Laputa - Legacy

Legacy

Laputa, as with some of Swift's other inventions, was the inspiration and basis for many later works. Examples include:

• Laputa: Castle in the Sky, an anime by Hayao Miyazaki, which centers on a floating city. It also gave its name to a race course of the Game Boy Advance video game F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, as "Laputan Colony". In both titles, the North American release changed these titles, to simply "Castle in the Sky" and "Empyrean Colony" respectively, to avoid similarities to the vulgar Spanish term la puta.
• The Mazda Laputa, whose name derives from Gulliver's Travels.
• In the Oscar-winning movie Dr. Strangelove a loose B-52 bomber is targeting a science research laboratory in the fictional Soviet city of Laputa. This is both a referral to Swift's novel and a sexual innuendo, among many others in the movie.