Dash-5 Dancing Doll

* Type-3
* Premium

The **Dash-5 Dancing Doll** (Japanese: ダッシュ５号 D.D.ダンシングドール, *Dasshu Go-gō Danshingu Dōru*) is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on March 13, 1990.

It was featured in manga and anime *Dash! Yonkuro* as Rinko Sumeragi's machine. It was also featured in the on-going manga *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*.

## General info

The Dancing Doll featuring the blocky body design that has the large blue cockpit piece that occupies the bodyshell from the front to the middle. There are fins that can be found on the bodyshell, with a pair of vertical fins on the top of the rear, a pair of horizontal fins on the sides of the rear and another pair of vertical fins on the side cowls. There's also a large fan on the back. On the side cowls, there's a pair of headlamps, placed just on front of the vertical fins. The front monoshock prop and rear dual damper prop can be found on the bodyshell.

The bodyshell is mainly in red, with white trims on it. The '5' and *CoroCoro Dragon* decals are also presents.

The standard model was equipped with the white, medium diameter 4-spoke Hotshot-type wheels paired with the black high-profile slick tires, while the Premium variant was equipped with the silver, large diameter 5-spoke TZ-type wheels with the black Avante-type slick tires. The standard model has its chassis molded in black, while, the Premium variant has its chassis frame molded in dark blue and the A parts and the easy locking gear cover were molded in yellow.

## In media

### *Dash! Yonkuro* series

In *Dash! Yonkuro*, Rinko received the car from her brother Kaidanji after the Dash Warriors was formed. The Dancing Doll has the large fan that spins to creates downforces, similar to the wing cars. Like the rest of the Dash machines, it is equipped with the chassis made of amorphous carbon-graphite composite material and gears made of polytetrafluoroethylene.

In *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*, the Dancing Doll was eventually replaced by the Dancing Divine Doll after the Dash Warrior's first win against Dark Dominion in the series of races. What happened to the Dancing Doll after that is unknown.

Due to *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro* ignores the events of *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*, it has two successors: The Dash-05 Dame the Dancing Doll and the aforementioned Dancing Divine Doll.

## Gallery

### Boxarts

Boxart of the original Dancing Doll.Boxart of the Premium variant.
### Manga and anime

Dash-5 Dancing Doll, as seen in *Dash! Yonkuro*.
## Trivia

* During the serialization of *Dash! Yonkuro* on *CoroCoro Comic* magazine, the Dancing Doll, along with Dash-4 Cannonball, weren't offcially named and their design wasn't finalized when they debuted. Those were corrected in the tankoubon version of the manga.
* In *Dash! Yonkuro*, the Dancing Doll is seen equipped with the white Disk Wheel Hub Set wheels.
	+ It also has the red tires in the anime adaptation.

## References

1. ↑ *Dash! Yonkuro*
2. ↑ PHASE 4 of *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*

## See also

### Rinko's Dancing Dolls

* Dash-05 Dame the Dancing Doll
* Dancing Divine Doll

### Related

* Dancing Bloom Doll - Hell Crow's machine based on the Dancing Doll and one of the Black Dash machines.

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Dash-5 Dancing Doll at Tamiya Japan
* Dash-5 Dancing Doll Premium at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Dash-5 Dancing Doll Premium at Tamiya America