Source: Robot Posters & Books - theoldrobot.net
Wikipedia: 2-XL - Mego Corporation version
Technoan has a video demonstrating one of these, pretty cool!
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
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Oh man I had the more robot looking version as a kid.
Yea my younger brother had that when he was little. It was a 1990s reskin of the original.
Its a verry charming toy, i wish I had one
This thing looks an awful lot like the cartridge robot from that episode of Futurama, where Bender got a wooden body. I wonder if this was the inspiration: https://theinfosphere.org/Cartridge_Unit
Wow! nice catch!
I did a quick search and found other cartridge-robots, but they don't look as similar as this one
Source: 2 x Vintage Disc Bot Toy Robots and Cartridges - Rare / Hard to Find | eBay