Was looking at some of the pictures for Furox's funny caption contest, and I noticed two pictures that confused me. One was that picture of Kitt Wonn in "The Choosing: Part 2" on the bridge. Her helmet was on, then when the bridge was collapsing, it went off, and then it went back on. Things like these I like to note when I'm really bored and I'm watching my recorded DB shows. I don't pay attention to what Moordryd's talking about or what he's doing or what that draconian sign says because it's backwards and I'm too lazy to decode. I pay attention to those little goofs, continuity and Easter Egg things.

There were a couple mentioned in tv.com, but besides that, it's fun to note things out. So here's my list besides the example above:

- In a couple of shots of Beau in several episodes, Beau is the red and blue dragon, not the black and gold dragon, but that star thing is still on his head.
- Sometimes those long purple things hanging from Mortis' helmet seem a bit weird. In other words, they look like they're fading. This is a technical goof.
- I remember Furox mentioning it somewhere about Moordryd's hair sticking out of his neck or something. That kinda freaked me out too... :P

There are a lot of continuity things in the newer Season 2 episodes too, but I don't wanna point 'em out right now. ;) Any others I haven't mentioned?

Oooo, very observant! Kitt's appearing/disappearing helmet was actually the answer to one of the question from the trivia contest a little while back. You're the first one to get it!

Overall, I think they do a pretty good job on this show as far as continuity goes. With computer animation, it's easier to go back and correct something if they notice it in time. With hand drawn animation, they probably won't bother fixing it even if they notice it since it's too expensive to go back and have someone re-draw everything. Plus with the computer essentially "drawing" the characters, at least you know they'll come out looking on-model and you don't have the problem that crops up with hand drawn animation where the animator simply forgets to draw on an article of clothing or something.

Let's see... I've only noticed a few things myself. There's Kitt's helmet in Choosing Part 2. There's Moordryd's hair that pokes through his throat on occasion as we already mentioned. This one appears to be more of a technical problem with his computer model. There's Artha's eye color when he's the Dragon Booster. Sometimes his eyes are his normal blue and other times his eye color changes to a sort of orange-gold color. I think the idea here was that when he has the gold draconium Dragon Booster suit on, he's awash in gold draconium energy which changes the color of his eyes. Though it's incredibly inconsistent. It's like they couldn't make up their minds about it. The worst episode for this is the "Track of Doom" where Artha's eye color switches back and forth between gold and blue from one scene to the next. I figure there must have been different animators working on the different scenes and each was using a different version of Artha's character model.

There's a scene in episode 1 where Beau is loaded up with gear but in one shot all the gear is gone and then it re-appears in the next. Then there are two scenes I think in "Track of Doom" I noticed where Parmon and Lance swap positions as the camera angle changes.

There are undoubtedly more. But those are the ones I remember seeing anyway.

I did? I what? Sweet! :D

Another little thing that irks me is character models. Rancydd is alive and well, and yet he's trapped in the Shadow Track. That was probably just a goof, but still, I wish that they'd watch out for using the same character models. It gets confusing; you think that dragon that looks exactly like Wyldfyr in the trailer is Wyldfyr, but it's not.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that all those trapped inside the Shadow Track were freed at the end. ( Including an eerie, shadowy presense....stay tuned)

(Saw the shadowy presence...I highly doubt it was the yellow-belly-newt.) Yeah, but the Shadow Track only opens up once a year, when Drakkus and Abandonn align, and Rancydd couldn't possibly be in the Shadow Track at the time. His character model is used when Cain taps one of the frozen figures.

As for staying tuned, I also want you all to keep your eyes peeled when "Artha the Drac" comes on. After an argument between Artha, Lance and Parm (you will see), the scene goes to Wyldfyr and Kitt approaching Artha. When the close-up of Wyldfyr and Kitt comes up, a taxi dragon goes by. Pay close attention to the person taking a ride in that taxi; you may be interested in who the person is. ;)

It Word but why not a dragon limo type thing

More continuity errors:

Beau's little bones that he has in his nose are yellow in some escenes in "The chromatic Dragon" and in other ones whites. In some escenes when he's the Golden Black dragon, Beau has some, I donb't know if spikes is the right word, in his troat, and in other escenes he isn't

I think they're consistent about his horns: they're always white when he's red and blue and they're always yellow when he's black and gold. They change with his skin color, so I don't think it's an error. It's just part of his look. Very observant, though.

Yeah, a flap of skin like that is called a "frill" on a reptile. Beau also has frills on all four legs and his wings are sort of like frills as well. He can apparently fold and unfold the frills at will (very common for reptiles), so the fact that they appear and disappear is just normal for Beau and not really an animation error. The animators tend to unfold his frills when they want Beau to look uber-cool.

But I watche it yellow when he was red and blue

Oh, OK. That would probably be an error then.

Correct! It was Word in that taxi. When I rewinded the recorded version, all of a sudden I noticed the taxi, and then Word, and suddenly I was like "WTHeck? What - I mean, how - I - whaaaaa?" and then started blabbing to no one about this and asking again and again why Word is in that taxi. It's probably more of an Easter Egg than part of the plot, though. <_<

So THAT'S how Word gets around Dragon City! (Okay, yeah, I wasn't expecting him to ride Abandonn around Dragon City either...:P) But, seriously, why was Word in that taxi? Was he spying on Artha and Kitt or something? I though he usually spends time in his control room, where he apparently for some unknown reason hopefully yet to be discovered can see all of Dragon City, possible and impossible. And I think I can understand the whole dragon limo thing: 1) I haven't seen any limo dragons yet, just Turquoise-class (or Green-class; I couldn't really catch the mag-blast colors in "Artha the Drac" right) dragons hauling dragon vans, and Green/Turquoise class dragons being Taxi dragons, and 2) Word might want to blend in; he's not that kind of big show-off celebrity type guy or whatever. Plus, he's less recognizable if he was actually spying on Artha and Kitt...or whatever. :P

And Airshadow's right. At some times, Beau would have yellow (gold) horns or even claws, back or front. That's a continuity error. "The Track of Doom" had one very big continuity error (which Furox already mentioned), and "The Wraith Booster" has a couple of continuity errors that were kinda annoying. "Artha the Drac" has a couple of technical goofs. I still can't decide whether the Dragon Priest purple thingies at back of helmet on Mortis is a continuity error (see "Opposing Force" or "Broken Bonds"), or a technical goof. I'm guessing technical goof, though; seems more reasonable.

I think I saw a continuity error in "Broken Bonds:" when they're in the tunnel on their way to Moordryd's compound, Artha is missing from the shot. Artha's no where to be seen until the scene right before they get to the vertical air shaft. In the prior scene (where Parmon was reading the map upside down), Artha should be there, but he's not.

I was thinking if those continuity errors is for, in crease the observation in fans or sort.

I doubt it.

...

Then again, Nerdcorps have proven to me to be a crazy bunch (they're armed with helmets, pencils and pea guns, for cryin' out loud! :lol:), so I'm stuck with that question. :rolleyes:

Here's a continuity error used in almost all the episodes: height. And the central website doesn't just apply to this. Parmon's taller than Artha, and then in "Broken Bonds" and a few others he gets shorter. Moordryd suddenly becomes taller in one scene with his father in "Broken Bonds", and next scene he's at normal height (shorter than his father). I swear, it kinda annoys me.

And people in Dragon City are TALL for their ages. Where I live, the everyday tallest height for teenagers is around 6 or under 6.5 or so. I'm 5'3 and 13 years old. Lance however is 5'2, and he's only 10! :blink: (The central website isn't working for me right now, so I can't check Spratt...but I don't think I want to know. :P)

Sara Frost told me once that in anime specially if the chars are teens they look taller than in normal life

Look taller? But it says on the central website that they're very tall! :P

I saw many continuity errors on "Broken Bonds". Here's one: Beau's eyes kept changing from yellow to purple. Truly, not the best continuity quality in that episode.

And why is it that in "Into the Fire", Artha says Lance is four feet small if Lance is 5'2. *sighs* Here we go again... :rolleyes:

Have ya noticed that in "Opposite Force" in a scene after Moordryd loose the joust the public looked plain? they don't look as a 3D person

There's also a bit of a goof in "Faster than Fear", or perhaps it should be called an editorial revision to be fair. There's a shot of Fracshun and Lance frozen in the crystalline black draconium that's been flipped over. You can tell because that design that's painted on Fracshun is supposed to be on his left flank, but in this one shot, it appears on his right flank. I'm guessing they originally rendered the shot with Lance and Fracshun facing to audience left so you'd see Fracshun's left side, but decided in editing that it would fit with the other shots better if they were facing right. Rather than reprogram the camera move and re-render the shot, they probably just flipped the shot in post production. It's probably intentional from that point of view, but it's still a continuity issue.

That'll teach'em to make characters that aren't perfectly symmetrical, huh. :D

This isn't a goof; it's to save a bit of time, but very observant. At moments the crowd looks really facial and dynamic, and next thing you know they're just, like, there.

Meh, I don't blame them. I'm not so good with symmetrical designs either, especially when it comes to a character looking in an opposite way, and his/her hair is draw in a design meant to stick out from the left. :P

There's a little goof in "The Leap of Lorius" (even though most of you haven't seen this episode yet); when Parm goes nuts when telling Artha to stay calm, Lance's eyes are green and blank, and it makes him look freaky. :blink:

Yeah, the only exceptions to the whole 'tall if teen' thing I can find are some Beyblade charcters, Yugi in YUGIOH!, and some digimon charcters.
Artha's eyes are driving me crazy, with the whole swich-a-roo thing.
Hey! If Word's dragon id named Abandonn (Did I Moordryd, I mean he doesn't really care about him most of the time).
An for the record, I think Dragon Booster is most likely a cartoon, not an anime.

Word has an interesting choice of names. He named his son and his dragon after the two moons, Drakkus and Abandonn.

Another continuity error in "Faster Than Fear" is where Fracshun's balance gear is floating in midair during Lance's illusion. It's a bit easy to see if you're excessively observant. ;)

Good eye! Have you noticed that Fracshun's saddle floats in the air as well and doesn't contact his body? And it's not just in this episode, it's apparently the way it's modeled. It seems to be a little inconsistent between the different dragons, though. For example, Wyldfyr's gear appears to be in contact with her body but Cyrano's saddle seems to float.

There is a certain logic to having the gear float off the dragon's bodies, especially for smaller dragons like Fracshun, since it wouldn't restrict their movement the way it would if it was stuck on their skin. The gear is held on with a magnetic lock, and magnetic fields can make things appear to float in mid-air, so there's a sufficient explanation for how this could work (for a cartoon world, that is ;) ).

True that, Furox. A lot of times the gear seems to float. If you notice how thrusting gear is activated, it seems to float at times.

Stay tuned for "The Wraith Booster". There are quite a number of continuity errors here, and it includes the eye-color changing continuity error and Kitt's helmet continuity error.

Ah, I see. In that case, I guess they rely a lot on magnetic energy, don't they?

Also I found another continuity error from the latest episode, "The Leap of Lorius":

At the part where Artha first warns the riders before splitting up, you see only Sarjo and Wulph. Then when Artha gets the trenching gear and re-enters the track, Sarjo gets replaced by Dorsal somehow and Dorsal and Wulph exchange places. :blink:

Yeah, that was a bit weird. It appears that both Sarjo and Dorsall are in the race since Artha, Sarjo, Dorsall and Wulph all cross the finish line. But for some reason, Artha only talks to 2 out of 3 of the other racers at a time on the race track as you point out. Seems a little odd. They probably should have left out either Sarjo or Dorsall.

BTW

I was paying attention to the purple thing that decorates Mortis' helmet. and you¡'re right appears and dissapears

Aye to that. I also noticed that little error, but I really didn't care much. I used the explanation that Dorsall kept up and Sarjo lagged behind. Whatever happened to the female Flare anyway, the 5th racer who Cain pulled out so early? Seems like she wipes out a lot. (I'd check "Into the Fire" to see if it was Embyrr or somebody else, but I only got the last bit of it on tape. That was when I was so hyped up about new episodes, and then Thursday was that episode. Oi...) Also, when Wulph was talking to Sarjo, there was a mistake with the voice acting. It sounded more like Dorsall's voice than Wulph's voice, so they should've used Dorsall for that scene, even though it was Wulph who distrusts Artha in here.

As I said before. Also, I barely saw the tip of Moordryd's strand of hair stick out from his neck in "The Stand", besides just "The Lost Track of Doom" or whatever the episode was called.

Easter Eggs:

I saw that Dragon Eye with the tattooed eye running around in the news when Mortis was showing Artha the footage of the dragon stampede in "The Stand". I also saw a couple of crew members cheering on one of the racers in...well, some episode. That racer with the orange-yellow almost-Pyrrah-like hairdo shown with Rancydd in "The Choosing: Part 1" (you'll recognize who I'm talking about) is a PROPHETS MEMBER IN THE DOWN CITY COUNCIL. (Sorry about the caps, but aren't the Prophets legendary?) Also, Swayy, the green-haired Dragon Eye girl, races a lot in the All-City tracks, if you notice, and Rancydd seems to be the third important member of teh Eyes, next to Tattoo Eye (don't know name for this guy yet) and Swayy. Hmm, I wonder if they'll show other members of other crews that I've seen in the TCG, since the names are canon. Even more interesting, the elders. (Speaking of elders, remember that old guy in "If It Ain't Broke" in the crowd? Wonder if he's an elder of some crew, like the Dragon Eyes...or just some nutty old guy. :P)

The guy with the eye tatto is Cain, Dragon's eyes second in rank

I think the old guy has a taxi dragon you can see him in the prophet's motive and pride of the hero I think.

The guy with the red tattoo over his eye, spiked-up grayish hair who twirled his finger absentmindedly in "Opposing Force" and freaked out and told the Dragon Booster that he was over there in "Three Times a Hero" is probably not Cain. :P

Oh, another common continuity error: Kitt's hair. At some times in several episodes the inside of her hair may be black, then blue, then black, and so on and so on. I made the same mistake with most of my Kitt pics because of this error.

Here's a couple I forgot to post on here:

The Wraith Booster:
- When Lance goes to attack Moordryd, his lower helmet visor is not there. Possibly a continuity error, since at the beginning of the ambush, he's got his bottom visor up.
- Kitt's helmet vanishes someplace with Mortis and the Dragon Temple.
- When Decepshun brakes after Moordryd yells at Lance, the shot contains Moordryd, but without his jacket.

Artha the Drac:
- Word's hair seemed to fade in his clothes when he turned around to face Moordryd and talked to him.
- Moordryd's eye peeked a bit from the top of his unibrow. :huh:
- Vociferous' goatee (or whatever the heck it is) seems to be going backwards and forwards from his chin. :huh: :huh:

Here's some from "The Prophet's Motive":

- When Artha puts on the amulet and becomes Dragon Booster, he somehow becomes reunited with Beau, whom he was separated from a few scenes ago.
- Mortis/Propheci somehow gets his staff back after throwing it to the ground without showing us
- Lance's cheeks go through his helmet when he speaks about how man nor dragon could fit through bars
- (not sure) Propheci remains trapped in seemingly the same green trapping gear in the transition to the Dragon Temple. It's like he was carried on some invisible platform or something. O_o

I was just on the official site and Moordryd is6'11" and Word is only 6'3"... That is really messed up! :blink:

Anybody that knows me well here knows that I practically tear my hair out at the inconsistancy of heights.

Into the Fire:
- That star on Beau's head when he was the red and blue dragon error
- Lance's helmet switches to a Dragon Flare design :blink:

here is a picture of this.

I was just on the Main DB site, i happened to check the stats for Artha his age is at "16" wasn't it at "17" no more then a few weeks ago?

Did anybody ever notice that in the first season they always used that same clip when Artha transforms into the Dragon Booster?

During "Misjudged" when Artha transforms into Dragon Booster while their falling, miraculously he's back on land!