Have you ever seen a Wikipedia article and just went "Why?" Some of these articles are clearly written by hardcore fans who have no sense of objectivity, and the minutiae that they think is important enough to note is astounding. The John McClane article that someone posted in another thread that reads like someone with a high school education doing a character analysis is a good example of something that doesn't need to exist even on Wikipedia.
The absolute worst articles of all though have to be the
Land Before Time articles. I love Don Bluth and the original Land Before Time was my favorite movie ever about 20 years ago, but who gives a crap about the sequels? They're the epitome of milking something into the ground, and then pissing on that ground, and then pouring salt on the ground. Well apparently the people that write the Wikipedia articles for the movies give a crap about the sequels. Just check out this article for
Land Before Time XII (that's 12, for non-math majors): The Great Day of the Flyershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_Before_Time_XII:_The_Great_Day_of_the_FlyersThe project was announced on August 8, 2005 along with The Land Before Time TV series. It was the first sequel in the series to be filmed in widescreen and the first to be filmed in the high-definition format, although the Region 1 DVD was in full screen (cropping the left and right of the image), though not pan and scan as the camera stays directly in the center of the image. Like other television shows filmed in high-definition (such as American Idol, Father of the Pride, Curious George, and Out of Jimmy's Head) and other films filmed in high-definition (such as The Proud Family Movie, Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry, Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?, and High School Musical), the monitor the animation team would have worked from would have 16:9 and 4:3 safe areas so that the full screen version would not crop off too much of any important visual elements (such as characters).
Ummm...yeah...thanks Wikipedia, really more than I need to know about the DTV 11th sequel of an animated kids' movie, but I guess it's cool to know all that.
This film was originally subtitled The Day of the Flyers, but the word "great" was added to the subtitle, due to the Flip, Flap and Fly music video mentioning the current subtitle.
Wow. Okay.
This was the first time the Universal Studios website notes this film as a "tween film".
Huh?
This was the second film in the series to contain slow-motion after The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration; as Littlefoot jumps off the falling tree, he is very slow until he lands on the cliff.
Wow, 2nd movie in the series to have slow-mo. That's really...not interesting.
Trailers
The trailer first debuted on the film's official website. It showed many widescreen images of the film, but with no black bars showing (an anamorphic print compressed to fit the full screen ratio), with the widescreen prints slightly matted from its original ratio of 1.78:1 to 1.85:1. It also contained some shots from The Land Before Time TV series. It did not have any superimposed graphics showing throughout the trailer until the film was released on DVD.[1] It can be found in DVD copies of the film itself. A shorter, non-anamorphic trailer is found on the second Curious George DVD volume "Rocket Ride and Other Adventures".[2] Both Region 1 DVD trailers contained a DVD copy of the original film The Land Before Time from a different country than the United States and Canada.
This whole movie doesn't even deserve a paragraph's worth of information, much less the trailers for it!
This was not the first appearance of a feathered animal; the first two were Ichy the Ichthyornis, from The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists, and the yellow feathered animals, from The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water, although it was the first appearance of Guido, who's also a feathered animal.
Awesome, maybe you should note that this isn't the first appearance of a dinosaur in the series too! They were also in Land Before Time 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
This was the third film in the series to show a reappearing guest character, the first two being The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, which featured Chomper as a major character, and The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration, in which Mo made a cameo appearance during Adventuring.
Third film to have a reappearing guest character??? I can't even wrap my head around that one.
his was the sixth time Spike sings; his lips can be seen moving when the rest of the gang sings One of a Kind.
THAT'S IMPORTANT INFORMATION!
This was the first film in the series to end with the ending music from The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire since The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water.
Goofs
The Spinosaurus in this film has only two fingers in each palm. A real one should have had three.
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First of all, who cares?
And second of all, why do people know all that stuff? How pathetic does your life have to be in order to start picking out minute details in Land Before Time sequels, like this is the third time that a character from an even numbered movie has been voiced by an asian transvestite? It bothers me. It really does. It's because of things like this that I have trouble sleeping at night. Save us all Ron Paul!
