Takara – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Young Link with Navi Plush

Character Name: Link and Navi
Series Name: The Legend of Zelda
Game: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Company: Takara (prior to the merge with TOMY)
Set: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time plush set
Year: 1998

This young Link plush is part of a 5-plush UFO catcher prize set released in Japan for the original Nintendo 64 release of Ocarina of Time, and I believe it may be the earliest Zelda plush set. In addition to young Link and Navi here, this set also included an adult Link, young Zelda, Darunia, and Ganondorf.

Zelda and young Link were the first in the set I got my hands on, purchased from the dealers’ room at an east coast anime convention in the early 2000s (either Katsucon or Otakon sometime around 2000 or 2001).

Young Link and Zelda plushes on display in my college dorm room in the early 2000s.