Not quite a hectopus, but cool. A robot prototype, with camouflage capability.

hectopus chair made completely out of cardboard and hot glue
he’s a hectopus cuz he’s only got 6 legs
Hector the Hectopus by ~xForEverInMyDreamsx on deviantART.

Not as cute as Rainbow Hector, but if you absolutely must have a brightly-colored, smiling, multi-armed creature, this might do.

(Thanks, Robert!)

Karissa sends this snapshot by e-mail, noting that this creature is an impostor.

I think it has five legs rather than six, but it’s still worth a link.

Thanks for the suggestion, Rosemary.

Rainbow Hector’s eight-legged cousins are pretty cool, too. See an octopus solving a maze. (Via.)

Hi Dr. Jerz!

Attached are a couple photos of what Mike and I thought was a Hectopus wannabe. (Yes, we think of you when we see octopus toys, haha.) We were out shopping after Christmas and when we walked into a toy store this struck us as odd. The thing (erm, “Squiddo”) has a zipper for a mouth. A bit disturbing, really… And it only has four legs (for stability or tunnel-like appearance, perhaps?). Maybe he’s 50% off because he only has half the legs of the mighty Hectopus.

Karissa (and Mike, in absentia)

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Futuregirl writes:

Last January, I got the sweetest email from a woman named Lenore asking for the pattern for Octophrost. She told me:

“Every year I make a Christmas ornament for my grand and great grand children. I would love to make this little fellow. For Christmas 2006 I made 90 ornaments. Three more babies are expected that I know of so I may need to make near 100. That means starting early.”

Etsy:

Squids will also be wrapped up in their own storage box!

This squidtivity will be made upon ordering and colors may not be the same as those pictured.

This is most definitely not an octopus. Yanko Design.