Meet the Robinsons "License Plate Mystery"

[KBLovedDisney]

What about the license plate number in Zootopia? Does that translate into something?

29THD03

 

[DannyK]

Also on the front windshield of the car on the lower left is 10-23-76 H-Man. On the trunk is 2501 del. Other cars on the street have license plates 1SWU988 and 3LOH125. I'm guessing these aren't all random, but must be inside jokes.

 

[Gigi9898]

People of Earth. The car that drove Lewis away way the car next to the orphanage house at the very start of the movie?

Maybe this means something....???

 

[cubicinfinity]

I immediately noticed this has only hex characters, but the fact that it's an odd number of characters makes me think that's not what was intended.
Karl's alt code suggestion is a good way to make sense of this, but it's too much of a stretch in my opinion to be the intended interpretation.

 

[cubicinfinity]

People of Earth. The car that drove Lewis away way the car next to the orphanage house at the very start of the movie?

Maybe this means something....???

The animation team could very well have reused the model without much thought, but choosing that model specifically is a bit careless if it wasn't supposed to mean anything.

We know from the dates on the memory scanner that Lucille was already married for 3 years at the time Lewis was born. Given that, it's very plausible that the car had not changed ownership since the opening of the movie. But I've tried making sense of Lucille and Bud's car being parked there and it's not working. Instead, given how the first scene is positioned, it is possible that Lewis's birth mother owned that car. And Lucile and Bud bought it later. This could be a figurative gesture that his adoptive parents are just as real.

Unfortunately, the fade from black is slow and we don't hear a car door before the scene. When Mildred looks out at the street, 2DBB203 is still sitting there (If Lewis' mom got in the car, maybe she's hiding?). When Lewis and Wilbur visit the scene later, it doesn't really seem like she skips off to that car, though the framing doesn't prevent this from being technically possible. This doesn't mean that the presence of the car in the first scene can't still metaphorically suggest a return home.