Rex
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| Performer: | Wallace Shawn |
| Appeared in: | Toy Story Toy Story 2 Toy Story 3 |
- "Ya big lizard!"
- —Mr. Potato Head, after Rex shakes the speaker off the table
Rex is a plastic Tyrannosaurus-Rex with a lot of anxiety from an inferiority complex ("I don't think I could take that kind of rejection!") .He is insecure about his lack of ferociousness. He is voiced by Wallace Shawn. Rex's worst fear (after Sid) is that Andy will gain another, scarier dinosaur. He seems to have gained confidence throughout the movies expressing hope at the end of the first filkm that Andy will receive a leaf-eating dinosaur for Christmas that Rex can play with and intimidate.
Toy Story
In Toy Story, he states that he was made by a subsidiary of Mattel (Coincidentally, real-life Rex toys are now made by Hasbro.).
- "I don't like confrontations!"
- —Rex, after Woody accidentally knocks Buzz Lightyear out of the window
Rex tries to avoid confronting Woody when he is accused of trying to jealously kill Buzz Lightyear, but slowly and reluctantly turns against him under peer pressure, quickly experiencing guilt later on. He is known to have a queasy stomach and actually barfed when he saw Buzz's dismembered arm.
Toy Story 2
- Rex (gasps): "What are we going to do, Buzz?"
Buzz #2: "Use your head."
Rex: "But I don't wanna use my head!" - —Rex and "alternate" Buzz Lightyear, as the toys use Rex as a battering ram
It is revealed in the sequel that he is a video game fan and is very frustrated that he cannot beat the "Buzz Lightyear: Attack on Zurg" video game. He goes on a mission led by Buzz to rescue Woody after Woody is stolen by Al McWhiggin of Al's Toy Barn. After the toys enter Al's Toy Barn, Rex excitedly finds a "Buzz Lightyear" video game manual, only to lose it later, but is still able to give Buzz (the toys take an "alternate" Buzz instead) some secrets he has acquired from the manual. Rex is considered to be the heaviest of Andy's toys when he loses his grip on the new Buzz's utility line and pushes the toys to the bottom, causing the new Buzz's strength to give out. Later, "alternate" Buzz and the toys use Rex as a battering ram to break into Al's apartment.
Trivia
- 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."
- Rex makes a cameo in a blooper of Monsters, Inc..
- You can hear Rex's voice from Wallace Shawn in The Incredibles as Mr. Huph.
- While inside Al's Toy Barn, Rex jumps out of the car once, and while chasing the car to catch up, Mr. Potato Head views him in a rearview mirror. This is a parody of a scene in Jurassic Park when T-rex appears in a rearview mirror when chasing a crew in a jeep.
- According to Toy Story on Ice, Rex has a wife named Mrs. Rex.
