It's possible to transfer Laserdisc as long as you have RCA or S-Video outputs on your player. It's pretty much the same way you transfer VHS to your computer, as both are analog sources.

As far as I know, there are no changes made to the other three films save for better picture and sound. I believe the Laserdiscs use the original Dolby Surround soundtrack while the VHS is linear stereo due to the limitations of the technology.

My mistake. Though I do wonder what Spielberg has against commentaries...

Was there a making-of special made during the movie's release? Maybe that could go on the Blu-Ray.

In case nobody else has recently browsed DonBluth.com, Gary Goldman has released another slightly different answer to the famous deleted scenes question:

"The scenes were deleted from the work print during a meeting with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas after a screening in late April of 1988, to reduce the more frightening scenes within the sharptooth attack of Littlefoot and Cera through the briars. Most of these scenes were in pencil test, not yet in color. The actual drawings may still be in the film's archive, now at Universal, but there is no negative film of these scenes. So a "director's cut" is completely out of the question. Further, we would have to get Universal, Steve and George to all agree that it would be worth the time and cost to complete these scenes to color, cut them into the negative and prepare a new master color print and inter-positive to strike a new digital master for DVD and DVD Blu-ray production. The chances of that, I believe, are nil. Looking back, I wish that we would have just finished the scenes to color with painted backgrounds and filmed them, just in case there would be a call for an original "director's cut" - but, alas, we did not. Thanks again for your inquiry."

I have to ask though, if there really was no negative made of those scenes, how did one of those shots find its way into a TV spot? How did the rest of the deleted scenes mentioned on this board find their way onto Finnish TV and in the hands of skilled dubbers? Seeing how popular the original film is, if Gary did ask Lucas and Spielberg about restoring the cut, even if those scenes may not be recoloured, I reckon it would make a bootful of money, but only if marketed correctly.

Pikkutassu, I really do hope they show the uncut version on Finnish TV. The worst case scenario would be that the station could show a new print of the film and not the version you saw all those years ago. At least they are open enough to listen to viewer's comments, unlike a lot of stations these days.

In LBT XI, it was even worse. Aaron Spann is definitely the worst Littlefoot; it's like nails on a chalkboard everytime I hear a peep out of him. Alec Medlock, as bad as he was, was nothing compared to Spann.

Casting Littlefoot was always difficult because he had such a central role to the series. I believe Universal consiously chose child actors for Littlefoot because the performance was always that much more authentic than, say, someone like Nancy Cartwright, as talented a voice actress as she is. The rest of the gang were voiced by adults in comparison (although Aria Curzon has been Ducky's voice since she was around 10 years old).

You're all very welcome. By the way, how do you add images onto your post?

Do you have any favorite characters or sequels?

It's difficult for me to pick favourite characters because I love all of the gang and their individual personalities. Cera and Littlefoot are both interesting characters, but I also think Ducky and Spike are very cute (are they the underdogs of the whole series?). Petrie is also likeable, though I'm a little fed up of the assumption that he confronts his fear of flying multiple times in every single movie...

My favourite sequels would be numbers 3, 4, 5 and 7 (although the ending to that one was a downer, the storyline more than made up for it).

Not at the moment, but I will! Just need to improve my drawing skills and hopefully post some of my work on here.

Thanks guys and gals!