The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)

## Plot

One night, Littlefoot's grandfather informs the children stories about the beginning of their world: in the whole Universe, the smoke created the Milky Way Galaxy, an early life on Earth, and a mysterious legend about "The Lone Dinosaur", a legendary Longneck (Diplodocus) who protected the Great Valley from the most ferocious Sharptooth (T-Rex) to ever live. During the battle, the Sharptooth was killed and the Lone Dinosaur suffered a scar across his right eye. Soon after the battle, a huge monolith (resembling a sauropod with life-sized Sharptooth teeth arranged around its neck) came out of the ground during an earthquake. The dinosaurs called it "Saurus Rock". The legend also states that if anyone damages the monolith, bad luck would descend upon the Great Valley.

The next day, while the children are playing, Littlefoot accidentally falls off a cliff and is saved by a mysterious Diplodocus named Doc. Littlefoot is intrigued by Doc, who is scarred across one eye and displays prior knowledge of the Great Valley's topography. This causes him to assume Doc is the Lone Dinosaur. Littlefoot tells his friends this, narrating an apparently extemporaneous legend to support his assumption. Inspired, Cera's infant niece and nephew, twins Dinah and Dana, went off to Saurus Rock unnoticed by any of the children. The next day, a worried Cera informs Littlefoot that Dinah and Dana are missing, and the group found out where Dinah and Dana are headed.

When the children finally reach Saurus Rock, they notice Dinah and Dana on the top. As the children climb up Saurus Rock to rescue the twins, Dinah and Dana fall off the top and land on one of the stone teeth on the monolith that Cera is on, and it suddenly breaks off and crumbles upon landing on the ground nearly hitting Spike. Dinah and Dana start to cry. But Cera tells Dinah and Dana that it is not their fault that Saurus Rock was broken; but Littlefoot's since if he had not been talking about it and Doc, then Dinah and Dana would not have run away in the first place. The twins point out that it was she who told them to get lost due to what happened at the Bubbling Goo. Suddenly, an Allosaurus chases the children. The children cross over a suspended log over a canyon, but when the Sharptooth tries to follows the children, the log breaks under its weight and it falls to its apparent death. On the way home, they are confronted by Cera's father; after Littlefoot tells Cera that the twins are back and says that Cera's father never knew that they ran away. Cera's father comes up and asks Cera if the twins really ran away. Cera says, "Sort of. But they didn't go far". Ducky tells Cera's father that Dinah and Dana went to Saurus Rock. Upon hearing that absurd comment from Ducky, he informs Cera that it was her job to watch the twins, but she failed. He scolds Cera for not caring for the twins properly. He says that he is very angry and disappointed and tells Cera to immediately march herself straight home. As Cera marches herself home, Cera's father continues with his talk on her that she still must be watched herself. That night, Littlefoot has a nightmare in which he falls off a tooth on Saurus Rock and the entire monolith collapses. Grandpa Longneck comforts his grandson after he wakes up from the nightmare, but Littlefoot asks him of what would happen if Saurus Rock was broken. His Grandpa replies that "bad luck would descend upon the valley".

Over the next few days, incidents of bad luck plague the Valley, starting with the watering hole drying up. Then, a tornado hits the valley, causing damage, but Cera saves the Dinah and Dana, and Doc also saves Littlefoot. Dinah and Dana tell Cera's father of her courage for saving them, in which he tells his daughter that he is proud of her. Littlefoot's grandfather finds Doc with his grandson. Doc protected Littlefoot from the worst of the storm and his Grandpa thanks him. The adults, however, blame Doc, as the misfortunes apparently occurred after his arrival, while Littlefoot blames himself and his friends, recalling the breaking of Saurus Rock. Eager to exonerate Doc, Littlefoot attempts to go back to the canyon and take one of the teeth from the Allosaurus to replace the broken stone. In the process, he discovers the Allosaurus is still alive. After temporarily escaping the Allosaurus, Littlefoot is attacked by a Tyrannosaurus, with his Grandpa intervening, having been led there by Littlefoot's friends. Soon, the Allosaurus returns and works together with the Tyrannosaurus to take down Grandpa Longneck and easily overpower him. However, Doc comes to the rescue. The two sharpteeth charge through and run into the rock spire and fall down. The two long necks work together to pull down the rock tower to crush the two sharpteeth to their deaths. One of the teeth from the Allosaurus falls out, and the children use it to repair Saurus Rock.

Doc departs, remarking that Littlefoot already has a hero on who to depend on, referring to his Grandpa. Littlefoot asks his Grandpa if the bad luck will finally be over. Littlefoot and his grandpa agree that while there is no such thing as bad luck, there is also no harm in making sure. Littlefoot and Cera later build a legend of their own based on this new paradigm, portraying Grandpa Longneck as a hero and savior called "The Brave, Great Dinosaur".

## Voice Cast

* Kenneth Mars as Grandpa Longneck
* Thomas Dekker as Littlefoot
* Anndi McAfee as Cera
* Aria Curzon as Ducky
* Jeff Bennett as Petrie/Spike
* Kris Kristofferson as Doc
* Miriam Flynn as Grandma Longneck
* John Ingle as Cera's father
* Nancy Cartwright as Dana
* Sandy Fox as Dinah
* Danny Mann as Allosaurus

## Songs

The songs are written by Michele Brourman and Amanda McBroom.

* The Legend of the Lone Dinosaur - Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Dinah and Dana (Thomas Dekker, Anndi McAfee, Aria Curzon and Jeff Bennett)
* Bad Luck - Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike (Thomas Dekker, Anndi McAfee, Aria Curzon and Jeff Bennett)
* On Your Own - Littlefoot (Thomas Dekker)