The Gang of Five
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As you know, the forum has been fighting spammers and bots for years. We have seen our fair share of "Custom Kitchens UK", scammy Internet hosting companies, and bots trying to send us to a business's homepage. But after fighting the tidal wave of spam for so many years, the admins had a persistent thought: what if the spammers are right? Not in terms of posting nonsense links and trying to scam our users, but in trying to make money through our unique platform?

Well, thanks to the helpful counsel of Taunt, we have finally decided to move the forum in a new direction. Please see his important post on the matter in this topic

Recent Posts

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The Welcome Center / Re: Well, hi.
« Last post by Gentle Sharptooth on May 08, 2025, 05:09:44 AM »
Since I was not on for 2024, I wish to welcome you formally!
 :SharptoothAmused :MommaSmile
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It's Party Time! / Re: Rate The Avatar Above You
« Last post by Gentle Sharptooth on May 08, 2025, 05:08:20 AM »
10/10 I love its a coral red nebulae. Usually they are blue, green, white, or yellow.
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Silver Screen / Re: Mufasa: The Lion King
« Last post by Gentle Sharptooth on May 08, 2025, 05:06:30 AM »
Not a fan of the retcon that Scar isn't Mufasa's actual blood brother, and instead Mufasa was adopted. That to me ruins the original dynamic of the OG Lion King. I have decided these live action Lion King films are not canon.. I am sticking to the animated stuff.
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General Land Before Time / Re: Too Much Focus on Littlefoot?
« Last post by Gentle Sharptooth on May 08, 2025, 05:03:20 AM »
This has been a question I've pondered on in the past. Being a film with 13 whole sequels, you'd think there'd be a little less longneck and a little more of everyone else.  :thinking Plus, Littlefoot's character arc was more or less completed in the first film, and to an extent the first sequel.

But at the same time, I get it. Littlefoot is the de facto protag of the franchise, so it's natural that he gets the lion's share of the spotlight. Also, I don't think Littlefoot's case of Main Character Syndrome™ is anywhere near as obnoxious as certain other franchises. For example, Lilo and Stitch. In that particular franchise, it feels like the livelihood of basically every character orbits around Stitch like the sun. In the TV show, Stitch is more often than not the ONLY reason anything ever gets done, always being the hero and cleaning up almost every mess - when Lilo is ALSO a title protag, y'know. :neutral It's not always the case, as episodes like Yaarp and Spike show other characters taking charge and being heroes, but 9 times out of 10 it's Stitch who fixes everything. Whereas in The Land Before Time, yes Littlefoot is the main character, but he shares the heroism about equally with his friends and even other characters like his grandpa. It feels a lot more equal to me as a result. Littlefoot isn't the center of the confounded universe, he's EQUALLY as capable as his friends are - while still sticking out in enough ways to let you know that he's still the central protag.

That said, I think if we got more movies past the 14th one, I think we could've gotten more movies that bring focus to characters besides the big L. For example XII was much, much more focused on Petrie and to an extent Cera than on Littlefoot, and VIII was a time to shine for Spike and Ducky. In general the movies that are more focused on the non-LF members of the Gang have always stood out to me for giving them the time in the sun they hadn't really gotten before at that point. And that, I think, is part of why The Land Before Time as a franchise still holds up years later. :smile
I think Cera had some focus in LBT III with her Dad being Drought Warden. I mean Topsy does that great song "Tough." :D
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It's Party Time! / Re: Rate The Avatar Above You
« Last post by ObscuredByClouds on May 08, 2025, 01:16:14 AM »
6/10 Creepy eyes with candle. A bit too minimal for my tastes.
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It's Party Time! / Re: Complicated Alphabet Game
« Last post by ObscuredByClouds on May 08, 2025, 01:15:33 AM »
Sorrel (plant).
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It's Party Time! / Re: Hangman
« Last post by ObscuredByClouds on May 08, 2025, 01:14:18 AM »
M?
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Haha the only Tori I know is really not a nice person so I would never use that name for mama longneck personally! But your logic is sound and perhaps we need a good Tori to offset the bad in the real world ;)
The only Tori I know is Tori Amos. And she fits the mother part to a tee. :MomCompassion
For whatever reason, I always had the headcanon that Littlefoot's mother is named Elizabeth. Dunno why.
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The Welcome Center / Re: Well, look who checked back into the hotel...
« Last post by ObscuredByClouds on May 08, 2025, 12:49:03 AM »
Welcome back!  :rainbowwave
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Silver Screen / Re: What are you watching?
« Last post by Gentle Sharptooth on May 07, 2025, 09:40:31 PM »
As of right now, I'm rewatching Jenny Nicholson's The Land Before Time movie ranking. Always a classic :PAli

As for series I've been binging...well, I recently knocked through the Lilo and Stitch TV show. I'm a sucker for aliens, so a show featuring all sorts of colorful alien critters with different abilities was bound to appeal to me. :rainbowwave

Also as you can imagine I'm still hooked on Disventure Camp. And Reality Resort and The Million Game: Academy! The latter being where I took my pfp from (gosh she really DOES remind me of Ducky...)
I watched Jenny's rankings, it was amusing.