Chara Craft Finding Dory Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo

Chara Craft Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo Box

Release 2016.6

Price ¥2,500

BANDAI BANDAI Japan product info

The box is much bigger.

Runners

Nemo and Dory runners.

Fish tank runner.

A background picture for the fish tank is included too.

Both stickers and seals are included.

Parts diagram

Chara Craft Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo - Manual (1/4)

Chara Craft Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo - Manual (2/4)

Manual

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Chara Craft Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo - Various angles (1/6)

Chara Craft Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo - Various angles (2/6)

Chara Craft Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo - Various angles (3/6)

Chara Craft Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo - Various angles (4/6)

Various angles

Chara Craft Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo - The lid has a wave pattern, so when light hits it, it sparkles like rippling wate

The lid has a wave pattern, so when light hits it, it sparkles like rippling water as shown above.

Rear view.

Side view.

Chara Craft Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo - The pink coral reef pieces don't have any dedicated attachment points — you just

The pink coral reef pieces don't have any dedicated attachment points — you just set them in place. Because of this they tend to shift around, so in my case I used double-sided tape to keep them in position.

View with the coral reef removed.

Nemo and Dory are suspended in mid-air using the clear support stands at the back.

Any leftover accessory seals can apparently be applied wherever you like.

Chara Craft Panorama Craft Dory &Nemo - Together with the separately released Nemo / Dory kits. The scale and sculpt are

Together with the separately released Nemo / Dory kits. The scale and sculpt are completely different.

The third entry in the Chara Craft line is "Panorama Craft Dory & Nemo," released alongside Dory and Nemo. At first glance it might look like a combined package of the separately released Dory and Nemo kits, but it's actually a completely different kit — different in both size and form.

First off, it's smaller in scale than the individually released Dory/Nemo kits, and the color separation is less refined, so you'll need to rely heavily on stickers to achieve the intended colors. The real highlight of this kit, though, is the underwater diorama built from multiple clear plastic panels. As you can see in the photos above, three vertical panels and one horizontal wave-patterned panel sit on top, and Dory and Nemo are attached to the vertical clear panels using clear pins — creating a convincing illusion of them floating underwater.

On top of that, three large pink coral reef accessories are included and can be arranged inside the display, though there are no dedicated attachment pins, so you just plop them down wherever. In my case I went ahead and used double-sided tape since I didn't like them sliding around. There are also clear seals printed with various seaweed designs included, so you can add more decoration to your taste.

It's a character model kit with a different feel from the individually released Dory/Nemo kits, and the unique underwater diorama display alone gives it plenty of personality. That said, the price of ¥2500 is still on the steep side for what you get — but if you can get past the value-for-money concern, this is a fun little kit that Nemo and Dory fans should enjoy. :-)

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.