JJ Skippy
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Just curious, which brand is Sanry affiliated with?
Golden Age of Model Collecting!
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bakejobb_23
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Do you think eventual changes through possible new ownerships or even the eventual retirements could mean brand mergers of one or a few to happen? There would be a lot of good and probably more “bad” that would come of something like that. Kinda like airline mergers
abdulmohiuddin
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Sanry is Phoenix
Macsergey
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Probably this is the reason why GJ is basically the only US brand. No other brand can really enter the market because GJ owns many licenses and would not allow competitors to produce models of US airlines they have connections with. This means GJ has a monopoly over the US market, which gives them little incentive to invest in quality or improvements. There is the new V1:400, but they are not a direct competitor since they focus mainly on retro aircrafts.
I think GJ’s disappearance could actually benefit US collectors, because it might allow few fresh brands to appear. I understand that many US collectors like GJ, but if it were really as good as people say, we wouldn’t see so many complaints about NG making fewer US releases.
For me, GJ is just a junk brand. Just open their site, it looks like it was made in the 90s. I think it actually is their original site from the late 90s or early 2000s and hasn’t been updated since.
I started collecting only a year ago. Before buying my first models, I watched videos about different brands where people said GJ was the best. When I received my first model, which was a GJ model, I was very disappointed that this “best brand” looked like garbage. Luckily, I also bought an NG model, which was just perfect.
aviation456
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GJ was near the top in terms of quality when they made their own moulds- that's probably why many western collectors might say the golden era was 2000-2010ish. The production agreement means that the same deficiencies that affect JC now affects Gemini - and JC isn't innovating fast enough.
Macsergey
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I might understand why it was true. I have few old models from around 2015: 752 and 735. Despite the fact they are cradle moulds, what I am completely fine with, they are quite solid models. they are not as detailed as modern models, but if I bought them in 2015, I would have an opinion that GJ is a good brand.
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BubblesAviation
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Gemini/JC has a lot of moulds many others don't, like the E175 (except for LJ, but we haven't seen anything real yet) and the CRJ-700/900 I belive as well.
GJ is a very important brand for the scale. They don't have the best quality, or good quality on many models, but they were one of the first companies to really deliver good models. It would be sad to see them go under but I assume it won't happen in the very-near future.
GJ is a very important brand for the scale. They don't have the best quality, or good quality on many models, but they were one of the first companies to really deliver good models. It would be sad to see them go under but I assume it won't happen in the very-near future.
