The Gang of Five

The Land Before Time => 1988 Theatrical Release => Topic started by: Flathead on May 11, 2010, 06:54:50 PM

Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Flathead on May 11, 2010, 06:54:50 PM: I managed to scan the 1988 Animation magazine article about the LBT, it was referenced on the http://www.cataroo.com/DBland.html (http://www.cataroo.com/DBland.html) website about the various production issues regarding LBT, so here's the scanned images:

(http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy212/Flathead123/1.jpg)

(http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy212/Flathead123/2.jpg)

(http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy212/Flathead123/3-1.jpg)

(http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy212/Flathead123/4-1.jpg)

(http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy212/Flathead123/5.jpg)

(http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy212/Flathead123/6.jpg)
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Malte279 on May 11, 2010, 07:05:54 PM: Awesome Flathead :)
Thank you so much for sharing this with us :yes
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Flathead on May 11, 2010, 07:08:34 PM: no problem :D
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Animeboye on May 11, 2010, 07:30:41 PM: Very awesome find, my good man!
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Ptyra on May 11, 2010, 07:39:28 PM: Well, now we have a reallly good idea of how big the gang is!
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: jedi472 on May 11, 2010, 07:53:08 PM: This is sweet! :D Thanks for posting this, dude!
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: jedi472 on May 11, 2010, 08:57:06 PM: Heh, I just noticed they refer to Ducky as a Platypus on the second page. :lol:
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Belmont2500 on May 11, 2010, 10:15:45 PM: This is quite interesting, its to bad that after All Dogs Go To Heaven, his films ended up being Disney-esqe, up until Titan A.E., Don Bluth should make another film that's the quality of The Secret Of NIMH,An American Tail,The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven combined, that would be awesome.
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: WeirdRaptor on May 11, 2010, 11:05:25 PM: Whoa! Great find, man! Thank you for sharing.
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Mumbling on May 12, 2010, 12:51:02 AM: Hey that looks awesome! I'm gonna read through it when I'm done with school today! :)
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Kor on May 12, 2010, 01:00:44 AM: Interesting, thanks for posting this. I'll be an interesting read. :yes
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Sky on May 12, 2010, 01:27:48 PM: That was an awesome read! And now we probably know how tall the gang are. :yes
Thanks for sharing! :lol:
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Chiletrek on May 13, 2010, 12:52:12 PM: Hello:
I agree, this is a very amazing finding! Thanks for posting those scans :DD
And I also agree with Sky, we finally can make ourselves an idea of the gang's sizes :smile .
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Kor on May 13, 2010, 03:59:24 PM: Thanks for the post. It was a very interesting article to read and very informative also.
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Flathead on May 18, 2010, 08:38:05 AM: I'm not sure if it is worth adding a new topic just for two pics from the lucasfilm fanclub magazine issue six so I'll just post them here instead:

(http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy212/Flathead123/lucasmaglbt1.jpg)

(http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy212/Flathead123/lucasmaglbt2.jpg)

I'm wondering if their any other magazines from 88 or 87 that talk about the production of lbt, or that show pics that where never in the film.
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Kor on May 19, 2010, 05:19:18 PM: An interesting read, thanks for posting this here.
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Littlefoot1616 on May 20, 2010, 05:40:43 AM: Excellent find! Hugely interesting to see what was going through the producers' minds as they were making some of our favourite movies. If only they'd thought of director's commentary and bonus features back then. Thanks for sharing that with us mate! Wickid! ;)
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Malte279 on May 20, 2010, 06:02:19 AM: Absolutely :yes
It is great that you found this most interesting source material. Upon reading the part about Cera looking pink rather than orange or yellow I took a look at a screenshot. Personally I would still consider this orange and yellow rather than pink, but it is interesting to read about how they deliberately used the colors of the characters to express emotion.
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Cancerian Tiger on May 20, 2010, 10:21:57 PM: Quote from: Malte279,May 20 2010 on 05:02 AM
Absolutely :yes
It is great that you found this most interesting source material. Upon reading the part about Cera looking pink rather than orange or yellow I took a look at a screenshot. Personally I would still consider this orange and yellow rather than pink, but it is interesting to read about how they deliberately used the colors of the characters to express emotion.
Interesting bit about Cera indeed :yes.

Two words about their actual sizes: Holy s*** :o! I always imagined Ducky was small enough to sit on my shoulder comfortably, and I have a small build :blink:. Cera almost looks taller than me (5'2") just as she is in that shot. Imagine if she stood on her hindlegs. Daaaaaang :blink:!
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Pangaea on May 21, 2010, 02:38:11 AM: These are great! Thanks, Flathead! :DD (Boy, if there was ever an expression of gratitude that would only be taken the right way on the GOF, that was it! :lol) With movies (especially animated ones) I always find it very interesting to learn about the genesis and development of the characters, early ideas for the plot, and how the plot changed to its eventual form, how the visual aspects were designed (character concepts, color palettes, etc.), and any research that was involved in the making of the film.

I certainly never envisioned the gang as being that big. :wow For a long time I thought of them as being really tiny (maybe two or three feet long). More recently, I imagined Cera and Spike as being two or three feet high (Littlefoot would be at least a foot taller because of his neck), and around six feet long, maybe a little more. If they were really supposed to be THAT big, however, then unfortunately their parents were A LOT bigger than their respective species in real life.

Whoever wrote the movie description on the second page of the first article sure needs to hit the zoology books (not to mention the dinosaur books) if he/she thought Ducky was a platypus. :slap (Seriously, what kind of platypus is scaly, has a bony crest on its head, walks on two legs, and is thirty feet long as an adult? :crazy)

I sure don't remember Cera being pink at the end of the movie. :blink: As I recall, it was actually her father who had a pinkish/purplish hue.

Do you know when the second article was published, Flathead? I can’t find a date on it.
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Flathead on May 21, 2010, 12:15:03 PM: Its the lucasfilm fanclub official magazine #6 winter 1989.(although bizarrely enough the starwars.wikia entry on the mag has it at 1988) I managed to get the lucasfilm magazine from intergalactictrading website.

I wonder if there a colour photo somewhere of the black and white group photo on the animation magazine, as part of its in colour at the front cover.

(http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/yy212/Flathead123/coverpart.jpg)
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Kor on May 21, 2010, 02:35:21 PM: Interesting page, and in color too. Thanks for the post.
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Pangaea on May 23, 2010, 01:11:47 AM: Thanks again, Flathead! :)

Something else I realized; Charles Grosvenor & co. must not have figured the gang were that big either, or they wouldn’t have made Ruby almost as tall as Littlefoot. If Ruby was to the same scale as the gang in that picture, she’d be at least human-sized; as large as an adult Oviraptor. That, in turn, would make her parents larger than any known oviraptorosaur except Gigantoraptor. :blink:
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Saft on May 29, 2010, 01:52:26 PM: Awesome finds. Thanks for posting them up Flathead, they were interesting to view.
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Dalekdino on October 02, 2014, 02:21:13 PM: WOW!.... Are they big in that shot off them with Bluth or what!? A little too big in my PERSONAL OPINION. And how is the desk taking their weight!? I prefure the other shot of them with him were their smaller and cuter. http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...?showtopic=8884 (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=8607) And I don't like that mean look they gave Cera... And these a couple of colour errors on Spike.
Title: LBT article in the Animation Magazine
Post by: Phantom on October 14, 2014, 12:02:57 PM: Is this the actual size of the chars?