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Return to Oz (1985) - 44 mistakes

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Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When the Nome King says “I know something which will cheer you up,” it cuts to Jack Pumpkinhead and Tik Tok sliding along the ground. The track which is sliding them along is visible.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When Billina lands on the couch with the cord, as she flies down some mechanism controlling her can be see, attached to her feet and legs.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: Wires are clearly visible attached to Dorothy’s shoulders, Jack Pumpkinhead’s pumpkin head and his body, as everyone falls down from the sky after the couch goes bonkers.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When Dorothy falls down into the Nome Kings lair, she falls to the floor and slides along into the scarecrow. The black sled she is sliding on is momentarily visible as she passes the camera.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When Dorothy is opening the mirrored door to Mombi’s bedroom, as she pulls the door open, a crewmember in jeans and a white tee-shirt is momentarily reflected in it.

Mistake Continuity: When Dorothy unties the red key from Mombi's wrist, while she is asleep, Mombi then snores and rolls over, and the red key lays on the bed. The position of the black ribbons attached to the key repeatedly changes between subsequent shots.

Mistake Continuity: When Dorothy finds the small green glass ornament, she shouts "Oz!", and the Scarecrow appears. In the shot when Dorothy calls "Oz", there are two large ornaments to the right side of the counter. Then when it cuts and the scarecrow "appears", the ornaments have now moved a few feet away, so that the Scarecrow can comfortably "appear."

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: After Billina lays an egg in the Nome Kings mouth, the King drops Jack Pumpkinhead to the floor, and wires attached to him, out at the side, are visible to let him down gently.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When Dorothy, Tik Tok and Jack are eating and drinking in the Nome King's lair, Tik Tok says "What is it we are risking?", and there is a small explosion, causing the table to fall, and them to all fall back. A wire attached to the table to make it fall is visible to the right of the screen.

Mistake Continuity: After Ozma unstraps Dorothy from the pedestal, they run from the room, leaving both of the double swing-doors wide open. In the next shot of Dorothy and Ozma running down the hallway though, the left door is closed.

Mistake Factual error: When Dorothy and Aunt Em are making their way to the doctor's on the horse and buggy, they pass a General Store which is sporting a very modern American flag on the side of the building.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When Mombi leads Dorothy into the 'head' room, as the camera moves along a crewmember in a pink shirt, wearing glasses, is reflected in the glass screens of the head cases.

Mistake Continuity: When Dorothy and Billina are in the crate surrounded by water, then water begins to soak up, so that it gets very shallow. In the next shot over Dorothy's shoulder the water is suddenly more deep and rippling again. Also, the sand, once it dries up, goes from damp to drier.

Mistake Continuity: After Dorothy winds Tik Tok up (after he had gone beserk) her pigtails alternate from what shoulder they hang over (ie. her right pigtail was hanging behind her shoulder in the first shot, but then hangs in front of it in the next shot.)

Mistake Continuity: When it shows the chickens on the farm, just before Toto runs over and scares them all, the position of the brood of chickens is completely different between shots, and the branches and logs around them have also changed around.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When Dorothy is strapped down to the pedestal by the doctors, they then proceed to push her down the hallway, and pass the camera on their way. As they pass, the camera casts a clear shadow on the sheet covering Dorothy.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: In shots of Dorothy and Ozma running away from the doctor's clinic, there is a noticeable outline of kneepads under their dresses, and as Ozma slips down the muddy bank, and into the river, her dress momentarily rides up, revealing it quickly.

Mistake Continuity: When the group lands on The Nome King's mountain, we see Tik Tok land with his body buried in the snow. Then in the next shot he is suddenly less buried than he was in the first shot. Then in the next shot he isn't even buried, and is just laying on a rock.

Mistake Continuity: When The Nome King shows his ruby slippers to Dorothy, and tells her that he could send her back to Kansas, in frontal shots both his feet are down on the floor, but in shots from behind he is wiggling his right foot up in the air.

Mistake Continuity: When the Wheelers have arrived back to Mombi's castle, in one shot you can see a broken pillar next to one Wheeler, totally bare. In the next overhead shot a long vine of ivy is laying on it.

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