GeminiJets is IMPROVING in 2026: GeminiJets Survey Results!

[CM Aviation]

Before I make this post, I want to share that I think it's important to follow up on this topic from earlier in the year. Moving forward, I plan to share more straightforward, non-subjective subjects such as all the new Boeing B727's GeminiJets is making, model price increases, etc. These are stats from various methods of collection. Open discussion is welcome, but let's do it in a way that's reasonable for everyone.

Earlier this year, JJ and I discussed whether GeminiJets is actually improving, and the reactions across social media were mixed. So we ran a community survey across YouTube, Instagram, Discord, Facebook, MAF, and other collector groups to see what different collectors think. We did the best we could to collect as many different opinions and collecting groups as possible. We ended up getting 125+ responses, and most of the feedback came from long-time collectors who have seen GeminiJets through multiple eras of the hobby.

Some key stats from the survey:

• 86%: respondents primarily collect 1:400 scale
• 41%: have been collecting for 7+ years
• 50%: have been collecting for 1-7 years
• <8%: brand new collectors

How collectors rate GeminiJets today:

• 20%: Excellent
• 45%: Good
• 21%: Average
• 19%: Poor

2/3's rate GeminiJets as good or excellent!

Has GeminiJets improved vs the 2018-2023 era?

• 37%: Slightly improved
• 36%: Significantly improved
• 18%: About the same
• 7%: Declined

73% of collectors say GeminiJets has improved!

Broken models/durability question:

• 65%: Receiving fewer broken models now
• 35%: No noticeable improvement

How GeminiJets compares to other brands today:

• 33%: About the same
• 32%: Slightly worse
• 28%: Better or significantly better
• 7%: Significantly worse

The takeaway is simple to us: most collectors feel that GeminiJets today is noticeably better than it was a few years ago, but collectors still feel consistency/models need to continue improving.

 

[1.400_modelaviation]

Great that you’ve gone out and tried to gather how the community feel but this is still flawed.

- A sample of 125, that’s a small sample in the grand scheme of 400 scale
- Collecting between 1-7 years is a huge gap in time. Someone collecting for 1 year vs 6 years is probably going to have a completely different eye/feeling for the hobby
- 40% of your survey saying Gemini is average or poor vs 65% good or excellent? Thats not a great stat. So saying that 2/3 think it’s good or excellent, I wouldn’t say is a good thing. Feels like you’ve worded that to sound more positive than it actually is.

Finally, back to the same issue of the original video. 1 or 125 people’s opinions does not mean “The takeaway is simple to us: most collectors feel that GeminiJets today is noticeably better than it was a few years ago, but collectors still feel consistency/models need to continue improving” 125 people do not speak on the thousands of 1/400 collectors behalf. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinions on Gemini jets and every other brand & simply we did not need a video about it.

 

[pommy80]

From what I have personally seen, yes, GJ have improved lately compared to what they were doing, even pre COVID... However, they are still way behind their other competitors.

They are still my last resort for any model release.

 

[CM Aviation]

Great that you’ve gone out and tried to gather how the community feel but this is still flawed.

- A sample of 125, that’s a small sample in the grand scheme of 400 scale
- Collecting between 1-7 years is a huge gap in time. Someone collecting for 1 year vs 6 years is probably going to have a completely different eye/feeling for the hobby
- 40% of your survey saying Gemini is average or poor vs 65% good or excellent? Thats not a great stat. So saying that 2/3 think it’s good or excellent, I wouldn’t say is a good thing. Feels like you’ve worded that to sound more positive than it actually is.

Finally, back to the same issue of the original video. 1 or 125 people’s opinions does not mean “The takeaway is simple to us: most collectors feel that GeminiJets today is noticeably better than it was a few years ago, but collectors still feel consistency/models need to continue improving” 125 people do not speak on the thousands of 1/400 collectors behalf. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinions on Gemini jets and every other brand & simply we did not need a video about it.

Everybodies opinion is different, but as mentioned, we did the best we could with the sample we have.

 

[JJ Skippy]

Great that you’ve gone out and tried to gather how the community feel but this is still flawed.

- A sample of 125, that’s a small sample in the grand scheme of 400 scale
- Collecting between 1-7 years is a huge gap in time. Someone collecting for 1 year vs 6 years is probably going to have a completely different eye/feeling for the hobby
- 40% of your survey saying Gemini is average or poor vs 65% good or excellent? Thats not a great stat. So saying that 2/3 think it’s good or excellent, I wouldn’t say is a good thing. Feels like you’ve worded that to sound more positive than it actually is.

Finally, back to the same issue of the original video. 1 or 125 people’s opinions does not mean “The takeaway is simple to us: most collectors feel that GeminiJets today is noticeably better than it was a few years ago, but collectors still feel consistency/models need to continue improving” 125 people do not speak on the thousands of 1/400 collectors behalf. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinions on Gemini jets and every other brand & simply we did not need a video about it.

Surveys aren’t meant to get responses from everyone in a community, as they are always the responses from a sampling of a community — like you said, there’s thousands in this community, but the logistics of getting a response from everyone in the community is nearly impossible. There’s only so much we can do with the audiences we have, so expecting say 5,000 responses is very unrealistic.

I’d bet if you ran a survey, you would be lucky to get as many responses as we did

 

[jkim1123]

This idea might only be applicable to certain factors like mould accuracy and printing quality, but perhaps an alternative method to more objectively assess whether GeminiJets (or pretty much any model manufacturer) has improved is to compare tons of models throughout the years and see how much they closely match their real-life counterparts. Doing this would of course require keeping as many aspects consistent as possible (airline, aircraft, livery, scale, brand, etc.). And preferably, this evaluation would be done in-person. It’s like performing a scientific experiment, where you control various factors to ensure a fair comparison and score performances with consistent criteria. And a critical control factor to keep constant is the person conducting the experiment.

I think by doing this, you’ll not only be able to acquire a bigger sense of how Gemini performs in terms of realism, but also can circumvent the issue of misinterpreting mixed, ambiguous responses. The survey might provide a little bit of indication to an extent, but because everyone has widely differing perceptions of what’s good or excellent, I don’t think the survey responses should be utilized as the sole source for drawing conclusions. From my POV, further research may be needed to supplement the information you've gathered.

 

[CM Aviation]

This idea might only be applicable to certain factors like mould accuracy and printing quality, but perhaps an alternative method to more objectively assess whether GeminiJets (or pretty much any model manufacturer) has improved is to compare tons of models throughout the years and see how much they closely match their real-life counterpoints. Doing this would of course require keeping as many aspects consistent as possible (airline, aircraft, livery, scale, brand, etc.). And preferably, this evaluation would be done in-person. It’s like a scientific experiment, where you control various factors to ensure a fair comparison and score performances with consistent criteria. And a critical control factor to keep constant is the person conducting the experiment.

I think by doing this, you’ll not only be able to acquire a bigger sense of how Gemini performs in terms of realism, but also can circumvent the issue of misinterpreting mixed, ambiguous responses. The survey might provide a little bit of indication to an extent, but because everyone has differing perceptions of what’s good or excellent, I don’t think the survey responses should be utilized as the sole source for drawing conclusions. From my POV, further research may be needed to supplement the information you've gathered.

Some good points here, may take my models out to the airport and see how it shakes out!

 

[CM Aviation]

Sharp!

 

[jkim1123]

Sharp!

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And the comparison wouldn't just stop there, you would need to do this for many more models since the individual quality can greatly vary.

 

[CM Aviation]

And the comparison wouldn't just stop there, you would need to do this for many more models since the individual quality can greatly vary.

That's correct, but it is worth saying that Gemini probably wouldn't have done this good of a job in 2018.

 

[1.400_modelaviation]

Surveys aren’t meant to get responses from everyone in a community, as they are always the responses from a sampling of a community — like you said, there’s thousands in this community, but the logistics of getting a response from everyone in the community is nearly impossible. There’s only so much we can do with the audiences we have, so expecting say 5,000 responses is very unrealistic.

I’d bet if you ran a survey, you would be lucky to get as many responses as we did

I wouldn’t be running a survey in the first place because quite frankly, it does not matter. You wouldn’t need to survey the entire community but 125 opinions as a sample is tiny to then say that 125 people represent everyone’s opinion.

End of the day this was done because Connor made a dodgy video expressing his opinion & stated everyone felt that way which is now just flogging a dead horse.

I think we can agree, everyone has their own opinions on this who is good/bad/requires improvement in 400 scale. In the future maybe just express your opinions and leave it there

 

[Starz10p Aviation]

I wouldn’t be running a survey in the first place because quite frankly, it does not matter. You wouldn’t need to survey the entire community but 125 opinions as a sample is tiny to then say that 125 people represent everyone’s opinion.

End of the day this was done because Connor made a dodgy video expressing his opinion & stated everyone felt that way which is now just flogging a dead horse.

I think we can agree, everyone has their own opinions on this who is good/bad/requires improvement in 400 scale. In the future maybe just express your opinions and leave it there

I take Statistics, samples ARE representing a larger population. A sample size of 125 is fairly good, and can give a lot of data.

 

[1.400_modelaviation]

I take Statistics, samples ARE representing a larger population. A sample size of 125 is fairly good, and can give a lot of data.

I’m not going to keep discussing this thread, it went on too long on the last post. Everyone’s got there opinions on Gemini and I’ll leave it there

 

[777-300ER]

Am I the only one thinking Gemini Jets products are worse nowadays than what they used to be years ago? It seems like they do not care about their collectors anymore (in terms of quality of the models but also the repetitive release choices).

 

[YesterAirlines]

This idea might only be applicable to certain factors like mould accuracy and printing quality, but perhaps an alternative method to more objectively assess whether GeminiJets (or pretty much any model manufacturer) has improved is to compare tons of models throughout the years and see how much they closely match their real-life counterparts. Doing this would of course require keeping as many aspects consistent as possible (airline, aircraft, livery, scale, brand, etc.). And preferably, this evaluation would be done in-person. It’s like performing a scientific experiment, where you control various factors to ensure a fair comparison and score performances with consistent criteria. And a critical control factor to keep constant is the person conducting the experiment.

I wonder if this has ever been done? Perhaps they could create a website to store the results. They could call it something like 'Airplanes of the Past' or similar

When I did a big 400 scale survey in 2021 I got 571 responses, which at the time I felt was decent enough to draw some conclusions. I'm not sure 125 really is. One of the issues is what questions are being asked.

The results from 2021 are still pretty valid I would say in relation to Gemini: https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/results-pt1-brands--mnftrs.html

 

[1.400_modelaviation]

I wonder if this has ever been done? Perhaps they could create a website to store the results. They could call it something like 'Airplanes of the Past' or similar

When I did a big 400 scale survey in 2021 I got 571 responses, which at the time I felt was decent enough to draw some conclusions. I'm not sure 125 really is. One of the issues is what questions are being asked.

The results from 2021 are still pretty valid I would say in relation to Gemini: https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/results-pt1-brands--mnftrs.html

I remember reading this back when you published it and I think it still loosely applies, of course the landscape has changed but fundamentally nothing has changed that much.

This is certainly a better way of looking at it. Large sample size, its data on all brands for a comparison. Not just trying to push a controversial opinion that gemini are performing well.

 

[Critical Aviator]

Some interesting points. I don't kow what to make of the fact that there were only 125 responses to the survey, especially given that it was shared across multiple platforms. I wouldn't say 125 respondants is nothing but it's not ideal either. It's just a small sample size.
I liked that this survey was made at all, even if it wasn't perfect. I agree with some of the results of the survey but I also agree that further research needs to be done to get a better picture. I think that there should have been a bigger emphasis on specific examples of models which show the good and the bad of GJ as of now. Sure there has been improvements, a GJ 777 on the JC mould is a huge step up from a GJ 777 on their old seamed mould. But comparing one of the most popular GJ model at the model to the real thing is not enough to conclusively determine whether there has been improvements across the board. That point is especially important given that GJ doesn't always release models close to the time of their production and the fact that some of their new moulds are actually older moulds with added features. So what GJ releases is not always representative of the best GJ can do.

 

[BubblesAviation]

I honestly think it’s better to maybe refrain from posting these videos here. I agree though! Gemini is getting much much better.

I just think these topics always cause arguments and backlash. Of course many probably disagree with me, but that’s my opinion.

 

[CM Aviation]

I honestly think it’s better to maybe refrain from posting these videos here. I agree though! Gemini is getting much much better.

I just think these topics always cause arguments and backlash. Of course many probably disagree with me, but that’s my opinion.

The first paragraph explains the future outlook. As mentioned, I thought it was important to follow up on the subject from earlier in the year. New videos in the works include model aircraft price increases, GeminiJets’ 11 B727’s in 6 months, anniversary models that have been made, etc.

 

[CM Aviation]

I wonder if this has ever been done? Perhaps they could create a website to store the results. They could call it something like 'Airplanes of the Past' or similar

When I did a big 400 scale survey in 2021 I got 571 responses, which at the time I felt was decent enough to draw some conclusions. I'm not sure 125 really is. One of the issues is what questions are being asked.

The results from 2021 are still pretty valid I would say in relation to Gemini: https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/results-pt1-brands--mnftrs.html

That’s impressive you got that many responses. I’d be interested to see what the results look like in 2026.