I got quite a few 'looks' at the airport, but ultimately managed to get it checked in as a piece of 'sports equipment' for an additional fee. The lady at the bag desk gave me a whole roll of 'fragile' stickers to put on it and I must have coated it in 20+ of them lol. The feeling of relief when it came out safe at the other end was immense though, absolutely made up with it!
There are quite a few $2000+ JAWS items there presently. In addition to the shark shown further up this page, there's currently a huge ships wheel and an absolutely ENORMOUS 7 foot+ mermaid. I'd give absolutely anything to buy a piece of that rides history and actually did do a very brief back and forth in my head about slamming one on the credit card, but ultimately decided that i dont fancy being served with divorce papers anytime soon!