The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers

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The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers
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Directed by Charles Grosvenor
Produced by Charles Grosvenor
Starring Nick Price
Anndi McAfee
Aria Curzon
Jeff Bennett
Rob Paulsen
Tress MacNeille
John Ingle
Camryn Manheim
Kenneth Mars
Nika Futterman
Susan Blu
Ken Stacey
Windy Wagner
Rob Trow
Frank Welker (uncredited)
Music by Michael Tavera
Michelle Bourman
Amanda McBroom
Jerry Goldsmith (Universal logo only)
Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Release date(s) Image:Flag of Australia.svg December 6, 2006
Image:Flag of the United States.svg February 27, 2007
Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg March 26, 2007
Running time 81 min.
Language English
Preceded by The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2004)
Followed by The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007)
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The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers is the twelfth film in The Land Before Time series.

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[edit] Plot summary

Petrie is having a difficult time preparing for "The Day of the Flyers", an important day for all of the flying residents of the Great Valley, when all of the young flyers must participate in a very precise flying exhibition to prove that they are ready to fly with the adults. Always a nervous flyer, Petrie has even more trouble flying with his siblings in precise group formations — he’s more of an independent, free-style kind of guy. At the same time, a strange newcomer to the Great Valley has Littlefoot and his friends trying to help figure out just exactly what he is. Named Guido, he’s the strangest looking creature any of the Great Valley creatures has ever seen, especially since he’s covered with "fuzzies" (feathers), and has never seen another like himself. Cera is having her own troubles, as her grumpy dad and his new mate, Tria, get ready to welcome a hatchling to the family.

All of these issues come together on the night before "The Day of the Flyers", when Guido starts to figure out what he is, inadvertently leading all of the gang on a perilous adventure into the Mysterious Beyond.

[edit] Voice cast

[edit] English voice cast

This was the only time Nick Price voiced Littlefoot.

[edit] Japanese voice cast

Note: The Japanese voice actors are appearing so far.

Rica Matsumoto, the Japanese voice of Cera, is also the Japanese voice of Ash Ketchum on Pokémon.

[edit] Production

The 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).

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.

This was the first time the Universal Studios website notes this film as a "tween film".

The same production team remains, with Charles Grosvenor as director and producer. It was produced by Universal Animation Studios and distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. It was the first film in the series to use the 2006-present Universal Animation Studios logo.

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.

Skip Jones, who is credited for character animation, also animated the characters in the original Land Before Time around 19 years earlier. Most of the animation in this film is by the Wang Film and Cuckoo's Nest studios in Taiwan (the animators for the most recent sequels), so only a small portion of his work is seen.

[edit] Previews

[edit] Flip, Flap and Fly music video

The three-minute Flip, Flap and Fly music video was shown in theaters before Curious George, but only in select cities. It can be seen on the Curious George and PollyWorld DVDs as one of the following previews. It was never included on the film's disc. The final version of the sequence seems to be different to the music video by using alternate scenes, such as ones that didn't make it to the video, for example, the shot that reveals that the little green flyer was the egg that got lost throughout the song. Also, the music video included some shots that were not in the film. Instead, the whole Flip, Flap and Fly scene just ends with all flyers flying in a formation.

[edit] Release

[edit] International

The film was released on the PAL anamorphic widescreen DVD in Australia on December 6, 2006.[1] It was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2007.[2]

[edit] Airings

The film was originally intended to air on Cartoon Network in the United States on February 25, 2007, two days before its DVD release, but Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase re-aired instead. Also, it was once intended to re-air on Cartoon Network in the United States on February 27, 2007, which is the film's release, but The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island re-aired instead.

[edit] Region 1

It was released on DVD in the United States and Canada on February 27, 2007.[3][4] When the DVD release happened on February 27, 2007, a Wal-Mart Exclusive DVD 2-Pack with two episodes of The Land Before Time TV series was also released to promote the American Cartoon Network airing of the TV series.[5]

[edit] Bonus Features

  • Petrie and Guido's Flying Game
  • Guido's Sleepwalking Adventure
  • Sing-Along Songs
  • Dino-Mite Read Along

[edit] Home video release history

[edit] Rating

Ratings
Australia:  G
Brazil:  Livre
Canada (Alberta):  G
Canada (BC/SK):  G
Canada (Ontario):  G
Canada (Manitoba):  G
Canada (Maritime):  G
Canada (Quebec):  G
Canada (Home Video)):  G
Denmark:  A
Finland:  K-3
Germany:  o.Al.
Ireland:  G
Japan:  U
Malaysia:  U
Netherlands:  AL
Spain:  T
Sweden:  Btl
United Kingdom:  U
United States:  G

The film was rated G by the MPAA.

[edit] Flip, Flap and Fly References

  • The title for the song Flip, Flap and Fly is a parody of the song Flip, Flop and Fly from Chicken Run.
  • Tap-dancing feet of an egg during the song Flip, Flap and Fly are similar to Happy Feet.

[edit] Crazy Credits

  • The film starts with the Universal Studios logo. When the jingle ends, the globe stops and the "Universal" text spins away by going left. After the jingle ends, all countries move, re-forming into the prehistoric continent called 'Pangaea' (the setting of the films) and the camera zooms into the Earth.
  • The Universal Animation Studios logo, seen after the end credits for the film, contains cue music instead of its original music because the end credits are too short to end the song Flip, Flap and Fly.

[edit] Appearances

Mo (from The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water), Big Daddy (from The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses), and the other Tinysauruses can be seen during the song Flip, Flap and Fly; Mo jumps out of the water and says "And fly!" and Big Daddy and the other Tinysauruses are spotted inside the big mountain.

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.

Grandma Longneck and Mama Swimmer appear, but they don't speak in this film.

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.

This marked the first appearance of a Spinosaurus in The Land Before Time series. Its inclusion was most likely influenced by Jurassic Park III.

[edit] Music

The music was by Michael Tavera. This was the second film in the series without James Horner's original score from the first film (the first was The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration), although Michael Tavera's older themes from the previous sequels can still be heard in this film.

This was the sixth time Spike sings; his lips can be seen moving when the rest of the gang sings One of a Kind.

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.

[edit] Songs

The songs were by Michele Brourman and Amanda McBroom.

  • One of a Kind
  • Things Change
  • Flip, Flap and Fly (the song can also be heard in the end credits, but without lyrics)

[edit] Goofs

  • When Cera crosses the log while singing Things Change, the whites of her eyes turn blue.
  • After the flyer's "best practice flight ever", Petrie's voice is replaced by one of his siblings when his mouth moves and says "Guido, come on!"
  • The Spinosaurus in this film has only two fingers in each palm. A real one should have had three.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.universalpictures.com.au/Main/Newreleases/Details.aspx?idCatalogue=598&type=dvd
  2. ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Land-Before-Time-12-Flyers/dp/B000MQCS7K/ref=sr_1_1/203-3511186-0947916?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1177193951&sr=1-1
  3. ^ http://homevideo.universalstudios.com/details.php?childId=36659
  4. ^ http://www.udvd.ca/en/catalogue/overview.cfm?ProductID=664&isBundle=0
  5. ^ http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5645563

[edit] External links

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The Land Before Time

Film series: The Land Before Time (1988) • The Great Valley Adventure (1994) • The Time of the Great Giving (1995) • Journey Through the Mists (1996) • The Mysterious Island (1997) • The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998) • The Stone of Cold Fire (2000) • The Big Freeze (2001) • Journey to Big Water (2002) • The Great Longneck Migration (2003) • Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2004) • The Great Day of the Flyers (2006) • The Wisdom of Friends (2007)
Characters: Littlefoot • Cera • Ducky • Petrie • Spike • Chomper • Ruby • Mr. Thicknose • Sharptooth • List of characters 
Miscellaneous: The Land Before Time TV series • List of voice actors • List of songs

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