It's official. You can't bring G1 Megatron on a plane.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:40 pm

http://www.local10.com/news/4376476/detail.html

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:16 pm

It actually implies that transformers themselves may not be taken on as it doesn't specify and implies all Tf's tunr into guns

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:58 pm

I held up a newsagents with my G1 Megs just half an hour ago...

Post by **Kaylee** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:04 pm

Did you put it down with the G1 megs too?

boomboom.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:20 pm

Yeah, but is it good security sense or just dumb by the airport people?
I heard that a tiny plastic sword accessory for an Action Man was confiscated 'cos it was considered a weapon.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:39 pm

I bought G1 megs the year it was released in the states, on the way home it was detected in my luggage, and I had to prove it was just a TF by transforming him, everything was then cool.

I thought it was very funny.

Darth Aux · Post by **Darth Aux** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:01 pm

You can't take G1 megs on an aeroplane but...........

Firearms and starter pistols may be transported in checked baggage so long as they are unloaded and declared to the airline.

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:08 pm

Darth Aux wrote:You can't take G1 megs on an aeroplane but...........

Firearms and starter pistols may be transported in checked baggage so long as they are unloaded and declared to the airline.

Well if the passenger can't get to the weapons, as with checked baggage, then they can't use them to hijack the plane.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:06 pm

Bouncelot wrote:
Darth Aux wrote:You can't take G1 megs on an aeroplane but...........

Firearms and starter pistols may be transported in checked baggage so long as they are unloaded and declared to the airline.
Well if the passenger can't get to the weapons, as with checked baggage, then they can't use them to hijack the plane.

Unless they have a remote-detonatable bomb in their luggage.

jboyler · Post by **jboyler** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:21 am

I'm actually very surprised by this. When I go to the airport I usually see a sign listing the banned/not banned items, and it always says "Transforming robot toys" are OK. The list you posted seems to imply that gun transformers in particular are banned.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:37 pm

Damn, no Targetmaster Nebulan toys for me on the 'plane then.

Surely they can tell the difference between a toy gun and a real weapon? Or is it just that they don't want to take time to investigate such things and just blanket-ban them as a cop-out?
And if it's a case of a toy gun actually being a REAL gun in disguise, don't they realise that any toy - in fact ANYTING - could be a weapon in disguise? Weren't there bombs in the heel of shoes once?
Poor old Megatron. His G1 alt mode is shafted every which way these days. It'll be Galvatron and Shockwave having to cross the Atlantic on a boat next.
Hey! Yeah - does the toy gun ban extend to modes of travel other than airplane? I mean, how did my G1 Megatron reissue GET from Japan to me if not by 'plane?