I used to have the original. I used to use it not only for trivia entertainment purposes, but to listen to the 8 track tapes people were getting rid of. I learned a lot about the Beatles thanks to good ol' 2XL I wish I still had him along with my Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.
The 70's brought forth the dawn of the booming stereo systems with huge speakers. We didn't have booming stereo speakers that were small until the 90s. So if I were a teenager in the 70s and I was having a party at my house I wouldn't want to use the tiny little 1970s speakers in 2-XL to play the music we used for dancing like the teens were doing at 0:19.
A little needless, but interesting trivia. The inventor of both 2-XL's.. and the voice of them.. went on to invent the automated answering system all companies have right now. So, the next time you hear an automated menu, and are on hold for fifteen hours, blame 2-XL. That being said.. 2-XL was my favorite toy ever.
I wonder if my mother still has my old 2-XL anywhere. I pestered Mom into buying so many 2-XL tapes when I was that age. That Tri-Lex game was my favorite, with the checkers and the gamefield that you'd snap onto 2-XL's shoulders. I used to spank 2-XL at Tri-Lex all the time, but the game got tougher when I'd play against my brother instead of 2-XL. I think 2-XL was throwing some of those games on purpose, just to make me feel good. Getting beaten by a robot when you're 9 years old sucks.
@4thtroika You got that right!! I REALLY LOVED mine!!! I'd play with him 24/7!! I'd sometimes dress him up like a cowboy!! I'd put this little leather vest with embroidered horseshoes on it on him and a little red cowboy hat on top of him!! 2-XL DOES rule!! No doubt about that!!!
Don't know if anybody else did this but one day I just answered all of the trivia questions wrong. The robot actually got mad and made negative comments. TRUE STORY. Wish I still had it.....
Doesn't make sense, as the responses were only tape tracks. Each recording was only the response to the most recent question (or sometimes 2 questions, if they each only had 2 answers - that happened a time or two) so there was no way for it to "know" that you answered multiple questions wrong. There were definitely some snarky responses to a most recent wrong answer, but there was no logic for it to know if you answered "all" the questions wrong. But still, a really fun toy at the time.
@@MattMusselman the 90s version that used cassette instead of 8track could tally up your responses, which determined what he said at the end. I definetly remember pushing all the wrong answers so he'd be pissed at the end lol
I liked 2XL when I tried him out at a store. I don't think my parents wanted to get him for me because it cost $65.00. I should have asked them to get me the tapes to play on the 8-track player we had, but I didn't know that the tapes were standard 8-tracks. However, you had to cycle between the 4 stereo tracks on the player we had, and you couldn't jump directly to a track like you could on 2XL.
they brought back 2XL for the short-lived syndicated game show Pick Your Brain in 1993-94, with Marc Summers. A life sized version of him was used as the announcer.
@firespine345 BLASPHEMY! That sleek little blue thing is a pale impostor, and no cassette can match the clicketty-clicketty majesty of the 8-track. Tiger's 2-XL will NEVER defeat the old Mego vanguard!
