Travelling with your dolls: issues/ideas/etc. Part I

I went through airport security a few weeks back with my puki.
(haha, she kinda doesn't count though because she is so tiiiny, and in an eyeglasses case.)
Nothing happened with screening,
but I'd be hesitant to take anything larger than a yo-sd with me through security.

 

I remember when you took Loki with us when we went to Maui! The stares that we got were kind of embarrassing..... (Remember the one guy who actually thought that he was a real kid?)

 

I've traveled with my dolls partly unassembled in my carry on. On one trip, I took one complete doll and four heads with me. When I went through security, the agent stopped my bag in xray to look at it for a moment or two. I said, "I have a doll and four doll heads in there." She replied, "That's exactly what it looks like."

On the return trip, the agent didn't even slow the conveyor belt down! But strangely, no one has ever asked me to open my bag.

Linda S.
galatia9

 

My coworkers have seen a couple of my dolls in the xray when I've used them for training exercises. The doll itself usually just elicits a "Yeah, whatever" response. The other little things I throw into the bag are the real focus anyway.

The flight attendant with the three cat o' nine tails stuffed in her bags is more interesting and comment worthy, as are the little Mexican grandmother with half a bottle of Jack Daniels in her coat pocket and a six-pack in her carry-on.

P.S. the little Mexican grandmother decided to completely polish off her half bottle of Jack. She came back through the checkpoint steady as a rock. Let this be a lesson to never mess with little Mexican grandmothers.

 

I don't travel much but I actually traveled with my old doll.

Before I sent my carry-on through the x-ray I had told the woman that I had a doll in there to make sure he was okay to take on the plane. She had me open the bag and looked inside and proceeded to tell me that he was very pretty girl doll *facepalm*. When he went through the x-ray the guy monitoring it, and like two other security guards looked at the screen, then at me and gave what I can only describe as a "Oh-my-dear-lord-what's-a-grown-woman-doing-toting-around-a-doll?!" look.

After I got on the plane though I took him out and sat him on my lap and when the drink cart rolled around the flight attendant asked if my doll would like something to drink as well.

 

I've taken a Yo-sized doll, a KDF and a Soom Super Gem through... No one ever cares about the Yo, and the KDF too (except that one time they made me pull him out to show them the face protector - they thought it was a bottle).

The Super Gem though.... Boy, did they start runnin'. I had him all disassembled and wrapped because I needed to safely carry him in a very full bag. Sooo... They scanned him a few times, then proceeded to take everything out of my bag, found the plastic bag that contained the doll parts and started pulling those out with the most O___o' expression on their face. I was quite happy with my decision to make him make-shift paper-towel underwear for the pelvic piece because uh... the lower body came out of the wrappings, so the security lady pulled out a pair of legs with the crotch in between on a loose elastic.

Finally she was like ".... What is this?" I explained to her that it was a ball-jointed doll. She was like "...Oh. Nothing sharp in your bag?"

Apparently the limbs scanned through like sharp stabbity objects. They let me pack up and leave after that, though I did get some odd glances.

 

I`m going to travel to Turkey this saturday by plane and i`m taking Hajime (b&g sky 2 1/3) and Morgan (bluefairy jasmine 1/4) with me. Hajime is going to be in a violin case , and Morgan in my hands...hope it all goes well...^^

 

I went on three Plane trips last year And took 2 dolls with me in a doll carrying bag as my carry on. so thats 6 time through security. 5 of those time's Nothing. the bag goes through. and they x-ray it and pass it on. but one time the bag is stoped and 3 tsa look at it for a while. then it passes through. one of the tsa picks up the bag and brings it to me. He says " some little girl is going to be very happy when you get home." Me Oh their not for a little girl, I don't have any kids. tsa guy asked "oh is it for your girlfreind?" No their for me. the tsa guy looked like this I guess for him it's not every day that he see's a 40 something guy carrying big dolls with him. The he asked can i see them. I said yes, And I opened the bag so he could see them. My Sd doll Is a succubus, are a demon girl. He toke one look at my doll with the horns on her head and the red cateye's and said OMG that doll Is evil and just walked away.

A friend of also carry her doll in it's doll bag as a carry on. she got the After they let you take off your safety belt. and you walk around the plane. The stewardess told her she had to put the doll away it was disturbing the outher passengers.

 

LOL. Yeah, I brought my MSD bluefairy in her box.
I was kind of paranoid that they'd be like, "No, you can't take that on the plane."
Luckily nothing too bad happened, so I just got lucky.

 

I had an interesting experience with my dolls the last time I went through airport security. I had brought along my EID Jessica and my Soom Glati, horns hooves and all. As a precaution before I travel, I always remove my dolls' heads, packaging them up and putting them in their laps in the carrier so they don't end up getting stomped on when the carrier is under the plane seat. The TSA guy gets my bag after scanning it, and tells me in this serious tone that he has to examine my bag. So, he takes it over to the table, going though the whole schpeal about how it's required by law and they have to swab my bag. As he's going though this speech, he unzips the bag, stops mid sentence, and his face turns bright red...."Oh,......That's....not what I was expecting." Not only am I embarrassed enough that he's going through my doll bag, but he was staring at two headless dolls, and my Jessica who's top just happened to come undone revealing her fully blushed naked chest.........X________X He quickly handed me my bag back after the fastest swab I've ever seen, and I pretty much ran to my gate.

 

Oh, wow, Dream_of_Isis. I... would probably be dying then, too. XDXD Except that I'd be on the floor laughing. That's AMAZING.

And just the look on his face that I could picture as he said, "Oh,......That's....not what I was expecting."

*goes into a giggle fit* XDXDXD

 

I really don't know what I'll do if I ever decide to travel with Ishrafeli. He's a doll still in building/concepting that will contain a lot of electronics for data storage and music, among other things. His hair will also have some bits of wire in it, and he will look like a robot. I'm probably going to have to declare him right up front with security people, and offer to open him up for them to examine so they can make sure none of his parts even resemble explosives or recording equipment.

 

Going to Fanimecon, the DFW TSA had some interesting things to say and do with my Leekeworld Romeo. Not only was he compared to Chuckie by the unnerved TSA guy, he was swabbed down for bombs and run through multiple times... so were all my bags. I was so horrified and amused at the same time >_< What was more fun was on the airplane with the constant comments of endearment from the flight attendants, which made me feel better after the whole TSA ordeal, lol.

 

Has some adult material, but every single time I read a story about TSA checking the dolls and sometimes swabbing them down... XDXDXD

This video with Jeff Dunham (a ventriloquist) and Peanut comes to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix9en-A3tXU

Hopefully it'll help show others that not just doll people have "interesting" encounters with TSA... *snickers*

 

I haven't got my dolls yet but I travel hell of a lot so my trip to america next year could prove to be rather amusing XD Chances are I'd either carry my twins in my arms or put them in their carry case.

 

Not with TSA but with the Hong Kong airport security.

Basically the usual stuff happened. They scanned my bags and then asked to check it since they saw the dolls inside. So I had to open it and the guy was like "WHAT THE ..." I so wanted to laugh.

Though cruise terminals are less strict about what people carry on to ships. Since I carried my doll carrier on to the Queen Mary 2 and no one said a word.

 

first of all, as always, sorry if a similar thread already exist. mods feel free to remove


this summer, my parents and I were supposed to go on a trip, and of course, i wanted to bring my doll! but we are not going this year. and i ordered 2 other dolls @_@
i will probably have one or 2 more next summer (so a total of 4-5 dolls)

so my questions are
do you bring your dolls on vacation with you?
how many do you take with you?
how do you decide wich one to bring?



edit: i was pretty sure there was already a thread like that but i couldnt find it

 

Oh, if I could afford to go on vacation...^_^;

do you bring your dolls on vacation with you? I absolutely would. If for no other reason than I need more places to take pictures of them in. ^_^;

how many do you take with you? I don't have many right now, but I don't think I would ever take more than two with me. Depending on the size, anyway. If I was bringing tinies, maybe three.

how do you decide which one to bring? All my current and potential dolls are broken down into sets of characters that go together...so I would pick a doll and their partner doll, or dolls, would accompany them. As for which one to primarily pick, well...without sounding too insane I would pick the one whose character would 'enjoy' the destination the most. ^_^;

 

I prefer take tiny bjds with me since they are not as heavy as others~enjoy ur vacation~

 

I've taken my dolls with me on vacation before.
the only "bad" experience i can recall thusfar, is on my brothers birthday vacation when i was the only one awake at about 4am, i started watching the griswald family vacation movies and propped my doll on the arm of the couch.
i had put a plate of chicken fettuccine (it was a super cheesy saucy batch too! yummmm) on the table next to the couch to nibble on, i wound up falling asleep and at some point knocked her off or she just fell off the arm of the couch.....into the plate of fettuccine.
needless to say i was pretty suprised to be woken up to my brother point to my girl covered in fettuccine sauce!