Sideshow Collectibles has officially unveiled a new Pokemon Snorlax diorama and opened pre-orders, giving collectors a premium polystone centrepiece featuring ten Pokemon in a lush picnic scene. The statue ships between May and August 2027, carries a price tag of $695, and is unambiguously aimed at the serious collector end of the Pokemon merchandise market. If you’ve been eyeing up a statement piece for your collection, here’s everything you need to know.
What’s in the Snorlax Diorama
The diorama depicts a peaceful picnic scene with Snorlax asleep beneath the branches of a tree beside a lush pond, surrounded by nine other Pokemon going about their business in the surrounding environment. The entire piece is sculpted in polystone with clear cast elements used for the pond’s water, giving it a realistic translucent quality that distinguishes it from a standard painted surface. Every character in the scene has been individually sculpted with distinct personality, rather than using generic poses — each Pokemon reads as part of the scene rather than just placed in it.
The full roster of Pokemon featured in the diorama:
- Snorlax (centrepiece, asleep under the tree)
- Eevee
- Pikachu
- Slowpoke
- Skwovet
- Greedent
- Munchlax
- Gulpin
- Sewaddle
- Applin
The character selection leans into the cozy, food-adjacent side of the Pokemon roster — Munchlax and Greedent as fellow eaters, Gulpin as a swallowing Pokemon, Applin the apple-dwelling Dragon-type — which feels deliberately thematic for a picnic scene built around the franchise’s most famous sleepy glutton.
Dimensions and Key Features
- Height: 13 inches
- Width: 13.63 inches
- Material: Polystone with clear cast pond elements
- Design inspiration: Animation-accurate character designs
- Estimated ship window: May to August 2027 (subject to change)
- Price: $695
At 13 inches in each dimension, this is not a shelf ornament — it’s a centrepiece that demands dedicated space. The combination of polystone sculpting, hand-applied paintwork, and clear cast water elements puts it firmly in the premium collectibles tier where the craft justifies the cost.
Who Made It
Sideshow has listed four individuals behind the diorama’s creation, giving a clear picture of the collaborative process that goes into a piece at this level:
- Racel Roubicek — design
- Gabriel Soares — sculpting
- Matias Cabrera — sculpting
- Kat Sapene — paintwork
Having the design and sculpting credits separated from the painting is standard for high-end polystone collectibles, and knowing who did what helps contextualise what the $695 is actually paying for. This isn’t a mass-produced figure — it’s a hand-crafted collaborative piece with individual creative contributions at each stage of production.
Is $695 a Reasonable Price?
Premium polystone dioramas at this scale and complexity routinely reach this price bracket across all major licence categories. The comparable point isn’t other Pokemon merchandise — it’s what a similarly sized, similarly detailed polystone diorama costs from Sideshow, Iron Studios, or XM Studios featuring other IP. At 13 inches tall with ten individually sculpted characters, a hand-painted finish, and clear cast water effects, $695 is at the lower end of what that combination typically commands.
For context, Sideshow’s other Pokemon pieces currently in development sit in a similar range. A life-size Eevee figure is available for pre-order at $530, a life-size Pikachu figure at $540, and a Charizard statue at $640. The Snorlax diorama is the most expensive of the current Pokemon lineup, which is consistent with its complexity — ten characters versus one, a full environmental scene versus a single figure, and significantly more surface area requiring paintwork.
Whether it’s reasonable for any individual collector comes down entirely to budget and priorities. For someone building a curated premium Pokemon collection with a dedicated display space, this is exactly the kind of piece that anchors a shelf. For the broader Pokemon fanbase, $695 is genuinely not accessible — and that’s fine, because this isn’t aimed at the broader Pokemon fanbase. Sideshow’s premium collectibles have always occupied a separate market from standard merchandise, and the Snorlax diorama sits squarely in that category.
How to Pre-Order
Pre-orders are live now directly through the Sideshow Collectibles website. The estimated ship window is May to August 2027, though Sideshow is explicit that this is an estimate and the timeline could be pushed back if production isn’t ready. Payment plans are typically available on Sideshow orders at this price point, which makes the upfront cost less of a barrier for collectors who want to spread the cost across several months.
Pokemon in 2027 — The Bigger Picture
The Snorlax diorama arrives in a year that’s already shaping up to be significant for the Pokemon franchise beyond collectibles. Pokemon: Winds and Waves, Game Freak’s Generation 10 mainline entry, is currently planned for a 2027 release with no specific date confirmed yet. It represents a milestone release — the franchise’s tenth generation — and carries the kind of expectations that come with a decade of generational history behind it.
On the video game side, Pokemon Pokopia remains one of 2026’s best-reviewed titles, sitting at an 89 on OpenCritic five months after its March 2026 launch. The life sim format was a genuine creative risk for a franchise that had never attempted it, and the payoff has been substantial both critically and commercially. With Pokopia still in active content support — the Version 2.0 update added underwater exploration and a substantial quality-of-life pass just this week — the franchise is in a healthy position heading into 2027’s slate.
For more gaming and collectibles news this week, check out the Reanimal The Prisoner DLC that shadow-dropped this week and the Luminous Nights Kingdom Hearts-like RPG revealed for 2027.
