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** And thinking in reverse, who would want to eat the turkey that has been increased in size? It would be less meat per bite!

** Well, they should still be able to move because their strength wouldn't change any more than their mass. The real problem is the pressure applied to the ground due to the decreased surface area of their feet. 150 pounds applied to, for example, a nail, might well be enough to drive it through the floorboards. The kids' feet aren't any wider than the tip of a nail.

* In that same scene, Wayne says, "When Einstein invented the atomic bomb, did they ask him to ''prove'' that it worked?" Instead of saying, "You, Mr. Szalinski, are hardly Einstein," the guy should have said, [[Did Not Do the Research|"No, because Oppenheimer invented the atomic bomb, numbnuts."]]

** And oddly enough, Einstein only proved that the concept could work, but didn't invent it. He's got it all flipped.

** The fact that they came across a scorpion ''at all'' is pretty remarkable. How many scorpions do you have nesting in your backyard? As for the ants, I'd chalk that up to pest control. The ant the kids found might have been the one ant to escape the exterminator.

** There are other insects than ants and scorpions in gardens. ''Lots'' of other insects. Take a piece of garden half a metre in diameter, and you'll find it teeming with all sorts of insects. Most are too tiny for us to see if not specifically looking for them, but for the shrunken kids they'd be the size of dogs. It's completely implausible that they only see the two insects in the garden.

* Mr. Szalinski's yard was [[Take Our Word for It|supposedly overgrown]], but the lawnmower certainly doesn't seem to be making much of a difference.

* Why does Sterling Labs have trouble enlarging things in ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid''? The shrinking machine could enlarge things just fine in the end of ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids''.

** Either they built an inferior machine or you have to tune it just right to enlarge something without making it explode. Wayne managed to enlarge a turkey at the end of the first movie, so it's clear ''he'' knows how to do it.

** On a similar subject, where in the ''hell'' was Szalinski's patent attorney when he signed on the dotted line with Sterling Labs? What kind of raw deal did he get himself into that allowed them to throw him off his own project?

* The kids' sizes are portrayed inconsistently. At one point Nick calculates that they're 1/4 inch tall. However, they can all fit comfortably on the back of an ant. That must be a HUGE ant (even though Nick calls it a baby... which also doesn't make sense because baby ants are larvae). Especially since it can fight a scorpion. Later on, Nick is apparently small enough to use a Cheerio as a flotation device.

 

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