35 years later, and the original has never lost its lovable charm with its young, precious, innocent cast of beloved dinosaurs of different kinds who banded together to become everyone's favorite dinosaur group.  Happy Star Day, Land Before Time, and I guess Happy Starday to all five of those lovable kids!

  "Hey, everyone!  Meet me new flying friends!"

  "Petrie sure has found some strange new friends."

  "Those friends look so amazing!  Yep, yep, yep!"

  "Very strange if you ask me.

  "Hmm?"

Yep!  Another piece of crossover artwork, only this time around we have characters from THREE different universes!  Isn't diversity just wonderful? 

I wanted to make a wallpaper for my new Samsung phone, only to discover a harsh truth that Samsungs don't have scrollable wallpapers, so I was forced to make a vertical version, hence why two versions exist here.

"DiddyK" comes from Diddy Kong, my all-time favorite fictional character, and "F1" comes from Formula 1, since I'm such an obsessive motorsport fanatic.   Funnily enough, I was originally DiddyKF1Enthusiast on YouTube and a few other places for a while, but I later decided to shorten it to just "DiddyKF1" because I wanted a shorter name and it just ticked and stuck ever since!

Which is your favorite of the Donkey Kong Country Games?

Returns is the only one I've had playing experience with.  I was too young to experience the SNES days.

I'm bumping this up because nobody has asked me anything in over two years.

  "Why the long face?  Did you hurt yourself during your morning flight?"

  "You no wanna know."

How nice to see I inadvertently started a Petrie conversation.

And, ... um, wow, am I really the only one who thought Petrie was better in the sequels?  Uh, that would certainly make me feel like an oddball. 

In a way, I see Petrie as a diamond in the rough, since I have a soft spot for smaller sidekick characters who get their occasional moment in the spotlight, which Petrie did in the 12th film.

I'm a lefty.   Oddly, I use scissors with my right hand.

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!



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!



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.

And finally, our big winner ...

Drum roll, please!



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!    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!

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!

We've made it to the top 20!  It won't be too long before we see where the top characters rank!



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.


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.


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!


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.


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 ... ?   UGH!!  Moving on!


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.


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.


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.


#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.


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!