Talk:Planes (film)

Sequel Link

Why is there to an article for the sequel when the link just takes you to the same page? Aidensdaddy2k9 (talk) 00:46, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Not anymore ;) --Carniolus (talk) 08:19, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Ratzenberger

IWL Pitty, an East German 1950s motor scooter

Reviews (format)

The interminable list of over two dozen reviews (nearly all of them using the format "XXX gave the film YYY out of ZZZ stars") would be clearer and more informative if it were formatted as a table, with columns for "reviewer's name", "publication", "rating", and "comment". Wikipedia policy may say otherwise, but this is a clear example that the policy needs to be changed. Mkilby (talk) 12:24, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Rotten Tomatoes

I get that you guys the think the Rotten Tomatoes template is stupid but in the future when the score gets updated the template will make alot of sense. The score is just updating alot today cause the films being released tomorrow. Koala15 (talk) 00:29, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

What Rotten Tomatoes template? Alphius (talk) 22:26, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Or do you just mean the one in the external links? Alphius (talk) 22:28, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

There was some template in the Critical response section that I guess updated the Rotten Tomatoes score every once in awhile on the article, but it just provided a generic cookie-cutter sentence, rather than the prose after it we have now. Just manually updating is not too tedious anyways. STATic message me! 22:41, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Planes shown in the film

With the exceptions of the Corsair (Skipper), the Gee Bee (El Chupacabra) and the de Havilland DH.88 Comet (Bulldog), the planes are an amalgamation of features from a particular type of aircraft. Although one model may provide the basic layout.

Dusty is closest to an Air Tractor AT-400. Disney paid to have an AT-301 painted to look like Dusty and converted to AT-400A spec (engine upgrade from radial to the PT-6A turbine mentioned later in the film). The plane is being featured in air shows.

Ishani is based on Burt Rutan's pusher canards (or their derivatives) which started with the Vari-Eze.

Leadbottom appears to be based on the Stearman PT-17, surplus models of which made up the bulk of the crop duster fleet after WWII. But the wings/struts are more like those of the Sopwith Camel and the engine and cowling are closest to certain installations of the Le Rhône radial engine.

Ripslinger is based on the Sharp Nemesis NXT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Nemesis_NXT

Lowwall (talk) 05:49, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

I never actually watched the show, but I recognized the I-16 from the advertisements (which character is he?). Yet, I do not see that in the article. Also, the main character looks very similar to a Yak-9, what features indicate that it is not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.188.168.11 (talk) 02:27, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Correction on my previous comment: I recognize that considering the racing context of the show, the one character would in fact be a GeeBee. The character right behind the blue and green one does look like an At-502, maybe I confused the characters, as I haven't seen the show. However, the green and blue one very much looks like a Yak-9, perhaps there is a racing variant? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.188.168.178 (talk) 02:42, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

References

Lifetime Gross

As of now, Planes is Disneytoon's highest grossing theatrical movie to date (It surpassed The Jungle Book 2's total of $135 million and and Return to Neverland's total of 109 million). Shouldn't we mention this in the article? Rowdy the Ant talk to Rowdy 21:46, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Do you have a reliable source for that claim? If yes then it definitely should be added to the article. STATic message me! 22:01, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Voice Cast

The voice of Rochelle is Australian Actress Jessica Marais not Julia Luis-Dreyfus. http://www.disney.com.au/planes/characters/rochelle/ LaurenDayMakeup (talk) 03:41, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

In the primary (U.S.) version, Rochelle is indeed voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and is Canadian. In the version released in Australia and New Zealand, her nationality was changed to Australian, and Jessica Marais's voice was used. Therefore, I think the article is OK as it stands. Deor (talk) 11:56, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Adding another image

I have noticed that Deor removed an image that I put in the "Soundtrack" part of the page. The reason why I added it is because the "Cover" perimeter of the infobox was left blank, so I just filled it in. Some pages about movies on Wikipedia also contain more than one copyrighted image, such as Ratatouille (film), Wreck-It Ralph, and Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might. The image I uploaded of the soundtrack cover was only being used once and it was reduced in size by one of the bots so it falls under fair use. If i'm doing anything wrong, let me know. DBZFan30 (talk) 19:46, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Since the album cover is merely an alteration of the image used for the theatrical poster (in the article's main infobox), I don't see that it adds enough to justify its use as a non-free image. (See item 3a at WP:NFCCP.) That's why I removed it. Also note that although Ratatouille (film) and Wreck-It Ralph contain multiple non-free images, they don't contain cover images of the soundtrack albums in the infoboxes for those albums. Deor (talk) 17:11, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

@Deor: I have just removed the image from the soundtrack's infobox. It will be deleted in one week. DBZFan30 (talk) 21:16, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

@Deor: Maybe a screenshot from the movie describing the most important moment should be used in the plot section instead. What do you think of that? DBZFan30 (talk) 03:57, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

@Deor: If you want, I can add a screenshot of a certain moment from the movie instead of the soundtrack cover. How does that sound? DBZFan30 (talk) 10:26, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 March 2018

It want to edit the critical response section of this article. 186.154.111.116 (talk) 20:53, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. qwerty6811 :-) Chat Ping me 21:29, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 December 2018

2604:6000:7441:D00:6C83:A81:FB6:EB9D (talk) 04:36, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

 Not done. No edit request included. Deor (talk) 04:51, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Rochelle Origin

In the article it is said that Rochelle is from Quebec. However the reference provided only said that she is french-canadian. I understand that most of the french-canadian live in Quebec and that most of the quebecker are french-canadian, but there are two different concepts — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.221.52.170 (talk) 23:08, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

The real life version of Dusty was an Air Tractor AT-400A

... is at this time on display at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum at Hamilton/ Ontario. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB10:DB:100:C881:DAB6:3459:1FD0 (talk) 19:06, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Table to prose

The single line Accolades table would be better presented as prose. See {{Table to prose}}. I would have tagged the section only the article is locked. -- 109.79.190.28 (talk) 08:16, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

See WP:PROSE. Article still locked, ugly table should still be changed to prose. -- 109.79.176.202 (talk) 04:31, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 January 2021

Bravo and Echo are aircraft similar to F-18 aircraft. They are from the fictional VF-17 Jolly Wrenchers. 76.206.204.26 (talk) 01:42, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ◢  Ganbaruby!  (Say hi!) 12:02, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Ripslinger seems inspired by Bf109 much more than mustang, and since he is the bad guy... v_atekor (talk) 10:04, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Typo in the third intro paragraph

The second to last sentence in the third intro paragraph has a typo - it currently reads "The film grossed $239.3 million worldwide on a $50 million, despite receiving [...]" when it should probably say "on a $50 million budget" (or something like that). Drippiest (talk) 12:20, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

 Done. I added "budget". Deor (talk) 14:40, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 March 2024

Change "Skipper confesses his entire squadron perished when was coaxed to lead an attack by one of his fighters on a recon mission."

To

"Skipper confesses his entire squadron perished when he was coaxed to lead an attack by one of his fighters on a recon mission."

Second last paragraph in the Plot. 58.174.0.3 (talk) 12:34, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done M.Bitton (talk) 14:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)