Wreck-It Ralph premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on October 29, 2012, [7] and went into general release on November 2. The 2012 3D computer-animated family comedy film from Walt Disney Animation Studios brought us the entertaining tale of an arcade-game character who rebels against his villain role and strives to become a hero, traveling between games in an effort to save the arcade. Before production, the existing characters were added to the story either in places they would make sense to appear or as cameos from a list of characters suggested by the film's creative team, without consideration if they would legally be able to use the characters. John Lasseter, the head of Walt Disney Animation Studios and executive producer of the film, describes Wreck-It Ralph as "an 8-bit video-game bad guy who travels the length of the arcade to prove that he's a good guy. The soundtrack also features the songs " Celebration", "Bug Hunt" ( Skrillex and Noisia remix), and " Shut Up and Drive".

The concept of Wreck-It Ralph was first developed at Disney, in the late 1980s, under the working title High Score.Nintendo had asked that the producers try to devise a scene that would be similarly appropriate for Mario for his inclusion in the film. Remembering from Hero's Duty that a beacon will draw and destroy the Cy-Bugs, Ralph battles Turbo and collapses the Mentos roof of Diet Cola Mountain, creating a glowing eruption that lures and destroys Turbo and the Cy-Bugs. Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times said, "The movie's subversive sensibility and old-school/new-school feel are a total kick," [76] while Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "With a mix of retro eye-candy for grown-ups and a thrilling, approachable storyline for the tykes, the film casts a wide and beguiling net. At this point, a fourth game world, Extreme Easy Living 2, would have been introduced and was considered a "hedonistic place" between the social nature of The Sims and the open-world objective-less aspects of Grand Theft Auto, according to Moore.

Rich Moore, the film's director, had determined that for a film about a video-game world to feel authentic, "it had to have real characters from real games in it. Unaware of this development, King Candy attempts to ram Vanellope off the track, causing them both to glitch. Set within the movie's universe, the mockumentary film was designed as a parody of The King of Kong. Scott of The New York Times wrote, "The movie invites a measure of cynicism—which it proceeds to obliterate with a 93-minute blast of color, noise, ingenuity and fun.WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Children under 8 years can choke or suffocate on uninflated or broken balloons. A second trailer for the film was released on September 12, 2012, coinciding with Finding Nemo 3D and Frankenweenie, along with its final updated movie poster.