Rex returns in the third film, as he eagerly awaits the opportunity to finally get played with by children again. In the outtakes, the toys use him as a battering ram, only for Rex to hurt his head when banged against the locked grate. Just as Zurg is about to finish Buzz off (at point blank range), Rex turns away, not bearing to look anymore, but his tail lashes out and knocks Zurg down the elevator shaft, making him feel overjoyed about finally defeating Zurg at the elevator.Īt the end of the film when Hamm is playing the video game, he asks Rex for help, but Rex proudly replies, "I don't need to play I've lived it!"
When the toys later go down the elevator after Al leaves the room with Woody and the Roundup gang, Rex witnesses the duel between New Buzz and an Emperor Zurg action figure. Later, New Buzz and the toys use Rex's head as a battering ram to break into Al's apartment. Rex is considered to be the heaviest of Andy's toys as when he loses his grip on New Buzz's utility belt grappling hook and pushes the toys to the bottom, causing the new Buzz's strength to give out.
He later attracts Utility Belt Buzz (unaware he wasn't Andy's Buzz) with his claim of knowing how to defeat Zurg. Unable to retrieve it, Rex catches up with the moving car and falls in headfirst. While riding with the other toys in a convertible, Rex blocks Tour Guide Barbie's view with the guidebook, causing the car to crash into a container of bouncy balls and losing the guidebook as a result. He is later heard talking incessantly about the guidebook to Potato Head, much to the latter's annoyance. After the toys enter Al's Toy Barn, Rex excitedly finds a "Buzz Lightyear" video game strategy guide. Thinking he is prepared with his video game experiences, Rex accompanies Buzz, Potato Head, Hamm, and Slinky on their mission to rescue Woody.
He is then seen channel-hopping in an attempt to find Al's Toy Barn commercial, but Hamm eventually takes over, doing it far more rapidly. Rex later inadvertently destroys the toys' presentation of Woody's kidnapping after he is stolen by Al McWhiggin of Al's Toy Barn, asking them how to write FBI in order to contact their help. He is first seen playing the Buzz Lightyear: Attack on Zurg video game, which terminates with Buzz being destroyed by Emperor Zurg, much to Rex's dismay and Buzz's disappointment, who says that Rex almost had it and that he should be a better Buzz than he is. Rex has a larger role in the second film. Toy Story 2 "You'd think with all my video game experience, I'd be feeling more prepared." -Rex, as he leaves on a mission organized by Buzz to rescue Woody He is known to have a queasy stomach and actually "barfed" when he saw Buzz's severed arm.īy the end of the film, he seems to have gained confidence throughout the movies expressing hope that Andy will receive a leaf-eating dinosaur for Christmas that Rex can play with and intimidate. Rex tries to avoid confronting Woody when he is accused of trying to jealously kill Buzz (although mostly because he doesn't want confrontation from either side) as Woody was being ambushed the first time Rex watched in horror, but slowly and reluctantly turns against him under peer pressure, quickly experiencing guilt later on when Bo Peep sees Woody with Buzz on RC. When Buzz Lightyear first came to Andy's room, he was just as amazed by him as all the other toys (as well as greatly relieved that Buzz wasn't another dinosaur) and even managed to become more fierce with his roar thanks to Buzz. When the surprise present is unveiled to the kids and Sarge reports it, but is unable to ascertain the identity of the present, Rex ends up inadvertently wrecking the baby monitor due to his shaking the bedside due to impatiently wanting to know the identity of the surprise present. He is also shocked along with the toys when he learns that Andy's "birthday" was moved from the Wednesday of the following week to the current day, and expresses fear of his being replaced, especially if it was another carnivore-based dinosaur toy as he wouldn't take that rejection well. He learns to his dismay that the roar he emitted did not even come close to scaring Woody, and in fact it actually came off as annoying. In the beginning of the film, Rex attempts to try out his roar to Woody after luring him there by stealing his doodle pad. Toy Story "But what if Andy gets another dinosaur, a mean one? I just don't think I could take that kind of rejection!" -Rex thinks he's getting replaced