Goofs

There is no toy duck on the stairs when the Burgermeister comes out of the building. Yet he trips on the toy duck at the top of the stairs.

The bandage on the Burgermeister's foot disappears and reappears throughout the show.

When Kris arrives in the town with the bag of toys he is wearing a hat, but when he finds the kids washing stockings, his hat vanishes.

In "My World Is Beginning Today," when Jessica is singing and looking into the fountain, a wanted poster for Kris Kringle's arrest blows into the fountain and goes under. The Burgermeister didn't have these posters made up until much later, when Kris decides to grow a beard. At the end of the song when Jessica looks into the fountain her hair is down, her reflection shows her hair up in a bun.

The doctor who examines Burgermeister Meisterburger says, "Just as I suspected. You've broken your funny bone." However the Burgermeister has a bandage on his foot. The funny bone (or humerus) is located in the arm, as any doctor would know. Furthermore, the doctor determines this from an oral thermometer, which has no mechanism for detecting bone fractures.

One of the kids watching the Burgermeister burn their toys is smiling, even though they are all meant to be crying; when the kid's toys were confiscated for the first time, the kid which said "we'll never play again" is still smiling. Someone forgot to change the models.

Kris' bag vanishes after he and Topper are seized by the Warlock's trees. Afterwards, he pulls a toy train out of his sleeve to give to the Warlock. The train is nearly the size of Kris' torso, so there's nowhere on his entire person, let alone his sleeve, that he could possibly have had it concealed. Unless his coat is somehow a TARDIS.

As S.D. Kluger drives down the street, singing "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" at the end of the movie, the vehicle's treads on its left side don't always move.

The movements of mouths are sometimes wrong, especially when forming long "o" sounds.

Just after Kris Kringle and Topper are seized by the Winter Warlock's trees, there is a sequence of flashes before the Warlock appears. If the animation is slowed down, one of the final stop-action scenes is of a crew member's hand that is holding an old style camera with a flash bulb, evidently what was used to generate the flash. This was fixed on later broadcasts and DVD releases.

S.D. Kluger said that because Kris was considered an outlaw, the Kringles had to travel beyond the reaches of civilization and live at the North Pole. But the Burgermeister only ruled one small county. There is no indication that Kris was outlawed anywhere else in Europe.

The infant Claus is brought to Burgermeister Meisterburger by Grimsley. After Claus has grown to manhood as Kris, he meets them again and they haven't aged at all.

How did the flying reindeer get the prisoners out of their barred cells? While a belated novelization explains this (see trivia), in the film itself it remains a plot hole.

The captive Winter Warlock shows Jessica what little magical tools he has left. Common sense dictates that no prisoner should be allowed to keep anything on his person that could conceivably be used as a weapon.

When the children are naming off Santa's reindeer, one of them refers to Blitzen as "Blitster." This was left in, because it is cute.

Kris Kringle and Topper come across a sign that says "You are trespassing in the land of the Winter Warlock" but when Kris reads it aloud, he says "lands" of the Winter Warlock.

As Kris looks over his list of children, "Heather" is spelled "Heater" and "Fred" is spelled "Fread."

In the preface, Postman S.D. Kluger opens and reads letters not addressed to him. This is forbidden by law in both the United States and Canada, the countries where the scene most likely took place.

The doctor tending to Burgermeister looks almost exactly like the King whom Tanta sings about early on. Same mustache and diamond-shaped glasses included.