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[Land Before Time/ Plurk Poll] You have to pick up one Land Before time character as a muse. Using what you remember from the main film and any sequels, pick someone.
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Pterano
sparky ⚡
Cera
cœur de lion
this meme is ominous as hell
cœur de lion
d-duck?
not a bumblebee
chomper
sparky ⚡
We're a family and you're one of us now~
Pythonmelon
I'm here to force everyone to roleplay from Land Before Time
fish deranged
uh, Doc, obviously
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"The Legend Of The Lone Dinosaur" Songs From The Lan...
this is a bop and you can't convince me otherwise
Pythonmelon
bop
oshi oh no
ducky
Pythonmelon
I need to rewatch these movies again I mean what else am I doing
son boy allowed
either Cera or original-movie Littlefoot.
silver bullet
Pterano or Ozzy
son boy allowed
I have to specify for LF because in the original movie he's realistically short-tempered and gets into fights
Pythonmelon
yeah they're definitely written different in the first movie and that's valid
fish deranged
original movie littlefoot is ready to throw down at all times
fish deranged
i kinda wish they'd kept that more in the sequels but lmao with the huge shift in tone/production when don wasn't involved uhhhh
Pythonmelon
He is traumatized and also a brat and I love him
fish deranged
can't have our protagonist be Mad
fish deranged
he does get bratty moments later on but much less so
Pythonmelon
Yeah it's a weird through line of the don bluth sequels to make them wildly more positive but have a token attempt to keep the theme like the racism and natural disaster plots in Land Before Time sequels and all the plots about immigrants and minorities being taken advantage of in American Tail sequels
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also since I'm withing a video about the sequels its great that Doc is an apatasaurus with the whip tail thing
fish deranged
whaPOW
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the sticking point for me is still that in like 10+ sequels they mention his mom precisely ONCE outside of the one where his dad shows up and they literally can't avoid it
fish deranged
it's almost like that was a huge formative thing ?
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hello ????
Pythonmelon
Clearly he repressed it its fine
Pythonmelon
I just remember seeing the one with the Liopleurodon which was my favorite prehistoric animal at the time and I was so disappointed
fish deranged
journey to big water was terrible
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they did sweet boi mosasaurus so dirty
Pythonmelon
yes that one was so bad it's the one I remember disliking it So Much
Pythonmelon
which was HARD to do for me because I was so obsessed with mermaids and sea creatures like how do you screw that up
Pythonmelon
I think it was because... the opthalmosaurus looks so ugly
fish deranged
OH THAT's RIGHT HE WAS THAT ONE
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me looking up mosasaurus like wait. that is not the one i remember it being
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I may or may not only remember that name because ACNH reminded me
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apparently Reba was in the last sequel
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oh no reba...
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wasn't she also in the horrible fox and the hound midquel
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reba please love yourself
Pythonmelon
Probably
Pythonmelon
they need their animated sequels with country singers
fish deranged
The Fox and the Hound 2 - Good Doggie, No Bone!
oh she sure was
fish deranged
in her defense this song does kinda slap
Pythonmelon
these kids movie appearances are a full ten years apart almost exactly
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2006 Fox and the Hound to 2016 Land before time
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also THE LAST MOVIE CAME OUT IN 2016?
Pythonmelon
The sequels were a nearly yearly thing from 1994-2007 and the last one was in 2016
Pythonmelon
thats nine years after the TV series even
silver bullet
god even by the standards of the sequels, the quality REALLY fell off at number 11 (I haven't seen the newest one tho)
Sad Dad
I would do Littlefoot
Sad Dad
I loved the original movie pfft
Sad Dad
I remember going to the theater to see it~
Sad Dad
And getting puppets from Pizza Hut XD
Pythonmelon
its a good movie
silver bullet
like 2-10 weren't GOOD (there are some I have nostalgia for but yeah), but at least they had like...decent stakes, for the most part? 11-13 feel like overlong filler episodes of a TV show
Pythonmelon
I had it on tape and I still have like eight of the movies still
Sad Dad
I’ve got the original on DVD. I might still have the VHS somewhere.
Pythonmelon
Yeah and whats wild is like 11-13 came before the TV show so clearly they went "alright, these would be much better made for TV so lets do that for one season"
silver bullet
yeah lmao, i'm honestly surprised the tv show was canceled so fast, land before time was super popular for a while
son boy allowed
coming back but yeah the massive characterization disparity between the original and the sequels DRIVES ME NUTS as an adult, I love how the kids are written in the original SO much
son boy allowed
like I still have a ton of affection for the sequels
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but
silver bullet
it probably would have done better in the early 2000s instead of the late 2000s
son boy allowed
give me the PTSD brat brigade
silver bullet
yeah the kids in the original actually bicker like kids do but the sequels decided that only cera can be mean
son boy allowed
My gf and I actually just straight-up headcanon that the main characters from the sequels aren't the same kids in the original because the lack of mention of Littlefoot's mom/the way all the adults are like "No You Are Children And Can't Do Anything" makes so much more sense
son boy allowed
if they were born and raised in the valley
son boy allowed
so I just pretend that Grandpa and Grandma are Littlefoot and his mate and sequel-Littlefoot is his grandkid
Pythonmelon
I guess watching them bicker all the time would have gotten annoying but also people really forgot how to write kids for a long ass time in the late 90s/2000s
son boy allowed
because the parents all being hyper-overprotective makes more sense if they all went through massive danger outside the valley in their childhoods and are just overdoing it trying to make sure it doesn't happen to THEIR kids
Pythonmelon
Oh yeah thats fair
silver bullet
yeah they still could have become better friends who bicker less without making littlefoot this...weirdly super nice and noble kid
Pythonmelon
Yeah Littlefoot is such a generic nice guy later on and its in general a lot less character driven than situation driven
son boy allowed
yeah poor Littlefoot just got a case of "the main character has to be Flawless unless it's a palatable one that can Teach Kids A Moral Lesson"
fish deranged
remember that time he sang a whole song about being really bored
chris 🔅
petree (sp?)
fish deranged
riveting content.
silver bullet
ugh yeah honestly I think the sequels could have been...not touching the original quality but at least GOOD if they didn't have to try and be pseudo-edutainment and teach morals
son boy allowed
also I'm astonished this is on my plurk timeline because literally two days ago my friend group rewatched the original and had an extremely involved conversation about this very topic (characterization)
Pythonmelon
The later movies are situation and guest character driven and have a lot more action as if the entire first movie was about the actual earthquake and the fallout of it rather than the journey home for these five kids
son boy allowed
everybody's just feeling those dinosaur feelings rn
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I will admit a vast majority of what I remember from the sequels were the setups and the guest characters
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silver bullet
: this is such a good point
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even as a kid i remember the bit in one of the sequels that was about fINDING YOUR FUCKING FIRE EXIT made me go uhh
fish deranged
we doing this?
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in land before time, we are doing this?
fish deranged
littlefoot's the fucking hall monitor for the other dinosaurs and knows the proper evac route ??????
silver bullet
yeah lmao
Pythonmelon
Chomper, the Mysterious island, the valley of the mists, the suchomimus and her bird friend, the Lone Dinosaur, Pterano, etc etc
fish deranged
and the best part is the original DID teach lessons
fish deranged
it was about grieving and friendship and how to tackle loss and upheaval
fish deranged
it just didn't beat you over the fucking head with it
son boy allowed
yeah, the lessons were subtle
fish deranged
you can teach kids lessons without it being a very special episode
silver bullet
I really hate that they introduced the fucking aliens in stone of cold fire to teach kids that Science Is Fun because aside from them, stone of cold fire is pretty solid and more time could have been devoted to pterano
fish deranged
this was me about saurus rock
fish deranged
half the plot was so pointless, all the bad luck stuff or w/e and cera's shitty little siblings
son boy allowed
I don't even particularly mind the edutainment aspects of the sequels (because god did I love them as kids, even the Fire Safety one), but like. It's just dramatically different.
fish deranged
but there was something GOOD there
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and they sidelined it
son boy allowed
*as a kid
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i was not multiple children
fish deranged
they could have done basically all the same movies but not talked down to their audience and they would have been great
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like. that's the real difference
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the original doesn't talk down to kids. the sequels do
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emphatically
silver bullet
YEAH SAURUS ROCK TOO...what I would give to replace dana and dina (the most annoying fucking characters in the series) with like. grandpa and doc having an adventure
fish deranged
grandpa and doc are boyfriends i am not taking questions at this time
fish deranged
grandma is ok with it they're poly it's fine
Pythonmelon
its fine
fish deranged
like ok imagine if saurus rock was totally rewritten to be about family and littlefoot is like, ugh, my family is so boring, they never let me do cool things
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and then doc comes along and littlefoot imprints on him
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but then he gets to discover there's more to his grandpa than being The Guy Who Makes Rules
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basically the shit they tacked on at the end of saurus rock but it's actually the focus this time
Pythonmelon
...hey if I set up to stream some of these sequels and we all vote on which ones we want to see most who would come
fish deranged
imagine a part where doc has to defer to grandpa because grandpa knows something he doesn't and littlefoot is like holy shit my family is cool actually
Pythonmelon
I'm here for all of this my dude
silver bullet
yeah if it turned out doc looked up to grandpa as much as littlefoot looked up to doc
fish deranged
YEAH
silver bullet
with a flashback to a younger grandpa and doc
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YEAHHHHH
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and the lesson is 'adults make rules and tell you to things for a reason, and even adults have to follow rules and be careful'
fish deranged
so you still get your life lesson in there
silver bullet
this is why i like stone of cold fire tbh, I think that's the only time they actualyl have some grey morality in the series and let the kids form their own opinion on pterano
Pythonmelon
Yeah I remember feeling so much about Pterano because its the same way I feel about my aunt
Pythonmelon
or felt, at the time
Pythonmelon
So there's Stuff there and was definitely me going "yeah I feel and understand that"
silver bullet
yeah the fact that they showed you can both love a family member and have a really complicated relationship with them because of their actions was a better lesson than "science yay"
Pythonmelon
yes that one was so important
fish deranged
it was definitely very good
fish deranged
I also actually liked the one with uhhh mr thicknose?
fish deranged
I liked that the lesson was that authority figures don't always have all the answers, but often they're just as scared and unsure as you
fish deranged
it wasn't a fantastic movie all around but that bit was good
Pythonmelon
The last one I remember really liking was Big Freeze
Pythonmelon
which was the one with Mr. Thicknose
Pythonmelon
yeah a lot of the early ones had really neat and important stuff on disasters and family and if they hadn't been mainlined into the generic moralistic stuff it would have been even better
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Have your say: which Land before time sequel(s) shou...
there everyone pick 3
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you have to reopen it for each vote sorry
sparky ⚡
I have a confession
sparky ⚡
I only watched the first two
Pythonmelon
thats valid
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I was absolutely obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid and was watching these films as they came out/as my parents got them for me directly alongside the Jurassic Park movies and a lot of dinosaur books
Pythonmelon
I could name over a hundred different species at some point when I was like six
Pythonmelon
and the only reason I watched the Ice Age movies was me being impressed with the actual species given lip service like procoptodon
sparky ⚡
I think I also aged out of them when they were being released D
sparky ⚡
* XD
Pythonmelon
The later ones managed to bore me so much that I stopped watching them
Pythonmelon
as a dinosaur obsessed eight year old
bread singalong
I would definitely be the egg thief from the second one - the "brain" of "Pinky and the Brain"
Pythonmelon
yes the voice really pins it