The Gang of Five is the largest and most active Land Before Time forum to date. It was originally founded by Petrie in 2003.[1]
The site currently has over 1000 registered members, is ad-free, and is hosted by one of its own admins. Users donate money via Patreon to keep the forum running. The forum is well-known for its massive amounts of fanart, fanfictions, and roleplays that are Land Before Time and non-Land Before Time related.
History[]
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In 2001, user Petrie wanted to create a forum about dinosaurs. The original forum, Dinotopia, no longer exists.[1]
In 2002, Petrie got into paid web-hosting, so he created a site called "treestars.net." It had a Jurassic Park section, but it was mostly for Land Before Time related content. It was originally envisioned to be a fan site for art and other fan-generated media. The Dinotopia forum was also opened in April, which was successful throughout the year.[1]
Staff[]
Founder[]
- Petrie
Administrators[2][]
- Nick22
- rhombus
- zero-point
- Mumbling
- Technician
Moderators[2][]
- None
The Circle (inactive staff)[]
- Petrie
- Malte279
- Littlefoot1616
Former Staff[]
- Action9000
- Lillefot
- The Great Valley Guardian
- Kor
- Littlefoot505
- AvesTheForumFox
- DarkHououmon
Photobucket Obliterators[]
The Photobucket Obliterators group consisted of four members who were commissioned by the administrators in 2018 to fix the broken image links caused by Photobucket no longer allowing free users to hotlink images.[3] The group was dissolved later that year when the forum switched to being self-hosted, but two of these members later became Moderators.
- DarkHououmon
- Ducky123
- Fyn16
- Littlefoot505
Trivia[]
- On February 8th 2020, the forum broke a previous record with 1,130 users online at once.
- While the Gang of Five is currently the most popular Land Before Time forum, it was not the first. The first forum was Network54's Land Before Time forum, which was founded in 1999.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Petrie. (2006, June 17). The History of the Gang of Five (2001-2019). Retrieved August 1st, 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Staff List. www.gangoffive.net. Retrieved August 1st, 2025.
- ↑ rhombus. (2018, January 1). It’s time to obliterate the Photobucket ransom images. Retrieved August 1st, 2025.