
He finds his doodle pad by Molly's crib and asks out loud who put it there. In the original film, Rex is first seen when Woody is planning for a staff meeting. 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. 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. 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. 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. He fears being replaced or abandoned, either at the prospect of being thrown away or the arrival of a newer, more ferocious dinosaur toy. Though his vocabulary is fairly strong, he is somewhat absent-minded and tends to cause accidental mayhem due to his size and obliviousness. In the original story pitch for Toy Story, Rex's personality was mostly the same as in the final film (although his reaction to the birthday was even more horror-struck and devastated, where he clung to Slinky while sobbing and yelling that they're "doomed" mid-sobs), except that he also showed himself to get very angry and vengeful when Woody callously admits to throwing Buzz out of the window on purpose.ĭespite his portrayal as a ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex, Rex is ironically gentle, kind, and caring, and he hates any kind of argument or confrontation. Joss Whedon is credited with the creation of the Rex character. Rex was created as the token dinosaur for Andy's toy collection and has a similar build to the Tyrannosaurus from the Dino-Riders toy-line. Despite his endless worries and insecurities about his small roar, Rex always comes through for his pals. Background Official Description Rex may look like the most fearsome dinosaur in the toy box, but this tyrannosaurus is one of the most lovable toys of the bunch. While waiting for their connections to resume, users could click the dinosaur and play a running game offline. In 2014, the browser Chrome Canary featured a T-Rex with Short Arms on the "Can't Connect to the Internet" page. Since the popularity of these two examples, many other examples have been created by other webcomic authors, and many of these have been collected on Reddit or Tumblr.

Murphy published a book of his drawings on Octo. Of the five images he posted that day, the two most popular received 31,182 notes and 13,201 notes. On January 22, 2012, the Tumblr "T-Rex Trying" was founded by Hugh Murphy, devoted to comic sketches of a T-Rex attempting different tasks. Īs the comic gained in popularity, different people expanded the joke. Also in 2011, a t-shirt company called Goodie Two Sleeves used a drawing of a "Sad T-Rex" trying to clap its hands on a popular set of t-shirts and pins, which grew in popularity after they were posted on Reddit by the user firefucker. In 2011, the comic was reposted first by Fuck_You_Im_Scottish, then by user wrong_game, netting 366 points (88% upvoted) and 581 points (86% upvoted) respectively. In 2009, a webcomic called "Sad T-Rex" by Christian Blethen, was posted to /r/funny and received 148 votes (84% upvoted).

The comic features a family of Tyrannosaurs at a dinner table where the parents are in mid-argument over the father’s inability to pass the mashed potatoes due to the length of his forearms.
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The history of the joke precedes its usage in webcomics by decades, with its earliest known appearance in print found in an illustration from Gary Larson's single-panel comic series The Far Side, published circa the mid-1980s. I’m just not sure how well this plan was thought through." Tiny then says “I have a big head, and tiny arms.

In the clip, the character Tiny the Dinosaur (voiced by Joe Mateo) chases Lewis Robinson into a corner, but ultimately fails to restrain him because of his small arms. The first known online instance of the joke can be found in a YouTube clip of a scene from the 2007 Disney CGI animated film Meet The Robinsons, uploaded by YouTuber Tallworm on April 7th, 2007.
