And now the official trailer is out:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szBdg_uZ5uc

I am getting a lot of LBT vibes what with Talon's mother dying to a T.rex.

As part of my recent binge to refamiliarize myself with the series, I was taking a look at the infamous LBT Youtube channel which has all of the TV show's episodes uploaded onto it in full. I had heard that some kids were getting into LBT from the channel's uploaded clips but I did not expect the insane view counts some of the episodes got.

The record belongs to "The Hidden Canyon," which has a whopping 25 million views. Other episodes with massive view counts are "The Brave Longneck Scheme," with 12.1 million views, and "The Meadow of Jumping Waters," with 7.1 million views. Of course, most episodes have significantly lower view counts than this, with many numbering below 1 million views.

I'm still baffled that a supposedly dead franchise is getting so many views on Youtube. Is it just the Youtube Kids algorithm feeding it to bored kids who want to watch hatchlings running around? Or is it coming from older people who remember the franchise? If it's the former, then it actually is encouraging because it suggests that a new generation of children are getting introduce to LBT through these Youtube clips, years after the series' heyday on DVD. Perhaps that would lay the groundwork for new entries to be produced?

We may enjoy hating on the channel, but it may have accidentally done something good after all.

For me I was mainly familiar with the original and VII-X, as those were what we had on DVD. Later I lost them but I tried to watch some of the earlier films on Youtube back before the copyright police became as prevalent. I don't quite remember which ones I watched as my memory has faded for some reason. I do know that I never watched II, III, V, and VI. I also tried to watch the TV show from unauthorized clips on Youtube but eventually I just got bored and that was when I gave up on the franchise for years. This happened when I was 9, around late 2010. My family was poor and staying with relatives back then so we didn't buy any of the disks of the movies in question.

What do you think of the 1969 Moon Landing?

I think it was one of the greatest accomplishments in human history and it was a great loss that we didn't establish a longer manned presence on the Moon because of the ineffective and ill-conceived Space Transportation System architecture.

This looks nice!

Is that Littlefoot on the picture? 

Yes. Don't worry, he'll be fine by the next time loop.

I’ve mostly been playing Terra Invicta, which is basically a hard science fiction cross between XCOM and a Paradox Interactive Grand Strategy Game.

Looks fantastic!

We have splashdown! Artemis I is complete!


https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1601995737449263104

I want to say that I appreciate you spending the time to write all of this. As the team leader of a space race story, I've been doing a lot of research into Apollo myself. I may post something of my own related to spaceflight in the History section in the near future.

https://twitter.com/NASA_Orion/status/1599814673506963457/photo/1