Dinosaurs are a rather popular species, but is it just me, or did dinosaurs get a sudden popularity surge with kids in the early 1990s, with Dinosaurs, Barney, and Jurassic Park, among other things that might have factored in a dinosaur popularity renaissance? I'd say that The Land Before Time might have helped boost a dinosaur popularity, but I'd be willing to say that the popularity of dinosaurs is more likely to have spawned the many sequels. After all, there was about a six-year gap between the first and second, I vaguely knew about LBT until around the time the first sequel came out (I didn't really know what it was called until 1994, and when I first heard about the show Dinosaurs, I thought they were talking about LBT, I guess I might have thought that was a series (back then) instead of if not in addition to a movie).