticipated, and thus Tricia exceeding five minutes effectively ruined any chance she had of getting into the top ten. Nevertheless, Mama Flyer did score a personal best in both screen time and rank, as she previously ranked no better than 13th (which she did in Journey to Big Water).
Topps and Tria ended up in a tie (quite fittingly). I placed Topps above Tria, though, because he was in more scenes (even if a few of them only lasted a few seconds or so).
As we expected, Petrie's siblings do indeed finally avoid last place. Even better, they broke the ten-minute mark and ranked at #7.
Ducky and Spike were mysteriously absent from the final scene of the movie. The last time we see them is when the Gang start running after Tricia after hearing her cries for help. As such, their screen time numbers suffered in comparison to the rest of the Gang, and Ducky ended up with her new personal worst film rank at #5, her first time outside the top 4.
EXTRA big shocker: Littlefoot did NOT make the top three! :littlefootscared We have just seen something which I think none of us saw coming. Not only does Littlefoot fail to reach the 20-minute mark, he ends up a personal worst #4, and to make matters even worse for him, he even lost to Cera! :cerasmug :littlefootscared
Oh, how the mighty have fallen ...
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Yet another big shocker: although Cera finally defeated Littlefoot, she has suffered her second loss to a one-off guest character. The Threehorn could only settle for her sixth Bronze medal, whilst Guido achieved what Ali pulled off in the 4th film. He built up a 43-second margin over Cera right at the end to win the Silver in his one-and-only movie appearance! :feelsgoodman :ceramad
Even though Cera was a secondary focus character due to her getting a newly-born sister, her defeat by Guido was really due to the slow-paced scenes of the Gang following a sleep-walking Guido during the third quarter of the movie. His time on screen during his sleep-flying and his run-in with the Sailback Sharptooth also boosted his numbers so much so that Cera could not keep ahead of him.
And, of course, the moment that EVERYONE saw coming; Petrie is a Gold medal winner! :)petrie But wait, it gets even better! He not only won the Gold, but he pulled off something that even Ducky wasn't able to do while beating Littlefoot in the 8th movie. He ended up winning by a margin of more than five minutes! He practically delved into Littlefoot territory with his screen time and showed us why this was truly a Petrie film. I now have proof why Great Day of the Flyers deserves its name.
We even saw Petrie do something he NEVER would have done at the beginning of the series, which only further boosted his screen time. He showed true bravery (previously uncharacteristic of him) by rescuing Guido from the Sailback Sharptooth, initially unaided as he led the rescue effort before his friends followed him in. He did it again when he willingly abandoned his flying test to help Guido rescue the newborn Tricia from certain death. He did both of these heroic acts despite knowing full well what the potential repercussions were, shown when he overruled Littlefoot's suggestion of staying in the Great Valley and resting up for the Day of the Flyers, and he even ignored his siblings' frantic worries that they had to finish their flying test or else everything could fall apart, knowing that the precious life of a newborn hatchling was far more important. Honestly, that is just so original for him. Petrie is a BIG winner in this one with superstar screen time numbers! :)petrie
We now have three different characters whom have won a Gold medal, as Petrie joins ten-time winner Littlefoot and Big Freeze winner Ducky. I'm fairly certain, though, that chances of that list growing are probably next to nothing. Meanwhile, Cera is the ONLY remaining character to have placed in the top three in EVERY film thus far. She now takes over the lead in total medals won, winning 12 medals in a row whilst Littlefoot stays at 11. Despite this, Cera still has NO Gold medals, and you can imagine this is beginning to drive her insane. :ceramad
Up next, I shall spend the next few days torturing myself with the worst film in the entire series; The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends. Uh, ... wish me luck. :opetrie
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Well, my only surprise was that Guido actually managed to get on second place. Wow! :GuidoAAAAAHHHHHH :feelsbadman :feelsgoodman
Since Cera (and her family) has subplot here, like in previous movie, I expected her to be high, even above Mr. Importance Littlefoot, since it's only movie where the latter hasn't nor main plot nor subplot. :littlefootangry :cerasmug
Good luck with XIII!
Remember: You have to count each yellowbelly individually! They are too great and important to be counted as one! :PLoofah
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And Petrie finally gets the top prize! :)petrie Truth be told, this film has quite a few surprises in the results. I had expected Petrie to take 1st place, but to see Littlefoot completely knocked out of the top three is quite something to see. It is also interesting to see Guido pick up second place for screen time in this film.
I wish you the very best of luck with the next film... just remember that you are in the final stretch unless Universal makes a surprise announcement about a fifteenth film in the next week or so. :yes
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I didn't expect to see Littlefoot get knocked out of the top 3, but Guido to make it in! :feelsgoodman :littlefootoh
I'm not entirely surprised Petrie got the gold, though! :petrieooohh
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I agree, wasn't expecting Littlefoot to have less count then Cera, and even she made it!
And of course this is where Guido gets introduced, so big applause for him
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My God! This was just pure insanity! The number of animation errors and the absolute stupidity of the Yellow Bellies! I so nearly lost my sanity doing this one! I could bash on this all day if I could!
But no, seriously I hate this film so much!
But guess what? I survived! I survived the worst film in the LBT series without losing my mind! Having to watch some scenes up to 12 times was just unbearable, but the nightmare is finally over!
The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
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Mama Flyer went from being one of the more prominent adults in Great Day of the Flyers to being the least prominent character in Wisdom of Friends, being the only character who didn't even make it to 30 seconds. :(petrie
Voice actors were leaving left and right, including Kenneth Mars and Tress MacNeille, and thus the screen time for the valley adults suffered tremendously. Kenneth Mars had been forced to retire after being diagnosed with what would ultimately be terminal cancer. All the lines that could have been given to him were handed over to Miriam Flynn (Grandma Longneck) instead. As a result, Grandma Longneck smashed everyone who wasn't a Gang member or Yellow Belly, but still failed to reach the five-minute mark.
It regrets me to say this, but one of the Yellow Bellies actually defeated one of the Gang members, as Loofah (the leader of the Yellow Bellies) just managed to beat Spike to take a place in the top five. Thank the Bright Circle none of them made the top three, though ...
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My goodness! Petrie is on a roll! Whoever would have thought that the Flyer would win three medals in a row!? :)petrie He surprised me big-time by surpassing the 20-minute mark to secure his second Bronze! He's probably gotten very confident after his Great Day of the Flyers victory!
Cera's Gold medal drought continues, as she is forced to settle for her seventh Silver. I knew from the start that she'd be in the top three, and honestly, I also knew that she'd have no chance at going for Gold. :cerasus
After shockingly failing to place in the top three in Great Day of the Flyers, Littlefoot performs another monstrous comeback, beating Cera by nearly eight and a half minutes to win his eleventh Gold medal. :)littlefoot This was yet another pathetically predictable Gold by Littlefoot, to be honest.
So now that the worst LBT movie is out of the way, we've got just one more to go! Get ready for the grand finale of this project (aside from the eventual reveal of the full series' screen time results), coming up probably this weekend. For the first and only time in this project, we will have the full Gang of Seven in the fold in The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave!
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Really, I think I know the top 3 overall by now. However, I might end up being quite surprised. (I know I was through a number of these.)
Honestly, I'm glad you survived the worst one. I mean, I would consider watching the 13th movie to be the equivalent of torture. :sducky
Now, for the final one. Let's see where they end up.
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Cera is doomed to be in Littlefoot's shadow forever. :yum :cerasus
I'm surprised why sharptooth leader has so more screentime than others in the pack. o_o
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This is it! All 14 films completed! I'm sure many of you are excited to see where all the characters stacked up for screen time throughout the 14 films! :)petrie
Before I can do that, though, we must first take a look at the results for the final movie!
The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave
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Mama Flyer continues her trend of being among the least important characters, taking last place for the second time in a row, not beating a single character for the rest of the series after Great Day of the Flyers where she had her most prominent appearance. This is just a low blow for her. :(petrie
We were certainly expecting some mixed results in this movie, and honestly, I couldn't predict where ANYONE was going to end up (except the top two, of course). It is often said that the Sharpteeth in this movie deserved more screen time because there should have been room for more action, and these numbers show just that, but I guess the filmmakers wanted to keep the flow of the film going and not slow it down. It was a good decision, but one that really cast a shadow on what could have been, much like what happened to the first movie.
Chomper made it into the top ten, but Ruby did not. They both just barely edged out Bron, but certain characters were more prominent than the two kids who joined the Gang in the TV series. Honestly, it's very sad the Sharptooth and Fast Runner duo ended up this low. They deserved a lot more, considering fans were anticipating more to their backstory, but instead we only saw them accompany Grandpa Longneck and Topps' search party, and they really played next to no purpose in the film other than being the ones to indicate that their friends had left the Great Valley. If there is ever a 15th film, Chomper and Ruby should really be put in the spotlight a lot more. These numbers, I must confess, have left me very disappointed. :areyouserious :RubyAngry
Etta's numbers were much bigger than I anticipated. Her role in the second half of the movie really brightened up the otherwise gloomy mood that had resulted from Littlefoot's breakup with the Gang and the subsequent sandstorm. As much as I despise country music, her voice actress Reba McEntire did an incredible job bringing life into this Flyer, and she is probably one of the best one-off guest characters in the series. She also delivered a double whammy with the series' final musical number, as McEntire not only sings the version sung by Etta, but also the version in the ending credits. She just dominated the latter half of the film and definitely deserves my praise.
Surprise, surprise! Ducky does not win any medals following Great Longneck Migration. :duckysad To think that the lovable Swimmer only scored ONE top 3 result AFTER her win in Big Freeze is just baffling. It would appear that a certain Flyer was on such a massive lust for screen time that he simply couldn't be stopped anymore. :petrieLOL
And now, here are the top 3 for the final movie ...
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You would think that Petrie would settle down after winning big time in Great Day of the Flyers, but OH NO! He just had to keep going and going! :)petrie He was helped in this film by his scenes with the Diggers, earning him precious seconds worth of screen time that allowed him to keep ahead of Ducky and Spike. This effort was enough to reward him his fourth medal in a row (his third Bronze in the last four movies)! I never would have thought that Petrie would have such a fantastic run late in the series, but honestly we must give him credit. This shows how much he's changed throughout the franchise. For most of the first half, he was just there, barely doing anything and just allowing others to take bundles of screen time away from him, but after the 10th film he had had enough and took matters into his own wings. He proceeded to beat Ducky and stand on the podium in EVERY single film that followed, including a much-deserved Gold for his heroic deeds in Great Day of the Flyers! I think Petrie deserves a round of applause for his mind-blowing late series run!
Cera successfully ranked in the top three in all 14 films. Yet despite this, she did not win a single Gold medal, losing to Littlefoot in all but one movie, and in the one film where she did beat him, she was bested by Petrie. She was only ever in either 2nd place or 3rd place. :ceramad The Threehorn ended up with her eighth Silver medal in this installment, and it's pretty obvious why she easily beat everyone who wasn't Littlefoot. We see the two clash from time to time, culminating in a heated argument that results in Littlefoot leaving the group in anger. It was a lot tamer compared to the first movie where they got into a physical altercation in which Cera won and got Littlefoot banished from the group, but even so, this breakup in the last movie was still a nasty one. Cera was simply a character who was never meant to compete for most screen time in a movie, and she will have to accept the fact that she will forever be in Littlefoot's shadow. :littlefoot:) :ceramad
And, of course, Littlefoot decimates the competition to win his twelfth Gold medal, but not only did he make it 12 Golds out of 14, he set a NEW RECORD!!! For the first and only time in the entire series, a character breached the 35-minute barrier, smashing his own record of 34:36 from the first movie, meaning it took more than 27 years for that record to be broken! The original five main characters got so much screen time in this movie that I knew they would all surpass 20 minutes, making this the third film in the series where that has happened, but Littlefoot was just on a whole new level, reaching previously uncharted territory with his screen time in this movie as he sets out to rescue his father from a volcano. The little Longneck was just everywhere it seemed, and thus he left everyone in the dust on his way to his twelfth and final Gold medal. :littlefoot:)
With all 14 films done, I will now get to work on preparing for the posts regarding the final overall results for every character in the series! I must ask that you relax, though, as there were so many characters that it may take a while for me to get them all ready for the final posts. Tune in this weekend to see the final results of the project! :)petrie
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Congratulations on completing this project! :)littlefoot I can't imagine how many rewatches of the films it took to get these recorded times, especially with how chaotic some scenes can be with multiple characters on screen at once. I eagerly look forward to seeing the completed totals, and seeing what surprises they may contain. :yes
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No big surprises in last film for me.
Congratulations with finishing this big interesting project, Diddy! :celebrate
You rule! :D
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I'm looking forward to see the overall totals! :^^spike
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Okay, everyone! I've made the pics for the final ranking posts! Now, since there are so many characters and I'm not sure how many pics I can put in one post because I don't fully understand the possible limitations of Imgur, I am going to limit myself to ten per post, so every time we hit a multiple of ten, I'll stop the post and divide them by tens, so ranks 51-60 or 61-70 and so on.
Throughout the 14 films, I ended up ranking a grand total of 93 different characters! :petrieooohh Most of them are single characters, but there are a few that are groups, such as unnamed siblings of the main characters, predator duos, a whole unnamed family belonging to Mo, and much more.
As such the posts will be structured like this ...
Ranks 93-91
Ranks 90-81
Ranks 80-71
Ranks 70-61
Ranks 60-51
Ranks 50-41
Ranks 40-31
Ranks 30-21
Ranks 20-11
Ranks 10-4
The Top 3
I know. This may sound like it could take a long time to post, but bear with me. I can say that I'm glad that I kept track of the character count after each movie so that I knew what I'd be getting myself into once the project's conclusion approached. I will probably do one post per hour due to the large number of characters.
Many of you have told me you're so curious to see where a number of these characters ended up, and I can't wait to see your reactions to where you saw your potential favorite character!
Now, let's look at these 93 Land Before Time characters and see where they all ranked for screen time! :)petrie
Ranks 93-91
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At #93, the character, or should I say "characters" with the least amount of screen time in the entire Land Before Time film series, we have Cera's siblings from the original movie with fourteen seconds. Yeah, they only appeared during Cera's hatching scene at the beginning of the first film. Even more shockingly, we only ever see them as infant hatchlings. Believe me, I looked deeper into some later scenes, namely the scene where Topps has his infamous "Threehorns never play with Longnecks!" line, and even the Earth Shake. The siblings NEVER appeared again after we saw Cera hatch, and honestly I was sure they'd probably appear in more scenes, but that was it. Thus, they sit in 93rd and last among LBT movie characters for screen time.
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#92 is Mrs. Maia, who only made a small appearance in Secret of Saurus Rock, in which she was visibly on screen for 24 seconds. All we saw her do was fling Ducky out of her nest for disturbing her while all she was really trying to do was search for the missing Threehorn twins. Yeah, I don't really have anything good to say about this character. She was just ... there, and showed that she doesn't like being disturbed; the complete opposite of a certain Longneck whom we meet in the 9th film.
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At #91, we have Sue's Boyfriend, who appeared in two different scenes during The Great Longneck Migration. He had a total of 35 seconds of screen time throughout those two scenes. Funnily enough, I almost didn't include this character because of the fact that his voice actor was uncredited, but in the end I chose to add him to the GLM list, and thus he sits at #91.
So now, we've already reached a multiple of ten. Stay tuned for my next post, where we look at ranks 81st through 90th.
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Ranks 90-81
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In 90th place, we have the shark-like Swimming Sharptooth from the 5th movie, who had 38 seconds of screen time. We've now reached our first Sharptooth character, and the first of many. This Sharptooth appeared in one scene in the 5th film, where he attacked the Gang during their attempted escape from the Mysterious Island and successfully prevented them from leaving the island. I wouldn't necessarily call him an antagonist because most Sharpteeth are driven by instinct and thus should maybe be considered neutral, but he is considered an antagonist because he DID attempt to eat the Gang while they were extremely vulnerable, so yeah, I guess this is our first antagonist on this list.
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At #89, we have another character that I almost didn't include but was added at the last minute, and that was Petrie's Imaginary Friend from Journey to Big Water. He had 42 seconds of screen time, and really was just there as a cute form of imagination in Petrie's head. I'll be honest, I thought the scene with just Petrie and his imaginary friend was somewhat adorable, but I guess that's really because Petrie is adorable at times in the sequels.
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Going from one Journey to Big Water character to another, we have Mo's Water Kin ranked at #88 with 43 seconds of screen time, only appearing towards the end of the movie when the Gang successfully bring Mo back home in the Big Water. As I said before, this counts as a group of characters because they're all related to Mo yet NONE of them are named. Just there to greet Mo and welcome him home, and also help the Gang find a quick way back home to the Great Valley.
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#87 is Ali's mother, who was on screen for 48 seconds during Journey Through the Mists. This is the first character on the list who actually has a credited voice (in this case, Tress MacNeille). She had a few lines during the movie but only appeared in two scenes (just those that I could confirm she was in). Again, though, just a minor character, but given that Grandma Longneck mentioned that their herd was related to her, this means she has the least amount of screen time among Littlefoot's relatives.
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"HELP!!! I don't wanna be a lone dinosaur anymore!"
#86 is the Sharptooth who only appeared during the climactic final battle in Secret of Saurus Rock with 51 seconds of screen time. I do apologize for this picture's terrible quality. I mentioned earlier in the project that the sixth movie had terrible picture quality. He may look similar to the Meanest Sharptooth who also appears in this movie, but I still had to split them because I'm certain they are different characters. This Sharptooth teamed up with the Browridge Sharptooth (which I'll get to later) to fight Grandpa Longneck as they tried to get to Littlefoot. This particular Sharptooth even delivered a nasty, painful blow to Grandpa's underbelly, but Doc stepped in to turn the tables and the Longnecks ultimately prevailed.
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Yeah, we're gonna see a lot of Sharpteeth in the bottom half of the list, so you're gonna have to get used to them until we get to the top 50.
At #85 is the Green Sharptooth from Great Longneck Migration. He had only 54 seconds of screen time, as he, along with his gray pack mate, only joined the battle midway through just when it looked as though all was well. This Sharptooth ended up briefly engaged in combat with Grandpa Longneck, but Grandma stepped in to knock him down the hill, and he was out for the count after that, whilst the other two lasted longer in the battle than he did.
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#84 is another one of Cera's relatives who only appeared in the first movie, and that was her biological mother, who had 57 seconds of screen time. She appeared in three scenes, and was last seen in the immediate aftermath of the Earth Shake. There has been a lot of debate as to what happened to her and her children sans Cera, although I personally believe they were led astray by Petrie's uncle Pterano, although that is just speculation.
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At #83, we have another character group from Journey to Big Water; the so-called Bumphead Babies. They had 1 minute and 1 second of screen time, so this is the first character slot to break the one-minute mark. We see them hatch during the "No One Has to Be Alone" musical number in the second half of the ninth film, and we get a few adorable moments with them immediately warming up to the Gang while they and Mo spent the night at their mother's nesting site.
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#82 is the final character to be introduced in the entire Land Before Time film series; the Horned Sharptooth from the latter half of Journey of the Brave. He had 1 minute and 8 seconds on screen. His pursuit of the Gang upon their encounter only lasted 30 seconds before they took cover and were later rescued from the situation by Etta. He later showed up while the search party led by Chomper were nearby, and Wild Arms so nearly got his attention with his cowardly whimpering, only for him to be distracted by a small group of Ornithomimus. That was the last we saw of the last antagonist in the whole series.
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#81 is going to be wild one. Rooter, the character who comforted Littlefoot in the aftermath of his mother's death in the first movie, had just 1 minute and 13 seconds of screen time, and thus he landed all the way back at #81! Just 73 seconds of visible screen time was all it took for him to deliver his powerful message about the great Circle of Life to both Littlefoot and the audience in general. I'm sure many of you must be shocked to see this character this far down on the list, but here sits Rooter in 81st place. :opetrie
We've reached another multiple of ten. I'll have to step away for a while because I need to go to the store. Stay tuned this afternoon for my next post on ranks 80th through 71st!
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Ranks 80-71
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#80 is the Mountain Sharptooth from Big Freeze, with 1 minute and 26 seconds of screen time. This is the first Sharptooth on this list who encountered the Gang more than once. He pursued a lonely Ducky while she was looking for Spike, drawing his attention to Littlefoot, Cera, Petrie and Mr. Thicknose, and on their first encounter it was the kids who knocked him out using a giant snowball. However, he later returned, and this time it was Mr. Thicknose who delivered the blow by using a fallen tree branch to send him tumbling down the mountain, presumably to his death.
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#79 is the first of the hideous-looking Sharpteeth from the absolutely garbage Wisdom of Friends. The yellow one in the pack had the least screen time of the four at 1 minute and 31 seconds. I don't really have much to say about these Sharpteeth other than the fact that they looked so ugly that they made the Sharpteeth from the other movies look amazing.
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#78 is the so-called Meanest Sharptooth of all, with 1 minute and 33 seconds of screen time in Secret of Saurus Rock, only appearing in flashback stories and dream sequences. This is the Sharptooth who famously lost to the so-called Lone Dinosaur (implied to be Doc) in a legendary duel that was said to have went on for hours before he scarred Doc's right eye, only for him to be tossed off the cliff by a whip from Doc's tail after he got back up. I also counted his appearance in Littlefoot's dream where he imagines himself as a hero, and at the end of the movie when Littlefoot portrays his grandfather as the Great Dinosaur.
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#77 is our fourth predator in a row, this one being the swamp-dwelling Belly Dragger from the tenth movie, with 1 minute and 37 seconds on screen. He was first encountered when Littlefoot so nearly got eaten by him, only for the stalker to be stomped on hard by Sue. He later attacked the Gang after getting so frustrated with waiting, and he came so close to enjoying Petrie as his meal, only for Cera to allow a tree to fall on him, saving the Flyer's life. I can only imagine what Ducky must have been thinking with that line right at the end ...
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And now, after four straight antagonists, we move on to a trio of neutral characters; the Flyer Judges from Great Day of the Flyers ranked at #76. The trio had a combined 1 minute and 47 seconds of screen time. Some fans often have negative views on these characters because of how pointless they seemed to be in the long run, and I must say that I didn't really think their singing voices were all that good in "Flip, Flap and Fly." They were just there, watching Petrie and were astonished when he started having fun being himself. I often wonder how they would have reacted to witnessing Petrie rescuing Tricia, but that was unfortunately never explored.
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Well, back to more Sharpteeth. At #75, the Red Sharptooth from Wisdom of Friends, with 1 minute and 48 seconds of screen time. We didn't see this Sharptooth do much aside from briefly chase Ducky and Petrie. Just another dull filler antagonist for an already-terrible movie.
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Oh, wait! It gets even worse! We're going from one WoF Sharptooth to another, as the green one in the pack ranks in 74th with just one second more than his red pack mate at 1 minute and 49 seconds. Just another antagonist who really did next to nothing because they all can't endure the bouncing of Yellow Bellies.
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In 73rd is our first character to reach two minutes, as the Spokes Dinosaur who led the herd of Far Walkers in Stone of Cold Fire had exactly two minutes on screen, no more, no less. He played a prominent role in the meeting at the beginning of the movie when Littlefoot brings up the meteor that landed in Threehorn Peak the night before, but this Far Walker was buying none of it, and even lashed out at the valley leaders at times during the conversation before the Rainbow Faces joined in on all the crazy talk. He even confides in Topps, saying that the Rainbow Faces are a couple of strange weirdos.
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At #72 is the one and only antagonist from Journey to Big Water. This Sharptooth Swimmer had 2 minutes and 1 second on screen, just barely getting ahead of the Spokes Dinosaur from two movies prior. We first see him very briefly breach his way into the Great Valley because of the floods and make one attempt and snapping the Gang in his jaws, but Mo quickly drives him away. He doesn't reappear until much later, when, hungry for revenge, he goes all-in on his lust to have the Gang for lunch, but Mo again stops him and seemingly sacrifices himself to save his friends, only for us to learn that he lured the monster into a trap, and thus we don't see him again afterward. This Sharptooth was definitely one of the more terrifying ones and was one of the more effective antagonists who really made an impact, but like many other Sharpteeth, he was a one-movie-only character.
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#71 is another small group of characters, these being the two Featherhead Sharpteeth from the first half of Journey of the Brave. I must say that the land in which they live in has some incredible backdrops, particularly that rock arch, which I think was one of the more fascinating hotspot locations in the Land Before Time universe. Before I get off topic, though, let's go over this duo. We know these two have an incredible sense of smell, and the Gang using stinkweed to draw them off worked for a while, but once that was gone, these Sharpteeth wasted NO time tracking them down, and it culminated in a rather unoriginal defeat for them in the kids' hands. We'd already seen them using vines to trip a Sharptooth, and we'd already seen them using various tricks to make them slip and fall down steep hills. I think the Featherheads deserved better than that.
Coming up on my next post, ranks 70th through 61st!
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Ranks 70-61
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#70 is the second of the three Sharpteeth from Great Longneck Migration, this one being the red one in the pack, with 2 minutes and 14 seconds of screen time. This Sharptooth was the first to arrive at the crater where the Longnecks were staying, having been drawn in by the arrival of the Gang. He could have easily defeated Pat if not for the timely arrival of Bron, but even that didn't stop him just yet. He and Bron clashed in combat for a few minutes before he was knocked down by his gray pack mate, whom had just been tripped by the combined efforts of Cera and Shorty, essentially killing two birds with one stone.
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We have another group of characters from Journey of the Brave coming up, as 69th place ended up going to the Diggers who briefly made Petrie their leader after he was blown into their home by the Sand Cloud. The Diggers had a combined 2 minutes and 16 seconds of screen time, and I must say they were rather strange characters who somehow managed to make me laugh with their antics during their scenes with Petrie and later with the rest of the Gang (except Littlefoot). Honestly, to think that they were going to feed Cera to Petrie was just ridiculous.
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#68 is another one of Littlefoot's possible relatives, the Old One, with 2 minutes and 18 seconds of screen time in Journey Through the Mists. The leader of a herd of Longnecks who formerly lived in what became known as the Land of Mists, this Longneck was said to be the wisest of them all, but Littlefoot had his doubts, especially after his grandfather became ill. We did see for a few seconds that she does have a sympathetic side, as she gives Littlefoot a sad look after telling him that going to the Land of Mists was too dangerous and thus saving his grandfather could prove futile, even if the young Longneck was determined to save him at all costs. She was definitely harsh on the outside, like many other elderly characters whom have gone through years of experience and hardships, but deep in her heart, she does care.
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#67 is this lone Longneck from Journey to Big Water (who went by the name of Diplodocus Mom in the end credits) with 2 minutes and 31 seconds of screen time. This Longneck (voiced by Grandma Longneck's voice actress, Miriam Flynn) was encountered by accident after Ducky fell into her nest, and she initially greeted them coldly, thinking they were going to harm her eggs, but after seeing how these travelers were just children who got lost after an Earth Shake (as if that sounded so original), she gradually warmed up to them and allowed them to spend the night in her nest, during which she became a happy mother of several freshly-hatched children. To see her slowly warm up to the Gang so much that she even went as far as to extend guest right to them plus Mo was definitely one of the most heartwarming parts of the 9th movie.
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#66 is one of the harshest parents in the entire Great Valley; Hyp's father. He had 2 minutes and 33 seconds on screen during Time of the Great Giving, which I only counted beginning right after the Gang saved Hyp from a pool of sinking sand. Seeing him treat his son so coldly made Topps see the error of his ways, and when he finally learned sense, he began his redemption when he stepped in to protect the Gang from a pack of Fast Biters whom had arrived to hunt them all down. Afterward, he sought to become a better father to Hyp, and in turn Hyp and his two comrades made amends with the Gang, one of the few great moments of the third film.
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Speaking of the Fast Biters whom I just mentioned, they rank directly ahead of Hyp's father at #65, with 2 minutes and 35 seconds on screen for the combined pack of four, just two seconds more than him. Given their nature as fast-running, highly-active meat-eating dinosaurs much like Deinonychus and Velociraptor, these predators were relentless on their assault against a group of at least 13 dinosaurs (including 5 children and 3 teenagers), but it was ultimately the young ones who delivered the final blow when they restored the water supply to the Great Valley. In the chaos, the Fast Biters were washed away and never seen again.
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#64 is the Sailback Sharptooth that ultimately triggered Petrie's bravest act ever in Great Day of the Flyers. During his standoff against Petrie and Guido (and later, the rest of the Gang), he was on screen for 2 minutes and 41 seconds. I even measured how long the scene lasted, and between the moment Petrie swoops in to grab Guido and the moment Littlefoot lures him into a trap by having his sail wedged in between two large rocks, this encounter lasted more than three minutes, making it quite a lengthy Sharptooth encounter. I said before on my review of the 12th film that Petrie's uncharacteristic bravery was on full swing as he faced this very Sharptooth, but it's true. This long-jawed monster did not go down without a fight, even though he, like many Sharpteeth, didn't have many smart tricks up his sleeve, even having a ticklish jaw as proven by Guido. That is why this is actually one of my favorite Sharptooth encounters in the whole series.
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At #63, we have the Spiketail herd leader from Big Freeze, with 2 minutes and 42 seconds of screen time, having just one second more than the Sailback Sharptooth from the 12th movie. We didn't see too much of this Spiketail compared to Tippy and his mother, but I can say he really tried his best to lead his herd during the hardships of the Cold Time. Other than that, I don't really have much of an opinion on this character.
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In 62nd place, just three places ahead of the Fast Biters from the 3rd film, we have the Fast Biters from the 11th film, Invasion of the Tinysauruses, with 2 minutes and 44 seconds on screen during the closing stages of the film. These Fast Biters were inadvertently drawn into the Great Valley by the Tiny Longnecks led by Big Daddy, making this the third and final occasion in the series where Sharpteeth successfully penetrated their way into the Great Valley, and once they were in, they launched an all-out assault on the vulnerable Gang. Although the combined efforts of Topps, Tria, and even the Tiny Longnecks who marched into the battlefield, led by a reformed Big Daddy, were able to keep them busy for a while, it seemed Topps would be left to fend for his own. However, these Fast Biters were only stopped once a big group of the strongest dinosaurs in the valley, led by Littlefoot's grandparents, left them vastly outnumbered and forced them into retreat. Much like the Fast Biters from the third movie, they were utterly relentless in their lust for blood, but as we've seen many times, strength comes in numbers, which these Fast Biters certainly did not have.
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#61 is the only named character in the 61-70 range; Elsie. In Mysterious Island, she was on screen for 2 minutes and 46 seconds, only appearing towards the end of the film when she helped save Chomper and later helped the Gang finally escape the island and took them to a beautiful oasis where their families had temporarily taken residence while the Great Valley was left a barren wasteland. A good character to get acquainted with once one got to know her, as proven even with the Great Valley adults. Judging from their dialogue, it would seem she came by to chat with them quite often during the events of Mysterious Island.
We're getting close to the halfway point! :)petrie Stay tuned for ranks 60th through 51st!
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Ranks 60-51
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Ranked at #60 is the leader of the Sharptooth pack from Wisdom of Friends, with 3 minutes and 3 seconds of screen time, making him our first character on this list to breach 3 minutes. This is the Sharptooth that everyone on this forum likes to call "Best Sharptooth" for some reason. :petrienotamused It's actually crazy that this Sharptooth got roughly double the amount of screen time as his three pack mates, and he has the same weakness that they all have: being vulnerable to the Yellow Bellies' crazy bouncing that is capable of causing tremors and bringing rocks down, and this very weakness proved to be their downfall, as they were lured to a cliff which the Yellow Bellies and the Gang brought down with their bouncing and sent all four Sharpteeth falling to their deaths. What a stupid way to die. God, I hate Wisdom of Friends so much.
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#59 is the last of the three Sharpteeth from Great Longneck Migration, as the gray one in the pack had the most screen time of the trio, at 3 minutes and 13 seconds. This is because he appeared more than once, unlike the other two. He first encountered the Gang after they slept next to him, thinking he was just a big boulder, but they were proven wrong when Cera accidentally woke him up, culminating in a short chase that didn't last long as they quickly found a hiding place. He was later one of the two Sharpteeth who joined the battle with the Gang and the Longnecks midway through the conflict, and he engaged in a seemingly one-sided battle with Pat, only to be tripped by Cera and Shorty, sending him careening right into his red pack mate who was battling Bron, finishing off this Sharptooth trio once and for all, as they were soon scared away by the eclipse.
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#58 is the Plated Sharptooth from Mysterious Island, with 3 minutes and 23 seconds of screen time. He was living on the island whilst Chomper and his parents were apparently oblivious to him being there. He found the Gang by tracking down their scent right to their hiding place, and he chased them all over the island until he seemingly had them cornered. Chomper tried to distract him for a while, but as soon as the beast gave him quite a blow, this drew the ire of his angry parents, resulting in the only Sharptooth vs. Sharptooth battle in the whole series. The Gang watched the 2-on-1 battle in awe as the Plated Sharptooth, despite being outnumbered, was able to gain the upper hand on both his opponents, and it looked as though he was on his way to victory and set to doom the whole Gang, if not for a well-timed tail swipe by Papa Sharptooth that sent him falling into the Big Water where he eventually drowned, almost taking Chomper with him. Of all the Sharpteeth in the series, this one was definitely one of the fiercest when it came to combat.
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57th place ends up going to Archie, an Archelon whom Littlefoot befriends while trapped in the cave he calls home, with 3 minutes and 35 seconds of screen time in Journey Through the Mists. Despite his old age, he still had some tricks up his sleeve as he briefly engaged Ichy and Dil, but in the end it was Cera who finished off this particular conflict. Even though he was initially hostile towards Littlefoot, his inability to scare him due to his lack of teeth made the Longneck see right through him, and he turned out to be a kind old turtle who was happy to give the kids a helping hand on their way to the Land of Mists to find the Night Flowers.
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Sticking to Journey Through the Mists, here's a surprise that gave Mumbling a good laugh. Tickles had more screen time than Archie, at 3 minutes and 52 seconds, and thus takes the #56 spot. This adorable little guy quickly made friends with Spike, and I really love that cute little moment where he shares a hug with Ducky. Despite his lack of dialogue, Tickles is so likeable, and he proved to be a helpful companion, especially seen when he saved Petrie from being fed to Dil by Ichy. I thought it was sad we never saw him again after the 4th film, but he certainly left on a very positive note.
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I'm sure many of you are not going to believe this, but the infamous Sharptooth from the original Land Before Time, at 4 minutes and 7 seconds of screen time, ranked all the way back at #55! Yeah, you probably weren't expecting him to be this low, but since a lot of scenes were cut from the original movie, his screen time definitely suffered because of this. He may have only been on screen for just over four minutes, but everything we saw him do was utterly terrifying. Watching him do seemingly supernatural things while engaging in ferocious combat with Littlefoot's mother (ultimately killing her in the process) and viciously go after the Gang in his desperate quest for revenge is so amazing despite his natural evilness. Just look at all the things he did! He murdered Littlefoot's mother, destroyed Littlefoot's first tree star to wipe out one of the few living memories of her, and he was all but ready to kill the entire Gang in cold blood to satisfy his need for flesh, blood and vengeance for having one of his eyes slashed! This makes him, in my opinion, one of the greatest villains in the history of theatrical dinosaur movies, and he deserves praise for leaving such a mark on prehistoric cinema.
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#54 is even wilder, though, as Ruby, the Fast Runner who joined the Gang alongside Chomper and became a major character in the TV series, ended up all the way back at #54 with just 4 minutes and 14 seconds of screen time, just edging ahead of the original Sharptooth! This is because Journey of the Brave was the only movie she appeared in (being the only movie set AFTER the events of the TV series), and even then, she and Chomper had a very small role in the movie. It really pains me to have to rank Ruby this low, but I said at the beginning of the project that I was NOT including the TV series, only the movies. As such, Ruby is the only member of the Gang of Seven to end up in the bottom half of the list.
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At #53, we have a pair of characters which I had a very hard time tracking down in Invasion of the Tinysauruses, and those are the Tiny Longneck twins, Rocky and Dusty. I was only able to confirm up to 4 minutes and 33 seconds of screen time for these twins, because many of the scenes with the Tiny Longnecks left them very difficult to properly spot. Thus, they landed at #53.
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In 52nd place, we finally have not only the first immediate family member of the Gang of Seven, but also the first character on the list to appear in more than one film, and this was none other than Chomper's father, who, like Rocky and Dusty, also had 4 minutes and 33 seconds of screen time. However, I placed him ahead of the Tinysaurus twins because he appeared in two movies while Rocky and Dusty were only in one. He may be a Sharptooth, but above all else, he's also a father. In fact, he's so much of a protective father that he will go at great lengths to ensure Chomper's safety, as we saw in both movies he and his mate appeared in. I can only wonder whatever happened to Ozzy and Strut after they tried to kill Chomper at the end of the second movie, but hopefully Mama and Papa Sharptooth gave them what they deserved. His moment of unintentional good, however, came in the fifth movie, as it was he who unwittingly saved the Gang by tossing the Plated Sharptooth into the sea, but Chomper ended up going down with him. He was then met with an extraordinary sight, as Littlefoot jumped his way down to rescue his Sharptooth friend, and this act earned the Gang the admiration of Chomper's grateful parents. This may have questioned film critics, but it showed that despite the vicious nature of Sharpteeth, there are some who have a good heart because they care about family above everything else.
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Just missing the top 50, we have Ducky's siblings in 51st place. All of Ducky's siblings combined throughout the 14 films ended up with a grand total of 4 minutes and 40 seconds of screen time. Surprisingly, the most screen time they got in a single film was 1 minute and 4 seconds, which was actually achieved by the newborn Swimmer siblings at the beginning of Journey of the Brave, just one second more than the siblings from Big Freeze. It's honestly quite sad that they never really became supporting characters at any point during the series, unlike Petrie's siblings in Great Day of the Flyers, and I'm sure this is what drove The Lone Dragon to expand upon Ducky's family in his Swimmer Trials fanfiction, a story I highly recommend to anyone interested in LBT fanfiction.
Up next, we begin delving into the top 50 with ranks 50th through 41st!
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Okay. We've now reached the top 50! Time to get into the upper half of the list! :)petrie
Ranks 50-41
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Kicking off the top 50, we ironically have our first character to reach five minutes, as the Browridge Sharptooth from Secret of Saurus Rock comes in at #50 with exactly five minutes on the dot. The Gang ended up running into this Sharptooth three times over the course of the 6th movie. Most notably, Littlefoot, thinking he was dead, tried to yank a tooth out of his jaw, but this proved to be foolish, as the Sharptooth turned out to be very much alive, and to make matters worse, another Sharptooth was lurking around the corner, and Littlefoot was left in all-out panic. It was so bad he couldn't even think about running anymore until his grandfather showed up to defend him. Even then, though, although Grandpa Longneck briefly got the upper hand over the second Sharptooth (which I mentioned earlier at #86 on this list), the Browridge arrived to turn the tables, distracting Grandpa long enough for the other Sharptooth to kick him right in the underbelly. It seemed the Longneck was finished, but, of course, Doc showed up at just the right time, and the two Longnecks ended up crushing the two Sharpteeth to death with rocks in the end. Littlefoot was even able to get that tooth he wanted so he could repair Saurus Rock and end the bad luck in the Great Valley. Five minutes of screen time definitely ensured this was one of the more questionably impactful Sharpteeth in the films. :petrie
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In 49th place, we have the first of the Longneck characters from Great Longneck Migration, as Sue had 5 minutes and 15 seconds of screen time. She made her mark the moment she first appeared by nearly crushing the Belly Dragger who was about to eat Littlefoot, and her size was so great that even his grandparents were initially startled by her appearance until she showed herself to be a Longneck just like them. According to Bron, she can be quite a formidable combatant due to her huge size compared to almost all other Longnecks. No wonder she fell in love with one that was even taller than her!
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At #48, we have arguably one of the most adorable characters in the entire series, and that is Cera's baby sister, Tricia, with 5 minutes and 47 seconds of screen time from the moment she hatches in Great Day of the Flyers. She is at the center of the subplot of the 12th film, as she was the reason Cera had become fed up with her father and stepmother seemingly ignoring her while giving all their attention to Tricia. In the end, she ended up playing a pivotal role in the movie's finale, as she inadvertently interfered with the Day of the Flyers by falling into a fast-flowing river that led to a huge waterfall which certainly would have led to her early demise if not for Petrie's quick thinking and newfound bravery (having rescued Guido from a Sailback Sharptooth mere hours earlier). On top of that, wrapping up her arc with her saying her first word (Cera's name) was the icing on the cake.
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#47 is the first of the two Rainbow Faces from Stone of Cold Fire. In this case, the female one had 6 minutes and 6 seconds of screen time, making her our first 6-minute character. I've made it known on this forum before that I'm not too fond of the Rainbow Faces because of them supposedly being aliens disguised as dinosaurs. For screen time, the female one was the lesser of the two, being more strict than her male companion, not willing to share secrets as he was.
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#46 is Tippy, the Spiketail whom Spike befriended in Big Freeze, with 6 minutes and 11 seconds of screen time. This is a character that I don't have much to say about, although it was good to see Spike finally meet somebody of his own kind. The two not only became fast friends, but over the course of the 8th film, we see them do so many fun things together, up to the point where Ducky begins to feel guilty over mistreating her adopted brother. It was almost as if Tippy was on the verge of essentially replacing Ducky as Spike's best friend, but in the end, Spike, of course, chose to go back to his foster Swimmer family where he rightfully belonged.
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This next one will be absolutely insane. Just ahead of Tippy, at #45, we have his own mother! She had 6 minutes and 13 seconds on screen, beating her own son by just two seconds! This was the only time in the entire series where a child character had LESS screen time than his or her own parent! That's just wild! You wouldn't think this would be possible, but Tippy's mother did play quite a large role in Big Freeze. She was essentially the number two of the Spiketail herd, often speaking alongside her herd leader (whom I mentioned earlier at #63), and serving as the occasional voice of reason for the Spiketail herd. She seemed happy to have Spike become a member of their herd, but after seeing just how well Spike was around Ducky and the Gang at the end of the movie, she realized that this Swimmer family was where he truly belonged.
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Tippy and his mother both end up being sandwiched by the two Rainbow Faces from the movie previous to theirs, as the male Rainbow Face from Stone of Cold Fire comes in at #44 with 6 minutes and 22 seconds on screen, 16 seconds more than his female companion. As I mentioned, he was much more open to sharing their secrets, unlike his female companion, and constantly had to be kept in line by her. Definitely a strange character, one of the few things I would agree with Topps on.
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Going back to Great Longneck Migration again, with Littlefoot's adopted brother Shorty ranking in 43rd place with 6 minutes and 39 seconds of screen time. Right off the bat, this kid was a bully who took an immediate dislike to Littlefoot at first glance, but once it became clear that Littlefoot was Bron's biological son, this only made things worse for Shorty, whom until now had grown to depend on Bron and was now jealous of Littlefoot, considering his own terrible past. It got to the point where he considered running away from the Longneck herd, but was caught by Littlefoot, who managed to knock some sense into him, and eventually the Longnecks made amends. Littlefoot even asked Bron to adopt Shorty as his own, which he happily accepted, and thus Littlefoot, like Ducky, ended up with a new adopted brother whom he could call family. Shockingly, Shorty was never even mentioned in Journey of the Brave, not even by Littlefoot nor Bron, and I wish I knew why this was the case. No wonder he ended up at #43.
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Well, well, speaking of Bron, and speaking of Journey of the Brave, we have Wild Arms in 42nd place with 6 minutes and 43 seconds of screen time, just four seconds more than Shorty. This character came off as annoying to many other characters and film critics, but he was nowhere near as bad as the Yellow Bellies from the previous movie. Comparatively, Wild Arms was much more tolerable. That said, though, he was a coward who made up lies to exaggerate his supposed bravery, and Etta even offhandedly called him out on this. His reputation probably didn't get any better as he was the one who was indirectly responsible for Bron's peril, resulting in Littlefoot and the Gang taking off to rescue him from the Fire Mountain where he ended up trapped at. The looks on the faces of Grandpa Longneck and Topps during their time together says all you need to know about what they thought of this cowardly weirdo.
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At #41, we have the leader of the Tiny Longnecks from Invasion of the Tinysauruses, Big Daddy, at 7 minutes and 22 seconds of screen time. Voiced by the late Michael Clarke Duncan (most famous for his role in Green Mile opposite Tom Hanks), many compared him to Topps in that he was an overprotective father who tried extra hard to protect his herd of Tiny Longnecks from the much bigger dinosaurs of the Great Valley right above them. After Littlefoot's confession and the rockslide that caved their home in, he felt no choice but to leave the Great Valley behind for good, only to run into a duo of Fast Biters. In the process, he inadvertently led them right into the Great Valley, endangering the lives of all the peaceful plant-eating dinosaurs who lived within. However, he soon had a change of heart regarding the dinosaurs of the valley, and minutes later, he had his redemption. With a great battle cry, he personally led his herd right into the battlefield and launched an assault on the Fast Biters, which bought just enough time for the rest of the valley adults to arrive and drive the Fast Biters into retreat. After making amends with Topps, the Tiny Longnecks were welcomed back into the Great Valley with open arms, and were even invited to take part in the festivities on the following Nibbling Day. Big Daddy may have been harsh at times, but in the end, he proved his heart was in the right place.
With the list just over halfway done, we're about to get into the top 40! Stay tuned for ranks 40th through 31st!
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Ranks 40-31
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Moving into the top 40, we have Littlefoot's mother ranked at #40 with 7 minutes and 24 seconds of screen time. This actually includes 15 seconds in Bron's flashbacks in Great Longneck Migration. She was one of the more famous characters in the LBT series. She played a very important role in the first half of the first movie that can NEVER be forgotten. She taught Littlefoot so much as the young Longneck grew up, and in the end, she ultimately gave her life to save not only her son, but Cera as well. This is why I was so pissed off at Cera for calling her a stupid Flathead, showing that she had no gratefulness towards her for saving her life probably until her redemption at the end. Littlefoot's mother's death was a huge blow, but in the end, it set the entire story up for her son as he set off to find the Great Valley. She even appeared before him in spiritual form on several occasions, eventually leading him and his new friends right to their new dream home. Once the Sharptooth whom had killed her was finally gone for good, and the newly-formed Gang of Five arrived in the Great Valley, Littlefoot was assured her soul could finally rest in peace. She is seen by many as the saint and unsung hero of the first movie, and her sacrifice ensured that Littlefoot would have a home with his grandparents (her own parents, for that matter), along with new companions whose friendships were very hard-earned. She is in the elite of Land Before Time characters.
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Going from one protecting mother to another, we have Chomper's mother at #39 with 7 minutes and 26 seconds of screen time. She ended up with a lot more screen time than her mate did, appearing in more scenes in both movies they were in. Like Littlefoot's mother in the previous slot, this one is also a doting mother to her one and only son, and would go to great lengths to protect him. Like her mate, she, too, was admired by Littlefoot's willingness to rescue Chomper, and when she came to realize just how much Chomper's friends meant to him, she actually shared a smile with Cera (the only time in the entire seires we saw an adult Sharptooth smile). They then proceeded to do something which no other Sharpteeth would ever have done; they offered the Gang protection, which they politely refused because they had families worried about them and had a home to go back to. Accepting this, they saw their son's friends off and even waved goodbye to them, a nice final gesture out of gratefulness for saving their son's life. Unfortunately, neither of Chomper's parents have been seen since then, but it would be interesting to delve more into their backstory and how their son ended up living in the Great Valley with Ruby as his caretaker.
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We've finally reached our first named antagonist. Well, Shorty was sort of an antagonist in the 10th movie, but this is our first TRUE named antagonist. This would be Nod, one of Hyp's two cronies in Time of the Great Giving, with 7 minutes and 28 seconds of screen time, putting him in 38th place. Of Hyp's two sidekicks, I often have a hard time pondering who is worse: Mutt or Nod? Mutt is the stupid one, while Nod just likes to agree with Hyp like a mindless slave serving his master without question. Nod, however, was the one who splashed water in Topps' face (although this was actually caused by Hyp) and left Littlefoot to be wrongfully blamed for it. Topps, in retaliation, forced the Gang to be split apart and disbanded, but this didn't last long. Nod proved to be even more of an incapable friend when he and Mutt argued over who should rescue Hyp from the sinking sand, leaving Littlefoot and his friends to save him instead. He and Mutt did eventually lighten up and make friends with the Gang, though, and even played a role in helping them restore the water supply to the Great Valley at the end.
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Now we have one of the most evil characters in the whole series. Rinkus ranks in 37th with 7 minutes and 39 seconds of screen time in Stone of Cold Fire. Of Pterano's henchmen, Rinkus was the lesser of the two. He wasn't as bad as Sierra, but he did not secretly have a heart of gold like Pterano did. He was actually more calculating when it came to betraying Pterano in the finale, unlike his impatient fellow crony. He also displayed more cowardly and hesitant tendencies than Sierra. He was, however, just as hungry for power, and in the end, they both got what they deserved when the Stone exploded in their faces and sent them soaring into their earlier resting spot, singed and possibly severely injured.
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At #36, we have Skitter, another one of the Tiny Longnecks from Invasion of the Tinysauruses, with 7 minutes and 51 seconds on screen. Unlike his superior, Big Daddy, he was a very friendly one who readily accepted Littlefoot without a second thought. That may have changed after his confession, but even then he and Lizzie were unwilling to leave the valley behind when Big Daddy forced them to leave. During the Fast Biter attack, Skitter and Lizzie were the first Tiny Longnecks on the scene, biting into the Fast Biters' skin, showing that they had such a big heart towards the Gang and the valley as a whole. This would explain why they got more screen time than Big Daddy did, as he didn't arrive on the battlefield until later.
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Moving on to Hyp's other crony, we have Mutt ranked at #35 with 7 minutes and 51 seconds of screen time in Time of the Great Giving. This ties him with Skitter, but I placed Mutt higher. Mutt was the stupid one of the trio of bullies who mercilessly picked on Littlefoot and his friends constantly throughout the third film. Mutt was unintelligent and dimwitted compared to Nod, but he was very loyal to Hyp. As I mentioned when going over Nod, he, too, had a redemption arc when he, along with Hyp and Nod, helped the Gang defeat the Fast Biters and bring the water supply back to the Great Valley, and he also warmed up to the Gang as they made their way back home to a replenished Great Valley.
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Moving back to Invasion of the Tinysauruses one more time. Of the Tiny Longnecks, Lizzie ended up with the most screen time with 7 minutes and 57 seconds, placing her in 34th. She may have only had six seconds more screen time than Skitter, but what really established her as the most prominent Tinysaur was the musical number she shared with Cera. She could easily relate to her as they both had issues regarding their fathers which they eventually sorted out by the end of the movie.
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At #33, we have, in my opinion, the most evil character in the entire series; Sierra. His screen time on Stone of Cold Fire was 8 minutes and 23 seconds, meaning there is a gap of more than half a minute between him and Lizzie. Sierra was a new breed of messed up. He was a deranged psychopath who would stop at nothing to get his way. He continuously grew ever more impatient with Pterano's more thought-out calculations and Rinkus' hesitancy. Kidnapping Ducky was just absolutely wrong, but what really made him worse than anyone else in this universe was this very line ...
"Once we take over, first thing I'm gonna do is feed them overgrown eggs to the Sharpteeth!"
That, in my opinion, solidified his status as the worst character in the entire series in terms of evilness. He would have happily murdered five innocent children in cold blood without a second thought and without any shred of remorse. He was a vile, twisted lunatic who would have gladly committed murder in the first degree, and Pterano actually tried to stop him from doing this! For that reason, I was screaming with joy the first time I watched the movie and saw the Stone of Cold Fire blow up right in the Flyers' faces. This maniac got what he deserved in the end, and even though it's unknown whether or not Rinkus and Sierra survived, it was satisfying to see Sierra get blasted off by the very thing he sought to take unimaginable power from. Karma's a bitch.
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At #32, we have a character who actually ended up with four credited movie appearances: Mr. Clubtail, with a total of 8 minutes and 36 seconds of screen time. He was somewhat of a grumpy character at times, and he even had a heated rivalry with Topps occasionally. Unlike Topps, though, he tried his best not to show his gruff side when the children were present, meaning that he at least knew where the line of morality was when it came to the Gang, though he did get frustrated with them at times. Most notably, there was that one time he called Petrie a racial slur right in his face after he had just screwed up a practice session for the upcoming Day of the Flyers. I guess it's up for debate who's worse: Topps or Mr. Clubtail?
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Moving on to one of the more terrifying villains of the series, we have Ichy in 31st place with 8 minutes and 39 seconds of screen time in Journey Through the Mists. Ichy is definitely an evil character, but he's not as bad as Sierra, and that's because he is a Sharptooth Flyer who is driven by instinct to feed as part of his nature. He did display somewhat psychopathic tendencies, as he, too, was willing to kill the Gang in cold blood, but only to satisfy his and Dil's need to feed. Another reason I say Ichy is not as evil as Sierra is because he and Dil do not make a great team. The two argue with each other constantly, and in the end we see them accomplish nothing together. That said, though, the encounters Ichy and Dil had with the Gang (plus Ali) were actually considered to be so frightening that movie critics thought they would scare younger viewers.
Now we're really beginning to see a few favorites show up here and there. Get ready to see some more as we get into the top 30 with ranks 30th through 21st!
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Ranks 30-21
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We begin the top 30 with another villain, as Strut slots into 30th place with 8 minutes and 44 seconds of screen time in Great Valley Adventure. Strut was the lesser of the two Egg Stealers in the 2nd movie, though. He didn't seem all too excited about the Egg Stealer lifestyle as Ozzy was, preferring to instead eat grass. That didn't make Strut any better, though. He was still evil, and he developed a hatred for the Gang at about the same level as Ozzy, and was willing to go to great lengths to eliminate them. In fact, it was Strut who came up with the idea of throwing Littlefoot off the edge of the Great Wall and send him falling to his death, and Ozzy readily agreed to the idea. However, Ozzy made the mistake of squeezing Chomper into a chokehold, and this drew the ire of the Sharptooth's angry parents, who promptly went after them and left their fates uncertain. Strut was much like Rinkus in that he was not the most evil one in the group but still did not harbor good feelings.
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At #29, we have the last of the many characters who were exclusive to Great Longneck Migration, as Pat had 8 minutes and 47 seconds of screen time. An elderly Longneck who accompanied the Gang on their journey to track down the whereabouts of Littlefoot and his grandparents, he was a very humble and modest Longneck, as shown when he wasn't fazed in the least by Cera's grouchy attitude, knowing full well that she would inevitably change her mind, and when she indeed did, he was more than happy to be their traveling companion, telling them the stories and legends of the Longneck creation myth. However, his leg is then burned by lava, and despite his pleas for the Gang to continue on without him so that he doesn't slow them down, they instead chose to stay and keep him in their group, much to his surprise and happiness. Unfortunately, his burned foot does prove to be a disadvantage when it comes to battling Sharpteeth, as shown when he takes several massive blows, but in the end, thanks to Bron and all the others, he was able to survive the encounter and took part in "supposedly saving the world" with the other Longnecks. The Gang even invited him to come live with them in the Great Valley, but despite this, he was never seen again, and I sometimes wonder what happened to him after he moved into the Great Valley.
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From one Longneck to another, we have Doc in 28th place with 8 minutes and 51 seconds of screen time in Secret of Saurus Rock, including Grandpa's stories and the Lone Dinosaur musical number. Doc, as I mentioned much earlier, is implied to be the legendary Lone Dinosaur who famously defeated the "Meanest Sharptooth of all," many years before the events of the series take place, during which his right eye was permanently scarred, and when Littlefoot discovers the scar running down his right eye, he is convinced that Doc is the famous Lone Dinosaur and grows to idolize him. However, after Saurus Rock is broken, the other dinosaurs in the Great Valley mistakenly believe that Doc's presence is causing bad luck everywhere, and he chooses to leave despite Littlefoot's protests. He does perform one final heroic act before departing, though, as he steps in at the nick of time to help Grandpa Longneck deal with two Sharpteeth who seemed to have gained the upper hand on him while he was trying to defend Littlefoot. His timely arrival ended up ensuring the defeat of the two Sharpteeth, and he parted ways with Littlefoot by telling him that he didn't need him as a hero because he already had one: his grandfather. This inspired the young Longneck to portray his grandfather as the Great Dinosaur who protected the Great Valley with his many years of experience and effectiveness in combat. I never really thought highly of Doc, though. I think the last thing the series needed was a western-like vibe.
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At #27, we have the other villain from Journey Through the Mists. Dil, the blind Belly Dragger, had 8 minutes and 53 seconds on screen. I mentioned earlier that hers and Ichy's partnership did not work out well, as their bickering prevented them from becoming an effective duo. Sure, Dil was blind and needed Ichy to guide her, but honestly, did they really need each other? They did come very close to eating the Gang a few times, though. They ended up having near-misses with Cera, then Petrie, and finally Ducky. In the end, though, they accomplished nothing and ultimately went their separate ways, only for Dil to be chased and possibly killed by a Swimming Sharptooth. Not the best way for a blind Belly Dragger to go out.
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At #26, we take a considerable jump from almost nine minutes to more than ten minutes, as Hyp becomes our first ten-minute character with 10 minutes and 16 seconds on screen during Time of the Great Giving, where he was the secondary antagonist (behind Topps). He was a character you may have loved to hate when you first saw the third film. He was the leader of a small group of bullies who picked on the Gang on a regular basis, and he even succeeded in getting the Gang disbanded by Topps by using Nod to frame Littlefoot for a wrongdoing he didn't commit. He was definitely a hateful character for most of his time on screen. He even showed minimal gratefulness towards the Gang when they rescued him from the Sinking Sand after his own two friends stood there and did nothing, instead choosing to argue with each other over who should save him. However, after Topps saw the cruel way in which Hyp's father treated him, he saw the error of his own ways and convinced everyone, including Hyp, that they should treat each other with kindness. Ultimately, Hyp redeemed himself when he assisted the Gang in defeating the Fast Biters who subsequently attacked the group, and restored the water flow into the Great Valley, and it seemed his bullying ways were finally gone as he began to treat Littlefoot and the Gang with respect and kindness. I am aware he sorta went back to his bullying ways in the TV series, but that, too, was short-lived. Despite his redemption, I still have little sympathy for Hyp.
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We begin the top 25 with another one of the nastier characters. Ozzy, the worse of the two Egg Stealers from Great Valley Adventure, had 10 minutes and 38 seconds of screen time. This villain, like Sierra, had no remorse, and he took pleasure in eating eggs containing unborn fetuses of baby dinosaurs, much like an unhealthy drug addiction. We can all be very happy that we never saw any of that on screen, otherwise Great Valley Adventure would surely have ended up with a PG rating, even if kids were interested in dinosaurs, including ones who may have eaten other dinosaurs' eggs. Also, like Sierra, he, too, wanted to kill Littlefoot in cold blood. However, when Chomper tried to stop Strut from throwing Littlefoot off the Great Wall to his death, Ozzy made his fatal mistake by grabbing the baby Sharptooth and attempting to choke him. This was witnessed by his parents, who proceeded to snap at him and Strut, and pursue them out of the Great Valley, unwittingly saving Littlefoot in the process. Ozzy was definitely a psychopath, but not on the same level as Sierra was. I still think the Flyer was a lot worse than this Egg Stealer.
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We have a complete change of mood for the next character, going from one of the most evil villains in the series to one of the most favorite characters outside the Gang. Mo comes in at #24 with 12 minutes and 16 seconds of screen time. This only counts Journey to Big Water, as I did not count his cameos in Great Longneck Migration or Great Day of the Flyers, as those cameos each lasted less than two seconds (hence why Ducky's siblings DID count in Invasion of the Tinysauruses). Mo was such a lovable character in Journey to Big Water. In fact, director Charles Grosvenor's son loved him so much that Grosvenor insisted he have cameos in later films, hence his brief appearances in "Adventuring" in the 10th film and "Flip, Flap and Fly" in the 12th film. This fun-loving Swimmer ended up being swept from the Big Water and into the Great Valley by a massive rainstorm that caused flooding in the valley, and after befriending a curious Littlefoot, he enlisted the Gang in helping him return home ... against their families' wishes with their "Don't Talk to Strangers" attitude. A subsequent earth shake effectively left them with no choice but to go on with their mission in bringing Mo home, and throughout the adventure, he won the hearts of many viewers, and even the Gang (minus Cera because of her initial jealousy, though she did come to like him much later, only after Mo seemingly gave himself up to save the Gang from a Sharptooth Swimmer whom had been stalking them). Mo even gave us a glimpse into the beautiful underwater world of prehistoric times, and young audiences, I'm sure, were just as mesmerized as Littlefoot was. He is a character who was easy for young ones to fall in love with, and I think it's nice that he made the top 25 on this list. :Mo
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And now we have the characters who inspired several of my LBT fanfiction stories, and those would be Petrie's siblings. They end up in 23rd place with a combined total of 12 minutes and 16 seconds of screen time, equal with Mo, but they appeared in five films to Mo's one, so they placed higher. Right up until Great Day of the Flyers, they had placed last in screen time in EVERY movie they had appeared in. Then, in the 12th movie, they finally came out of their shadow. Their 10 minutes and 55 seconds of screen time in this film moved them all the way up from #64 to #18, but the Yellow Bellies from the following film knocked them right back out of the top 20 for good. Nevertheless, these young Flyers had a shining moment that placed them in the top 25. Sure, I didn't like how they treated their brother at times. It made me cringe watching poor Petrie get belittled by his siblings whilst his loving mother tried to put a stop to it. As I stated in my review for this film, though, they showed that they have big hearts when it counts, as shown when they watch Petrie abandon their flying test to rescue the newborn Tricia after Guido's feeble attempt at saving her from a waterfall. It soon becomes clear that Tricia's weight would be too much for Petrie to take, so they have their big moment when they swoop down to help their brother save the day, and in the end they not only earn big praise from their mother, but also become some of the few to earn the admiration of Topps, who was so grateful to them all for saving the life of his newborn daughter. Petrie was a hero that day for sure, but his siblings definitely played a part in his heroic act, and had it not been for Great Day of the Flyers, they would be nowhere near this high on the list for screen time.
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We're gonna have back-to-back slots with Flyers in them, as Etta places 22nd with 12 minutes and 28 seconds of screen time in Journey of the Brave. I said before that she was one of the best of the series' one-off guest characters, as she played a pivotal role in the latter half of the 14th film, showing Littlefoot how to see the light at the end of the tunnel when all seems grave, and even being the one to bring the Gang back together after their earlier falling out. She ultimately accompanied the children on the last leg of their journey to find Bron and assisted in his rescue. Her voice actress Reba McEntire was also a big part of her character, bringing a great presence to lighten the chilly mood of that particular segment of the movie. I loathe country music, but McEntire was outstanding in the role of Etta, and she was, indeed, the light in the darkness.
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We unfortunately have to wrap up the 30-21 section with one of the horrendous Yellow Bellies from the equally-horrendous Wisdom of Friends. Foobie comes in 21st place with 13 minutes and 27 seconds of screen time. He was the most tolerable of the three Yellow Belly characters, but only because unlike Loofah and Doofah, he showed rare signs of small intelligence despite not having any dialogue, whilst Loofah and Doofah had no intelligence whatsoever. I'm sure that being mute was what allowed him to become fast friends with Spike (another mute character), but he still has many of the insufferable tendencies the other Yellow Bellies have. Because of that, his relative intelligence does nothing to change my views on this character. He is still just as bad as the others of his herd. :petrienotamused
Coming up on my next post, we go into the top 20 with ranks 20th through 11th!
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We've made it to the top 20! It won't be too long before we see where the top characters rank! :)petrie
Ranks 20-11
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Kicking off the top 20, we have the annoying Threehorn twins, Dinah and Dana, with 13 minutes and 49 seconds on screen in Secret of Saurus Rock. It's not surprising that their antics are annoying due to the fact that they're babies, but given that they literally took Cera's "Get lost" advice to heart by absentmindedly and fearlessly running away to Saurus Rock, that simply drew my ire, and I guess now you see why I just don't like these characters. I will cut them some slack for being toddlers, but still I can't think of how something like that can be excused. They ended up bringing bad luck to the Great Valley as they were the ones who broke Saurus Rock, and thus they rubbed me the wrong way.
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In 19th place, we have Littlefoot's father, Bron, with 14 minutes and 12 seconds of screen time over the course of two movie appearances. Right up until the 10th movie, we were left to believe that Littlefoot was an orphan after his mother's death in the first movie, but then we learned he had a long-lost father, and when the truth was revealed, I'm sure we all felt the same way Littlefoot did. The classic case of "Where have you been all my life!?" Bron's flashbacks of his views of events from the first movie really captured our curiosities, and the fact that Kiefer Sutherland, of all people, was his voice in this movie was just amazing! This was early on during his run as Jack Bauer on "24," and he sought to use his own natural voice for Bron. It paid off, and it even paved the way for Scott Whyte to take the same approach. This is the same Scott Whyte who later took over the role of Captain Qwark in "Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart" after Jim Ward had been forced to retire for health reasons. Bron quickly became a fan-favorite, and he's a character whom many would like to see more of.
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At #18, we have, in my opinion, the worst character in the entire series; Doofah. Her screen time on Wisdom of Friends was 15 minutes and 32 seconds, becoming our first character on this list to surpass a quarter of an hour of screen time. Yes, I just said Doofah is the worst character in the entire series, even worse than Loofah. Doofah definitely shows stupider tendencies than Loofah does. I can't believe they brought Sandra Oh of "Grey's Anatomy" to voice this abomination. Oh didn't deserve to be given this terrible role. Crazy fact: Doofah's screen time actually excludes a few shots she was in because she was not supposed to be in those shots where the herd took cover from the rain as she had separated from the herd in her stupidity, thus making this a major continuity error. 15:32 is thus her "correct" screen time without the continuity error. God, Wisdom of Friends was such an abomination that should never have been released, but I need to move on to the next character before I continue rambling at this terrible movie! :petriemad
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Well, the perfect character to save me from Doofah; the mother of my favorite character! Mama Flyer ranks at #17 with a total of 15 minutes and 36 seconds of screen time. It's actually quite unfortunate that Mama Flyer ended up this low on the list. The most screen time she got in a single movie was just shy of five minutes in Great Day of the Flyers, where she also posted her best film rank at #11 out of 17 characters in said movie. She appeared in 12 movies, and yet she did not rank in the top ten in ANY of them. Honestly, it's very sad that we barely even got glimpses of Petrie's mother, and she deserves a lot more, especially given the small glimpse we got of the relationship between her and her son in the 12th movie. While her other children were bashing Petrie to no end, their mother was quick to stop their ranting, and here we got the ONLY scene in the entire series where it was just Petrie and his mother alone. We finally saw that she loves Petrie just the way he is despite his numerous flaws, because he is her flesh and blood, and she would do anything to make him happy. The scene unfortunately ended with Mama Flyer not succeeding in cheering Petrie up, but we know that the time the two spent together offscreen must have been very happy most of the time. She is a caring and loving mother to Petrie, and we unfortunately got next to no onscreen glimpses of that. No wonder she's a major character in most of my LBT fanfiction stories. :(petrie
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To make things even worse for Mama Flyer, I am utterly dismayed to reveal that she ended up being sandwiched between the two most insufferable Yellow Bellies, as Loofah (the leader of the Yellow Belly herd) ranks in 16th with 16 minutes and 20 seconds of screen time in Wisdom of Friends. Just as I was about to say that we needed more of Mama Flyer, well here's more proof of that. I've already went on bashing Wisdom of Friends to no end. Seriously, need I say more ... ? :petriemad UGH!! Moving on!
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Okay, we got all three Yellow Bellies out of the way. Now I can relax! Anyways, moving on to the top 15, we have Mr. Thicknose, the children's tutor in Big Freeze, who had 16 minutes and 49 seconds on screen, most of which was in the second half of the 8th movie. He was actually one of the few characters who had more screen time than any one member of the Gang of Five in any movie, as he ended up having more screen time in Big Freeze than both Spike and Petrie, coming in 4th place for his only film appearance. He started out as some sort of schoolteacher for the Gang, but after Littlefoot exposed him for lying about the coming snow, the Great Valley shunned him for "not knowing everything." It wasn't until he ended up accompanying the Gang to the Mysterious Beyond after Spike had left and Ducky had sneaked out looking for him that he finally came clean about his past and even had his own song, showing his eagerness to redeem himself. In my opinion, his song alone was his great redemption, although he did later save the Gang by delivering the killing blow to a Sharptooth whom had stalked them along the mountain range. That along with providing the Gang protection throughout their misadventure earned high praise from many who previously doubted him. He certainly didn't start out as a likeable character, but in the end, he proved to be one of the most heartwarming characters, as shown when he forgave Littlefoot after what he had done at the beginning of the film and became a good companion to the Gang in general. I guess it's sad that he, too, was limited to just one movie, but he did stick around for the TV series, as if that's any better.
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Ah, here we go! In 14th place, we have one of the most popular characters in the entire Land Before Time series, and that is, of course, none other than Petrie's dear old uncle Pterano! He had 16 minutes and 50 seconds of screen time in his one-and-only appearance in Stone of Cold Fire, putting him just ONE second ahead of Mr. Thicknose! This character quickly became a big inspiration for LBT fanworks because of his relationship with his nephew Petrie, and it's one of the reasons why Stone of Cold Fire is considered one of the more favored sequels. His Scottish-like, Shakespearean voice provided by British actor Michael York (who was starring in the Austin Powers films at the time) was the icing on the cake! Despite his evilness, he is considered one of the best characters in the whole franchise (besides the Gang). Of course, though, he did have his infamous flaws that made others shun him, but actually for rightful reasons. He led part of the herd astray, which led to all of them being slaughtered while only he escaped and was met with resentment and hatred for what he had done. Then, of course, he manipulated his own nephew into forcing the Stone of Cold Fire's location out of Littlefoot's mouth just for his own selfish desires, as he sought to use the Stone's supposed magical powers to obtain new magical abilities and make the Great Valley conform to his will. It definitely was wrong that he allowed Sierra to capture Ducky in the night for spying on them, but on the other side of that, he did show that he would not tolerate any harm coming to her and especially his nephew Petrie, as shown when he slapped Rinkus in retaliation for swatting Petrie out of the sky. When Ducky was believed to have fallen to her death, unlike his minions, he showed genuine remorse for what he had supposedly done. He even tried to stop Rinkus and Sierra from murdering the children in cold blood. To cap it all off, when he finally came to his senses once it became clear that he was never going to obtain the magical powers he had sought after, he redeemed himself in an epic way by rescuing Ducky, the very dinosaur he had captured, from falling to her death, and even the valley agreed that this was a good deed worthy of having his banishment reduced to five years. His emotional parting with his tearful nephew and his subsequent departure from the valley left all of us begging for more, but he unfortunately was never heard from again. I could go on all day about how we all want to see so much more of Pterano, but we still have another 13 characters to go over.
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13th place is going to Cera's stepmother, Tria, with 17 minutes and 35 seconds of screen time. She first appeared in Invasion of the Tinysauruses and played a big part in mellowing Topps out, which, after a while, succeeded in making him a softer character than he was before. It did take her a while to earn Cera's respect, but after seeing how she defended the Tiny Longnecks, going against her own future mate's wishes, Cera finally began to see her as a likeable Threehorn, and the two began to spend some quality time together and know each other a lot more. By the next film, Topps and Tria were officially together and were expecting a child, and later on, they had a beautiful daughter named Tricia, giving Cera a new baby sister. Her final film appearance was in Wisdom of Friends, where her role was much smaller. She was in plenty of TV episodes, but she and Tricia were both absent from Journey of the Brave for some reason, so here she is at lucky #13.
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#12 is one of the most prominent one-movie characters, and this was none other than Littlefoot's cousin, Ali, with 17 minutes and 43 seconds of screen time, all in Journey Through the Mists. You may have noticed a Silver medal on the top right of her picture, and that's because she had the second-most screen time in her only movie appearance, having more screen time than everyone except Littlefoot. When Grandpa Longneck fell ill shortly after Ali's herd arrived in the Great Valley, and Littlefoot learned of the Night Flowers from the Land of Mists (the herd's former home), which was the only thing that could cure his ailing grandfather, he sought Ali's help, knowing she would know the way to the Land of Mists, and this was responsible for boosting her screen time so much that she took the Silver medal for screen time in Journey Through the Mists and ultimately took the #12 spot overall, becoming the lowest-ranked "medalist" on this list. Sadly, though, she made no further film appearances after that, leaving many of us wondering why.
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At #11, we have the second character in a row with a Silver-earning one-off movie appearance. In this case, it was Guido from Great Day of the Flyers, with 22 minutes and 29 seconds of screen time, making him our first 20+ minute character. This strange character just randomly pops up in the Great Valley having no idea how he even got there, and he doesn't even fit in anywhere. On top of that, his preferred food is worms, which disgusted some of the valley residents, including Petrie's siblings. That said, though, he eventually found a way to fit in by coaching Petrie during his flying practice, as the Day of the Flyers was right around the corner, and until then Petrie had been messing up everything. Guido ended up bringing out the best in Petrie, but on the night before the Day of the Flyers, we saw just why he has no idea why he ends up at random places: he's a sleepwalker and a sleep-flyer. Those slow-paced scenes of his sleepwalking and sleep-flying, to go along with his run-in with the Sailback Sharptooth, prompting a brave rescue effort by Petrie, boosted his screen time significantly, and he ended up ranking second behind Petrie in Great Day of the Flyers, becoming one of only four characters to beat Littlefoot in any film. Yes, he also played a part in rescuing Tricia, but could not succeed on his own, and Tricia would not have made it out had it not been for Petrie. Guido is a strange character, no doubt, but he shaped Petrie into becoming a brave and formidable Flyer by the end of the film.
Oh, boy! We've got the top ten coming up now! In the next post, we will look at ranks 10th through 4th! :)petrie
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Alright! Here we are; the top ten! It's time to meet the most prominent of all the Land Before Time characters (aside from the top three, whom I'm saving for the final post)! :)petrie
Ranks 10-4
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How absolutely fitting that we begin the top ten with the friendliest Sharptooth around! Chomper ranks in 10th place with a total of 25 minutes and 16 seconds of screen time, covering three movies. Chomper is the ONLY member of the Gang of Seven who was actually born in the Great Valley, but this was because the Gang hatched him by accident after finding whom they mistakenly believed to be one of Ducky's unborn siblings. From the moment he hatched, he quickly grew close to Littlefoot and began to look up to him as a big brother figure, but alas they had to go their separate ways because of Chomper being a Sharptooth (whom were not allowed in the Great Valley). They did have a much-awaited reunion in Mysterious Island, but again this was short-lived, as the Gang grew wary of Chomper due to him being a Sharptooth. Littlefoot's rescue of Chomper following an attack by the previously-mentioned Plated Sharptooth earned the respect of his parents, and this would play a role in Chomper ending up back in the Great Valley a long time later, when, in the TV series, he and Ruby moved to the Great Valley following an agreement made between their two families after an attack by Red Claw. I still don't understand fully how the valley dinosaurs were convinced to allow him and Ruby to live in the valley, but they must have been told about their backstories. That, along with Chomper's history with the Gang being brought up, must have earned the sympathy of most. His and Ruby's part in Journey of the Brave, however, was very small, and his only real role was leading the search party of himself, Ruby, Grandpa Longneck, Topps and Wild Arms, using his nose to track the scent of his friends to follow the path they took to find and rescue Bron. We definitely need a 15th film so we can delve more into Chomper and Ruby's backstory.
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If there's one thing that will make The Lone Dragon happy, it's that Mama Swimmer made it into the top ten! The biological mother of Ducky and adopted mother of Spike appeared in 12 films for a grand total of 26 minutes and 47 seconds of screen time, landing her in 9th place overall. Her most prominent appearance, obviously, was in Big Freeze, where she was torn between having Spike stay with her family or allowing him to leave with the herd of Spiketails so he could be with his own kind. That film saw her get agonizingly close to ten minutes of screen time, and even though she never made it to ten minutes in any of the films, her time in Big Freeze was good enough to ensure a place in the top ten. She is a very likeable character. She is a loving mother to both Ducky and Spike, and simply the fact that she readily adopted Spike for Ducky's sake shows that she does not share any of the racist beliefs that many others did, notably Topps. Everyone in the Gang adores her, and she adores them. She brings such a warming presence whenever she's on screen, especially in Big Freeze, where her presence really warms the otherwise cold mood left by Spike's departure midway through the film. She could be explored just a little more, but hey, she made the top ten! Let's all be happy about that! :duckyhappy
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We are taking a massive jump with this next one, going from just under half an hour to just over a full hour. Topps, the father of Cera (and later Tricia), sits in 8th place with 1 hour and 44 seconds of screen time, counting every film except Journey Through the Mists. Yep, that's a 1h 0m 44s. He only ended up breaching the one-hour mark right at the very end, during the closing moments of Journey of the Brave due to him being part of the search party that went after the children whom were rescuing Bron. I absolutely despised Topps for most of the series, especially the first, third and eleventh films (which was his most prominent appearance, ranking at #6 for that film). Originally a cruel bigot who refused to have anything to do with anyone who wasn't a Threehorn, hence his still-lingering low views of Littlefoot and others, he was the reason why Cera turned out the way she was most of the time, even though both characters mellowed as the series dragged on. Topps did everything he could to maintain his gruffness and dominance in the herd, but Grandpa Longneck was always quick to put him back in his place when he went too far. He continuously infuriated me throughout the series with his authoritarian-like attitude that only Grandpa Longneck could shut down, and at certain times when he irrationally blamed Littlefoot for putting Cera in danger, again much to Grandpa Longneck's chagrin. I know he eventually improved during the later films, especially after Tria came back into his life, but it's going to take a lot more than his occasional redemption arcs to make up for all the stuff he did in my eyes.
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Going from the most rigid parent figure of the Gang to one of the kindest ones, we have Grandma Longneck in 7th place with 1 hour, 1 minute and 33 seconds of screen time. This means that like Topps, she also did not reach the one-hour mark until the final film in the series. The grandmother of Littlefoot, she is an occasional voice of reason in the Great Valley when it seems that neither her mate nor Topps can get things settled down. Besides the Gang, she, along with her mate, were the only characters who appeared in all 14 films, and she ranked in the top ten in six of them, her best rank being 8th in both Journey to Big Water and Great Longneck Migration. There were two films were she had the most screen time out of all the Great Valley adults (Journey Through the Mists and Wisdom of Friends). Like her mate, she is a lovable character whom everyone has great respect for, and she is warming and welcoming to all good characters. I think it's no wonder she landed at #7.
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I think it's absolutely no surprise at all that Grandpa Longneck would end up in the #6 rank. This one, I suppose, was painfully obvious from the moment this project began. As I just said when going over his mate, he appeared in all 14 films, and he had a grand total of 1 hour, 29 minutes and 56 seconds of screen time. Just four seconds more, and he would have made it to one and a half hours of total screen time! The grandfather of Littlefoot, he is the voice of reason and the man of power in the Great Valley, watching over the herd with his strong leadership and wise council which is even capable of making Topps bow to him from time to time like he is simply the Hand of the King. He adores all of Littlefoot's friends, and they all look up to him for occasional counseling when things go wrong. Without Grandpa Longneck, there is simply no Great Valley. I guess that's why Journey Through the Mists really took a toll on us; to think that the Great Valley was that close to losing its wise leader. He has even shown to be ferocious in combat despite his age, as seen in Secret of Saurus Rock and Great Longneck Migration, even though on both occasions, he briefly lost the upper hand and had to have backup on his side. I love Grandpa Longneck. He is among the best characters in The Land Before Time, and there is simply no Land Before Time without him.
And now, we're down to the original five main characters!
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At #5, Spike had 3 hours, 56 minutes and 41 seconds of screen time, just missing out on an opportunity to reach four hours. Being the silent one of the group, he is just simply there most of the time, yet somehow won the Bronze in Mysterious Island and then surprised me yet again with a shocking Silver in Journey to Big Water! I had originally predicted that Big Freeze would be his only true medal opportunity, but I was 100% wrong, as he didn't even rank in the top five in that movie due to the Spiketails' lack of screen time in the second half. Because of Spike's mute nature and eating habits, he does annoy me at times, but he also has a big heart, as he is willing to be there to help his friends in times of danger, such as when Ducky was kidnapped in Stone of Cold Fire. Not one of my favorites, but still a loyal friend when the time needs him to be.
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In 4th place, we have the first of the three Gold medalists (being a character who had more screen time than anyone else in a particular movie), and this was none other than my favorite character in the entire Land Before Time series (and the character whom I'm happily voicing in the VO projects); Petrie! :)petrie The Flyer had a total of 4 hours, 21 minutes and 37 seconds on screen over the course of the 14 films. Petrie started off the series as a cowardly, flightless nobody who annoyed many film critics with his poor attempts at being the comic relief. However, the sequels slowly improved his character over the years until he became a very likeable character by the time Stone of Cold Fire came out. Petrie was not very active during the first half of the series, as he didn't get his first medal until Stone of Cold Fire (thanks to his uncle Pterano), and even after that, he would have to wait until Invasion of the Tinysauruses for his next top 3 result. Of course, though, as we all know, his crowning achievement was in Great Day of the Flyers. I've already covered on this before in my review of that movie, so here's the short version: Petrie really came out of his friends' shadows in Great Day of the Flyers, especially after Guido came into the picture to coach him on being a better Flyer. Then, when Guido went astray in his sleep and ended up running into a Sailback Sharptooth in the Mysterious Beyond, Petrie showed uncharacteristically pure bravery by getting right into the face of that Sailback without any flinching or any hint of fear and successfully rescued Guido after his friends (whom had been lagging behind) finally showed up to distract the Sailback. He later proved himself a hero by rescuing the newborn Tricia from certain death DURING the Day of the Flyers, and he ultimately earned the respect and admiration of everyone in the Great Valley for his heroism. In the process, he earned the Gold medal for that movie for having the most screen time (one of only two Golds to not be won by Littlefoot due to him not being the central focus character). Petrie ended up having quite a big run late in the series, winning medals in all the last four films consecutively, and for a moment it looked as though he was threatening to challenge Ducky for third place, but in the end, he couldn't come within five minutes of Ducky, and thus Petrie ranks at #4.
Okay. We're saving the best for last. Stay tuned for the reveal of the top three! :)petrie
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This is it! It's time to hand out the BIG prizes! Let's see who made the top three and earned the right to stand on the podium for this Land Before Time screen time project!
3RD
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Yep, yep, yep! Ducky earns a place on the podium by ranking in 3rd place with a total of 4 hours, 26 minutes and 41 seconds of screen time! She started off the series by shockingly beating Cera for the Silver (to think that the late Judith Barsi got more screen time than Candace Hutson)! However, that turned out to be a fluke for some time, as she would only beat Cera once more, and that, of course, was in Big Freeze, where she proceeded to beat EVERYONE, including Littlefoot, winning her one and only Gold medal and being the one who shattered Littlefoot's perfect run! It was very nice to actually see her as the main character of a movie, as we see her relationship with Spike become strained and slowly deteriorate throughout the movie. She gives him the cold shoulder in his presence, but she secretly begins to feel guilty. However, she finally snapped when the Spiketails were getting ready for their departure, resulting in Spike leaving her to join Tippy and the other Spiketails. She immediately regretted her actions in the aftermath, and she decided to take matters into her own hands by sneaking out to find her former foster brother, desperate to have him back. Her misadventure only succeeded in her and the Gang finding a hot spring, which they brought their families to so they could relax and keep warm, and soon after her wish to have Spike back came true, resulting in a happy reunion in which Ducky was finally able to redeem herself. I absolutely love Ducky, and she is my second favorite character in the series just behind Petrie. She initially looked as though she would be a formidable opponent to Cera and battle it out for second place. Sadly, though, Cera gradually pulled away from her, and after Great Longneck Migration (where she won would turned out to be her final medal), Petrie began his massive comeback run and so nearly came within striking distance of Ducky in a potential challenge to take her off the podium, but in the end, Ducky held on to third with all her might and earns the Big Bronze for this project! Yep, yep, yep! :duckyhappy
2ND
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In 2nd place, taking the Big Silver for this project, is Cera! She had a total of 4 hours, 53 minutes and 13 seconds of screen time, beating Ducky by over 25 minutes. A character whom I HATED when the series began, she vastly improved during the sequels as she grew closer to Littlefoot and the others despite her father's low views on them, and she was more often than not the secondary character in most sequels. She did still show her gruff side very often, but it was nowhere near as bad as it was when the series began. She had her occasional clashes with Littlefoot, but always settled things down in the end. Crazy fact: Cera was the ONLY character who placed in the top 3 in ALL 14 films, all because of Littlefoot failing to make the top 3 in Great Day of the Flyers. Cera thus ended up with a perfect score of 14 medals, beating out Littlefoot's 13. However, ... she never won a single Gold medal. She was only ever in either 2nd place or 3rd place. She only beat Littlefoot once, and yet in that one film where she DID beat him, she was in turn bested by both Petrie and Guido. With eight Silvers and six Bronzes, Cera solidified her status as someone who would forever be in Littlefoot's shadow. :littlefoot:) :ceramad
And finally, our big winner ...
Drum roll, please!
1ST
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And to the surprise of absolutely nobody, Littlefoot, the fearless, lovable Longneck leader of the Gang of Seven (formerly known as the Gang of Five) takes a massive landslide victory with a 14-film total of 6 hours, 47 minutes and 30 seconds, putting him ALMOST TWO HOURS ahead of Cera! :littlefoot:) Seriously, though, was there any doubt on who #1 would be? No way! We all knew Littlefoot would be #1 from the beginning, and he showed it, too. It was as if the universe centered around him, and it even shows by his medal count. Just look at how many Golds he won! He won the Gold for every movie except Big Freeze and Great Day of the Flyers, the latter of which he failed to even make the top three and allowed Cera to win the medal count. This brave, young Longneck was just ... EVERYWHERE (let me emphasize that, seeing how much screen time he had), always lending a helping hand to those in need while also satisfying his lust for adventure, earning great respect and admiration from all those around him. Even I must admit that I adore Littlefoot as a character, as he was the one who really brought everyone into his prehistoric world, and he even brought many different kinds of kids together at a time when everyone always kept to their own kind. His curiosity ultimately landed him four hard-earned friends on a quest to find the Great Valley, and he soon gained one more in a friendly Sharptooth, and years later yet another one when a pink Fast Runner who became said Sharptooth's caregiver also joined the Gang. When the kids are in times of peril, their first instinct is to look up to Littlefoot for his leadership, and most of the time he leads them all to success. By now, it would become clear that Littlefoot would undoubtedly grow up to become the next leader of the Great Valley when his grandparents eventually pass on. With nearly seven hours of total screen time, Littlefoot had no competition, and sometimes he won his Gold medals in dominating fashion, even a few of them being won by a margin of around ten minutes! So, here stands Littlefoot on the top step of the podium! :littlefoot:)
And with that, that is the end of my Land Before Time screen time experiment! I had a lot of fun working on this project! It took me almost a month to get all the numbers, but I'm sure glad I pulled off a productive start to 2023 after this forum suffered such a horrendously inactive 2022. Massive thanks to all of you who supported me on this project, and hopefully one of these days we can get our Stone of Cold Fire voiceover moving along again. Roles are still plentiful!
That's all for now, though. Until next time, take care of yourselves and each other, and I just might be back with another possible way to keep 2023 productive! Peace! :)petrie
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Again, you've made amazing hard job, Diddy! Thank you! ^^
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Oh, and one last thng: one certain longneck tells you forgot one certain character:
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Correction, the real Rhett the Great would have 14 golds and 0 of the others.
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Congratulations on finishing this amazing project! :)petrie
I'm happy (and surprised) that Mama Swimmer made the top ten, too! Such a lovely character! :^^spike :Dducky
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Congratulations on completing this project. :)littlefoot The time that this had to have taken, both for film watching and the resulting calculations, had to have been quite extensive.
The final totals do provide some interesting surprises. I am not shocked that Ruby had the least screen time of the main gang as, if it wasn't for the 14th film, she would not have had any screen time at all. Mama Swimmer breaking into the top ten (beating Chomper no less) was also quite the surprise to me. Petrie making it into fourth place was also quite the comeback for him considering how starved for time he was in some of the early films. Though I don't think there was any surprises in the top three. Cera will be a bit mad about being shut out of 1st place, however. :taunttroll
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My biggest surprise in totals is Mama Flier's position. :O
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Statistics that many of us never realized we really wanted to see. Sure is good to see the final results at last. While I'm sure we all completely expected Littlefoot to win by a landslide, and the total results of the top 5 are perhaps what some of us might have expected, some of the more detailed movie-by-movie results sure provided some interesting observations. My personal favorite from all of this is how Chomper managed to reach 10th on the final list. No wonder he was the one former guest character to be made a main character for the TV series.
Speaking of which, I still would very much like to see you (or perhaps someone else if necessary) try this same project for all 26 episodes of the TV series, at least as its own list separate from this one. The episodic format allowed the spotlight to be shared more equally among all seven of the main characters. In fact, I am absolutely convinced that, going by the format used here, each of the Gang of Seven could get at least one gold medal, and I'd like to see for myself if that's true (I'm sure Cera would like for that to be proven for her sake ;) ). I'm not trying to insist that you start on it right away, but I just wanted to express how interested I am in seeing this project be extended to the TV series.
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Yeah, top 3 was what I expected at the end of the day. I love my tomboy threehorn and all, but even I knew going in that Littlefoot would win this one.
Congrats to Littlefoot. :littlefoot:)
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Congratulations on completing this project. :)littlefoot The time that this had to have taken, both for film watching and the resulting calculations, had to have been quite extensive.
The final totals do provide some interesting surprises. I am not shocked that Ruby had the least screen time of the main gang as, if it wasn't for the 14th film, she would not have had any screen time at all. Mama Swimmer breaking into the top ten (beating Chomper no less) was also quite the surprise to me. Petrie making it into fourth place was also quite the comeback for him considering how starved for time he was in some of the early films. Though I don't think there was any surprises in the top three. Cera will be a bit mad about being shut out of 1st place, however. :taunttroll
Thanks, rhombus! This is definitely a project that made me sweat a lot. As I said, this project took nearly a month for me to complete, and it is very interesting to see some cool surprises for some of these characters. Even I originally didn't predict that Mama Swimmer would make it to the top ten, but Big Freeze provided a big boost that propelled her to the top ten, even managing to beat Chomper and take the #9 slot; quite a formidable feat. In fact, Chomper almost didn't make the top ten after briefly losing 10th place to Guido after Great Day of the Flyers, but Journey of the Brave pulled him right back up to 10th.
And yes, we all need to give Petrie a big round of applause for his valiant comeback effort in the final four films, including his crowning achievement in Great Day of the Flyers (which I can't stress enough). Stone of Cold Fire and Great Day of the Flyers were the only films I predicted Petrie would win medals in, but he obviously exceeded my expectations by soaring into plenty of scenes from the 11th film onward. :)petrie
Fourteen films, and yet Cera never stood a chance at winning Gold in any of them. Playing second fiddle to Littlefoot seems to be all she's good at, and it now it's open for all of us to see. :ceramad
Statistics that many of us never realized we really wanted to see. Sure is good to see the final results at last. While I'm sure we all completely expected Littlefoot to win by a landslide, and the total results of the top 5 are perhaps what some of us might have expected, some of the more detailed movie-by-movie results sure provided some interesting observations. My personal favorite from all of this is how Chomper managed to reach 10th on the final list. No wonder he was the one former guest character to be made a main character for the TV series.
Speaking of which, I still would very much like to see you (or perhaps someone else if necessary) try this same project for all 26 episodes of the TV series, at least as its own list separate from this one. The episodic format allowed the spotlight to be shared more equally among all seven of the main characters. In fact, I am absolutely convinced that, going by the format used here, each of the Gang of Seven could get at least one gold medal, and I'd like to see for myself if that's true (I'm sure Cera would like for that to be proven for her sake ;) ). I'm not trying to insist that you start on it right away, but I just wanted to express how interested I am in seeing this project be extended to the TV series.
Chomper definitely proved himself to be top ten material, but he was briefly threatened by Guido after the 12th film. Think about it; had Journey of the Brave not happened, Chomper would not have made the top ten. Guido would have ended up in 10th place! :ChomperOhhh :GuidoAAAAAHHHHHH
I mentioned this on the Discord server, but I may consider a separate screen time project for the TV series, but given how I just wore myself out with this project for the movies, I need time to replenish so I can find more creative ways to stay active on the forum whilst the VO for the 7th movie remains trapped in obscurity. I mean, not like I can just grab my microphone and do random Petrie stuff! I will probably wait until late spring or early summer to do a screen time project for the TV series. I'm not ruling out the possibility, but I can't make any promises right now.
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I haven't been able to weigh in as much since my life has been really busy lately, but I wanted to say this is a really cool project and obviously has taken a long, long time and a lot of effort to complete. Many kudos to you for getting this done, and so swiftly too! Very interesting to see the results.
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I mentioned this on the Discord server, but I may consider a separate screen time project for the TV series, but given how I just wore myself out with this project for the movies, I need time to replenish so I can find more creative ways to stay active on the forum whilst the VO for the 7th movie remains trapped in obscurity. I mean, not like I can just grab my microphone and do random Petrie stuff! I will probably wait until late spring or early summer to do a screen time project for the TV series. I'm not ruling out the possibility, but I can't make any promises right now.
Yeah, I get it, I've been struggling to maintain progress on some projects of my own, so I know what it's like. That you're open to the idea of doing a screen time project for the TV series and even mentioned when you would probably get around to it is good enough for me, so I'll be looking forward to it once you're eventually ready.
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Okay, everyone. After thoroughly analyzing the movie frame-by-frame multiple times and having to re-watch infamous, cringe-worthy scenes (some of them no less than five times), I have the results for each character's screen time for the original Land Before Time!
Fair warning: I ended up discovering a startling surprise that may make us all never look at this movie the same way again ...
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No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Even I thought for a moment that Vegas Pro had left me cross-eyed, but the editing system speaks nothing but the truth ...
Ducky has more screen time than Cera! MORE THAN TWO MINUTES no less! :littlefootscared
Even though Ducky was formally introduced to the audience much later than Cera, the Threehorn's absence from most of the final battle coupled with Ducky being the bait for Sharptooth essentially allowed the Swimmer to overtake the Threehorn for second place in screen time.
Rooter was on screen for only 73 seconds, but that was all he needed to deliver his powerful message about the great Circle of Life.
I was honestly expecting slightly bigger numbers for Sharptooth, but given that a big chunk of scenes ended up being cut from the movie, I guess it's no wonder his screen time was cut down to just over 4 minutes.
As for the siblings, those are credited as a combination of the siblings from each of the Gang's families. The only reason I counted them was because they are related to the main characters, even though Cera's siblings will never be seen again (their shared combination of 14 seconds ALL during Cera's hatching scene, shockingly). Ducky's siblings never really become supporting characters, either, but we know very well that Petrie's siblings eventually will. :petrienotamused
Littlefoot's grandparents were just utterly confusing throughout the time I studied their scenes. This is actually the only film in the series where they have the scientifically correct coloring (based on gender), as these were mysteriously swapped out from the second movie onward. Their numbers were simply based on assumption after I decided to go with my gut.
Of course, though, Littlefoot is unsurprisingly far ahead of everyone, his screen time almost doubling that of the runner-up. It should be noted, though, that most of the movie was essentially being seen through his perspective, so it should come as no surprise that Littlefoot the fearless Longneck leader of the Gang starts off the series seated on the throne as Screen Time King. The question is, though, will he stay up there throughout the entire series given just how many sequels there are?
That's all for now, though. I'll see you later with my next post, where we dissect the characters' screen time in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure! :)petrie
Wow, this is really cool! Great work!
Just a note about Cera’s siblings, it’s not impossible that they won’t be seen again. I think a few of them appeared in movie 3.
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fPetrie started off the series as a cowardly, flightless nobody who annoyed many film critics with his poor attempts at being the comic relief. However, the sequels slowly improved his character over the years until he became a very likeable character by the time Stone of Cold Fire came out.
Whaaaattt….? :wow
I honestly thought Petrie started off good but got worse as the series progressed. I might have to make a topic about this to see what everyone thinks.
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They ended up bringing bad luck to the Great Valley as they were the ones who broke Saurus Rock,
Whaaaaattttt…??? There actually WAS a curse? :GuidoAAAAAHHHHHH
From what I remember, it was left ambiguous whether there ever was a curse. And I’m almost 100% certain there wasn’t.
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Ranks 30-21
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We begin the top 25 with another one of the nastier characters. Ozzy, the worse of the two Egg Stealers from Great Valley Adventure, had 10 minutes and 38 seconds of screen time. This villain, like Sierra, had no remorse, and he took pleasure in eating eggs containing unborn fetuses of baby dinosaurs, much like an unhealthy drug addiction. We can all be very happy that we never saw any of that on screen
Honestly, I kind of felt sorry for Ozzie. Yes, I know he went too far in trying to murder the kids, but I think he gets a much worse reputation for his diet than he deserves. Saying “he took pleasure in eating eggs containing unborn fetuses” in too harsh. Animals in the wild will eat eggs that are unborn fetuses of other animals. I don’t see how Ozzie is any worse because of that, much less an addict.
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Ranks 30-21
We begin the top 25 with another one of the nastier characters. Ozzy, the worse of the two Egg Stealers from Great Valley Adventure, had 10 minutes and 38 seconds of screen time. This villain, like Sierra, had no remorse, and he took pleasure in eating eggs containing unborn fetuses of baby dinosaurs, much like an unhealthy drug addiction. We can all be very happy that we never saw any of that on screen, otherwise Great Valley Adventure would surely have ended up with a PG rating, even if kids were interested in dinosaurs, including ones who may have eaten other dinosaurs' eggs. Also, like Sierra, he, too, wanted to kill Littlefoot in cold blood. However, when Chomper tried to stop Strut from throwing Littlefoot off the Great Wall to his death, Ozzy made his fatal mistake by grabbing the baby Sharptooth and attempting to choke him. This was witnessed by his parents, who proceeded to snap at him and Strut, and pursue them out of the Great Valley, unwittingly saving Littlefoot in the process. Ozzy was definitely a psychopath, but not on the same level as Sierra was. I still think the Flyer was a lot worse than this Egg Stealer.
I’m thinking that you and I have slightly different opinions on Ozzy. While I’m not going to deny that he’s a villain (trying to kill the kids as petty revenge puts him on the same level as the original sharptooth, depending on how you view him), but I don’t agree with your quote “he took pleasure in eating eggs containing unborn fetuses of baby dinosaurs, much like an unhealthy drug addiction”. His kind simply eat eggs to survive, I don’t see that as something resembling a drug addiction anymore. I mean, Chomper’s parents surely eat other dinosaurs, but they’re not evil. Also, the fact that Ozzy is constantly cheated out of his meal made him relatively sympathetic to me, sort of in the same way as Sylvester from Looney Tunes. I felt he only really shows signs of being a psychopath towards the end, when he tries to kill Littlefoot and Chomper in cold blood, and while that’s still is inexcusable, it only after he’s spent the rest of the movie being extremely unlucky.
For much of the movie, I felt what made Ozzie really qualify as a “villain” was how he treated Strutt, something you didn’t even mention. Strutt is worth mentioning, too. For most of the movie, he hardly qualifies as a villain at all. The only time he does comes at the end (being part of the murdering plan), and that felt too uncharacteristic to really be believable. I’m guessing that being constantly bullied by Ozzy (who’s presumably all he has) made him a little too desperate to gain Ozzie’s respect. Coupled with the fact that Ozzie had apparently stopped thinking rationally by the end of the movie and had become truly evil, and Strutt himself suddenly turning evil is a little more believable. Again, I’m not going to say it justifies him being evil, but it at least makes it a little more sense to me, since unlike Ozzie, I don’t feel that there was really anything before the bit where Littlefoot is kidnapped to suggest Strutt was a bully, much less a full-on villain.
Anyways, Ozzie is one of my favorite villains in the series, so I’m probably a tad biased towards him. But at least we can agree that he wasn’t as bad as Sierra.
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This sort of data is awesome. Great work, mad respect!
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Ranks 90-81
I'm sure many of you must be shocked to see this character this far down on the list, but here sits Rooter in 81st place.
I’m honestly not shocked. He appears in one scene in the entire film series that’s under two minutes long, I’m almost surprised he didn’t end up even lower.
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They ended up bringing bad luck to the Great Valley as they were the ones who broke Saurus Rock
That was NEVER confirmed…was it? :GuidoAAAAAHHHHHH
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They ended up bringing bad luck to the Great Valley as they were the ones who broke Saurus Rock
That was NEVER confirmed! Stop treating it like it’s fact! :anger
(Sorry, but I find it very annoying that people actually believe something that’s implied in-universe to be a made-up story.)
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Sorry if that was a tad harsh.
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even though Cera's siblings will never be seen again
The series hasn’t officially ended, has it?
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Have you seen any of my posts here, DiddyKF1?