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Sectaurs: The HYVE Playset!

A new article has been Chestnuts Roasted. I've talked about Sectaurs before, but not lately, and I never got to talk about one of my absolute favorite toys ever at length, because up until a few months ago, I never owned it. "The Hyve" was the one and only playset in the 80's Sectaurs line, seeming so immense, so cool and so rife with spider puppets in the commercials that it actually turned up in the sleepytime dreams of my youth. Now that I have it, I can confirm that it really is cool, really is immense, and really is rife with spider puppets. I love The Hyve, and you will too. You'd better, because I wrote almost 4,000 words about it.

EDIT: So, I'm going to try a little experiment soon -- X-Entertainment's August Megaparty. It's a big name for a small thing: I just want to update the blog with new content every day in August. No themes like the Halloween Countdown, no set lengths, nothing -- it's just a promise to update with something every day in August, and see where it goes. It could be as simple as picking out the first thing I see in my office and writing about it, or as EXTRAVAGANT as actually going out on the town to find white hot blazing content. I dunno, I guess I like my personal challenges manageable.

Posted by Matt on 07/23/2006. E-mail me!



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My comment is a bit late…Just wanted to say thanks for bringing back some great memories. I had The Hyve, and Dargon and his dragonfly. I loved those toys, but had forgotten about them until just now. I guess I was pretty lucky back then to have this and so many other great toys.

PS. I had a stuffed ALF, and I carried him everywhere too. Thanks Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Maj @ 03/20/2007 6:51 AM


Oh, man. My brother and I had The Hyve, along with the entirety of the Sectaurs line. We were obsessed with it – the one toy line two quarrelsome brothers could agree on. And how could you not, really?

The reason we had all the toys was because we got them the year AFTER they were popular, and could be bought at a discount department store for a few dollars. I think the combined amount of everything (Hyve included) came to about fifty or sixty bucks.

But let me tell you, having those toys even after their expiration date was amazing, if only because the Hyve was so imposing yet so generic. It was a base for every one of our action figures, from He-Man to G.I. Joe to Transformers. So I guess we really got a lot of value out of it as wel.

Chestnuts roasted by Shawn II @ 06/19/2007 4:55 AM


Great Article on the Hyve!
It’s so sad to hear to that Sectaurs only lived for 1 year….in my mind they were one of the popular lines of toys that lasted for multiple years…..sigh….how the young mind plays tricks on you…..

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 11/15/2008 3:29 PM


This is the greatest website ever. Thank you for this labor of love.

Chestnuts roasted by dbza @ 05/14/2009 9:20 PM


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