Fairy Tales they changed up to be modern was something they've done since the beginning. Only Princess and the Frog really took it to a more contemporary setting.Disney needs to come up with more original ideas, or at least a fairy tale retelling that doesn't change it up to be "modern". I would really like them to make 2D animated films like they used to, but that era is probably gone for good because of the CGI takeover.
The 2-D film era is "over" because they put too much stock into Princess and the Frog (which was released opposite The Chipmunks 2 and Avatar, but made a decent amount over the budget) and Winnie the Pooh (which they released the last Harry Potter film at the end of July, and they tarnished the franchise with preschool programming, scaring anyone over the age of 6 out of bothering), and they didn't make the huge amount of money they wanted them to make. Then again, they took a HUGE dive before with Home on the Range (their first last 2-D film to be made), and considered doing only CGI films until Chicken Little (the one that was supposed to launch that initiative) failed to do well with critics and audiences. Then Eisner was fired, Iger took the job, and they bought Pixar.
Planes was supposed to be nothing more than a DTV project, like the Tinkerbell movies. Somehow they wanted to see how it would do theatrically, but dumped it in the worst month. And I have to admit... the Turbo stuff was selling before the movie came out. I don't see any Planes stuff moving.