Pins & TSA

[disneyfav4ever]

I'm going to post this on the theme park board as well.

I'm still wondering how I should take my pins. I have three landyards, and was wondering if I would have a problem getting them through security if I took them in my carry-on. (Specifically, Philadelphia and Orlando.) I'd want to trade as soon as I got to the parks, so don't really want to check them, since I'm using DME, and wouldn't get to my luggage until hours later. And then I'd also worry about them getting stolen.

I'm also considering taking half in my carry-on, and some in my checked luggage.

What us the best plan? TIA.

 

[owtrbnks]

Pins should be fine in your carry-on. They are mostly concerned with confiscating bottles of water this week!

 

[keishashadow]

Just a caution, we had a bag go missing last year for over a month, returning from WDW. We packed several hundred $ worth of pins, DS was devastated.

Both the airline (AT) & my insurance carrier refused to cover their loss, as they are on the exclusion list.

Bottom line: don't pack ANYTHING in the checked luggage that you consider valuable, including camera, video, laptops, DVD players (they'll all excluded). Our bag did finally find it's way home, pins intact.

 

[Super 27]

There's no reason the TSA people should say anything about them being in your carry-on. You can expect that they might want to open the bag and see them, because it may show up on their screens as just a big "blob" of metal (theoretically with the new equip they should be able to tell that it's nothing dangerous, anyway), but once they see what it is it'll be no problem. I doubt MCO will even look twice; they're used to seeing pins in bags all the time. Like the post above said, never put ANYTHING valuable in checked bags, for two reasons. One, they can lose it. Two, they can open your checked luggage for security inspection when you're not present. Enough said...

 

[Donald is #1]

I took many pins & my lanyard in my carry on on both my trip down and my trip back in October and I didn't have any problems with security.

Have a great trip!

 

[vacation dreamer]

I'm going to post this on the theme park board as well.

I'm still wondering how I should take my pins. I have three landyards, and was wondering if I would have a problem getting them through security if I took them in my carry-on. (Specifically, Philadelphia and Orlando.) I'd want to trade as soon as I got to the parks, so don't really want to check them, since I'm using DME, and wouldn't get to my luggage until hours later. And then I'd also worry about them getting stolen.

I'm also considering taking half in my carry-on, and some in my checked luggage.

What us the best plan? TIA.

I put 5 lanyards filled with pins in my pocketbook and did not get questioned about them.

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

I'd recommend posting this on the Collectors Board also.

DW Lauri and I have flown to MCO from RIC with literally hundreds of pins in our carry-on. Aside from a thorough search by TSA, we had no problem.

Over the years I've never heard of anyone having any problem with pins in their carry-on, and I haven't heard that things have changed in recent months.

 

[j's m]

We flew out of Philly last month. My son's pin backpack was packed in our carryon. The inspector did look closely at the x-ray and I told him what was in it, and then he passed it through.

At Orlando, they didn't give it a second glance, since I guess they're used to pins.

DO NOT pack anything that has value, bring it in carryon.