Post by Ruby on Jun 15, 2015 12:13:27 GMT 8
What exactly is this? It is a clean up for Land Before Time. And what a clean up too! It's the finale, pretty much, of the entire saga. The toughest part was what to do with Chomper. We didn't want him truly going...er...bad, as that would be a letdown for all the fans. (Whatever the clowns on the GOF may have thought otherwise.)
However, we needed to make a very convincing way for him not to, plus involve the other characters. We did have to make one major change, not altering cannon, but, just like Bron turning up, having a major shock to the cannon of the first movie.
Basically, other than showing how
Arianna (Littlefoot's mother) and Bron met, Ovi (Ruby's mom) and Tor (Ruby's dad) met, Cerata (Cera's REAL mom) and Topps met, Steg (Spike's dad) and Spike's mom (forgot the name) met, Don (Petrie's dad) and Phyra (Petrie's mom) met, Sura (Ducky's mom) and Rolphus (Ducky's dad) met, and how Magnus (Chomper's dad) and Tyra (Chomper's mom) met, I go to Littlefoot and his mother.
She tells an old Longneck creation myth story:
One day, the Bright Circle created the dinosaurs. They all had flat teeth. They lived together in harmony for a long time. However, there came a day when the Leaf Eaters became selfish. They started to fight over food and over things. Eventually, they came to taking the lives of others in order to increase their own lots in life. They also tended to separate among their own kinds, snubbing the kinds of others.
This continued for a while, the land being stained with blood. Finally, the Bright Circle could stand it no longer. Therefore, he created a creature to punish the Leaf Eaters for their acts of wickedness.
Out of the mountains he fashioned creatures with Sharp Teeth, claws on their hands and feet. Others could fly and yet others could swim. They could eat only meat. Being made of the mountains, they were very hard to beat and could easily take a beating that few Leaf Eaters could take. They came and attacked the Flatteeth, punishing the guilty.
The Bright Circle had the Sharpteeth doomed to hunt the Leaf Eaters. Indeed, it was said that only a strong willingness to be friends between a Sharptooth and a Leaf Eater could get the Sharptooth to stay friends with the Leaf Eaters for life and not hunt the Leaf Eaters. Otherwise, the Sharptooth, no matter how hard he tried, would be doomed to hunt the Leaf Eaters.
The Leaf Eaters had learned their lesson for a while. However, one day, they started to be cruel to their children. Many children, having had broken lives, continued the abuse on to their children.
Once more, the Bright Circle had had enough. Also, the Bright Circle was mad at the Sharpteeth to, who, in their anger and viciousness, had stepped outside the bounds that had been set for them and had started to attack each other.
The Bright Circle turned the child-abusing Leaf Eaters into Egg Stealers, where they would now prey upon the child of others in order to live and would steal the eggs of both Flatteeth and Sharpteeth. The Egg Stealers still could eat green if they chose, but only a friendship between a Leaf Eater, a Sharptooth, and an Egg Stealer was said to be able to rid the Egg Stealer of the cruelty in his heart that naturally was there.
After some time, there were some good Leaf Eaters who wanted to be able to survive during times of low green food. Thus, they begged the Bright Circle to be able to eat certain kinds of meat. As they had kind hearts, the Bright Circle consented. They became the Bothteeth.
Things continued as they were for a good while. Finally, some evil Leaf Eaters grew extremely greedy. They weren't content to be hunted by Sharpteeth and have their eggs stolen by Egg Stealers and to have to live as equals among their Leaf Eater brethren. They wanted power and strength to rule over the others.
They were not able to get the Bright Circle's help in this. They saw how the Bothteeth could eat meat and wanted to have this ability. However, the Bright Circle knew that they were up to no good and so he refused.
So they go the help of the Bright Circle’s sister, the Lesser Circle instead. They demanded to have the abilities of Sharpteeth, so that they could hunt Leaf Eaters, Egg Stealers, and Sharpteeth alike. They wanted to reign over the world. They wanted the ability to take blows like Sharpteeth.
The Lesser Circle, jealous of the better spot her brother had, granted their request. They thus became an evil type of Bothtooth. Able to hunt their fellow dinosaurs and also eat leaves, they could survive in environments the other types couldn’t. Thus they became really strong and grew in power. Many of them could eat eggs as well. They soon sought out to rule the whole world.
The Bright Circle found out about this and was furious. He punished his sister by banishing her to be in the night sky, thus making her the Night Circle. This wicked type of Bothtooth was the Fanged Flattooth. Thus the four kinds were created.
Obviously, Littlefoot has heard other creation stories, but none that mention other than Leaf Eaters. Also, I think, as the only one he's heard from his mother, this is his favorite. Having heard that, according to the story, a strong enough friendship could turn a Sharptooth nice, we may have gotten where Littlefoot got the idea to befriend Chomper in the first place.
Also, as his mother said that no Leaf Eater had ever tried before, it had never happened. (Notably the friendship doesn't have to start on the Leaf Eater side, as was shown in the Hunter Valley one of LittlefootAndAliTogether)
Soon after Littlefoot has a lengthy and very interesting conversation with his mother, during which, among other things, she says she thinks Fanged Flatteeth are only a legend and not real, the action actually switches to an actual Fanged Flattooth, an evil one. And he's not alone. Finding a dangerous Sharptooth named Dark Claw (just called "Sharptooth" by the locals), he recruits him, offering him a way to get back at the Great Valley for an event nearly 100 years earlier when the Longnecks drove out the Sharpteeth from it. Sharptooth has a brother by the name of Red Claw.
Fanged Flattooth and Sharptooth decide to go around preying on stragglers. Fanged Flattooth distracts a group of segregated dinos, playing up Flattooth segregation. However, Fanged Flattooth is alarmed when he notices that two Longnecks, Ignatius and Irene (Grandpa and Grandma Longneck) don't quite like Flattooth segregation.
Having heard about a Flattooth who would end his plot of a Bothtooth New World Order in a sleep story, a dream of a dinosaur who would need to befriend another type of Flattooth, a Sharptooth, a Bothtooth, and an Egg Stealer, in order to do so. In dread and power hungry, Fanged Flattooth tells Sharptooth that the stragglers he plans to attack are Littlefoot's family. Before Fanged Flattooth can go after Grandpa and Grandma Longneck, he notices Sharptooth going after Littlefoot and Cera.
Fanged Flattooth is even more alarmed that Littlefoot has violated segregation rules and is friends with Cera and plans to help Sharptooth finish them off. However, he is soon met by Littlefoot's mother. He decides to talk to her to buy Sharptooth time. However, when she realizes her son is in danger, he attacks her. The fight is intense, and he injures her but is ultimately tail whacked away. He snarls, some distance away, for Sharptooth, who comes into view, chasing Littlefoot and Cera, to kill her. Well, we all know what happens in that fight.
So, after the Great Earthshake, a gravely wounded Mama Longneck heads off, hoping to tell the world about her Fanged Flatooth attack and warn the world about them. However, he gets to her and fatally injures her, knocking her down. She, with the last of her strength, tail whacks him off a cliff, where it appears that he has fallen to his death.
Then, we all know she gives Littlefoot the instructions to go the Great Valley and then dies. He is about to eat her fallen corpse, the villain isn't dead, as he climbed back up, but hears Leaf Eaters coming and so scampers, not wishing to fight them at the moment (He did get tail whacked twice after all!). He goes after Littlefoot, even laughing and scaring Littlefoot. However, Littlefoot goes out of sight, and he loses him. Eventually, he finds that Littlefoot has met Rooter, but Littlefoot had left some time ago, and Rooter, mistrustful of Fanged Flatooth, refuses to tell him anything. The villain ha slost him. But he knows that Littlefoot could be his undoing. So he spends years looking for a Longneck by the name of "Littlefoot", even killing many Longnecks.
Sometime after Littlefoot reached the Great Valley, he vowed to always hate Sharpteeth and to never celebrate his Star Day (the day his egg was layed and also, coincidentally, the day his mother got killled). He kept the second one for years but, about a week or less, Littlefoot breaks the first one by befriendhing Chomper, hoping to turn Chomper nice, thinking he can do so (wehtehr he was right or not is a huge part of the Greatest Adventure trilogy) ... to be continued.
However, we needed to make a very convincing way for him not to, plus involve the other characters. We did have to make one major change, not altering cannon, but, just like Bron turning up, having a major shock to the cannon of the first movie.
Basically, other than showing how
Arianna (Littlefoot's mother) and Bron met, Ovi (Ruby's mom) and Tor (Ruby's dad) met, Cerata (Cera's REAL mom) and Topps met, Steg (Spike's dad) and Spike's mom (forgot the name) met, Don (Petrie's dad) and Phyra (Petrie's mom) met, Sura (Ducky's mom) and Rolphus (Ducky's dad) met, and how Magnus (Chomper's dad) and Tyra (Chomper's mom) met, I go to Littlefoot and his mother.
She tells an old Longneck creation myth story:
One day, the Bright Circle created the dinosaurs. They all had flat teeth. They lived together in harmony for a long time. However, there came a day when the Leaf Eaters became selfish. They started to fight over food and over things. Eventually, they came to taking the lives of others in order to increase their own lots in life. They also tended to separate among their own kinds, snubbing the kinds of others.
This continued for a while, the land being stained with blood. Finally, the Bright Circle could stand it no longer. Therefore, he created a creature to punish the Leaf Eaters for their acts of wickedness.
Out of the mountains he fashioned creatures with Sharp Teeth, claws on their hands and feet. Others could fly and yet others could swim. They could eat only meat. Being made of the mountains, they were very hard to beat and could easily take a beating that few Leaf Eaters could take. They came and attacked the Flatteeth, punishing the guilty.
The Bright Circle had the Sharpteeth doomed to hunt the Leaf Eaters. Indeed, it was said that only a strong willingness to be friends between a Sharptooth and a Leaf Eater could get the Sharptooth to stay friends with the Leaf Eaters for life and not hunt the Leaf Eaters. Otherwise, the Sharptooth, no matter how hard he tried, would be doomed to hunt the Leaf Eaters.
The Leaf Eaters had learned their lesson for a while. However, one day, they started to be cruel to their children. Many children, having had broken lives, continued the abuse on to their children.
Once more, the Bright Circle had had enough. Also, the Bright Circle was mad at the Sharpteeth to, who, in their anger and viciousness, had stepped outside the bounds that had been set for them and had started to attack each other.
The Bright Circle turned the child-abusing Leaf Eaters into Egg Stealers, where they would now prey upon the child of others in order to live and would steal the eggs of both Flatteeth and Sharpteeth. The Egg Stealers still could eat green if they chose, but only a friendship between a Leaf Eater, a Sharptooth, and an Egg Stealer was said to be able to rid the Egg Stealer of the cruelty in his heart that naturally was there.
After some time, there were some good Leaf Eaters who wanted to be able to survive during times of low green food. Thus, they begged the Bright Circle to be able to eat certain kinds of meat. As they had kind hearts, the Bright Circle consented. They became the Bothteeth.
Things continued as they were for a good while. Finally, some evil Leaf Eaters grew extremely greedy. They weren't content to be hunted by Sharpteeth and have their eggs stolen by Egg Stealers and to have to live as equals among their Leaf Eater brethren. They wanted power and strength to rule over the others.
They were not able to get the Bright Circle's help in this. They saw how the Bothteeth could eat meat and wanted to have this ability. However, the Bright Circle knew that they were up to no good and so he refused.
So they go the help of the Bright Circle’s sister, the Lesser Circle instead. They demanded to have the abilities of Sharpteeth, so that they could hunt Leaf Eaters, Egg Stealers, and Sharpteeth alike. They wanted to reign over the world. They wanted the ability to take blows like Sharpteeth.
The Lesser Circle, jealous of the better spot her brother had, granted their request. They thus became an evil type of Bothtooth. Able to hunt their fellow dinosaurs and also eat leaves, they could survive in environments the other types couldn’t. Thus they became really strong and grew in power. Many of them could eat eggs as well. They soon sought out to rule the whole world.
The Bright Circle found out about this and was furious. He punished his sister by banishing her to be in the night sky, thus making her the Night Circle. This wicked type of Bothtooth was the Fanged Flattooth. Thus the four kinds were created.
Obviously, Littlefoot has heard other creation stories, but none that mention other than Leaf Eaters. Also, I think, as the only one he's heard from his mother, this is his favorite. Having heard that, according to the story, a strong enough friendship could turn a Sharptooth nice, we may have gotten where Littlefoot got the idea to befriend Chomper in the first place.
Also, as his mother said that no Leaf Eater had ever tried before, it had never happened. (Notably the friendship doesn't have to start on the Leaf Eater side, as was shown in the Hunter Valley one of LittlefootAndAliTogether)
Soon after Littlefoot has a lengthy and very interesting conversation with his mother, during which, among other things, she says she thinks Fanged Flatteeth are only a legend and not real, the action actually switches to an actual Fanged Flattooth, an evil one. And he's not alone. Finding a dangerous Sharptooth named Dark Claw (just called "Sharptooth" by the locals), he recruits him, offering him a way to get back at the Great Valley for an event nearly 100 years earlier when the Longnecks drove out the Sharpteeth from it. Sharptooth has a brother by the name of Red Claw.
Fanged Flattooth and Sharptooth decide to go around preying on stragglers. Fanged Flattooth distracts a group of segregated dinos, playing up Flattooth segregation. However, Fanged Flattooth is alarmed when he notices that two Longnecks, Ignatius and Irene (Grandpa and Grandma Longneck) don't quite like Flattooth segregation.
Having heard about a Flattooth who would end his plot of a Bothtooth New World Order in a sleep story, a dream of a dinosaur who would need to befriend another type of Flattooth, a Sharptooth, a Bothtooth, and an Egg Stealer, in order to do so. In dread and power hungry, Fanged Flattooth tells Sharptooth that the stragglers he plans to attack are Littlefoot's family. Before Fanged Flattooth can go after Grandpa and Grandma Longneck, he notices Sharptooth going after Littlefoot and Cera.
Fanged Flattooth is even more alarmed that Littlefoot has violated segregation rules and is friends with Cera and plans to help Sharptooth finish them off. However, he is soon met by Littlefoot's mother. He decides to talk to her to buy Sharptooth time. However, when she realizes her son is in danger, he attacks her. The fight is intense, and he injures her but is ultimately tail whacked away. He snarls, some distance away, for Sharptooth, who comes into view, chasing Littlefoot and Cera, to kill her. Well, we all know what happens in that fight.
So, after the Great Earthshake, a gravely wounded Mama Longneck heads off, hoping to tell the world about her Fanged Flatooth attack and warn the world about them. However, he gets to her and fatally injures her, knocking her down. She, with the last of her strength, tail whacks him off a cliff, where it appears that he has fallen to his death.
Then, we all know she gives Littlefoot the instructions to go the Great Valley and then dies. He is about to eat her fallen corpse, the villain isn't dead, as he climbed back up, but hears Leaf Eaters coming and so scampers, not wishing to fight them at the moment (He did get tail whacked twice after all!). He goes after Littlefoot, even laughing and scaring Littlefoot. However, Littlefoot goes out of sight, and he loses him. Eventually, he finds that Littlefoot has met Rooter, but Littlefoot had left some time ago, and Rooter, mistrustful of Fanged Flatooth, refuses to tell him anything. The villain ha slost him. But he knows that Littlefoot could be his undoing. So he spends years looking for a Longneck by the name of "Littlefoot", even killing many Longnecks.
Sometime after Littlefoot reached the Great Valley, he vowed to always hate Sharpteeth and to never celebrate his Star Day (the day his egg was layed and also, coincidentally, the day his mother got killled). He kept the second one for years but, about a week or less, Littlefoot breaks the first one by befriendhing Chomper, hoping to turn Chomper nice, thinking he can do so (wehtehr he was right or not is a huge part of the Greatest Adventure trilogy) ... to be continued.