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

★ 6.2 · 301 ratings on TMDB
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock poster★ 6.2

Legends claim that Saurus Rock keeps bad luck out of the Great Valley. Is it really true? Could the mysterious Longneck named Doc be the famous Lone Dinosaur, who can defeat a Sharptooth with his lasso-like tail To find out, Littlefoot and company must cross the great Valley and face a dangerous Sharptooth themselves!

DirectorCharles Grosvenor
CastAnndi McAfee, Aria Noelle Curzon, Danny Mann, Jeff Bennett, John Ingle, Kenneth Mars
GenresAdventure, Animation, Family
The emergence reading

In The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “dinosaur valley”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing legend, community, heroism, environment.

↷ animalsUSlegendcommunityheroismenvironment
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E7luckdamage to Saurus Rock triggers bad luck events in the valley (social · universal)
Also inConsciousness hiding in animalsFilms that alter a rule of realityFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

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Also bends a rule of reality

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Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000)dir. Charles GrosvenorThe Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)dir. Charles GrosvenorThe Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)dir. Charles GrosvenorThe Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996)Jeff BennettThe Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994)Jeff BennettBabe (1995)Danny Mann