Talk:Rayman Legends Adventures in The Land Before Time 2: The Great Valley Adventure/Script/@comment-130.44.61.161-20200902161825

This is the second film in The Land Before Time franchise to mention the Circle of Life. Coincidentally, this film came out in 1994, the same year as the Disney movie The Lion King, which is notorious for having the “circle of life” theme. However, the phrase “Circle of Life” was used in Don Bluth’s original The Land Before Time in 1988 by the Scolosaurus character Rooter (who comforted Littlefoot after his mom died from wounds inflicted by a vengeful Tyrannosaurus rex), six years before The Lion King existed. The fourth installment, Journey Through The Mists, has Littlefoot’s grandmother sing a song about the circle of life. However, her song, titled “Grandma’s Lullaby”, received understandable amount of criticism for its description of the circle of life. Richard Scheib said in his review of the fourth Land Before Time movie that Littlefoot’s grandmother’s song copies The Lion King for the its circle of life description, while Michael Scheinfeld said it was a “blatant attempt to conjure up memories of The Lion King.” He got the name of the song incorrect, calling “The Circle of Life” instead of “Grandma’s Lullaby.”

Speaking of the circle of life, I am doing a dinosaur version of The Lion King, set in the Cretaceous period with dinosaurs from both the Hell Creek and Ojo Alamo Formation. The story is about a young Tyrannosaurus rex named Tyrone, who is about to succeed his father Thomas in being the new dinosaur king. His uncle Samuel, a villainous Tyrannosaurus rex, becomes jealous of his nephew and brother and kills Thomas in a dinosaur stampede and exiles the heir. There, Tyrone meets a duo of herbivorous dinosaurs who are outcasts - a Triceratops named Trevor and an Edmontosaurus named Eddie. He lives a care-free existence until his childhood friend Elizabeth, a female Tyrannosaurus rex, tells Tyrone to return to his kingdom and end his uncle’s tyranny and take his place in the Circle of Life as the rightful king. It’s a film similar to The Lion King, but with dinosaurs set in the Cretaceous period.