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* Another theory is that ''the sequels are an [[Elseworld]] showing what would have happened if they ''hadn't'' died.'' This has the advantage of making them [[Fanon Discontinuity|non-canon]].

* This Troper always took the entire plot of the original films, and it's sequels, to mean that they were in something like the Lost World...an isolated enclave of dino-kind that survived the mass extinction and lives on, with mankind utterly ignorant of their continued survival. I kind of always felt it was quite ham-fisted in that implication, so much so I immediately groaned "Oh God, not another Lost World thing! So what, human explorers find them in the sequel?" when I heard about the movie as a kid.

* Thing is, it looks nothing like the extinction of dinosaurs should had been, so I think it must have taken place somewhere in the middle of the Mesozoic, before the dinosaurs got prosperous again only to die from the asteroid.

 

[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_468.php Title says it all.]

 

This explains why the dinosaurs aren't extinct yet. Also, Koopa is Chomper's direct descendant.

* [[Flat What|What.]]

== Spike is a [[Shinigami]]. ==

Spike was [[Dead All Along]]; it's the late Cretaceous, and he's a stegosaur! We all know that the other characters end up dying. Spike was just a gentle psychopomp whose job was to help lead them to <s>Dinosaur Heaven</s> the Great Valley.

** But there are ''adult'' stegosaurs in the first movie. On the other hand, [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|the sauropods shouldn't have been around anymore]], either.

*** Actually, sauropods ''did'' live at the end of the Cretaceous. They just were not very common.

*** I want to know what cut of the original "L.B.T." you saw, where there are any visible adult stegosaurs. The species we see in the Great Valley are the exact same ones we saw in the opening sequence. Interestingly, there ''is'' an adult ankylosaur (Rooter) so...

 

== Chomper grows up to be Barney. ==

Seriously, do you of any ''other'' purple T-Rexes?

** Wait, if Chomper grows up to be Barney, but Chomper is also Megatron II's beast template, that means, by principle of "if A=B and B=C, then A=C", ''Megatron II's beast form is Barney''.

*** [[Ruined FOREVER|Great going, you just ruined WesternAnimation/BeastWars for everybody.]]

* An earthquake that spanned the entire world?

* A major, rapid pole shift or some other global geological cataclysm, while not triggering a single Earthquake across the entire world, would probably cause all kinds of immensely powerful individual tremors, many in fact. To say nothing of, quoting a book on the subject, "terrifically powerful tsunamis and volcanism". Or basically, think about the disaster movies ''10.5'', ''Category 6'', ''Japan Sinks'' and ''Supervolcano'' happening all at the same time.

** [[Did Not Do the Research|Magnetic reversals don't cause earthquakes]], and the dramatic, earthquake-causing pole shift idea was based on extremely faulty research from the early 20th century long before we really understood plate tectonics.

 

* Littlefoot's mother tells him that he can reach the Great Valley by following the sun. In many ancient religions, the Sun = God, so she's essentially saying to follow God. Littlefoot's mother herself could represent the Holy Mother (though combined with the fact that Littlefoot has no father, this interpretation turns Littlefoot into Jesus).

** Technically, the 10th movie reveals he had a father, or are we just focusing on the first movie? It is true that nobody involved with the first film was still around by episode 10.

 

== Disney's ''[[Dinosaur]]'' and ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' take place on the same prehistoric Earth ==

** I always felt that it's just easier for him to not talk about it. Most kids who've lost a mother, particularally in the violent manner Littlefoot did, don't like talking about it.

 

It explains why pterosaurs eat the leaves despite clearly being carnivorous while the Microraptor in one of the sequels prefers to stick to insects

 

He's secretly scared of them. Think about it, how many Sharpteeth have been killed/beaten by Littlefoot and company throughout the series? Surely, at this point, they've probably got a reputation for beating them by now. Odds are Red Claw is just smart enough to realize that they'll be able to kick his butt for real if he's not careful. So he's not a coward, just being cautious, which does make him dangerous. Thus he goes by a 'live to fight another day' philosphy. Also, it could just be experience at taking them down on Littlefoot and company's part.

 

This is just a silly theory based on the fact that the voice of Littlefoot for several of the sequels was Thomas Dekker, who played John Connor in the Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Brom, his dad, was voice by Kiefer Sutherland. Though when you think about it, Littlefoot is able to put him and his friends in perilous situations and escape from them without a scratch, and he does have a strained relationship with his father. So to this troper, having Littlefoot's dad being the most badass CTU agent ever, and he himself the future leader of the resistance against Skynet would explain alot.

 

The Rainbow Faces were not aliens, they were time travelers. They were there to destroy the seed, but the two fliers did it for them.

 

== Spike has brain damage from not being incubated properly as an egg. ==

Sort of a dumb analogue to how babies can suffer brain damage during the birthing process if their flow of oxygen is somehow cut off. He's supposed to have an [[Ambiguous Disorder]], which is further supported by a claim on [[The Other Wiki]]:

 

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