Picture the scene at the departure gate if the girls were allowed to keep their toys.
"Mummy, why did I have my toy gun taken off me?"
"It's for security, darling"
"But Mummy, why have those 2 girls still got their toy swords?"
As Bealine states, NO imitation weapons are allowed to be taken onto aircraft.
What if it was a toy dagger?, or a plastic hand grenade?.
You've got to have one set of rules that cover everybody, that way it's not up to the check in staff to decide if a "toy" is okay to take on board, or to ban it, as it's too realistic.
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