Besides "Planes" and its sequels (it's reported to be a trilogy), Disney is also planning on making "Trains" and "Boats" and potentially even more vehicle-based films if these are successful.
Honor Hunter wrote:There will be more Cars Toons later this year, next year sees the sequel film, "Cars 2" as well as the DisneyToon spinoff "Planes," which is the first of several straight-to-DVD animated features exploring a world occupied by mechanical beings.
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http://blueskydisney.blogspot.com/2010/ ... nline.html
Honor Hunter wrote:Should this film be successful, the crew has plans to work on many of the other humanized vehicles of this world: Trains, Boats, ect.
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http://blueskydisney.blogspot.com/2010/ ... iries.html
Honor Hunter wrote:It seems that Disney is trying to animate every mechanical vehicle than has been conceived. Can "Trains" really be that far behind? Scratch that. Forget you ever heard me say that. Hmmm.
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http://www.blueskydisney.com/2011/02/bu ... lanes.html
The DisneyToon animation studio, which makes direct-to-DVD films, is at work on a "Cars" spinoff, "Planes," due for release in 2013. Mr. Lasseter, who also oversees DisneyToon, said that if "Planes" is successful, he may build additional titles around boats, trains and other vehicles. "It's a bigger idea that can be expanded," he said.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 10278.html
Planes is the first in a series of projects focusing on the different vehicles in the "Cars" world.
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/d23exponews.php?id=81284
Q: Allegedly, Planes is the first of three 'Planes' films. I’ve even read solid rumors that DisneyToon Studios could do Boats.
Bob Hilgenberg & Rob Muir: Yes, we heard that they were developing other films in the franchise, Boats and Trains. But, beyond seeing some visual development, we don’t know what, if any, of the films will be put into production. They may wait to see how well Planes performs.
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http://animatedviews.com/2012/bob-hilge ... animation/
Q: Do you think Planes can replicate the success of Cars?
Anna Chapman: Yes. It won’t be the size of Cars, but it will add to, and maintain, the success of the Cars franchise. In the future there will be additions to the Cars franchise in different vehicle guises. Watch this space, there’s a lot coming.
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http://www.toynews-online.biz/news/read ... man/032128
Q: Does that mean that we could eventually see a Disney Trains or a Disney Boats?
Klay Hall: Absolutely. It’s endless. There’s no end to where it can go. It always comes back to telling good stories with compelling characters. Honestly, the possibilities are endless. John sees all these things out there as having characters and personalities. He really does.
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http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/08/disne ... interview/
Q: What are each of you working on next?
Bobs Gannaway: The answer to that question basically is what’s lovely about Disneytoon Studios, as well as Pixar and all Disney Animation Studios. It’s all under the John Lasseter umbrella and we have a group of directors and we all work together. So, each individual studio has a story trust groups of directors that work together. Disneytoon Studios makes series-based films. We’ll make a series of films based in a world. In this case, it’s the world of anthropomorphized vehicles. We’re going to continue to explore other ideas in that world, but we don’t have a mandate for a schedule or a time or a deadline. We wait until we find the right story, and then once we’ve found the right story and we’ve done our research, that’s when we’ll grow the movie out of that. So, that’s where we’re at right now.
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http://collider.com/planes-fire-and-res ... interview/
Q: What sort of story are you planning on telling next? What type of story do you want tell?
Bobs Gannaway: The vehicle world is a rich world. The aviation world is incredibly rich with the history of aviation, the different types of planes, the different types of pilots. It’s such a rich world, there’s a lot more stories you can tell just in that world and then you also have the different kinds of vehicles out there that we haven’t even touched yet. So there’s a lot of potential and that’s were we are in development right now.
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http://nukethefridge.com/2014/11/04/exc ... g-vehicle/