Egg Stealer (The Land Before Time)

Egg Stealer
Info
Gender	Male
Status	Unknown
Color	Brown
Eye color	Yellow
Species	Ornithomimus
Food	Eggs
First appearance	The Land Before Time
Last appearance	The Land Before Time

“	The leaf-eaters stopped only to hatch their young... ...yet, even hatching could be dangerous.	”
— Narrator, The Land Before Time

An "Egg Stealer" appears in The Land Before Time as a minor antagonist.

History

It makes an attempt to steal the egg of Littlefoot, though its attempts are thwarted when his mother takes note of the attempted thievery and whacks the ornithomimid with her head. However, this action briefly sends Littlefoot's egg rolling away, causing it to fall through various areas until it reaches a hole in the ground, where it hatches into Littlefoot.

Gallery

The eggstealer gets its warty hands on Littlefoot's egg

The Egg Stealer's plot is foiled

Trivia

• Though the eggstealer is referred to as an Ornithomimus in the script for the movie, very physically similar characters in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure are explicitly referred to as Struthiomimus.
  • It's possible that the reason the two different genera look the same is because the Egg Stealer race was retconned into being Struthiomimus.

References

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"Now, you be careful, my little Egg Stealer (The Land Before Time)."