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At the end of the movie, the locket flies out of the boys pocket. He should not even have had the locket because one of the soldiers took it from him when they were caught in the school. In the following scene in the bus, the soldier with the locket was taken by the alien. [Joe can be seen getting the locket from the soldier's dead body after they get out of the bus.]
Edit Corrected by mrchicken388
A character is seen building an Aurora Hunchback of Notre Dame glow in the dark model which is correct for 1979, but the model box is the "long box" used for the non-glow in the dark model in the sixties. [He paints a lot of models. He's also got a very messy room, lots of clutter about. Apparently he's got both the regular and glow-in-the-dark versions of this model. He was working on one and the box for the other just happened to be on the table.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
Joe has a Space Shuttle poster on his bedroom wall, but the Space Shuttle program started in 1981, 2 years AFTER the film is supposed to have taken place. [The first flight of the shuttle was in 1981, but the space shuttle program began in the late 1960's, the program was officially announced in 1972. The first shuttle, the Enterprise, was rolled out in 1976. A poster of the event was available.]
Edit Corrected by rswarrior
During a scene in Joel's room they show a model of the Space Shuttle and the external fuel tank is red/orange. This change did not occur until the 80's as a cost saving measure. Shuttle models before this had a white tank. [It's a model. He can paint it any colour he wants. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid making models. I'd paint the car/boat/plane/motorcycle whatever colour I had enough leftover paint for.]
Edit Corrected by rswarrior
In the scene where the water tower is attracting the metal and Joe's locket flies out of his pocket and he catches it, it opens and reveals the picture of Joe and his mother. The picture is flipped upside down. [It might be a personal tick, not a mistake. I frequently put pictures 'upside down' in lockets so I can look at them without having to twist the chain around to put the locket right side up - especially when the chain is fairly short, like the one on Joe's locket.]
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During a scene in Joe's room, a model of a TIE Bomber is seen. These did not appear until Episode V (The Empire Strikes Back), which was released about a year after the movie took place. [That was Darth Vader's Tie Advanced not a Tie Bomber.]
Edit Corrected by Greenman37
After the train crash the child characters discover "cube like" items. One of them states it looks like a Rubik's Cube. The movie itself takes place between February 1979 and June 1979, but the Rubik's cube, although invented in 1974 was not licensed to sell until 1980 and gained popularity in late 1980. [The Ideal Toy Corp. didn't get the rights to sell internationally until 1980, however the cube (first called 'Magic Cube') was very popular in Hungary and distributed there since 1977. In 1979 a deal was signed to export it, and news of the toy reached the 'western world' before it was available.]
Edit Corrected by rswarrior
When the electric company goes to check the power lines, a half a mile of lines disappear, yet when the camera cuts to the man on the truck, you can see power lines with all the cables attached behind him. [The additional missing cable must go in the opposite (off-camera) direction.]
Edit Corrected by JC Fernandez
The film opens during the winter, then 4 months later you see that school is out for the summer which should be June. When Joe is visiting Charles the TV is on and Walter Cronkite is telling a story about the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown. This event happened on March 28, 1979 not in June 1979. [The news was still talking about 3 Mile Island for years after the incident. It is not surprising they would be talking about it a few months after.]
Edit Corrected by Greenman37