The Gang of Five
The Land Before Time => General Land Before Time => Topic started by: bevilacq12 on November 18, 2010, 03:35:51 AM
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I was a young child when the original Land Before Time was first released, and my favorite toys were LBT figures that were a promotional item in some restaurant's variant of the kid's meal. I remember my dad and I driving around to every instance of this chain in the city, trying to collect them all. Two decades and many many moves later and I don't have the first clue what happened to them. I'm thinking about children of my own now and how I'd like to find another set for them (and my own sense of nostalgia) so I've been looking online - but I can't for the life of me find the first trace of them! It's like they never existed!
I don't remember the exact year they came out, but my guess is between 1988 and 1990. They were just normal action figures - not handpuppets, not windup toys, not bobbleheads, etc. My dad thinks they came from Burger King, and I think they came from Wendy's - but neither idea has gotten any positive results. They're definitely not the 1988 Pizza Hut hand puppets, nor the 1997 Burger King wind up toys, nor the 2003 Wendy's bobbleheads / banks / whatevers. I'm amazed I haven't found a single picture nor mention of them after hours and hours of Google-ing - if my parents didn't also remember them, I'd probably think I just imagined them at this point.
Any information on these elusive toys (restaurant, year, pictures, place to purchase, etc.) Would be GREATLY appreciated! :)
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http://lbtcollection.weebly.com/figures.html (http://lbtcollection.weebly.com/figures.html) Perhaps you can find them on here? They are not for sale or anything, but perhaps if you could point them out they are easier to find :)
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Hmm I don't see exactly what I was thinking of (I'm actually now starting to think they were just generic dinosaur figures, I found something saying Wendy's had a 'Definitely Dinosaurs' toy line in 1988).
But there are a few cute sets in the link you sent. What toys are in the picture 4th from the bottom, labeled 'Figures of Chomper, Spike, Littlefoot and Cera' ?
Thanks again!
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I had a few of those figures too(and I remember buying them at Kmart way back in the day), its a shame I no longer have them because,like you said,it seems they were erased from the face of the earth.
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Hmm I don't see exactly what I was thinking of (I'm actually now starting to think they were just generic dinosaur figures, I found something saying Wendy's had a 'Definitely Dinosaurs' toy line in 1988).
But there are a few cute sets in the link you sent. What toys are in the picture 4th from the bottom, labeled 'Figures of Chomper, Spike, Littlefoot and Cera' ?
Thanks again!
Okay, well of course there might some be missing from this list. This is just something I compiled over a couple months of time.
As for what they are, I have to ask Malte (they are his figurines that are on that picture), or perhaps he will come around in this topic and answer himself :)
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^ I got those figures from ebay, but according to the inscriptions the figures were made in 1996 in China and seem to have been made for a company I have never heard of before that may be better known in the UK or US.
In any case the complete label on each figure reads:
THE LAND BEFORE TIME
TM&©1996 UCS&U-DRIVE
MADE IN CHINA CD
The same label is also on the figures fifth from the top on the page posted here and (in this case with the year being 1997 rather than 1996) on those third from the bottom.
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Hey...I remember those things! Yeah! It's all coming back to me now. Shame they aren't around anymore. But I remember back in like I don't know 2006 maybe? Me and My mom were at Wendy's and they were selling Land Before Time toys. The toy's were from number 12 the great day of the flyers and I got Petrie. :) But I haven't the slightest clue where it is now. I wish I could find it again. Y'know? To bring back that warm cuddly feeling LBT alway's gave me.