Rex is a major character in the Toy Story franchise.
He is a large, green, plastic toy Tyrannosaurus Rex who is also one of the characters from Pooh's Adventures of Toy Story. He has a lot of anxiety and he gets nervous whenever something scary happens. But he's a very friendly dinosaur and likes being brave. He is one of Woody's best friends.
He is voiced by Wallace Shawn.
Personality[]
Despite his portrayal as a ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex, Rex is ironically gentle, kind, and caring, and he hates any kind of argument or confrontation. Though his vocabulary is fairly strong, he is somewhat absent-minded and tends to cause accidental mayhem due to his size and obliviousness.
Rex also suffers from anxiety. He fears being replaced or abandoned, either at the prospect of being thrown away or the arrival of a newer, more ferocious dinosaur toy. Despite his fears, he finds happiness and enjoyment in most things; one of his favorite pastimes include playing video games with his friends, a hobby in which Rex has shown a fair amount of talent. With his childlike demeanor and lack of self-confidence, Rex is the most innocent of all the toys and shows the greatest desire to be loved and played with. Largely because of his innocence, he also can show himself to be very gullible, which is especially evident in the Small Fry short, where he was the only one of the toys to believe that Buzz Lightyear had "shrunk" from contact with the balls in the ball pit when the rest of the toys quickly realized the "Buzz" that was brought home was an impostor due to his obvious short stature and often confuses fiction with reality. Despite his constant fear of rejection, he is a valued member of the gang and considered to be the most "ferocious" dinosaur toy a kid could ask for in the eyes of both Andy and Bonnie.
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Trivia[]
- In Toy Story on Ice, Rex has a wife named Mrs. Rex.
- Rex is shown to be left-handed, as seen in Toy Story, where he shakes Buzz's left hand while meeting him for the first time.
- Rex quotes a few of George McFly's lines from Back to the Future: "I don't like confrontations!" and "I don't think I could take that kind of rejection!"
- In the first film, Rex states that he was made by a subsidiary of Mattel (coincidentally, real-life Rex toys are now made by Mattel and Thinkway).
- At Toy Story Land at Disney's Hollywood Studios, an over-sized box for Rex is a queue element for Slinky Dog Dash, which lists his manufacturer as "Borealis", an homage to the model kit company "Aurora". The box's colorful artwork is reminiscent of many of their monster and dinosaur model kits.
- In early concepts, Rex's character was originally an Apatosaurus.
- Along with the Aliens, Rex is the only main character to not use an angry expression in "Alive" mode.
- In two of the Toy Story movies, Rex references Jurassic Park.
- In Toy Story 2, while inside Al's Toy Barn, Rex appears in a rear-view side mirror (viewed by Mr. Potato Head) as he tries to catch up with the car, parodying a scene from Jurassic Park where the Tyrannosaurus appears in a rear-view mirror when chasing a crew in a jeep (although for entirely different reasons, as the T. Rex in the film was trying to eat the crew in the car, while Rex was attempting to get back in the car).
- In Toy Story 3, when Rex appears out of the ground, the roar used for him was the Jurassic Park T. Rex roar.
- Rex, despite being a toy Tyrannosaurus Rex, actually has three fingers on each hand instead of two in real life. However, this may have been intentional since Rex is a toy dinosaur, which, unless it was sold at a science museum gift shop or made for educational purposes, is actually not meant to be accurate.
- Rex met the FT Squad in The FT Squad's Adventures in Toy Story and later guest starred in The FT Squad Meets Gumby.
- Rex will join Barney the Dinosaur in Barney's Adventures of Toy Story, where he's revealed to be his younger brother, and his real name is "Wallace", referencing his voice actor.
- In Kingdom Hearts 3, Rex mistake Sora for Yozora from Verum Rex.