The Land Before Time - Blog Posts

I remember growing up and being so excited to get to see this, and now I realize it was only a year older than me...

Small of foot, big of heart 🦕💖

Been playing Jurassic World Evolution and named this hotel The Great Valley from Land Before Time

I really Love how in Land Before Time, in less than 2 movies, Plesiosaurus changed from "Im gonna rip off your fucking face" to "Hi children, im gonna help you get home safely. By the way littlefoot your grandpa is Hot."

But i also imagine them as being 2 different species with one being more agressive than the other.

Its wrong to ship different species?

As someone who grew up with and loved and adored The Land Before Time (1988) and experienced quite a few of its sequels, too, it's amazing how similar the Ice Age series became to it as well - meaning sequels wise. Though in my opinion, Ice Age (2002) is leaps and bounds better than Land Before Time (1988) though I do deeply love BOTH of their original movies.

Both The Land Before Time and Ice Age (2002)'s original movies are gritty and dark, with a sense of "realism" grounding their events with migrations underpinning the journeys of the original narratives and with a greater xenofictional factor since in IA1, the Ice Age megafauna are treated like majestic creatures who growl and rumble (see Manny and Diego mostly) like they might've done so and with the threat of humans being a major conflict factor within IA1 itself with Manny's choice to return baby Roshan despite the knowledge that in doing so, the child has a chance to become a hunter one day.

However, just like its predecessor The Land Before Time, when it came for Ice Age to get continuations, the realistic underpinnings of IA1 were thrown out the window as its series went Lighter and Softer, just like Land Before Time before it.

And yes, in one of The Land Before Time's many direct-to-DVD/VHS sequels, aliens and an asteroid and end of the world themes (like Ice Age's much reviled IA5) become major plot points!

The Land Before Time sequel where Littlefoot reunites with his father involves Longnecks pushing back the sky to save everyone (because of a solar eclipse which was treated in-universe as an "end of the world" event) and the Stone of Cold Fire teased alien dinosaurs. .-. It was around those sequels that I put away keeping up with the TLBT sequels though when I was young I enjoyed them and it saddens me the Ice Age sequels followed the same route.

My hopes for the Ice Age sequels, even as a young (12/13 year old) child was that they'd buck the trend and remain dark and xenofictional and not devolve into silly Lighter and Softer-ness and Dense and Wackier plots like The Land Before Time did years before. In short, the Ice Age sequels deserved better - they deserved to not basically become a modern, theatrically-released "Land Before Time" sequels-redux!

I haven't been excited about much lately, buuthhh... Dragon books have revitalized me!

I love "Wings of Fire". Funny thing is, I was introduced to them through some cool YouTube video (the same way I was introduced to the Warriors). I love "Warriors" too. Wonderful books❤💕❤💞💓💘❤💕❤💘💓💕❤💕❤

Took me back to my childhood. Reminded me of my favorite dino cartoon......

"The Land Before Time"

(I had a few episodes on DVD😭)

So I couldn't help but try to draw it:

Maybe I'll try to refine the drawing, maybe not.

I just wanted to capture that joy on my blog.