Talk:Rayman Legends Adventures in The Land Before Time 1/Script/@comment-130.44.61.244-20201006191755

The original Land Before Time by Don Bluth almost avoided the Anarchism Stew trope, as many of its prehistoric creatures were separated by millions of years in time and space. Apatosaurus (Littlefoot’s species) lived way back in the Late Jurassic period of North America along with Stegosaurus (Spike’s species). Apatosaurus lived from 152 to 151 million years ago, and Stegosaurus lived from 155 to 150 million years ago. Triceratops (Cera’s species) and Tyrannosaurus rex (Sharptooth’s species) and Pachycephalosaurus (which are the dinosaurs who attack Cera in the volcanoes and tar pits) lived in the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous period from 68 to 66 million years ago (which means that both Cera and the Pachycephalosaurus who attacked her in volcanoes and tar pits would have gone extinct along with the film’s main antagonist, the Tyrannosaurus rex, or Sharptooth, as the characters refer to him in the film and later in the sequels and the spinoff television series, to his species and other carnivorous theropods). Meanwhile, Saurolophus (Ducky’s species, though there’s a dispute among Land Before Time fans and critics over what kind of hadrosaur she is) lived 70 to 68.5 million years ago during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous, while Pteranodon lived in the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous, from 86 to 84.5 million years ago. So, in reality, neither character would have seen each other due to being separated by millions of years as I explained. When I saw The Land Before Time series as a baby and later as a child, I used to assume dinosaurs lived at the same time and place, but now that science has marched on, I don’t think that anymore. While the original Land Before Time did an almost perfect job at avoiding anachronism, it’s the sequels and spinoff television series that mess things up. Due to how many species are shown in the original Land Before Time film, and given the widely different times that they lived in, exactly what time period the movie is set in is anyone’s guess. It’s the sequels and TV series that make the time period even more ambiguous.