and each time I watch the movie, I find something new to enjoy.

But because of the way animated movies are made, there's often tons of incredible stuff

that the animators work on which doesn't make it into the final movie.

So, in this video, I'm going to be taking a look at the dozens of amazing deleted scenes

and rejected ideas from Zootopia that hit the cutting room floor.

And a quick warning that of course there are spoilers ahead, so if you want to avoid any

spoilers, click here for my spoiler-free review or come back after you've seen the movie.

Just before I get started I've got another fantastic copy of this gorgeous hardback book

The Art of Zootropolis to give away. All you have to do is subscribe and leave

a comment about the deleted scenes on this video.

To give you an idea of what you can look forward to in the book, there's tons of amazing concept

art, sketches, and information that give an incredible peek into the making of the movie.

First up is the movie's opening scene which sets Judy up to become a police officer in

Zootopia although in a different way than we see in the final movie.

The alternate opening is set in Woodlands Elementary School rather than at the Carrot

Days Festival and has Judy practising a song with her classmates while their teacher Mrs

Armadillo accompanies them on the piano. Judy's friends each sing a line about what

they want to be when they grow up, but when it comes to Judy's turn, she won't sing that

she wants to grow carrots. This opening establishes how animals are stereotyped,

for example, Sally the squirrel sings that she wants to sell nuts and the Rory the racoon

sings that he wants to drive a trash truck. But Judy proves she's capable of other things

when Bobby Catmull the cougar cub is about to fall out of a tree.

Judy grabs Mrs Armadillo's laser pen and gets Bobby to chase its light down the tree to

safety. A police offer then arrives and gives Judy

a Junior ZPD badge and says she should become a police officer.

And when Judy's classmate scoffs that she's just a bunny, the officer replies "This is

Zootopia where anyone can be anything", a moment which echoes what Judy does and says

to Finnick later in the final movie. Other elements from this alternate opening

scene also appeared in a slightly different form in the final movie.

Bobby Catmull appears as the cougar who creates the various sound effects during Judy's performance

at Carrot Days and Mrs Armadillo is the landlady at Judy's apartment complex.

And the scene in the alternate opening which features a deer being mock-attacked by a predator

as part of the rehearsals for the school's show mirrors both the dramatic scene Judy

performs with fake blood in the opening of the final movie and also the final movie's

climactic showdown when Nick fakes turning savage to catch Bellwether.

Since Zootopia came out, there've been tons of fans shipping Judy and Nick, and an incredible

amount of fan art on just that subject. So, shippers of Nick and Judy everywhere will

likely love this next deleted scene I'm going to talk about which features Nick meeting

Judy's parents and her dad assuming that Nick is Judy's boyfriend!

The scene would have appeared in the movie just after everyone's favourite fox and bunny

team escape Manchas who's gone savage. In the scene, Judy and Nick arrive at her

very pink apartment which prompts Nick to question Judy's description of where they

were going as a 'safe-house'. Judy's reply that it's a 'safe house, with

a space in the middle, a house that is safe' is a fantastic riff on Nick's earlier words

to Judy that he was not falsely advertising the Redwood he sold the rodents as it was

actually 'red wood with a space in the middle, wood that is red'.

Judy's family have come to the big city to pay her a surprise visit, and when Judy's

father first sees Nick, he asks her to pass him the fox-taser, and then worries that Nick

is her boyfriend. The family also discovers that Judy is a meter

maid, not a real cop as she'd led them to believe, so her father demands that she leave

Zootopia and return home with them, but Nick steps in to defend her.

In the final movie, this moment was replaced with Chief Bogo rather than her father trying

to make Judy leave the police force.

There are some really amazing designs for Judy's family home in Bunnyburrow that didn't

make it to the final movie. The huge size of Judy's family and house was

going to be a major feature of the film with over 200 bunnies running around.

In fact, originally, Judy's family was so large that her father couldn't even remember

her name! Also, the family home was going to be centred

around a constantly-in-use kitchen and a dining area that rotated slowly allowing new hungry

bunnies to take the place of bunnies who'd already finished eating.

And The Bunnyburrow district was also going to feature more of the Totoro-inspired buildings

we only saw briefly in the final film at the Bunnyburrow train station.

During the chase through Little Rodentia, you might have spotted a billboard for the

fast food restaurant Chez Cheese. In an early draft of the movie, Finnick would

take the drive-thru orders making use of his giant ears while Nick worked cleaning the

cheese filters. In that version of the movie, Clawhauser was

also a delivery cheetah for the restaurant, making deliveries to the district's rodents.

Chez Cheese was going to tell the story of how Nick and Finnick met.

The movie's co-director Jared Bush has said this was his favourite deleted location and

that he'd love to see a short film featuring the fast food joint.

Another fast food joint which didn't appear was Bug-Burga which is where Zootopia's predators

would go to eat. Because predators don't eat other animals

in Zootopia, to get their protein they eat insects, so Bug-Burga served up "grasshopper

shakes, cricket chips and cicada burgers." There is a tiny reference to Bug-Burga in

the final film in the scene where Nick is leading Judy through an alleyway shortcut

and there are some Bug-Burga fast food boxes littered on the ground.

Originally, there was going to be more of Nick's backstory explored in the film, including

a scene where we get to see Nick as a cub with his father.

It's a touching moment where Nick's father goes with his son to pitch a business idea

for a loan so he can start his own family tailoring shop called Suit-topia.

The scene wasn't used as it was part of the initial idea for the film where the story

was told from Nick's perspective as the central character, rather than through Judy's eyes.

We know Nick has always had an entrepreneurial mind with his pawpsicle business, but in an

early version of Zootopia, just like his father, Nick went to the Zootopian banks to pitch

a business idea, but Nick's idea was for an entertainment venue called Wild Times.

In a scene which was actually voiced by Jason Bateman, Nick explained his idea to all of

the city's bankers, who just happened to all be prey.

It's a funny scene where Nick visits banks like Lemming Brothers, Borrow Burrow, JP Mare-Gan

and Slothoman Brothers, and gets rejected every time.

Eventually, Nick ends up visiting the polar bear gangster boss Koslov who loans him the

money.

The designs for Wild Times were well-advanced before the idea was abandoned.

Wild Times was an indoor arcade where predators could let their instincts loose a little.

The amusement park featured a huge range of games and rides.

For example, there was a roller coaster called the Roar-A-Coaster where predators could roar

and be themselves. By the way, there's a glimpse of what might

have been the building for Wild Times in the scene where Judy goes to find Nick by the

small stone bridge.

Koslov, who Nick takes a loan from to finance his Wild Times arcade, did appear in the final

movie as the polar bear who carries Mr Big in his hands when Nick and Judy have been

caught by Kevin and Raymond. In earlier versions though, he ran the mafia

in Tundra Town and he owned a restaurant called Koslov's Palace which served as a front for

his shady operations. The design of the interior of Koslov's Palace

used warm colours to contrast with the icy blue and white of the cold exterior.

The scene we see in the final movie of Nick and Finnick hustling Judy into paying for

their Jumbo Pop is a much revised version from an earlier version of the movie.

That early alternate scene in Jumbeaux's Café shows Nick claiming that his son has a condition

called "pachydermiopathy", which according to Nick means that his son thinks he's an

elephant. Nick and Finnick put on a hilarious performance

with Nick begging the ice cream parlour owner not to break his son's heart when he refuses

to serve him what he wants, and then to cap it all Nick claims he left his wallet at the

orphanage. Nick senses Judy's fallen for his scheme,

so lays the sob story on even further, which ends in Judy pulling out her cash to pay.

It's still very funny as it displays Nick and Finnick's con-man skills although Judy

probably comes off a bit more naïve and silly in this version.

In the final movie, after Judy discovers she was hustled by Nick, she goes back to her

apartment feeling really fed up, and gets a call from her parents who discover she's

just a meter maid. There's an earlier and longer version of this

scene where we see Judy travel back to the apartment on the subway, getting squashed

by two larger animals. In this version, after discarding her microwaved

carrots for one, she goes to call her mum, but stops herself.

However, the phone accidentally dials and she ends up talking to her parents and her

grandfather who's very prejudiced against foxes.

In this version, her parents don't realise she's just a meter maid which makes Judy feel

guilty for hiding the truth from them. It's a much sadder version of the scene than

the one in the movie and ends with Judy curling up on her bed among her cuddly toys.

By the way, Judy's grandfather "Pop-Pop" is the rabbit we see at the train station in

the final movie, the one who bears a very close resemblance to Carl from Up.

There's a deleted scene in which Judy starts her investigation into the missing otter,

Emmet Otterton, by using the office and computer of an elephant cop who's away on vacation.

It's a fun scene where Judy has to use her agility to use a computer that's way bigger

than she is. The scene was edited out of the final movie

to keep the film's pace up and to show Judy getting her lead on Otterton by working more

closely with Clawhauser.

Designs for a rough biker-style bar for sheep were developed although the location didn't

make it into the final film. The bar was called The Cloven Hoof and it

was set in a sleazy part of town. It's likely that we would have seen Doug and

other bad sheep like Jesse and Woolter hanging out here.

The filmmakers also had plans for a Nocturnal District, which was going to be an area of

caves underneath the city where nocturnal animals like bats would live.

In the end, Zootopia's story didn't require the location so the idea wasn't fully developed,

however, it might be linked to the Bat Eyewitness figure who appears together with Clawhauser

in Zootopia character packs, and who is described as visiting Clawhauser at the police station

quite frequently as he often witnesses crimes.

The Meadowlands is another district that we never got to see properly.

It's basically a broad grassland area where the sheep and grazing animals live.

We did get a tiny peek at the edge of the Meadowlands though, as the Cliffside Asylum

was just on the border. In an early draft of the movie, there was

a sheep conspiracy where sheep would disguise themselves as wolves to deliberately incriminate

predators, making them look dangerous. If you'd like to find out about one of the

sheep characters, called Wooly, who used to do this, then check out my video on Zootopia's

Deleted Characters.

Another location that didn't make it into the final film was Outback Island, which was

home to Australian animals such as kangaroos, koalas, platypuses and dingos, who all together

were known as "Outbackers". This location was cut as it didn't fit the

main story, although it does appear in the book "Zootopia: The Stinky Cheese Caper (and

Other Cases from the ZPD Files)."

There was an additional scene at the Natural History Museum which was cut from the film

due to time constraints. The cut scene featured Bellwether making a

speech to Judy about the origins of Zootopia. Those origins relate back to a painting which

if you're extremely eagle-eyed you can glimpse in the museum as well as at the subway station.

The painting shows lions and zebras shaking paws and agreeing to predators and prey living

in peace. While giving the speech in this scene, Bellwether

looks out at and talks about the fountain in the square which represents the watering

hole around which the animals bonded when they declared peace.

Although we do get to see the Palm Hotel and Casino on the train ride Judy takes into the

city when she arrives, there were also extensive designs and scenes storyboarded inside the

hotel that did not get used. The design of the hotel was inspired by super-luxurious

hotels in Dubai, and Gazelle had a penthouse apartment at the Palm hotel.

A scene with Judy and Nick falling down the side of the hotel while escaping from a ram

was storyboarded but dropped in favour of the scene in the Rainforest District where

Judy and Nick fall through the vines while escaping from the savage Manchas.

An earlier version of the movie's action-packed finale was set in a large stadium called Zootennial

Stadium. There was going to be a spectacular Olympic

Games-style opening show called Animalia which showcased the history of Zootopia.

It was going to feature Gazelle, who's a prey animal, performing with her predator back-up

dancers. And there were going to be flying squirrels