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Dutch translation of Bron

by Noname (no login)

... it means "source." Maybe this is important to know? After all, Dutch for father is "vader."

Posted on Apr 25, 2006, 7:00 PM

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i have a name for one of the characters in one of the fanfictions i plan to write

by f-22'raptor'ace (no login)

his name is yanoveyon

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 6:05 AM

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Pictures from "The Cold Time"

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Hi!
We never had a lot of land before time fanart in our land before time forum, while it is actually quite easy to just link fanart to this place when it is hosted somewhere else. I hope to encourage other fans who made pictures of the land before time fans to post their pictures too, by making the begining (pictures of extreme violence or sexual contents will be deleted however!).
I'm going to post the pictures I made for the land before time story "The Cold Time" which I wrote in 2000 and 2001. I'm going to post the pictures along with the passages of the story which describe the pictures. Later on I'll comment on the pictures, but I would of course be very happy to receive some feedback from you too (constructive criticism is very welcome

). If you have any questions, suggestions etc. I'm happy to answer to them.

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 3:37 AM

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Ducky broken into the ice

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Here is the first picture along with the part of the story that describes what is happening on the picture (my English was worse back then than it was today, so I appologize for possible mistakes in the quoted passages from the story):

Ducky jumped down from Spike’s back and ran in circles several times to get a little warmer. Suddenly she stopped abruptly and stared at the ice sheet furiously. And finally she broke the silence that had been between them for nearly the whole morning. “We can not even swim! Oh I hate this coldness!” And then she started as furiously as inconclusively to stamp on the ice sheet. Her friends exchanged a grinning. It was unusual that Ducky really got in a fury about something, but when she did, it seemed to be more comical than threatening. Ducky had noticed the exchange of grins between her friends. She stopped trampling and looked at them enraged. However after a few moments she sighed and bowed her head a bit. But already the very next instant she raised her head jerky and her angry look fell upon a collection of stones that lay on the ice sheet. Furiously she ran over to one of the biggest stones and kicked it as violently as she could. She cried out, “Ah!” danced around on one foot and held her other foot, she had bent painfully at the stone, with both hands. Littlefoot couldn’t watch it any longer. He paced some steps towards Ducky and said: “Hey Ducky cool down! You can’t change anything!” Ducky had stopped to dance around on one foot. She cast a furious look at Littlefoot. He was right and she knew that; but she didn’t want to know that. Instead of answering she whirled around and kicked a stone, which was much smaller than the one she had kicked before, with her unhurt foot. The stone skidded away and left a dimple behind at the spot where it had lain, that was darker than the ice around. Ducky ran to that spot and began to stamp about in the dimple. Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, and Petrie changed an affected look now. Their original malicious joy had receded for consternation and pity with Ducky. The situation had lost all its comic effect. Never before had Ducky been in such a rage about anything. She was quite beside herself with rage. Ducky didn’t stop to trample about on the sheet of ice. Suddenly Littlefoot believed to hear a portentous grating.
“Ducky, stop it!” he shouted to her.
But she didn’t seem to hear him at all while she stamped on the ice and had started to blast loudly. “I hate this coldness! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! Yep, yep, ye....” Ducky never finished the last “yep”. A loud grating and cracking was audible, and then the ice of the dimple, in which Ducky stood, gave in! Ducky shrieked at the top of her voice when she felt the icy cold water like thousands stitches. The coldness paralyzed her nearly completely and she couldn’t breathe for a moment. Littlefoot jumped up and tried to reach the hole in the ice with one leap. But it was an awkward movement so Littlefoot slid on the smooth as mirror ice and skidded past the hole where he lost his balance after all and remained lying on the ice sprawling. Cera didn’t make a better figure. Although she ran as fast as she could, she didn’t get from the spot until she slid too and clapped on the hard sheet of ice painfully. Petrie had flown off as fast as he could and had reached Ducky now. She had stopped shrieking and tried to make swimming-movements, but the coldness stiffened her, so she immersed in the icy water. In the very last moment Petrie seized one of Ducky’s arms. Petrie was unable to pull Ducky out of the hole, but at least he could keep her head above the water for a while. In this moment Spike was alongside. He had learned from Littlefoot's and Cera’s mistakes and had, hard as it was for him, not tried to hurry as much as them to get to the waterhole, so he hadn’t slipped. He grasped Ducky’s arm on which Petrie pulled already as fierce as he could. Quickly he pulled Ducky out of the cold water and put her down carefully aside the hole.

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 3:40 AM

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Did you draw that?

by (no login)

Thatis an awsome pic, and i was wondering if you could do some pic for a fanfic of mine called Birth of a Dark Legend. please?

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 7:20 AM

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I did / Your story

by (no login)

Yes, it is a picture I made showing a scene from a fanfiction I wrote.
I've read through the first three chapters of your story which can be found at fanfiction.net. You are writing it with Thunderblade? He is a good friend of mine and here at the board he is known as Littlefoot-1616. I can well imagine making drawings for your story.
One thing I must strictly refuse is drawing any pictures of LBT characters in combination with elements that are not from the land before time (e.g. humans etc.). I don't know if you have any plans in that direction for your story, if so that would be scenes I could not depict.
What scene would you like me to draw? Are there any not yet up at fanfiction.net which you would like me to draw? So long it remains LBT I'm quite ready to give it a try

I only can't make any promises about at what time a drawing would be finished, but I'll try not to keep you waiting too long. Which scene do you have in mind for a drawing?

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 9:10 AM

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Well....

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I do have plans for having humans in the story. But I can draw them. here are the scene ideas

1. the tag scene

2. ali and her herd

3. ali's scars.

4. Little foots dream, begginning and end.

5. the stone of cold fire shooting in the sky

6. the gang discussing what to do.

are all these ok? more chapters comming soon.

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 10:16 AM

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Not exactly stepping shortly, are you?

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Asking for seven pictures right away and announcing that more are to come when I asked for which scene you had in mind for a drawing. Not like it was a five minute's business.
Anyway, I'm going to begin with one of the scenes you named.
No chance for keeping non-LBT elements out of the story, is there? There are many LBT fanfictions but hardly any at all that does not mix with other stories, with humans, with science fiction, excessive violence and the like. It would sure be refreshing to have a real land before time story for a change.

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 10:34 AM

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that is why my first fanfic is going to be a real lbt story

by f-22'raptor'ace (no login)

that is all

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 8:05 PM

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Sorry

by (no login)

I just got over excited.

Posted on Apr 23, 2006, 3:06 PM

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Ducky broken into the ice / planning sketch

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This is the very first of all the Cold Time pictures both in the sucession of scenes in the story and time it was painted. The picture dates from July 4th 2002 and is titled (not very originally) "Ducky broken into the ice". Some of the characters are having too long and thin legs, which is a regretably frequent error in my pictures. Cera's face looks a little fat, and her eyes are too small, but I like her expression which gives away that at the moment she is (unlike Littlefoot) more anoyed about slipping on the ice than worried about Ducky. The mountains in the background are not outlined clearly and it is hard to decide whether that is a good thing (showing that they are some distance away on a hazy morning) or a bad thing (just too blury. This is more of a problem in the scanned than in the original though). I reckon a clear outlining of the mountains might have looked better than the clear outlining of the frozen river banks (which would be hard to make out in reality I suppose). What annoys me most is that blur that is supposed to be a leafless forest in the background. It was the first time I tried the technique of using a dry aquarelle pencil on wet ground. The failure of the result frightened me from using it again very often I think.
Here is a sketch I made before I made the final painting. Using a hard pencil the outlines of the sketch are not very clear, but you can still see that I changed the position of Littlefoot and Cera in the final picture while Ducky, Petrie, and Spike look pretty much the way they do in the first planning sketch:

This message has been edited by Malte279 on Apr 22, 2006 10:53 AM

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 10:50 AM

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Struggling through the blizzard

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They didn’t know how long they had plodded through the snowdrift already. Not only had they lost their bearings but also the feeling for time. But for sure it was already in the midst of night, as it had become even darker in the meantime. They hadn’t spoken a single word since their meeting for they tried to save their strengths for walking on rather than trying to shout at each other over the din of the blizzard. Their feet, noses and ears were nearly unfeeling and they moved on almost mechanically as if somebody else would control their steps.
Both of them had nearly fallen asleep several times. Every time when their eyes closed involuntary they startled and cast them widely open, but the cold wind and the snowflakes forced them immediately to close their eyes to as narrow slits as possible without blocking their sight entirely which didn’t make their struggle against the desire to sleep any easier. Though they fought against it with all their willpower they always relapsed into the drowsy semi-conscious state, they had been in before the startle, within a few moments.
Littlefoot felt a slight push in the side; he nearly didn’t perceive it. A second push hit him so violently that he screamed out painfully and cast the eyes open startled. Apparently he had actually fallen asleep for some seconds. As if through a thin wall he heard Cera’s voice.
She spoke directly into his ear not to be forced to cry too loud.
“Littlefoot! Wake up! You mustn’t fall asleep! Wake up!”
“I’m already awake!” mumbled Littlefoot so quietly that Cera probably didn’t understand the sense of his words. Littlefoot stood up groaning and rubbed his hurting side whereby he cast an angry look on Cera’s horn. Cera put on a pardon mien, but it became grimly one a few moments later.
“What else should I’ve done? Leave you behind? You would not get up any other way!”
Cera shouted angrily drowning out the blizzard’s howling. Littlefoot had to recognize that and cried back: “Sorry Cera. I know you meant no harm. Thanks!”
Cera nodded and her look became more conciliatory again.

Posted on Apr 23, 2006, 8:00 AM

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Struggling through the blizzard (comments)

by (Login Malte279)
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Though I'm altogether happy with the picture there are a couple of points which I would definitely make different if I were to paint it again.
First of all the business about the legs you already pointed out. Cera is stomping and Littlefoot's right foreleg would appear better the way it is had I chosen a lower "camera" angle for this picture. Also at least Cera's legs (as so often) are too thin and too long.
If I were to paint the picture again you would altogether see not so much of the legs, for that's the next mistake. Cera and Littlefoot are supposed to struggle through a strong blizzard, at night in a landscape with deep snow. However, in this picture it looks like there were just one or two centimeters of snow at best! They ought to be sinking into snow up to their knees at least! They ought to be diging through it rather than walking! The snow is also too bright if one takes into account that this is a picture showing a nightly scene. The snow in the foreground ought to be as dark as the snow in the background is which the snow in the backgrond should gradually flow into the dark sky without a clear horizon line some more falling flakes wouldn't hurt either.
As for the faces I got some inspiration from LBT 6 on how Littlefoot and Cera are looking while struggling against strong wind. Other than that the picture is freehand as all my pictures.
The picture dates from January 7th 2003.

Posted on Apr 25, 2006, 8:23 AM

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Re: Struggling through the blizzard (comments)

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Hey Malte, hows my picture comming along?

Posted on Apr 25, 2006, 2:48 PM

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The drawing

by (Login Malte279)
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I send the drawing to Jason, who wrote the part of the story, last Wednesday.

This message has been edited by Malte279 on Apr 28, 2006 11:35 PM

Posted on Apr 28, 2006, 11:17 PM

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May I see it?

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May I see the drawing?

Posted on Apr 29, 2006, 5:17 AM

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Malte's Art of the Story

by Littlefoot-1616 (no login)

Hey Malte and Hewylewis!

As Malte said Hewy, I've got the picture saved on my computer. I can send you it via email if you you so wish. I think I've still got your email addy somewhere so I'll ship it out to you A-SAP! Look out for it!

TTFN

Littlefoot-1616

Posted on Apr 30, 2006, 4:23 AM

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Re: Malte's Art of the Story

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Cool, thank you. by the way my email is hewylewis@aol.com

Posted on May 1, 2006, 8:21 AM

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The Picture

by Littlefoot-1616 (no login)

Hey Hewylewis!

Did you get the email? I sent it a couple of days ago. Gotta commend Malte on his amazing effort! Thanks again Malte!

Later skaters!

Littlefoot-1616

Posted on May 3, 2006, 8:31 AM

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No problem

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You are very welcome Jason

Posted on May 4, 2006, 11:56 AM

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A rather rough reunion

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Meanwhile Littlefoot had reached the end of the spur. For the first time since he had started to run Littlefoot looked back. None of his friends was in sight. He was alone. For a moment Littlefoot thought of the fact that his friends had lost him out of their sight during the blizzard too. Maybe it was better for him not to make running off without heeding the others a habit. Again he heard a long cry for help and he looked incited in the direction from where the cry had come. There was the edge of a leafless wood. At the base of the steep spur was a plain snowfield that had probably been a meadow in warmer days and far back he could recognize the silvery band of a frozen river he had already seen before by overlooking the valley from the slope of the crater wall. The cry for help had come from the wood and Littlefoot just wanted to jump down the spur and run over there when he caught sight of somebody who just broke forth from the leafless thicket of the wood. It was a young longneck and Littlefoot recognized it certainly couldn’t be much older than himself.
The longneck seemed to flee from something or somebody, for it ran as fast as it could across the snowfield, on a route that would lead it directly past the spur Littlefoot was standing on.
It was obvious the cries Littlefoot had heard before had been uttered by this longneck.
The next instant Littlefoot saw the reason for the longnecks panic, as another figure appeared out of the thicket.
It was a sharptooth. A very young sharptooth. Smaller than the longneck it pursued determinedly. Neither the longneck nor the sharptooth had noted Littlefoot. Just this moment the longneck ran past below the spur. Littlefoot had to help or the sharptooth would catch up soon. Littlefoot made ready for the jump and when the young sharptooth ran past below the spur he pounced upon it.
The force of the attack was so violent it tore both Littlefoot and the sharptooth from their feet. The sharptooth uttered a surprised snarl. Littlefoot and the sharptooth rolled firmly interlocked to each other through the snow. From the corner of his eyes Littlefoot saw, that the longneck remained in the midst of a step and looked back.
“Run away! Run!” cried Littlefoot while he evaded a claw slash of the sharptooth. Littlefoot wanted to jump up, but suddenly the sharptooth was over him and with a triumphing grin he lifted, his arm for another slash at Littlefoot’s neck which Littlefoot realized, he would not be able to evade anymore. The two terrible claws of the little sharptooth flashed up in the sunlight. Littlefoot closed his eyes firmly and gritted his teeth.
“Littlefoot!” cried a voice that was familiar to Littlefoot. But he couldn’t remember at the moment whose voice it was.
The claw slash Littlefoot waited for didn’t come. Instead he heard a second known voice, which asked incredulous and a bit frightened: “Littlefoot?”
He opened his eyes again and saw that the sharptooth had remained amidst his movement looking at him with a mixture of doubt and joy. His eyes flashed up in recognition.
And Littlefoot too recognized the sharptooth.
“Littlefoot!” cried Cera and in the very next moment she was there with a leap from the spur and pushed her horn into the sharptooth’s side so fiercely that he was hurled from Littlefoot and flung a respectable distance away. Cera fell back one step pawed with one of her hooves through the snow, lowered her head and rushed forth to attack the sharptooth again.
Littlefoot jumped up immediately and leaped into Cera’s way. The butt didn’t hit him with full force, as Cera tried to stop in the very last moment and hadn’t much swing yet, but still it was fierce enough to push Littlefoot from his feet again. He gritted his teeth and tried to imagine how painful the butt had been for the sharptooth.
“Littlefoot! Are you crazy?” Cera shouted furiously.
“Cera stop it! Don’t you recognize him?” Littlefoot shouted back. “It’s Chomper!”
Cera starred incredulously first at Littlefoot, who got back to his feet, and then at the sharptooth that lay in the snow some steps away.
“Chomper?” she asked disconcerted.
“Ali!” shouted Ducky down from Spike’s back. Spike had just appeared on the spur accompanied by Petrie.
Whirling around Littlefoot remembered wherefrom he knew the voice that had shouted his name first. The fleeing longneck had seemed familiar to him from the first moment.

Posted on Apr 30, 2006, 9:46 AM

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A rather rough reunion (comments)

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It was one of the earlier pictures I made for this story and if it comes to the proportions of characters it is probably (in spite of Ali's long legs one of the better images among the early ones). It comes across perhaps a little to stiff considering the amount of rapid motion that is depicted.

Posted on May 4, 2006, 11:32 PM

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Petrie's fall from Chomper's rock

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“Petrie get away from there!” said Chomper suddenly to Petrie who stood closer than anybody to the edge of the rock. “It is not safe!”
“Why? What do you mean Chom...”, Petrie didn’t finish his sentence, for the very next instant he noticed himself what Chomper meant to be dangerous. A strong gust swept across, tore Petrie from his feet and over the edge of the rock. “Petrie!” Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Ali and Chomper cried like out of one mouth. Spike jumped to the edge of the rock and all apart from Chomper did the same.
“Careful!” shouted the little sharptooth, but his friends seemed to have eyes and ears only for Petrie who fell into the deep shrieking.
“Do fly Petrie!” shouted Ducky and only now Petrie seemed to remember that he was a flyer. He flapped fiercely with his wings caught himself and flew back to his friends. He trembled all over when he landed beside Chomper far, far from the edge of the rock.
“Are you alright Petrie?” asked Ali concerned.
Petrie shook his head but nodded the next moment. He had gotten away with the fright. “Whew, what a luck you’re a flyer Petrie!” said Ducky and Petrie nodded.
“Dear me! Just imagine he wouldn’t be a flyer!” said Cera. Littlefoot shook his head and answered: “I prefer not to imagine that!”
“If the river wouldn’t be frozen...” “...I still wouldn’t jump down here!” Ali finished the sentence Ducky had begun. “You don’t have to”, said Chomper smiling calmingly with, but Ali ignored him. Chomper stopped to smile. He wasn’t in the mood for it anymore.
Again a nipping cold wind howled around the rock.
“I’m cold! Let’s go down! It is nearly dark”, said Cera and went towards the ramp.
“Yes, we should rest now. Who knows what will have to go through tomorrow.”

Posted on May 10, 2006, 8:36 AM

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Birth of a volcano

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She just wanted to say something when suddenly a slight vibration of the ground could be felt, that grew stronger very quickly.
“What’s that?” Cera asked frightened.
“An earthshake!” cried Ducky, but Ali shook her head. “That’s not an ordinary earthshake.” “What is it then?” asked Littlefoot drowning out a booming and rumbling that became louder and louder. “Run! Run as fast as you can! Get away from the hill!” cried Ali.
She whirled around and rushed away. Littlefoot ran after her immediately. With one leap Chomper was on his feet again and had to fight against the vertigo that set in immediately. Cera ran off with an outcry. She too had understood what was about to happen. She ran into the forest, but in another direction than Ali and Littlefoot.
Ducky jumped onto Spike’s back. “Go! Run!” But Spike looked helpless first in the one direction where Ali and Littlefoot ran and then in the other direction into which Cera ran.
He couldn’t decide for one direction. Suddenly a terrible stench like rotten eggs was in the air. “Hurry little brother!” shouted Ducky desperately from Spike’s back.
Like most of the others she recognized the danger that came from this hill.
But Spike was still unsure in which direction he should turn. Finally it was Petrie who took the decision for Spike. “Follow Petrie!” he shouted and flew off. He flew neither after Cera nor after Littlefoot and Ali, but between the directions in which they ran to keep the distance to all of them as small as possible. Chomper followed Petrie as fast as he could.
He understood that it was high time to get away from this hill. But Spike set in motion only very slowly in spite of everything. This changed however when a deafening detonation could be heard behind him and a big boulder from the top of the newly born volcano struck on the ground very close behind him. Now Spike ran at such a tempo that he outran Chomper even before they had reached the edge of the forest. Glowing boulders whizzed through the sky like comets, and the sky itself seemed to darken more and more from the dense smoke. Just when Chomper reached the edge of the wood the first torrent of lava welled out of the burst top of the hill.

Posted on May 12, 2006, 12:13 AM

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Floe jumping

by (Login Malte279)
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Right in front of her was the river, but many thin and thick cracks were running through the sheet of ice that lay over the water.
The ice broke to floes everywhere and began to drift downstream faster and faster. But Cera saw something more. On the other bank were Ducky, Petrie, Spike and Chomper looking very grievous. Cera was relieved about Chomper’s presence and shouted to the others:
“Ducky! Spike! Petrie! Chomper! I’m here!” They all looked up jerky. Spike saw her first, uttered a shout of joy and cut a joyful caper.
The next moment Ducky saw her too and shouted loud: “Cera!” She pointed at her with one hand. “There she is! It is her! Do you see her? It is her!” she shouted and hopped around fiercely with dither. Petrie and Chomper had seen her too now and Petrie flew towards her while Chomper shouted: “Hurry up! The river will soon be as it has been before. Then you can’t come across anymore!”
Cera agreed with him, for it was already perceptible that the stream of the river had to be very strong, and the ice grew less and less. One could see it melting. Close to the bank the ice had already thawed out. Cera sized up the distance to the next floe shortly and jumped. When she landed on the floe she cried out frightened for it inclined sideward immediately below her weight and only because she managed to shift her weight to the other side immediately she could prevent the floe from turning over and dropping her into the water.
Cera felt how the staggering floe set in motion below her feet and began to float downstream. She didn’t waste time, but jumped to the next floe nearby immediately.
Again Cera lost her balance and almost fell into the water. The next leap brought her on a bigger ice field, that didn’t stagger as much. But it grated loudly and for a moment Cera feared to break through the ice like Ducky had back then in the Great Valley. Cera didn’t brake in, but after a few moments the part of the ice she had landed on broke loose from the remaining ice field and Cera had to jump off again, before she was floated too far away.
She landed safety on the big ice field, but slipped and clapped down so heavily that stars seemed to dance in front of her eyes.

“Cera you alright?” Cera looked up to Petrie who flapped in the air directly in front of her. She nodded and stood up slowly. “You hurry up Cera. Not much time is left.” Petrie was right; Cera felt how the ice melted away behind her. She ran over to the other end of the ice field hasty. Just the moment she arrived there a single floe floated past on the river that was apart from that nearly free of ice in the meantime.
Cera hesitated shortly and then she jumped. This time she didn’t land on the floe exactly but only near its edge. Because of her swing the floe drifted towards the bank, but it was even harder for Cera not to overturn back into the water. She tried to come closer to the center of the floe with one leap, but she miscalculated this time. Cera landed at the opposite edge. The floe inclined forward and this time Cera couldn’t hold on to the smooth as mirror ice; with a short shriek she tumbled forward into the water. It was as if innumerable small pointed needles would prick at her when she dipped in the icy cold water. Strangely it didn’t even seem to be so unpleasant to Cera after the heat in the burning forest. A strong vortex pulled her into the deep, no matter how much she struggled against it, while the current pulled her downstream. Cera struggled as fierce as she could and suddenly she felt sandy ground below her feet. With all her might she pushed of and for her big surprise she broke through the water surface immediately. She swam towards the bank and then she felt the sandy ground again while her head was still above the water. She clawed firmly to the ground and leaned against the stream. She made to find save foothold and to approach the bank slowly step by step while the undertow still pulled on her legs. Completely out of breath Cera reached the bank where she was welcomed jubilantly by Chomper, Ducky, Spike and Petrie, who had stayed close to Cera while she had been in the water. Cera lay down and closed her eyes for a moment.

Posted on May 25, 2006, 3:11 PM

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Comments on "Floe jumping"

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The picture I posted last is one of those I'm quite happy with. There are no characters copied from the movie, they are all freehand. The only thing I'm not too pleased with is the "smoke" of the fire, or much rather its almost complete absence. It is really a very thin haze, not giving enough "credit" to the huge fire that is going on in the background. Maybe melting snow turned a lot of that smoke into steam, but that would be a sorry excuse as I definitely didn't have it in mind when I painted the picture (July 20th 2002). I probably just wanted to have some background elements such as the new volcano and the edge of the walls of the Valley in which all this is happening.

Posted on Jun 1, 2006, 12:17 PM

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What a disappointment!

by A person whose name is Anakin. (no login)

"pictures of extreme violence or sexual contents will be deleted however!"

Awwwwwwwwwww...

J/K :P

Posted on May 28, 2006, 10:33 PM

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Then go somewhere else Dengar!

by (Login Malte279)
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This is not a place for pornography! For everyone to know, the one who apparently feels ashamed to sign a message such as the one above with his own name is the very same person who previously posted here using the name Dengar. Internet is not as anonymous as you think Dengar! Banning you from this forum is not impossible either unless you behave! Whenever you feel you cannot stand with your name for what you write, don't write it! x(

This message has been edited by Malte279 on May 29, 2006 3:30 AM

Posted on May 29, 2006, 3:30 AM

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Sorry

by Dengar (no login)

Apparently, you didn't seem to see the j/k (just kidding) at the bottom of the message.

Posted on May 29, 2006, 8:36 AM

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Wait a minute

by Sam (no login)

I thought Dengar left the forum a year ago.

Posted on Jun 10, 2006, 8:40 PM

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Re: Wait a minute

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He had not posted for a while using this identity. But of course people can post here any time they want. It is not like people "leave" and are suddenly unable to post. Considering the daily numbers of visitors this forum must have a very large number of "silent readers" too.
And to leave no doubt about one thing, Dengar and anyone else is more than welcome to post messages, so long it doesn't hurt the forum. If somebody feels it is impossible to post a message using the name he or she uses usually, this is a sign that even the poster doesn't want to be associated with the content of that message, and that in turn would in most cases be a good reason not to post it at all.

Posted on Jun 10, 2006, 11:24 PM

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A last look before the jump

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“How could they possibly escape?” asked Littlefoot with a hopeless mien. “Nobody can survive in this”, said Littlefoot and pointed at the burning treetops again.
Ali just wanted to reply something when they heard a loud cracking from the ramp.
They looked in the direction surprised. Where the rocky ramp disappeared into the primeval forest the treetops quivered as if something big made its way up the ramp. Ali’s face lightened up, her inspiration seemed to prove right, and Littlefoot too stood up and looked down at the ramp expectantly. A big silhouette that was not exactly recognizable in front of the dazzling fire and the flickering air broke out between the treetops and stormed up the ramp. Littlefoot and Ali strained their eyes, but when they could recognize the stooped figure it had almost reached the top of Chomper’s rock already. Littlefoot and Ali cried out in the same moment, for it was a sharptooth, a huge grownup sharptooth. Only because of their horrified yells the sharptooth noted Ali and Littlefoot. It looked up, spotted them and began to run faster.
Its eyes flashed.
Ali had the presence of mind to jerk around, while Littlefoot stood there paralyzed with fear and starred at the sharptooth. Ali pushed him fiercely and cried: “Come on Littlefoot!”
Then she ran off. It was as if Littlefoot would awake from a dream. Nearly another second passed before he followed Ali, but he caught up with her soon. “Where shall we go Ali?” called Littlefoot drowning out the roaring of the sharptooth behind them.
“I don’t know!” Ali cried back after she had made sure with a hasty look around that here was no shelter, nor any safe place. Suddenly Ali skidded to a halt with an outcry. Littlefoot jumped aside not to run into Ali’s back. In the very last moment he too came to a standstill. In front of them was the abyss and far down the river meandered along. They both cast a look back over their shoulders. For a short moment Littlefoot’s look met the sharptooth’s. The sharptooth seemed to be surprised, but the next moment it continued to ran towards them with far reaching steps. Littlefoot and Ali exchanged a short look. And it was as if they would speak. They could see what the other one thought. They couldn’t run away anymore and they both had the same idea. They jumped down the cliff in the very same instant yelling as loud as they could. The sharptooth was only few steps behind them.

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Sign of hope

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The gloomy mood hadn’t passed. Littlefoot didn’t really understand the cause for it, but he noted that it had affected everyone. They were struggling up to the top of a very high mountain to, as Littlefoot had suggested, look out for a suitable sleeping place from up there. It was an exhausting climb through deep snow, although the mountain was not very steep. Ducky had taken seat on Spike’s back again, as the snow here lay higher than she could handle. Cera wasn’t exactly helping in terms of lifting their spirits.
“How do we know at all, that it is warmer in this direction? We are so long on the move since we’ve left the Great Valley, but still it is not any warmer.” Cera pulled a face.
“We’re nearly on the top”, said Littlefoot just to change the topic.
The sun was not far above the western horizon anymore, when they reached the rocky summit a short while later. The view from up there was great. The snowfields glistened and shone in blinding bright where the dwindling light of the sun fell onto them, while the every place in some mountain’s shade and the steep snow free slopes seemed to be very dark, almost black. If the mountains hadn’t blocked the sight in every direction Littlefoot had not been surprised if they had been able to see their parents from up here. Behind the mountains to their rear a column of black smoke rose to the sky and showed roughly the position of the valley they had left behind. Suddenly Ali jumped up and stared at the horizon. “What’s the matter Ali?” Littlefoot asked surprised. “Over there! Do you see it too?”
Nobody knew what Ali meant. “Do you mean the rainbow?” Ducky asked finally.
Far ahead in the direction in which the sun had its highest stand during the day, dark clouds had gathered and when they looked carefully they could recognize a colorful rainbow that vaulted from the clouds down to the earth.
Ali nodded. “Yes, of course I mean it.”
“And what’s so special about it?” Cera asked irritated.
“Did you ever see a rainbow without rain?”
“Yes! Two even, at the waterfall in front of the cave to the land of mists.”
Ali rolled her eyes impatiently. “Yes, but there was water in the air too.”
Chomper seemed to understand suddenly what Ali was aiming at.
“You mean...” Ali nodded again. “Exactly.”
“Would you mind telling us what’s up?” Cera required angrily.
“If you’ve never seen a rainbow without water in the air, and if you now see a rainbow over there, what does that mean to you?”
“That there’s bad weather ahead?” Cera asked bored.
Petrie suddenly jumped up and fell down from Littlefoot’s head where he had sat so far.
It seemed he too had picked up the point.
“That it is raining over there!” said Ali, and now it was her who sounded impatiently.
“And if there’s rain over there, then it means that it has to be warmer over there.”
Nobody spoke for a moment. Then Ducky uttered an exulting cry, jumped on a small boulder that towered out of the snow aside Spike and hugged her “little brother” as far as possible. Petrie made his way out of the snow into which he had dropped and flew in circles and loops on the sky until he was done up and landed on Littlefoot’s head again. Littlefoot embraced Ali and Cera romped wildly around in the snow with Spike, forgetting all about her previous defeatism. The low spirits were gone without leaving a trace.

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Petrie's narrow escape

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Petrie was aroused when somebody shook him out of his sleep fierce and roughly. Even before he had opened his eyes he had grasped that he had to be fallen asleep in the eggeaters cave and that those who shook his shoulder had to be one of them who had just discovered him. With a frightened outcry he cast his eyes open and looked for his boundless relief into Ducky’s face. “Be quiet!” ordered Ducky and looked at him dismayed. “What are you still doing here? You wanted to fly back to the others.” Petrie made a helpless gesture, shuffled Ducky’s hand from his shoulder, jumped up and said quietly: “Me must fly! Maybe it’s not to late yet!” And he ran towards one gap between the stones. But Ducky kept him back: “Stop! They’re already awake, oh yes they are!” “Petrie must sneak out very silent. Maybe they’ll me no see!” Because of his dither Petrie spoke nearly even more wrong than usually. In this moment instant they heard the voice of the eggeater with the scratched nose saying: “I’ll take a look what our little grasseater is doing!” Ducky’s and Petrie’s hearts stopped beating when they heard the approaching steps of the eggeater. They held their breath and when the hands of the eggeater seized the flagstone Ducky saw how every muscle in Petrie’s little body strained. Bright sunlight fell from the cave entrance in to them when the eggeater shove the flagstone aside. But in the next instant the eggeater’s shadow lay above them. Petrie seemed to have waited for that moment when the face of the eggeater with the scratched nose appeared over them. Like being shot from a sling Petrie pounced vertically up into the air and inflicted a fierce strong beak peck on the scratched nose when he flew past it. The eggeater howled up, began to hop wildly around and waved his arms wildly around in the air, before he pressed both hands on his nose. It was a funny sight. “Stop him Strut!” cried the eggeater, but Petrie had already flown past the other eggeater and had reached the cave entrance. Ducky didn’t dare to imagine what the eggeaters would do with her when they would have recovered from their surprise. She had to escape as long as the eggeaters paid no attention to her. With one leap she was on one of the stones that lay around her. But Ozzy pushed her back with one of his fingers and she landed so heavily on her back that she couldn’t breathe for a while. She didn’t dare attempt another escape, when she had regained her breath. Ozzy blasted because of his nose and although she hardly dared to stir with angst Ducky felt malicious joy. But then Ozzy did something that bewildered Ducky completely. He laughed. Ozzy laughed with might and main and didn’t seem to be able to stop at all. Whatever Ducky might have expected, it was not that. This eggeater had to be annoyed and not happy. Ducky’s fear ceased and instead of it she became angry. Had this eggeater become crazy? Also the other eggeater looked at his brother as if he would have doubts about his reason. “Ozzy he has escaped”, he said finally low spirited and seemed to expect any punishment, but Ozzy laughed even more. “Is everything okay with you Ozzy?” Strut asked even more dejected. “Of course!” Ozzy called happily. “Everything goes according to our plan. Apart from that...”, he added yet with an angry voice, “...I haven’t planed to let this flying mini grasseater peck at my nose

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Ozzy's narrow miss

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Petrie trembled with coldness in his coverage behind the rocks above the cave. To go into the cave itself he didn’t dare anymore. He wasn’t here for very long, for the slight snowfall, that had stopped meanwhile had hindered him. On his way he had seen nothing of Littlefoot or Ducky and he had already given up the hope that they could have escaped. The eggeater who had just returned into the cave carrying some boughs of conifers and some frozen grasses had dispelled even his last doubts concerning that. But at least he knew now that Littlefoot and Ducky were still alive; for whom else should the eggeater have fetched the green food?
Petrie knew actually what he had wanted to find out, but he stayed there nevertheless.
Before he would fly back to the others he wanted to wait in the, as he had to confess to himself, probably vainly hope to set his eyes upon Ducky and Littlefoot yet.
He waited vainly for a while and became colder and colder. He was already nearly about to fly back to report the others what he had seen when he was startled by the sound of steps.
The next instant the eggeater with the scratched nose came out of the cave closely followed by Littlefoot. First at the second sight Petrie recognized that the eggeater had tied one end of a liana around Littlefoot’s neck. The eggeater held the other end firmly in one hand.
On Littlefoot’s head flaunted an ugly bump, but apart from that he seemed to be well according to the circumstances. Now also the second eggeater came out of the cave and he clinched Ducky in one hand. It appeared as if the eggeaters wanted to go a long distance. Petrie was surprised that they let Littlefoot and Ducky out of the cave at all. Littlefoot and Ducky should know that he and the others were nearby thought Petrie. It would surely encourage them a bit. He loosed from the shadow of the rocky wall and let himself drop. Immediately he spread his wings and set on to a glide above the heads of the eggeaters.
Not only Ducky and Littlefoot but also the eggeaters would see him surely, but what should they do? They couldn’t fly. Ducky in Strut’s fist saw Petrie first. She uttered a surprised yell that directed the attention of Littlefoot and the eggeaters on Petrie too. Ozzy reacted quickly as lightning. He bent down and snatched up some stones with his free hand. Littlefoot recognized immediately what Ozzy intended and that he wanted to hit Petrie with a stone in the air. And that he was able to hit him was out of question for Littlefoot. He had experienced Ozzy’s accurateness by himself. “Look out Petrie! Fly away!” Petrie hadn’t recognized the danger himself, but he reacted at once. He began to climb steep upwards. That way he gained highness, but he became slower and was an easy target. A stone whizzed closely past his beak. If he would have started to climb only fractions of a second later, then the stone would have hit him and he would have precipitated surely. Petrie flapped quicker with his wings to come out of range. Ozzy had already lifted his arm for the next fling and he simply couldn’t miss Petrie who hung seemingly motionless in the air. Littlefoot threw himself to the side violently and felt how the noose around his neck tightened smarting and tied off his breath, but Littlefoot had gained the wished success. Ozzy stumbled. Only very slightly, but the stone he had hurled in that moment whizzed past Petrie’s wing. A stone thrown by Strut couldn’t have missed further and then Petrie was too high to hit him. “Petrie! We go where the bright circle stands the highest!” cried Littlefoot as loud as he could before Ozzy silenced him by pulling violently at the liana. Petrie saw this with apprehension, but he knew that he alone couldn’t do anything for Littlefoot and Ducky at the moment. He nodded at Littlefoot, as a sign that he had understood, and disappeared in a wide bow behind the next mountain’s ridge. Ducky and Littlefoot looked after him as long as he was recognizable without paying attention to the eggeaters. Littlefoot didn’t listen to Ozzy’s now following tirades and he nearly didn’t notice how he pulled violently at the liana several times. He smiled slightly at Ducky. They had played a trick on the eggeaters and they hadn’t caught Petrie. That was everything that counted.

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List of the land before time characters' names' origin

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Hi!
At the moment a list of the origins of LBT characters' names is being created at the GOF. This sure is of interest to the land before time fans everywhere, and maybe you can help completing the list if you happen to find possible references of the names where no such references have been found yet (of course not all LBT character names necessarily include such references, but most of them do refer to the characters species). This is the list as far as we got it so far (in alphabetical order):

The Gang:
Cera - Triceratops
Ducky - While her exact species is still a matter of debate she definitely belongs to the family of the Hadroids, the DUCKbilled dinosaurs.
Littlefoot - Altered from "Thunderfoot" (which was considered to sound to intimidating by Don Bluth and his team). "Thunderfoot" was likely derived from "Thunderfoot Lizard", the meaning of the word "Brontosaurus".
Petrie - most likely supposed to (very vaguely) resemble Pterodactylus.
Spike - SPIKEtail. No refrerence to the scientific name, but obviously to the species.

Other characters:
Archie - Possibly derived from his species name, Archelon.
"Big Daddy" (LBT 11) - Probably not his given name, but a name the audience is given to refer to him by. He is the largest of the tiny dinosaurs, and apparently the father of at least some of the tiny longnecks, hence his name.
Bron - Possibly derived from the obsolete species name, Brontosaurus
Chomper - A name decided by the Gang in LBT 2. It made sense to them for a sharptooth to have the name "Chomper" as he tended to Chomp as insects soon after birth.
Doc - Possibly derived from the species name, Diplodocus
Hyp - Probably a reference to Hypsilophodon
Ichy - Probably a reference to Ichthyornis
Nod - Probably a reference to Nodosaurus
Mo - Might well refer to Opthalmosaurus
Mr. Clubtail - an Anklyosaurus, a Club-Tailed dinosaur
Mr. Thicknose - is a Pachyrhinosaurus, which means "thick-nosed lizard"
Mutt - Probably a reference to Muttaburrasaurus
Pat - Possibly derived from the species name, Apatosaurus
Pterano - Certainly refers to Pteranodon (which caused the speculations about Petrie's species as unlike him Pterano looks like a Pteranodon).
Rinkus - there are many pterosaurs that have this termination, "...us". There is one species with a long tail, like Rinkus's that is called Ranphorychus.
Shorty - Not specifically related to his species. I believe this name is intended to show a symbolic bond between him and Littlefoot.
Sierra - He is possibly of the species "cearadactylus". "Ceara" and "Sierra" sound very similar when spoken.
Skitter (LBT 11) - My best guess is this name was chosen due to his small, quick, "skittery" nature.
Strut - Possibly derived from his species name, Struthiomimus.
Tickles - A name chosen by Ducky because of his ticklish fur.
Topps / Topsy - A reference to the species, Triceratops
Tria - The word "Tri" embedded in her name is also a reference to Triceratops.

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Characters with unknown name origins:

Ali - Currently unknown origin. Any thoughts?
Dinah / Dana - Currently unknown origin. Any thoughts?
Lizzie - Currently unknown origin. Any thoughts?
Ozzie - Currently unknown origin. Any thoughts?
Rooter - Currently unknown origin. Any thoughts? What species is Rooter?
Tippy - Currently unknown origin. Any thoughts?

This message has been edited by Malte279 on Apr 25, 2006 8:15 AM
This message has been edited by Malte279 on Apr 23, 2006 10:06 PM

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 3:30 AM

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You forgot sombody

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You forgot Ichy.His name origin is because he's an Ichythornis.

Posted on Apr 23, 2006, 6:29 PM

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Oh and...

by Sam (no login)

Petrie can't be a Pterodactylus because that was one of the carnivourus Pterosaurs.The best choice is that Petrie's a Pterodactyl rather than a Pterodactylus.

Posted on Apr 23, 2006, 6:33 PM

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Thank you!

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Hi Sam!
Indeed we forgot about Ichty. Thanks a lot! You are helping to complete the list

As for Petrie, I'm aware of Pterodactylus being a carnivorous species. The problem is that you will have a heard time trying to find a Pterosaur-species which is not at least an omnivore or insect eater. I suppose that the makers of LBT allowed themselves a certain creative freedom by making him a leafeater. A remarkable thing about Petrie is that his supposed uncle Pterano look (very different from his mum) like a Pteranodon (which is also supposed to have lived largely on fish).

Posted on Apr 23, 2006, 9:59 PM

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mispelling

by Sam (no login)

You keep spelling Ichy wrong.Look at this:

Your spelling: Ichty

Correct spelling: Ichy

Your spelling: Ichthyornis

Correct spelling: Ichythornis

Posted on Apr 24, 2006, 8:49 PM

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Just in case of the character's name

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I'm quite sure my spelling of Ichthyornis is correct. Here are some webpages which spell it the same way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyornis>
http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Ichthyornis.html>
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Ichthyornisprintout.shtml>
As for the name of the character you are probably right. I will check out the credits of the DvD this afternoon.

EDIT: I checked it out and the bird is indeed spelled Ichy. Thank you for your help Sam

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Posted on Apr 24, 2006, 9:59 PM

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Re: Just in case of the character's name

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Well the place I saw it,it was Ichythornis

Posted on Apr 26, 2006, 8:34 AM

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I'm positive about the species name

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I checked out two different books as well, both of which spelled it Ichthyornis. Ichthyornis will also produce much more results than Ichythornis when searched for in the web. I suppose that place where you saw it must have had the wrong spelling then (which easily happens in case of scientific names).

Posted on Apr 26, 2006, 1:44 PM

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Rooter

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While I too, am unaware of Rooter's name's origin, I believe he is an ankylosaur of some sort.

Posted on May 25, 2007, 4:39 PM

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well i think everyone needs to get along

by f-22'raptor'ace (no login)

lbt fans and non lbt fans a like why can't we just all be friends?

Posted on Apr 18, 2006, 9:14 PM

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Re: well i think everyone needs to get along

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Has there been any problem for you of lately with anybody who disapproves of your being an LBT fan?
Most people who don't care about LBT don't care about me being an LBT fan either. Those who are fanatic and intollerant enough not to be able to handle the fact that I like LBT are usually not the kind that would make very good friends anyway.

Posted on Apr 18, 2006, 11:06 PM

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well...

by f-22 raptor ace (no login)

i see your point malte

Posted on Apr 19, 2006, 5:58 AM

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they had the 11th movie on cartoon net work today

by f-22'raptor'ace (no login)

just so everyone knows

Posted on Apr 13, 2006, 6:51 PM

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doy

by urin (no login)

I dont have cableT_T!!!!!Oh yeah whered tommy go??????????-_-

Posted on Apr 14, 2006, 3:45 PM

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News on the LBT TV series - a recuring character

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Hi!
This morning I got a piece of official information I didn't post it earlier to ask if publishing it was alright at this time.
There will definitely be a recuring character in the TV series. Dorian Harewood is going to voice Mr. Thicknose in the TV-series. No information on any other character reappearing at this time, but I suppose with Mr. Thicknose becoming the seconed ever character to return in a speaking role (Chomper being the first) we may be carefully optimistic.

Posted on Apr 9, 2006, 3:10 PM

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Thicknose of all characters

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I can see partly why they may have chosen Mr. Thicknose as a returning character. His inclusion in the series doesn't have a large effect on the relationships between the main characters. Bringing him back is a reasonable safe move to make. I for one, am interested to see how his character will be integrated into the series. I was always a little curious about his nature, and perhaps we will learn more about him as time goes on in the TV series.

Posted on Apr 12, 2006, 10:04 AM

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who?

by sam (no login)

whos thicknose?

Posted on Apr 14, 2006, 5:23 PM

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Mr. Thicknose

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A character from the eight land before time movie. A very old Pachyrhinosaurus who is very intent to keep up the image of himself as the oldest, wisest and most experienced of all the dinosaurs around. Throughout the story it is revealed that despite his other claims he actually never ever left the Great Valley, so his experiences are not as extensive as he made everyone believe.

Posted on Apr 14, 2006, 11:00 PM

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Mr. Thicknose

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That's good to se him coming back!

Posted on Apr 17, 2006, 5:03 AM

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is Thicknose official?

by Holly (no login)

Are you sure Thicknose is coming back? There's no mention of Thcknose on the imdb.com listing for the new TV series. But there are a couple other new characters: Ruby (voiced by Meghan Strange), Redclaw/Screech (voiced by Pete Sepenuk). And the writer for the series is listed as Corey Powell.

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 1:20 AM

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Welcome / Yes, it's official

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Hi Holly!
First of all welcome to the land before time forum! It is always a great pleasure to hear a new voice here! Please feel hearty invited to join our discussions or start your own threads!

Yes, my information on Thicknose comes from a member of the cast, so I suppose it can be named official. However, it appears that information at imdb has been updated now naming characters which have never been mentioned before (Redclaw/Screech), while the last update date given on that page is still August 9th 2005. Did we all overlook the character name so far or did they fail to update the date?
Either way, thank you very, very much for telling us about this Holly

Posted on Apr 22, 2006, 2:42 AM

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Is Tops..I mean Cera's dad turning into a Dalek in LBT11?

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Listen to what he says just after the song "Creepy Crawlies"!

Posted on Apr 9, 2006, 3:08 AM

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What is a Dalek?

by (no login)

I never heard the term before.

Posted on Apr 9, 2006, 6:03 AM

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A Dalek

by Noname (no login)

From doctor who(the show)? The robot-things who seem to be bent on world domination?

Posted on Apr 9, 2006, 6:56 AM

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Charicter comparison: Brom vs. Jack Bauer

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I go bored and ecided to do something on Keifer Sutherland's charicter Brom, Littlefoots Father, in LBT X: Compare him with Sutherland's charicter Jack Bauer on 24

Brom:

Brom is a very mysterious longneck IMO. In the movie he left Littlefoot's mother for a reason that I forgot, and came back to see that she was gone. He's mainly a nice guy in that he adopted Shorty. Littlefoot DOES come to accept im as a father, and accept the truth that he has a life tht his father may not get to be a part of. Brom is mainly an all around good guy

Jack Bauer:
Now this isn't even fair
Jack Bauer is the complete OPPOSITE of Brom.

For those who haven't seen 24, it is a how that revolves around Jack Bauer (played by Sutherland) who is a feild agent for the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles. Each season takes place over the course of 1 day, with 24 epsisodes per season, each episode representing an "hour" of the day. (e.g 1:00PM-2:00PM)

The unique aspect of 24 is that the episodes are presente in real time, that is each minute of the episode corresponds to each minute of air time, and this is emphazised by a clock that appears on sreen from time to time.

Anyway, Jack Bauer is not like Brom in anyway. Bauer is essentially a terrorist-fighting robot and may be considered to be an anti-hero.

He belives in the notion "the ends justify the means", obtaining a desired result is more important than how he obtains it. It can be said that LF also does the same thing, but Bauer uses more violent methods.

Bauer has a Daughter that he almost never sees, like Brom almost never sees LF, and Bauer has lost his wife as well.

But the main thing abotu Bauer that seperates him from Brom is his attitude.Bauer is a very aggressive man, and resorts to physical violence alot, like shooting a suspects wife in the leg, threatening to cut off their eyes, or infect their daughter with a virus if he dosen't get what he wants.

All in all, if fans of LBT X were to watch 24, they'd be shocked at how Bauer is the exact opposite of Brom.

What do ya think? Sound off!

Posted on Apr 5, 2006, 7:54 PM

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Questioning Bron's character

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Hi!
I don't know who Jack Bauer is so my input on this is probably missing the point. However, as for Bron (he is spelled with an n) I have serious doubts about his supposedly good character.
He didn't leave Littlefoot's mother for any reason you forgot, but rather for no good reason whatsoever.
The story he is telling must have begun shortly before the beginning of the original land before time movie.
Yet where were Bron and Littlefoot's mother in the flashback about Bron's story? They were in a lush, green, Great Valley like landscape. The landscape they showed was just a perfect nesting place for Bron and his wife. There was no point for him to leave his pregnant wife to look for a better place. They had a really good place already!
His "adopting" of Shorty doesn't make him a good longneck either if only we take a closer look at what he actually did and what he didn't. We are all very fond of him for taking care of Shorty and all the poor defenseless longneck kids he found when he was allegedly looking for his son. But he doesn't! Just take a look at that flashback. He checks whether his son is among the kids, finds he isn't, and moves on. Bron doesn't even open his mouth. No word of encouragement, no question if they know anything about the whereabouts of his son, and least of all an invitation to the kids to come along with him. He didn't decide to take care of the kids. They just followed him, knowing it would be safer for them and Bron apparently didn't mind. He did not offer his protection to them, they just took it.
Shorty in particular is a good example for Bron's indifference. You think Shorty (a character by the way whom I consider one of the positive points about LBT 10) would have ever turned into a bully if Bron had cared about him beyond saving him from being killed so long he stayed close enough? Throughout the whole movie the only scene in which Bron shows direct kindness to Shorty is when during the herd's departure he takes him onto his head. Shorty might have considered Bron a father, but Bron did not consider him a son. Just listen to what he told Littlefoot. All the others found parents, but not Shorty. I really pity Shorty. Bron seems to be more like a leader than a parent to him. It is not for kindness that Bron took care of anyone!

Posted on Apr 5, 2006, 11:57 PM

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good point

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I duno waht Shorty would become if Bron (could've sworn it was Brom thouhg) had not adopted him.

And now tat I look at it, it's probably more rational to compare Doc with Jack Buaer

Posted on Apr 6, 2006, 4:40 AM

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"Adventuring" MIDI, Complete

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Hey all, here's another MIDI to pass around. This was a tricky song to make into a MIDI, but after a lot of hours, it's finally fairly accurate. If you have any criticisms on it, please let me know :D

Personally, I'm very happy with how it turned out. This was a lot of work; there are so many little sounds in the song to account for.

http://www.angelfire.com/az3/action9000/index.html

You can download it from the usual webpage :P

Posted on Apr 1, 2006, 6:18 PM

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Magnificent!

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Again you did an awesome job Tim! It sounds just fantastic with all the many musical voices you put into it. I don't think it falls anyhow short of the movie version's melody, while in fact it might be the case the other way round.

Posted on Apr 5, 2006, 2:15 PM

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Sheet music posted up!

by (no login)

Lol, thank you Malte for your response

I'm glad there are some people who can find a use for these midis. I know they aren't particularily useful, but I figured they would be an interesting listen and a useful reference tool for anyone interested in the songs themselves, or for anyone who doesn't have a way to rip the songs from the actual films.

I have posted the sheet music to Adventuring up on my webspace. Help yourself; I'll leave the pics up for a long time. They're quite small (about 300 kb for the entire score to Adventuring).

http://www.angelfire.com/az3/action9000/index.html

Posted on Apr 6, 2006, 7:51 PM

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