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Taking pins on the plane

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I know I have seen this question on here before, but never read into it. Can I take my pin bag past security and onto the plane? I'm heading to WDW on the 1st and would obviously like to trade.lol I would hate to have to check them and then they get lost...
 
I had a bag full of about 40 pins on the way down there. I didnt get stopped or anything
Cant say anything for the way back, since I gave most of them away to kids at different parks as random acts of kindness
 
I've traveled dozens of times with pins- I always take them in carryon and keep them in their own gallon ziplock bag. When I hit Security I pull them out and put them in the silver bucket with my laptop etc so they are easily identified (and my whole suitcase doesnt have to be searched..)

Only time I had an issue is at the Salt Lake Airport and it was because the agent wanted to sit and look through the book at them all as they were 'so pretty'

-em
 
Haha thanks. Maybe the TSA in Columbus will want to admire them as well lol
 
My husband and I traveled to WDW in February and we went through security with our pins as carryon. I didn't get stopped but my husband did. All he had to do was open the pin bag, they swabbed the pins, and that was it. On the way back, we also some in gallon bags and left our books open for them to be scanned, no problems encountered.
 
I took a pin trading bag from Seattle to LAX and back as a carry-on with no trouble. They didn't ask to open it up or anything. I didn't want to check it because a friend of mine has had cash and valuables stolen out of her checked luggage; I wouldn't trust anything valuable in checked bags.

Since I normally have a purse and a carry-on bag with things in it that I want to have with me, I emptied my purse essentials into my carry-on and put my empty purse into my checked bag, so that I would have the allowed two carry-ons (pin bag and carry-on bag full of purse stuff.)
 
We do it every time we travel to WDW. We have never gotten stopped until this last time both leaving Nashville and then leaving Orlando. I had all the pins in a pin bag and it seemed like both security guys just wanted something to do so they spent their sweet time looking through every single page, asking tons of questions, etc. We were in no hurry so it didn't bother me, but they did cause a big back up behind me of other stuff they needed to look through. You shouldn't have any problems at all and I would definitely recommend carrying them on as we personally know 2 different people who's pins have disappeared from their checked luggage.
 
It all depends upon which airport you're flying out of. We've had BIG problems at Denver which led to even bigger problems in North Carolina where we transfered. We were threatened with having to "Check" our pin bags at Denver. In North Carolina we were stoped 2 times, once at security screening and once at secondary screening boarding aircraft. It just depends on how the T.S.A. agent is feeling on any given day. On your way home from Florida you should have zero problems. We've never been buged about it in Florida. I think the T.S.A. has seen pins and pin bags often at MCO in Orlando and they know what they are. I guess I would just be prepared for harasment and secondary screening.
 
We travel with them however we always get stopped at security due to how much metal and I guess they look funny in the X-ray they just ask us to open the bags which isn't bad it's when they start going thru all the pockets and pulling stuff out I wouldn't recommend taking your higher end pins as TSA could care less if they scratch them we put ours in binders now when we travel so they have a plastic cover on them
 
I just got back (flying out of Boston) with a binder and 2 boxes in a carry on knapsack, and the scanner couldn't read through all the metal. So they took the 2 boxes out and re-scanned them. I had no issues leaving Orlando
 
We take about 1000 pins with us every time we go to Disneyland. They always check our bag because it just shows up as black on the x-ray. Allow yourself about an extra half hour just in case.
 
docfish2u said:
We take about 1000 pins with us every time we go to Disneyland. They always check our bag because it just shows up as black on the x-ray. Allow yourself about an extra half hour just in case.
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wow... and holy crap... can i go with you... 1000pins everytime u go???? dam... how many pins do u own and how long are the trips to DLR.. i hope to own a few hunderd pins sum day....
 
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