Monster Of The Month - Ookondru

The Giant Condor (Also known as "Gai," "Ookondru,""Oowashi", or Daikondru) is a monster featured very briefly in the film Godzilla vs the Sea Monster.

In the film, the Giant Condor briefly grapples with Godzilla, but it proves to be nothing more then a nuisance for the King of the Monsters, who roasts it with his atomic breath. Its charred corpse plummets into the ocean, the Giant Condor disappearing as suddenly as it appeared.

The giant condor appears once more in Godzilla's Revenge which Godzilla destroyed with his atomic ray, it's body then proceeds to fall in the ocean. Originally, the Condor was meant to be an opponent for King Kong, as he originally featured in the script for Godzilla Vs. the Sea Monster, but was replaced with Godzilla during production due to problems with Rankin-Bass, the current owners of the Kong rights.

Trivia
*The giant condor was presumably put on the island by the terrorists Red Bamboo like Ebirah
*The Giant Condor was considered for Godzilla: Final Wars.