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Nick "Loopin'" Lopez is a character in the 2014 Disneytoon Studios animated feature film Planes: Fire & Rescue.

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Official Description[]

By 1978, Nick "Loopin'" Lopez was America’s favorite helicopter cop, featured on TV’s CHoPs, a show about two California Helicopter Patrol choppers. Nick, the troublemaking macho young officer, got the nickname "Loopin'" from his signature inside loop, which no other helicopter could perform.[1]

Appearances[]

Planes: Fire & Rescue[]

In Planes: Fire & Rescue, Nick appears in an episode of CHoPs that Dusty Crophopper and all of the firefighters except Blade Ranger were watching called "Disco Inferno", where he helps Blazin' Blade to catch a criminal named Chuck Shocks and save a female car named Pinta from a burning studio. Afterward, Sergeant "Rhodey" Rhodes Graeter tells him and Blade that they did a good job, and Nick states to Blade that Pinta has a sister named Peggy.

While Blade was being repaired after he got injured upon protecting Dusty from a fire, Maru tells Dusty that Nick was killed in a severe accident during the filming of CHoPs' 139th episode caused by a cross-breeze and Blade was unable to save Nick in time, resulting in the show being cancelled, and Blade to quit his job as an actor and train under Mayday and later move to Piston Peak National Park.

Trivia[]

  • "CHoPs" is a parody of CHiPs, a real TV show that Nick's actor Erik Estrada starred in as highway patrolman Francis "Ponch" Poncherello.
    • Nick and Blazin' Blade Ranger have the exact same helmets as Estrada and Larry Wilcox in the show CHiPs.
    • Coincidentally enough, CHiPs was cancelled after 139 episodes due to low ratings.
    • Earlier in the show's run Erik Estrada was injured in a severe accident and sat out a few episodes. However, unlike Nick, who perished, Estrada actually eventually survived and recovered from that accident, which is why he is there to voice Nick today.
    • Nick is based on Ponch from the original show personality wise.
  • Originally, Nick was called Loopin' Lance Gyro.

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Media
Planes (Soundtrack/Video Game) • Planes: Fire & Rescue (Soundtrack/Video Game) • Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular • Planes: The Essential Guide • Video • The Art of Planes
Characters
Planes: Dusty Crophopper • Skipper Riley • Sparky • Chug • Dottie • El Chupacabra • Ripslinger • Ishani • Bulldog • Rochelle • Ned and Zed • Bravo and Echo • Roper • Leadbottom • Fonzarelli • Franz • Colin Cowling • Little King • Arturo • Tsubasa • Harland • Tripp • Dwight D. Flysenhower • Tractors • Judge Davis • Jan Kowalski • Van Der Bird • Sun Wing • Antonio • Mayday • Joey Dundee • Miguel • Ryker • Yellow Bird • Gunnar Viking

Planes: Fire & Rescue: Lil' Dipper • Blade Ranger • Windlifter • Cabbie • Smokejumpers • Secretary of the Interior • Harvey and Winnie • Nick Loopin' Lopez • Cad Spinner • Maru • Ol' Jammer • Pulaski • Rake • Muir • Flap • André • Patch • Boat Reynolds

Locations
Propwash Junction • Minnesota • New York City • Germany • India • Himalayas • China • Mexico • Piston Peak National Park
Songs
Planes: Nothing Can Stop Me Now • You Don't Stop - NYC • Fly • Tere Bina • Love Machine • Ein Crop Duster Can Race • Don't Bring Me Down
Planes: Fire & Rescue: Runway Romance • Still I Fly • Thunderstruck • All In
See Also
Soarin' • Howard the Truck • CHoPs
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