History Awesome / Zootopia

** Judy successfully manages to navigate Little Rodenta without actually harming to any of the mice/shrews living there. Sure, they're all running around screaming because not one, but '''two''' giants are running around their city, but it's clear she's making a big effort to be careful.

* Nick and Finnick's sheer cleverness of their con using just ''one'' elephant-sized popsicle. They melt the popsicle until it's all liquid, cutting off the big stick into several smaller pieces, then drive off to Tundra Town, pour the liquid into dozens of paw-shaped holes on the ground with the smaller sticks at the bottom then wait for it to freeze. They then get dozens of 'pawsicles' for Nick to sell to the lemmings (who are apparently his frequent customers) and when they are done eating them and throw the sticks into the trash cans, ''then'' Finnick and Nick transport them to a hamster construction site, selling the sticks as [[ExactWords "red wood"]] to the foreman. Consider this: the big elephant popsicle cost only 15 dollars (which they conned out of Judy!) and by the time Nick and Finnick successfully pulled their con, they made over ''200 dollars''. And they've been doing this for at least a decade! Not only that, when Judy attempts to arrest Nick after catching him in the act, he instead displays a brilliant use of WeNeedADistraction, CrazyPrepared and LoopholeAbuse, then turns the whole situation into TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for Judy instead. That's one hell of a EstablishingCharacterMoment.

!Meta
* The fact that a movie aimed at children had so many themes on racism and bigotry is pretty awesome. Especially how it deconstructs something we took for granted like the themes of a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.
** The whole moral can basically boil down to "There are always going to be walls between us. Let's build doors instead of letting them divide us."
** Heck, the movie plays a "gotcha" moment with its own aesop! After spending an hour etching "RACISM IS BAD!" on the bottom of an [[{{Anvilicious}} anvil]] and positioning it over your face, the movie goes subtle and uses Judy to deliver the ''real'' aesop: racism will always exist, but we can overcome our prejudices if we try.
** In other words: change can be [[http://feelingsuccess.com/?p=7724 awesome!]]
* The fact that, with less than a year before release, Creator/{{Disney}} managed to basically remake a blockbuster movie to tell such a great story in such a great way.
* If ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' was an exercise in the animation of ice, and ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' was an exercise in the animation of hair, then ''Zootopia'' is an exercise in fur textures. A good comparison is ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', which is animated well, but doesn't even come ''close'' to how rich and detailed the fur textures are in ''Zootopia''. The animators studied the fur texture of every single species featured in the film, from rabbits through sheep to polar bears, to make them as believable as possible. Some characters have over a ''billion'' individually animated hairs.
** Special mention to the black jaguar with ''visible rosettes'', from the way the light hits the different layers of fur.
* ''Zootopia'' set the new record for biggest animated opening and is the second highest grossing animated Disney film behind ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''.
** ''Zootopia'' eventually exceeded $1 billion in the box office, making it Disney's second film in 2016 to achieve the feat, the first being ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.
** It won best animated film at the 2017 Golden Globes, Annie Awards and Oscars. It also netted quite a large trophy case of other awards that included being Website/RottenTomatoes' best overall wide-release movie of 2016 and induction into the American Film Institute's "Best Films of 2016" list.
* This is the highest grossing movie of all time that's based on a completely original idea/not part of a bigger franchise. ''Film/{{Inception}}'' is number two.
* The movie winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature of 2016 had the entire fandom turning out on social media to celebrate a movie with such tough competition like ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' taking the trophy.

** Likewise, while holding onto Judy's neck with his teeth, Nick doesn't flinch when Judy lets out a "Death" Scream. Most people hearing a scream that close to their ears would have jerked, a move that would have been bad for Judy. Thus, Nick must of had incredible willpower to override this instinctive response to a loud noise that close to his ears, in order to prevent Judy from being accidentally hurt by himself.

** In other words: change can be [[http://www.feelingsuccess.com/zootopia-ending-scene-try-speech/ awesome!]]

-->'''Gazelle:''' The Zootopia I know is better than this. We don't just blindly assign blame. [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped We don't know why these attacks keep happening, but it is irresponsible to label all predators as savages]]. We cannot let fear divide us. Please... give me back the Zootopia I love.

* The movie winning best animated feature at The Oscars had the entire fandom turning out on social media to celebrate a movie with such tough competition like Moana and Kubo and the Six-Strings taking the trophy.

** Not only does Judy manage to successfully write 100 tickets before the end of the day as Chief Bogo assigned her to do, Judy manages to write double that in far less time. With her skills, it's probably why he [[FridgeBrilliance assigned her to parking duty in the first place]].