Zootopia/Mistakes

This is a list of the more notable mistakes and errors in the film Zootopia.

Mistakes

At the beginning of Judy's stage play at the Carrot Days Festival talent show, when Bobby Catmull hits the piano strings with mallets, his foot should have been on the sustain pedal to make it ring out, but the notes rang out with his foot off the pedal.

Sharla's astronaut helmet is not present in the wide shot that comes before the close up that shows her grabbing it from behind a set piece and putting it on.

At the end of the play Judy tells the audience, "Thank you and good night!" But when she and her parents walk out of the barn in which the play was held, it was clearly daytime.

There is a text direction mistake on the ZPA sign. The label "ZOOTOPIA POLICE ACADEMY" is written in the direction right when we look at it from the front, but in the next shot, we still see the label in the same direction rather than mirrored text.

When the Zootopia Express arrives and stops near Judy and her parents, two doors are visible.
However, in the next scene when Judy is going away on the train, there are three doors.

When Judy first enters the bullpen, she passes a lion and polar bear officer arm wrestling. Behind them an elephant wearing a t-shirt and a black police vest is visible. Shortly after, Officer Pennington, is the only elephant in the room and is wearing a standard police uniform with a tie and a name badge reading "Pennington". But later in the scene, when Chief Bogo is handing out assignments, he calls "Higgins, Snarlov, Trunkaby" and we see an elephant's trunk take the folder. This implies one of two possible mistakes:
- There was only supposed to be a single elephant in the scene, Francine Trunkaby, but the animators were not consistent with her uniform so it went from t-shirt/black vest to a standard uniform with tie. The "Pennington" name badge was a complete mistake as there is no Pennington mentioned in the script.
- There were supposed to be two elephants in the scene, Pennington and Trunkaby, each wearing different uniforms but the animators did not consistently render Trunkaby. So Francine has the birthday and Trunkaby is a team leader.

In the first Bullpen scene, there are two hippo officers named Higgins visible. One Officer Higgins is standing at the front of the room and announces Chief Bogo's arrival. The other is seated immediately behind Judy. In a wide shot as Bogo says there a new recruits he should introduce, you can see both hippos on screen at the same time. From the way the scene plays out, it's clear the animators intended there to be two separate hippo officers in the bullpen and the animation team lost track of which hippo was supposed to be named Higgins.

In Jumbeaux's Café, to the left of the line that Nick and Finnick are in, there are no tables or chairs below the paintings. But when it cuts to the two elephants eating ice cream, they suddenly appear.
It then cuts to Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. looking at the exact spot where it was empty before.

In a deleted version of the café scene, Nick tells Finnick to pick out which color Jumbo-pop he wants. Later, in the same scene, Nick says that Finnick is blind.
When Judy is almost stepped on by a rhino, we get a view of the street in front of Nick. No construction site, beavers or warning signs can be seen, but a moment later, they're all there.
- In the same scene a moment later, Judy is standing deep in the cement, facing Nick. She struggles, but is unable to move. After Nick exits the scene, Judy's position has changed by 90 degrees.

When Judy enters her apartment, she is dressed in her meter maid outfit. However, while she watches her meal cook through the microwave glass, she is wearing a violet t-shirt. She then appears in her meter maid uniform in the next scene.
- This happens because in a deleted version of the scene that didn't make it to the final film, Judy was dressed in her t-shirt the whole time and was not wearing her meter-maid outfit.

In the scene where Judy is Muzzletiming with her parents, when Bonnie and Stu say goodbye, the time on Judy's phone reads '8:40'. But when Judy hangs up and puts her phone down, a brief shot of the screen says '9:44'.
When blackmailing Nick into helping her, Judy is holding a blue folder. When looking at Nick's forms, she turns a page in the folder to the left, but when the camera views Nick's form, all the pages are on the right side.

When Officer McHorn approaches Little Rodentia's gate, he has Krumpanski's nametag.

In the scene where Clawhauser is talking to Mrs. Otterton, his nameplate is initially close to his microphone before the donut containing Weaselton enters the lobby. Just before the donut impacts with Clawhauser's desk, his nameplate has shifted to the right so it's now near his coffee mug.

The flashback of Doug shooting Manchas is slightly different from the earlier scene; from the sounds behind the door, we can tell Manchas falls to the floor and then screams. However, in the flashback, he screams first and then collapses.

In scene where Nick walks under the bridge, he stops without reaching out of shadow. But when he hugs with Judy he is standing outside the shadow.

Bellwether says at the climax of the film that 90% of the population is prey, but she also states that prey outnumber predators 10 to 1. This is inaccurate; it should be 9 to 1 if what she says about the population percentage is true.

The version of the film released in the United Kingdom, Zootropolis, changes most of the references to Zootopia to suit the title of the film released. However, not all references to Zootopia are removed from this version of the film:
- When a character says 'Zootropolis', their lip movements have not been altered to accommodate, so they are still mouthing 'Zootopia'.
- Zootopia's name can still be seen in some places, such as on a microphone at the press conference.

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