Never say never, but if LBT ever was to be ressurected, HUGE changes would have to be made, and I'm serious about this.
The sequels started off great. Yes, they were a departure from the original film but everything up to Journey through the mists was amazing. Then movie 5 came along, and things suddenly shifted into much weirder territory. Sure, they still had their good moments, but they were definitely starting to lack the magic of the earlier films. The colors were off---movie 5 used too many yellows, movie 6 used too many reds, the animation in 7 was awful and soupy, the animation in the movies after that was horrendous. They even started to add horrendous things like cgi, that god-awful nightmare "Imaginary" song in 9 which gave Barney and King gator a cameo, the idea of "Tinysaurs", giving Littlefoot a father, having tickilsh sharpteeth, that awful where Ducky, Spike and Petrie cried like babies, and they even tried to soften Topps up. Not that I like him being racist, but were Tria and Tricia really needed? I think he was doing just fine in 6-9!
But it was the TV series and Wisdom of friends that completely killed the series. Wisdom of friends is possibly the worst film in all existence---nuff said. The yellowbellies must die. And the tv series? Awful animation, terrible songs, bad music...folks, if we were to ressurect LBT there would have to be serious changes.
1. Make ALL the songs likeable. NO damp squids. Make them ballads, broadway style numbers, rock songs, anything cool. Make sure none are kiddy and several are orchestral.
2. Go back to the animation of the earlier films. No bright animation, no cGI, no soupy animation.
3. Make the color tones mainly blue, green, and dark blue. No birght colors allowed.
4. NEVER, I mean NEVER, bring back the tinysaureses, Tippy and his herd, Rinkus, Dinah and Dana, the idiot flyer judges from 12, Petrie's imaginary friend (or any imaginarty friend for that matter), or those (bleep)ing yellow bellies! Or any character of the tv series. Also, I don't want Mr. Thicknose, Ruby, Doc and Pterano brought back. And certainly not Bron. Forget Bron ever existed. (Sorry, Shorty, that means you go too.) And any character of the tv series. The only characters of the sequels I really want back are Ali(the REAL Ali of movie 4, not the fake one!), the bullies from 3 (make Hyp look like he did in 3), Archie, Elsie, Sue, and Mo (as long as he's colored rightly.) Oh, and Ozzy, Strut, Ichy, Dil, Sierra (have him be a solo flyer now) and the Lioplerudon, providing they survived.
As for "I'll think about it":
Maybe Tria. (Tricia as well, can't have Tria without her.) And maybe Pat and Guido too, maybe. I like Guido but he didn't feel like something out of "classic LBT." Maybe the rainbow faces, although I'm against aliens in LBT.
5. Give the end credits beautiful score, not songs from the movies. that's what they did starting with 3 and until 8 (a bit was used at the end of 11) and it would give the ending of the films a really good feel. I liked that and I prefer listening to beautiful score instead of some lame cover of a song in the film ("Bestest Friends" is the cover I'm talkin bout, not that of "No one has to be alone", that one actually was good and fit well) or a lame reprise of a song in the film.
6. Don't make the characters bland or overly stupid.
7. No filler scenes. Remember that scene where Ducky got kidnapped by the Pteradactyl in 5, for instance?
8 . Make the plots intriguing and mysterious, like in 4!
9. Give the films an overall more mysterious feel. The last few films really lost that.
10. No baby names! "Sky water"? "Sky colors"? No!
11. No goofy, kiddish stuff! WE CAN NEVER, I MEAN NEVER, SEE ANYTHING EVEN IN THE SAME COUNTRY AS "IMAGAINRY FRIENDS", TIPPY, OR THE YELLOWBELLIES, OR YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!
12. Draw the characters normally. Someone pointed out Tippy looked like a teletubbie and Mr. Thicknose didn't even look like an adult dinosaur. Go back to drawing adult dinosaurs like they should be.
13. Make all the characters great.
14. Reference Littlefoot's mother, like a lot.
15. Since the awesome as hell Sharptooth of movie 1, we've had precious few awesome sharpteeth. The ones in 2 were cool but still they were mommy and daddy, and the producers went further in dumbing them by giving them subtitles and making them turn nice to the gang and basically softening them. The raptors in 3 were okay but they weren't huge sharpteeth. Movie 5's sharptooth looked awfully drawn and he had those stupid plates. And he actually cried tears of pain?! DON'T YOU KNOW SHARPTEETH DON'T CRY?! The allosaurs of 6 wasn't even a t-rex and was dumb as a doornail. The t-rex in the story was okay, but he was from a long time ago. The one at the end was okay but he was hardly in it. Movie 7 only had raptors...in a flashback at that. Movie 8's sharptooth? Whatever!! Movie 9's lioplerudon was awesome! Bring him back! Movie 10's sharpteeth? Don't think so! Movie 11's? Raptors that are TICKLISH?! Movie 12's raptor was so dumb. Make all sharpteeth as big and bad as movie 1's.
16. Injure the characters! Have them spill blood, break bones, pass out, something!
17: Have a character die. In 12 sequels not 1 good character died. Which is good but a little overly softening. Movie 1 always stuck out to me in my childhood as the only movie where a good character died.
18. Include more dark, action packed sequences, with rain and lightning, such as the one in movie 9 (seriously that was such a good scene, it felt like something out of a different film entirely and is proof that these movies could be a lot darker while still being kid friendly!)
19. Bring back the land of mists and the big water (call it the ocean, please.), and invent more cool locations.
20. Stick to the style of the first three sequels, maybe make it a little edgier. Don't go as far back as the style of movie 1, since it was only so dark cause they weren't sure if the great valley existed and now they do.)
Anyways, if the films even stood any chance of being revided, ALL of these things would have to happen. This would be a dream come true, but unfortunately chances are incredibly thin.
