Headscratchers / Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

• Why does Sterling Labs have trouble enlarging things'? 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.
  • It's really hard to say. On one hand Wayne isn't inspired into how to fix it until partway into the film, rather than immediately just tell them the beam was too strong, even though it was the same problem as the shrink ray. On the other hand it could be that enlarging machine at the lab works different, because Wayne was able to set up his original machine to do the same thing to enlarge Diane in short order. On the other other hand he wasn't sure if it work work properly, saying he was afraid Diane would just start randomly growing on contact to electricity rather than instantly grow to Adam's size, even though it works as intended as far as we see.
  • The answer is simple. Hendrickson would not let Wayne get a word in edgewise, and he didn't give him access to the data in the lab in the first place.
    • Also, keep in mind there may be a difference between making something bigger and returning it to its regular size after it's been shrunk.
    • Which could be true, as when Wayne reversed the shrink ray to enlarge Russ Sr in the first movie, his baseball cap no longer fit correctly.
• Exactly how did the Feds get Adam in the back of that truck?

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