Planes was the first Cars spin-off feature film, released by Disneytoon Studios in 2013.
Planes follows Dusty Crophopper, a crop-dusting aircraft who dreams of competing in an around-the-world aerial race. The film uses a world of anthropomorphic vehicles related to the setting of Cars, but its main characters are airplanes rather than automobiles. Dane Cook voices Dusty in the original film.
Unlike the Cars feature films, Planes was produced by Disneytoon Studios rather than Pixar Animation Studios. Disneytoon Studios developed it as a theatrical spin-off, and it was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. A sequel, Planes: Fire & Rescue, followed in 2014. Because both franchises share a vehicle-centered concept and visual connections, viewers sometimes describe Planes as a Pixar film, but Pixar did not produce the feature.