Hello again, good people...today I was shuffling through a bin of junk I'd left under my bed and forgotten for years, and I found a storybook on 'The Sectaurs'. Since I hadn't done anything for this page for a few days, having gone out buying Masters of the Universe and Transformer toys instead, this discovery was all the inspiration I needed!
This was a very short lived show...like 5-episodes short. The toy line lasted about a year, but held some very cool toys while it was there. Apparently these warriors were from the planet 'Symbion' and were telepathically bonded to big bugs because of the boomerang things glued to their foreheads. Some of the bugs were small and useless, and came from the same agency as Snarf and Orko, and some of them were big badass monsters. However, these guys were birthed in the midst of the robot age...and what with super-powers like Transformers, GoBots, RoboForce, Masters of the Universe, and GI Joe on the shelves; the poor Sectaurs were doomed.

Since the show was brief and probably on in the same slot as something else I actually liked, I don't really remember much about it, other then that both good and bad guys seemed not to quite realize the battle-potential of GIANT KILLER BUGS, opting instead for whips and small swords. The toys included all sorts of accessories that now occupy the bottom of a box otherwise filled with broken gobots, those hologram shields from the early Marvel figures, and a half Dozen of those bats from Hordak and his crew. The actual figures weren't very exciting either...the good guys were pretty much all the same, and the bad guys were a little more diverse but didn't appear any more menacing then a hot pop-tart. I traded any figures I had for GI Joes long ago, during a frenzy to get back some guys after a sleepover where too much caffeine and too little sleep caused me to actually trade 2 WHOLE GI JOES and their accesories for ONE BLOODY BACKPACK. Yes, one little GI Joe backpack...but it was special! Because it opened up! And inside were three tiny pieces you could take out and plug together and they MADE A GUN! HOLY &*$!*&%$!!!! I had to have it...and as of then I said 'Farewell, Air Viper, Farewell Alley Viper...Hello sniper gun backpack!" The downside? Oh, not much...just that the gun never stayed together, and it was impossible for figures to hold when it did, and the pieces were impossibly tiny and immediately scattered to the nine winds and...
A-hem. Sectaurs.

I'm forgetting the best feature, though, and the only reason these toys made any sort of impression on me...and that's the big vehicles. There were only a couple of these, but they were truly nifty. Trancula, Dragonflyer, and The Spiderflyer were decent-looking bugs; but the feature was that their body/legs were made to be gloves you could put on. So you could actually stick your hand in and really control the little buggers. Trancula was great because it was a big hairy spider and if you operated well, you could scare the bejeezus out of the whole family! YAY! And the other two had these motirzed wings that went pretty fast and made a very, very annoying noise that you could pretty much terrorize everyone with.

And now...brum-brum-brum-brrrruuuummmmmmm...A CONTEST!
Huzzah! If you didn't see the Advertisement for it on the main page, here it is again! Nerdcore is presenting it's first ever contest and YOU can possibly win! Just give us a caption for the picture at the top of this page(The Sectaur guy). Photoshop the whole thing, or just send us the words...we'll be taking submissions for a couple weeks, and if yours is picked you get credited on the main page(whoopee) as well as a special NERDCORE GRAB BAG! Full of all sorts of bizarre and nifty stuff, guaranteed! Just ship those submissions to TheNerdcore@hotmail.com

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