Rewatched the film on Disney+. The CG animation still holds up after all these years!
I have always had a crush on Neera, I knew the actress from the TV series ER and the Morgan le fey series.
The Velociraptors are the actual right height and shape! Jurassic Park used Deinonychus as its template for Velociraptors.
The Music, O the Music I use to listen to over and over.
I understand some LBT fans hate the film calling it an LBT clone. Chiefly the idea of going to The Nesting Grounds being similiar to The Great Valley. However, Spielberg admitted the Great Balley was based on The Promise Land Overflowing of Milk and Honey.
Where Dinosaur and LBT Differ:
Aladar is an adult Inguanodon, Littlefoot is Longneck/ Apatosaurus Child.
Littlefoot leads other dino kids, Aladar leads his family of Lemars and then elderly back of the herd members.
Aldar and Neera fall in love and jave hatchlings, Littlefoot’s closest romance is Ali and they are too young for a family.
Sharptooth is a solo Tyrannosaurus Rex hunting kids, while Dinossur features twin Carnotaurs hunting an entire herd.
Littlefoot’s journey to the Great Valley is instigated by his Mother, while Aladar goes to the Nesting Grounds when he meets Kron’s Herd.
Littlefoot has a major bond with his mom, Aladar never knew his birth mother and instead knows his adopted Lemar mother Plio.
Kron and Bruton are both stubborn and mean, Cera is similiar except Cera reforms and lives while both Kron and Bruton die.
Littlefoot’s mother dies, we never see Aladar’s mother die, in fact the Carnotaur feeds on a type of Threehorn not Aladar’s Mother.
The calamity is an Earthshake that seperates Littlefoot and the Gang from their families, Aladar and his family of Lemars lose their home over an Asteriod, but arn’t separated.
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The biggest similiarity is the beginning when Littlefoot’s egg goes on a journey, the same as Aladar’s egg goes on journey.
And the search for the Promise Land, however Dinosaur makes it clear the herds don’t stay in The Nesting Grounds forever, while The Gang of Five stays forever in The Great Valley.
I love LBT and Disney’s Dinosaur. I owe my love of Carnotaurs to the film.
I do not see Dinosaur as a rip off of LBT. So much is different as I have laid out.
