# Parents-Were the last two "Land before time" sequels as creepy as they sound? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-were-the-last-two-land-before-time-sequels-as-creepy-as-they-sound/97648 "2002-03-11T18:31:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-were-the-last-two-land-before-time-sequels-as-creepy-as-they-sound/97648/1 "2002-03-11T18:31:38Z")
Sorry, for posting, but I hoped that someone with young children might be able to help me with a movie question. …In the last few years, several direct to video sequels have been made to the old “Land before Time” animated movie (Something like eight sequels…AND they’ve kept using numerals in the titles. Now THAT’S moxy. ) Now, the premises to the last couple of sequels seemed a little…well, “dark”, for a dinosaur movie. Are they as creepy as they sound like? In one, the dinosaur friends set out to find the crash site of a comet they saw streak across the sky one night, and in the next movie, they experience heavy snowfall for the first time! I mean, what’s next, they playfully discover that all the plants are dead, and the proto-rodents are getting more aggressive? Or have I just been watching the discovery channel too much? Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-were-the-last-two-land-before-time-sequels-as-creepy-as-they-sound/97648/2 "2002-03-11T19:30:00Z")
I have refused to buy any of the sequels, so I can’t help you too much. My son’s Dad gets them for him and I ocassionally have heard bits and pieces of them when my son is watching them. Did you know they had started singing somewhere along the way? Blech. Yes, those are the premises for the last two movies. From imdb on LBT8: > [@](#): > > When the dinosaur families get trapped in a valley by an ice storm, one family of “spike tail” dinosaurs volunteers to leave since they consume more food than the others ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-were-the-last-two-land-before-time-sequels-as-creepy-as-they-sound/97648/3 "2002-03-11T20:43:15Z")
Like the Donner Party? Ah, children’s entertainment… ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-were-the-last-two-land-before-time-sequels-as-creepy-as-they-sound/97648/4 "2002-03-12T21:53:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ranchoth \* > \*\*…In the last few years, several direct to video sequels have been made to the old “Land before Time” animated movie (Something like eight sequels…AND they’ve kept using numerals in the titles. Now THAT’S moxy. ) \*\* IIRC, according to [The Onion](http://www.theonion.com/), _The Land Before Time VI_ was released straight to landfill. [sub]Man, I wish I could link that picture in here![/sub] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-were-the-last-two-land-before-time-sequels-as-creepy-as-they-sound/97648/5 "2002-03-12T23:00:54Z")
Actually, I think with _The Big Freeze_, they stopped doing Roman numerals. I can just imagine an animation studio with some angry heads yelling at the animators. “Keep drawing pictures of dinosaurs! You don’t leave until you’ve drawn 1,000!” or something like that. My first post on the new and improved SDMB ---
**Author:** ![pezwookiee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@pezwookiee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezwookiee)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-were-the-last-two-land-before-time-sequels-as-creepy-as-they-sound/97648/6 "2002-03-15T07:02:06Z")
Does anyone remember the show **Dinosaurs** from the early nineties? You know, the Disney-produced show with the big Dinosaur puppets built by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop? Really cute and lovable? Anyone remember the last epsiode? :eek:_ **THEY BECAME EXTINCT!!!** _:eek: ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-were-the-last-two-land-before-time-sequels-as-creepy-as-they-sound/97648/7 "2002-03-15T07:09:03Z")
The original was kinda creepy too, if you think about it. I mean, there are dinosaurs starving to death and wandering the desert and dying out and Littlefoot is the ABSOLUTE LAST LONGNECK!!! And there’s a gigantic earthquake! And his mother dies! (Well, that’s par for the course, apparently. No animated creatures are allowed to have living parents.) And they get chased around by a deadly critter that refuses to die! And there is starvation and death EVERYWHERE!!! So it’s not like they’ve taken a happy cheerful movie and turned it into The Creeping Death.