Hasegawa kits are imported into North America by Hobbico's Great Planes Model Distributor division.

[citation needed] Hasegawa ended their long-time agreement with Dragon Models Limited for US distribution in early 2010.

[3] Over the years, around 100 versions of this kit has emerged in the stores with some minor changes in decals, extra parts or boxart.

At times the line has included re-releases of kits manufactured by Frog and Monogram, as well as other minor specialty brands.

Hasegawa, like many of its competitors, produces a nearly complete lineup of Imperial Japanese Air Force and Navy types from World War II.

Included in its aircraft selection are some Science Fiction types, specifically of the Macross series Valkyrie transformable fighters, which are modelled in their jet-fighter forms (see below).

among the best in this scale as well, these kits depict mainly World War II fighter aircraft, with a few modern jets and a few oddities such as the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch military liaison plane.

Notably, the Mitsubishi Zero A6M5 model was created under the supervision of Jiro Horikoshi,[citation needed] designer of the actual craft.

[29] Since the mid-70's, Hasegawa has produced four kits in this series, museum quality skeleton models of early 20th century aircraft.

Examples include the Rotary engines from the Fokker Dr.I and Sopwith Camel, and the Spandau and Lewis machine guns from these kits respectively.

Hasegawa has found success in producing kits of subjects that were somewhat ignored[citation needed] by the larger model manufacturers.

The quality of these kits can vary from very simple construction with few details, to those with very high fidelity, rivaling Tamiya or Revell's best efforts.

Hasegawa has produced various of kits of the following motorcycles in 1/12 scale: Also called the "Minibox" series, this features military vehicles (mostly World War II, with a few modern) designed to be compatible with the 1/72 aircraft.

Currently, this consists of spacecraft and mecha from the Macross and Ultraman television/film series, as well as subjects from the Virtual On video game franchise (especially Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Force and Marz Virtuaroids) and Maschinen Krieger universe.

Though definitely not "true scale" models, Hasegawa also produces a line of small aircraft called Egg Planes.

Subjects today include a wider range of World War II fighters, modern combat aircraft, helicopters, and even Macross Valkyries.