Laputa also appeared in Charles Kingsley 's novel '' The Water Babies ''. This was obviously a reference to Swift, as Kingsley identifies the island as being visited by "Captain Gulliver".
The 1986AnimeFilm '' Castle In The Sky '' by Hayao Miyazaki features a floating city named Laputa after that of ''Gulliver's Travels''. The original title of the movie was ''Laputa'', but it was re-named for the English-speaking market when dubbed into English by Disney , because "La puta" means "the whore" in Spanish . Swift probably knew this, and Miyazaki probably did not. The Walt Disney company did, and as the American distributor of Miyazaki's films, contracted the name to "Castle in the Sky". This expression is also used for the French-language release of the movie (as ''Le château dans le ciel''), probably because ''laputa'' sounds very much like ''la pute'', or ''the whore'', in French. The US release of the movie is not to be confused with Miyazaki's 2005 movie, '' Howl's Moving Castle ''.
The "Laputa Missile Complex" is the target of the B-52 bomber "Leper Colony" in the 1964 satire '' Dr. Strangelove '', a reference to the highly theoretical discussions of nuclear war and deterrence that led the world to catastrophe in that film.
The Laputa is a Mazda sedan that began production in 2005, and takes its name from the floating island in "Gulliver's Travels". It is a micro-mini vehicle that will be sold through the Mazda Autozam dealerships throughout Japan. The Laputa is a designed to provide off-road driving performance uncharacteristic in micro-mini automobiles. The Laputa comes with two body types, a three door and a five door model.
The term "Laputa" appears in the 2005 Computer Game "UFO: Aftershock", and refers to large orbital alien bases upon which the remnants of human civilisation have been forced to live. People from these bases are referred to as the "Laputians"
Laputa is also the name of a Bread sold in Sweden .
