Planes
Pixar has produced several movies for Disney, including the record-breakingInside Out 2.
Another thing that places the two animations in the same universe is their premise.
According to a popular theory, all Pixar movies take place in the same universe.
Here’s when each movie is set chronologically, including Turning Red.
In the theory, the events inCarshappen afterUpwhen machines are left to populate the Earth.
Lasseter, who directedCarsandCars 2, served as an executive producer onPlanes.
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Since Lasseter was behindPlanesandCars,it explains why the two movies have the same aesthetic.
Planeswas meant to be a direct-to-video animation, which explains why Pixar did not produce the movie.
Lasseter was also the chief creative officer of Disneytoon Studios, the studio that developedPlanes.
Planes is a spinoff of Disney’s popular Cars franchise. The film centers on Dusty Crophopper, a plane that ironically fears heights but wants to compete in a global aerial race. Planes was released in 2013 and got mostly negative reviews but made enough to warrant a sequel, Planes: Fire and Rescue.
Disneytoon Studios was in charge of producing direct-to-video sequels of Disney feature films.
The fact that Planes wasn’t a Pixar movie was the film’s downfall.
Planes not being developed by Pixar but by Disneytoon Studios meant that it had a smaller budget thanCars.
Planes’lower production budget worked against it because it meant that it didn’t have the same quality asCars.
AlthoughPlanesandCarshad a similar premise and main characters,McQueen was funnier and more entertaining than Dusty.
