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** We just see the plot-relevant insects, is all. There are a couple of others (the bee they ride, the dead fly early on), but obviously they didn't want to spend a lot of money on expensive special effects for things that would only set the tone, not actually forward the plot. If it were made now I'm sure the place would be teeming with huge CG bugs, but back then they actually had to build animatronics and props for them.

* 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.

* 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.

** [[Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]. It's a common problem for movies like this. Apparently "We're now tiny" = "Everything else is huge enough to ride on!".

 

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