True Love

Cowboy by Frank D. Richardson
DISCLAIMER: Now kids, we all know that 2-XL has taught us in no uncertain terms that smoking is bad for you. He's just being presented as a Clint Eastwood style cowboy here. Remember: 2-XL has no lungs. You do.

Fame by Frank D. Richardson
As kids Frank and I would write scripts and record them on audio tape, starring ourselves as the heroes. We'd write in lines from 2-XL tapes as 2-XL's dialogue to make it sound like he was in the adventure with us. So ten years later, we're all adults and making lots of videos, and for fun I wrote a new script called "2-XL versus the Mafia," where 2-XL partners up with an FBI agent to take down some inept mobsters. It was a silly but ambitious (yet filmable) script, using all dialogue that I knew I could get from 2-XL tapes. We thought we might be able to gut a couple of our extra 2-XLs to make them "stunt robots," adding wheels to try and make a remote controled 2-XL so he would move on his own. So one day we were discussing ideas on how to do this over dinner in a pizza parlor or some other restaraunt. Frank's the kind of guy who's always doodling on anything he can get his hands on, so he grabs the bill and draws this little sketch of 2-XL's reaction to our asking him to be in our latest video.
(Also, underneath Frank's cartoon is a sketch I did of 2-XL's underside showing where I envisioned the wheels would come out, along with a little propeller to help boost him over things.)

Please Put Litter In Its Place by Frank D. Richardson
It's been a long running gag around here that my wife Joy has this jealous resentment of 2-XL. Can't imagine why anyone would think that. Here's Frank's take on it starring Joy, 2-XL and me.

Character Sheet by Frank D. Richardson
When an animation studio designs a character, they'll draw a page of the character doing lots of different things with lots of different expressions, to get an idea of that character's range. Frank made a similar page just for fun, with 2-XL singing, dancing, happy, angry, and lots of other amusing sketches.

Playing with 2-XL by Frank D. Richardson
A fun little "realistic" comic strip of 2-XL doing his usual thing with Frank and me when we were kids.

Brothers by Fer Goodnough
I originally drew this back in 1992 when the Tiger 2-XL was released. What would these 2-XLs say to each other if they could? This is how the conversation unfolded in my mind...

2-XL and Goofy by Fer Goodnough
Here's another one of my surviving drawings. As I mentioned above, I would just include 2-XL as a character in my cartoon doodles. Here he's getting annoyed that he doesn't get better scenes.

Tales of the B.P. Buddies by Fer Goodnough.
Here are a few scenes from a comic book I did in 1986 starring 2-XL, Frank, myself, and another friend of ours named Conor. It's a good example of how my stuff was always in pencil and hasn't held up well. Plus this one has people in it, and if you thought my 2-XL art was bad, my people are worse. NOTE: After looking at this image on a couple different monitors, I've noticed it can look either too dark or too washed out. For the lighter version, click the name or the icon; for the darker version, click here.

2-XL Desktop #5a by Keith at www.spoofpark.com.
And so we begin the series of beautifully rendered CGI artwork, bringing 2-XL into the 21st century...

2-XL Desktop #6b by Keith at www.spoofpark.com.
Fer's personal favorite.

2-XL Desktop #7a by Keith at www.spoofpark.com.
I like this perspective. Mighty tall for a 12-inch robot! This must be how he looks to the Smalls in the Cult of Marty (below).

2-XL Desktop #8a by Keith at www.spoofpark.com.
Up close and personal.

2-XL Desktop #8b by Keith at www.spoofpark.com.
We've got power! "Thank you for turning me on!"

2-XL Desktop #9a by Keith at www.spoofpark.com.
Slightly larger and more artsy classic look. Good to use if you've got a lot of icons on your desktop.

2-XL Desktop #10a by Keith at www.spoofpark.com.
"But you can call me Brainy, because I am so bright."

2-XL Desktop #10b by Keith at www.spoofpark.com.
The classic look. Less special effects, but he's still got that glow. :) I think this one recaptures the feeling of 2-XL the best.

2-XL Desktop #10c by Keith at www.spoofpark.com.
And with a logo!
Larger bitmap versions that can be used as your desktop designs are available in the 2-XL IN CYBERSPACE section.

2-XL FAN PHOTOS
The Cult of Marty by Jason at wearesmall.com.
This is a fantastic creation by Jason of wearesmall.com. If you haven't been to that site, you should. It's a world populated by customized Mego action figures (who also interact with the outside world from time to time as well). Here is the Cult of Marty worshipping their fellow Mego and Small God. And check out the program he's got, is that too perfect or what?

Cuddly Couple II
2-XL with my cat Lancelot. This is actually the second in a series, but I need to find the first one. This one was meant to be staged as if 2-XL was actually looking in on Lance.

B.P. Buddies
Collectively, Frank, 2-XL, and I, along with another friend of ours named Conor, called ourselves the B.P. Buddies. Here's a group photo of us. From left to right is Frank, Fer (then called Chris), and Conor. 2-XL is peeking out from behind my feet. We used this photo as the cover to our tape of sketches.

A Decade Later
Fast forward to 1991. Frank and I are now in our early 20s but some things haven't changed. Here we are trying to look cool for the camera with our mutual childhood friend.

Frank and 2-XL circa 1994
Frank lived with Joy and I for about 6 months. During that time he went into a big 2-XL revival. I'm pretty sure this photo was not staged in any way... I just walked into the room and found him like this, so I figured "THAT is Kodak moment." I could tell you more funny stories about that hat, but this is the only one related to 2-XL. Maybe if we ever do a B.P. Buddies website...

Frank and Fer with our first 2-XL t-shirts
Here's Frank and I at age 35 wearing 2-XL T-shirts at Otakon 2004.

2-XL t-shirts (back)
And here's the back of the shirts.

2-XL FAN VIDEOS
So far we've only actually made one video about 2-XL, which was a 1-minute tribute video. I just walked in on Frank filming 2-XL one day and before you know it we had come up with this. (You know, we made more videos that way. Frank's just a creative guy.) It's set to the music from "2-XL and the Time Machine," which we both consider to be one of the definitive pieces of 2-XL music.
2-XL Music Video .mpg file at 9.5 MB.
Recommended, but it's a BIG file.
2-XL Music Video Real Player .rm file at 863k.

A Note about the video files: After much thought and testing, I've decided to put the video files up as both mpeg files and Real Player Media files. The mpeg files are much larger in size and have much better quality, but will of course take longer to open or download, and I was able to get them to work in most players. The Real Player files are lower in quality but also much lower in size so they're much easier to play, assuming your computer can handle a Real Player machine. (Bit of a catch-22 there.)

In most cases, right-clicking on the 2-XL Video Icon will most likely activate the appropriate video player plug-in and play it as a streaming video file. You can also left-click on it and then select "Save Target As" and save it to your hard drive, and then play it yourself.