Great Valley Adventure's 20th anniversary

Jrd89 · **on:** November 25, 2014, 04:59:06 AM

We're approaching the 20th anniversary of the first LBT sequel, "The Great Valley Adventure", which is coming up on December 13th.

I found a picture of a sealed copy of the original 1994 vhs, too: http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0e/...ac4b73c5a70.jpg

It's Chomper, Ozzy, and Strut's 20th anniversary.

I remember first renting this movie in 1996 when I was just 6 years old along with the then all-new "Time of the Great Giving".

I can't believe it's been 20 years. :blink: Wow, how the time flies.

This movie is special to me because it was the first LBT movie I ever saw.

I can also remember watching (for the first time) the part in the beginning where Petrie tried walking with his eyes closed!

Malte279 · **Reply #1 on:** November 25, 2014, 05:51:32 AM

Credit to the movie that rekindled my interest in LBT. I had seen the original movie in cinema and been an "LBT fan" while I was the proper age group. Then in 1997 I did see LBT 2 and I was (for lack of a better term) "melancholically impressed". When I saw the movie announced again in December 1998 (with several of the sequels following) I watched it... and it broke the dam.
I wonder, just what would the world be like had I not spotted the announcement back then? We'll never know. Sometimes life seems a bit random

Dalekdino · **Reply #2 on:** November 25, 2014, 08:03:32 AM

Oh yes I'd just released it was this time 20 years ago the first LBT sequel came out. I remember seeing LBT 2 for the first time when I was about 5 I think. My mum rented it for me, not long after I saw the first film. I was really excited thinking. "What there's another one!" Back then I didn't know the title of the franchise and just called it Littlefoot. Which is what the films are called in Japan ironically.

I remember finding it funny when Strut asked in the eggs song if he could taste the leaf if he promised just to lick it. Don't why but I found that line really funny.

Ludichris1 · **Reply #3 on:** November 25, 2014, 10:57:24 AM

Hmm... think I watched LBT 1 first. But I owned 1-5 all at once I think

. LBT 6 I never owned when in Ecuador but it played in Spanish once and we recorded it on VHS xD. I think in earliest 2000's bought LBT 7 and 8, and when I got back to the states in 2004, in between I guess 2004-2006 got 9, 10, and 11. Back then was pretty scrapped for money, even around the holidays, so I'd rather buy or ask for LEGOs most of the time then a movie I had watched

of course even that faded eventually

Ducky123 · **Reply #4 on:** November 25, 2014, 01:06:00 PM

Nice

LBT isn't one of my favourites but I like it nonetheless. It has good songs, a good story and some funny scenes (most of which are featuring the Eggstealers

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Kor · **Reply #5 on:** November 25, 2014, 04:30:17 PM

They are both fun movies to watch with some great scenes. I first saw it on cable tv. Before I knew of this forum.

Dosu2Dinner · **Reply #6 on:** November 29, 2014, 07:51:34 PM

This makes me feel old... :blink:

I feel like I owe Chomper a birthday present...I dunno...he's been my fav character for ages, and now he's getting so old.

rhombus · **Reply #7 on:** November 29, 2014, 10:26:48 PM

^ Same here. It is hard to believe that, by US standards, Chomper will be old enough to drink in a year.

Dosu2Dinner · **Reply #8 on:** November 30, 2014, 05:33:22 AM

By UK standards, Chomper would have be eligible to sleep around four years ago.

Jrd89 · **Reply #9 on:** December 13, 2014, 03:32:21 PM

It's the exact date today. December 13th, 2014!

Happy 20th anniversary to The Great Valley Adventure, Chomper, Ozzy, and Strut!

As of today, the first LBT sequel has officially turned 20 years old.

Here's a picture of a copy of the original 1994 VHS edition for a look into the time capsule: http://galleryplus.ebayimg.com/ws/web/2811...1/1000x1000.jpg

Kor · **Reply #10 on:** December 13, 2014, 06:45:20 PM

20 years ago today, that is a long time ago.

vonboy · **Reply #11 on:** December 13, 2014, 06:47:38 PM

Yeah, That is a really long time.

...I feel old now :/

Bruton the Iguanodon · **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2015, 09:47:36 PM

And now LBT III is 20.

Bruton the Iguanodon · **Reply #13 on:** December 22, 2015, 03:45:13 AM

And no one really cares.

NewOrder · **Reply #14 on:** December 22, 2015, 08:54:40 AM

Well, the Great Valley Adventure is in truth the first sequel, and first movie in the style of all the sequels that made us fall in love with the franchise.

It was actually the fourth movie I've watched after the original, III and IV. I found it at the local library when I was about ten, I was so happy I even cried a little bit when I saw it.

Its animation and storytelling set the bases for all the sequels who followed, and it rekindled the franchise, launching it forward.

The Time of the Great Giving was my least liked sequel when I was growing up, it’s a bit slow, and it lacks the action of II and the wonder and high stakes of Journey through the Mists. It has its merits, but it just didn’t have as big an impact on the franchise as the first sequel.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #15 on:** December 22, 2015, 03:19:27 PM

This sequel will always be special to me because it's the first LBT film I ever saw and it sparked my love of the series❤.

Talk about feeling old. I was seven years old when I saw this. I remember immediately attaching to Cera's character😁. I immediately loved Ducky too, but I saw so much of her in me. Cera actually pushed me to let my feisty nature out more often, especially with mean kids at school. My life definitely changed for the better because of a character I wanted to emulate more, and today, I'm feisty as ever but in a nicer way than Cera, that is😉.