Osato's Kingdom of the Wind - Macross Kite Collection

[jvmacross]

With Springtime here...what better way to forget about the global pandemic than by flying a kite?  And not just any kite...a vintage Macross kite!!

Ride the Wind!!!

As previously mentioned in some of my other collector's posts...Ohsato (or Osato, depending on what type of collectible you are referring to) was a prolific supplier of arguably the cheapest Macross collectibles of the SDFM era.  They made everything from rubber keshi figurines to pool floats and several things in between.  Some the best aspects of the Osato Macross offerings are their colorful and highly illustrated packaging...often taking extreme liberties with the characters and the "canon" abilities of the mecha from the show.

Ohsato Macross products are by no means the best collectibles that were offered during the SDFM era, but to me they represent exactly who this show was originally geared to....young kids into cool transforming robots!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 6, 2021 by jvmacross

[jvmacross]

The vast amount of items released by Ohsato during the SDFM era makes it very difficult to know exactly how many different items or lines were created under their Macross/Big West license.

It seems at least once a year for the past several years, something that I have never seen before suddenly sees the light...either posted somewhere or sold on auction or retail.

To date, there are 10 known varieties of the kind of kites listed in the previously posted catalog.  I have only managed to acquire 6 of them to date and I have no hopes of ever finding the other 4 known variants or, let alone, ever knowing how many were actually produced.

These are the six different Ohsato Macross kite variants I currently have locked away inside my Ohsato archives....

Other than the sizes, I am not exactly certain if there is any other differences between what they maketed as "Mobile Kites", "Special Mobile Kites", and "American Kites"...which seem to have come in a smaller size.  Hopefully, I will someday be able to add more to the Ohsato Macross Kite Collection!  Ride the Wind!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonus!  An Orguss kite that was included in a lot I purchased on YJA.....several of the 80's anime got their chance of aerial glory with a kite release from Ohsato!

Edited April 22, 2020 by jvmacross

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"Kingdom of the Wind"

Kind of prophetic considering Delta....

 

I would've loved to have one of those as a young'n.... but I'd have likely destroyed it as I never was good at flying a kite lol

[jvmacross]

Well, it wouldn't have been much of a financial loss to your parents back in 1983....nothing from Ohsato was all that expensive....I think of most of Ohsato's Macross offerings as being a cheap way for parent's to placate a whining kid's demands for one of those expensive Takatoku Macross toys he just saw on the dang TV!