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{{Infobox attraction
| name = Rex's Racer
| park = [[Shanghai Disneyland]]
| land = Disney·Pixar Toy Story Land
| type = Steel shuttle coaster — half pipe
| opened = April 26, 2018
| designer = [[Walt Disney Imagineering]]
| manufacturer = Intamin
| height = 120 cm (48 in) minimum rider height; track rises about 82 ft (25 m)
| status = Operating
}}

'''Rex's Racer''' is a steel shuttle roller coaster in Disney·Pixar Toy Story Land at [[Shanghai Disneyland]]. Riders board RC, Andy's remote-control car from the ''Toy Story'' films, and are launched back and forth along a towering U-shaped orange track — a full-size version of a toy car track set — climbing higher with every pass. It is the Shanghai edition of [[RC Racer]], which first opened at [[Walt Disney Studios Park]] in Paris in 2010 and at [[Hong Kong Disneyland]] in 2011, renamed and re-hosted for Shanghai by Rex, the anxious toy dinosaur, with Trixie alongside. It opened on April 26, 2018, as the headline ride of Toy Story Land, the park's first major expansion.<ref>{{cite web |title=RC Racer |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC_Racer |website=Wikipedia |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref>

== History ==

Shanghai Disneyland opened in June 2016 with six lands; Toy Story Land, announced before the park opened, became its seventh when it debuted on April 26, 2018, set in Andy's backyard and built around oversized toys and garden plants. The land opened with three rides — Rex's Racer, Slinky Dog Spin and Woody's Roundup — of which the racer was by some distance the most intense.<ref>{{cite web |title=Toy Story Land opens at Shanghai Disneyland |url=https://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/201804/6074/ |website=Theme Park Insider |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref>

The ride system was not new. Intamin's Half Pipe Coaster had already proven itself in Paris and Hong Kong under the RC Racer name, and Shanghai received the same basic installation: a single car on an open, semicircular track. What changed was the hosting. In Shanghai the fiction is that Rex and Trixie are playing with Andy's RC track set, and large figures of the two dinosaurs stand by the ride — a small change that gave the land's signature ride a name of its own rather than a copy of Hong Kong's.

== Experience ==

The queue winds through the backyard theming to a station styled as part of the toy track set. Riders board the RC car in rows and secure themselves for a ride that is essentially one repeated motion done very well: the car is launched out of the station up one side of the half-pipe, falls back through the station gaining speed, and climbs the opposite wall, each pass carrying it higher until it is reaching close to the top of a structure about 82 feet (25 metres) tall.

At the top of each climb the car slows almost to a stop, nearly vertical, giving a moment of weightlessness and a brief, oddly quiet view over the backyard before gravity takes over again. After several passes the launches ease off and the car settles back into the station. The whole cycle is short — the ride trades duration for intensity — and with a minimum rider height of 120 centimetres (48 inches) it is aimed squarely at older children and adults, standing out sharply in a land of otherwise gentle rides.<ref>{{cite web |title=Comparing Toy Story Lands around the World |url=https://www.skywaytowonderland.com/comparing-toy-story-lands-around-the-world/ |website=Skyway to Wonderland |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Shanghai Disneyland]]
* [[RC Racer]]
* [[Toy Story Land]]
* [[Hong Kong Disneyland]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Attractions]]
[[Category:Shanghai Disneyland]]
[[Category:Roller coasters]]
[[Category:Pixar]]

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