Other mistake: On the old Blu-ray cover of The Lion King, there are several mistakes. In the old version, Nala's face was different, as she had brown eyes instead of blue ones and had whiskers. Her head structure was also different and her eyebrows were larger. Rafiki's face is also different as well, his eyes are wide apart from each other and part of his nose is miscolored. While Simba's face is given a few addition in the new Blu-ray cover, Pumbaa had white eyes and Timon's head isn't facing to the front and didn't have dark eyelids. However, all of these mistakes were changed for the new Blu-ray cover.
Continuity mistake: During the opening sequence, a group of elephants are marching towards the camera, along with a flock of blue birds. Once all of the birds have run offscreen, another suddenly runs out from behind the lead elephant's foot, even though we saw that there was no bird there a few seconds before.
Other mistake: When Mufasa is teaching young Simba how to pounce, his left (our right) eye colour very briefly disappears when he starts saying "Let an old pro show you how it's done."
Continuity mistake: When the hyenas do the "Nazi Salute" to Scar during "Be Prepared," all of them have the same model and lack spots.
Continuity mistake: Throughout numerous scenes in the movie, Ed's ear notches switch places.
Suggested correction: Incorrect. The notches remain the same throughout the film; they just get overlapped by other colours.
Continuity mistake: During the scene when Banzai climbs up the rock covered in thorns, Ed's notches in his ears appear flipped and don't look like they do in all previous shots.
Continuity mistake: When Scar wants to eat the mouse, he holds it with his left paw. When Zazu calls out to him, he holds it with his right paw.
Continuity mistake: Scar's paw has a light brown line between the pad of his paw and his toes that disappears later in the movie.
Continuity mistake: The number of feathers in Zazu's tail repeatedly changes from three to four throughout the film.
Continuity mistake: When Zazu bows down at the start, Mufasa is smiling. In the next shot, he is no longer smiling, and he didn't have time to wipe the smile off his face. (00:01:45)
Continuity mistake: In the 1995 VHS version of the film, at the end of the Elephant Graveyard scene, Scar's shadow is not matching the way his body is posing. This was corrected in the 2003 DVD version.
Other mistake: When Zazu is alarmed at the pouncing lesson, he loses a couple of feathers that simply vanish in midair. (00:10:45)
Revealing mistake: Rafiki puts the dirt on Simba who subsequently sneezes. When he does, the paint on his head doesn't move with his head and then appears off his head floating in mid air. (00:03:35)
Continuity mistake: At the start Rafiki puts the "paint" on Simba's forehead just above his eyes. When he puts the dirt on Simba the "paint" is much higher. (00:03:20)
