The Rainbow Face pair from The Stone of Cold Fire
Rainbow Face is the Land Before Time term for a sort of striped, green ratite-like dinosaur. The term derives from the yellow, red-orange and blue upper halves of the dinosaurs' bills. Barring their colorful faces, the Rainbow Faces are otherwise not very spectacular in appearance, primarily being green, with blue stripes and pale underbellies. The only explicitly female Rainbow Face shown in the franchise is a lighter shade of green than her male counterpart, and has pink eyes instead of orange ones.
Two individuals appear with rather major roles in The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire, one male and the other female. It is these two who plant the rumor of the "Stone of Cold Fire's" magical powers, which are proven a fabrication. They also allude to things that lie "beyond the Mysterious Beyond" through vague suggestions and a song, though the female frequently has to remind the male not to reveal too much. At the end of the film, after speaking with Littlefoot, they disappear when they are suddenly surrounded by a shimmering pillar of light. When the light fades away, they are gone, whereupon Littlefoot looks into the sky and watches a bright light in the sky fly upward towards the stars.
Because of their knowledge and means of departure, many fans speculate that the two Rainbow Faces from The Stone of Cold Fire are aliens. A common interpretation pictures them as scouts from an extraterrestrial civilization who had taken on a saurian form in order to interact with the natives of Earth.
Various background, most likely non-alien Rainbow Faces appear in The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water, The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration, and The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses.
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- The Rainbow Faces in The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire are smaller than Topps, but the ones in The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses are nearly as big as Tria.
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