Goofs

When Judy is watching the package of Carrots For One in the microwave oven, she is wearing a round neck pink shirt, but when she is about to eat it she is wearing her meter maid uniform again. This is due to a deleted earlier version of this scene, viewable on the DVD, where Judy changed out of her uniform and into more comfortable clothes.

Above the entrance of the police academy is a huge sign where we read from the outside "ZOOTROPOLIS POLICE ACADEMY" (or whatever language it is localized into). The sign itself consists of a grid with the attached letters so we can look through the sign. From the inside of the academy when we look onto the sign we should see the writing reversed and the letters from its back, but instead we wrongly read the correct writing.

Before Judy walks into the wet cement, a few moments earlier we can have a look into the street she and Nick are walking along. And there we see no construction site, no construction workers and no warning sign like we do later when Judy stands in the cement.

When Judy writes her first ticket it's visible that the ticked ID is "000001" and the time is "09:16 MON" shown on the ticket.

71 tickets later the ticked ID is "000072" but the time on that ticket is oddly enough "09:15 MON". Another error shown is that the location of every ticket is on the same street (Banyon Ave.) Over 200 tickets? In just one location?

When Judy returns home after her first workday, she drops her green scratchpad and her smart phone in front of a radio clock. She turns the radio on, and after a scene cut she starts to change through several channels. In this view the green scratchpad is gone, only the smartphone is there. Later when the starts to eat her fast food and talk to her parents, the scratchpad has returned onto the desk.

Duke Weaselton escapes into the Little Rodentia district. Right before he slips through the small entrance, he throws the bag of "onions" over the wall while he's still running. From the bird's eye view we see the bag flying with a lot of forward momentum, and Duke stops close to the entrance on the other side and catches the bag which drops vertically into his paws. Both events are wrong, because due to the momentum of the throw the bag would land far behind the entrance and it would also land at an angle.

Most of the bovids (cattle family) in the film, such as Chief Bogo and Yax, display a full set of human-like teeth. In reality, bovids lack upper incisors, so no upper teeth would be visible when they talk/smile.

After Nick cuts off their argument by pointing out that Judy is standing in concrete, the next scene shows her with cement dust on her feet as she steps up to her apartment door. Cement is a component of concrete, but it is mixed in and cannot be separated out like that. Furthermore, they likely would have washed her feet off with a hose after she stepped out, meaning that nothing would be left on her feet. If they hadn't washed it off, it would have stuck to her skin and fur like paste and hardened.

When young Gideon Grey is bullying Judy and her friends, he unsheathes his claws while threatening her. He is a red fox, a species that does not have retractile claws - they would be permanently extended, and not sharp enough to cut Judy's skin through her fur.

The mice are walking out of a store called Mousy's, which is supposed to be their Macy's. The logo on the bags though is that of Target.

Judy blackmails Nick into helping her by using his blank tax records against him, even though the very same scene establishes that she has no access to the police records. It's possible that Clawhauser helped her get the records, or Judy was making it all up; she used his "it's called a hustle, sweetheart" quote against him.

If Judy is considered unfit for police duty because of her size, as all cops are large animals, then who polices Little Rodentia? It is policed by rodents. Judy was told to "wait for the real cops" because she is too large to enter and explore Little Rodentia without causing severe damage, as shown in the film.

The train has three single doors for animals of different sizes when it picks Judy up, but when it arrives in Zootopia, all of the animals exit through a single set of double doors. Distant shots of the train show that the end cars have double doors and the middle cars have the three single doors, so this is not improbable as Judy may have exited the train from an adjacent car.

The character Yax, who doesn't wear clothes, refers to himself and his fellow nudists as "Naturalists" (normally meaning experts or students of natural history), instead of "Naturists" (people who go naked in designated areas). However, the animals at the facility are not simply nudists, but rather animals acting more like their natural counterparts than their anthropomorphous, civilized Zootopia counterparts, so the term "Naturalists" makes sense.

Mr. Big sent a limo to pick up Mr. Otterton. Judy only found polar bear fur on the floor of the driver's seat, even though Mr. Manchas, a black jaguar, was driving Mr. Otterton from the naturalist club to Mr. Big. But this is surely not the only time that limo was ever used - the fur could've been shed by one of the polar bears previous to the events of the film.

This is a small error with the UK release of the film. Due to a little known copyright argument, the film was renamed to "Zootropolis" and has had almost every mention of the word "Zootopia" both vocally and visually changed. However, just before Judy is interviewed you see the camera pan over the reporters and Chief Bogo. If you look on the floor it says "pia" as in "Zootopia." It is clear that this texture was not changed to say "Zootropolis" due to its placement, as it would have involved rendering the whole scene again just for this word change.

Despite the fact that the film is named "Zootropolis" in Europe, there is still at least one use of the original title in the film. During Judy's press interview, one of the microphones reads "Zootopia News Network". Then in Judy's first briefing the front board with the attached photos of the missing mammals shows "Zootopia" in the lower right corner. Another writing of "Zootopia" can be seen on Judy's mobile phone when she's showing Nick a photo of Duke Weaselton as part of the "Zootopia Times" after her apology.

In the German version ("Zoomania") when Nick tries to purchase a red Jumbo Pop, the elephant denies it and points to a sign which says that they "reserve the right to refuse service to anyone". The sign has been visibly localized into German language, but some moments later during the dialog it changes suddenly back to English.

In one shot during the criminal chase scene, a mouse is shown exercising and then the house begins to tilt. From the way the building is falling and the details seen through the window, it appears they are on an upper floor, yet there's a door next to the window. Even if they were on the bottom floor, the door wouldn't be next to the window, as the buildings appear to be apartments, in which case the door would lead to a hall which would then lead outside.

Judy is talking with her parents after her first day as a meter maid. The call ends when Judy's mother hangs up the phone. When she does this, we may not see her thumb showing up on the display. But we do see her thumb, and that's only possible when she's touching the camera lens, and there is obviously no button to hang up the phone.

[33:41] The light switch to the left of the door of chief Bogo's office is attached to the wall with two screws. After second mayor Bellwether left the office the screws have disappeared from the light switch.

Its actually not unusual at all for a rookie cop to start off with something simple their first few weeks on the job. Judy shouldn't be surprised when she gets parking duty on her first day as a police officer.

Although all the characters speak English (or other languages for localised version), and the song by Gazelle (Shakira) at the end is also in English. But since Gazelles come from Africa and Asia, it makes no sense for Gazelle to intersperse the lyrics of the song with some Spanish phrases.

At the DMV when Flash is finally printing the address of the license plate number, we see an old dot matrix printer. The device is just moving the paper up, but the sound we hear is like when it's printing.

[36:52] After saying "Have fun working with the fuzz" to Nick, Finnick leaves the scene into a side street and starts laughing. From the audiences view, he leaves to the left side and his laughing can be heard from the left side too. Then after a cut onto Judy when she says "Start talking!" the side street is now to the right side, but Finnick's laughter still comes from the left side.

It's quite reckless for the districts of Zootopia to allow small rodents to venture outside of Little Rodentia. After Judy catches the onion thief, Chief Bogo wants to see her in his office. He says to her that she performed reckless endangerment of rodents. It's quite hypocritical and double standard to say that to her. Because all over Zootopia and its districts, they allow rodents to drive and walk around larger mammals. They are so small and hard to see that they could be squished.

A number of months pass after Judy resigns from the ZPD before she learns the truth about Night Howlers, yet it appears there was no progress made in finding the cause of the behavior of the savage mammals. How is it the effects of the serum they were injected with didn't wear off during that time?

It is unclear where and how Nick and Fennick are acquiring new sticks for subsequent runs of Pawpsicles if they sold the used sticks as "red wood" when Judy was secretly observing their operation.

Chief Bogo claims that city hall is "on his tail" to solve the case of the missing mammals and that it is priority #1, but the mayor is the one who has the missing mammals and is actively trying to prevent Chief Bogo from finding out.

When Judy looks through the Otterton case file, the word 'witnesses' is misspelled as 'wittnesses'.

When Nick says that he and Judy have 10 hours left to solve the case, he holds up eight fingers. Naturally, this is because he only has four fingers on each hand. (Judy appears to recognize the incongruity, but immediately dismisses it.)

The film trades upon the misconception that, compared to predators, prey species are fundamentally timid. In fact the most aggressive mammals are not the big cats but large herbivores such as the elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus.

In the movie the standard U.S. measurement is used, e.g. the 12h time format or mph for speed. The telephone of Mrs. Bellwether has a display which shows the time "16:01PM". This format is somewhat wrong, because either it is "4:01PM" (12h format, U.S.) or "16:01" (24h format).

On Nick's tax form, there are two lines for "total number of exemptions claimed".