Revealing mistake: You can see Hero Boy putting the ticket in his pocket after getting it punched the second time, before finding his seat on the return journey. However, the ticket slowly evaporates in the air as he is about to put it into the pocket. His hand thus enters the pocket ticket-less.
The Polar Express (2004)
1 revealing mistake
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Jeter, Chris Coppola, Leslie Zemeckis
Continuity mistake: When the boy runs out of his house, as the train is arriving, they make a point of showing his footprints in the snow along with his sliding leaving long marks. However, when they pan back it is his footprints that are gone.
Conductor: Sometimes seeing is believing. And sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.
More trivia for The Polar Express
Question: How would the train have been able to go back the same way with the ice on the lake cracking?
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Answer: Because it's a magic train.